DO I HAVE TO DO THIS ALL OVER AGAIN?

SINUS ATTACK! Again. Sunday I did a voice over job, a book on DVD, and had a ripping headache the whole time. Tylenol and Advil together didn't touch it. Yesterday, I woke up with a sore throat and coughing up dark green globs with dried blood in them. IN ONE DAY.
From headache to bloody globs in 24 hours. Chris and Christian are sick too, apparently there is a cold going around. Although, goo the color of Christmas seems to be my special thing...gak. I go back to the doctor Thursday to discuss my CT sinus scan, He's going to tell me I have sinus gnomes or a tumor or perhaps trees are growing in there, I just know it.

SHE'S KEEPER OF THE GEMS

This woman rocks. She travels around with her band and collection of "gem sweaters" in an old Winnebago. I hope to meet her someday, I have a fabulous sweater of my own.
I like the Holiday video and the Gem Sweater video best.

TWO TALES #2 RIDICULOUS

I needed a cheeseburger. Unfortunately, so did all the yuppie housewives and their kids that day. What did I expect really, from a place called Jonny Rockets in a place like University Village. Freely, I admit it's guilty pleasure for me. Sephora, Crate and Barrel, jewelry stores to look at, and faux 50's diner cheese burgers. Also, a lot of mothers pushing strollers with multiple seats , I do understand the desparate need to get out of the house, so I'm fairly tolerant, mostly.
I'm starving, there's one seat left. One seat next to a woman with three kids. Bouncing, screeching, vibrating kids.
Stomach vs. good sense, dignity,and what's left of my last nerve. Stomach wins.
I order my food, kid number one pouts and refuses to eat.
I eat all the onion rings first, kid number two stands up in the booth and runs back and forth on the seats, pounding on the windows at people passing by outside.
I eat half a mediocre BBQ burger, kid number three is laying down on the window ledge above the seat, smearing ketchup and burger bits all over his face and yelling NO!! NO!! for reasons known only to him.
I sip my vanilla Coke and glare my best evil at Mom.
Mom is glaring back like she's used to it and pulls a designer wallet out of a designer purse. They're leaving!!! Yes!!
I think hard at her : CONDOMS AND RITALIN, CONDOMS AND RITALIN,
trying to make the world a better place with just the power of my mind.
Sometimes, lunch, like birth control, is all about timing.

OFF THE SCALE

As the coughing continues, I spend more time in doctors offices than anyone would like. Yesterday, for the first time, I had allergy testing. I'm allergic to none of 36 things they tried. Tomorrow I get a CT scan of my sinuses. Whee! 36 needles came nowhere near to bugging me as much as being weighed.
It's always the same, I have to train new doctors to respect the fact that I don't want to know the number on the scale. Stupid though it may be, that number can ruin my day.
The nurse ( who couldn't tip the scales herself at more than 95 pounds ) takes my temperature, blood pressure, etc...and asks me to get on the scale, I inform her I will only do so if she agrees to let me keep my back to the scale and not to tell me my weight.
"Aww, why don't you want to know your weight?" dissapointed, mystified even, scales are a friend of hers from way back, I can tell.
Then I notice the name tag she's wearing. TINY. Her name is TINY. I shit you not.
TINY continues to stare at me. Her eyes are huge. Or maybe her head is just small, I don't know. I stare, TINY stares, I stare. It's a stare off.
In the end, I win!
I'm bigger.

TWO TALES #1 SAD

Having a blog turns me into a spy.
Sometimes I spy what could have happened. You turn left instead of right and end up where you are. Sometimes my complete inability to tune out other peoples noise comes in handy, sometimes, it's depressing as hell.
I'm on the bus again, 2 seats kitty-corner in front of me a man in a leather cap and obnoxiously large sunglasses and a girl with long red hair talking loudly and looking at pamphlets.
"Look! We get orange juice, and apple juice and eggs. Can we have hard boiled eggs when we get home, pleeeeese?"
"You have cravings or something?" Leather Cap was snotty, also loud and too slow.
Another stop, a man gets on and sits next to Red Hair, across the aisle.
"POPPY!!!" She holds her arms out to him and turns around. Poppy looks uncomfortable if not suprised, but says nothing, he hugs her back.
Her face suprised me in a way it couldn't have if I hadn't been listening at the back of her head first. Eyes so black, desperate and weird for a second I felt like she'd smacked me across the face. I sat back further in my seat. Scratching at the spots on her face, she didn't notice my blatant staring, there was only so much time 'till we got to the park and ride, and Poppy was in for an earful.
" ..and we have a lamp and a blanket that will fit perfect with a crib, and the nurse said we can win 500.00, they have a drawing, and she said we can use it for anything for the baby, she said we'd probably win and someones donating a brand new car seat and..."
Leather Hat took off his giant sunglasses and showed everybody why he was wearing them . His eyes were bright red slits, comical and stupid.
"Since the housing is so hard to get, they said it's in our best interest for you to support us."
Obviously pleased with his two cents, he pulled out a book and began to read, or sleep, hard to tell.
Sensing she was losing Poppy, she pulled out the prenatal vitamins the "nurse" gave her, and talked a mile a minute, the older man said nothing at all.
At this point I put in my ear phones.
I thought about that baby to be and turned up the music.
Left instead of right honey, I hope you can see it in time. Good luck.

WHAT ARE WORDS FOR?

I have a pet peeve that doesn't involve cake. Pay careful attention kiddies and adults alike.
THE FOLLOWING WORDS DO NOT EXIST:

EXPRESSO
EXPECIALLY
DIN'T
HELLA
BOKAY
SAMWICH
SAMMICH
This has been a public service announcement.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY BOO.

Happy 35th birthday sweetie! I love you so much. You actually make me look forward to the day I try to stick a candle in your birthday smoothie and help you trim your ear hair to get ready for your big party.
XXXOOO

SOON YOU'LL BE ASKING YOURSELF WHY YOU CAN'T STOP LOOKING AT IT.

www.awfulplasticsurgery.com

THE WHEELS ON THE BUS GO ROUND AND ROUND

Over-heard today on the bus.
"...this this one lady there said she makes up to 500 dollars for each one! I did one last week and I'm on my way to one at the college now."
"So, you're basically a human guinea pig?"
"Yeah, Except they won't let me do the ones where you have to take drugs any more, It's not fair! I haven't had a seizure in years."

DELIVER ME FROM FOOTBALL REFERENCES

ONE MORE REASON I MARRIED HIM

So it's Superbowl Sunday, guess what I'm doing. Geeking on my laptop while my husband catches up on back episodes of Gilmore Girls.
His choice.
I'm so not kidding. God I love that man!

TESTY

Today I took the big Diamonds and Diamond Grading test. 100 questions. It only took me 1 of the alloted 2 hours, and wasn't too terrible. I flat out guessed on 2 questions but over-studied for most of it. I won't know for about a week or so how I did. In the mean time..It's on to the next class, Colored Stones!

AAAAAAG.

WHAT DID I JUST SAY?....EXACTLY WHICH PART OF NO MORE STADIUMS DO THEY NOT GET? This is what happened when the Mariners won the championship thingy, why do we as a community allow ourselves to be bullied by sports teams? Has no one seen Revenge of the Nerds?

from KOMO news.
SEATTLE - Seattle SuperSonics principal owner Howard Schultz said Wednesday he will look at all options - including moving or selling the team - if the state Legislature fails to earmark $200 million for the Sonics to refurbish KeyArena or build a new home.
Schultz, who talked to reporters before the Sonics' game against the Golden State Warriors, said he's told team president Wally Walker to look at all the alternatives.
One would be moving the Sonics to a market known to be interested in acquiring an NBA franchise, such as Las Vegas; Norfolk, Va., or Oklahoma City, or to one of three cities - Anaheim, Calif.; Kansas City, Mo., and San Jose, Calif. - that have made overtures to Sonics officials, the team said in a statement.
Schultz didn't answer when asked whether he would still be involved in owning the team should it move to another city.