I guess

I would have to learn to text if I lived in Finland.

In other news-tummy troubles have spread to my stomach according to the most recent biopsies but on the flip side-the lower intestine looks better than ever.

Happy Thanksgiving and World Toilet Expo

They even have a toilet that weighs you and tells you your blood sugar every time you go. Wonder if they will ever have one that points out "hey, you have flared long enough with this bout of Crohn's/IBD/tummy troubles and this really is bad enough for you to call the doctor!" ?

Sharp Toilet Seat

I have seen some unusual toilets and toilet seats. Really. I mean...who can forget the giant hand toilet for instance? We even have an interesting toilet seat upstairs. In the "master" bedroom however we just have the insanely practical antibacterial toilet seat.

This one though...I think it takes the cake for interesting as far as toilet seats. For a mere 69 pounds...that is around 140 bucks, you too can own a razor blade toilet seat from The Perfect Pad. They also have a barbed wire option. I suppose both are apt for those days when it feels like there are razor blades on the loose in my gut.

Save Water!

An interesting little project to save water while flushing a gazillion times a day and washing your hands after each time: Hack a toilet

Potty Mouth

Just a round up of Tummy Trouble and Potty news across the web

A Crohn's Stamp I want to see the design. Think it will be a gut? a toilet?
Flushie the Talking Toilet
Flushing Fish Toilet
Toilet-o-rama
Toilet Paper Origami
Poop Culture

Oh wait, you came to hear about real life tummy troubles? Umm well, uh, doing ok. Check up on Wed.

Can't Miss Toilet News

1000 toilets in one public bathroom in China. Some of them are really cool! I like the spreading toilet culture part!

Flush Game

Flush duckies, dog food and more with dishy Jo the Plumber. It is an interactive ad for Kohler toilets (and a pretty darn effective one. We could use that kind of flush power here!) So, go join Jo for some fun in the bathroom...you can click on an object and one of you can flush it.

Novel TP and Toilets

You have to go check out this gallery of Novel Toilet Paper and Toilets. I am way amused.

This Bite Me one is my favorite right now. Though I know the hand is the one most likely to end up in my home.

A Handy Toilet...

You want this one don't you? Come one, ever needed a hand in the bathroom?

Toilet Sink Combo Anyone

Is this perfect for a small bathroom? For a tummy troubled person? Or just an expensive way to bring that prison cell look home?

You know...

You don't want to hear my ode to prednisone (which is running around half formed in my prednisone slaked brain and makes prednisone sound rather like a bad boy in West Side Story or something)

So...I bring you ....something new and exciting from the International Home Show! Toilet Tattoos

There are some "elegant and sophisticated designs." but I am just about ready to order the one shown here. Ostensibly for potty training...I am thinking the irony for tummy troubles and me, ...makes it perfect!

Portable Heated Toilet

With many other features! Just what we need for the toilet closet I heard suggested a couple weeks ago on a tummy trouble board
http://www.tokyomango.com/tokyo_mango/2007/04/portable_heated.html

More Down to Earth

A new bathroom just about anyone can afford...from Playmobil

Tummy Trouble Throne

I hate the word John and the word throne for these items. I will learn to love them when I win this-the ultimate tummy troubled contest!

London Potty?

Gone potty? I don't know. I do know that this bathroom is opening in London, near or in some shopping center. 10 pounds a go. I am a little alarmed that this was opened in response to a lack of public bathrooms (only 400 in London, which is not a small town) and uh, I have to at least go through London to see my kids in Feb. I better put tummy trouble toilet money in my trip budget I guess. sigh.

Happy World Toilet Day

In honor of the day...how about some urban legends. Or better yet.....play Urgent! The Game

Big Day in Toilets

Today is the first day of the World Toilet Expo in Bangkok. The theme is Happy Toilet Healthy Life. Now think about that for a minute. I did...and now I am wondering if my toilet is not happy with me.

Granted I can find something of interest in any conference but some of these sessions sound particularly great.

• Progressing towards gracious living
• The Happy Toilet: By Design, Not Chance
• Building Dignity, Not Toilets
• Toileting at Ease, Maintaining a Breeze
• And MORE!

Not only that there is an expo where you can:

"Discover effective hygiene solutions, as well as gain insights into the latest toilet-related trends, technologies, products and services from leading brands names."

Pretty cool stuff!

Look What You Can Get

Perfect for the tummy troubled. Well maybe not since that can be messy and cleaning might be a bit more troubling. But, yes, you can make it operational and everything.

So, if someone in your house rules from their throne...make it look like one with this!

In Honor of Prep...Bathroom Quiz

What Your Bathroom Habits Say About You

You are a giving soul. Way too giving in fact. You often get stuck doing the dirty work that no one else will do. Your idea of fashion is jeans and a t-shirt. Clean, if you're lucky. You have the perfect blend of confidence and class. You're proud of who you are - but you don't broadcast it. In relationships, you tend to be very romantic and demanding. You'll treat your partner like gold, but you expect a lot in return.

What Do Your Bathroom Habits Say About You?

Blogher Bathroom Wrap Up

Well, Blogher is now over and I am about to step on a plane headed home. Yay! Boo! Blogher was overwhelming but bathroom troubles were not too overwhelming. Yes, I had them. (duh.) But, I rarely encountered a real line.

Best of all: NO WET TOILET SEATS. None. 700 women using a public bathroom and not leaving pee all over the seats. Really. Picture that. Was everyone afraid Dooce or Grace would come into the stall after them and see their pee on the seat? Was it the lack of anonymity in person and all the blog crushes? I have no idea, but it really made my weekend.

Thanks to everyone for being handwashers too. I would like to think it was everyone who read Denise's Be Prepared post. (goodness knows enough of you did, I was vastly amused by everyone who told her they took her advice and brought a heating pad and were appreciative of that advice.) I think it really is the peer pressure of having groups of women in the bathroom. Or it could have been all the sticky finger food served.

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