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[RudyB]

Bruun's Titting UP

bruun, do you have to move again any time soon? could you settle in with some people as friends who are not those -or like those- you describe? worth a try. and there are plenty of people who have no children. (wasn't it you who just suggested meetups to taw?) let's brainstorm on this, if you want...

[GingerDust]

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Definitely see The Neverending Story. It's beautiful and very funny.

[Bruunhilde]

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Zowee, I had to take actual notes to be able to respond, lovely bantering and supporting going on here, lovelies. xxoo

Okay, Roo, you're right, Roo was Kanga's baby in the Pooh stories. Roo lived in Kanga's marsupial pocket. Google Image Result for http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/005/cache/gray-kangaroo_554_600x450.jpg
Okay, did that work?

Next, Mallow is wonderful, it just needs cutting back so it doesn't become trashy, much like me. Vinca is invasive and I have alot of dead vinca because the gophers are eating the roots. What do I do about the gophers? I can't bear the killing so I plant things they won't eat usually, but that's limiting me very much. Any ideas? Also, poison in the yard not acceptable, I'm organic.

Pete, saw that SBullock movie, wish I was her, dang it. Except very difficult to be movie star woman these days, all the men cheat or are intimidated. Actually, apply that to most men in LA. . . .

Ru, don't like Waylan bros, sorry, ick. Got two movies, Marry Me and 5th Quarter.

Also, you called me out proper on the whole meetup thing, I would like to do that. My hypnotist told me there are meetups for that meditation thingy I posted about some time ago, forget its strange sounding name.... I did a meet up for a while but it wasn't much in the way of people my age or my situation. Will commit to exploring it - problem is I'm blocked on this pc which is the only one I can post to MWO on for unknown reason. My other pc, my personal pc, lets me post anywhere (FB, etc) but here on MWO. WTF.

DG, sounds like you have tons of options, so nice to have a working brain right? So glad you're able to do this. I imagine Ne will be fascinated by the same stuff, with her commitment to school.

Last, got in the car again to go do all that stuff, the plants/cat food/movies/etc. and put Stan Ridgeway CD in and he sang to me about a guy with a bad attitude who died, another gentle nudge, I say.

:l Youse alls.

[SlipperyPete]

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Alrighty, well if anyone's as interested as me in nighttime teeth-grinding, aka Sleep Bruxism, or SB for short, I've been doing some research (I do NOT want to wear a nightguard :H)

First I talked to Dr. Pete, DDS, and apparently he's in the pocket of Big Nightguard, as that's what he recommends for people with SB.

Upon further research to baclofen specifically, there are only reports that it MAY help, although no studies have been done specifically. I came across a case report that Tiagabine can reduce SB, which is an anti-convulsive that works on the GABA receptors. GABA came up a few times, as Gabapentin was shown to have some effect when administered before bedtime, although that patient had secondary bruxism relative to treatment with venlaxafine.

Clonazepan and diazepan were shown to reduce SB, in large part due to their anxiety reducing properties.

This is the only thing I came across about baclofen:

"Baclofen, a GABA type B agonist (10-60 mg per dose), can be
utilized for the treatment of SB symptoms; however, no controlled
studies of its efficacy for the treatment of SB have been reported
(1)."

That's a pretty low dose, and if HDB exacerbates SB, as is the case with Isolde, then I may be SOL. Poop.

[RudyB]

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before i get caught up on what are probably more delightful posts, i have to say:

DUHHH! and DURRRR! i can't believe i neglected to include enzymes in the list of things great about fermentation! they make food more digestible and nutrients therein more accessible to the human bod.

said neighbor has a friend who drinks jugs of kombucha a day and she says he is one of the most healthy-looking people she has ever seen in her entire life.

sister says there's a popular new hip spot in her park slope neighborhood where the proprietor makes his own kombucha and sells it on tap.

the wave is catching on, folks!

[RudyB]

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dammit, i'm so annoyed! i left my sister in charge of the food while i came out here to post maniacally, and they burned under the broiler! fuck! those goats, ruca and chula, were raised here, back when this was my farm, not my paradise. oh well. at least they didn't rot in the fridge, which they were threatening to do.

did you know that primitive cultures systematically (sorry, margaret mead - though she probably coined the term) put something, maybe salt, on their meat and buried it to preserve it and eat it in a couple few weeks? (or maybe several.) they did that with their vegetables, too, which isn't quite so gross. (and with the veggies they probably used clay crocs.)

better have one last smoke before our dinner of ribs, venison, brussels sprouts, and eggplant. all local and supremely organic.

bon apetit!

[RudyB]

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...and nourished by my very own goats' and chickens' poop!

sorry about the poop news, pete.

[RudyB]

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...oh, and we got the dinner cooked without running out of gas, which the tank was threatening to do.

you also need to know that all this food we're eating was grown or grew within a few square acres. (i don't know in exactly which spot the deer was shot, but my neighbor chuck did it.)

[Ne/Neva Eva]

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SlipperyPete;1190466 wrote: Alrighty, well if anyone's as interested as me in nighttime teeth-grinding, aka Sleep Bruxism, or SB for short, I've been doing some research (I do NOT want to wear a nightguard :H)

Morning, all!
Pete, I only started grinding my teeth, or at least noticeably grinding them, when I was on HDB. (The dentist had mentioned it once before, I think, but not in recent memory. And come to think of it, I might already have been on bac by then...)
Anyway, a guard of any sort in my mouth was not going to work! (The breathing thing had already come and gone, but was enough to make me wary.)

Long and short was that it went away, and it didn't take long. Less than a month, I think. My last dentist visit was my best ever. There is something to that whole AL-ruining-the-teeth thing. Or maybe it's the fact that I was brushing my teeth at night instead of stumbling to pass out in bed?
Also, I went through a phase following the teeth-grinding when I was extremely cognizant of my teeth. And all other personal hygiene. I only mention it because Ed went through it, too. Pretty funny to watch him run to brush his teeth and floss after every meal... Very strange this bac stuff.
Maybe switching up the time or amount of your last dose will help? Or simply time.

Glad everyone seems to be doing well!

[RudyB]

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funny, ne, just last night i posted on my thread how great it feels to floss the teeth! i used to go weeks and weeks without flossing!

teeth grinding, well, as far as i know i don't do that. but my son does here and there, just for a second. i'm thinking he might need hypnotherapy. i asked my hypnotist about this, and he said that children are very receptive to the practice, and respond very quickly. but he also had a glint in his eye when i proposed the notion, suggesting that maybe it wasn't really necessary.

[Bruunhilde]

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Thanks for the research, Bambam. In my twenties when I was getting braces for the first time, my dentist told me I was a grinder. He told me I'd been grinding for years and that's why my teeth were tiny. I asked him what to do, he said nightguard. I asked him why he hadn't made one for me as a teen before my teeth got ground down, he said, you were a teen, you'd never have used it. Fucker.

I found the back alternately helped and made worse the grinding, but mostly better. I never got to the doses most of you did tho, where I hear it gets much worse. I did the fist clenching alot tho and would think they go hand in hand.

The only way I get to sleep when I'm sober is to consciously relax my jaw. If I do that over and over, I can sleep. Otherwise, my mind goes on and on and on.... And a neck roll/no pillow, sleeping on my back.

I only use the night guard once a week - I found that I might be saving my teeth but my jaw bone was just tweaking in a new place due to the nightguard.

Enough about my grinding!! On to flossing! I too am much more into flossing so Ne think its bac not the lack of Al since I have no lack of that right now. On the other hand, I haven't flossed in the last week and that's been a bad Al week so I just ruined my own theory. Whatever....

[Bruunhilde]

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Okay, I'm pulling a Rudy by hourly updates here... . I was up three times last night taking my mud brew for my tummy and probiotics, due to the martinis I had last night while watching a movie. By myself. By the way, I can't watch a movie with someone at home here, I have to go to the threatre. Otherwise I'm up every ten minutes for some reason, can't just relax, nothing really to do with drinking, I can drink in front of the one friend I used to do this with and that wasn't what kept me getting up, it was just inability to relax and focus with her here, although we had a great time together. Maybe it was my inner angel telling me to distance myself from her because she ended up telling lies about me to my weird cousin who believed them and she's no longer my friend. Neither is my cousin, lack of loyalty there killed it.

Anyways, so I was feeling a little funky this AM and down, took half a gabapentin and found out my Smart Carb bread is full of mold (it's a new loaf!) so my poached eggs on toast idea went out the window. I poach in raw milk, of course stupid because I then cook the milk but its all I keep. Anyways, so all I could find to eat in the fridge was shrimp cocktail and salmon, both already cooked, so I had six or so prawns with cocktail sauce. Maybe I should have had a protein drink instead. Because an hour later, I decided I needed to have milk, and I have visions of hot cocoa in my head from a Rudy post this past week. Since I am not interested in cooking my milk tho, nor putting in chocolate sauce, I took some Scharfenberger cocoa powder, stevia, coconut oil and blended it with a little water and about six manitol chocolate chips. Then added the milk and made a frothy drink with a slightly weird taste but still chocolately and milky and it went down wonderfully. So forty minutes later, I'm feeling pretty good. Maybe it was the detox tea, maybe it was the mud/probiotics/all-one I had this AM, maybe it was the milkshake. Dunno.

Anyways, going to suit up (get out of the bathrobe) and see if I can get outside.

Ciao y'all. Have a great afternoon. See ya back here later.

[Isolde]

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What a wonderful conversation y'all have had going on here while I was stuck in bed all weekend. Nice to come back and catch up!

RudyB;1190478 wrote:

better have one last smoke before our dinner of ribs, venison, brussels sprouts, and eggplant. all local and supremely organic.

bon apetit!

Sounds fantastic!! I do love me some brussels sprouts. :h Roasted with some olive oil, spices and garlic is my favorite way to eat them. My dad has them steamed with a splash of red wine vinegar.

Pete, another thing that I had read can help with SB is taking magnesium before bed. I was doing that for awhile, and at first it seemed to help, but unfortunately not anymore. I should start doing it again anyway, as relaxing the muscles could really be handy for being able to get to sleep on HDB. I find my whole body tensing while I'm trying to get to sleep at night.
I think I will ask my dentist about having a custom mouthguard made. My friend has one of the newer ones, and apparently they only cover the front teeth, as it just needs to be enough to keep the teeth separated. That sounds much more comfortable than what I have!

I also found that my dental hygiene improved greatly once I was no longer drinking right up until the point of falling asleep!

Bruun, that green smoothie recipe sounds almost a little too green for me! I try to make mine so that you can't really taste the greens. I'd go ahead and throw in the whole apple and banana, too. No point in using 3/4s of each, I say! Although you have got me thinking that I'm in the mood for a green smoothie, myself. I've got some frozen bananas that can go in there.

Oh, speaking of fruit!! I just recently tried honeycrisp apples for the first time, and they are AMAZING! Granny smith used to be my favorite, but honeycrisp will be the only ones that I will eat while they're still around! Supposedly they are only available a few months out of the year, which explains why they're more expensive than all of the other kinds of apples.

Ru (Roo, I like that. Definitely made me think of Kanga's son in Winnie the Pooh - Pooh will always be my favorite though!), speaking of fire spinning. One of my close friends is a fire spinner, does it for a living actually. I often get to see him and his troupe spin, which is really awesome.
Oh, and about the stars - I did take the time to go to everyone's thread that I read and enjoy and rate them 5 stars, since you asked so nicely.

Oooh, DG, I love the idea about putting cut up cukes into the pickle juice. I am a pickle fiend!

I'm with you Bruun, not crazy about the Wayans brothers, well except for on old episodes of In Living Color (which I can still find on!). I just couldn't get into White Girls. I have been DVRing stuff like crazy lately, ever since the new fall season started. Oh, and The Big Bang theory is showing re-runs every weekday, back to back. I only started watching it 2 seasons ago, so there are a lot of episodes for me to catch up on!

The Neverending story was a GREAT movie!! I must've watched it a hundred times when I was growing up.

[Doggygirl]

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Hi friends! I can't stay long for a big catch up, which I would MUCH rather do than start studying immediately. I took my first mid term this morning. I think it went fine. My inclination is to want to goof off this afternoon, but no time for that with a final on Thursday! No rest for the wicked this week.

Anyway....Bruun I hate the idea of you sitting alone drinking martinis. :upset::upset: I hope that somehow some way there is a better life for you out here in the universe. I hope we can help you look and find it. :l That mud/milkshake/poached egg business of this morning sounds......well.....better your breakfast than mine, OK? :H

Hello rudyb and Is and Pete and Ginger and Ne and whoever else happens along.

OK - back to the books!

DG

[Doggygirl]

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I hope I didn't overstep my bounds by saying that. I was probably projecting my own experience with alone drinking onto you Bruun - and it might not be a sad experience for you. It was for me....that's what I really meant. If it IS lonely and sad for you too, then I just want to hug you and help you any way I can. That dark and lonely feeling still makes my heart stop for a second - that's what it feels like anyway.

:l

DG