All drugged up and no place to go

I went to my headache doctor today. She didn't change my preventative med, because I'm basically happy with it. But when I told her I still get a few headaches a week, and take Tylenol with codeine, she gave me new pain meds to try--because the codeine will suck me into a lifelong spiral of headache rebounds, and become increasingly less effective.

She gave me two freebies to try, to see which works better:

Zomig: zolmitriptan
Maxalt: rizatriptan

They are "5-hydroxytryptamine agonists".

How glamorous. You're supposed to take 1 pill, it takes 2 hours to work, take another if needed, and then it should last for about 24 hours.

Life With Lady Hal

The other day Haley was sitting on my desk in the sun

looking so sweet
so I was all: I'll take a picture with my computer
to catch her in a sweet moment.
This is the picture I got:

Actually in the above pic she was just yawning
and her claw was stuck on my sleeve.
A moment later she was licking my arm.

Last night:
Haley drumming to The Police.
I should have known she was a drummer.

Definitely my fave ad on TV right now: He once had an awkward moment, just to see how it feels

This is the ad I've seen:


Another from youtube (The best part is just the opening lines):

This is pretty much how Haley rolls...

Her attitude to HUmahns:

Her attitude to the other cats:

sleeeepeeeeee

It's 3 AM and I'm drooping over my keyboard from The Sleepies... but I don't want to go to bed! I want to sit here and listen to mah Prince album, and look at my new cookbook.

...Well actually I have two new cookbooks, but I already looked at the other one, AND cooked from it. Though *cooked* is a inaccurate since it's a raw cookbook.


I've never bought a raw ckbk before--too much work, or they require buying a dehydrator. But Ani Phyo is considered the best raw chef, and I want to try making more desserts that use less processed food (esp processed sugar, but flour too), so I bought her new dessert book. And made truffles, made out of ground cashews, cacoa and agave, and I rolled them in coconut. They're nice... like uncooked brownie batter. I stuck them in the freezer and we'll see what they're like tomorrow.

The other book I bought is Moskowitz' Vegan Brunch, cause it has all kinds of recipes in it that I don't have elsewhere--like bagels and English muffins and baked hashbrowns and eggs benedict. Mmm. It's all the fault of Vegan Dad for reviewing it and feeding my consumerism.

Siiigh... sleepy.

cookies!

I've been cutting back on my baking lately (sigh) and trying out recipes that don't use processed sugar (so at least our blood sugar doesn't go WEEEE! too quickly) and this is a very yummy recipe. This author uses a lot of gluten free flours, and different sugars and such. And like many of the great vegan cookbook writers, she lives in Canada. :-)

http://viveleveganrecipes.blogspot.com/2009/04/super-charge-me-cookies.html#links

Bleh!

It's a cold wet rainy day! Good thing I have my hot cocoa, my cats, and a SYNOPSIS THAT NEEDS WRITING to keep me indoors!