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It sounds like we're going to drive up to East Lansing for Scott's sister's birthday. She wants to have dinner with her son who's in school at MSU. That's about as long a trip for us as going up to Scott's parents' place, so it's not a particularly big deal to go up there.

I'm trying to make sure everything is charged and that I'm set to work on writing with or without internet access. The write-in this afternoon is at Panera (2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Plymouth Rd Panera if anybody's local and would like to drop in. I'm wearing a black t-shirt that says 'My Patronus is Totoro').

Given the family stuff, I'm not sure if I'm going to sign up for Yuletide. I want to, but I'm not certain I should commit given that I don't know if I can carry it through. I want to, but I hate the idea of having to default. There's time yet before sign ups even open, so I'm hoping I'll have a more definite idea by then as to whether or not I should.

I woke with a headache this morning. Black tea with honey helped a lot.

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I like black tea too. People think I'm weird. Although I mainly stick to rooibos tea as caffeine isn't good for my bladder.

Honey is my drug though. It never lasts long due to my daily porridge ritual. So I only buy it when I'm feeling greedy.

I use honey mostly because it comes in a container that is easier to keep in an accessible location for early morning tea making. The containers mostly aren't too heavy for me, and they're small enough that I can keep one on the counter. The sugar is in a heavy container in a cupboard about ten feet from the stove. In order to move it, we'd have to rearrange a lot of things that we use more frequently. The current location for the sugar is more or less convenient to the stand mixer. the bread machine, and the dining room table. As I can't open it and get anything out of it without setting it down, proximity to a large, flat space matters.

I gave up sugar (in all it's forms: candies, cake, chocolate, ice cream etc..) for 3 years, but fell off the wagon during a really stressful time. Since then I've regularly gorged on junk, but I'm trying to stop again now because I know it's terrible for my inflammation.