damn you treacherous body! damn you!

[bluelovesorange]

so. it's been a running joke for me and my friends a while now about certain foods I cannot eat due to my ethnic heritage and biological makeup - ie, the famous Asian lactose intolerance kick. If you know me at all, you know I love the dairy - milk, cheese, ice cream...if it's bound to be fattening, good for your bones, makes a sandwich that much better, I'm all over it.

I would drink my milk, eat my rocky road, and pile slices of swiss and cheddar on my turkey sandwich and thumb my nose at my genes - "ha ha ha, lookit at me! DAIRY! BEAUTIFUL, LIFE-GIVING DAIRY!"

But lately, over the past few years, I've stopped drinking milk. It used to be one glass a week, now I haven't touched the stuff in months - not even for my cereal (what do you mean you're not supposed to eat it right out of the box?). My mother, on her various diet-for-life kicks, will smuggle the ice cream in and out of our freezer at bizarre intervals, it's mostly a luck of the draw if I open the left partition and "Surprise! You've got Icecream!" instead of "Surprise! You've got huge hunks of frozen meat and soup stock!"

The one constant in my life has been cheese.

I ate an ice cream bar earlier today. My stomach responded by squeezing upon itself and sent stabbing cramps out.

This is the first time that it's happened. I don't know if it's a one time fluke thing, or if this is going to happen every time I partake of the evil frosty goodness.

All I know is that you're going to have pry a block of monterey jack out of my cold, dead, hands.


in other news - I'm going to get DSL this week.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/wisteria_/]

My cat is giving you a sympathetic cuddle and purr right now.

His name is Queso.

;)

Cheese love 4eva!

[riddering.livejournal.com]

All I know is that you're going to have pry a block of monterey jack out of my cold, dead, hands.

I don't know what else to say but that you have a gift. I just read a post on your history with dairy foods and was left wanting more.

You funny.

Me very eloquent.

it's the frosty evil calling to you

[crushw-eyeliner.livejournal.com]

I don't know what else to say but that you have a gift. I just read a post on your history with dairy foods and was left wanting more.

Thank you.

Sometimes I feel like crawling into a cave and just not leaving it except to go to the record store - words are hard and beautiful and sometimes unneccesary, but they've always been there for me, and I'm glad it amused you.

:)

Cheddar is my weakness

[aea]

I love cheese. Sometimes I can hear it calling to me from the fridge.
"Please eat me. I promise not to clog your arteries and fatten your ass. Look! I'm 1%."

And you're totally supposed to eat cereal from the box. Except Cocoa Crispies, 'cause the milk turns chocolate and that's half the fun.

Cheese, you are my destiny.
Cheese, it's what's for dinner. And midnight cravings.

i delurk therefore i am

[badrudegirl.livejournal.com]

I love eating cheese slices, milk, pizza and ice cream (all on the same day!). So as someone who's lactose intolerant you have my sympathies (as I did have to cut back). But you can buy Lactaid milk, cheese and their pills so you'll be able to eat regular dairy products. Though since it is a first, it could very well be a fluke.

hi!

[crushw-eyeliner.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you delurked - and the lactose intolerance thing always seemed like a far away occurence - "oh, it'll never happen to me" that kind of thing...

tho, I was talking to an friend of mine who told me that at 23, the same exact thing happened to her and her brother. Talk about sucky rites of passage.

Though, of course, in the context of other rites of passages - not being able to eat cheese is less severe than ...losing a body part.

[keenai.livejournal.com]

in other news - I'm going to get DSL this week.

Me too! *hi five*

[postcardjunkie.livejournal.com]

DSL? Really? That's fabulous! Congratulations and frantic celebratory dancing!