I’ve been eating microwave popcorn, well, probably since it came on the market. I was surprised and appalled to read that the buttery chemical used in the popcorn causes lung disease in factory workers and can cause problems for consumers, too.
Wha?!?
It’s like finding out my beloved Cheerios is made with ground puppy bones or something. It makes me wonder what other things I consume have a similarly disturbing backstory.
I’m “working at home” today, and having just gotten cable in my new place, of course my work is accompanied by the background din of daytime TV. So far I’ve watched the Today Show, a bit of What Not to Wear, some of Life of Ryan, and then Newport Harbor: The Real Orange County. I loves me some reality TV, but after 20 minutes of Newport Harbor, I feel certain that I’m several IQ points stupider. It’s those Orange County girls. They’re identical: tan, extremely blonde, and near-retarded. Seriously, I can’t tell them apart. Or maybe I would be able to if only I hadn’t lost those IQ points.
I have the opportunity to improve my living situation.
Currently I am:
Potential living situation, for about 20% more moolah:
It’s a great opportunity - this lady owns this condo, but lives in a different state. She rents it out for probably half what it would cost otherwise.
Oh yeah, and this: she wants me to commit to a lease (she refuses to do any month-to-month). Which doesn’t sound like a big deal, but ya see, I swore to myself this will be THE LAST time I move into a rental, and my next move will be into a house that I own. I’ve had this vague idea that I’d buy a house sometime in 2008. But vague makes it easy to put it off and/or avoid thinking about the commitment. Well, it’s probably about time I gave myself a drop-dead date on the home ownership thing, anyway….
For some reason, BMG decided this album just screamed my name, and sent it as my Featured Selection.
Allow me to list some of the highlights of this spotlight compilation:
Cum on Feel the Noize - Quiet Riot
Final Countdown - Europe
Kiss Me Deadly - Lita Ford
Blackout - Scorpions
Seventeen - Winger
Mutha (Don’t Wanna Go to School Today) - Extreme
Cherry Pie - Warrant
Get It On - Kingdom Come
Smooth Up in Ya - Bulletboys
Wait - White Lion
Heaven’s Trail (No Way Out) - Tesla
Hang on, let me run and feather my bangs, toss on my spandex pants and leg warmers, and we can jump in my white Trans Am and rock the night away….
There is a new chapter in the gripping drama of my knee. It involves my first-ever visit to a physical therapist. Jordin, the super- rad PT, began by asking me a bunch of questions about when the pain began (January? February?), the quality and location of the pain (a pulling/pinching around the inner kneecap), and whether I had named my injury (okay, she didn’t really ask that). Then she bent my limbs around in different configurations, testing how “loose” my joints are. The thought of my joints being “loose” kind of gave me the willies. Like my knees might just fly apart if I pivot too fast?
Anyhoo, she was confident about what was going on - sorry, the medical name escapes me, I was just so overjoyed she didn’t immediately tell me I’d have to have surgery or buy a new knee or something, I couldn’t retain any technical details - and she was confident that doing some strengthening exercises and improving my ergonomics would fix me up.
And THEN, she said something to this effect: “By the time we’re 30, nearly all of us have some arthritis issues in the knee joints, even if there’s no pain yet. This is probably also a factor in what’s going on with your knees.”
Excuse me?!? My age is a factor? I’m thirty-freakin-one years old!
Oh, god: My first AGE-RELATED MALADY.
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