reading: Skipping Towards Gomorrah, by Dan Savage. It’s pretty damn good, so far.
Finished reading over the weekend: Tales from the Scale. Not to be crass (since I’ve written part of it), but it’s a mighty good book. A plus! plus! plus! plus! Heh.
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We finally watched Primetime Live’s
Fallen Idol on Friday night, and by the end of it I was horrified, angry, and very, very sad. Because that, my friends, is an hour of my life I will NEVER get back again.
I think Paula Abdul should be thrown off American Idol for having very, very poor taste. I mean, COME ON, Paula, you have all those cute little hunks, and you pick COREY CLARK? Gah. ARE YOU BLIND??
Do I think Paula Abdul had an affair with him? Yeah, probably. Was she wrong? Of course she was, even if he wasn’t a dead ringer for
Sideshow Bob. Do I care? No, no, and HELL NO.
At one point during the show, Fred turned to me and said “I wonder if this will help his career or hurt it?” I think it will do neither, because NO ONE GIVES A SHIT ABOUT COREY CLARK. ABC will do their best to flog the story for a little while, and then Corey Clark will sink back into obscurity, where he was before he started trying to sell his book full of EXPLOSIVE ALLEGATIONS.
And my god, that song he was recording? I rolled my eyes so hard that I almost passed out. “Paulatics”, indeed.
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Hey, remember a few months ago when I whined about the fact that whenever I go to the pet store to feed the kitties and clean their cages, I get really really itchy? And then someone suggested that I try taking a child’s dose of Benadryl before I go to the pet store? And then I bought a bottle of Benadryl and it sat on the counter for a long time?
Well, this morning I finally remembered to take it before I left for the pet store, and guess what? It worked! I had some itching, but NOTHING as bad as it’s been.
Thank you, whoever recommended the Benadryl! You saved my skin! I bet it would have been especially bad this week if I hadn’t taken the Benadryl, because all the cats were shedding like hell. There was so much cat hair wafting around in the cat room that I could barely see from one end to the other. Ordinarily I would have been standing there scratching like hell, but not today. Yay!
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I have recently started on a stringent vitamin-taking routine, because I’m getting old and I know I don’t get all the vitamins I need from the foods I eat. I’m also taking a hair, skin & nails pill with biotin in it, because the hair atop my noggin is thinning (the doctor suspects it’s due to thyroid issues), and I figure my nails and skin could use all the help it can get. ALSO, I’m taking an essential oil twice a day –
Udo’s Choice, to be exact – because when I’m eating the way I should, I don’t get nearly enough essential oils in my diet.
So this weekend, after my shower, I put on some Lemon Meringue perfume I got at Bath & Body Works last Fall. About midday, I realized that the smell had changed from Lemon Meringue to something that smelled exactly like
White Musk.
My question to you, my smartypants readers, is this: is my new vitamin-taking regimen somehow altering the way my body reacts with perfume? I’ve been occasionally using the Lemon Meringue perfume for months now, and this is the first time I’ve noticed it smelling like White Musk. Which is not one of my favorite smells, in case you were wondering.
Got an opinion on the topic? Leave it in the comments. Thanks!
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So, apparently Jennifer Garner is pregnant. When I heard that, I thought “Boy, that’s a shot to the heart of La Lopez, ain’t it?” I mean, it’s no secret Jennifer Lopez wants kids, and to hear that Ben’s new woman is pregnant already has to sting a little bit. Whenever a celebrity couple breaks up and the new girlfriend gets pregnant, I always wonder what the old girlfriend’s reaction is. Are they thinking “Better her than me”, or “That asshole!”, or crying and eating a gallon of Ben and Jerry’s or what? When Julia Roberts and Benjamin Bratt broke up, I believe it was about ten seconds later that Talisa Soto got pregnant. I immediately wondered what Julia Roberts thought of THAT. I also wondered if Benjamin Bratt was all “In your FACE! I don’t need YOU to have kids with me, I’ve got someone ELSE to get pregnant. Ha!”
Yes, perhaps I DO spend too much time thinking about the lives of celebrities.
(You bet your
ass I already have the DVR set to record
Chaotic.)
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Anyone have any idea what’s going on with
Eyes? It was pre-empted last Wednesday by the Primetime Live Corey Clark snoozapalooza, and it doesn’t appear that it’s going to be on this week, either. I haven’t been able to find anything anywhere that says it’s been cancelled, so maybe they’re going to wait until after May sweeps to finish airing the season?
I need my Tim Daly fix, damnit!
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Yesterday was so sunny and warm that most of the cats spent a good part of the afternoon lolling about in the sun, watching the birds.
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I just started reading “Tales from the Scale” this weekend and I’m loving it! I had to force myself to put it down last night so that I could get some sleep before having to wake up from work.
I’ve read that they are pulling eyes for May Sweeps. (It’s not doing well.) — It looks like it might be burnt off in the summer, but it’s not a done deal yet… still has a chance.
I’ll be interested to see what your take is on the “gluttony” section of _Skipping Toward Gomorrah_. I liked the book, but had a few qualms about it.
I really like Eyes too and missed it last week. I had set up my VCR to record it, but instead got that stupid Corey Clark interview. Gah!
LOVE the photos of the kitties enjoying the sun. Ms. Poo looks irritated that her beauty rest was disturbed. hee.
The Bean looks like he’s heckling the birds. “Here, bur-dee bur-dee bur-dee bur-dee!”
And I have no idea why you’re smelling all Musky, but I’d guess it’s the vitamins and whatnot. Unless maybe your musk glands need to be expressed? :^)
Of course Paula’s taste is THAT BAD, look at how she dresses! But that was EXACTLY my thought too- out of all the American Idol guys, Corey Clark? The whole thing smacked of extortion to me. I don’t know about anybody else, but I’m not keeping phone bills, or receipts from over two years ago.
http://epguides.com/grid/fall.shtml
Looks like Eyes has been cancelled with 8 episodes that haven’t aired, so maybe they’ll show those eight over the summer? (towards the bottom of the page it lists all the cancelled shows)
I LOVE that webpage for all the new TV stuff…great info! and a handy guide 😉
About the perfume — I’d say it definately has something to do with it. There are some perfumes I just can’t wear because, while they smell nice in the container or on paper, they smell like ass once I’ve put them on. My mum is the same way. Your body chemistry can react to the chemicals in perfume to make it smell nasty. I like White Musk from the Body Shop best, it smells lurrrvly, even on me 🙂
NOOOOO – please do not tell me that Eyes got cancelled!!!! We need to start a campaign and bring it back. It’s fast, funny & Tim Daly is oh-so-fine!!!
OH MY GOD! I so totally did my J Lo impression Sunday morning. ‘MARC ANTHONY I WANT MY BABY AND I WANT IT RIGHT NOW’ perhaps I too spend too much time engrossed in the lives of celebraties. Perhaps I should get one of my own.
i think the eyes thing might be incorrect (or at least i hope and pray) since that site still lists boston legal on sunday @ 10 and there’s no way in hell abc is going to bump grey’s anatomy. so we can keep our fingers crossed for the time being.
Ok, according to today’s USA Today in the entertainment section along the side it states that; ABC has pulled the wool over Eyes for the remainder of the May sweeps period, when networks go all out to attract viewers. The series, which stars Tim Daly as the head of a risk management/investigation firm, has been struggling to find an audience and was to be bumped for expanded episodes of Alias and Lost this month. Instead of Eyes on Wednesday, ABC will air a special episode of supernanny.
Hope that answers your questions on that…not cancelled, just bumped right now….
Where is Spanky? He LOVES the sun.
I haven’t experimented with whether or not vitamin ingestion changes what kind of perfumes you wear, but you are what you eat, so it would totally make sense. I know they tell you that you should eat garlic and take lots of B vitamins to keep away mosquitos, in lieu of bug repellent, so I’m sure you can change your stank with food and supplements, even enough to turn perfume.
I am queen of the leaf and musky perfumes. I envy all wearers of flower perfumes, like my mom. I wear the flowery stuff and it becomes something foul and evil.
Re: Benadryl. You are welcome. heh. It goes with the territory when you and your kids are allergic to almost everything. (Except the cats, thank God). FYI – when purchasing sleeping medication, check it’s dosage amount and buy Benadryl instead. It is the SAME ingredient, usually cheaper.
Re: the vitamins. Biotin is a B vitamin and most B vitamins can change the way your body reacts to scents. Even your pee can smell funny. Be sure you are not taking too much of any vitamin. Are you taking a multi vitamin, too? You can get memory loss, confusion and many other side effects taking too much of some vitamins.
Some essential oils are made with fish oils that tend to change the way your body reacts to scents, too.
Sometimes a scent will change as it ages.
If you need answers to any more health matters, send me an email. IÂ’m not a doctor, but IÂ’ve probably had it or have taken care of a family member who has.
Love those kitty pics!
Re: The Bennifer Part 2… this just smacks of the Angelina/Brad partnership….wonder what Jen’s thinking??
here’s 2 cents from one of the smarty pants readers: Yes, your supplements can cause the changes in your own body odor and the way you react to perfumes.
Heh. That was my first reaction to the Garner/Affleck pregnancy. JLo must be feeling very JEALOUS, yeah, I need a life too 🙂