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ladyvyolaBad brain! No biscuit!
Woke up this morning, like most, with a song running in my head. Never any rhyme or reason as to what song or why; often it's one that I don't like or didn't even realize that I knew that well. What song today? Sk8rBoi Gah! Stupid, bad, silly, bad, stupid song! Can Little Miss "I'm punk, rilly!" get any more puerile? Am concentrating very hard on the song used as The Sopranos' theme in order to cleanse my cerebellum.
You woke up this morning
Got yourself a gun
Mama always said you'd be
The Chosen One
She said you're one in a million
You've got to burn to shine
But you were born under a bad sign
With a blue moon in your eyes
Ah, that's better. If I pull out a shotgun and bag Avril, you'll all stand up and testify that it was in self-defence, right? Right?
South! To Florida!
Early tomorrow morning I will be winging my way from Northern Virginia down to Orlando. Ah, Or-lan-do! Home of two of my favorite things, boybands and theme parks.
Now, I'm all for laid-back vacations, communing with nature, lazing around doing nothing, just relaxing and recharging. For that, I go to the Outer Banks. But there's also the other kind of vacation, the go-go-go, high-energy, thrill ride, party till you drop kind of vacation. Theme parks, night clubs, brand names, outrageous consumerism, here I come!
Better living through chemistry
I will be the first to admit that I love modern medicine. It's the reason that most of my family is still alive today. But, man, sometimes side effects just blow, ya know? *g* Zyrtec is definitely not the allergy medicine for me. Yes, it's done a great job suppressing the lingering effects of whatever it was that attacked me. It can make you drowsy or give you insomnia, so they say take it at night if the former and in the morning if the latter. Guess what? No matter when I take it, it gives me the undesirable effect. And if I take it mid-day, I get 'em both. The dry-mouth (only reported in 20% of users -- god, why must I always buck the trends?) was absolutely killer -- I was prying my mouth open with audible effort, much like pulling a boot out of the mud, drinking every conceivable beverage (and racing my pregnant sister-in-law for the john every 45 minutes), and sucking ice like there was no tomorrow. Hard to get a lot of work done that way. Yep, I'm one pulled-together, professional gal. But at least I wasn't scratching in public.
But worst of all, it made me dull. It wasn't just drowsiness, it was lethargy, apathy, a total absence of concentration and energy. Even when I took it at night, I just wasn't there. Scary feeling. I've stopped taking it now and seem to be doing fine on the allergy front as well as the psychiatric front. I'll take it along on vacation with me just in case, as I'd rather be allergy-free and dull in Florida than in agony again, but let's just cross our fingers, hmmmm?
I'm gonna touch a penguin!
I've bothered all my friends in RL with that cry for the past month; why shouldn't I bother you all? On to SeaWorld! Penguin, penguin, penguin!
Oh, I'm so ready for this vacation!
Woke up this morning, like most, with a song running in my head. Never any rhyme or reason as to what song or why; often it's one that I don't like or didn't even realize that I knew that well. What song today? Sk8rBoi Gah! Stupid, bad, silly, bad, stupid song! Can Little Miss "I'm punk, rilly!" get any more puerile? Am concentrating very hard on the song used as The Sopranos' theme in order to cleanse my cerebellum.
You woke up this morning
Got yourself a gun
Mama always said you'd be
The Chosen One
She said you're one in a million
You've got to burn to shine
But you were born under a bad sign
With a blue moon in your eyes
Ah, that's better. If I pull out a shotgun and bag Avril, you'll all stand up and testify that it was in self-defence, right? Right?
South! To Florida!
Early tomorrow morning I will be winging my way from Northern Virginia down to Orlando. Ah, Or-lan-do! Home of two of my favorite things, boybands and theme parks.
Now, I'm all for laid-back vacations, communing with nature, lazing around doing nothing, just relaxing and recharging. For that, I go to the Outer Banks. But there's also the other kind of vacation, the go-go-go, high-energy, thrill ride, party till you drop kind of vacation. Theme parks, night clubs, brand names, outrageous consumerism, here I come!
Better living through chemistry
I will be the first to admit that I love modern medicine. It's the reason that most of my family is still alive today. But, man, sometimes side effects just blow, ya know? *g* Zyrtec is definitely not the allergy medicine for me. Yes, it's done a great job suppressing the lingering effects of whatever it was that attacked me. It can make you drowsy or give you insomnia, so they say take it at night if the former and in the morning if the latter. Guess what? No matter when I take it, it gives me the undesirable effect. And if I take it mid-day, I get 'em both. The dry-mouth (only reported in 20% of users -- god, why must I always buck the trends?) was absolutely killer -- I was prying my mouth open with audible effort, much like pulling a boot out of the mud, drinking every conceivable beverage (and racing my pregnant sister-in-law for the john every 45 minutes), and sucking ice like there was no tomorrow. Hard to get a lot of work done that way. Yep, I'm one pulled-together, professional gal. But at least I wasn't scratching in public.
But worst of all, it made me dull. It wasn't just drowsiness, it was lethargy, apathy, a total absence of concentration and energy. Even when I took it at night, I just wasn't there. Scary feeling. I've stopped taking it now and seem to be doing fine on the allergy front as well as the psychiatric front. I'll take it along on vacation with me just in case, as I'd rather be allergy-free and dull in Florida than in agony again, but let's just cross our fingers, hmmmm?
I'm gonna touch a penguin!
I've bothered all my friends in RL with that cry for the past month; why shouldn't I bother you all? On to SeaWorld! Penguin, penguin, penguin!
Oh, I'm so ready for this vacation!
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Date: 2002-09-13 08:08 am (UTC)Sounds good to me. Have fun!
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Date: 2002-09-13 10:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-09-13 10:48 am (UTC)That's because you have to give them more money. But it'll be worth it. Hmmm, I keep thinking of
http://www.seaworld.com/seaworld/fla/attractions/more_behind.html (http://www.seaworld.com/seaworld/fla/attractions/more_behind.html)