My thumbnails grow slower than my other fingernails.

I know this because the damaged nail beds from when I ripped off my fake fingernails are nearly completely grown out.

Except for my thumbnails.  They’ve only grown out about half way.

BTW, all the hype about severe storms in our area?  No dice.  Which is totally fine by me.  But, if it keeps raining like this, I’m going to have to start building an ark.  Seriously.

I’ve contemplated canceling my doctor’s appointment tomorrow for two reasons.  One: since I’ve made the appointment, my symptoms have lessened.  But, they’ve not completely gone away yet.  Two: if 3498321 tests are ordered, I have to pay for each of them out of pocket, and I’m not super thrilled with that possibility.

Here’s hopin’ that whatever my issue is can be immediately diagnosed.  Even if it is that I am just a hypochondriac!

Yup - another meme. Two days in a row. Its … its … well, whatever it is, I’ve decided to do it.

I found this over at a blog called Problem Girl, although I had seen it around a while ago. I’ve only recently found Jen, but like what I read… I’d call her and instant favorite. You should definitely go check her out.

Anyway - here’s the meme:

1. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
2. Using only the first page of results, and pick one image.
3. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into Big Huge Lab’s Mosaic Maker to create a mosaic of the picture answers.

The questions:
1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food? right now?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. What is your favourite drink?
7. What is your dream vacation?
8. What is your favourite dessert?
9. What do you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. What is one word that describes you?
12. What is your flickr name?

1. It wasn’t enough for Sheila to be taller., 2. Mashed Potato Gratin, 3. Tiny Titan Cheerleading Clinic, 4. Green Womble House, 5. +[ Johnny Depp: drop dead gorgeous ]+, 6. Diet Coke 1 Liter, 7. The Chesil Beach at Portland - Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site, 8. Cherry Cheesecake, 9. ~ A Kiss For Mommy ~, 10. A Flower for all my flickr friends & family, 11. Give us this day…, 12. silouette edit

I finally decided that I should just go ahead and make a doctors appointment for this blasted whatever it is that is going on with my breathing.  Benadryl just doesn’t fix the issue completely, which makes me wonder if its allergy related at all.  Heck, maybe its all due to stress.  (BTW - I stopped taking the St. John’s Wort a while ago.  Stopping it didn’t seem to affect me, so I figured why waste money to buy it?)

I called around to find a free clinic, or one based on income, and it would appear that there are none available in my county.  And, technically, in order to use the other counties ‘free services’, you need to being proof of living in that county.  Isn’t that grand?  Instead, my county hospital will set up a payment program.  Which, if that is my only option, then I’d rather schedule an appointment at Tom’s doctor’s office.  I know them there, and feel comfortable with their care.  So, point being, I’ve got an appointment for Friday at 1pm.  Hopefully they’ll just be able to look at me and say, “Oh, this is the problem.  There, its fixed now.”  Wouldn’t that be superb?

Our internet has been wonky today.  And, by wonky, I mean its been going in and out all day long.  Which is annoying, obviously.  But, when the internet goes out, so does the TV.  Which means both forms of major entertainment are gone.  Super sucky, in my opinion.  When I called my cable company, they said, “We are aware of the outage in Missouri.  Thank you.”  Uhm, Missouri is a pretty big place… are you aware of the outage in MY itty bitty town in Missouri?

My service has already blinked four times in the process of writing this post! I better hurry up and publish this while all the little lights on the little box are working.

I know a meme is a cop out.

Really, I do. But, honestly, there is nothing going on around here that I choose to blog about. Work is work. Home is home. Tom is good. I’m alive.

So, you get a meme that I stole from my sister-in-law.

If you choose to answer it, let me know in the comments and I’ll swing by to learn more about you.

Except you, Blue. You have to answer it… cuz I’m a meanie head.

* = I have no idea if she really is or isn’t. But, signs are pointing to her being a crackhead at the moment. But, in all actuality, I just used that information as a title for this post because I can. So there.

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May I quickly say that on average over half the people that visit my blog in a days time find their way here by searching one of two things.

1 - The Funky Sock Exchange.  That pyramid scheme failed me miserably.  The only socks I received from that whole escapade were pity socks because my pyramid collapsed.  If you would like to send me more pity socks, please email me ASAP.

2 - Pinky finger concerns.  I never knew how many people were worried about the health of their pinky fingers.  And I’m super sorry that I have no information to give regarding this often overlooked digit.  Put a cold rag on it?  Kiss it better?  Thats the only help I can be.

Strange, isn’t it?

But, really, I have no idea what I would my blog to be googled for… uhm, or however you phrase that so its proper grammar.

What words would you like to be typed in the search engine and have your blog be the number one result?

My newest toy to play around with is my cell phone.  Its the same cell phone I’ve had for some time.  And, I’ve not found some secret function or anything on it.

But, I have figured out the wonder that is sending my cell phone photos to facebook.  If you wanted, you could keep an eye on those photos here.  It makes me want to get a better camera phone, though.  As I have figured this all out, I’ve had to keep from posting 13409123 photos of my cats.  Because, really, here around the house, the only excitement is the cats.  Well, not really, but you catch my drift, right?

Anyhow, I call it an obsession because I think about taking a cell phone picture several times a day so I can upload it here.  Yet, I rarely find something that I feel is worthy of using my alloted monthly pix/text.  (Was that a complete sentence?)

I’ve decided that those people who have a facebook and already pay for unlimited pictures should completely and totally start uploading their cell phone pictures immediately.

Please let me know when you’ve accomplished this.

Thanks.

Don’t you hate it when you go to the grocery store, buy a cart full of food, get home, put it all away and then open your refrigerator door and stare mindlessly into it while trying to figure out what to eat for lunch?

I find it entertaining that postage on the package I mailed today cost as much as the combined total of the items in the box.  By ‘entertaining’, I mean ‘disturbing’.  And, by ‘items’, I mean ‘items’.  (I did that last part just to mess with you.)

My employer has decided that I should finally have a set schedule.  Which has its ups and downs, obviously.  This has just started yesterday, and the jury is still out on their overall opinion on the change.  And, by ‘jury’, I mean ‘me’.

I haven’t figured out my whole Going To Oklahoma idea at all.  I was originally wanting to go for a week, so I could spend time with each person that I wanted to see.  But, I definitely can’t figure out how to manage a week away from my life.  Going for a weekend is kind of hard to manage since I work Saturday and Sunday.  There really isn’t anyone to replace me on those days, either.  And, really, who wants to go visit everyone on a Monday and Tuesday while they’re at work (my normal days off)?

Anyhow, I guess I’m going to go stare in the fridge a little more.  And by ’stare’, I mean ’stare’.  And by ‘in the fridge’, I mean ‘at the computer’.

PS - why in the WORLD can I not upload photos to my bloggity bloggy blog?  Its annoying that I have to upload them to photobucket then stick the code in a post.  I know its not hard.  Its just annoying!!  ANNOYING I SAY!

K, bye.