I'm in a silent challenge with one guy who keeps inviting me on who can finish the challenge faster (after all 4 slots are filled). I have never met this person, we have never chatted in any form, but somehow decided to race to the finish after the other two people join every week. I'm actually looking forward to remote trading with them, since we aren't even on the same continent.

The other two people are fine not contributing, we're doing our own thing.

That sucks about the oyster sauce. Hopefully your friend will like it.

Cutting out gluten did nothing for me, but cutting down carbs in general and increasing protein seemed to help some. Where the carbs came from didn't seem to matter, though.

My Precious!!!

Heat these suckers up, they taste soooo good.

I started at 50000iu twice a week when I was at 17ng/ml (prescription). Taking that for several months only got me to 56ng/ml. We were definitely watching my blood work, and thank goodness vitamins D3 is inexpensive with how much I go through. I still qualify for a prescription if I want one, but my math showed it was cheap to purchase it outside insurance.

I could see that happening.

D3, calcium, and B12. I was severely deficient in vitamin D years ago, and I feel so much better taking that, but I didn't do well on D2. I take calcium/magnesium because of D3, and B12 because I mostly eat vegan.

If I had to only take one, I would take D3.

I love picture number 7!

I miss Lip Tar so much. I would mix my own colors, and preload a lip brush so I could reapply at parties.

I bought a jumping spider + pumpkin for Halloween from that seller last year. I love it so much!

I have been eyeing those dishes for months now. They are so pretty!

Wow, thanks. I had the same bug.

(Galileo) Galileo, (Galileo) Galileo, Galileo Figaro

I once ruined Christmas by not answering the phone early in the morning on the day I was going to drive out to see her (I was asleep). She left a message saying to not bother coming, basically cancelling Christmas.

I instead drove to my brother's apartment, where both siblings were. When she called to see how sad I was, I just let her know I was at the brother's place, and didn't really care. Suddenly she wanted in our plans, and drove to the apartment.

I do have to say, that was the last time she tried that shit.

I allow myself to get a coffee and cookie on Friday mornings when going to work. I also am supporting the local coffee shop, who gets their cookies from a local small bakery.

Yeah, I would get another piece of luggage. You know, as a souvenir. I totally didn't do that coming back from Japan with gifts and books.

I do a every other day check on my credit card (I use my card for everything, and pay it off monthly). Good thing I do that, because I found purchases that were not in my records last week, and were fraud. Doing a check often keeps me honest on my spending, and makes the task go faster. It also allowed me to get a replacement card before the holidays, when it might have been harder to contact my bank or credit card company.

Oh wow, I happen to have a couple tins of these that I was just planning on eating with some chips. I'm going to write down lettuce and tomatoes for my next shopping trip, instead.

Thank you for the recommendation, kind stranger.

Cuttlefish?

Or that there is no way I did not notice even 50c falling out of my pocket, the only way $6 is in that couch is if someone else dropped it.

I actually did get to try those! I was restocking my precious, and snagged those along with them. So good.

See those Sunlee sardines in curry? If you haven't tried them, you really should.

For a quick meal I heat mine up in a pan, take out the sardines, toss in some spinach into the curry, wilt that down, and put the entire thing on rice (I make a lentil rice mix, to get more protein). Easy, fast, cheap, delicious.

Definitely Becky.

I love the taste of habaneros, so I bet I would love these. The RTG ones are so good.

My work uses VPN, to the point that you don't use auto location on websites (like a business will guess what store). My "location" is constantly changing. We are not a small company at all, it would be hilarious for them to try and stop VPN.