Cipro Oh!

This is a 2 parter. Well, the bacterial infection in my throat still has not gone away. So now they put me on a new medicine, Cipro. It's pretty heavy duty - in fact, Cipro is approved for treating the inhaled form of Anthrax!! No, I haven't been exposed to Anthrax, but if someone sent it to me in the mail, I already have the drugs to fight it :O It hasn't messed with me too much, it just makes me really sleepy. So, when I have to take it with breakfast, it makes my morning long. I'm also supposed to stay out of the sun (which is bad for you anyway) and not have drinks with caffeine in them. Apparently, it triples the effect of caffeine can have on you. I don't need that. On Monday I go see a Ear, Nose and Throat doctor. I hope he doesn't jam something down my throat

Remember awhile back when I was in my accident? Well, they called me to tell me the part needed to fix the inside of my door in the back seat. So, I bring it all the way down there, only to find out Toyota sent the wront part...again. But, they realized there was an issue with my exhaust, so they put me in a rental and fixed the exhaust for free. Enterprise gave me a few choices to pick for my rental and I chose the PT Cruiser because I thought it would be fun.
Well, I was so wrong. What a lame car is that. Ugh!!! It likes driving around in a Fisher Price toy car. Or driving around in a car thats missing it's back half. I swear, I couldn't even figure out how to turn on the lights when I drove it this morning. And its a weird design inside. It has a very tiny consel and on the passenger side above the above the glove box, there is a bar. Literally, like a towl rack in your car. I don't know why people drive this car around. Anyway, apparently the part for my car door will be in on Thursday.

Funny Games

If I was on American Idol tonight, I would have sung Maxwell's Silver Hammer since it was Lennon/McCartney themed. I have decided that Brooke White and David Cook are my favorites. Amanda Overmeyer's hair is so awful.

Oh, something unexpected came today! It was just last week that my tax lady filed my taxes, and I received my state refund today, in under one week. How nice was that! I wish it was the big government refund, but that will come eventually. Besides, I'm using that to pay off my Eddie Bauer card and that won't come again till next month.

My throat still hurts. If you've sprained your ankle, then you know how my throats feels. That is the best way I can explain it. Like a sprained throat. And the phone kept ringing today at work, which totally didn't help. It's like swallowing, and it won't go down straight.

I can't wait for Friday and a special screening of the movie Funny Games at the Tivoli. More to come on that! Funny Games

Tyra mail!

I just watched this weeks episode of America's Next Top Model. This is the episode where all the girls get to go to a salon and get new hair styles. I'm sort of wondering what Tyra Banks would do with my hair. I know one that I don't want, and that would be hair weaves. That looks painful going in and hard to take care of. Besides, I wouldn't want something fake attached to my head. And how do they come out? Do they just sort of fall off? Do they shed off, like a dog? I just don't know.

Since my hair is blonde, she would probably go dark or red. I think I would be okay with either. If it's dark, I would want it to be dark dark brown, none of this dishwater blonde, light brown hair. Red, would be fine also, just as long as it doesn't look fake, like fire hydrant or neon red. I would also be upset if she shaved most of it off. That wouldn't be cool. On the show, Marvita had this weird short mohawky sort of hair and they gave her a horse hair style. So awful. I should go on the show so someone could do something else with my hair.

Hell to the No!

Why is that Asian girl always sobbing on the kickoff show for American Idol? I'll hate to see her when she does get kicked off. I bet she collapses on the stage in a fit of tears and despair.

Also, to the Parkway Alumni Association: Stop sending me those little post cards asking for my address! You sent it to my current address already! Ugh. Besides, the people that I cared about in high school know how to get a hold of me. Why would I want the others to know my home address?

Does anyone else love the new HBO show In Treatment as much as I do? Except for Alex, I don't like him that much. But Laura, Sophie, Paul & Gina nights are the best. I can't believe we have to watch the show in half hour intervals, I would like to see their full 90 minute sessions.

http://www.hbo.com/intreatment/monday/

Best. Drive. Home. EVER.

Today we got 10 inches, up to a foot of snow in some places. So happy! They didn't let us out of work early, so it took me 20 minutes to dig my car out. The snow was so high on the drivers side that I had to get in from the passenger side. And it took over an hour and a half to get home, but it was the most eventful drive i've ever had.

While driving on 70 we got to make our own lanes because the road was completely covered. At one point, everyone had to stop because someone got turned sideways in the middle of the highway and was spinning his tires trying to get straighten up and get back on track.

Going home only got better when I got off the highway and got on Ladue road. I have never seen so many abandoned cars on the side of the road. Just either in a ditch, or just sitting there, blocking completely one lane of traffic. What I wonder, is what happens to the people that were driving the car? Where did they walk away too? I really liked the person who left their car on an exit ramp, lights on and the window open. And no one was around! Couldn't you at least close your window? I don't understand. I don't think I could leave my car to die on the road like that. Anways, the drive took so long because people would be driving along and BAM, spin off to the side of the road and get stuck. Then we would all sit and watch as they tried to get their cars straightened while having little or no traction on their tires.

It was a lot of fun driving home. I literally had to keep both hands on the wheel the whole time because it gave me more control. There was only one time where I thought it was going to end badly, and that was when I was breaking, yet my car was not stopping and I was heading right for the little nissan in front of me. I eventually pulled myself out of the skid, but not before it got my heart rate really going.

But, alls well that ends well. I am now sitting on my couch watching American Idol, wondering why David Archuleta always sounds like he is running out of breath. I don't think that would fly on a record, someone taking gasps after every few lines. Hmmm. Oh, but I loved the other David's version of the Lionel Ritchie song Is it me your looking for.

Movie to buy this week: 101 Dalmations
Movie to rent: Into the Wild

Consider yourself warned

Oh, the nicest thing just happened on Idol! A girl got kicked off and all the other girls rallied around her as she sang her goodbye song. That was really cute.

Whats not so cute is what has been going on with me since last Wednesday. Remember how I said I wasn't feeling well? Well, after doctor appointments and time spent at lovely Des Peres Hospital, i'm happy to report I am feeling a little bit better. I had a 2 fold issue: The flu (which i'm just about over) and a bacterial infection in my throat and tonsils (similar to tonsilitis). I had to go to the hospital because my throat was closing up and I couldn't breathe or swallow. But, they gave me some great drugs that opened things right up.

Now when I swallow it just feels like there is a small rock in the back of my throat, instead of jagged shard of glass. And, I can talk a little above a whisper for short amounts of time. I get to take 1500mg of amoxicillian horse pills a day for the infection plus a special nose spray, cough syrup and good ol' Tylenol Flu & Cold. So thats about that. It could be worse.

Now for the happiest quote ever from Marion Cotillard after winning this year's Best Actress Oscar for La Vie en Rose: “It feels so good. I’m totally overwhelmed with joy and sparkles and fireworks and everything which goes like bom-bom-bom."

Movies to buy this week:
30 Days of Night (In the running for BEST MOVIE EVER)
Michael Clayton

Movie to rent: Beowulf

Pardon me, do you have any Theraflu?

Because I'm all out and in two hours I'll ready need some. I woke up at 5:30 this morning because I was having a hard time breathing, my head was pounding and my nose was all plugged up. I got up, had 1 of my last 2 Theraflus and sat on my couch watching the last of Midnight Cowboy until I could go back to bed. :(