Mostly I don't buy orange juice even though I love it because it feels like such a luxury item to me (I can't really explain that, except that it's kind of expensive?), but I like Florida's Natural best. I don't think I've ever tried Naked — is it worth the price? (I like really pulpy OJ.)

I hate to be stereotypical, but: chocolate. I like chocolate normally, but sometimes I just REALLY WANT some dark chocolate.

Yep, they did a thyroid panel when they checked my Vitamin D recently. It was normal. Good thing you advocated for yourself and caught that!

Holy Vitamin D deficiency, Batman! I'm not vegan, not even really vegetarian (I'll eat chicken or fish on occasion if someone else is cooking it), so animal-derived ingredients don't really bother me. I just don't like or have any inclination to eat red meat. Or turkey. I hate turkey. (It was a long time before I was…

I don't know if you're interested, but I just thought I'd share this: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/aarti-sequeira/mums-everyday-red-lentils-recipe/index.html DELICIOUS.

Yeah, I have issues with D, too. It's on the low end of something reasonable, but my doc added a supplement because I was feeling icky. She wrote a script, but the pharmacist said the OTC stuff was the same, just told me to take the same IU. I hope she was right. Anyway, it doesn't help that I live somewhere where an…

Yeah, the compulsive ice-chewing signals to me sometimes that I need to pay attention to my iron. I only do it sometimes, in spells — mostly I'm a normal person, but sometimes I'm this freak who puts only a certain amount of water in ice trays because it makes better ice and orders a separate cup of ice at…

I'm a little doubtful, just because red meat once a week is probably enough, as long as you're eating leafy greens on occasion and lots of whole grains. If you're concerned, blood tests are easy, and it's definitely something to bring up with your MD (it could anything, really). In the meantime, you could step up you…

I KNOW. SO FREAKING CUTE.

Aww, poor kitty. If you're worried about it, I would ask your vet. But you know, if it works...

I thought it looked off at first too, but I decided it's just shadows, angle of the photo, and his upper legs look thicker than they are because they kind of blend together in the image if you don't look carefully.

Whatever, I've lived here my whole life, and I always get the ones in the middle mixed up. "North Dakota: In the middle somewhere."

I clicked through to the Wikipedia article, and now I'm sad, too. I mean, they could at least have pirate-themed Pirate Party parties once in a while.

Word! I shower every 2-3 days regularly, just because I'm so dry that the warm water kills my skin, even if I'm only using delicate expensive aloe soap on my pits and...other certain parts. I really don't need to wash my hair any more than that, either. I do usually wear unscented deodorant, but mostly because I don't…

It's so funny about the plates! I could ALWAYS tell a Florida plate driver. It sounds like a stereotype, but I was never wrong about Florida.

I used to live off of Charlotte Street, and I ate breakfast at City Bakery every single day. I worked retail, so of course my job was dependent on tourism, but I couldn't help freaking out when tourists started invading my coffeeshop in the late spring. I miss it.

Then yes, Asheville is like Boulder! Mentioning mushrooms - if you go to the Mellow Mushroom in Asheville, you have to know you're going to be there for at least two hours. The service is really slow because the kitchen staff and probably some of the wait staff are all kind of high. Of course, I haven't been there in…

I lived in Asheville for a few years before I went to App. Virginia Foxx and her continual reelections make me want to cry, vomit, and pummel something simultaneously.

I've driven a lot with my two cats out of their boxes. It's kind of necessary because one of them has a nervous bladder but she'll use the litterbox I put in the floorboard. She walks around some and looks out the windows but settles down after a while. The other one I make stay in his box if it's a shorter drive (2-3…

An aesthetician would be able to look at what's going on and suggest an appropriate product.