A bit off even now.

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A mild headache, exhaustion which I struggle with in order to stay awake as I sit here.  I'll add painkillers, and more electrolytes.  Normally, once I become hydrated, my lips don't chap.  I thought a couple days of an extra dose per day would work.  So, cut the dose to singles per day.  That isn't working.  Might also be why I have a headache?  More electrolytes, and more fluid intake.

I reset the kefir, making another half gallon jar of refrigerated kefir.  There wasn't enough to begin another first fermenting quart jars though.  There was enough to have a sample.  It's not as good as when I get back to raw whole milk, and I don't trust it fully.  But for short term it will do.

I have been salivating over the idea of having kefir for about a week now.  I wasn't sure if the scent, while resetting and turning it over, were indicators or just hopes.  The only way to be sure was to taste, but that had to wait.  Oh, it is delicious.  Just as I thought, maybe better.

I have to take it easy, on how much I consume.  Between the lack of production capacity... say currently at six cups every two to three days... as well as my limited ability to handle kefir when I haven't been drinking it for a while.  It... goes into the gastrointestinal zone like storm troopers.  Kicking out what doesn't and shouldn't belong, bolstering or creating from near whole cloth that which does belong and is good, then acting like roughage as it grows, expands, and pushing a wave of unwanted, unused, bad, and even some good things out the back door.

Even if I just have two to three cups of the stuff a day, it's... going to become messy.  I have learned not to pass "gas" blithely, for the first week or two, after starting kefir.  Shart!  Oh, yes.  Yes indeed.  No matter how big, strong, or meek and docile, you happen to be.  You'll "do" your nappies.  And, since I don't wear diapers it's... an ugly thing.

Still, I am absolutely enjoying the stuff back in my diet again.  Hmm, might put the electrolytes in my next cup.  Just... to see if that might be a good thing.  So I won't need to add other things to my kefir.  Just something that is actually good for me.  Oh, don't bother with kefir at the store.  They sweeten the absolute crap out of that.  And I wouldn't trust their "carb" list.  From testing with my blood sugar kit, their numbers are false.  I would say they have as many carbs, or even raw sugars, as soda.  I haven't seen any, personally, which aren't loaded with sugar.  Do they exist?  Maybe.  But not in my local, or any I have lived in.  Including when I lived in Iowa City/Coralville.  So...

I am surprised nobody makes this stuff.  Then again, the FDA and DEA would probably be kicking down their door, while ignoring the meth lab down the road.  You can bet your sweet bippy on that.  They even go after Amish meat producers.  So... yes.  You diy it, or you go without.  Or... you eat their sugar.  Choices.

Well... on to... things.  Surprised dairy hasn't arrived yet.  Had to use some of the milk for my coffee.  It's... not my favorite.  Love cream, but not milk, anymore.  Never did really like it with coffee though.  But cream?  Real whole raw cream?  Oh, that is delicious in coffee.  Just... keep it to a small dose.  Mostly.  Good afternoon.