Current mood:	mildly vexed
Current music:	Stereophonics: She Takes Her Clothes Off

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Kanye West is so annoying. I wish he didn't make such catchy songs. "Touch the Sky" is no "Gold Digger" but I still can't really resist it.

I saw the 'new' INXS (like New Coke, and just as sucky) on Regis & Kelly this morning. They're terrible. And just the fact that something called INXS (which is so not INXS) was on Regis & Kelly...depressing.

poonariffic posted this link earlier that just totally broke my heart. It's flash before and after pictures of places around the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/special_packages/renewal/before_after/

I have at least driven by almost every place pictured under Harrison County. I seriously sat here this morning and cried looking at these comparisons. They'll rebuild it and it's going to be a beautiful area again, but it's never going to be the same city we first fell in love with. So sad.

bluedots98, I know you'll be interested in these.

That new Coke drink, Vault Zero, tastes just like Fresca.

Zatarain's Cajun Mustard is too hot. And I don't say that about many things. It hurts my nose the way Chinese mustard does, but worse. I was actually holding my face and screaming after too big a bite of my sandwich earlier. I need to throw it out and get some Grey Poupon.


There's a local realtor that Sean and I just can not stand. His houses are always overpriced (moreso than the general housing market around here, which is high to start) and he has annoying ads. Plus he brags about offering a "buyer's incentive" which is actually use of a small size moving truck for one day. Oh that's worth $10,000 extra on the house!

Anyhow, they recently opened an office nearby, and put up a new billboard on a corner close to my neighborhood.

I had to laugh when I saw it.


I rang them to politely point out the error, and to be fair, the woman who answered the phone was actually appreciative of my comment. She expressed amazement that no one (including herself) had noticed the mistake, said I was absolutely right, and that she planned to see what could be done about it. I said surely the billboard company is meant to review their clients' copy for errors before it's put onto a sign, so maybe they would be willing to rectify the mistake for free.

I'm interested to see if it's corrected eventually or not.

I decided to leave the gratuitous quotation marks alone.

On my way home from taking the photo, I passed this street sign in a warehouse district nearby. I just don't understand. Why would you think this was the correct capitalization?


I really pushed myself at the gym today, my legs were shaking when it was over!

Just as well, I totally cheated on BFL today. Basically I was marinating some nice chicken breasts to serve up with green beans for dinner when Sean called to say that K was leaving for two weeks in Japan on friday, so we'd need to move up our plans to have him over to watch Saw II from saturday to today.

We didn't have enough chicken for three (we barely had enough for two, considering Sean's appetite) and there was no time to defrost anything else. I suppose they could have gotten pizza, and I could have made my own chicken, but I just don't have that kind of willpower.

Extra cardio for me tomorrow.

When Sean got home, we ran out to buy Saw II and actually pick up a pizza from Salvatore's instead of ordering in. It turned into a bit of a mess though, since WalMart was all sold out of Saw II, and Movie Gallery didn't have any to sell. We wound up at KMart, since no one ever shops there, of course they had plenty. We also went into Publix and Sean got himself a bag of Cheetos. I figured since I was Cheet-oing anyhow, in for a penny in for a pound (cake) and bought half a key lime pie.

Then K showed up with a cheesecake assortment. Oy.

I plan to be not very liberal with my day off this weekend to try to balance it out.

My hamstrings are killing me tonight. I upped my weight on the leg press, so at my top weight, I pressed 260 lbs for six reps. Yikes. Sean keeps making up songs about bunny and her hurty hams.

After K thoroughly enjoyed Saw II and agreed with us 100% that it's a better film than the first, he headed home and we rewound Lost which was just finishing up on the dvr.

This isn't really spoiler-y, so I'm not tagging it. But if you're really really worried about knowing anything at all, maybe skip down to the pictures.

I'm mad at Sawyer.

The guy playing Henry is Zeb from the original Saw, coincidentally enough. The US commander in Iraq was Capt. Byron T. Hadley in Shawshank.

What do you think about Henry? I want to believe him. I think it'd be easy enough to go find if there's actually a balloon and a body. He did seem to have all the right answers.

Looks like next week the pace picks up a little. I hope so, they are dragging a bit I think.

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After the show ended Sean was feeling sad, so I asked him why. He said he just sometimes gets to feeling really bad for me that I have no family, no on to really truly depend on except him and that he feels like he's not quite up to that task. Not like in a "Oh my gosh, I'm under so much pressure" sort of way, more of a "This poor girl, all she has is ME and I'm not all that great a catch." way. I assured him that he really has been wonderful lately, and that all his fears about me getting to the end of my life and feeling like I'd made a huge mistake of it by being with him were easily allayed. "Just don't do it." I say, "if you're worried I'm going to regret spending my life with you...don't do anything to make me regret it." and by that I mean, serious things. Not just like, don't fart in bed. Like...binge drinking, or other vices that wouuld lead to me being treated badly and made miserable by him again, and being forced to get out.

Anyhow, it was just a little talk, and he apologized if it made me sad to bring up the fact that except for him, I'm kind of alone in the world and I said no, but that I appreciated that it was something that he thought about and worried about, and hoped it would help him stay on track as far as being that person I need to be able to fully count on.

Here is one of my precious Super Clips. It's kind of bent and wonky from years of use. Still works like a dream though. You should see the one I ran over!



And here is the Super Clip in action!



I've never actually seen it full-on from behind before. That's pretty.

It's hard to take a picture of the back of your own head. I took like 5 and that's the only one that came out.

Like I said, I've seen plastic ones in the same shape, and even some decorated fancy metal ones at mall accessory shops. But the spring isn't very strong and the grip is not Super. My hair slides right out once I move my head.

So I know this is like heresy, but I just don't think the Ricky Gervais podcast is all that funny. There's amusing bits here and there, but overall, it's just like some regular guys sitting around talking to each other being stupid. It's basically like the Chris Moyles show without music or celebrity guests. And to be honest, I think Chris Moyles' show is funnier. Yes, in the grand scheme of things, Ricky Gervais is a funnier man than Moyles. The Office > Tedious Link, not even a contest. But as far as who I'd rather listen to sitting in a studio BSing with production assistants? Chris, all the way.

That said, I'd rather hear Ricky than Sara Cox. But I'd rather hear Chico cough up a hairball than listen to Coxy slurping on her breakfast. I was so happy when they moved her out of the morning slot.

I got my car back today. Pretty happy about that. We're taking it to Pensacola next wednesday for its routine health maintenance visit. As much as I whinge about having to take it such a long way, it's always sort of fun to make a little day trip of it with Sean. They have a World Market and a Jersey Mike's, so they've got a few up on us. Old Navy too.

Busy week next week, really.