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01/28/2008: "I Come In Peace"PAH-HAH! I was gonna say it was a really crappy day, but now I'm in a better mood. Dammit. But my apartment hasn't been violated yet. We'll see how I feel after that!
Tomorrow the cable people are going to come to upgrade all the cable hookups or something. Grr. There was a big note taped to my door when I got home from work. With electrical tape. Classy.
Needless to say I don't have cable. I don't intend to get cable. I'm happy with all my four rabbit ears channels. But I guess if I ever move out of this apartment they want to be able to offer the next tenant super awesome (which means slightly better?) cable hookups!
This after a day where it was -11 degrees and my car wouldn't start. With wind chill it was -34. And I was out there trying everything I could think of. Put gas line antifreeze in the gas tank. Tried to plug in the block heater, but the extension cord wouldn't reach. Then I finally called my mother cuz I realized she has two cars, and I borrowed one of them. Dude, I totally need two cars! Oh, wait. Lots of car insurance. Bleck. Anyway. But I could totally just take turns driving the cars, so they both get used, and then when one doesn't start, the other one will. But that is doubtful really. I have no garage, couldn't plug it in (but I borrowed an extension cord and it's plugged in now), and.... yeah. Not much will start with those odds. Well, all the other cars in the parking lot, but whatever! Mine is old. I admit it. Grr. Phew! Well, that day is over anyway. Blurgh.
Shall I go into how I managed to throw out my hip a couple weeks ago? I was leaning over to write a note on a desk and it just 'bloop' slipped out of its socket - it was so disgusting!!!! I hobbled across the room thinking it would pop back in, but no. Then I leaned forward and shoved it back into its socket. Dammit, this is disgusting. It wasn't painful as much as it was disgusting. And then the next day it was really sore. Ibuprofen couldn't touch it, and it was all I could think about all day. Cuz it hurt to sit in my chair. It hurt for the rest of the week, this happened on a Monday, but each day it felt a lot better than the day before. And people said I should fill out a worker's comp form or go see a doctor, and I said, "What for?" Prescription pain meds? Or useless x-rays? I already fixed it and it was healing rapidly. What's the point? People and their doctors. It's funny I work in a doctors' office. I know. Plus, how embarrassing would it be to explain what you were doing when you got seriously injured? "Yeah, I was leaning over and writing a note on a desk." "WITHOUT A NET???!!!! My God, you're lucky you're still in one piece!!" You see my point. Pfft.
And the week before that I swear to God I injured myself in a different way. I was going to start drinking herbal infusions. For vitamins and minerals. So, I read a few articles and look in my books, etc. and decide on nettle and raspberry leaf. Okay. I start with the nettle. I have a few cups of tea, it's all fine. One day I make a full strength overnight steeped infusion, and HA! I felt fine, even great, but I noticed my ankle was swelling. Both of them, but one more than the other. I thought, "Oh, I'm detoxing, my body will get over it soon." So, the next day I drink some more for breakfast. Then I lay off because my ankle won't go down and it's even getting bigger. Then after work I think, "Surely now everything will be fine, right?" (Why?) And I drink some more! And my foot goes numb! And I say to myself, "Alright, that's it, dumbass, I am cutting you off." No more nettle infusion. Shit! I took echinacea to make the swelling go down. Geeez. I didn't touch nettle or raspberry leaf all the next week (which is The Week of the Hip). Then the week after I decide to try raspberry leaf infusion. I think, "Surely, this one must be mild and gentle. Pregnant women drink it!" PAH!
So, I drink raspberry leaf infusion one day. I get an extreme headache, I feel nauseous, and I am so tired I fear I will drop into a coma at work, or while driving. Bone deep tired. What the fuck??!! So, I stopped that one too. I drank it as a tea first for a few days and was fine. I'm thinking infusions are waaaaay too powerful to gulp down every day. What the heck is Susun Weed thinking????! Or... I'm just really sensitive. Dammit! After a few days of no herbs, I decided to try TEA again. Steeped for 20 minutes type of tea. A teaspoon of herb. It worked out just fine. At this moment I am drinking nettle/raspberry leaf tea. Because I cannot be tamed. BOOYAH!
I'm evil. I know. I had a dream last night about a woman in a lab doing experiments on herself. That would be me. Hi, how are ya? I'm just trying to get some vitamins and minerals dammit. Is that so wrong? Rosemary Gladstar recommends 20 minutes of steeping. For a lot of things. I'll go with that. And I figure if each herb, when taken in huge quantities, causes PROBLEMS, I'll take a bunch of different herbs, a blend, small quantities of each. Hopefully that will work out just fine. Gonna add oatstraw, alfalfa, and dandelion. Maybe lemon balm for flavor. Nettles tastes better than raspberry leaf. Doesn't that just sound weird? Backwards? Think of how nice nettles are when you walk up to them in life. You'd think they would taste bitter and angry or something, right? Noooo. Yummy! Unless you infuse them all night, and then they taste like crap. Oh well. No more of that for me! I'm all obsessed. No one wants to hear me talk about my herbal schemes anymore. Haha! Oh well. I have the Internet to babble on! Weeeeee!
See, my ultimate plan is to lose weight with this herbal stuff. And I think it may be starting to work. I noticed my clothes were a wee bit baggier on me this morning. And I lost a pound or something like that. Smallish. I'll take it!
What else is going on? Mmmmm...... The writers strike. I must find out what will happen to Smallville if this strike goes on. Since this is its last season. And Scrubs, though I'm less concerned about that. It wasn't really going anywhere. Just, "Here's another funny episode. And another. How 'bout another..." Like that, you know? No overarching story. Is that a real phrase? Anyway! All my other shows are not in their last seasons, so I figure they can recover. Hopefully. Eeep!
Mmm, what else? Nothing else!!!!! Pray for summer. Hey, if I ever have a kid, a girl, I should name her summer. Mostly because I hate winter, though. So, that's not a good name! That's like calling someone The Lesser of Two Evils. Shit. You know that's gonna bring some teasing on the playground. Damn!
I gotta go! I really do! Really! Get your hand off my sweater! Let me goooo! Ahhhhhhh!!
Pft. Like I'd wear a sweater. I should, though. -11. {{{Brrrrr}}} <--see, that's me shaking. Ha. Okay, I have to go now. Geesh.
Later. ~