So I'm going to choose to believe that spending 10 bucks on ointments yesterday is helping my bug bites, though a few on my hands don't look like they're going anywhere anytime soon. There are some elsewhere on my body that are slowly fading so I'm gonna say the ointments are speeding up their progress.
And I'm super stressed today, for no real reason just I'm anticipating the worst at work, which I have no real reason for since I am doing my job. I'm just worried people are work are going to think/accuse me of slacking off. It's worrisome being an assistant sometimes. But in a week or so I'll be home free. Keep your fingers crossed.
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Battle of the Bugs
More so battle of the bug bites.
I still have a lot of bumps from my bed bug encounter and now I'm bringing out the big guns to treat them. Thanks to my wonderfully knowing mother who gave me advice on what to do I now have three weapons against the bumps: Aveno lotion (with oatmeal like mommy said), an antibiotic ointment for the possible infection and calamine lotion to sooth me at night.
Hopefully this will work cause I'm sick of my arms looking like a mine field.
I still have a lot of bumps from my bed bug encounter and now I'm bringing out the big guns to treat them. Thanks to my wonderfully knowing mother who gave me advice on what to do I now have three weapons against the bumps: Aveno lotion (with oatmeal like mommy said), an antibiotic ointment for the possible infection and calamine lotion to sooth me at night.
Hopefully this will work cause I'm sick of my arms looking like a mine field.
Monday, August 6, 2007
Monday Good News
Well. Not necessarily good news. My car didn't pass smog inspection on Saturday (shhh, don't tell the LAPD) so now I've got 30 days to get 'er fixed and I took my car in to Pep Boys today and they said that a basic tune up will cover what needs to be fixed for the smog inspection, though he couldn't guarantee that it would pass. So this weekend I've got to take my car in on a Saturday morning and leave it there all day and hope to god it gets fixed cause if it doesn't then come September I'll either have to use all my savings to get another car or else I'll be back on L.A.s oh so not too terribly good public transportation. Either way sucks cause I'm not financially ready for the responsibility of car payments nor do I want to get back on the Metro.
So, like Peter Pan did for Tinkerbell, lets all clap our hands for my Camry in the hopes that my baby will pass its next smog inspection.
So, like Peter Pan did for Tinkerbell, lets all clap our hands for my Camry in the hopes that my baby will pass its next smog inspection.
Sunday, August 5, 2007
Film Review: The Bourne Ultimatum
To bad this is probably the last in the Bourne franchise 'cause they really do get better and better.
I saw this at sold out show on Saturday and it was great fun with very little downtime throughout the film. It really does jump from action scene to action scene but unlike Transformers there's an actual story and plot and my god I found myself caring about the characters.
I don't want to give too much away that would spoil the fun but in this *final* installment we find Bourne closing in on just what exactly happened to him to turn him from the kid named David Webb from MO (look at Missouri, producing bad ass assassins) into hard driving, always escaping, beat your ass with a rolled up magazine Jason Bourne (and if you haven't seen The Bourne Supremacy, please do, that magazine bit was the shit). He's in a race with his former bosses from the CIA, including Joan Allen as Pamela Landy, who may or may not be on his side, to find a CIA mole who knows the origin of Jason Bourne. What I like most about these films is that they somehow managed to get all of the cast back so even though the films are years apart it really feels like they were made back to back and someone was thankfully paying attention to continuity.
The action set pieces are some of the best I've seen in years. I thought it would be hard to top the rolled up magazine, however this installment finds Bourne kicking ass and taking names with a book. Hell's yeah. The great action set pieces were met with either audience applause or muted, "Oh my gods" which is always a good sign for action films. My only real compliant with this film, and the series overall, is that the action is filmed with a hand held camera instead of a steady cam. I know this is supposed to pull the audience into feeling like they're there, however it's just confusing and you can't really see what's going on when the fighting gets intense. Aside from that, it was great.
I saw this at sold out show on Saturday and it was great fun with very little downtime throughout the film. It really does jump from action scene to action scene but unlike Transformers there's an actual story and plot and my god I found myself caring about the characters.
I don't want to give too much away that would spoil the fun but in this *final* installment we find Bourne closing in on just what exactly happened to him to turn him from the kid named David Webb from MO (look at Missouri, producing bad ass assassins) into hard driving, always escaping, beat your ass with a rolled up magazine Jason Bourne (and if you haven't seen The Bourne Supremacy, please do, that magazine bit was the shit). He's in a race with his former bosses from the CIA, including Joan Allen as Pamela Landy, who may or may not be on his side, to find a CIA mole who knows the origin of Jason Bourne. What I like most about these films is that they somehow managed to get all of the cast back so even though the films are years apart it really feels like they were made back to back and someone was thankfully paying attention to continuity.
The action set pieces are some of the best I've seen in years. I thought it would be hard to top the rolled up magazine, however this installment finds Bourne kicking ass and taking names with a book. Hell's yeah. The great action set pieces were met with either audience applause or muted, "Oh my gods" which is always a good sign for action films. My only real compliant with this film, and the series overall, is that the action is filmed with a hand held camera instead of a steady cam. I know this is supposed to pull the audience into feeling like they're there, however it's just confusing and you can't really see what's going on when the fighting gets intense. Aside from that, it was great.
The War on Bugs
So I was at Comic-Con a weekend ago. I came back Sunday night and by Tuesday morning I noticed these little red welts that sprung up on my arm. I figured them for insect bites and they itched like hell. I changed my bed sheets but by Thursday I still had a new set of red bumps cropping up, this time on my legs.
My mother, god bless her, told me that I probably brought back bed bugs with me from the crappy hotel I stayed at (there were several problems with my first nights stay) and that I needed to wash my sheets in hot water, and probably all the clothes I'd worn as well.
I did her one better: I threw out both sets of sheets I'd used last week, sprayed down my futon mattress with a good dose of RAID, as well as spraying my favorite pillow and the big quilt I had. I then took my big quilt down to the laundry room and ignored the sign that said "Please don't wash big quilts" and shoved my big quilt into the washer. Even though my big quilt is multicolored I put the wash on "whites" to get that scalding hot water my sheets so desperately needed (and to also get the smell of RAID out of the quilt).
Did it work? I have no idea. New welts keep cropping up, to the point now where I'm going to mark them with clear nail polish to keep track of them. Some of the older ones are drying out I think but those little bug fuckers bit my nose and under my eye making it look like I had two bright red zits on my face. And that's what prompted my revenge via RAID.
I certainly hope it worked, 'cause i don't know what else to do beside rewash everything that came into contact w/anything I was wearing at Comic-Con and to get a new mattress, which I don't want to do.
My mother, god bless her, told me that I probably brought back bed bugs with me from the crappy hotel I stayed at (there were several problems with my first nights stay) and that I needed to wash my sheets in hot water, and probably all the clothes I'd worn as well.
I did her one better: I threw out both sets of sheets I'd used last week, sprayed down my futon mattress with a good dose of RAID, as well as spraying my favorite pillow and the big quilt I had. I then took my big quilt down to the laundry room and ignored the sign that said "Please don't wash big quilts" and shoved my big quilt into the washer. Even though my big quilt is multicolored I put the wash on "whites" to get that scalding hot water my sheets so desperately needed (and to also get the smell of RAID out of the quilt).
Did it work? I have no idea. New welts keep cropping up, to the point now where I'm going to mark them with clear nail polish to keep track of them. Some of the older ones are drying out I think but those little bug fuckers bit my nose and under my eye making it look like I had two bright red zits on my face. And that's what prompted my revenge via RAID.
I certainly hope it worked, 'cause i don't know what else to do beside rewash everything that came into contact w/anything I was wearing at Comic-Con and to get a new mattress, which I don't want to do.
Friday, August 3, 2007
Second Guessing Everything
What prompted this topic? The fact that I just emailed my co-workers a correction email and now I'm fretting if I should have used the word "appreciate" rather than "like".
Damn I need to relax.
Damn I need to relax.
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Someday, I'm Going to Give Myself Food Poisoning
I have a habit of buying food, putting it in my refrigerator and then forgetting it's there. And then sometimes, days, or even weeks later, I'll find it when I'm foraging through my fridge for food and wonder if it'll kill me if I eat it. Usually this ends with my mother getting a call and questions like, "What if it doesn't smell too bad?"
Usually the call will end with me throwing out said food, but sometimes -- just sometimes -- I'll go ahead and test fate and eat it.
Nothing has happened yet but someday, I'm going to give myself food poisoning...
Usually the call will end with me throwing out said food, but sometimes -- just sometimes -- I'll go ahead and test fate and eat it.
Nothing has happened yet but someday, I'm going to give myself food poisoning...
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