(12:20 pm)Well, I suppose I should mention the fact that this is the 200th entry, which makes this thing one of the few things I've stuck to in my life. Prophetic.
Right now, I've started my day off with a monstrous run in my hose, and I don't dare take them off and expose my chalky whiteness for the world to see. So don't expect miracles.
Yesterday was interesting. I went over to Dirk's house to pick him up at 7, as usual. For some reason, I was completely dead. Instead of hovering over Dirk, trying to get him up, I just lay down on the floor and drifted in and out of sleep. Once in a while, I'd rouse myself enough to say, "Wake up, Dirk Wonder." I think we finally got out of his house at about eight.
Dirk was very sick. I was worried, because he had to work at three o'clock that afternoon. So, I dug around for cold/flu medicine. We don't have any of course. My parents, in all their wisdom, threw out all of our over-the-counter medication about a year ago. All we have now is a bunch of herbal pills, which don't really seem to do anything. (Maybe I'm prejudiced, but I don't think these herbs do shit for you. I think it's all a matter of thinking they do something for you)
Eventually, I found some allergy medication (clears up stuffy noses, etc.), figured it couldn't hurt, and dosed him with that. Then, I went to bed, since I was feeling like someone had run over me. I woke up around 11, saw that Dirk still was fairly ill, and dug around some more. I found some free samples, but they were all backache medication....then I found some alkaseltzer cold &flu stuff. I'm not sure I trust cold & flu stuff manufactured by the king of upset stomachs, but it was the best we had.
Dosed Dirk again, tried to make him some juice from a can of frozen stuff...unfortunately, it was really old. I'm not sure about these frozen concentrates, but I'm pretty sure Ruby Red Grapefruit Juice isn't supposed to be brown.
Dirk started feeling a bit better, and I took a shower. Cathy called, to remind me that we had plans for the afternoon....I explained the situation, and asked her if we could get together at 2:30, when I was going to drop Dirk off at work. She offered to come over and give me the money she owed me, so that I could buy Dirk some real medicine.
I bought Dirk TheraFlu, along with some orange juice. I dosed him with the TheraFlu, then got him up to take his shower. We were running pretty late when we finally picked up Cathy.
Cathy and I went to Springfield Mall, looked around. She talked me into buying some stuff from Bath & Body Works....some lotion that smells like plumeria, and some chapstick that's candy corn flavored. I justified spending three dollars on chapstick to myself because Dirk loves Candy Corn.
Wow, I sound like I'm on crack this morning.
Then, at 6:30, Cathy and I went to Maryland to pick up a backpack from my coworker, Mary. It was an adventure just getting there. I was afraid we'd become horribly lost, but we found the place pretty easily....only a couple hairpin turns because the signs in Maryland are screwed up. Mary's got a big house, that's a complete mess. Honestly, her children are savages. She's got a kitty named Pepper. I felt so sorry for that cat, because her dog, Scotty, torments it. He shoved his nose into the cat's butt, and kept it there, no matter how fast the cat ran. He'd also bowl the cat over, which the cat didn't take too kindly too. With few exceptions, like Cathy's dog Tasha, I really hate all dogs. They're irritating, smelly animals.
On the way home, the sky opened up. It was raining too hard to see more than five feet ahead of the car. Luckily, we made it home in one piece, if rather late.
A word about "Gray Day"....so what if the entire Internet was grey? That's how it used to be, right? Anyway, all it would mean to me is that I wouldn't feel so inadequate because I cannot make colors match for the life of me....the ones I pick always look wrong together, somehow. I'd prefer it if the net was gray......that's why I didn't hop on the bandwagon and irritate everyone who came to my site today.
And the bit about stealing graphics doesn't really apply to me, since I can't make my own graphics. The ones I have were given to me, or public domain. Like I said, the Internet would be better w/out all this garbage. I hate feeling as though I'm in a beauty contest with other people. If I wanted to do that, I'd post my pic on this site, hairy facial warts and all.
Enough now, more later