Famous Sounding Words Make Your Head Feel Light

Wanna know what is not pretty? Having a dream you are puking and then waking up and realizing you juuuuust might. Bleh. Was home yesterday with stomachus upsetus. I actually felt better by the afternoon after I ate something. My dad and grandfather had stomach issues and co workers have as well. Of course after the Norovirus week in August it takes a lot to phase me now. THAT was some sick. I once had true flu with a temp of over 106. Don't remember the drive home from work. Do remember calling my mom and saying, " I'm cold" and then hanging up. When she got there I had the heat jacked to 80, sweats on, and was cowering under a blanket. That is what a 106 plus temp will do for you. And I STILL felt better with that than I did with the Noro crap. That stuff....jebus. I will never ever ever take a cruise for fear of that happening again. Pass!

Saw Sweeney again on Saturday night with Mom and Kidlet. If you have not yet seen Sweeney, you need to. I totally intend to own it on DVD but really it needs to be seen at least once on the big screen. Mom loved it and Kidlet of course adores it. She is so a musical theater geek waiting to blossom.

Sunday, kidlet and I hung out with Gramps while Mom and Dad got out of the house for a walk and to get pizza. Then we watched Masterpeice Theater's latest adaptation of Jane Eyre. It was quite good. Managed to make it gothic without totally going overboard. The Bronte's can veer in the cheesetastic with lightening speed in the wrong hands.

Next Saturday I start my respite care days with Gramps for 6 hours at a time so mom can get out and not go bonkers. He's a cranky ole fart and stubbornness seems to run in our family, so it could be fun :P

At work, and swamped. Not that I am stressing about it this year. We have some state law changes that are HUGE and will effect us pretty heavily and as per usual, the impact on MY job was not really thought about. Fortunately I have folks who have my back and asked them about it. See...I can't do my job if I don't have the tools, and these changes will necessitate a major re-write and re-vamp of our already temperamental (read - bugged and band aid fixed for 5 years) proprietary software. Without this, I will be able to do nothing -not one tiny part- of my job. Not even my usual data entry and wait for generation of the templates plan when I am on hold for changes. I mean zippolla. Apparently when this was mentioned to the powers that be the collective reaction was something along the lines of, "Oh. We hadn't thought about that."

I be am invisible!

Shazaam!


On a funny cause I think they are twee and not cause I think domestic violence is groovy note, the keyboard player Marty Crandal was arrested for beating up his girlfriend Elyse Sewell from America's Next Top Model Season 1 fame.

Ahh The Shins. Changing lives via a "blitzkreig of violence" and sappy frickin songs in Zach Braff movies. Go, Portland Indie Hipsters, Go!