The curse of Stankaya continues

I have just one thing to say about American Idol..... crappity crap crap. Stankaya is still in the game. He wasn't even in the bottom 3. I give up.

You know who they booted off? Chris Sligh. Yeah. Not Haley or Stankaya. Chris. Who are these people who are voting. I want their names and addresses so I can personally go to their house and kick their asses.

I really wish Ryan Wussycrest would stop saying, "America, you voted ..." because that implies that all Americans have bad taste in music.

At least there is a new episode of South Park is on tonite so that it can take the bitter taste of American Idol out of my mouth.

Oh yeah. I can see again now. I had to go to the opthamologist today for my semiannual plaquenil screen. Woo hoo. Big fun. Got to have my eyes numbed and dilated. I look so forward to that every 6 months. I don't know why they have to render you nearly blind so that they can check your eyes for disease. I couldn't even read anything for hours after the exam. I took a nap to sleep it out because I couldn't see to do anything else. I get to have the same fun again in September.

I just can't wait for that.

I resemble that comment!

You Are 57% Angry

Generally, you are not an angry person. But you're easily frustrated and enraged. You have one heck of a temper. And because of your anger, you tend to feel resentful and even spiteful. You already know how to quell your anger. You just need to do it more often.

How Angry Are You?

You Are Samuel Adams

You're fairly easy to please when it comes to beer - as long as it's not too cheap. You tend to change favorite beers frequently, and you're the type most likely to take a "beers of the world" tour. When you get drunk, you're fearless. You lose all your inhibitions. You're just as likely to party with a group of strangers as you are to wake up in a very foreign place.

What's Your Beer Personality?

American Idol Night

Tonite's AI went down pretty much as it usually does. Melinda was awesome. Sanjaya sucked.

Normally, Sanjaya's singing alone would have made me nauseous. But tonight both his singing and his hair made me wanna puke. His hair alone should get him booted off the show. Someone should have told him that a faux-hawk does not work on a whiny Michael Jackson wannabe. It does work, however, to make him look ridiculous.

At least there were no crying kids in the audience this time.

Please kick him off the show so we won't have to be exposed to further vulgar displays of hair-creativity. Someone stop him! Please. For the love of all that is holy and good.......just stop him.!

Actually, Phil did a good job too. And so did Jordin and Blake. I still don't like Haley. If San-can't sing-jaya doesn't get kicked off this week (and the way things have been going, I doubt he will), Haley will.

But I am still hoping that enough people will vote for other people instead of Stankaya so they can kick his ass off for good.

And on a completely unrelated note, what the f*ck is up with that Always commercial telling us to have a "happy period?" There is NO such thing. Are you telling me that just by putting on one of their pads that it will take away all of the cramping and bloating and moodiness of that most joyful time of the month? Talk about false advertising.

And on another completely unrelated note, I am currently experiencing nosegasms brought on by my recent delivery of a huge ginger peach candle from Pier One (I caved in and paid $18 for the damned thing on Pier One's website but oh what a great purchase it was). They only had the big ones. I still want some votives and tealights (if they have them) and 3x4 candles too, but those are out of stock online (damned people stop buying all of my candles!!!) I love the way my apartment smells (but it would smell better if I had more candles - hehehehe). Pier One's Ginger Peach is the best smell in the world!

And here is a pretty pansy

Ok Arlene - are you happy now??

And here are some lovely violas

Just For Arlene

I finally got Blogger to post pictures again. And Arlene has been hounding me to show her flower pics, so here is a pic of one of my new flower plants....the lovely Gerbera Daisy - my favorite flower on the planet :)

Not necessarily the news

It has taken me this long to blog about the last round of AI eliminations that happened on Wednesday night. Yeah that damned San-can't sing-jaya is still in there, and they eliminated Stephanie, who actually CAN sing. It just goes to show you that if you put one kid in the audience that will cry when you sing, then you will be safe.

I still maintain that that kid was crying because Sanjaya's singing gave her an instant earache.

I took a drive up to the Carrizo Plain National Monument on Friday, hoping to see another awesome display of wildflowers. But I was disappointed to see very few yet. There were a few patches of goldfields and a few poppies here and there, but it was mostly dry and not very green yet. Guess we need some more rain before the flowers come out. I didn't see any antelope either, but I did see one smallish gopher snake sunning itself on the dirt road. It was maybe 2 feet long. Maybe next time I go up there I will see a few rattlesnakes like I have in the past.

We had a staff meeting on Thursday and the supervisors basically told us that they don't think our 9/80 schedule will be approved this year, so that means no more flex Fridays. Which is freakin' ridiculous because this schedule has been working successfully for the last few years. Why the freakin' board of assholes...I mean supervisors....wants to change it is beyond me. I can tell you that there will be a lot of unhappy employees.....including me...if it happens.

American Idol night

American Idol kinda rocked tonite. Most of the singers did a good job....especially Melinda (of course!), Blake, Jordin and Chris R (he was surprisingly good this time!)I think those were my favs of the night. Of course, Sanjaya sucked again (dude should have been kicked off a long time ago) and even tho the judges liked Haley, I didn't care for her performance very much. And Gina wasn't that great tonight either. And neither was Phil. I thought he would be one of the favorites, but tonight he wasn't so great. But overall, it was a pretty good night on the old AI.

Who's going home....Phil
Who SHOULD go home....Sanjaya.

The search for Ginger Peach candles continues

I don't know what the deal with this weather is. I was driving home from work on Friday and the thermometer on the bank said it was 91 degrees. 91 ! In March. Just a few weeks ago the temps were in the low 30's/high 20's. Now it is in the high 80's. Weirdness all around.

Not that I am complaining too much. My body hates the cold. The cold brings on my joint and bone pain and just makes me miserable. I prefer it in the 70's, but then again, what I prefer makes no difference to good ole Mother Nature.

I have been doing a lot of drawing lately (and even at work - hehe). Yeah, a few weeks ago I was complaining about all the work I was having to do at work, but now, since I am soooooooo fast, I just have a few cases left (I think 2 or 3) to work on. My supervisor told me I craked out over 30 cases in one week. Yeah, I am THAT fast - lol. But doing all that work left its mark on me. I was so exhausted on Friday after work that I took a nap around 6 pm that night and didn't wake up til after 10 pm. I also had a migraine on Thursday and left work early to go home and sleep it out. The damned thing was still aching my head on Friday. It just ain't fair.

But, as I was mentioning, I have been doing a lot of drawing. I went to Michael's and bought me a set of watercolor pencils and drawing pads. I have been drawing a lot of cartoony animals....soon I will have enough to fill my own zoo - hehe.

The damned AIM program was messed up on my computer so I wasn't able to sign on for a few days. It bugged me something fierce - not because I had people to talk to - but because when something goes wrong I HAVE to fix it or else it just eats at my brain until I can't think about anything else. (I have my problems! - lol)

Oh, and another problem is that I LOVE the Pier One Ginger Peach scented candles , but none of the stores here in town have any. I searched and searched, but none of the other stores have any other decent smelling peach candles (since I am being denied the Pier One ones), and I WANT SOME!!! Ugh. Why is it so hard to find peach candles and so easy to find those nasty smelling rose ones?

Guess I will have to look online.

Thank goodness for the internet and online shopping ;)

Now if they would only come up with online grocery shopping....hehe

Thanks a lot "America"...

Thanks for making me puke. Sanjaya is still in the show. F*ck.

At least you put him in the bottom 3.

I guess I can just dry heave.

Is it just me ....

or does it just seem wrong that KFC (which stands for Kentucky Fried CHICKEN) has come out with a FISH sandwich???

It is almost as weird as the Louisiana Fried Chicken and Chinese Food place here in town.

Told you I need a vacation!

You Are 66% Burned Out

You are very burned out. You need a huge break from your responsibilities, starting as soon as possible. And you need this time to reevaluate what you really want out of your life. Because you're working hard and going no where... and that would burn anyone out!

Are You Burned Out?

You might as well just hand over the trophy to the girls this year

American Idol has gone to the girls this year. There were 3 really good performances tonight, and they were all girls. Of course, Melinda was my fav. She can just do no wrong. But Lakeisha and Jordin were also so damned good. It will be a hard choice to decide who is the best of those 3. Of the guys, the only really good vocalists are Chris S (even tho his song sucked ass tonight) and Phil (who was horrible last week but good this week). I have to give it to Blake tho. He is a good performer, but his vocals aren't nearly as strong as the others.

But I am telling you. If they keep Sanjaya in this week, I will puke. He was simply horrible........it was like watching a grammar school talent show....but I think the school kids would have done a better job. He just sucks. Sucks with a capital "S."

But the next worst guy has got to be Chris R. ... he sounds like a whiney Backstreet Boy wannabe.

America.........wake up and kick Sanjaya off and save me from having to puke.

I really hate puking.

Although those 3 aforementioned performances were great, there was one spot in the show which was even better. It was when Melinda was asking something about high heels and Ryan Wussycrest told her to ask Simon about it, and Simon said, "why ask me. Ryan show know about that." And then a little banter went on between Scowl and Wussycrest in which Wussycrest asked Scowl if he had been looking in his closet. And then Scowl, as you would expect him to, told Wussycrest to come out of the closet. Hilarious. That little exchange of words made watching Sanjaya's cacadoodey performance worth it.

Hilarious!

Spring ahead people....spring ahead

The weekend is over. It seems like the week drags on, but the weekend just flies by. I think I am ready for a vacation. I have been really cranky lately. Maybe a vacation will reduce my crankiness a bit.

Not only was the weekend too short, daylight savings time also set in, which reduced the weekend by an hour. Now an hour may not seem like a long time, but they should at least do it during the week. Take an hour out of my week, but not out of my weekend!

Not that I did that much this weekend. I did some cleaning and some drawing and some playing around with Photoshop over the weekend. Not much. But I don't get paid til Tuesday so maybe this upcoming weekend I will do something more.

I didn't even get to stay up late this weekend cuz I had a killer headache last nite and the night before and went to bed early. And I have another headache tonite, too

I went to the doctor on Thursday for a checkup. My knee has been feeling a WHOLE lot better since the cortisone shot. But I have been feeling so tired and achey lately. Hopefully the warmer weather will help that out some. I was shocked to find out that my former doctor, Shirley Anderson, passed away last month from breast cancer. I had no idea she was sick. She sure hid it well. she was always so kind and always gave hugs to her patients. She was really a nice lady and will be missed.

This new doctor, however, I am not sure about. She basically told me that it might be rheumatoid arthritis after all. Ugh. I am so sick of all this debate over lupus and RA. One doctor says lupus and this one says RA. I just don't know what to think anymore. I am confused. She had me give some blood for testing and told me to come back in June. All I have to say is.... "whatever!"

A good thing about the whole daylight savings time is that it makes the days lighter longer. which means maybe I will be able to go camping again soon. I am dying to go to Bryce Canyon or to Zion National Park. Or maybe up to the Bay Area to check out Muir Woods.

MMM candy

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Sometimes I think I watch American Idol just so I have something to complain about

What is wrong with people's ears??? They kicked off Sundance and Jared and left that whiny-ass-can't-sing-a-note-in-tune Sanjaya. I don't believe it. Well, actually I do.

At least they ditched Antonella. But they chose Haley over Sabrina??? I just don't get it. Sure, Sabrina wasn't that great this last time, but c'mon. Haley is just not good!

But this whole Sanjaya thing just baffles me. Why do people like him? He looks like a darker version of Andy Gibb and sounds like a whinier version of Michael Jackson.

If he wins this thing, I will never watch the show again.

In American Idol, it's a girl's game

All I have to say about American Idol tonight is that Melinda is da bomb. That girl can saaaannnng. Unlike the guys, the girls' group is a competitive bunch. Except for Blake and Chris S, I think any of the other guys could (and should) be cut. Especially Sanjaya. He and his 60's style hair should be booted right on out of there. With the girls, it's a little tougher. With the exception of Antonella and Haley, who are the worst of the bunch, all of the girls gave pretty solid performances. Except for Melinda....she was the best....far and above the best.

For the guys, Sanjaya and Brandon should go bye-bye.

For the girls, Antonella and Haley should be booted.

But being that the vote is up to the "American people," I wouldn't be surprised if those tone-deaf dumbasses get to stay.

Speaking of being P.C...

Only at fashion and red-carpet events is it acceptable to utter the phrase..."There was a lot of Wang out there," or "There was Wang everywhere."

And only at a dog show is it acceptable to say the phrase..."That is one beautiful bitch."