Saturday, March 28, 2009

relief


So I ate way too much Indian food last night and woke up in the middle of the night. This happens to me all the time. I sometimes will be awake for an hour and a half. Sometimes taking rolaids helps me sleep better. Its weird because my stomach doesn't feel like its the thing keeping me up but after having one or two of them i go right back to sleep. sometimes.

I was also awake i think because my wrist hurt. I hurt it in a mechanical bull accident a few weeks ago. I should really see a doctor about it, but at this point i'd just feel stupid. Anyways, you can learn more about that in my ihurtmyhandonamechanicalbull blog (forthcoming)

I'm on my third big bottle in the past 6 months. Kim has some of them, but most are me. I'm fine if i eat dinner at like 5 or 6... but if at 8 or 9 i'm toast.

I guess like most product loyalty, I stick to rolaids because that's what my father chews. I tried tums once last year, mostly because I was out of rolaids and there were two bottles laying in the bathroom of the house i lived in (sorry if i stole from mark or rob). They tasted gross and chalky. They lacked the smooth mint flavour. They also took way to long to break down to chewable sizes. Never again.

My sister told me that her boyfriend was told in chef school that you should never ever take Rolaids or tums because artificial antacids screw up your body's natural antacid system and the more antacids you take the less able your body is to settle your stomach itself, which means you have to take more antacids. This never made sense to me because if my body's system was working properly i wouldn't need them. I think its an urban legend but i haven't been able to find any evidence on the Internet to prove this. If anyone knows anything please let me know.