Re: Grr!
So it's December and I'd usually be starting on my holiday baking by now, especially since most of my holiday gifts are baked. However, I've been fighting gastroenteritis for two and a half weeks now, and it's not right to be baking gifts while I'm sick, even if half the time I feel fine.
...But even before that, I was fretting over my holiday baking this year. I've been allergic to wheat (among other foods) all my life, but since my allergy is mild, I've mostly ignored it since my early teens. Living wheat-free is a PITA. And pricey. (Tried it for ~3 years in my 30s; had only one noticeable benefit, amid my fleet of food and environmental allergies. Not really worth the trouble and expense.) Unfortunately, changing metabolism, or something, has caught up with me, and now, eating wheat causes excessive burping.
(Doesn't sound so bad until you've lived with it -- can't bend over to tie your shoes, or go horizontal, without feeling like the alien's fixing to explode out of your chest. And you flat can't sleep, even sitting up, if you're literally burping every minute. Or more often.)
Now that I've tracked down the cause, I've been unhappily shifting over to a wheat-free diet. But the idea of trying to do my holiday baking without nibbling my way through it as normal sounds horribly frustrating, and might just take the fun out of it entirely. :(