36 posts tagged “brain aliens”
We went on everything we wanted to except Indiana Jones (when we went by I guess it had broken down and the chick out front said an hour + at least), The subs (the lines there are basically always an hour + and I couldn't stand out there long), and Splash Mountain (same, hour + lines and stairs = nope was in too much pain for that).
BUT, in addition to the usual won't miss rides (Star Tours, Pirates, Haunted Mansion, etc). this time we did a lot of rides I'd think are where you head with the kids. Ok if my grandparents (who took me to Disney when I was a kid) were still alive I'd be placing phone a call today...Asking if they put me through that! It's been so long since I went on the rides I'd always assumed were kiddie rides (except the Pooh Bear one, went on it the last few times I was there) that I figured why bother, just kid rides... Boy was I wrong.
Holy... Ok Mr. Toad's Wild Ride - What? What? What? uhh... Did the ride end with us in HELL? I think it did!
Alice in Wonderland... Snow White... Man the kid rides are scary, drug induced, WTF? moments if ever I saw them. I'm glad we didn't have time for that part of the park when Keegan was here. Sure Splash Mountain upset him a bit because his "tummy dropped" but these rides would probably have given him nightmares he'd still be having :P I hadn't been on the "kid" stuff since I was a kid... I didn't realize Disney was so scary. Am surprised kids are so happy there. Peter Pan was cool though!
Saw Eeyore this time but we were in line while he was walking around playing drums on garbage cans. Brian "run over there and pull his tail off for me"... !!! I told him to be nice to Eeyore :(
I accidentally made a joke that caused Brian to announce "Too soon". Brian wanted to go on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad well for those of you who don't know, heat affects MS, Anaheim is HOT. At first I thought he was said he wanted to go on the train, that's how with it I was as we'd been talking about riding the train. And I've never been on Big Thunder before. Now as we get near it, I'm asking him what it's like as some of the coaster rides had me a bit jolted ( in fact it was after Big Thunder we hit the Kiddie rides as my body was done with coasters, my shoulder popped in it from being thrown around). So we get there and there's a sign that says something like boomtown and population and numbers and they're crossed off with the numbers getting smaller and smaller. Brian said he wondered what happened to them all. I TOTALLY FORGOT that in 2003 someone died on that ride and said "They went on the ride and never made it out". Brian "too soon". Then something in my brain recalled... "Oh crap, someone died on this one didn't they, I'm about to go on a ride that killed someone and just told that joke, great, I didn't know, I'm sorry". Seriously I'm not a heartless bitch, next time I go there I should check the list on wikipedia first. I was sure the karma gods were gonna get me for that as we got on the ride. I truly felt horrible. Eeek. Just, you don't think of DISNEYLAND as a place where people die.
Brian made the mistake of calling me a doorknob... forgot what HE thought he was saying, but he never heard the "everyone gets a turn" joke and couldn't figure out why I was glaring at him. He felt like a dumbass when I explained it to him..
Now, I'm in a LOT of a pain, everything hurts. I'd still be asleep but Dutchie woke me up when Brian's alarm went off... so I'm gonna curl up in bed and watch tv while I try to recover. I was walking and talking like a drunk... without the alcohol yesterday... ugh.
So I have these desert things in the freezer. Some weight watcher things or something. Individual ice cream cups but they're umm sundaes or something. So you're supposed to either stick them in the microwave for a few seconds or let thaw at room temp for FIVE MINUTES so that the ice cream and chocolate melts a little. Well I tried microwave before and it tends to melt too little if I do their 5 seconds or too much if I set it for any longer. So room temp seemed like a good idea this time. Figured I could use some chocolate around 1 am. FIVE MINUTES. It's now 2:30 am. I go to get a drink and happen to see it on the counter. Err what how'd that get there.... ohh yeah wait uhh that was at... uhh crap. Luckily my freezer freezes real good and Cali has been cold lately so room temp isn't melting stuff too fast.
Don't ask me to watch your children, I think my cats probably better learn to fill their own f00d bowl, eeek. And to think they used to leave Keegan alone with me when I lived in Oregon :P Ohh and the weather guy said though we've been cold, we're about to jump 30+ degrees and gonna have record temps near the beaches you know where the cooler weather usually is, aka near where I live. Great. Aliens get MORE active when temps change THAT dramatically that fast. You have been warned.
Ok semi real update I suppose since movie update and the artlog on my site weren't exactly real updates.
First I don't think anyone who reads here regularly has any family in China, but if you do... family, friends, whatever, I hope they're ok. Holy... Watching news this morning was so sad. So many schools collapsed.
I was already kind of sad for My bot before bed... And of course there's a wave a storms, Burma/Myanmar (whatever we're supposed to call it). Seems like the world is having a tough time lately...
Which makes me not want to complain, but I will :P
I wish the MS Brain aliens would take a vacation. I know it's not a full on exacerbation. Same old symptoms. Just ugh. Pain alien isn't controlled as he had been (though in fairness he's not as active as he used to be either so still somewhat controlled, err.. yeah just even a few stabs to my head that make me stop everything to grab it and make me feel all twitchy = feels uncontrolled, heh). The alien that controls sleep, well he's on crack. He has be so tired that while talking to MY bot I was so out of it between tired brain fog and pain alien I was correcting words I typed right and then having to correct that and fix which ones I meant to fix in the first place. I can't fall asleep, can only pass out -- today that was at at around 1-2 pm. Then am so tired and in pain when I wake up I don't feel alert enough to do anything.
I have been working on painting for Misi but it's been going like this, do some, err looks wrong, erase, redo, err wtf? not right, erase... etc. Good thing I'm painting it digitally ;)
Viddler appears to like me better than YouTube. A - I played around with the idea of making videos not art private on YouTube, and setting friends could see (small friends list there) but then I found if you do that you can only set up to 25 friends so if your list gets bigger later too bad AND when you set them that way it spams them with you've been sent a video AND it spams your own outbox, not once with a cc, but for each person you sent it to *blinks*. YouTube = inefficient. *nods* Haven't really used the feature yet, but on Viddler you can comment on a moment of a video so instead of people saying, as they do on YouTube @ 1:22 look for this, they can just comment at that time of the video pointing out whatever right then). Interesting. Thankie to Miss A.. for showing me the site, I could tell you her name, but then I'd have to kill you *nods*
Err my wrist hurts. My eyes hurt. Waaaaaaahhhhh! But yeah I ranted enough. Oh for the first time ever I made money with Google Ad Sense today, w00t!
News:
Nick Bollea aka Nick Hogan was sentenced to 8 months in jail + 5 years probation + lost his license for 3 years for the accident that left his friend John Graziano brain damaged. Good. He's lucky he didn't kill him or himself. Hopefully he learns something and stops driving like he's on the track when on the road.
Sleep:
Couldn't sleep until 1. Slept til 8 which is good I guess. Hate though hours for sleep but nice amount since I haven't been sleeping straight through and it's only been 5 or 6 hours tops lately. Lister was laying on my chest when I was falling asleep and I pissed him off because my head was some mutant form of pain alien just stabbing in pain almost causing me to twitch when I reacted he looked at me like stop it, I'm trying to sleep here. Rude cat :P
Brian/Plans:
Brian was talking about picking up dinner after work, then after we eat going to a 10 o'clock show of Iron Man. I'm not usually a comic book super hero kind of girl believe it or not. Just ther Superman ones and now SuperGirl and Batman. Still haven't seen Spiderman, Fantastic 4, etc and no interest But Iron Man looks good and well Robert Downey Jr. can usually make even the worst role seem good. But it's 9:40 and Brian still not home from work with dinner so think that will be tomorrow.
We had talked about Disneyland this weekend as they have the 2fer deal going on and it's only good if you use one by the 22nd and Brian wants to force me to see the Whoopi California thing before they remove it for the park makeover (if it's not gone already). So I suspect we'll go next weekend maybe because I'm pretty sure we'll never pay for CA Adventure (unless the makeover is really good, but that will be years from now). And with the 2fer specials we pay for Disneyland and then during the next month can go to CA Adventure once for free.
Hmm so that means this weekend is dentist (1 filling scheduled, still gotta figure out the others), Fry's, Iron Man, refill Topamax, and really finish Misi's mail I hope.
Dunno why my brain aliens are so busy lately. The one that controls sleep is a mess. Pain alien a mess. General brain alien too my thoughts keep getting all muddled up and I type wrong words and yeah... argh.
Politics:
Hmm Insomnia posted yet another interesting post, I'll just let you read his post here instead of ranting about it myself as he rants far better than I do ;) But basically, it seems that voters in predominately black areas of NC received calls explaining they only needed to sign and return their voter packets -- WITHOUT VOTING, to be eligible to vote. In other words a. they clearly think these people are stupid and b. this woman's organization targeted mostly black voters trying to suppress their votes. I'm a news junkie and haven't seen it on mainstream national news yet so, errm... wtf?
In other political news, mom once wanted to nearly disown me because I liked the Clintons. That was before Hillary ran in this election. Hillary has now convinced me that she's a closeted Republican so I no longer support her and with Edwards gone I support Obama. My sister has taken up my to be disowned spot by announcing she'll be voting for Hillary in the Oregon Primary, heh.
Dutch:
I have picked up my Dutch books only to, as predicted, read the first few chapters, again! BUT, I also have Pimsleur beginner Dutch CDs and have listened to lessons 1-6 (of 10 lessons I think) during the last few days. So far, since it is beginner stuff, it's a lot of hello, how are you types of things. Which is good, I know to spell those things I'm hearing. Lesson 6 has moved onto the would you like something to drink types of things. Eeek. I always said the Dutch letter g scared me, and it does. But hearing the word "graag" eeek. *hides* I know it's nowhere near the worst, but it's the first gr word and multiple letters g word I've heard. Oh man if I tried to say that in front of a Dutchie they'd be laughing for a year. Guess I have to go back to being an American now.
Health:
So I slept on and off from 4 am until 4pm yesterday. We've been having record high temps for this time of year. It's finally supposed to drop down now... to record lows possibly. Ugh. My body doesn't like when the weather jumps all over the place. Especially not when record highs start early in the year. Brain aliens in full effect. Pain alien been around. Exhaustion alien. MS IS NOT HAPPY. MOTHER NATURE MAKE UP YOUR MIND ABOUT THE WEATHER! In fact if I get extra ranty or mess up lots of words, yeah, brain aliens around, sorry.
Gonna be one of those days. Been up for hours but haven't felt awake yet at all.
Anyone have an IV of caffeine they'd like to hook me up to?
*yawn*
Exhaustion alien: 1 Me: *yawn*
I got enough sleep. It's just exhaustion alien for sure. My eyes are watering from yawning so much, just typing this has me more exhausted, I almost did the grandpa "resting my eyes" thing while typing this even. You all had a grandpa who did that right? Just resting my eyes... right while SNORING. If you're still answering me you're resting your eyes. If you're snoring or drooling you're asleep! :P
Maybe the fan will help, the thermostat thing said 90 something last night even when on high, it's finally cooled the room down to 78. Controlling the temps in here have been a bitch when we've already had nearly 100 degree days (over 100 at Disneyland aka Anaheim but more like 95 over here by the beach) and then a few days later it'd drop by over 30 degrees and be chilly at night. So the apartment heats up, turn fan on, it cools off finally, then gets cold at night and need heat, turn that on, then BAM hot again, fan on, soon as it cools off apartment again, you guessed it... heh. Vicious cycle.
The fact that we've already had such hot days makes me think Summer is just days ok maybe weeks away and ohh man, the term hotter than hell comes to mind. And green trends or not, I WILL have my AC and fan on 24/7 and if they have to be set on make me feel like I'm sitting in a tub of ice they will be :P
I guess I should try to do something anyway. Art, read... hmm need energy for everything. Ugh. And head hurts some, not pain alien levels but still an ache. Hrmph. Oh well I will find something to do to appear productive anyway, though I couldn't follow The Tim Russert show... I couldn't follow POLITICS! Yeah, one of THOSE days.
Politics:
Hmm ok as a politics geek, my prediction for tomorrow: Obama loses but by hmm.... 5-7% maybe a little more. Whatever, it's going to be a lot less than the polls claimed about a week ago.
Gas:
Since answering Windy's comment earlier, gas price averages in Cali went from $3.81 to $3.86. $4 coming soon to a station near you. As goes California, so goes the nation... if I understand it right, we're mostly just higher because we have different / higher standards so ours costs more. Or so they claim, wonder who gets to test gas standards?
Art:
I'm working on one digital painting that should be done but the eyes are driving me nuts, I'll say no more until it's done.
MS:
Am fighting brain aliens. Not so much pain alien this time but exhaustion alien was kicking my ass so bad today it probably looked like I was hacking my own MM account, and I'm a flipping admin there, heh. Exhaustion alien not helped by Dutchie waking me up at 8 am when I fell asleep at 3 something and didn't sleep nearly enough all weekend. Also temps fluctuating a lot (all over the place from the high 50s to high 90s almost 100) during the past week or two hasn't helped, that makes the MS Brain aliens soooo mad.
Mijn Favoriet:
Did manage to have an almost coherent good chat with mijn favoriet for a few despite being fighting the aliens. Almost coherent, I meant to say someone is NOT ev0l and said they ARE ev0l. Ooopsie, good thing he knows me and corrected me for me ;)
Brian:
Brian's going a little crazy from some freelance he's doing so he'll be buying his MacBook for his bday early (his bday is May 31st, we'll be at the Apple store next weekend). But he decided to use his freelance pay to buy it as freelance money = money he'll owe taxes on next year = buy computer to help with freelance since the guy he does this extra work for, his business is all Mac = tax deductible = makes sense. *nods* And now that John Adams aka his first small screen credit is over... his first big screen credit is coming to theaters in September. We'll be going and watching credits, of course. I told him as long as his full time job (first hire in "Hollywood") is taking to make, he's gonna have like 20 credits before his first work hits the screen.
Me:
How did I write this much? Hmm to sum up me, one word: zzzzzzzzzzz
If you saw part 6/7 of John Adams tonight, you saw what Brian worked on and now that it has aired I can say what he worked on, the White House.
I've slept about 2 hours in a day and a half or something? 2 days? All blends together. The heat (90-95 the last two days), falling asleep before shot so Brian had to wake me up yesterday then not being able to fall asleep again yesterday, etc. All bad. So after dinner and Desperate Housewives, I plan on passing out, not sleeping, passing out cold. MS, if it's nice, will take this exhaustion and make me sleep for 10 hours or so. It's never that nice, but I am that out of it, I need it. My body should be nice o me for once *nods* Brian keeps asking if I'm ok. I was until the lack of sleep really hit my body, now typing this is so hard to do. I keep retyping words and still typoing. zzzzzzzzzzz
Exhaustion aliens coming around, bad...
Can barely keep eyes open and slept 6-7 hours today. WTF.
Gotta go to dentist quick in am before Brian goes to work for new temp cap, they finally called back and said they know Brian is my transportation so if I come in before he goes to work they'd be sure to get me right in as it doesn't take long. Wonder if this one will last more than a day :P
Might nap for hmm 6-7 more hours or maybe just stay this tired yet awake knowing how this works. I hate exhaustion alien. Either way, think I'll curl up on the couch and be lazy now and not move as that takes energy.
Dentist at 9 am. so I should be sleeping (get to have tooth shaved down and mold made for cap/crown/whatever you prefer to call it). Luckily, after about a week and a half of "normal" sleep, I saw my sleep slipping back to my normal. After the cold my exhaustion levels are just ugh and my sleep is double ugh. So I managed to just keep going back to sleep every time I woke up today, yesterday, whatever... until 5 pm or so. If I don't sleep tonight it won't be the end of the world.
If you wanted to donate to Keegan or Karina for the MS walk, I'm not even posting Keegan's link for now... he's reached his $500 goal between mom's friends and mine (thanks to any who donated) and raised his goal to $700 - since he'll be 7 one his upcoming bday he thought that he needed a new goal. But now my sister still needs to read $500 and those of you who have been my friends on or offline long enough will know that her doing a charity walk, even for me, would have been a shock a few years ago, so she deserves the encouragement even if she's not a cute kid ;) Her pledge page once again is: http://main.nationalmssociety.org/site/TR?px=4652035&pg=personal&fr_id=8131
To try to sleep or not... that is the question. I don't think I'll succeed, but ugh headache + exhaustion alien kicking my ass maybe laying down without sleep is good enough. At least I finally ordered Keegan a bday present (a book for kids his age on drawing your own comic books).
