"i felt a warm, warm breeze that melted metal and steel. . ."

Hey, hey my lovelies!

It’s been a real shitty week and a half or so for me so let’s get that boring bit out of the way so I can post some pics and probably talk a little Bowie. . .

The swelling in my feet, while I thought I had it under control was not under control.  Went to my doctor and basically got chewed out and told I’d let the problem go on for too long and my feet could possibly stay that ginormous forever!  Wwwwhhhaaaa!!!  My pulse was way up, which in my defense I hadn’t had any pain meds for 3 days. . .you try walking from the parking lot to your doctors office crooked and dragging your leg behind you and see if your pulse rate isn’t up!  And then be blames it on coffee and fatness.  Whatevs.  Then he told me I need to just quit my job and apply for disability because basically the damage has been done.  Talk about feeling super awful and depressed when I left there.  Had to stay home from work for 2 days, cried a little, ate some not Weight Watcher friendly Chinese food and slept.

I did have fun getting out of the house on Saturday and going to my friend’s son’s birthday party and getting to chat with my buddies.  Friends are awesome!

Managed to make it to work and am going to finish out the rest of the week and then take a little medical leave.  Get the tests done my douchy doctor ordered and possibly look into maybe filing for partial disability.  I really don’t wanna. 

Now happy things.  Tiffers came back home for a visit and we went craft shopping.

And she brought me gifts!

How awesome are they?!  I LOVE records, I use them to decorate with. . .

*continues 3 days later*

Hello again!

I am so scatter brained as of late.  Lots of things on my mind.  Weight Watchers, my back, my pain meds (as in when I didn’t have ‘em for like 3 days, that was fun), my job, money, ribbon, expanding the Bugglette’s, how I really, really wanna sleep in my bed. . .I even let Bug go to school looking like a cotton ball for a week (I didn’t flat iron her hair).  

How about something less complicated.  Bug’s insane love for the cheesetastic 80’s Bowie song Time Will Crawl.  This is the point in Bowie’s career where he really sold out to all the 80’sness.  I’m talking fluffy mullet, he looks like Daryl Hall from Hall and Oats, and one of the worst 80’s outfits ever.  And the outfits the other people are wearing and the dancing?!  Oh the crazy dancing!  They dance beat up Bowie!

She’s blaring it at like 6:30 AM every weekday.  Every time I hear that electronic sound I cringe.  And she’s always like, “I love his hair!  And his pajama pants are so cute!”  And don’t forget to check out the 2:20 mark.  It’s unforgettable. . .

Done now. . .  :)

PS  This blog brought to you by David Bowie’s Time Will Crawl.

PSS  Check out these lyrics!

I've never sailed on a sea

I would not challenge a giant

I could not take on the church

Time will crawl

Till the 21st century lose

I know a government man

He was as blind as the moon

He saw the sun in the night

He took a top-gun pilot and he

He made him fly thru a hole

Till he grew real old

And he never came down

He just flew till he burst

Time will crawl

Till our mouths

run dry

Time will crawl

Till our feet

grow small

Time will crawl

Till our tails

fall off

Time will crawl

till the 21st century lose

I saw a black black stream

Full of white eyed fish

And a drowning man

With no eyes at all

I felt a warm warm breeze

That melted metal and steel

I got a bad migraine

That lasted three long years

And the pills that I took

Made my fingers disappear

Time will crawl, time will crawl

Time will crawl

Till the 21st century lose

You were a talented child

You came to live in our town

We never bothered to scream

When your mask came off

We only smelt the gas

As we lay down to sleep

Time will crawl

and our heads bowed down

Time will crawl

and our eyes fall out

Time will crawl

and the streets run red

Time will crawl

till the 21st century lose

Time will crawl

and our mouths run dry

Time will crawl

and our feet grow small

Time will crawl

and our tails fall off

Time will crawl

till the 21st century lose

Time will crawl

and our heads bowed down

Time will crawl

and our eyes fall out

Time will crawl

and the streets run red

Time will crawl

till the 21st century lose

For the crazy child

We'll give every life

For the crackpot notion

"it's in the white of my eyes. . ."

Hello, hello my lovelies!

How goes it on this cold, dreary Sunday?  Well, in KY anyway. . .

Had lots of fun with my bff buddy Heather last night player poker. . .oh the stories I could tell you (Heather was sexually harassed, twice, I threw up from my skanky cooking, frosting fruit dip worth 480 WW points, apparently me and Heather win at poker more when we intentionally try to lose, Marcus the gossiper, and we had an acoustic guitar duel with sadly no winner)  but I better not. . .for legal reasons.  Let’s just say you should never drink from the green bottle.

And apparently I drunk Bowie-ed Tiffers last night.  I don’t apologize.  Drunk!Bowie-ing is the new drunk dialing.  Remember that.  It’s what all the cool kids are doing. . .I would show you a pic of what I sent her, but I don’t have one of those little cord thingys so I can get the pic off my phone. . .sorry.

Onto other things. . .today has totally sucked for me.  Didn’t sleep worth a dookie, back is killing me, I’m running out of meds, have to have blood drawn AND go to the doctor.  The latter two being the worst.  I freakin’ hate the doctor.  HATE.  Not the doctor personally, although there is one in Louisville who is on my shit list, I just hate going.  Period.  And they want me precious blood!  I need that!

More other things. . .I FINALLY got my Bowie DVD from Argentina!

And it was totally worth the wait!  As soon as I got home Saturday me and the Bug immediately had to watch Strangers When We Meet and she absolutely had to see Jump They Say, Underground and As The World Falls Down.

And doesn’t Strangers When We Meet look totally awesome on my new big tv?!?!?!

Plus I got my Bowie Storytellers CD/DVD.  Watching it now and he’s hilarious. . .then again, I already knew this.  Just wanted you to know. . .so watch some interviews. . .

“Or was I watching The Travel Channel??”  You’d just have to see it. . .

Back to the subject of doctor:  Oh I don’t wanna go to the doctor. . .*sigh*  But I need to. . .my back is fucking with my weight loss and I’m about to put my swollen, juicy foot in it’s ass!  Which technically means I’d be putting my own foot in my own ass since it’s my back. . .so scratch that.  I’m just gonna remedy the situation.  That sound better and less creepy?

Good.

And remember me telling you in my last blog that I had gained 4 pounds in a week at my last weigh in and I was retaining water in my feet?  Well this is apparently what 2 pounds of water in a foot looks like. . .just guessing.  This foot is a little fatter than the other one. . .

Well I’m off now. . .got some Bugglette’s business to conduct and some product pictures to take.  Maybe.  Meds are beginning to wear off. . .may just sit in front of the tv and watch some Bowie. . .

Done now. . .  :)

PS This blog brought to you by David Bowie’s China Girl, Storytellers version. . .

"'i'm never coming back!' they heard him cry and i believe him. . ."

Hey hey my lovelies!

How ya’ll doing?

Me?  Are ya ready for this?  This has been the worst day ever!  Went in for my weigh in and I’ve gained 4 pounds!  WTF?!?  In a week?!?!  And I’ll tell ya what it is, it’s because I’m retaining water again in my feet.  I could show you a pic to prove it, but my feet look like the marshmallow man’s right now and it’s not pretty cuz they’re kinda purple and red.  Then when me and my mom get to the meeting everyone is like, “oh you’re missing one.”  Yup, Tiffers.  Now I be extra sad cuz not only I am 4 pounds fatter again, I miss my sister.  *whine!*

After we sit there awhile, I decide to make an emergency trip to my doctor.  Yes, I’m bad I know for skipping out on the WW meeting, but this is serious here.  I’m not going to lose 13 pounds only to start gaining it back in feet water.  Have I mentioned how owy I was this morning?  Well I was.  So we drive the like 30 minutes from the WW meeting to my doctor, get there and there is no flabatomist.  It’s a Friday and they have a very large sign that says ‘no labs on Wednesdays’ not ‘no labs on Fridays.’  So now I have to go back Monday.  *sigh*

What else?  We’re having a poker party on Saturday, go to the Wal-Mart in Radcliff and they are out of practically everything I need.  Seriously?  Can today get any worse?  Yes, it can.  Guess what still didn’t come in the mail today?  If you guessed my David Bowie DVD’s then you’d be right.  And to top it all off Phil Collins is quitting the music business!  Wwwwwhhhhhaaaaaa!!!!!!

Ok.  Enough.

I did get this in the mail a few days ago.

Tin Machine is a band Bowie formed after all his poppy 80’sness.  Apparently they weren’t too horrible and the thing most critics complained about was Bowie’s beard.  Lame.  I personally don’t like the album.  I’ve only half listened to it though. . .maybe I need to give it another chance.

Well, I guess I’m done ranting and whining for today.  Gonna go make some hair bows. . .

Done now. . .  :)

PS  This blog brought to you by one of my fav Phil Collins’ solo songs, Don’t Lose My Number.

PSS  Wonder if Billy lost his number?

PSSS  check out my friend Amber’s blog to see Bugglette’s (mine and Tiffers etsy shop) as her Feature Friday.  You might find a coupon surprise in there!

"the tension is here, between who you are and who you could be, between how it is and how it should be. . ."

Hey, hey my lovelies!

How ya’ll been?!

Well it’s been a crazy day for me.  My bestest bestie in all of the world moved out, ie my sister.  And all the way to Shelbyville!  So far!  And I have to say, I know it’s an excuse, but I could really care less, I’ve been stress eating.  I said it was because (men cover your ears) I was about to start my period, but not really.  I was just sad.

This morning I had to go to work and her and my parents were going while I was at work to take her and her massive load of stuffs to her new place.  So when I left I gave her a big hug (and my $32 dollar perfume!) and bawled like a big ‘ol baby.  i mean, she was going to be gone when I got home and it made me sad.  Luckily I have the most AWESOME manager in the world and she let me scoot out early so I could go with ‘em.  So we had a lovely car ride, unloaded bunches of stuffs (well not me cuz my back is a bastard, I took lots of pics) had deelishus Taco Bell then came back home.  And even though I told her when she left this time I wouldn't cry, I lied.  I bawled like a baby yet again.

And yes she’ll be back, I know this, but it’ll never be the same.  What can I say, I loves my thither.

Onto other things or I’m going to cry again. . .I’m about to have to get nasty with Argentina.  ‘Argentina?’ you ask.  ‘Why Argentina?  That’s totally random.’  Because that is where I ordered my David Bowie greatest hits DVD’s and they’re still not here.  They said 12 days.  I say I ordered them the 8^th of February, it didn’t get mailed until the 18^th of February and it’s 2 days late.  That’s a hell of a long time!  I’m gonna give ‘em until the end of the week. . .bad thing, I’ve ordered 2 other things from ‘em too!  *sigh*

But I did get these in the mail over the last few days. . .

So yeah. . .back to my Weight Watchers badness.  It’s not like I’ve been over eating, I’ve just had to dip into my weekly points, twice, and while that is totally allowed, I’ve yet to use them before.  It just feels like I’m cheating even though I’m not. . .if that makes any sense.  But that Taco Bell is sitting like a rock in my stomach.  Actually more like a boulder.  Yuck, yuck, yuck.  Plus I had a donut. . .I'm so bad!

Well I think I’m done for the night. . .I’ve gots a headache and my back be 'long car ride' owy. . .

Done now. . .  :)

PS  This blog brought to you by Switchfoot’s Dare You To Move. . .

"all your regrets ride roughshod over me. . ."

Hey, hey my lovelies!

How ya’ll doing today? 

It’s rainy and gloomy here, the perfect day to sleep in or snuggle on the couch and watch movies.   I got woken up earlier than I had planned this morning.  *sigh*  I’ve got black out curtains in my room so while it was already 10 am, it felt like 5 and my leg was very much protesting starting about 6:30 so I took a muscle relaxer (which I haven’t taken in months) and decided a little sleep in would help.  Granted I can go to bed at 11 but I wake up about every 2 hours to shift positions cuz the pain wakes me up so I really don’t get much sleep. . .lucky for me I have a high pain tolerance and require little sleep to function normally.  Or it’s just what I’ve become accustomed to lately. . .hate to see what it’s gonna be like when I get old!

Well I’ve had yet another epic oat meal fail this morning.  I’m really learning to love oat meal in the mornings.  It’s very filling and keeps me full longer than cereal and I'm not an egg person in the morning.  I hate eggs and ham-y things.  Yuck!  So I decided to try a slow cooker recipe this way when I get up I’ve got breakfast done.  The first time I used the wrong type of oats, the quick cooking ones.  When I awoke the next morning it looked like soup.  Eww!!  I assumed that when they say use steel cut oats, they mean use steel cut oats.  Yesterday I bought some, put my oats and water and brown sugar and a little maple flavoring in the crock pot with the knowledge that I’d fixed what I’d done wrong the first time.  I set out my dried fruit and raisins and woke up to this:

That looks like baby diarrhea and I am not putting that in mouth.  Gross!  What am I doing wrong?  I’m going to try it one more time with less water and if it fails again, I was just not meant to eat slow cooker oatmeal.

*We now interrupt your regularly scheduled blog with a rant*

“I want my David Bowie DVD’s NOW!  It was supposed to be here yesterday at the latest and it’s still not here today!  One day late!  WTF?!?!  I know it’s coming from Argentina, but come on!  And I’ve ordered two other Bowie things from them, but this is the one I really want because it’s 2 DVD’s of his videos and it has Strangers When We Meet on it and I wanna watch it on my cool new big TV. . .like yesterday!  WWWHHHAAAA!!!!”

*We  now return you to your regularly scheduled blog*

I ate the most awful Healthy Choice meal ever today.  I thought the pot stickers were kinda nasty but I ate ‘em anyway, this balsamic chicken and vegetables was just evil.  I do not recommend that one.  Eww, eww, eww.  I tossed it and made me a 200 calorie Digorno pizza for 5 points.  Yum!

Ok, just got home and was starving at ate 19 points!  But it’s all good, I had more points than that available to eat but now I’m stuffed!

And I’m gonna jump off here now. . .gotta get my clothes ready for tomorrow, get a shower. . .gotta weigh in early.

Done now. . .  :)

PS  This blog brought to you by David Bowie’s Strangers When We Meet. . .just cuz I haven’t posted it in a long time. . .and because I ranted about it. . .your welcome.

"now i'm leaking life faster than i'm leaking blood. . ."

Hey there my lovelies!

How ya’ll doing today?

I’m actually feeling a little awesome.  I was away from work for 4 days.  Three I was off, one I called in cuz I thought I was gonna die, but that’s in a previous blog.  Anyway, I really missed my hair peeps!  I was so glad to go into work today!  My doctor told me on my last visit, with my back being as crappy as it is, I should really consider another profession, but I can honestly say I can’t imagine doing anything else.  So yeah.  Guess I’m just gonna have to suck it up.

Remember a couple of blogs ago I explained my absolute love got Taco Bell’s fiesta potatoes?  And I went to Taco Bell one day and there was an entire family eating them and I had to leave for fear I would attack them for their potatoes?  I’d take out the Grandma first, she seemed the least likely to put up a fight and then I’d hobble away as quickly as my back would let me.  Remember?  No?  Well I’ve pretty much told you the short version of the story so now you’re caught up. 

Now here’s the Rose Nylund version of my new fiesta potato story:  When I got off work today we had to take Bug to Fazzoli’s to get her some alfredo.  It smelled so delicious in the car and I didn’t have lunch so I decided on a couple of tacos from Taco Bell, 4 points a piece.  Get me the tacos, a diet coke and when we get to the window for her to give us the food she says, “There’s a potato in your bag because we accidently made extra.”  Wha?  What?  A free fiesta potato?  That I’m not supposed to eat?  Oh the irony of it all!!!!!  I even said out loud, “man I want a fiesta potato, but I really don’t need it.”  And it was like the powers of the universe answered back, “yes, you need this fiesta potato!  Go forth and eat it!”  So yeah, anyway, they are 7 points.  That’s an entire Smart Ones, Healthy Choice or Lean Cuisine meal.  And I ate it.  And just one taco.  That’s an 11 point lunch and lunch should be around 12 so it’s all good.  Quite literally.  Those were the best fiesta potatoes ever!  And they were so hot and fresh.  Yeah.  My fiesta potato monster has been satisfied for awhile.  lol

Yeah.  That’s the end of my blog now.  Enjoy some David Gray.

Done now. . .  :)

PS  This blog brought to you David Gray’s The One I Love.

PSS  This is my all time fav DG song and one day it will be a tattoo. . .

"and the sound of tomorrow, like a black hearted vile thing. . ."

Hey hey my lovely blog readers!

How ya’ll doing?!?!

Random thought on my brain:  The mom in Raising Hope (which is freakin’ hilarious) played in The Goonies.  Who’d have thunk it?

Today started out super crappy.  Had to get up early and go to a hair class (which was super AWESOME; we learned all about the Sexy product line, a new way to cut hair, an up do and got a goody bag.  Yays!) and the chair I had to sit in for 2 hours was absolute torture on my back.  Then me and my friend went to Cracker Barrel to eat and those chair were worse if that is at all possible!  I was so miserable!  But I took some meds and felt a little better, tolerable anyway and managed to make it to the hair store to get color for my hair and hobbled my way through the craft store long enough to get some pink buttons and ribbon.

And I am so proud of myself when I went to Cracker Barrel because I looked up all the nutrition information the night before and while I didn’t get the oat meal as planned, I just wasn’t in the mood for it, I got a small breakfast of potatoes and steak biscuit.  12 points.  And it was deelish and I didn’t feel guilty afterwards.

Last night's dinner was pretty yum too.  It seems since we’ve been dieting our food horizon has broadened and we’re not eating the same ‘ol things.  Mainly because we can’t eat it.  Cuz they be bad.  We had steak fajitas and refried beans.

One thing that did make me uber happy today. . .I got Bowie in the mail!

That is a 45 I believe.  And yes, I do have the thingy to play it on, it just needs a needle.  So yeah.

I also got the Live Aid DVD from Netflix, but when I read the Netflix description, it said ‘highlights of performances.’  I didn’t think it meant a whole DVD of like 45 second clips of the performances.  Poor Bug was so disappointed.  She said she was sad and wanted to throw it out the window.  Guess I’m gonna be adding the 4 disc one to my queue. . .

Well, my back is killer right now.  Think I’m going to make it an early night.

Done now. . .  :)

PS  This blog brought to you by David Bowie’s You’ve Been Around, a left over song from Tin Machine.

PSS  Gotta love his suhweet dance moves. . .PSYCH!  Like how I did that?  That was pretty cool, huh?

PSSS  There is also a duet version that he sings with Sirius Black from Harry Potter ie. Gary Oldman.  And yes I know he’s not just Sirius, he’s also the cool Dracula and the awesome villain in The Fifth Element, my personal fav, but that’s what he’s most known for right now. . .and that version is much more rock and I enjoy it immensely. . .and Gary Oldman has some singing chops too. . .