SMOOPERBOWL, POOPERBOWL

Who cares? Not I. Nope. Win, lose, whatever. Just don't build another damn stadium.

AND THIS WAS NOT WHAT I'D CALL A NIGHTMARE

I had a dream that I had to play Chris in some kind of theater production. I was having trouble with the facial hair, someone suggested I use cereal. It didn't matter cause no one was in the audience anyway.
At least nobody was trying to kill me.

THE GIRLS DON'T EAT

Watching the Gilmore Girls brought up a problem I have with food on T.V.
Nobody ever eats it.
The Girls talk about how much they eat all the time. I have yet to see fork meet mouth. They walk from scene to scene past donuts, cakes, and piles of croissants like they aren't there. Just before or after someone will go on for several minutes about how much Rory and Lorelei eat all the time.
Cheese burgers and fries are talked about, around, and over, they are picked up and gestured with, ordered and delivered. The men eat them, the women don't.
This is the only thing I don't like about the show.

TOTALLY GNARLY

Since I turned 40 my body thinks it's 14 again, a second puberty, if you will. I bought new bras and had to go up a size to DDD..or as most manufacturers list them, F. They completely skip the E and dive straight into the next letter. I'm a 38 F. Holy Jesus on a cracker.
Also Retin-A is back in my life as an acne renaissance took place on my 40 year old face a few months ago. No wrinkles, no mustache, just zits.
If my dentist tells me I need to wear braces again, somebody send in the Quantum Leap guy to rescue me.

GOOD NEWS FOR A CHANGE

Great news, though a bit distressing that it only passed by 2 votes.

Senate Passes Gay Civil Rights Bill January 27, 2006
KOMO News 4

OLYMPIA - Lawmakers passed a gay civil rights measure on Friday, a major victory for gay rights activists who have watched the measure fail in the Legislature for nearly 30 years.
The bill passed the Senate on a 25-23 vote, with a lone Republican joining majority Democrats. The House quickly concurred, and Gov. Chris Gregoire said she planned to sign the bill into law Tuesday.
Cheers erupted from the Senate's balconies, which were packed with onlookers expecting the bill to clear its perennial roadblock.
Rep. Ed Murray, a Seattle Democrat who has sponsored the bill for 11 years, was given a standing ovation in the House after the measure gained final approval.
"I know for some, you're not happy," said Murray, one of four openly gay lawmakers in the Legislature. "For others, it's a historic day that quite honestly we wouldn't imagine could have happened even a few short years ago. It's a new dawn, it's a new day."
The measure adds "sexual orientation" to a state law that bans discrimination in housing, employment and insurance, making Washington the 17th state passing such laws covering gays and lesbians, and the seventh to protect transgender people.
Sen. Bill Finkbeiner, R-Kirkland, was the sole Senate Republican to endorse the measure, a year after it lost by just one vote in the Senate. Two Senate Democrats voted against the measure. One Republican was not present.
"We don't choose who we love. The heart chooses who we will love. And I don't believe that it is right for us to say ... that it's acceptable to discriminate against people because of that," Finkbeiner said in a floor speech.
Sen. Dan Swecker, R-Rochester, said the measure would "trample unrelentingly" on religious viewpoints that object to gays.
"We, the state, are telling people to accept, actually to embrace, something that goes against their religious views," he said.
The measure passed the House last week on a 60-37 vote, with six Republicans joining 54 Democrats in support.
Republicans amended the bill on the House floor to say that it would not modify or change state marriage laws.
The state Supreme Court heard arguments on a case challenging Washington's ban on gay marriage last year, and a ruling is expected in the coming weeks.
A Senate amendment this week added a caveat saying the state doesn't endorse "any specific belief, practice, behavior, or orientation."
"We have truly made history," Gregoire said in a news conference following the vote.
Gregoire told Sens. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., and Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., the news by cell phone, holding the phone away from her ear as she said they cheered. Cantwell and Clinton were in Seattle for a fundraiser Friday.
The measure was first introduced in 1977, but it is most closely associated with the state's first openly gay lawmaker, Democrat Cal Anderson of Seattle, who sponsored it for eight years before he died of AIDS in 1995.
"I don't doubt that he's really smiling down on us right now," said his partner of 10 years, Eric Ishina of Seattle. "He gave a lot of us the enthusiasm and energy to keep fighting for this bill."
The fight for the bill in essence came to an end this month, when Finkbeiner announced he would switch his vote, and the momentum of support continued outside of Olympia.
Earlier this month, several companies, including Microsoft Corp., Boeing Co., Hewlett-Packard Co. and Nike Inc. signed a letter urging passage of the measure, which would add "sexual orientation" to a state law that already bans discrimination in housing, employment and insurance based on race, gender, age, disability, religion, marital status and other factors.
Microsoft's pitch for the bill comes a year after it was denounced for quietly dropping its support.
The bill has sparked significant debate across the state, and two public hearings drew dozens of people who opposed the measure on moral grounds.
"What you're going to have to have now is the promoting of homosexual sex as normal via the apparatus of government," said Dr. Joseph B. Fuiten of the Faith & Freedom Network.
Fuiten said his organization was preparing to file for a referendum on the bill, but added that he may wait on the Supreme Court's ruling on gay marriage.
Gregoire said she would fight any effort to undo the law.
"I will fight any initiative, any referendum that tries to take back the equality these folks and others around our great state have been given today," she said.
Celebrations were planned in nine cities Friday night, including Seattle, Bellingham, Spokane and Yakima.

BRAIN ALERT DOWNGRADED TO AMBER

I cleared a hurtle in studying today. I now understand where to look to find weight correction ratios when estimating mounted stone weight. YAY!! I don't entirely get WHY the number I look up is what it is, but I know where to find it.
I'm old and my brain is brittle. I might fall down and break a lobe and then a surgeon will have to replace it with titanium, or plastic, or a pigs brain...
I like mittens. Sleep now?

MY BRAINS FLY IS OPEN

I'm stuck. I can't study. My brain has quit and I'm left with an attention span a gnat would laugh at.
Gnats are laughing.
I am taking the Diamonds and Diamond grading test next week and I feel so disconnected from the material it barely makes sense. I really need to get to LOOK AT ACTUAL STONES. I'm not so good with just reading and memorizing facts, I am a hands on person.
Not a good day...gnats....bad day.

MEET MS. GRAY

For the first time in a long time I'm down to my original, real, virginal hair color. It's still mousy, dark, dishwater blonde. If Crayola made a color called 'bored to death' my hair could be used as reference material.
Until now..
I have a suprising amount of white hairs growing here and there. I'm HAPPY about this! Yes, happy. My whole adult life I've fried the crap out of my hair with color to give it ..well, color, and texture 'cause it really has none of it's own on either account. Gray hair has more texture than young hair and BONUS!!! It might go white..coooool.
In the meantime I'm getting highlights done and keeping my fingers crossed for more grays.

WHY WOMEN LIVE LONGER, AND OTHER THINGS MY HEMORRHOID TAUGHT ME

Today I had a rubber band tied around my hemerrhoid. Oddly, this is not the point.
Flash back two days to my brother Matt's birthday at my parents house. He and Dad are going on about how horrible it is to have a yearly physical and this trauma is why Matt has only had one physical in his adult life. 'Having somebody poke around up there is no fun, and how I 'just don't understand'...comedy gold, Dad.
Flash forward to this morning in the colorectal clinic waiting room. Joining me are a young woman with a child, they're waiting for Daddy.
From the hallway the doctor can be heard " just sit for a moment and have a drink of water, take deep breaths, you'll be fine."
The woman across from me looks concerned 'till she is told her husband had a bit of a problem and almost fainted. I look at her, she looks at me, the big headed child on her lap looks at me, we all roll our eyes.
The rubber banding took about 30 seconds, and though I'm quite sore, I've certainly been through worse.
When I asked about the fainting guy, I brought up my brother and how he won't get a physical.
The doctor stopped humming 'Strangers in the Night' ( you have to be able to laugh at it, you know) "women live longer, makes you think doesn't it?"
Moral of the story: Quit being a whiny-ass baby, bend over and cough.

GRAB TWO OF EVERYTHING

I'm no fan of hot sunny days, and talking about the weather is kind of a cop out, but I'm so fucking tired of this winter. Fifty degrees and rainrainrainrainrainrainrainrain. Sometimes things get wacky and there's fog. WHERE'S MY SNOW? WHY DID IT GET DARK AT 2:30 TODAY AND WHERE'S MY SNOW? aaaaaaaaaaag. I'm going to sleep, wake me up in June.