It Ain't Pretty When the Pretty Leaves You With No Place to Go

Lookin' pretty good for someone who's on the verge of getting sick, eh? For whatever reason (new clothes maybe) I was feeling a little saucy and camera-hammish. So, I decided to snap a few pictures. This is the best one, the others would have been good except that thanks to my little friend who likes to visit for a few days each month, I had a bad breakout and am in some desperate need of Seabreeze or something. That stuff is the shiz-nit. It is all minty and makes your skin tingle and you feel great after using it. Unfortunately, it's really really hard to find.

Despite feeling great, and rather playful yesterday...I am feeling tired and sick today. Gah, figures. Had the flu last weekend, and I get a cold this week. Damn immune system. I never use to get sick this often! Then again, I never had this much contact with kids either. Not that I care that I probably get sick from Brandy's kids (it might not have been them, but I see them once a week, so the odds are pretty high). I just hate being sick period. Not that anyone likes it, but I hate it more because I still have to come to work and talk (hard to do when your throat feels like sandpaper and you're coughing so hard you think you might be sick). This morning I can barely keep my eyes open. It's not even 9am and I'm already thinking about going home and going to bed, just catching a few hours of sleep to try and kill this bug. It's all in the sinuses, to make matters worse. I feel as though I've been hit in the face with a 2 by 4. It's so bad that I've taken to putting echinacea and golden seal drops into my morning dose of green tea.

Hey has anyone heard that new Daniel Powter song "Love You Lately"? It's really catchy. Give it time though, and it will be beaten to death like his other songs. Man, I can't stand "Bad Day" anymore. I blame American Idol for that, since they used it every time someone got the boot.

So everyone is talking about that whole Michael Richards racial slur video today (big news if you missed it...he went off on a couple of African Americans who were heckling his act). I figured I'd go a different way and show you this hilarious video of Jason Alexander pimping the McDLT. Remember that? Came in a styrofoam package with hot meat on one side and veggies on the other. Check it out here. It's been floating around for some time, but I thought it was worth sharing.

Every hear something that makes your ears just go crazy? Something that, when you heard it, made your flesh crawl, your hair stand on end and your stomach do summersaults? Now you can vote! Yes, you can vote on the worst sounds in the world. I'm trying to think of the sounds I hate the most.

1. When someone leaves their radio on while calling in to a radio show, and it echos.
2. When someone turns a microphone on, and gets a pair of headphones too close. The sound of digital feedback is most painful.
   
3. Fingernails on a chalkboard.
4. The sound of something cutting flesh (no I'm not a sick-o...but if you ever watch a real life ER show, or a horror movie...I can't handle it).
5. Someone getting sick. Makes me want to get sick.
6. Woman screaming.
7. You know when you're about to get a needle of something and the nurse/doctor flicks it, then squirts some of the fluid out before sticking you with it? I hate that sound.
   
8. Oh oh...Britney Spears "singing"
9. Paris Hilton talking

So those are just some of the sounds I hate. That flesh cutting sound really bothers me in horror movies. I can't even stand to watch it on a ER show. Just...eeeh.

Speaking of horror movies. I still haven't gotten around to finishing Saw II! I'm not actually afraid of the movie, it's just really really gory. Plus...is it the first one (I think) that has the thing with the needles? If you haven't guessed, I can't stand them. Nothing puts fear into my heart like the knowledge I'm going to get a needle. I cannot, under any circumstances stand to watch myself or anyone else be pricked either. I had to have a big ol' needle after my allergy test because I had a bad reaction to hazelnuts. I dunno what the needle was by the doctor was pretty nice about it. He ran in when the nurse told him my lips were numb... "Hi, I haven't seen you in a while. Doing okay? Sorry about the needle" and then he stuck me. It's one of the more painful ones, I daresay.

Did anyone watch CSI: Miami last night? I was on the edge of my seat the entire episode since I found out that Calleigh was going to be shot. I wasn't sure if it was Tim Speedle (Rory Cochrane) season 1 shot (kevlar) or season 2 shot (dead). But, Calleigh was smart enough to wear a vest, but she got shot when her ex showed up and distracted the perp. His gun went off accidentally, or so it looked. She went down like a sack of Irish Potaotes. But she'll live to solve a few more crimes. They'd be stupid to axe her from the show anyways. If anyone is going to go it's got to be Delko (Adam Rodriguez). What an ass.

Nothing special on tap for today. Gonna rest, take it easy. Ugh. Dread working on Saturday morning. I hate hate hate working weekends. As if I don't spend enough time working, now they're cutting into my personal time. No more meetings though.