Health post followed by random fandom thoughts.

[aisalynn]

Yesterday I went to the GI doctor. After giving her a list of symptoms as long as my leg and the entire story of my life for the past year, she took one look at my lab (either the TTG or the IGG, I'm not sure. I've had so many blood tests done that I can't even keep track anymore) and told me I probably do have Celiac's disease. Wonderful.

She's running a full Celiac's panel just to sure, as well as food allergy IGE (there's another five tubes of my blood for the hospital to play with) and we've scheduled an upper endoscopy for next Wednesday. So I guess we'll know for sure by then.

Part of me wants it to be true, simply because then I'll know what is wrong and I can start getting my life back (actually, I'm told that you get Celiac's disease from the first time you ever eat gluten, so if it's true my health will be better than it has have been. I wonder what it would be like to have energy. Huh. ) but most of my is praying that it isn't, because I really love flour. I love bread, and cookies and brownies and breaded chicken, and I was looking at lists of candy that have gluten in and there's a horrible amount of my favorites in there.

(Reese's minis? How will I survive without them?)

My doctor told me not to cut back on the gluten while we wait to find out, because that could make the test a false negative, so I've been gorging myself on it. There is, in fact, and open bag of Reese's minis right beside me, and yesterday I went out to eat at O'Charley's (I love their rolls. I'll miss them.) and the other day I went and ate at the Olive Garden. I'm planning on eating pizza the night before my endoscopy, because I know that ordering pizza when I'm hanging out with my friends will be something I really miss.

Oh my god. I just realized. The fried onion flower? You know, my favorite food item in the world, the thing I posted about when Writer's Block asked about our choice of last meal, the thing that I totally got excited about when Spike started going on about this "onion thing" in the later seasons of Buffy because I loved it as much as he did? Yeah. It's breaded. With flour.

Oh god. If this test is positive I'm never going to get to eat it again.

*whimper*


In an unrelated note, I've been rewatching a few season 1 Veronica Mars episodes today, and you know who I'm starting to ship a little? Veronica and Meg. I don't read a whole lot of femmeslash, but sometimes the idea will really stick with me. (For instance, Buffy and Faith. Despite my usual fanatic OTPness when it comes to Spuffy, whenever Buffy and Faith are in a scene together I can't help but ship them, and I was totally feeling it season 3.) Anyway. I love Veronica and Meg together, even just as good friends. Which makes what happened in season 2 all the more sad.

It's funny how much I like Alona Tal in Veronica Mars, considering how much her character Jo annoyed me in Supernatural. I don't know, her wannabe hunter act was a little annoying, and I always thought she seemed far too young for Dean. (Jo and Sam, however? I could actually see.) Of course, I absolutely loved her in her one episode in season 5, thought her character seemed a lot more grown up--more hunter than wannabe hunter, so I'm not happy about the end of that episode, considering she had just started to be awesome.

Speaking of those rare female Supernatural characters, I've been creating .avi clips to edit with (I'm vidding again! Yay! And I am so excited about what I'm working on right now.) and at the moment I'm working on season three.

Can I just say again, how much I love Ruby in that season? I mean, I realize that love for Ruby seems to be an unpopular opinion in this fandom, but I thought she was awesome in that season. Totally badass, with her confrontational attitude and her witchcraft and the way she kept saving the boys' life. I didn't trust her then, but I wanted to. And I thought she was totally more believable as the good-demon-with-regret than in season 4, where I thought her manipulation was more obvious.

I miss Katie Cassidy's Ruby. She rocked.

Comments

[theron09.livejournal.com]

*hugs you tight* I really hope you get everything sorted out with your health - it would suck not to be able to eat your favourite foods but I guess it's much better that you know one way or the other.

I was the same with Jo - the only time I liked her was in S5 and I always thought she was too young for Dean.

I prefered Katie Cassidy's Ruby too, I thought she was much more ambiguous.

Again, hope things get sorted out for you!!

[aisalynn.livejournal.com]

*hugs back* Yeah, I don't want to give up the food I love, but I really want to figure out what's wrong with me already.

I don't know if it was just because after Veronica Mars I just couldn't see her as anything other than a high school girl, but yeah, totally too young for Dean. Now, had they decided to go a little sister route? I would have been down with that.

[lavendergaia]

I'm sorry about all the problems you've been having. *hugs* I mean, it's possible to cheat occasionally, right?

I never thought of Meg/Veronica, but I think if I rewatched, I'd totally ship that. I was never a huge fan of Meg though. It seems to me like Alona always gets poorly written characters.

Ruby. <3 <3 <3

[aisalynn.livejournal.com]

Yeah, if cheating wouldn't leave me doubled over in pain, as several gluten-free people have told me it would. Apparently, once your body is free of it? It does not want it back.

Eh, I didn't think she was that poorly written in season 1. I really liked her actually. It was season 2 where she became a plot device rather than a well rounded character. It was sad.

[lavendergaia]

...what's pain in comparison to never having a bloomin' onion again?

I felt like she was a real Mary Sue in season 1. I mean, they created Meg because they liked Alona and she never seemed like a fully developed character.

[canyon_deye.livejournal.com]

Aw :( I hope it works out for you. I hope you'll be able to eat those things in the future, too. *hugs*

[cantarina]

I promise, I promise, the idea of eating gluten-free gets easier. I've done it twice now (once while under extended Celiac testing; the results came out negative) and the first few months are really difficult, but eventually, it stops being so frustrating and daunting.

I know that it's not exactly the same (you kind of have to think of it as different, but still delicious), but alternatives are out there to a lot of the foods you listed; pasta and bread and cookies and brownies and even breaded chicken, though you might have the make the last yourself. If you come back allergy-free then you're miles ahead of the game and even if you don't, then there's nearly always a way. (I've baked gluten, dairy, soy, rice, egg, and sugar free, all in the same recipe, and "normal" eaters have snapped it up.)

Some stuff just has to be got used to, though, like the candy :/ I've always found that being made sick by a particular food makes me a lot less inclined to want to eat it, though.


Don't worry, you're not expressing a truly unpopular opinion until you start claiming to love Cortese's Ruby :P And honestly, I think they wrote Cassidy's Ruby a lot more ambiguously; the demon who said "Fine, go and get yourself killed, I'm not going to stay to watch" and left the besieged police station is not entirely the same character as season four Ruby, who would never have left, not if Heaven and Hell is anything to go by. I have a hard time reconciling them as the same character, sometimes, short of Ruby receiving a certain re-education between seasons three and four.

[yourkidney.livejournal.com]

:P Yeah that's me. I like the Ruby 2.0 :D

[cantarina]

*does a little happy dance*

Ruby 2.0 had to grow on me, but loved her final scenes in 4x22. I think it was some of the best acting she did on the show.

[yourkidney.livejournal.com]

I kind of hated her as I was watching it (I hated both Rubys though tbh) but in retrospect she's one of my favorites. <3 And yeah. That last episode was killer. \0/

[cantarina]

I really enjoyed Ruby 3.0 right off the bat, but yeah Cortese's version of the character definitely had to grow on me. bloodnfire gets a lot of the credit for that! Also, Anna/Ruby, for being an awesomely literal love story between an angel and a demon.

(Mah femmeslasher tendencies, let me show dem u)

[yourkidney.livejournal.com]

/0\ I have this inexplicable dislike for Anna, idky, so I was never able to slash her and Ruby together. (Ruby/Jo on the other hand, is pretty marvelous. AND I DON'T KNOW WHY IT WOULD HAPPEN but Ruby/Cassie would be gorgeous like woah.

[cantarina]

I really like Ruby/Jo, but I find the fic to be very one-note. Maybe I'm just reading the wrong stuff?

I don't know how Ruby/Cassie would come to pass either, BUT I WANT TO KNOW. Especially if it's Ruby 4.0; the idea of some makeouts between arguably the two most hated female characters in the fandom delights me. HATERS, TO THE LEFT.

[yourkidney.livejournal.com]

I haven't read too much of Ruby/Jo tbh. I'm a one-ship kind of girl >.> and haven't looked into it a whole lot. BUT I SHOULD MORE. Or write my own and change it up a bunch. That would be fun. <3

I WANT TO KNOW TOO SO BAD. I love Cassie a ridiculous amount (and have no idea what fandom has against her) and would jump on that ship SO HARD. Okay. New plan. Maybe I'll give writing this one a shot. NOT ENOUGH ROOM FOR HATERS HERE.

[cantarina]

What's your main ship? I fly in exactly the opposite direction (in that I'm into nearly everything), so the odds are good I've read some of that too :P Although as it's probably Dean/Cas or Sam/Dean, I think everyone's read at least a little bit of both pairings XD

Cassie makes me sad, because I really want to love her and I just. can't. get there. I like her plenty... hm, maybe it's about time I braved a rewatch of Route 666.

This is fun and we seem to get along well. Friends?

[yourkidney.livejournal.com]

I'm a Sam/Dean girl, 110%, although I do have a soft spot for Dean/Crowley or Cas/Crowley or various femmeslash. lol I was like that with HP, and it was just SO EXHAUSTING. So it's nice to have a fandom where I more-or-less focus on one ship. <3

Route 666 is one of my least favorite episodes idk it was just…not exciting to me but there was something about Cassie that I just fell in love with. Probably b/c Dean actually loved her so I'm all "Awww."

Yes, friends! I just added you. <3

[cantarina]

Oh god, the sheer variety of HP pairings would definitely make that exhausting. I was never properly involved in that fandom (I lurked in a few sorting communities and spent time surfing girls_today), but I remember the variety seeming infinite. I haven't been a monoshipper in a long time, but I feel like it's hard to get obsessive over my favourites when there's no basis for them in canon. (Bela/Jo is an instant click-through, but it's hard to justify a ship war over them!)

There's a reason I termed it "brave through" Route 666 :P I was surprised to see that someone has already claimed the episode for summer_sam_love!

[yourkidney.livejournal.com]

I don't know how I did it for so long. :| Part of it probably was that back then I participated in fandom at ffn, which is not NEARLY as crazy as lj, especially for HP.

Out of curiosity, what are your favorite ships for SPN? I'm not about to go postal on your ass if you "answer wrong" (no such thing) but just wondering. :)

lol re: ship warring Bela/Jo. \0/ THAT WOULD BE EPIC.

[cantarina]

I remember the pre-LJ fandom days! Lots of mailing lists and message boards, oh my. I think that I still have a long-neglected account on ff.net with some stories still posted to it :P

I'd like to know too! No really, it's not something I pay attention to at all except on a whim and the answer changes every time someone asks it. Off the top of my head, I really like Jo/Jess, Bela/Henriksen (JUST THINK ABOUT IT), girl!Sam/Jess (and Sam/Jess, I suppose :P), Dean/Jess, and any permutation of Anna/Gabriel, even (especially) friendship fic. I loved the Mary/Ellen BB. I think that Dean/Alastair is really interesting, Sassy shines like diamonds as adorable crackfic, and that Dean/Henriksen has awesome potential. Sarah/Sam was lovely too! I've got a favourite (barely) Sarah/Jo piece bookmarked.

I COULD GO ON, though in the balance, I'd say femmeslash is a bigger than het is a bigger draw than slash, but it depends on the pairing and my whims. SamnDean and anything to do with the women gen is a huge draw too. I keep meaning to update my delicious with something other than RPF, so maybe I'll get to that!

And no no, the hottest part about Jo/Bela is that they're already doing all of that struggle and conflict with each other :D

[yourkidney.livejournal.com]

Celiac's blows hon! I'm SO FUCKING SORRY. A good friend of mine has it. There ARE pasta and cookie and flour substitutes etc. I'm not EXACTLY sure what they're made of, but there are definitely ways to eat mostly normal (even though it won't taste QUITE how it should) with that stupid fucking disease. :hugs really hard:

Haha I have a kind of guilty pleasure love for Ruby. Like, yeah she's kickass in s3, but she's SO HOT in s4, and more manipulative and kind of a bitch and…idk but I actually like her a lot. (I do think it's mostly to do with how I've slowly started to fall completely in love with GCortese.) But Katie was spectacular as well! I <3 Ruby in general.

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

Well, I'll keep my fingers crossed either way... because as much as it would suck to have to deal with Celiac's, I know it's also a huge relief to finally have a diagnosis for problems.

I've got several friends who are gluten-free, so I know that if it is the issue, you're actually really lucky nowadays... there are a *ton* of alternatives available. Plus, if you're willing to try making things yourself, there's almost nothing you can't have.

Oh! And I know there's at least one national pizza chain that offers a gluten-free crust! If it does turn out to be Celiac's, I'll ask around and find out for you.

[aisalynn.livejournal.com]

I know this reply is like, a month after you posted it, but I've been gluten free for weeks now, and I'm seriously, seriously craving pizza. Do you think you could find out what national chain offers that gluten free crust? I will love you forever if you do.

[fenchurche.livejournal.com]

I have no idea if they've got a location in your area, but it's Garlic Jim's Pizza (http://www.garlicjims.com/). Hope that helps!

[aisalynn.livejournal.com]

The closest one is two states away. But thank you anyway, I now know what restaurant I should look for next time in Tennessee. ;)

[cordykitten]

*hugs* I googled Celiac's disease (Wikipedia); I know that one, a woman from work has this. Don't worry, you'll live - means: You can get a pizza that is gluten free.
There is a special flour that you could use for recipes like your onions. My friend from work took the dough to the pizzeria and they made her a pizza she could eat. :)
Good luck, hon. *hugs again*