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| i can fall asleep at the drop of a hat. often L will wake me up after i've fallen asleep to show me something interesting online or on late-night tv. i can always get right back to sleep again so it's all good. last night started out no different. L says, "hey wake up and get your glasses on and check this out..." both the tv and computer are on and all that's on tv is some infomercial so i just assume it's something online and i turn my attention to the computer. until L says, "tell me that's not [former co-worker] on tv..." i had only seen this former co-worker a few times so i was like, "yeah sure does look like him..." but all doubt was erased as soon as he (former co-worker) started talking on air. and then a few minutes later his name showed up in the captions. right next to the name of the product being sold. the product being a hot new personal lubricant product. which he (former co-worker) proceeded to discuss, with the host of the infomercial, for as long as we were willing to watch until we just got too weirded out and had to change the channel. best "where are they now, former co-workers edition" moment ever! by the way, spank juice is not the name of the product. that is the name of the fake product that L proceeded to make up today when we were thinking back to how weird it was to see former co-worker on tv last night. L made up a tag line for his fake product too: when you're too naughty for ordinary lubricant! hahaha! yeah he is seriously disturbed. | | |
| ha i just logged in to see if i still remember the password and yeah i guess i still do. it’s summer time and i’m loving it. except that recently it’s hot hot hot here. and humid. it’s nice and cool in the morning but after about noon time our place is an oven, even with fans. so if i’m not productive in the morning time then i don’t end up getting much stuff done because it’s just too hot in the afternoon to get stuff done and then i’ve given up on getting any stuff done by the evening time and then i just vow to try again the next day. but three mornings a week i have ballet and that takes pretty much the whole morning. so that leaves only a few other mornings to try and get some stuff done. in any case, i’m not getting a lot of stuff done that i’m supposed to be getting done this summer. gah. i just got my tiger t-shirt in the mail. from topshop. love the tiger print. but why oh why did they have to make it a sleeveless shirt? they basically just cut the sleeves off. why didn’t they just leave the sleeves on and give people the option of cutting off the sleeves themselves? it would take less than a minute with some good scissors. so yeah i wish it still had sleeves but i loved the tiger print so much i had to get it, even sans sleeves. it’s really big and comfy and it’s black and white so it goes with everything… i think it will be my new uniform. two more things: 1) i need to go now to play pian-o. 2) this blog is lame-o. | | |
| The first graders have been preparing to sing some holiday songs this week. I was explaining to them that "O Tannenbaum" means "Oh Christmas Tree" in German. And I made sure the students were pronouncing the words correctly. In the hallway after school I ran into a grandparent (of a very serious child, not one to goof off in class very easily) who said they were very excited to see the performance. And then she said, "I had to tell you, because I thought it was funny, that my grandson thought the words to 'O Tannenbaum' were 'Atomic bomb' and he kept singing it like that at home until I corrected him." Oops... I guess that just shows how much the students pay attention to me. "Oh he did say he thought it was German though," she added. Well okay so they are sort of paying attention... haha. | | |
| Here is where we went last weekend. Well okay we really went to San Francisco for my cousin’s wedding and a family reunion of sorts. But on the way home we stopped by the abandoned airfield at Crows Landing since we had wondered about it the last few times we’d driven past the Crows Landing exit. Well okay so it was more like we were wondering about the freeway-side facility which turns out to be a big trash incinerator facility run by Covanta Energy Corp. and we came across the airfield info as well. And we like old abandoned structures. And tumbleweeds! The last picture on the Crows Landing portion of that website (the abandoned control tower) is pretty much similar to what we saw. We were also hoping to see a more abandoned version of something like this. But we ended up just seeing some of the old radar equipment from that photo, sitting around in an open lot with lots of tumbleweeds. Of course there were crows! And there was the most beautiful bunch of giant agave with dried-out flower spikes that must have been at least three times my height! We took photos but I’m too lazy to go get them now. Maybe I’ll put them on flickr at some other time. Trust me the agave bunch was super cool though. Gigantic! | | |
| Aaaaargh. I’ve been coughing my head off for two weeks straight. Went to the doctor last week to make sure it wasn’t anything worse and to get some good ol’ cough syrup with codeine in it. Which I’ve taken in the past and have been fine with it. But this time they also gave me prednisone and antibiotics. Because the day before my doctor’s appointment I just happened to get a spider bite. Nothing poisonous but it made my entire thumb swell up and I somehow got these weird spots all over me (they were calling it a systemic reaction?) and they were worried since I’ve had bad reactions to common insect bites in the past. So in the past week I’ve not only been living with a wicked cough and an itchy thumb. But I’ve been sick to my stomach and dizzy from all the meds. AND I’ve had insomnia which I NEVER have (I’m usually more on the narcoleptic side if anything). Mixed together these meds have left me feeling worse than just the cough itself! So last night I finished the last of the meds and today I’m finally feeling a little like myself again. Never have I been so thankful to just be fighting the remains of a nagging cough and on my way to being healthy again. Obviously this was nothing compared to what some people go through on a daily basis but for me this was pretty bad. I threw up more times this week (like four times) than in my entire life up to now! Blah…. while sick I also missed two days of school (would have been more had we not had a four-day weekend), three ballet classes and rehearsals, six yoga classes, countless hours of peaceful sleep… Anyway I just thought I would write this update to complain. What good is a blog if you can’t complain when you’re sick? I told Meow I know what she felt like when they gave her these meds that made her tummy sick. And I told L that I am really thankful for his homemade soups… leek and garlic soup, butternut squash soup… he makes the yummiest homemade soups and they have made me feel better when nothing much else could these past two weeks. | | |
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