Daily Archives: August 10, 2007

by popular demand! well, kind of. demanded by one person who may or may not be popular! but everyone’s popular here! this is a long title! even longer now!

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A quick flurry of lists you wanted to see:

FAMOUS PEOPLE I NEVER WANT TO MEET
(no shocks here if you’ve been reading me for very long)

1. Joe Francis
2. Nancy Grace
3. Oprah Winfrey
4. Rachael Ray
5. Larry King
6. Charlie Sheen
7. Either of the Coreys
8. R.Kelly
9. Anyone from My Chemical Romance/Nickelback/Hedley/Fall Out Boy/and a thousand other sketchy outfits
10. Anyone from the WWE


PLACES I WOULD LIKE TO GO THAT I HAVE NEVER BEEN

1. New York City (Doesn’t it just seem like I’d like it? Serious overstimulation, but that’s not always a bad thing)
2. Savannah (I want to see all the gorgeous old buildings)
3. Santorini (Seems like a gorgeous vacation spot with everything I like)
4. Prague (Just amazing. I’d love to see it)
5. Toronto (So I can mock the East Coast more effectively)
6. Montreal (Everyone tells me I would adore this city and how it looks and feels)
7. Tuscany (Mmmm…)
8. Provence (See Tuscany above…)


TOP WEEDS THAT PLAGUE VANCOUVER GARDENERS

(I totally don’t garden. I know, I know… I’m so lazy. But here’s what I’ve heard. And I swear, half of these plague allergy sufferers, too.)

1. Gout weed (what? Weeds get the gout?)
2. Morning Glory
3. Dandelions

Ha. That was pathetic. I almost deleted this part, but it was too pathetic to let go. See #5 in my list of favourite words of advice.

SONGS THAT ARE POPULAR BUT I DON’T UNDERSTAND WHY

1. Chocolate Rain (Buzz, that was just for you… I actually loved John Mayer’s version)
2. Umbrella
3. Riding Dirty
4. That Beyonce “to the left! to the left!” song. Arrrrgh!
5. Oh, The Chicken Dance just IRRITATES me
6. That Rihanna “I don’t waaaanna beeeeee a murdererrrrr” one. THEN DON’T.
7. Stars Are Blind

FAVOURITE TIPS OR ADVICE SOMEONE HAS SHARED WITH ME

1. If someone can learn from your story, don’t keep it to yourself.
2. Wash your hands after cutting jalepeno peppers (learned THAT the hard way.)
3. If your wedding is the best part of your marriage thus far, you likely have some work to do.
4. Buy Apple products.
5. Write about what you know.
6. If you’re the only person who likes your boyfriend, it’s probably a sign.
7. You can only study so long.
8. Don’t expect the world to change if you can’t show grace and kindness to the people immediately around you. Peace begins at the micro level.
9. Listen to your mom. You don’t have to do what she says every time, but at least listen.
10. Never be stingy with the following: tips, gas money, hugs, words of praise, and butter.

more aaaaaugh than gillespie.

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I spent the entirety of yesterday feeling really, really dizzy and nauseous.

This is a pretty lame sensation as far as sensations go.

Sensations I enjoy include:

    hot showers
    footrubs
    back scratching
    getting my hair washed at the salon
    sun on my face
    bobbing around in the waves

Sensations I don’t enjoy include:

    yesterday

As you can see, unpopular.

I’m not totally sure what’s causing the problem. It could be my latest dose of hormones, since that’s a fairly typical reaction to a new force for good in my system (if not a bit aggrandized.)

It could also be the shock of going cold turkey off my antihistamines, since my major sneeze season is over, and I try and take as little in the way of drugs as possible.

It could ALSO be that my labrynthitis is acting up. I developed labrynthitis after a bout with pneumonia in the early 2000′s, but the symptoms are generally kept at bay by drinking enough water and not letting respiratory infections get out of hand.

So I have no idea, really.

What I do know is that the bus is TORTURE when my head is all swirly and that staring at a computer screen all day is only slightly less wonky. Yesterday, I had to fight off tears at the grossness of it all, until finally my mother volunteered to drive halfway across the earth to bring me home early from work. Which is awesome, and unshockingly so, because my mother?

Awesome.

She also fixed cupboards in my kitchen (non-closers), hung a picture in my room (that she painted), and brought me treats (peanut butter ice cream thingies, pistachios, gingerale, nectarines… and much, much more!)

Give it up for the Judy, if you will. And for the Reid, my dad, just because. He was a part of the fun via MSN when my mom disappeared to the hardware store and is the soul of jolly.

I’m off to a much better start today. I don’t feel sick, per se… just dizzy with some major tension in my head, neck and back. I think that comes from trying to find the best angle to hold myself at/overcompensating for lack of balance. Woo!

I’m making sure that I don’t dehydrate or put off eating and make it worse… and that’s a challenge, seeing as I usually subsist on coffee at work.

Anyway.

THANK YOU so much for your responses to the WORLD’S LONGEST BLOG POST yesterday. It encourages me so much to know that a lot of us have been on the same page and faced the same struggles. I honestly believe being honest about it is a big part of moving forward (not to sound all Dr. Phil, because EW!)

And we all know how good I’ve been at moving forward. So.

Love to all of you from my dizzy brain and my un-dizzy heart.

ALSO:

    1. How are you doing this morning?
    2. Any good weekend plans?
    3. If you could spend the day with anyone right now, doing anything, what would you be up to?
    4. Name four famous people or historical figures you wish you could have dinner with tonight…
    5. Any lists in particular you wish I’d write?