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#102; rain, rain, go away
from riflepaperco.com
The last few days have not been among my best. Have you ever fallen up stairs? It’s a little bit like catching your face on a cement curb, except with more momentum. Saturday I tripped and woke up Sunday morning with (my very first!) black eye, a split lip, a slight head injury, and a possibly broken left cheekbone. I spent yesterday very emotionally attached to an ice pack, and spent today’s rainy, cold excuse for a Spring day at the emergency room. I got my very first CT Scan! More firsts, yay!
So not only have the last few days been horribly chilly and rainy and gray, but I have literally been in and out of the ER. Perhaps tonight I’m a little on the cranky side. But hey, my face is fine (the CT was clean, woohoo!) and the Twitter & FB traffic was pretty hilarious throughout the entire ordeal. My favorites? How kind of you to ask… My favorite (aka, the funny ones) responses to various photos of my mangled face over the last two days in the Twitter-verse…
- From @tscottyd: One things for certain no one will mess w/ you for a looooong time. You’re looking like YOU just knocked out Pachiao.
- From @dcfisch: dear god you look swollen.
- From a fellow Derby regular: her and the ground didn;t agree on something it looks like
- From a buddy from The Vagina Monologues: the hell?
- From The Vagina Monologues‘ producer: Gah! I’m sure the other guy looks much worse.
- From @emilycrockett: Oh honey!!!!! Lemme kiss it and make it better.
- From @bp1222: Stairs: 1, Limbo: 0.
- From @captaincourage: u poor little thing. That may be the most pathetic pic I’ve ever seen.
Of course, there was twice as much encouragement and offers to help me out than there were jokes, but the laughter (while painful considering how much you use your face when laughing!) was much needed and appreciated. Hope that your week has started off better than mine, and I’ll be back in sunnier days (and a much warmer mood, I’m sure) soon!
#101; things made of muchness
It’s Friday, and of course, I’m in love. A Friday list of a different nature… 10 things that are made of, to quote the Mad Hatter, muchness. [Of course I saw 'Alice in Wonderland' this week, I'm a dork! This weekend I'm looking forward to 'Remember Me' and maybe a 'Dr. Who' marathon...]
- Starting my morning commute off by stopping to say hello to the grounds keeper of the church next to my house.
- Every lovely incarnation of Carroll’s ‘Alice’ (especially the Syfy version, which I’m still obsessed with, but Burton’s was very pretty as well!).
- Macadamia nuts.
- Weekends with no plans whatsoever.
- Days that go like this: watching Congressional hearings on my favorite topics from the warmth of my K St office, meeting up with the DC Young Republicans for inspiring speakers and club business down on the Hill, heading to U St. to see some of my favorite local musicians do their thing at a packed Solly’s Tavern, and being home before 11 to curl up with my cat and sleep very soundly.
- New Music.
- Sneaking chocolate snacks in the morning with my coworkers. And ice cream at the office.
- Friends back in town on their respective spring breaks.
- Chuck, my newest addiction.
- Loved ones who truly respect & support me, through everything, despite their own agendas or desires. Friends who want me to the best version of myself wherever that takes me in life. Friends who will take me to the theater to get my mind off of things. Who will cancel their own dinners and plans because someone really needs them. Friends who invite you out to hookah in the middle of a Thursday night. Friends who know all my secrets.
#100; sing, baby!
Wow – 100 posts?! In honor of this milestone, as well as my recent love for lists and the fact that we had Kostume Karaoke – Red Carpet Style last night, I’m listing my Top 5 Favorite Karaoke Songs (that I sing, because there would be a lot more Johnny Cash on any other kind of karaoke list), check them out after the jump.
#099; getting tired of it
Jessica Wakeman, over at The Frisky, published a great post today titled “17 Phrases We’re Tired Of Hearing About Women” about the cutsie and/or insulting ways language refers to women. My biggest pet peeves from the list? Princess; Drama Queen; Being a Pussy. Seriously – since when did being associated with pussy become a bad thing? Always? That just seems so weird in my book! You’d think people – especially straight men who probably use the phrase more than others (I’m seeing jocks and popped-collars in my mind when I hear the phrase) would want to be associated with pussy.
by shobe90 via tumblr
But I digress. The article got me thinking about things I am tired of hearing about women or because I’m a woman. My list, after the jump.
#098; spring cleaning, of a sort
I may be a bit odd, but I am someone who looks forward to spring cleaning as if my survival of the winter depends on the annual tradition. Closet reorganization, scrubbing floors, half.com sales, open windows, Facebook clean-out, ripped jeans, and library alphabetizing! I don’t know why this particular ritual is so awesome in my book (especially as my OCD has me cleaning/rearranging my areas of my communal house every couple of weeks year-round), but I woke up this morning nearly tingling with anticipation for this weekend.
by einschuss via flickr
