i'd like to schedule a sinectomy please

rather than a photo of me, sick on the couch, i decided to include my favorite sickie drink - sunny d. i love it!!

but i don't love being sick. for some reason, i've fallen into this cycle of sinus infections and i can't seem to prevent them. i do have a neti pot, and i use it semi-regularly. i started using a humidifier in the winter, but don't need one in the summer. am i missing some vital nutrient or is there possibly a sinus supplement out there? if you have a tip, please let me know in comments. BTW, last time i mentioned some thing like this in comments, darrell hooked me up w/ the 411 and heidi actually hooked me up with the goods - ligonberry juice!! thanxxx to both of you for that!

This is old, but so outstanding

WeinerMobile Wipes Out

So, I happen to know a woman who was a "hotdogger" as a young lass - I didn't realise there was this whole "passing of the torch" aspect to it, but it makes sense. I mean, if you're going to be driving the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile around the country, you should have to be one of the elite, like captain of the cheerleading squad or something equally accomplished.

At any rate, this is a great article full of all the kinds of awful puns and innuendos to be expected from a crash of a 7,000 pound mobile hot dog, and it comes courtesy of a Kansas City blog about, I think, absurd traffic incidents and general crime. The highlight of the blog itself, though not the reason I stumbled upon it, is that our very own Local 12 is featured not once, but multiple times, for "Dance Party Fridays" in the traffic reporting segment:
01/11/08
2/15/08

what you see here is my first-ever furniture purchase from my first college apartment - the Bear Table. this thing has been to several places with me but ended up out at Pat and Cathy's place for many years. now that Cathy has decided to sell the place, went up there to pick up a load of various family heirlooms and whatnot and this was among them.

manus' reaction is the funniest thing. he normally just gives a cursory sniff to anything i bring in the door but he circled the table for several minutes trying to determine what it was. smells like furniture, looks like critter. he sniffed the bear's ears and its rear and he looked at it from every angle. he seems to have decided that it is not another pet after all.

something else in this load is the crib that Pat built for Tommy. it is actually a 3-in-1 so I'm going to set it up as a bed in the guest room once I get the adapter for making it a bed.

neighborhood watch meeting

wednesday mornings at stella's place. note again that neither of these kittehs is stella. she's still inside.

pardon our progress

now that the godfather has rescued me from my carpentry hang up and the electrician came to keep me from electrocuting myself, i've spent all my free time the past 10 days drywalling. lucky me, i have awesome friends. bri and rob brought over their corded drill which probably saved my sanity as well as hours of time. lynn and nate came last sunday to help with the ceiling panels. bri and rob came back on monday to help with the big wall panels and then i spent 2 days doing nothing but proofing my big project for my day job. i took friday off cos the last few weeks have been crazy at work and away from work, and i got most of the smaller pieces of drywall cut and hung. i actually have about 3 more pieces to cut but i wanted to get started on mudding. i'm either doing it wrong or i'm a freak, but probably both, cos so far the mudding has been the best part and it's the part everyone else
seems to hate. it's like icing a cake. an enormous cake that tastes terrible.

Hard at work

No time to update. But this was so funny, I had to pass it along. It’s sort of like the Land-o-Lakes margarine package that I love. We need a name for that thing that isn’t “Russian Doll effect” – because Russian Dolls don’t actually go on into infinity.

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From: Dave
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 12:39 PM
To: Erin Blackford
Subject: FW:

I’ve noticed that you’re reviewing reviews today, so I thought it would be helpful for you if you could review a review of you reviewing (attached).

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Miscellany

This morning when I walked out to my car, there was some sort of neighborhood cat meeting going on in my front yard. I don’t know what they were meeting about, but after I told them that Stella wasn’t coming outside today, the other 2 cats took off, in opposite directions. And yes, one of them actually walked down the sidewalk and up the steps to what I assume is her house. Weird.

Driving to the office, a deer crossed my path on Route 32. This was particularly surprising because the deer had a doe’s body but it had about a 6-point rack. Heh.

The husband of one of my co-workers passed away suddenly and unexpectedly this week. This has me thinking about a lot of sad things, but in an attempt to stay somewhat positive, I’ll write here that it also brought to mind all the goodness and caring I’ve received from my friends in my life. I am truly blessed with the friends and family I have, near and far.

If I haven’t mentioned this to you already, I found a therapist who does Art Therapy – I actually draw a picture and then we discuss it. CNKelly laughed about this and I will concede that it sounds totally ridiculous, but it is helping. I think it is sometimes easier for me to draw a picture and then discuss what it represents than to just start talking about my feelings. Ugh. Just thinking about talking about my feelings makes me tired and grumpy.

Speaking of tired and grumpy, Brian and Rob have lifted and carried just about every piece of anything that is too heavy for me to lift or too big for me to shove around, including all the kitchen cabinets I bought from someone on Craigslist. Thanks to B&R, I have all my furniture upstairs now, excepting the big sofa, which may get sold rather than moved. I decided to take a break from asking them to lift stuff and last night, I rented that $20 Home Depot truck and hauled 12 sheets of drywall into the house by myself. I have decided after I finish the kitchen project, I am going to start entering those strongman contests where they lift weird items and pull semis and stuff. I mean, I'm already lifting and pulling weird stuff all the time anyway. Might as well get on TV for it.