We've had one, yes. What about second breakfast? What about elevenses? Luncheon? Afternoon tea? Dinner? Supper?!?

 Edit--my mistake: I meant Stelara, not Seroquel...



Great quotes from New Boss: "How can you hate Kevin Bacon?!? I LOVE Kevin Bacon!!"

::shudders::

Well the pre-Christmas starve-a-thon isn't exactly going as planned. I am eating everything I can get my grubby little hands on. But I'm not going to freak out. It's the holidays. I know when a battle is lost. And I'm not going to be that a-hole who opens the door to the UPS guy and signs for the giant wooden horse. Because I am not a patsy. I will give in, but I shall give in with DIGNITY, darnit. I'm still exercising as much as humanly possible, so hopefully it will all even out. And I plan on taking half a box of Ex-Lax tomorrow for Christmas Eve Eve, so at least I can flush out some of the garbage before the serious culinary debauchery begins.

I have Christmas Eve off, so I intend to spend the entire day baking. I'm making my famous spiced angel food cake, Christmas tree-shaped shortbread cookies, my own version of mince pies from scratch (should be interesting, as I've never made those before...), and the Pumpkin Pasties recipe from my new Harry Potter cookbook.

Had to buy it. How could I possibly resist such a thing?!? I had originally purchased it as a Christmas gift for Big Sis #2, but decided to keep it for myself. I also considered doing the same with the Tool sweatshirt I got Little Bro #1, but then wrapped it and stuck it under the tree so I CAN'T steal it. I had some serious fun wrapping on Saturday night. I was texting Kazehana during all this (well, I was texting, she was on AIM I think)--took my usual 3 sleeping pills and wrapped presents while watching Millennium. I woke up with the scissors, cellotape, and bits of wrapping paper in bed with me. And both cats. Usually only one cat sleeps with me. They were not impressed with the mess. 

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I keep seeing this ad on the telly about this new medication--Stelara. It's for psoriasis. Ok so I get that psoriasis sucks. A friend of Mum's has it and although I've never seen any sign of it on him, he does complain about it a fair bit. But seriously. The list of side effects from this medication is OUTRAGEOUS. Aside from the militaristic slaughter that will apparently be wrought upon your immune system, it says right there in the commercial that Stelara "may cause cancer."

CANCER. A pill that might give you cancer. Are you people kidding?? I think I'd rather have flaky skin, thanks. And I thought the Restless Leg Syndrome™ meds were bad! But that only causes an uncontrollable impulse to gamble (how you can put that in a pill is beyond me). I know the US is a bit pill-happy, but I think we've gone too far when we start taking pills that cause cancer.