Despite being sick (Hello, my name is Typhoid Amy...) I will come up with a nice good list of happinesses to end this meme on.
- sleeping in until 345pm because I guess I really needed it
- getting Aquilla out of his scuzzy tank and into a clean, cute betta bowl on my desk
- cuddling with Diesel for a while
- writing and mailing a letter to my BIL who is in Georgia @ basic training
- paying bills
- getting a call from BN saying the book I had ordered has come in... and I don't remember what book it was I had ordered, so I will have a surprise on Thursday when I go back to work
- having this strange desire to put together puzzles
- not getting out of my pjs all day for nuthin!
- finally putting into motion my Win a Free Copy of My Book Contest
I think that's it for now. My head feels like it's going to esplode and I can't breathe without my mouth being open (which makes it super sexy to watch me eat)... I think I will try to go to bed now. Maybe. I dunno. If I can stop sneezing long enough to take a breath, that might happen. Or I may pop in a movie and put together puzzles. And now I will leave you with an odd picture courtesy of I Can Has Cheezburger?
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- Mood:
sick - Music:My Chemical Romance - I'm Not Okay (I Promise)
Ulcers! Yes, ulcers. I have one. Found out on Friday that I have an H. pylori ulcer, that is caused by the H. pylori bacteria. Ulcers are caused by bacteria, not stress, as most commonly believed. Stress will aggravate the ulcer, but it is not the source. But back to my diet plan. Ulcers. Give everyone the H. pylori bacteria. The main symptom of ulcers is lack of appetite. Even before I knew I had an ulcer, I wasn't eating much; maybe two meals a day for like 3 weeks. I've lost 10lbs! On Thursday at the doctor's I was weighed, and it was 10lbs less than the last time I was at the doctor's (a few months ago for my sinus attack from hell). Yeah. So, get an ulcer, you'll barely eat, and you'll loose weight. Also, throw in moving into a new house, and the pounds will fly off! HA!
I'm at my dad's... again... doing laundry. My washer/dryer at my place doesn't work and we'll eventually get around to replacing it... so in the meantime, I get to do my laundry at my dad's. At least he offered that option to me, I didn't have to beg. And I've been showering over here, as well, since my shower is AWOL at the moment. I just finished re-caulking the shower (I hate that word!!) and then I'll get to painting it tomorrow and Tuesday. Wait 24 hours for the paint to set, then I can shower! w00t! I'm excited.
Kiera discovered the deck today. She hasn't been out on it, but she noticed the sliding door was open so she sat in front of it and looked out... then... out of nowhere... a bird dove across her field of sight! Down she went into a defensive/pounce mode and watched the bird like there was nothing else in the world. She sat in front of the screen for a good hour watching birds and turning to every noise. I just can't wait until the squirrel comes back. He was sitting on the deck yesterday morning and was barking at me. Weird.
I finished reading World War Z last night and it was really good. A chilling look at the world-wide chaos of an all-out zombie invasion. The only thing I didn't like was that there was no real explanation as to what started the zombies. Apparently a little boy in China was dubbed Patient Zero after he got sick from playing around a man-made-lake. But I guess that adds to the creepiness and fear of zombies: no one really knows what starts it. George A. Romero played with the idea that cosmic radiation from a passing meteor caused it (Night of the Living Dead), and Patient Zero by Maberry introduced biological warfare zombies... there are hundreds of ways to create zombies, I guess. Anyhoo. A solid 8.5 on my rating scale. It's one of the best zombie books I've read (and sadly there aren't many). Super good. And the part about the North Korean tunnels? Holy crap, super freaky! I'm really thinking about getting the audio version. Henry Rollins is on it (as are Alan Alda, Carl & Rob Reiner) and I love me Henry Rollins! He did a voice for one of the Joker gang members in Batman Beyond. Next time I head to Half Price Books I'll have to look for it.
Today I started The Missing Ink: A Tattoo Shop Mystery by Karen E. Olson. It's one of those cozy mysteries, where you don't really see any violence but the hero/ine stumbles upon the dead body or crime. So far, almost 1/2 way through, I am thoroughly enjoying it. It's about Brett Kavanaugh, who owns The Painted Lady tattoo parlor in Las Vegas, who is the last person to see a missing woman, Kelly Masters, alive. And all these other twists and turns keep coming, dragging her deeper into the crime and mystery surrounding Kelly's disappearance. I'm not even done with it and I can't wait for the next book in the series, Pretty in Ink, which is coming out in April of 2010 (so is the 4th in Patti O'Shea's Light Warriors series!). I am definitely digging this series more than the Coffeehouse one by Cleo Coyle. There were one or two things about that story, or where the characters were heading that I didn't really like. But this one is fun and smart and funny, and it involves tattoos!
Well, off to tend to laundry and maybe read some more Las Vegas mystery funness! Hopefully I'll have internets in my new place by mid-August, so I won't have to come over to my dad's all the time. I'm annoyed I can't even shower in my own house... *le fume* Oh well.
Ciao!
- Location:protecting my anti-zombie fortress
- Mood:
exhausted - Music:The Wreckers - One More Girl
I went to the doctor Thursday, and my weird squirmy insides could be one of two things: ulcer or spleen issues. The doctor didn't say what could be wrong with my spleen, but my pain is located where the spleen is located. Not the liver, which we at B&N had thought it was (Brandin: "Maybe you have psoriasis of the liver!"). So I had some blood drawn to check for spleen stuff, and I also did an ulcer test. Did you know that an ulcer test consists of you blowing into a weird baggy thing, then drinking some citrus drink, waiting 15 minutes, then blowing into another baggy thing? It was weird. But I had time to read World War Z while I waited for my tests (the lab was backed up due to 2 newbies).
After the doctor's appointment dad and I totally annihilated my living room and moved it up to the new place. All I have left now is a folding table, my laptop, my fish, and my chair. And miscellaneous crap that will be thrown into a bag and hurled into the sea. I told dad about my doctor's appointment, since when I was on the phone with him telling him I was home from it, I started crying because he was asking me what needed to be done, what we should do, what the plan was, and I just got overwhelmed. When I told him what was determined to be the likely suspects of my strange pain, he understood why I cried. It is a little overwhelming, to hear the spleen part. I totally would have understood the ulcer---I'm surprised I haven't had one before with all the crap I've had to deal with in my life. But I'm thinking the spleen option is the most likely culprit. Nothing of what I'm feeling seems to be stomach related. And of course, later on Thursday when we were done moving and I was home resting, I looked online for spleen stuff (I really don't know what that organ does), and I freaked myself out. What I'm feeling matches nearly all the symptoms of an enlarged spleen. Lovely. Which means, if it is an enlarged spleen, I will have to have surgery for it. 0.o Yeah, not looking forward to that.
I fell asleep @ 8pm, when I should have been packing up my bedroom... and finally dragged myself out of my chair @ 1030pm. Went to sleep and after having racing thoughts about spleen surgery, slept straight through til 5am, when Kiera woke me up for snugglies. =^_^= And now I'm up (but not for much longer, mind you) because I've also been freaking out over other utilities I have to switch over from the apartment to the new place which I didn't get done on time, so now I'm kinda screwed... ugh. *headwall* I had the thought last night, this morning... whenever it is... that maybe I should just pay August rent here and space out my move a little more. I could get more painting done, get stuff organized at the new place so I have room to put my stuff that's still in the apartment, get Comcast to come out and properly disconnect and reconnect my internets... have some freaking time to clean my apartment so my landlord doesn't blow a vein.... ugh. I'm really surprised I haven't gotten an ulcer after all of this. Really.
Ugh. I'm going back to bed. My stupid "c" key isn't working right, so if you see some words that should have Cs in them, but don't that's why. But one bright note: I got an email today from B&N saying that my order of Sword of the Stranger is in and ready for me to pick up. *le squeee!* Finally!!
Okay... back to bed.
- Location:stuck at the corner of Jack and Shit
- Mood:
worried - Music:the uber wind outstide
So this morning I woke up with 10 minutes to get ready for work. Because I have been in a time warp this whole week and haven't been able to figure out what day or time it is. On top of waking up freaking late, my stomach... liver... something is being all squirmily today. It's like I have this hard mass in my stomach... I want to say liver... but I'm not sure how things are all laid out exactly in your body... I's right below my left rib cage if that helps anyone... anyway. It feels like that area is hard or less squishy than the rest of the organs. And if I move a certain way or breathe in too deep it makes this weird pushy achey motion. But I'm not in pain, it's just more annoying that anything. I can tell it's there right now, but I'm not sure if it's really pain I'm feeling or just awareness. I dunno. I think that I might have to delay moving in Thursday or Friday to go to the doctor. I'm going to get this figured out fast before it turns into something horrible.
It's also in the same spot where I get these weird muscle spasms, right under my ribs. If I move in a certain way, or breathe in weird (how one breathes in weird, I dunno) I will get this stabbing pain right below my ribs. The spasm lasts for a few seconds, then I go on with life. Although I have had spasms where I'm almost incapacitated. The last one happened when I was dating Joe. I was getting into my car when this slicing, searing pain shoots up from that spot and I am immobilized from the pain. Joe was getting into his car and almost didn't see me (my driver's door was still open) before he drove off. He slams on his brakes and rushes over and asks if we should go to the hospital. I squeak out a "no" and in a few moments the pain resides to a dull throb.
Maybe I should have had that looked at back then. I'm kinda thinking this weird squirmle thingy is related to that.
Bah.
Had a mad-dash spurt of packing tonight after my waste of an afternoon. I have so much shit to do at my new place and at the old, but I ended up taking an impromptu nap for 3 hours. Dammit. Dammit dammit dammit dammit.
*le fume*
- Mood:
sore
Ugh. I wish I could breathe. I hate allergies. Maybe if I actually took the Claritin every day like I'm supposed to (since I refuse to get rid of Kiera!), I wouldn't be in this situation. Bah. Oh, and since I couldn't breathe and felt like my head was going to explode, I thought I would transfer the pictures of the work on the house to Facebook from my digi camera. Well... Kodak Picture Share sucks. It said it transfered the pictures to the folder I told it to... then when I went to go find said pictures in said folder.... nothing. Bah. I'll just go to Target with the memory card and get a disc made and then transfer it that way. So much for technology, eh?
Okay... I guess I should try and get some sort of sleep. I don't think work would like me calling in "Allergic" tomorrow.
- Location:not in bed
- Mood: allergic to life
All 3 of you.
- Put an offer on a bank-owned townhouse/condo and the bank has accepted said offer. If all goes well, we'll close the deal and I'll get the keys to my new home June 18th.
- I've been slowly recovering after three 12 hour work days last week, and those days were in a row: Thurs-Fri-Sat. Worked both jobs those days, spent 12+ hours at the mall. My legs turned to Jell-O Saturday night and I could barely walk at work. My whole body is just shutting down and I need so much sleep (so I really should be in bed now instead of writing this @ 130am). Need to talk to manager @ 2nd job to keep that from happening again.
- Kiera has decided to become a 2 year old, demanding new food at 4am because the stuff I gave her at 11pm before I went to bed isn't good enough for her anymore. Her incessant mrrowing starts at 4am and goes until about 6 when I finally drag myself out of bed and feed her... to only find half her food has been eaten. We have been having little battles over this, but I think the scruff-of-neck-grab-and-throw-to-the-bed move I put on her Sunday morning calmed her down a bit.
- The publishing of my book is going insanely slow. I need to email North Star Press about the editing and to see if I can start revising some of the stuff the do have done. The way this is going, the promised release in summer 2009 might turn out to be winter 2010. Bah.
- Learning that it's really not the mold in my apartment that has been making me sick, but my cat. Have official medical proof from the allergy test that I'm allergic to cats. Mold is a strong second, but there's not enough mold in my apartment to make me sick. My allergies were just triggered by the normal amount of mold in the air, since my system is more senstive to stuff like that. So my pride, ego, soul, whatever, was knocked down a few pegs after my "righteous" hatred of my landlord over "his indirectly causing me to be sick" was proven false and I was really making myself sick by demanding I have a cat. Bah.
- Speaking of books, slowly working on Relic Chosen #2. Got stuck on a fight scene because I'm not too good at fight scenes, and whenever I get around to writing on it, it's 1am and I'm tired.
- Finished Pride and Prejudice last week and it was lovely. Had to move on to Rogue Angel: Polar Quest (#16) because I've packed up most of my books in preparations for immenent move, so Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is in one of 10 boxes of books. Ugh. But I will read it soon... prolly when I get all unpacked and settled into my new place.
- Have been in a funk lately, mostly due to stress of finding a place---and securing said place---by the end of August (when my 2 months' notice said so), and trying to adjust to working 2 jobs while trying to find time for hobbies, relaxation, time for friends, family, and writing. Ugh. Not enough hours in the freakin' day.
- Kiera is snoring.
- I'm going to delete my Myspace account by the end of the month. Hopefully before then, if I remember. I haven't gone on that bloody page on a consistent basis in in years (really since the last ex and I broke up) and I think I've been on the site with a purpose maybe 5 times this year. It's going. Might be replaced with something else... a writing/Relic Chosen/author page...? I dunno. We'll see.
- I am insanely tired of being single. You really have no idea how tired of it I am on so many levels I won't go into now. But it needs to stop. Which leads me into Events & Adventures, the horrible waste of time and money that was supposed to fix the aforementioned problem. Ha. Yeah. I didn't go to any events from Feb to April because of severe sinus infections/allergies/bronchitis... May I bailed on the one I did sign up for because I went to go hang out with people who already are my friends, and I haven't signed up for anything in June because... eh. Nothing sounds interesting. Big. Collosual. Waste. Of. Time.
ciao.
- Location:not where you expect me, and never where I'm wanted
- Mood:
meh.
- Not allergic to plants, grass, pollen, trees, etc (scratch test on back).
- Midlly allergic to dust mites and normal house dust (in higher dosage shots on arm).
- Moderately sensitive to mold (higher dosage shot on left arm).
But there was something that beat out mold! *le gasp* o.0 I'm very allergic to...
- Cats.
Yep. Cats. And since I'm not getting rid of Kiera, I get to start a daily Clariton-D regiment and wait a few weeks and see what happens. I also get to force myself to be more dilligent on cleaning my apartment, since dust and dust mites are high on the list. Ugh. I'm just not a clean person. I've tried to be clean, but it doesn't last. Hopefully I can get into some sort of routine that'll help me be cleaner than I am now. Then about mid-June I get to call the doctor back and tell him how things are going, because if the Clariton-D doesn't help, I may have to bump up to prescription allergy meds. And if those don't work, I get to think about allergy shots. Ugh.
So yeah. The one thing I love the most in the world right now has been making me sick. Well, not really sick per se. Remember how I said my lungs are screwy, that a normal cold turns into damn near bronchittis for me? That's the same with allergies I guess. Instead of getting a running nose, watery eyes or bad nasal congestion, my allergy is manifested in my lungs, making my normal cough not leave and continue for 5 months. Loverly. And it's not the mold that's making me sick. I'm more sensitive to it than other people, but it's not the main cause. It's Kiera. *le sigh* I'm doing laundry right now and I'm doing my sheets so I can have a fresh bed to sleep in tonight. And I'm going to have to figure out a way to keep Kiera off the bed/out of the room when I sleep. That's her nest... but I can't breathe in her hair and dander for 8+ hours a night. Hmmmph. I don't think I can shut the door... if it's too hot or stuffy/stale in my room, I'll die. I need the air circulation.
Oh well. At least now I know. Not the results I was expecting... but results non-the-less.
And my Weather.com weather alert thingy on my taskbar just rolled up to 90*. Craziness.
- Location:Here.
- Mood:
restless
Also tomorrow, my BIL Luke and I are going to go look at townhouses in Shakopee. w00t! Although the actual ones we had planned on seeing are in-all-tense-and-purposes sold, we can still go and learn stuff, and see if they have other properties available. Apparently this townhouse association is looking for cash buyers (which I am) and they are accepting offers lower than asking price, which is double plus good for me, since I have only $60k sitting in some CDs from inheritance and other moneys from the grandparents. I'm soooooo excited, really I am. I'm already finding myself decorating and arranging my new townhome, even though I haven't done anything yet. Ugh. Hopefully I can get this thing over and done with super fast, like by August 1st (since that is the last day I'm living in my current apartment---mailing my 2 month notice to the landlord this week). But I think if all goes as planned, I might sign for a townhome within the next few weeks and be able to move my crap in before August is even here.
*car horn blares from outside*
Oh... you didn't...
*honk-honk-honk-honk-honk..... honk HONK*
GODDAMNIT!!! HOLY FUCKING SHIT WHY DO YOU INSIST ON HONKING YOUR GODDAMN HORN AT 11 FUCKING PM TO GET THE ATTENTION OF THE WHORE IN THE BUILDING!?!?!?! THERE ARE NOISE ORDAINCES IN CHASKA FOR CHRISSAKES!!! AND IT'S CALLED A FUCKING CELL PHONE!!
*deep breath*
That has been going on for nearly every night since the new people moved into the apartment on the other side of mine (that used to be inhabited by the nymphos). Argh. Can't wait to get out of this place. Okay... off to bed to wake up in 7 hours...
- Location:reading this over your shoulder
- Mood:
pissed off
Penicillium is commonly found in soil, food, paint and texiles. Can cause hypersensitivity pneumonitis and allergic alvenolitis. Common cause of extrinsic asthma. Chronic cases may develop pulmonary emphysema.
Cladosporium is caused by plants, woody plant, straw, paint and texiles. Can cause extrinsic asthma and chronic pulmonary emphysema.
Non-sporulating fungi are the result of germinating mushroom spores. Can cause hypersnsitivity pneumonitis and dermatitis.
Then it gave a report summary and basically, after boiling down all the redunance, it comes down to: Excessive water damage that has not been properly taken care of can cause this (really!? No shit!). And that the immediate removal of the person in the home is based on medical inspection of person.
Hoe. Lee. SHIT.
Calling my doctor RIGHT NOW to get an appointment for tomorrow ASAP. And then... maybe the health department might get a phone call?
EDIT 354pm: Just got an appointment scheduled for tomorrow @ 115pm for the doctor. w00t!
- Mood:
triumphant
Yeah, three distinct types of mold. I sent the test off to the company's testing and identification lab down in Florida today so that I can figure out what type of mold I have so if it is making me sick, I can take that info to the doctor and we can figure out if there's a way to get me finally feeling better. I also called my landlord on Wednesday and told him about my mold (and the proof of mold) and he said he would stop by this weekend to look at my carpet, but it sounded promising that he would replace the carpet and clean up the mold. And if he drags his heels like the troll does upstairs, we're pulling out the sick card and calling the health department. So yeah. Hopefully this will be resolved without involving the big guns.
I started reading Pride and Prejudice last night, and so far it's going pretty well. I'm having little hang-ups over the wording, but so far I'm getting it. I saw the movie (with Kiera Knightly) a year or so ago, and so I'm kinda comparing the book with what I remember of the movie in my mind, and so far it's making sense so that's helping with the language barrier. I'm reading Jane Austen's version first in preparation for Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. So I have something to compare that to and see how it was made better... not worse; zombies can never make anything worse. =^_^= I'm really quite excited to read it. And I have to bite my tongue when customers at B&N ask if we have it in stock and I have to tell them no. We just can't keep it in stock! It's awesome! When it first came out, like just came out, we had 5 copies and I snatched one right away. And since then, we can barely keep one in the store for more than a few hours! HA! Epic Win for me!! Really, I have to bite my tongue because I just want to go: "I already have a copy!" in a sing-song voice whenever someone asks for it... but that prolly wouldn't go over very well... hehehe.
I might go to bed soon... last night I went to bed at 1030pm... o.O It shocked me too! I haven't gone to bed that early since, well, really high school. Or the last time I was just death-warmed-over sick. I think my weird phase of insomnia has worn off, so my body is demanding sleep. And now it's a little after 11pm... not too bad for sleep. Another 12 hour day at the mall tomorrow... yay. *eye roll* Counting tomorrow, I've had 3 12-hour shifts this week, which never happens! Argh. But next week I only have one. Ugh. Oh well. Means more moneys for me.
- Mood:
cold - Music:The Ting Tings - That's Not My Name
Like my new icon? I made it from a Transmetropolitan cover, from volume six: Gouge Away. It's going to be my new "I'm writing/being creative" icon. I may need to go through my Transmet collection and find another picture of him typing away on his laptop. There was one, I vaguely remember, where he was writing while sitting on the toilet. I need to make an icon of that. Hehehee. *le sigh* I love Spider Jerusalem.
And I'm still sick. My sinus infection from hell has gone away (thanks to the azithromycin) but my chest/lung congestion is still sticking around. I still have to sleep elevated (which is throwing my neck and lower back out of whack), and I if I move too much/fast from a sitting/laying position to a standing one I go into a minor coughing fit. I'm not too thrilled with this. I'm not sure what to think of this. And now that I'm watching House, I've been thinking of random illnesses it could be. But... I'm thinking it might---might---be caused by something in my apartment. Namely... the soaking wet carpet from when the pipe exploded in the ceiling and flooded a corner of my bedroom. Well, since the landlord and maintenance man are idiots, they didn't replace the carpet which was soaked thoroughly but just ran a carpet cleaner over it, I'm pretty sure that all the fun padding and other stuff under the carpet is just a happy playground for mold and other fungii. And since my lungs are compromised from asthma and chronic bronchitis, stuff like that is just going to have a field day with me. I'm not sure how to test for mold/fungus, but I want to figure out a way. And of course, I moved my bed away from the wall connected to the nymphomaniac apartment, so the head of my bed is right above that corner that got flooded. I wonder... if the current condition of my lungs and health is caused by mold/fungus in the carpet... which got soaked per negligent carpet installers... and wasn't properly disposed and replaced by my landlord... if I could sue him for negligent landlordness and for basically causing my ill health.
Hmm... must investigate.
- Location:waiting for the hamster to get back on his wheel
- Mood:
determined
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akoumi had burned for me a while ago, and I had lost track of them before the move from my dad's to my apartment. So now I get to pick up Fullmetal Alchemist where I left off, and start Claymore, Noein and Ergo Proxy. I had forgotten about the last one, but then at Detour I had seen that series in the list for the Video Rooms, and the name rang a bell and I didn't remember why. Well, then it appears in the stack of CDs akoumi had given me! Neat! So tomorrow while I'm home sick I'm going to watch Claymore. I love the manga version of it, and we'll see if the anime holds up. I guess sometimes the transition from manga to anime doesn't always work. But I know of enough that have stood that test, so I'm optimistic. But, Claymore may have to battle Trigun Volumes 3 & 4 that are coming tomorrow and Friday via Netflix. Hehehehe. Yay for Vash! Well, figured out a possible reason for why my ears are acting up today. Besides the fact that I'm horribly sick (I actually called in sick tonight for my shift tomorrow which I never do unless I'm near death), I think it might have been exacerbated by the fact I hadn't taken my meds at all today. It struck me today when I was making supper that I hadn't taken the meds. Huh. I didn't feel my normal "med withdrawl" that I normally do, because my horrendous sickness was masking the tell-tale symptoms, which delayed my eventual taking of my meds until way later. Bah. Hopefully tomorrow I remember to take them.
Dammit my ears just won't unplug and give me my balance back, nor will my lungs cease trying to vacate my chest! *angry grumbling*
EDIT 4-9-09 329am: Just got done watching the first 4 episodes of Claymore because I can't sleep due to this full-body death cough. So far, pretty good. I like it in color, since the manga is B&W, now I can tell which Claymore warrior is which. But it's super late and I need to eventually get some sleep. Episodes 5-? will have to wait until I wake up...
- Location:stuck at the corner of Jack and Shit
- Mood: sick
Zombies. They found me. Dammit!
Seriously. I had a five second heart attack and flipped on the kitchen light in hopes to frighten the zombie away. But it turned out to be one of the upstairs tennants throwing something away. But damn. That scared me to death.
In the words of Nathan Fillion in a special features segment on the DVD Slither: "What is your zombie plan? Eveyone has to have a zombie plan."
I need to re-read Ultimate Zombie Survival Guide ASAP.
Speaking of Nathan Fillion, I just finished watching the complete series of Firefly and it makes me sad that it's all done and that maybe if I had learned of it before when it was still on TV, I could have been one of those few fans to help it stay on the air for a full season. Damn you, Fox. You don't know good shows even if they jump up and bite you in the ass. Grrr. Well, now I can put Serenity in my Netflix and I can watch the conclusion to the saga of Cap'n Mal and River and all the rest of the crew on the good ship Serenity. Nathan Fillion is amazing, really. He's awesome in Slither and fan-freakin-tastic in Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. So yay.
Well, I'm going to go and veg out somemore with Beauty and the Beast. I should really be in bed, but I feel fine now. Damn sinus/cold medication that masks the symptoms to you push through the sickness instead of tend to it. Oh well, I can sleep in tomorrow.
- Mood: sick
- Music:Beauty and the Beast DVD
I'm bored.
Really. Bored.
I want to do something... but my jaw is locking down for the night. Bah.
*fumes and hums the bored song*
- Mood: sick
Got a fun package in the mail today, and I think I scared the mailman in the process. I came home from the doctor's when he was leaving my apartment complex, and as I opened my door a piece of paper fell out of my door frame. A package notice. The mailman turned around and said he had the package in the truck, so if I could wait while he finished his route, he'd be right back with it. So ten minutes later he knocks on my door and hands me a package. I sign for it, like you do, excited to have a package when---as he's walking away---I exclaim: " OH!! I KNOW WHAT THIS IS!!" It was my Kagome cosplay outfit! YAY! Sorry, no pics of me in it until Detour in two weeks (April 3-5, 2009). Anime Detour 2009 is only two weeks away! 3 days of nonstop anime and manga to overload and stimulate! w00t! I guess this year the convention has stepped it up a few notches and moved to the Crown Plaza Riverfront Hotel in St. Paul, MN. I'm super excited. I'm going with my coworker Hope from the LB. I'm giddy with uber dorky goodness. It tastes like nugat.
- Location:getting my freakin' mind blown!
- Mood:
dorky - Music:Titan A.E.
The RNP looked at my ears... and could see nothing wrong in the first two levels of the ear (she could only see the outer and middle ear, the clinic doesn't have the 'high tech' stuff to look into the inner ear where all the balance and fun stuff lives). Nothing was red or swollen, no sign of infection or anything. What!? Nothing? Hmmph. Although she did decide to share her amazement that I didn't go to the ER or Urgent Care when I was having my weeble-wobble time on Sunday. I told her that I just stayed in bed or in my chair and tried to move as little as possible. So all she said was that if it happens again, I need to get to Urgent Care right away. Bah. Oh, and my blood pressure is high, just on the bad side of "normal". 145/91 when normal is 120/80. Well, I've always had higher BP since before I can really remember; my dad has high BP, so I'm sure that I've inherited some of that; I am overweight, so that adds to it; and two of my meds I'm on have high BP as one of the listed side affects. But I need to get that under control, and hopefully I will get out and do some more walking/exercising once it gets warmer; I have nice sidewalks and places to walk around my apartment.
Now I'm not sure what to do about my ears. I think tomorrow during my break @ work I'm going to call the REAL doctor and make an appointment to get my ears looked at. And they better not tell me that I have "negative pressure" in my head. I'm tired of hearing that. And if I do have "negative pressure" in my head, tell me something to freakin' fix it!! *le grrr* Now... my ears ache, my eyes hurt and feel really dry (might be because I took a picture of my dumb head w/ the flash and staring right into a bright light tends to hurt your eyes), and my throat feels weird. Like I have something in it and I need to swallow a lot. I swear I'm broken. Nothing works for me. I really need to get my shit together to I can get my body back under control. It needs to stop going AWOL and behave.
- Mood: worried
Anyhoo. On to the funniness I found on the internet.
see Sarah Palin pictures
Stupid picture made me laugh until I couldn't breathe, which isn't that hard to do right now.
- Location:stuck at the corner of Jack and Shit
- Mood: sick
- Music:my raspy lungs
Because I'm a sucker for owls.
Mmmm... Doctor Who
Not sure how this one came out... words look fuzzy to me... may have to play around with that one later
Owls and Doctor Who. Awesome.
- Location:waiting for the hamster to get back on his wheel
- Mood:
blah
I got sent home early from work today because it was slow, so I was happy. And I got sicker as the day went on. Just blech. Stomach didn't feel right, it was squirmy all day; haven't really eaten much because of it. Except crackers and 7Up. I called in sick at Lane Bryant too, since I was supposed to close there tonight. Ugh. I came home (after stopping at my dad's to get more quilts from my closet) and zoned out in the chair. I watched A Knight's Tale and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang---wasn't able to last night because people kept on calling me to wish me happy birthday and then talking for 2 hours! I liked Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Robert Downey, Jr. is brilliant as Harry. I've decided I want someone like Harry---just without the whole burglar part. It was a good movie, I liked it emensely, and will recommend it freely. It's apparently based off a book, so I will go investigate the book someday. I don't think I've ever seen Robert Downey, Jr. in any other movie. I haven't seen Iron Man (his apparent big come back), so it was nice to see some of his acting abilities. I just knew he was a drug fiend back in the 90's, but nothing of any acting. And it was nice to see Val Kilmer in a movie again. Haven't seen him in anything decent since... uh... Ghost and the Darkness was good... Batman Forever was good. Um... Williow? So yeah, good to see them in good roles and decently acting again.
I got a humidifier at Target before I came home. My apartment is so freaking dry, I woke up this morning with the Gobi desert down my throat. Which didn't help the whole starting to get sick thing. So now it's humming nicely over there in the corner, pumping out a nice cool mist of moisture into my parched apartment. Kiera doesn't quite know what to do with it. She'll come up to it slowly and sniff at it, inspecting the noise, then she'll get into the mist stream and freak out. Hehehe. Silly kitty. And speaking of animals, I need to seriously de-slime my fish tank. I don't think the filter can handle the amount of slime and junk that Titus produces. Gold fish (especially those of the fancy variety) produce a natural slime that clogs up filters, pumps, and makes the tank get 5x more grody than normal. And I've been slacking on keeping it clean, so the rocks and the fakey plants are uber gross. I need to clean it so bad! Argh. Oh well. I definitely need to get a new filter tomorrow. Titus' slime has broken this one, totally overwhelmed it so that no matter how much I try to clean it or change the carbon filter, it just clogs up. I think I might get a larger tank filter. A 20 gallon for my 10 gallon tank. That should be able to handle it, huh? Too bad my scum sucker had to go and die before Titus made all this scum... he missed out an an all-you-can-eat buffet.
I guess that's all. I should get to bed so I can drag my ass out of bed for work tomorrow. I can do 6 more hours! If I make it through those 6 hours, I don't have to work any job until Wednesday! I get a three day weekend! HOT DAMN.
- Location:trying to count those damn sheep
- Mood: sick
- Music:humidifier humming
(I originally wrote this on Tuesday morning... I'm not backdating it so it's not lost in the cyber miasma of friends' lists)
Because I'm nocturnal. I've always been more active and apt to staying up later than most of the people I know. My sleep cycle, circadian rhythm, whatever that thing is, is set 12 hours later than others.
And it doesn't hurt that I'm a vampire.
I just finished reading In the Midnight Hour about 10 minutes ago... and... ow! *le swoon!* So good! The last like... 40 pages just zip by and you're going "Holy shit!? How is this going to be concluded? This can't end this way! No no no!!" But it all ended good and it was such a good story. Now I have to go and get the second one in the series. And the cool part is, the series is set in Minnesota, because Patti O'Shea is from here. w00t! I'm glad I picked this for the Romance Book Club. I also got to chat with Diana, who is also in the club, and she said she liked it too, "a lot more than [she] thought [she] would." Hehehe. I do admit, when you read the back of the book, the brief description on the back is a bit confusing, so I understand the slight hesitance the rest of the RBC had when I showed them this title. But it was good! Woooo! Yay! So worth staying up 4 hours after I got home from work.
But I'm also up this late because I can't stand going to bed hungry. Why not eat something, you may be asking. Well, I can't. I'm 9 hours into my stupid fast for blood work to be done tomorrow... this morning... whatever. We're going blood tests to see if I have diabetes and some other crap, to rule those out as possible diseases/syndromes that could be causing my PCOS-esque symptoms. And for blood work fastings, they say you're not supposed to eat anything for at least 12 hours before your testing. Dammit. Sadly, more than one issue has the set of presenting issues that I have, so we have to rule a lot of crap out. Ugh. And the stupid lab work is at 845 in the fricking morning. Argh! Well, when I made the appointment, I figured that it's my day off, so I can just go get my blood drawn, and after 20 minutes of being in the doctor's office, I can come home and sleep for most of the day until DBT at 6pm. Well... now the lab work is going to be taken in 5.45 hours.... ugh. I shouldn't even go to bed! By the time I get to bed, and wind down, it'll be almost time to wake up again, and it would almost be better at that point to not have tried to sleep at all. Right now I'm way to revved up for some reason... don't know if it was the awesomeness of the book... nerves about the lab work... or... what. I dunno. Maybe I'll play some PS2 and relax... that's right folks! Yesterday after work I splurged and bought a used PS2 from Game Stop, and got a used copy of Burnout 3: Takedown. And it was even in the original case, not the stupid Game Stop default one. w00t! So I played some of that yesterday when I got home from work. However... sadly... the PS2 didn't come with a memory card... so all the awesomeness I did last night (including awards, special things unlocked, records made, etc) are all lost and I have to do it again. Ugh. Oh well. I'll get a memory card after work on Wednesday. Stupid, I should have asked if it had one, but I was dumb and assumed it had one in the box... and we all know what happens when you assume! *rolls eyes*
So yeah... that's about it for now. Yeah. Kiera is being psycho... I think she's not used to me being up this late. She makes the weirdest squeaky/chirp noises. It's freaking cute, but I don't remember ever hearing another cat make such noises. Odd. Oh well, suits me to have a weird ass cat.
Well... yeah... I guess I should get some amount of sleep. I know I'm just going to roll out of bed, slap some non-pj clothes on, and drive to the doctor in the morning---I ain't wasting time to take a shower, get properly dressed, and all that shit just to sit in a chair for 5 minutes while they draw a few vials of blood. Hell no. But I know that after my stupid fasting, I'm going to drive over to Perkins (within a stone's throwing distance from the doctor's office!) and have a big old ham 'n cheez omelet with hash browns and maybe a big ass muffin... or bacon... something like that. I hate fasting! I have been living off water for the last 9 hours! I'm starving!!! My Potbelly turkey sammich was not meant to sustain for more than 4 hours! Bastards!
*le sigh*
- Location:waiting for those damn sheep to show up...
- Mood:
hungry - Music:Kiera chirping
