Feed me all night long/Cause if you feed me, Seymour/I can grow up big and strong.

[rubykatewriting]

I went to my PCP a few weeks back because of my migraines. She prescribed Topamax. Its primary use is as an anticonvulsant, but it has shown great, long-term benefit in the treatment of migraines. For instance, if you take it for a year, you can actually see up to two to three years benefit. One potential side effect is peripheral neuropathy (tingling in the hands and feet), but that is mainly in the beginning of the treatment and transient.

Another side effect (or MAJOR BONUS and a big reason why I recently switched over to Yaz for my birth control): it suppresses the appetite. I don't really have an issue with this except when I'm PMSing and during my period, so basically two weeks out of the month I'm a bottomless pit, all FEED ME and Brenda-like.

However, I discovered something this week, another side effect of the drug. As most Americans of my generation, I have a thing for soda. My soda of choice? Big Red. (That link's for you, briary_flower.) Anyway, I'd been noticing that the last few Big Reds I'd bought were flat, and then the Coke I bought with my beef fajita soft taco combo at Taco Cabana on Friday. Finally, on Monday, Katt managed to grab a couple of free, ice cold Cokes leftover from a meeting in the back workroom, and when I took a big gulp, I cringed as I swallowed down a mouthful of flat, highly sweet soda. I went to Gabs and asked her if her Coke was flat, too, and she said it was almost too carbonated to drink. "It's actually burning my throat."

So, in summation, I do not have the tinglies or migraines anymore, my appetite is practically non-existent, and soda is flat. I'd say that's a win-win-win.

In other, completely fanfuckingtastic news, Giuliani Completes His Collapse. If that isn't something to celebrate - hell, I was doing a jig in the car as they were discussing the results of the Florida primary this morning - I do not know what is. YAYS, PEOPLE. YAYS, YAYS, YAYS.

Comments

[ardor-patientia.livejournal.com]

Hmm...Topamax. I have woken up with at least a mild migraine every single day of this week. Actually, it's been a bad year entirely for headaches.

[rubykatewriting.livejournal.com]

This has been the worst year yet. It used to be a seasonal thing for me, which made me think it was my allergies for the longest time, and then all of sudden they were happening year-round and throughout the month. I've got my fingers crossed this holds.

[briary-flower.livejournal.com]

There's more than one kind of cream soda?

[rubykatewriting.livejournal.com]

You know how we Americans are - we need our variety. I mean, for chrissakes, we have like fifty flavors of Coke and Dr. Pepper these days. Heaven forfend we're in the mood for some flugaluga with a hint of lala and it not be immediately available to us. It's ridiculous. We're so fucking spoiled.

Hey, check out my new Texas-centric icon.

[briary-flower.livejournal.com]

It's AWE with a side of SOME. (Did I do that right?)

BTW, last night I was totally bored and there was nothing on TV except last season's Lost finale, which I don't watch anyways. So there was this ballroom championship on PBS, and the finalists were all on the dance floor showing off their stuff like the badasses they are. The judges were yelling out: Waltz! Tango! And every time the dancers would change up. So there was this one couple in rust coloured satin, and they actually looked kind of cool, and they were hitting all these mad tango poses, and finally they did one where the woman was on one knee arms all flung back, and her slit skirt fell to the side of her legs, exposing her pink bits. And all she had on was a pair of sheer rust panties that were totally see-through. The poor girl! And then Jasmine Guy, who was doing colour commentary, said: " ... What I like is their costumes. They're very elegant." LOL.

[rubykatewriting.livejournal.com]

(Did I do that right?)
O'course.

So there was this ballroom championship on PBS, and the finalists were all on the dance floor showing off their stuff like the badasses they are.
Mom and I meant to catch this, but she got the times confused. She thought it started at eight our time, when it was actually seven. This is why she is not in charge of TV. We were so pissed when we switched over from a rerun of CSI: Miami - I think it was the one where Speedy died - only to find the show ending. I promptly reminded Mom again, "You do not do the TV. I DO THE TV." Mom, mumbling: "I know."

" ... What I like is their costumes. They're very elegant."
Yes, because there is NOTHING like knowing a girl goes for the whole enchilada at the waxing shop to totally class things up, yo.

[allthingsholy.livejournal.com]

"Little Shop of Horrors" was on ... some scary movie channel the other day and I caught, like, 20 minutes of it and it made me want to watch the rest SO BADLY. I haven't seen it in, like, years.

I like the Skid Row-ettes. Awesome.

[rubykatewriting.livejournal.com]

I haven't see it in years, but I remember loving it as a kid. So over the top and campy and delicious. Pretty sure it put me off Steve Martin for a little while though. That dude was FREAKY AS HELL and I wasn't exactly a fan of dentists to begin with.

Did you ever see the episode of Head of the Class when they put on a production of Little Shop...? So fantastic.