Beeturia

Yesterday my urine was bloody. It was quite a shock to look down and see the toilet filling up with red pee. And when I say red, I don't mean that really dark yellow pee that you get if you haven't been drinking enough water. This pee looked just like blood.

I couldn't think of any good reason for having blood in my urine...then again, who can? Anyway, I had been sitting at a desk the whole day. I literally hadn't been active at all. I could understand bloody pee if I had been brutally tackled during a football game or had been in some awful car accident. But sitting at a desk?

Then Dorothy reminded me that I had eaten some beets earlier that afternoon. Bingo! Turns out there is a disease (if you can call it that) called "beeturia". Google gives this definition for it: "Beeturia is passing of red or pink urine and feces after eating beets. It affects 10-14% of the population." I haven't passed any feces yet, but believe me, I'm excited to see it.

So, if you're luck enough to have beeturia, don't be surprised if a good helping of beets makes your pee really colorful.

Journals

I've decided to start a blog. Chances are that I won't keep it up. But why not start? Dorothy probably won't be happy that I'm writing my own blog when I don't even read our own. Then again she might be thrilled that I know enough about these things to get started.

So, why have I started this blog? Well, I just finished reading a few entries on a blog of a friend of mine (Zach Queen: http://zacharyqueen.blogspot.com/). It seemed to me that his blog was a lot like a journal and lately I've been feeling like I ought to be a better journal writer. So, until further notice, this blog will be my journal. Hence the title, "Private Life". Indeed, I am inviting all of you into my personal, private life. Of course, this much of my life should never be shared openly on the internet. Oh well. Welcome.