Discombobulated Thoughts - 04/25/06 - Grumpy Edition

• Doctors and nurses make the worst patients and my mother is right up there.  She insists that her ankle can’t possibly be broken because it doesn’t hurt “that bad” and refuses to stay off her feet like she’s been told to.  She honestly believes the doctor is wrong.
• My only surviving grandmother has taken a turn for the worse and is now refusing to socialize with anyone and has lost 20 lbs.
• I think I forgot to take my meds this morning.
• I’m sleepy and I’ve had bad insomnia for over a week.
• My co-workers are being overly loud and annoying today.
• I feel fat.
• I
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Discombobulated Thoughts - 04/19/06

• It’s official. I am now seriously looking for a new web host. I know I’ve said it before, but since I’m now paying boo-goo bucks for a dedicated server and my server goes down once a week for hours at a time and I’m losing important family emails and other vital things. Anyone heard of A Small Orange or Jumpline?
• I probably shouldn’t have moved the piano on my own last Sunday. It didn’t occur to me until yesterday when I couldn’t figure out why my neck and right wrist were bothering me
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Discombobulated Thoughts - 03/31/2006

• I haven’t done these in a while.
• I really like Crest’s new Lemon Ice flavor.
• Zicam Oral Mist tastes like what I image camel piss must taste like.
• Can’t wait to visit Pugly tomorrow.
• I think N2 is avoiding me. Probably just being paranoid.
• Overslept this morning.
• Seriously need to get my house cleaned.
• I haven’t checked my mail box in 3 days.
• Fresh sheets on the bed are always lovely.
• I still wish I had Karen Carpenter’s singing voice.
• I definitely think there should be some sort of Life Coach/care-givers kind of person for depressives — rent-a-mom without the psychological guilt factor bult in.

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I Am Alive & Going To England

I appologize for seemingly abandoning this blog. The truth is that I’ve been distracted by more than a few things in my life:

• My grandmother’s death, as you know, took me somewhat by surprise and has caused me to do a lot of self-inspecting. Plus, I want to be there for my mother who I think took it a lot harder than me. Plus, the planning for the memorial service the weekend before Valentine’s Day in Florida.
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Discombobulated Thoughts - 10/31/05

• Turns out Needy is a candidate for Kitty Diabetes and Kitty Heart Disease. He’s over 15 lbs now. The doctor told me to put him on a diet and I told her that when I cut back on his food, he moves less. Crafty kitty. I tried to get him to play with one of those Cat Exercise Websites as SuzyQ says her cat goes wild over them, but I couldn’t get him to take an interest at all. I tried dragging string and throwing bell balls and homemade alumnimum balls but he just
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Discombobulated Nano Thoughts — 10/26/05

• I can’t believe Nano starts next week.
• OMG!
• I wonder what kind of music other people listen to while they write (and in what genre) or if they prefer silence.
• What if I can’t get past the first few pages again this year?
• I really keep hearing this story in first person in my head, but I’ve read somewhere that first person can be boring to the reader.
• Either way, can I really write 50,000 words based on my experiences losing my job and moving to Maine and dealing with the first real Winter?
• Really, how interesting can I make seeing real Fall foliage to
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Discombobulated Links — 10/17/05

I don’t normally make a big deal about linking to other websites partly because I think my new discoveries are pretty well-established by the time I happen upon them and partly because I think people should link to who they like to read and not try to get more readers just because of who they link to. However, I have found some really good reads of late and I do want to share.

• Suburban Guerrilla — excellent liberal commentary by Susie Madrak.
• All The King’s Horses — the blog of a disenchanted “stop loss” soldier serving his second tour
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Discombobulated Thoughts - 10/07/05

• I just discovered that I can subscribe to The Signal podcast via iTunes. Shiny.
• I’ve felt nauseated all day and it has nothing to do with politics.
• The new maple coffeecake muffin at Starbucks is so sickeningly sweet, it made me feel ill the moment I opened the bag.
• I’m all signed up to try NaNoWriMo again. Hopefully I’ll make it past the first few days this year.
• I’m toying with writing a vampire/hunter story in the midst of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
• I’m still annoyed at PW but now for even more trivial things. She’s just slipping into
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Discombobulated Thoughts - 10/01/05

• I saw Serenity last night. It’s a beautifully done film; Joss Wheddon should be proud, but as a Firefly fan, I wish I hadn’t seen it yet. Since I don’t want to spoil it for others. I’ll wait to explain. I’m glad now that I couldn’t go to see it for free in Boston on Tuesday in exchange for a written review. I don’t think I could have given it a fair, unbiased review so soon after seeing it. But it really was a brilliant movie. It’s certainly a good two hour ride.
• One
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Discombobulated Reviews - 09/25/05

• Dodgeball - While I often find Ben Stiller’s movies just too stupid for words and I grew to hate the game of dodgeball growing up, I found this movie the perfect mind-numbing weekend activity last weekend…well, I liked it enough to watch it twice anyway. I won’t say it was particularly good, but it wasn’t so horrible that I wanted my time back.
• New York Minute - Now this was a waste of my time. Outside of the fact that I can say now withot a doubt that the Olsen twins have grown up from ugly baby to gorgeous
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Discombobulated Katrina Thoughts — 09/12/05

• I’ve an appointment with a shrink for next Monday to discuss the post-Katrina nightmares and illness and such.
• I hope I get some restful sleep before then. Ambien didn’t help much.
• Meg and Peter have left Memphis to stay with a friend of Meg’s family in Baton Rouge since both their law firms are openning offices there…they still can’t find “reasonably” priced housing.
• BJ found Red for me. He said she seems fine. Her husband is in Baton Rouge but she’s stayed at the hospital to work.
• I have finally made contact with three of my former co-workers. At least
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Discombobulated Thoughts — 09/07/2005

• I did end up wearing two of the shirts I said I wouldn’t wear on the airplane.
• My whole body hurts from my vacation.
• I bet my feet hurt for a week.
• Joss Wheddon was a no show at DragonCon, which annoyed me.
• Apparently author Robert Asprin lives in New Orleans. Has anyone heard from him or his wife Lynne Abbey?
• My childhood home is underwater in New Orleans.
• My mother has apparently trained hundreds of nurses at the Astrodome. My dad says she leaves at 7am and doesn’t get back until 10pm. She’s my hero.
• I know a lot of people are
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Discombobulated Thoughts - September 1, 2005

• My posting will probably be sparse as I am on vacation.
• My father is concerned about a gas shortage and therefore has decided not to come visit this month.
• In light of this, my mother headed out to Houston this morning to train nurses at the Astrodome in disaster recovery. Then she will be headed off to Louisiana.
• I want to be my mother when I grow up.
• My laptop keyboard is semi-behaving at the moment, but I’ll be buying a new laptop ASAP.
• I wish there was something more I could do to help the Gulf Coast than just give money.
• I did wear
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Discombobulated Katrina Thoughts - 08/31/05

• I’m told that the gas station that was selling gas for $2.71 this morning here in Maine now has a sign for $3.20. Strange that it happened the day that Bush released the oil reserves due to the Gulf Coast catastrophe.
• Last night I was correcting news reporters on their mispronunciation of Nawlins business names and locations. I guess they spent so long trying to get Spanish right that they didn’t work enough on French.
• It was heart-warming to hear that people in Arizona and Florida are offering their extra bedrooms to Katrina refugees.
• My mother assured me this morning that
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Discombobulated Thoughts — August 27, 2005

• I tried to explain to a lesbian friend why women like the Baldwin brothers, but since they aren’t my type, she just looked at me like I was nuts.
• PW’s beaux is arriving in New Orleans in time for them to evacuate for the hurricane.
• El is worried that the hurricane will interfere with our Thursday flights to Atlanta as the weather system might be there by then.
• I think I heard on the news that there were two more incidents with planes last night.
• Maybe I’ll take the valium to get on the plane after all this time rather than do what the
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Discombobulated Thoughts — Aug. 24, 2005

• Someone’s going to die in this office today and it’s not going to be me.
• I have decided that on Sept. 7th, after my vacation, I am going back to eating healthy and watching my weight, but I am not going to obsess about food.
• I cannot find either of my copies of The Gradual Vegetarian. I’m sure the cats have hid them somewhere.
• I really need a vacation.
• I don’t know why but I’ve been craving toast for days. I don’t normally eat or buy bread so it’s weird that I’m fantasizing about lightly toasted bread smeared with real butter mixed
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Discombobulated Thoughts - Aug. 20, 2005

• Once you’ve retrained your cat to use the litter box, how do you keep him from trailing litter all over the place?
• My laptop has developed a nasty habit of locking up for no reason and then not wanting to boot up again after being shutdown.
• I guess I’m going to have to buy a new laptop in a month or two; too bad this one hasn’t been paid off yet.
• I wrenched my back trying to carry stuff upstairs.
• Saw Fergie on While You Were Out; she really is a very cool lady. I don’t know who I was more
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Is It Just Me?

Is it just me or is Bill Maher starting to look older than he is? I wonder if he’s sick.

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Discombobulated Thoughts for Aug. 14, 2005

• I’ve been partially lazy and partially migrainy all weekend and therefore haven’t gotten everything I wanted to do this weekend done. Though all the dresser drawers at least are all back in the dressers.
• I’ve watched way too much Night Court on TV Land this weekend.
• I am really having problems sleeping at night. I got paged twice in the middle of the night Friday and so was wary of taking the ambien last night in case they paged me again.
• They didn’t…and I tossed and turned.
• I actually made a lot of changes to the website while I was laying
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Discombobulated Thoughts — Aug. 11, 2005

• There is nothing comparable to waking up to a freshly vacuumed carpet.
• I love my Dyson Animal.
• The dumb people are giving me serious headache issues.
• I have finally come to the understanding that all people only see and hear what they want whether it’s politics or work-related or television-related.
• I’d forgotten how tedious coding an entire website from scratch and by hand is. Why did I do that again? Am I getting credit for it? My boss better appreciate how hard it was to put together an intranet site about medicinal leeches…it’s not easy to make it look nice and
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