Monday, February 20, 2006

head colds and lemon tea

I have a cold that is completely in my head. Not "in my head" in an I should be wearing a helmet kind of way but in that it has manifested as full sinuses and a sore throat. I hate a sore throat. There are very few things that can make you feel as helpless as a sore throat. Because unless you're asleep, there is nothing that makes it go away. However, I have just finished a big mug of lemon tea, lemon slices and honey and actually feel better, OK, less sore. It's very delicious as well. I might drink this when I'm not sick.

Finally got to see the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show last night. I love all dogs but there is something alien and creepy about the Bull Terrier that makes you thankful you haven't met one in a dark deserted alley. I was pulling for the Old English Sheep Dog. So cute and probably the finalist who I am the most allergic to.

Monday, February 13, 2006

SSPQotD ...

Will work for shoes. I could never actually work in a shoe store. I would hide all the shoes in my size until I could buy them.

Live the life you imagine. This is awesome advice. If you try your best to become the person you wish you were, someday you'll realize that you're not trying anymore, it's just who you are.

When sweetness fails and tears dont work - nag. If sweetness failed and you had to resort to tears to get what you wanted - you didn't deserve it. Grow up.

Never understimate the power of shoes. Or Bags. Having on a great pair of shoes just lifts your spirits as well as your heels. Everytime you feel a frown coming on and look down, you see your pretty shoes and your smile comes back.

And your cry-baby whiny-assed opinion would be? Like one of my favourite sayings: Buck up and be a man, boy!

'lympics

It is time for the Winter Olympics and I have to say that what I have found the most shocking thus far is not the Wayne Gretzky Gambling Scandal, or Bode Miller's Drunk Ski confessions but the fact that I turned on my TV a couple of minutes ago and discovered that Skating with Celebrities is still on.

Why are you watching this when you could actually be watching people who skate as a vocation? Who are the best in the world? Who aren't just faking it to up their Q factor so that they can get some more E List reality television work in the future? I mean come on, let's support the actual athletes please.

Thursday, February 02, 2006

explanation please...

today's rant

Can someone please explain to me why people of a certain age are not subject to the same rules of polite conduct as the rest of the population? In the last two days I have been offended by a woman coming up to me in a crowded restaurant, where I was waiting for a table by the door, and being told "you're standing in front of my coat, move." Witness to the woman at the table next to us not saying a single polite thing to her waiter, never even occurred to her to say Thank You after he busted his butt getting her order straight because she wouldn't actually eat anything on the menu. Then today there were two women having a very loud extraneous conversation in the archives. It's like a library, whispering is the accepted volume. But the staff will not tell them to shush because they're old, however if two teenagers were having an identical conversation, they would have been asked to use a quieter tone.

I don't buy the fact that the old deserve to be treated differently just because they're old. If I had behaved like that as a child my mom would have sent me to my room. As an adult I subscribe to the golden rule and would expect someone to call me on it if I was rude to my waiter or disturbed the other patrons. I think the fact that someone has lived a long life and is still able to get out and do various activities is commendable and to be hoped for in our own old age. I don't think that anyone should forget common courtesy and feel entitled to behave like an ass just because they happen to have lived longer than you.

fits and starts

Some tidbits

Britney is not pregnant again.
Katie Holmes apparently is actually pregnant - no word on who the father is. I tried to get her to join my boycott of Tom Cruise but for some reason she didn't go for it.
Cellphones got some scary stuff going on.

Is it sad that I started counting down to the weekend about 4 days ago?

The unseasonably warm weather is freaking me out. It just keeps putting the horror that is a Canadian winter further and further back, meaning it will be July and we'll just be getting out of our Parkas. Yes, this groundhog saw his shadow, but this one didn't, so where does that leave us?
Maybe Phil is right and there will be six more weeks of winter, but when will these six weeks of ACTUAL winter arrive? Perhaps they will arrive when we least expect them, like the middle of April giving us both an early spring and 6 more weeks of winter.