(the) Jebbica

Last Friday was the beginning of ten days off from work for me.  I am normally off Fridays, and we are closed this week Wednesday-Friday, so I thought if I asked to take off two days, Monday and Tuesday of this week, I could have a ten-day vacation.  I had planned on going on a roadtrip.  One of those, let’s flip a coin and see where we end up kind of road trips.  I was so excited because I was actually going to get to go somewhere.

Then I got sick.

And then I ran out of money.

I have been sick for awhile now, and nothing I seem to do knocks it out of me.  I went to the doctor a couple of weeks ago, who said I had a sinus infection and gave me some antibiotics.  I got better, but it wasn’t a week before I had it again.  I’ve taken the rest of the antibiotics, a bottle of Mucinex-D, a Z-pack, a gallon of chicken noodle soup, a fistful of Vitamin C…nothing, nothing, nothing.  I feel like I’m coughing myself into oblivion (hack hack), and it sucks.  I wonder at this point if I will ever get better, or will I sound like a hacking frog for the rest of my life.

So, I’ve spent the biggest part of my vacation staying at home, with the puppies.  They are great entertainment when you no longer have cable.  I’ve done some house cleaning and Christmas decorating, and I’ve done some schoolwork, but for the most part,  I have done nothing.  I have gone nowhere.  And when I return to work on Monday, will I even feel like I’ve had all this time off?  Because tomorrow’s Thanksgiving, and it doesn’t even seem like it should be Thursday already.  Hack, hack, hack.

On the bright side, I think I am losing weight.  I haven’t had much of an appetite, and the only thing I ever want to eat is soup.  So, if I do wind up pigging out tomorrow on homemade turkey and dressing and fifty different casseroles and Coca-Cola cake, maybe it will be okay.

The puppies will be six weeks old tomorrow, and they are getting to be quite the handful!  One thing they love to do is hide behind the door in their puppy room, so when you open it, you start looking around for them, and then they’ll pop out and make a run for it.  They also have taken to the pee pads really well, so that’s been a major plus.  We haven’t had any problems getting them to eat (watery) dry food, either.  I was looking around for a 2010 Maltese Puppy Calendar to order for Christmas, but MaltSmart was already sold out, and my puppies are cuter than the other ones in my opinion, so I decided to make my own.  Feel free to check it out if you’d like!  Hope everyone has a safe and happy Thanksgiving and Black Friday.  Now, if you will excuse me, I have some more hacking to do.

So, I got a new car stereo for my birthday.  I’ve really enjoyed it, because previously all I ever did was cuss out the radio for playing the same crappy three songs over and over and over, and every time I tried to put a CD in, all I got was ERR.  The new one has been awesome because I can just plug my mp3 player directly into it, and I can just put that bad boy on Shuffle All and go.  But after awhile, even Shuffle All has a tendency to play a lot of the same songs over and over again. Thankfully for me, I don’t generally put crappy songs on my mp3 player, so it’s okay.  And if I get sick of what’s playing, I can always add new stuff to the library.  It’s quite possibly one of the best birthday presents I have ever gotten, because everyone knows that if there isn’t something nice playing while I’m trying to drive, I get anxious and nervous and am probably a danger on the road. 

Yesterday, my mp3 player was deader than a doornail, so I started getting that grumpy feeling.  All my CDs pretty much died in the flood, so I figured all was hopeless.  Until I discovered my Attorneys’ Stereocracy disc hiding under the seat.  The disc that has a crack in it because I played it so much when The Boyfriend was in the hospital that it gave out.  No CD player would play it, especially Mr. ERR.  So, I figured it would overall be a bust to try it, and wouldn’t it be great to tear up the CD player aspect of the stereo the first time I tried it.  But the radio was playing Lady Gaga for the millionth time that day, and I just couldn’t handle it (and you can forget about me turning it off and singing a capella).  So, I bit the bullet and inserted Stereocracy.  Imagine my surprise when it started playing!  It skipped a little, but I made it home without feeling like I was going to go homicidal before I got there.

I have written about The Attorneys a few times, who are now più uno and call themselves the Flying Machines.  I have held them for a couple of years now as my favorite unsigned band, and I could never figure out, despite MTV and USA’s Psych promos, they had never taken off.  But now they’ve been signed by EMI Records, the company who produces the likes of the B-52s, Pink Floyd, and Badly Drawn Boy, to name a few.  Their debut CD is out now, and I will let you know more about that once I give it a few (hundred?) listens.  Check out the video above for “On a Whim”, and remember:  when the radio starts playing Flying Machines with Lady Gaga-like verocity, just remember who told you about them first.  And then try not to throw anything at me.

Everyone could use some free groceries, right?  Well, for all you people who are local to North Georgia/Chattanooga area, I have $50 in free groceries from Earth Fare to give away.  Earth Fare is a new healthy supermarket opening up in Chattanooga.  Check out my post here and leave a comment.  The winner will be chosen on December 4th. I will put everyone’s name in a pool and draw one out on video and post it here. Be sure to check back then and see if you won!