21 posts tagged “wtf?”

Brian finally slept lots.

I slept but not well, nerve pain woke me up.  Sucked.  So I kept going back to sleep and ending "sleeping" on and off from around 11 am until 6something pm.

Brian got up at 8:something and asked if I wanted to go to Apple store with him.  Hmm... out of soy milk and coffee.  yeah!  So went and got coffee first.  Went to Santa Monica.  The parking garage we went to claimed to have 98 available spaces on the digital board outside, no it had about 2 :P  Which we found once we got to the 9th floor.  It's undergoing construction though maybe they don't update it to show the blocked off spaces.  Brian got his laptop case (Apple stores have the coolest checkout system, or at least the one in the Santa Monica Promenade does, never shopped at another) and we went to leave and weren't sure what to do.  Wish I'd taken a picture.  Even my broken brain couldn't MAKE THIS UP... get to the end of the parking row.  The sign in front of us says no right turns exit left.  The sight above says no left turns exit right.  *blinks*  I mean I GUESS we could have gone straight through the brick wall of the 9th floor and seen what happened.  Brian looked at the signs and me, I looked at them and him.  WTF?  I'm sure it's a goof from the major construction going on and one old sign got left while they redirect traffic a new way.  But umm we basically waited for cars to come out to see what direction other exiting traffic went in so you know we wouldn't hit someone head on.

So we finally get out of there and the next parking garage says 200some space free.  Ok now I know those signs are cruel jokes.  Have you ever been to downtown Santa Monica near the Promenade / Pier on a Saturday night?  200 some free spaces, uhh funny.  There are not 200 free spaces in all of Santa Monica let alone one garage.  Liars.  Brian "What happens if you get a ticket to park, drive through, no spots?  You pay $3 for the ride?".

Uhh I'm rambling and pain alien here.  Away I go.

Brian woke me up at 11 to have me call the dentist to reschedule for two Saturdays from this weekend.  It seems to be a law that on holiday weekends (or breaks of any sort) someone at work must infect him with a nasty cold.  He was of course nice enough to share.  So we were both up last up coughing thanks to a dry sore throat from hell.  He thought it would be short enough lived we'd both be feeling well enough to go today, he woke up feeling differently. 

Friday while out getting cold meds, some guy yelled across the parking lot "I like your hair"  I turned around as it was a small parking lot so we were pretty sure he meant me, he did. He then added something about pumpkin or pumpkins we couldn't hear as clearly, so Brian announced "Ok, let's go Pumpkin".  No pics yet, I feel too crappy.

Brian came out and hung up the phone, then watched a SNL skit with me.  If you saw the SNL that Tina Fey hosted, it was the skit about an old man selling dvds his wife had had his grandsons edit to explain the movies to him.  There's a part where they say something like no grandpa don't go to answer the phone, it's in the movie.  The phone sounds like ours.  Brian had gone to answer ours.  When he realized it he announces "I just got pwned by SNL".  He's been walking around in shock ever since. HAHAHA.  He really doesn't find SNL funny so he seemed rather shamed that they got him :P

Bush keeps saying the economy is just fine... WTF?  Clearly he doesn't shop, etc.  Gas prices = stupid, we all knew that.  I buy soy milk which I must say is pretty much always on sale one brand or the other 2 half gallon cartons for $6 and has been that way every week for a year now.  So while we notice our grocery bill going up up up I didn't notice just how bad things have gotten until I bought something I buy only a few times a year:

Eggs

Can someone please explain the popularity of that Chocolate Rain song/video?
I was wondering that when watching the YouTube award nominee videos last night.  I never really saw more than a few seconds and tried to watch it, I couldn't.  It's not so bad it's good.  So WTF am I missing here?  Everyone seems to love it but for real wtf is wrong with you people?  There's good and there's so bad you just have to love it... and then, there's stuff like Chocolate Rain...

Maybe I'm just not cool enough to understand.

Art:

Ready2fly

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I need to fix her hands as they were annoying me so I wiped them and just did this for now.

In the WTF department:
The following ad appears in a magazine for people with MS.  Now personally I find it a very cruel ad to place in a magazine for people with brain issues.  I had to read the thing 3 friggin times, then asked Brian to read it to see if it was just me.  Now... I'm positive it's either a joke or written by someone on drugs because I dunno if I was going to write an ad offering my services to people with disabilities I might leave contact info in the ad AND not end it mid-sentence.

Ms-travel

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I didn't appreciate the new sign next to the door, which I only happened to notice because of the angle I entered the store at, announcing that by entering the store I give you the right to use my image, video of me, recording of my voice, in any Best Buy advertisements without further consent being needed.  I honestly don't think you recorded me while I was there, but the fact that you have that near the front door at all makes me want to order all of my DVDs, etc online from Amazon.  I guess it is slightly better than the usual sign that is there announcing you're being investigated for charging customers prices higher than advertised (which you do to us during 95% of our visits but never did when I lived in any city other than LA).  Brian was actually threatening to drop his pants to be sure you wouldn't record us, good job!

Love,
Me

I might have considered seeing it, until I saw the 20/20 report:
Perhaps if they could prove that the people had donated their bodies exhibits like this one might seem interesting.  But the 20/20 report showing that some might be executed Chinese prisoners makes me ill.  If you donate your body to the exhibit that's one thing.  But I dunno, because my dad died so young I have such a great respect for the dead that anything that disrespects them makes me ill.  The thought of say someone vandalizing a grave makes me beyond angry and this falls into that category.

Dentist:
FYI - it's really hard to drink, even from a straw, with NUMB LIPS!  Seriously numbing meds are like some sort of miracle they keep my lips numb for hours but the filling and cleaning I could feel.  How that works I'll never know.  I'm a great and horrible dental patient both.  I lay in the chair when I really want to bolt up and run out as soon as I feel something = good but instead my natural instinct = if I feel something in my mouth then I  start to close it (not all of the way just enough to not comply with the dentist open wide, wider, good commands).  So front filling = done.  Deep cleaning = done.  Root canal scheduled for March 1st and I'm already whimpering because I know it's gonna be horrific though Brian says it won't be nearly as bad as I think and claims it won't take as long as today did.  Apparently I need a couple of more fillings in the back we didn't really discuss or budget for last time.  But we're putting those off as they're in the back and not in the budget and my dentist office is really good about realizing that people on a budget need to prioritize what work is most important and not lecturing on the rest.

Dear America,

You're raising a generation of self-loathing confused males.  Congrats, your anti-gay mentality has done wonders.  There's this 14-15 year old kid on the game I  played / the irc network I hang out on who tells everyone who will listen he's gay, but doesn't want anyone to know of course because he gets gay bashed if they know.   If someone on irc says "you're gay" to him he flips out and if they play the game he wants to kill them on it for it.  Yet his idea of insulting a straight adult man who has a girlfriend is, and I quote, "i didnt catch that sorry take the dick out of your mouth and try again".  Simply brilliant.  A gay kid who can't stand being called gay, who gets virtually homicidal or suicidal if someone dares  call him what he admits he is, and yet this is what he uses as an insult.  And that's to someone who's been nice to him and tried to HELP him deal with his problems.  Don't be surprised when he shoots up a school of people who weren't so helpful.

Not so much Love,
Me

And now... time to get ready for my neuro appointment.

[21:11:31] [me] Tornado warning in Southwestern LA county... WTF... omg
[21:11:58] [me] so my bf "I'm gonna go outside if I'm not back in 5 minutes call my cell phone"
[21:12:28] [me] Since when does California get Tornados holy shit
[21:12:54] [me] My tv is telling people in Malibu to find shelter or lay in a ditch

[Me] heard what sounded like my window shattering today but it was fine so just thought neighbors dropped something glass
[Me] then tonight what I thought was totally unrelated my neighbor called
[Me] asked if my stove and hot water worked
[Me] so I turn on my stove, yup works
[Me] he said weird his didn't and he thought he smelled gas
[Me] turns out it was his upstairs window that fell and landed on gas meter and caused a gas leak in his and one other apt all day / night
[Me] that they just found, turned off their gas, opened all of the windows and will fix tomorrow
[T] ouch
[Me] so I turned on my stove with two apts around me full of gas :/
[Me] freaked me out once I found out how bad it was :P

So yeah I feel kind of guilty I didn't explore the glass sound more.  But eh even my neighbor didn't realize his own window had broken when he got home tonight.  And Brian pointed out in the rain we had me going to explore the side of the building when no one else seemed to be reacting seemed pointless.  Needless to say even though my apt wasn't affected I have had my window opened all night since we found out, just in case, as the apt next to me and the one above me were filling with gas for a good 5 hours or so before the gas company figured it out and shut it off.   The whole experience has had me a bit on edge tonight.  Gas company says it is ok and they'll fix the two affected apts tomorrow but ugh, I have a severe fire phobia, I kept expecting our building to blow up or catch on fire. 

In other news... Sinus infection from hell for days now so am living off of decongestants -- which I had to show ID for and sign a statement, which I guess is me agreeing I'm not using it to make meth with?   Well probably agreeing I'm using for intended purposes but yeah I'm pretty sure they want to make me promise not to cook up meth in my apartment. 

Another long post, sorry...

My health...
Ok first the personal medical news...  That is what my devoted stalkers are waiting for, no?  Remember the you'll never get a definite diagnosis without a brain biopsy talk?  Well for once, my body decided to cooperate.  I shocked them all --  my spinal tap combined with MRI gave them enough to diagnose me after all.  Yes, because of the Sarcoid it should be virtually impossible to tell if I have Neurosarcoid or MS... but between my MRI and spinal tap they now have NO doubts and I am officially diagnosed with MS.  It wasn't a coin toss apparently.  Even though things can overlap they all agreed, I have MS.  But I also wasn't kidding about being a bleeder.  When she asked me how I've been, I told her I'd been in pain all week and I figured it was because he kept getting blood during the tap.  She told me yeah, that some of my spinal fluid they tested had blood in it.  

I can still see her in the normal neuro clinic for the migraines and may see her in the MS clinic, but she's gonna move my primary clinic to be the MS clinic.  She told me it will be better for me as it's specialized and that clinic sees more like 30 patients a day whereas the general neuro clinic sees maybe 100, but she hopes to see me again.  She likes me and Brian :)    She also told me how to work it out so I have less wait times... muhahah!  She also warned me not to get scared because I'll see a lot more people in wheelchairs, etc because the MS clinic has a lot of people who are sicker than the normal neuro clinic.  And just for my own sanity, since my tests and seem to show nothing current I asked her to confirm or deny then what my OR doctors said -- that all of these symptoms like tingles, twitching, etc are all just residuals from old damage/attacks.  She said they are as nothing I have now is a current flare up or new damage.

Now...

My City...

Redsun

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