I wonder if you would feel better if you put the lime in the coconut and drank them both together….?  Some day I will experiment and let you know.

Today is one of those dark gloomy days mostly seen in Vancouver and not Newport Beach, but the last two day have been like that here.  Makes me want to get some fake logs for my gas fireplace.  I’ve been working on my personal webpage the last few days and have gotten the foundations finished.  You can check it out here.  It may seem like a waste of time to put so much effort into a page that I frankly don’t need, but by working on my own webpage I learn in a real way how to take an idea and design and turn it into a working website.  All the classes, videos, and textbooks I’m reading don’t give you much more than an idea of how to go about it.  So, many things go awry or affect your page in ways that you could’t have guessed that it’s pretty much the only way to really learn – the textbooks and videos are all worked out in advance to give you a specific result with specific steps.  Ha! Like that ever happens in reality!

I talked to my Grandma yesterday, she’s so cute.   She told me all about how the family was doing and she talked about Clairessa coming to stay with her in February for a month, so I know she’s already excited about that.  Clairessa got to Toronto yesterday where she’s going to be for a month because of one of her med school rotations.  I think she’s liking 4th year a bit better.  Thank goodness.  But I also think she’s happier now because she went back to eating some meat.  From empirical evidence I’ve witnessed that being a vegetarian makes a person puffy and wrinkly and GROUCHY!  If you want a more scientific and peer-reviewed case for eating meat then I highly recommend this book – ‘Good Calories, Bad Calories’ by Gary Taubes.  (If you don’t have time to read the thick book here is a video of the author which covers a lot of what’s in the book ) I had so much trouble staying thin until I read this book.  A rice cake with 30 calories would make me gain weight, but eating cheese with 1000′s of calories wouldn’t – that is totally against what popular wisdom says these days – but popular wisdom is just that, it is inherently popular but it is not inherently true.