You're the wrong colour to be a smurf Lola. lol

But I'm just the perfect size, lol. :D

Maybe. lol I like short people. My mum was 5 feet tall and nothing on top. She only came up to about my shoulder, but she was so cute. Just like you, only she didn't look Asian. lol

She sure was petite. How tall are you, Ali?

A touch over 5'7, so quite a bit taller. About the same height as my Dad. My brother is 6' tall, and both the older boys look like being over 6' tall. Every generation gets taller apparently, so who knows. Maybe there's hope for future generations Lola. ;)

My hypothesis is that it's a genetic adaptation to pollution which enables homo sapiens to rise above what settles to ground level.

Depends who you breed with I think.
My sister is the shortest of all of us and she has a daughter even shorter than herself.
Luckily, she's bred with a tall man, so hopefully the rot stops there.

Neither Steven nor I are inclined to participate in the experiement anyway, so the data may be skewed.

I feels like a crone, lola bunny, I FEELS it.

for some reason for the past six months I've been feeling a bit like i'm on chemo====legs ache constantly, knees are killing me like spikes, hips, lower back---all ache and hurt all day long and night, too. I get up to take advil. and I'm tiiiiiiiiiiiiiired (Madeline Kahn voice) I can only manage one 'thing' a day and I'm killed. I've heard I need iron, vitamin D, a bone scan...all that. gotta wait till after the holidays though as I'm tapped out and can't even afford my doc co-pay!

but I'm really creaky and horribly old. at least in my joints.

PS that glucosomine chondroitine stuff? it's like 40.00 a bottle!!!!!!!!!!!

$40 a bottle?? A generic brand costs much less than that. My mom'a doc said it's ok for her so that what I get for her. Would it be ok for you to take the generic brand?

The Atlantic
By Megan Garber
Dec 15 2012, 8:27 AM ET

What Were the Last Words Spoken on the Moon?

If my wife had been there, the last words would have been:
"Wait, I forgot to turn off the coffee pot"

I think that WAS generic!!

can I be rude and ask how much per bottle you pay?

Tril, hows your diet? What are you eating everyday? Are you getting enough protein at every meal?

Probably not. I'm eating a lot of grains and those veggie burgers that you buy frozen and heat up-----but only b/c I've been too lazy to eat well and I don't trust frozen meat burgers you can microwave. I feel really good on Atkins but it's very expensive...all that meat...cheese; but I feel good and energized when I do it.

Iron supplements are pretty cheap and can be had OTC. Might be a good place to start. After I had the baby, I was anemic enough to be at "needs a blood transfusion" levels and I felt exhausted, but taking iron supplements helped perk me back up.

How long did it take before you felt better?