My Possible H1N1 Flu – Day 5

It’s 8:00 pm and I’ve been up since 4:00 am because when I cough it hurts. Now I can breath and it doesn’t hurt to breath, but boy does it hurt to cough. I was planning to get the H1N1 vaccine as soon as it became available to the general, but obviously the virus beat the Ministry of Health’s very, very late vaccine to me. It hasn’t been to bad, kind of the run of the mill flu, the only difference before today was I was extremely tired. Always exhausted. I’ve barely had a fever and in the three days I’ve noticed it three times. Yesterday morning I felt better and the boom!  My lymphnodes started to hurt and swell up. I could feel them in my underarms even. A few hours later a very dry cough developed and by that evening it hurt to cough in my chest and between my shoulder blades. Some friends suffering along with me have been sick as long as two weeks. One friend has damaged her vocal cords due to constant coughing. All these women caught the virus from their children who had much milder symptoms than their mothers.

Right now do I ever wish I got the vaccine. Cough, cough…ouch, ouch!!

The Drunk Subway Woman

This was like a movie. The subway stops just inches from killing this drunken woman. Obviously it’s not a good idea to drink and then go and look to see if the subway train is coming. I love all the old men wanting to do anything to help except jumping into the pit and actually save her. Mind you I doubt I would’ve either.

My Possible H1N1 Timeline – Day 1

I felt a slight tickle in my throat at 3:15 pm. That turned into a sore throat by 3:30 pm. Around 5:30 pm I stood up and felt incredibly dizzy and very hot. I took my temperature its 99.8 degrees. I have a huge headache. Its currently 6:23 pm. Dont know if this is a flu or H1N1 and probably will never know for sure. I feel really tired all of a sudden, no aches yet. 

 

 

Crazy Soccer Girl

Check out this video of New Mexico’s Elizabeth Lambert #15 beat the hell out of all her opponents. I would hate to be her boy/girlfriend.

 

The Rihanna Abuse Interview – Why now?

I feel for the girl, pretty much being beaten in front of the whole world and then your relationship woes are on everyone’s lips.  As a woman who girls look up to, it was wonderful that she spoke about her abuse by Chris Brown but I wish she didn’t do it the same month as the release of her new album.

I used to be in an abusive relationship so I have all the sympathy in the world for Rihanna. No one should have to live in a situation where they are being phyiscally and or emotionally abused by someone they love. I’m glad the media went to town with Chris Brown and called him out on his actions, I just have one little problem with this situation lately. As a former abused spouse who knows how difficult it was to get out of that kind of situation, I would’ve love if Rihanna talked openly to the press a few months prior. I can’t help but feel because her album is being released later this month might’ve had a lot to do with her sudden urge to talk. I have to keep in mind she’s young and has probably been urged to do talk by her publicists or whoever.  Kind of came of as a little disingenuine to me. I really should to try to  focus on the very important message that Rihanna is putting out there but timing is everything!

 

More on Facebook Affairs

Even though I can think of a couple of people that have had ruined relationships over Facebook affairs, the more I researched, the more I found out this becoming a real problem.

Most of these situations are due to married women reconnecting with an old love, or high school friend. I have read comment after comment from men who have their marriage ruined due to their wive’s Facebook lover. The men are referring to it like their wives have been brainwashed. Their spouses seem to be throwing everything and apparently this happens very quickly. What are the possible causes to this.

Boredom comes to mind. I think women are hardwired to need positive attention and it doesn’t take much to get a married woman to melt when her husband is watching football or oblivious to her new hairstyle. I’m not trying to blame men here at all but it’s definately true without a doubt. Women will fall for it, this is why Edward Cullen the uber-romantic vampire from the Twilight series has entered the heart of so many housewives. He made his life (or whatever you want to call it) about his love Bella. That’s what women want deep down, to be told they’re appreciated and desirable.

Now on to those poor men who can’t find comfort with their wives, so they find it with their lab partner back in the class of ’86. Their wives become indifferent and they need those understanding words, or they just plain old need sex. No matter how happily married you are, you can make it justifiable in your mind to cheat on your spouse. Man or woman we crave the attention and it’s that addiction to the way it makes us feel that causes all the trouble. It’s it really that Facebook friend you’ve got the hots for, or is it the compliments or instant attention you love.  As long as you all realize that in time, that person you’ve left your spouse for will soon become that boring partner who now ignores you as well.

The Twilight Series – New Moon – Extended Preview

I thought about posting this because while I was checking out my new favourite website, www.FML.com, I found a post that a young man had posted. He explained that his girlfriend had dumped him because he wasn’t like Edward. “He’s a fictional character” he wrote. Well young men, middle aged women are now comparing their less-than-doting husbands to Edward Cullen as well.  Most of my friends have read the Twilight series and all of their husbands haven’t read it and hate Edward. Even I, who has a house full of males and have heard, “Screw Edward!” more time than I can count.

Enjoy!

The Russian Vodka Accident

This Russian forklift driver backs into some boxes filled with vodka bottles. Then the entire inventory collapses.

I hope the forklift driver wasn’t  hurt and all but this is truly unbelievable. It looks like those brutally realitic Canadian commercials for work safety.

Facebook Affairs

I’m noticing a bit of a trend with a few of my friends lately. Facebook affairs. The ones I’m referring to are women of their late thirties who have reconnected with an old high-school friend. Usually not an old boyfriend, just a friend.  It’s starts with those humorous status comments and the it evolves to e-mails. Then it turns into that old boyfriend admiting his marriage is unhappy and he has fallen in love with you. In the last year alone I have hear of about four instances of this with my friends. If they ended up persuing their Facebook boyfriend I have no idea and I don’t ever want to know. Even with Rabbi Shmuley explaining to American males on his show Shalom in the Home, that women need affection and attention and if you ignore them they will look for it elsewhere, husbands still don’t seem to get this and now with Facebook all these cyberaffairs are happening right under their noses.

I’d love to see the number of divorces caused by Facebook.

Rant of the Day – November 2, 2009

Every year I swear to myself I’m going to get my Christmas shopping done in November. I know I have lots of time but all the stores already have all their Christmas merchandise out and I’m starting to freak out. How much time do I have until Christmas, almost two months? I can’t help but feel the crunch and it’s all because the stores put out their decorations too early. It affects my life in other ways too. My kids constantly pester my husband and I to put up the Christmas lights outside the house. We have a house in the neighborhood that put theirs up and lit them in August. Not to mention those Christmas lists, the kids have a hundred things on them that they want me to memorize. They adults drive me crazy, they never tell me what they want until two days before Christmas. I send e-mails, I call and it’s always responded with, “Let me think about it.”

I wouldn’t feel this pressure if the stores weren’t jumping the gun on the Christmas rush.

 I already feel like I’m behind. Wasn’t it Halloween just the night before last?