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  • Survivor

    Survivor was SO infuriating last night! The Snook and I watched in horror as Christy dug her own grave. Rob is a desperate man, and you don’t mess around with desperate men. She developed a bad case of what I like to call “The Hubris of the Swing Vote”. I laughed when she called Jenna and Heidi the “evil stepsisters” at the end though.

    The gameplay actually wasn’t the really infuriating bit though. It was the whole reunion thing. I honestly can’t get why these people freak out after being away from their loved ones for a month. A friggin’ month! I haven’t seen any of my family for over a year and a half. Yeah, I’m homesick, but I don’t burst into tears at the mere mention of them. It just completely plays into the international perception that Americans are whiny little babies who never leave home. I could almost justify it in Jenna’s case, since her Mom is sick and all, but then why in the hell would you go on a game show if your Mom had cancer anyway? ARRRGGGGH.

    I’ve got nothing but praise for Channel 9 though, since they’re showing an extra episode this Saturday to get us caught up with America. Thus I’ll only have to avoid Internet spoilers for 24 hours rather than a week, which would’ve been impossible. At this point I’m cheering for anybody but the “evil stepsisters”. Even Psycho Matt would be better than them. (And note to Heidi: It’s pronounced “percent”, not “persint.”)

  • Scariness

    I came home tonight to find the Snook huddled miserably on the sofa, white as a sheet. He was running a fever and shivering so hard his whole body shook. I’ve never seen him with more than a sniffle, so I was actually pretty scared. (No, it’s not SARS.) I gave him some paracetamol and soup, which seems to have helped, but he’s such a stubborn little boy sometimes and he resists being babied. I’m hoping it’s just a stomach bug that’ll depart as quickly as it came. In any case he’ll probably stay home tomorrow to rest, so keep an eye on him via CouchCam for me, will ya?

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  • X-Men

    Ernie – back from the dead and with a new design to boot! – linked to this interesting comparison of the X-Men movies and comic books. It’s slightly spoilerish though, so you probably shouldn’t read it if you’re one of the three people in the world that hasn’t seen X2 yet. (Sadly, that number includes me.)

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  • Ouch!

    I don’t know if it was from the run Saturday or the cleaning frenzy Sunday, but my shoulders and neck have been incredibly sore for the past two days. Like, pain, stiffness, and cramps to the point of nausea. I’ve been taking hot baths and using a heating pad, which have been helping, but it’s driving me crazy. Any home remedies for sore muscles?

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  • Postmodern architecture is FUN, y’all

    I just saw a picture of the Longaberger Company Headquarters for the first time. It’s a giant picnic basket! How cool is that?

    (For any non-Americans – and possibly non-Midwesterners, because I fear this is a regional thing – Longaberger makes wicker baskets and charges obscene prices for them. This does not stop Midwestern housewives from collecting hundreds of the darn things. Don’t get me wrong; they’re nice baskets. But if I’m going to pay $200 for a basket, I want it to be studded with diamonds.)

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  • Burn it down and salt the earth.

    I reached the end of my patience with the pantry moth infestation. We’d thrown everything out that we thought they might be in but they just didn’t go away. So today the Snook and I went on the offensive. We took everything out of our cupboard and checked each and every package for tell-tale grubs or webs. They were in packets of tea; they were in pasta; they were even in the sugar. (Luckily they were mostly in things we haven’t eaten since we started Atkins.) All of it got chucked. Then I cleaned and wiped the shelves and walls with bleach. The remaining food is now back in place and a lovely little packet of moth balls is resting in the corner. We will be victorious; I swear it.

    Since the pantry offensive left us feeling all grown-up and responsible, we decided to tackle two other problem areas in the house: the fridge and the stairs. While the Snook scrubbed gooey spilled soy sauce off the fridge shelves, I dragged the vacuum up and down the stairs while laboriously scrubbing the dust out of the carpet. Suddenly our steps are two shades lighter. We’re such pigs. But at least today we’re mature, slightly less disgusting pigs.

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  • The Old Man of the Mountain

    I’m sure my favorite New Hampshirite* will be grieving the loss of the Old Man of the Mountain today. That’s too bad. I’d never heard of it before, but based on the picture it really did look like a face!

    (* What does one call a person from New Hampshire anyway?)

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  • Mayday Project

    Tracey‘s bandwidth is taking a hammering, so if you’re linking to the Mayday Project with one of her buttons, please upload it to your own server and save her some headache. I just did!

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  • 5 Mile

    I did five miles at the gym tonight. Five miles! I averaged 12:30 a mile too. Which is weird, because that’s, like, my default pace. I keep adding distance, but it always seems to work out to 12:30. Maybe I should push myself harder when I run shorter distances. *shrug* Anyhoo, I was about to throw in the towel at the 4.5 mile mark tonight when the gym manager put on the 8 Mile soundtrack. Suddenly I was starring in my very own Nike video to the tune of Eminem’s “Lose Yourself”. I never even liked that song before, but it became my damn anthem. It was like… transcendence. I was just pumpin’ along and pushin’ up the pace and feelin’ the rhythm and suddenly there I was at five miles. (Or should I say 5 Mile?) It felt so good. That song is now going on my permanent workout playlist.

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  • Top Thrill Dragster

    Wow. The Sydney evening news actually did a segment on the new Cedar Point rollercoaster tonight! It’s so weird whenever I come across a reference to the Midwest over here.

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