TMI Alert

I know you dont' want to know this gory detail, but I need to spread the word about this home remedy, so here it is: I have had a big, fat, ugly, painful, coldsore for the last few days. a bad one, too. (Sidenote: those always make me think of joanne.)

I swear by Lysine as a remedy for coldsores. L-Lysine is a dietary supplement, and I think it's an amino acid. Apprently, coldsores need one type of amino acid to develop (dont' ask me which one, I'm not that technical) and Lysine is the "other" kind of amino acid, and it inhibits cold sore development. I usually take Lysine at "the first tingle" (if you get coldsores, you know what I mean) and it can head them off at the pass. This time, I wasn't on it enough to do that, so starting with the second day or so of my cold sore, I have been taking 3000 mg/day, broken up into two or three doses. It has managed to shorten my coldsore from the usual 8-12 days, to starting on Tuesday and being almost gone by today, I also think it has made it less painful.

OK, TMI over, if you get coldsores you can thank me later, if you don't, good for you and I'm sorry for the oversahre.

Sanctuary

as mad as I am at Sci Fi Network right now for cancelling BOTH stargates (and stargate atlantis, may I say, with very little fanfare and what will clearly be very little closure) I have been unable to resist their new series, Sanctuary. Amanda Tapping is the star, who I love, and she's so good I dont' even think of Samantha Carter when I look at her new character. The whole thing is also done in a green room, with the sets CGI'd in, but I wouldn't be able to tell that if I hadn't seen a special on it. It is CREEPY, but it is GOOD.

Fridays at 10, if you're keeping track.

Five Things

To do tomorrow

1. Tell husband goodbye when he leaves for NY until sunday :(

2. Make sandwich bread

3. Grade those stinkin-papers.

4. Walk the dogs

5. get all the stuff together for the sewing I need to do and possibly run to walmart.

Poll Time!

What are you having for Christmas Dinner? What is your favorite Christmas Tradition? What are you looking forward to most on Christmas Eve/Day?

A very locavore weekend

We had a very "local" weekend. Basically the only time I've left PBO since Friday is to go to church (I keep hoping for a good PCA church in chatham county, but I'm not holding my breath, )and yet I've still managed to stay busy doing exciting things!

My In-Laws were in town this weekend, and they stayed at the Rosemary House in downtown PBO. I had always seen the Rosemary House and wondered what it was like, and it was completely delightful. They felt very welcome and comfortable, and they said several times hwo reasonable the rates were.

We had dinner Saturday night at my Dad's house, and then brunch on Sunday at the PBO General Store Cafe. I hadn't been to the general store for brunch before, and it was very good! Their huevos rancheros was slightly heavy on the bean side of the bean-egg ratio, but it was still delicious!

Sunday afternoon Naomi and I went to a store downtown, New Horizons, and bought Danskos (I bought one pair, Naomi bought two!) and I got to use my discount for being a teacher at the local high school. Several local stores are giving discounts to educators for the holidays (and some year round) and I am very very grateful for it. It's nice to feel appreciative. A big thank you to them for their generosity and the PTSA for their hard work in making it happen.

Sunday Night we went out for Todd's birthday at the PBO Carolina Brewery. I wasn't very excited when I heard the brewery was going in in PBO because I've never been a huge fan of their food, but I have been very pleasantly surprised. It's a great environment, great beer, and GREAT burgers.

Today I went to a local salon, Salon Blue, for a facial and a haircut. I'm still a little out of it after the facial, so I'll post more about it later, but it was incredible and well worth the cost for the facial (which are even on special right now!) I'm going to try to get another facial in a few months, even, and I'll make my usual resolution to try not to go six months without a haircut again (and probably fail.)

It's nice that pittsboro has grown to the point that you can do shopping and eating out without having to drive to Chapel Hill. At some point I stopped assuming I would have to drive to Orange or Wake County to buy things and do things and started being a little annoyed when I can't find somewhere that sells something in town!

What I am not doing today

1. getting up early and running out the door to go to school.

2. running around making last minute copies before class starts, therefore breaking a sweat before 8am.

3. asking anyone to sit down and keep their hands to themselves.

4. telling anyone to be quiet and that word is not appropriate for school.

5. governing anyone elses bathroom usage

Five things I am doing today

1. Sleeping in (check.)

2. Leisurely drinking my coffee on the sofa in my pajamas

3. Hanging out with my inlaws some more before they leave

4. Going to see the peanut!!!

5. Hopefully, taking a nap!

Five Things

I'm still kind of at a loss with what to do with the internet, these days. As you can tell by the unprecendentedly frequent blogging. I know I could just go find another forum, but that wouldn't be the same. One of the things I like about this one is it was people in my community, and it was a really good way to find out what was going on in a town with not much by way of local news. I will have to find a way to fill the politics void at some point, but, until then, here are five things I can do now that the BBS is closed

1. Read the NYTimes that comes to the house on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday

2. Walk the fourleggeds

3. Take more pictures for fourleggeds

4. Finish that dress I started in august

5. Read all those books I got for coaching before practice starts in february.

Dear Chatham BBS: WTF

I am a nerd. I admit it. I am fairly well socially adjusted, but I have an adversarial personality and I enjoy arguing about things. There, I admit it. This means I am pretty inclined to post to internet web forums. A long long time ago there was a little BBS called NANDO here in the triangle. I was a NANDO regular, and I made lots of friends there that I still have to this day (well, some of them.) Eventually, the operators of NANDO closed it down, they gave us several months warning. It was sad, but we were able to transfer the most important relationships to the "real world" and stay in touch with the people we had grown to care about.

For the last few years I have been posting on the Chatham BBS. It was a great place to get information about my community (recently, two teachers were able to get their donorschoose grants funded through the bbs, and many people posted classified, announcements, etc. I once rented my house through it.) as well as good political discussions (sometimes heated, as is human nature, but always informative.) That is, I have been posting on the Chatham BBS until yesterday.

You see, yesterday, randomly, for no apparent reason, this BBS was closed. Not just locked, but closed. All the posts, gone. All the contact info for other users, gone. Nothing. Fini. I know it sounds weird to be attached to people you've never actually met (except I know many of you reading this know exactly what I mean) but I am sad. I have spent the last few years talking to these people, and now they are just gone. They probably live less than five miles from me, but I have no idea who they are, and probably never will.

I understand that the owner of this BBS can do what he wants, it's his BBS, his bandwidth, etc etc, I can understand how it got tiresome, I guess, but I can't help but be a little mad, too. It's very dicombobulating to have the rug pulled out from under me like that with no warning, no explanation, and no chance to get any kind of closure. I guess, at the end of the day, I only have one thing to say.

Bah Humbug.