i am yellow.

i have been sick the past couple days. i went out yesterday to purchase a thermometer. i bought a sweet looking one (made by vikes). depending on your temperature, the screen changes to one of three colors. if your temp is pretty "normal", or on the low side, the screen turns green. if you have a slight temp, it is yellow. if you are pretty much dying, it turns red. well, the past two days, i have been yellow.

now whats funny about this thermometer experience is that when i went to arbor drugs (whoops, cvs) to buy it, i didnt realize alllll the different kinds. i wanted that sweet kind you just stick in your ear, but $30?! no thanks.

then i saw one that is like my moms and i was like "oh, my mom has this kind... but, it doesnt call to me." if im going to use this thing, i want it to be fun (if taking your temperature could ever be considered fun).

as a kid, i would always place it under my tongue, but then flip it around so the numbers faced downward. i wanted it to be a surprise when it beeped!

when i found this colored changing screen one, my instincts kicked in and i was like "this is the one..." i was with a friend of mine and we were both excited to try it out. i didnt even wait to get home. i opened it and stuck it in my mouth as we drove away from the store. i flipped it over so i could be surprised, not just by my temp, but now by what color i would be!!! how exciting!!!!! if i was taking my temperature, lets say, driving 100 miles an hour, how cool is it that i wouldnt necessarily have to read the degrees, but just glance and see what color the screen is!?! genius!!

when it beeped, i flipped it over and the degrees were in celsius!! however, it said i was yellow... so atleast i had some type of clue that i wasnt dying, but just wasnt "normal". we took it back to her condo and both tried reading the instructions as to how to change the settings. in the meantime, she was able to convert my temperature (which was 100.2 degrees F). after failing to figure it out, and being disappointed and sad, i told her "i bet nick could figure it out".

i came home and asked nick right away if he could try changing it. after a smartass comment about me not wantimg to do work by converting it into fahrenheit, nick was able to magically change it to read in fahrenheit.

today, i am at 99.5F. im still yellow, but atleast its going down.

what am i to do now? goto meijer and purchase banana popsicles.

old men. love them.

so... i met a friend for lunch today. we were bullshitting, catching up, whatev. so we're sitting there, blah blah blah, when an old man walked past our booth. no big deal is probably what youre thinking... or maybe get to the point....


as he walked by, he farted.

coincidence?

i told myself last night that i should get myself up sometime around four to check for a sub job. but then i thought "who am i kidding? i dont really want to sub, nor disturb my sleep". but here i am, waking up for "no reason" just before four. coincidence? internal alarm?

the lj

i was taking a look back at my livejournal. yes, i had a live journal. and i had one for a long time. i had one, deleted that one, then got another.
i was reading my livejournal, only to wish now that i hadnt deleted the first one. i find it amusing to read! how much ive grown in these past three or four years since my last entry.
but then, as i was getting further and further back in time, i realized that some, if not most, it not really far from what i write today. its fun to reminisce.




october 7, 2003

no cuts, no butts, no coconuts!


and that was it. the whole entry.
come on!! thats totally something i would say and type in here now! for no reason other then i like it!

25.

for those who didnt know, when i turned 25 years old, i officially declared myself a woman. most girls declare this once theyve realized they got boobs, or they actually see how immature boys really are, or when they discovered how to properly walk in heels. not me. i never wanted (or want) to be a woman... always a girl. a girl doing adult things... so, when i turned 25, it hit me that it was inevitable. either declare it now, or when i have a baby... or something to that extreme :-x

i started doing numerous things to make me feel more "womanly" (or adult-like): read books for leisure, shave my legs more frequently, drink more water in hopes of a better complexion, use coco butter to help prevent stretch marks, and, the most recent, wear a shower cap on the days i dont need to wash my hair.

these subtle changes have been hard... but its all about setting a routine.

a shitty meijer experience.

meijer, the store. its open 24 hours. it has everything from groceries, to furniture, to a mini cafe, to the purple cow (ice cream). it also has a public bathroom. and so here is my story...

i was substitute teaching. am i safe to say that most jobs, if you need to use the restroom, you can take a two minute break and leave your work area? subbing, or working at the daycare for that matter, i am stuck. i have to think about how much im drinking and about when i think i may have to pee. at the daycare, i usually time it so i can go during nap, or lunch, when the kids are virtually occupied in one area at the same time and its easy for someone to cover me. subbing is a completely different story.

luckily, i was at a junior high where there's five minutes between classes, an hour long "prep" (meaning no kids), and a half hour lunch. so, i drank my water like it was noone's business. i timed it so i would goto the bathroom at the end of my prep. i taught two classes that morning, then lunch and prep were back-to-back, so i wanted to go at the last possible second cause i was teaching three classes in the afternoon and the bathroom was on the other side of the school. no worries.

well, my plan worked until my second class came in that afternoon. i had to pee so badly. but i told myself to wait... and wait i did. have you ever waited so long, that you forget you had to pee in the first place? well, that happened to me. as long as i was moving and keeping my mind busy, i completely forgot.

at the end of the day, i left the school, walked across the street to my car and realized, "i have to pee", but i didnt want to walk all the way back to the school. i figured, id be fine until i got home (about a twenty minute drive). so im driving, talking to my dearest friend and fellow art educator, jenn, on the phone, listening to music... i forget again. i called nick when i was close to home seeing what he wanted for dinner. i decided to take a side trip to meijer before heading home.

as soon as i pulled into the meijer parking lot, it hit me like a trend, i had to peeeee!! but, like i mentioned at the beginning of this very long winded entry, that meijer has a public restroom. i parked on the opposite side of the store that i would have normally parked on so i can use this convenient service. i practically ran into the store (shoppers probably thought i was in love with being there). im sure the look in my eyes made me look crazy.

i get in the restroom and felt so lucky to one, finally have a chance to pee and not have to go far to shop, and two, the second stall from the end was available (if possible, i take the second one from the end). i pretty much, you guessed it, ran in there. i pee like theres no tomorrow. i look down for a second and had to do a double take... a smear. poop. people poop. i had stepped in, what im assuming was, people poop. what a shitty meijer experience.

clean vs. soft

me: hows the new bar soap working out?

nick: its nice! i hated having to use your body wash.

me: haha, why?

nick: the bar soap i actually feel like im getting clean. using the body wash i just felt like i was getting... soft.