Summer of Swag

I'd like to officially name the summer of 2008 the Summer of Swag for me! Not only did I get to host the Nintendo girls party, I've now won an iPod Shuffle as part of the Downtown Denver Partnership's program to encourage people to take public transportation to work during the DNC next week. The point was to log how you've been commuting to work, each time you didn't drive you're entered into a drawing for prizes and today I won! How cool is that?

I would also like to give props to all you living gluten-free out there. My nutritionist suggested that I may be gluten sensitive or intolerant so I've (painfully) cut it out of my diet for the past week and a half. I'm just now starting to feel a bit better, and I can't decide what to feel if I find out that I really truly do need to go gluten-free for the long term. On the one hand, I would love to feel better, and on the other it's a big fat pain in the arse. I know I gradually learned and even embrace being dairy-free, but that took years. It's not even that I'm craving bread or anything that's blatantly filled with wheat, it's more that there is gluten in almost everything, and so doing anything is harder. I've taken reading labels to an entirely new level, and eating anywhere other than home is such a hassle. Asking for a gluten-free menu is one thing, but the (few) places I've done this had a menu full of gluten-free but dairy-heavy items. Looks like I may turn anti-social for a while until I get some of this figured out!