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Some words from our nonsponsors
I was going through my email this morning and went to empty the spam bucket, if you will as I do every morning [sometimes the spam builds up overnight]. Thanks email filters and the whatnot, receiving spam is now just nominally annoying. What’s not annoying is the wonderfully delicious spiced ham in a can Spam that I unabashedly and unapologetically love – dude, spam sandwiches rock this hapa girl’s heart. If I wasn’t currently full with grilled cheese sandwiches, tomato soup, breadsticks and sweet potato chips, I’d probably wish I had another Spam musubi right now. But I digress.
Since I have several different email accounts for specific purposes [my primary account, my mailing list account, my internet shopping account, etc] and because I have a healthy dose of cynicism to Internet offers/forwards and the like, the likelihood of my falling prey to the spammers is relatively low. Especially since they don’t know which account is for which so I’m always amused and tipped off when I receive a seemingly personal Re: Hey! email in one of my secondary accounts.
While I don’t open these messages, I do love reading the mysteriously humorous subject titles. Most are amusing, especially the ones for the enhancers and miracle pills. My favorite: “Make your intruder the best for her.” I kid you not. Of course, most are completely unintelligible when they’re not written in broken English. Sometimes I feel like I’m reading I Can Haz Cheezburger.
You gotta love the creativity in some of them. Even the ones that make you think you won some lottery thing. First off, I’m not a British citizen or even been to Britain so how would I ever win the lottery there? Second, these old Nigerian email scams, I’d just like to thank you for thinking I had that kind of money to begin with. And the newish Fed Ex scams. I deal with Fed Ex on a daily basis and never would they write you a long letter explaining how you have a package ready for pick up. Or the ones telling me I’ve won some kind of scholarship or award.
Um, yeah, whatever dude. As if I’m ever going to follow through with those directions. There are just too many steps that all require me to get out of the house and drive somewhere. Why do that when I can stay home and take a nap instead?
Who knew laziness could be so helpful?
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So remember how I said I wasn’t feeling well and then I said I was feeling better? Well I was tricked. So evilly tricked.
I woke up Wednesday morning without the body aches and actually did feel better. So much so that I happily wore my contacts instead of my glasses to work. Well that good feeling lasted a few hours until I started to get warm to the touch and progressively grew warmer throughout the day. Then I started coughing and then my body started hurting all over again. I mean, really? This was a lot more than I had ever anticipated. So here I was, all warm [so warm that I didn’t even need to turn on the heater in my car like I normally do!] and no wanting to make any kind of movements and heaven forbid I had to cough…ugh, that hurt the most.
So when I woke up on Thursday suffering from more body aches and dizziness, I called in sick for the first time ever. I hadn’t felt that bad physically since I broke my butt snowboarding that first time. My mom was even shocked that I stayed home. But it was for the better. After calling in, or more aptly, emailing, I set to work on finishing up the written analysis for a case report, emailed it to the group members and went back to sleep. I slept off and on for the rest of the day but did start to feel a lot better. My mom made sure I had all the orange juice I needed and even made me a sandwich for lunch that I ended up finishing for dinner.
Even though I sounded like I had choked on death, I eventually felt well enough to truck it down to Target to pick up some cough medicine, tissues, cough drops and oatmeal. And wouldn’t you know that is the day I run into an old family friend? Of course. But it was great catching up with her regardless.
But yesterday was a much needed rest day. I’m glad I did take the day off to stay home though. I really needed that. And sleeping throughout the day kind of rocked too. I’m still taking it easy on the foods for now but hopefully I’ll be well enough to make it to Spanish Club tomorrow. I hope, I hope, I hope.
Anywho, my computer usage was sporadic during the day; on and off as I saw fit to nap. I had thought about uploading my pictures briefly and writing up a post about the muffins but then I wasn’t at all motivated to dig through my bag for my camera because that would have required me to lift my arm and quite frankly, that was too much of a burden to deal with.
Which makes it pretty hard to figure how I managed to lug my laptop from off the ground onto my bed huh? Well, it was only on the ground once during the day. Once I pulled it up to finish the case report, I just left it at the end of my bed and pretty much slept around it the rest of the day.
Tonight I have plans on making cupcakes for tomorrow’s Spanish Club meeting. I figure I might as well prepare as if I’m going for sure, like I did with work the past few days. Besides, if I don’t feel well enough to make it, at least I’ll have cupcakes!
Now that’s the definition of a “win-win” situation.
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My computer at work has finally been upgraded to Windows 2007 [I know, it was way past due. Especially after having to work with 2000 for so long!] but now that things are upgraded I’m having trouble getting used to the new features. First, the autocorrect thing is ANNOYING. I like to type my emails in all lowercase [unless necessary] and trying to get outlook to stop correcting things was getting on my last nerves.
And I’m bothered that one of my windows won’t maximize all the way. Ugh. I know all these things are minor and simply cosmetic but still. They bother me either way. My love for things being just so isn’t new.
But onto happier thoughts. Thoughts like blueberry muffins. For some reason I’ve been craving those things like no one’s business so I plan on making them this weekend and I cannot wait. I’ll have to swing by TJ’s tonight to pick up the blueberries. My mouth is watering as we speak.
Speaking of which, I also need an idea for dinner Saturday night. This is the hardest part of cooking; figuring out what to make! The actual cooking process isn’t that bad. The problem is I have no clue what it is I want to eat. Maybe I should just sit back and wait to see what I’m in the mood for that day. Maybe I want something with bacon. Maybe I should make shrimp and grits with bacon. Mmm. That sounds like a good plan. I already have those ingredients. At least I hope we have bacon. It’s been a while since we last ate any. Hmm.
And can I say how I’d LOVE to be invited to one of these little get-togethers?
I was thinking about addressing the H.W.S.N.B.N. incident but I’ll have to save that for another day, hopefully this week. I have some words to share even though it’s hella late by now. And the Rihanna and Chris Brown mess? I’m sad when I hear a Chris Brown song but I’m sadder to hear that people have turned on Rihanna. Especially other women. It’s horrible that women would make excuses for any man who would hit a woman. I mean, it could have been them! Would they have wanted to hear other people calling them a snitch or say that they had it coming? Domestic violence is no joke, whether it’s the man hitting the woman or the woman hitting the man. I’m glad Rihanna spoke out and didn’t try to cover this up but who knows how long this has been going on or if it was just a one-off situation. Either way they both need some kind of help and I hope they receive it.
I have a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to domestic violence. For me, I crave the feeling of safety and security in a boyfriend/husband and if I don’t feel like I’d be safe then that’s it, we’re done. Questions neither asked nor taken. But that’s just me. Hopefully more people will begin to speak up against domestic violence and begin to teach the next generation that violence does not beget anything else but more chaos.
Read MoreThat cuckoo flew over a while ago…
I finally get a new blog design and all of the sudden I’m stuck for blog posts? That just seems so…unfair! But that is life I guess.
Or something like that.
My number finally came up for the monitor upgrades at work and away went my old boxy monitor and in came the new sleek 19” wide screen monitor. And it’s insane! Everything is so bright and…wide. It’s weird. I spent about 10 minutes adjusting the monitor settings [I know I’m technically supposed to be calling IT for that but…shhh. Don’t tell!] to get them to a point where I can live with it.
Maybe now I can actually get better looking picture quality on my monitor. And hopefully the brightness will help reduce any eyestrain I may experience while staring at the monitor all day long.
This newfangled technology will take some getting used to though. I figure things should be good by tomorrow. Hopefully the feeling of looking down at the monitor from an angle goes away.
Even though I feel like I could light my way through the forest from the light from the monitor. I’d be like a lighthouse. Off in the distance. Beware of rocks.
It’s only Wednesday and I’m already looking forward to the weekend. I have no plans but I really just want to catch up on some sleep Saturday morning. I think I’ll actually go through with making chicken enchiladas this weekend. Maybe I’ll shoot for an entire meal: chicken enchiladas, Spanish rice and black beans or maybe refried beans. That sounds really good. I’ll have to ask my mom to pick up a rotisserie chicken for me.
What? You thought I’d boil and shred my own chicken? Puh-lease. I’ll save that for people making real enchiladas. I plan on making my own sauce so don’t I get a break with that?
I think I want refried beans. Mmm.
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