i know that it’s been a while and it’s a long story.  i am looking for a new job, still working at the old one even though i quit in may.  just call me crazy.

i’m training the new me.  she is a nice lady, doing great.  i figured dr. boss would want me to go asap because she is now paying for two, although there is plenty of work to go around . . . i finally feel caught up for the first time since i started in april 2007, but no, dr. boss was asking me to go to a meeting with her and the new me in mid-november.

if you know someone looking for a medical coder email me.  please.

i am now entirely too bored with cleaning cat secretions.  my cats will be toilet trained.  as soon as i can order the litter kwitter on amazon this blog will take a deep turn for the worst.  (as if it wasn’t bad enough aleady)

the whole “no shampoo” or “no ‘poo” hair fad has really caught my attention starting with a chaz dean info-mercial for “wen” and then i saw this new york times article that has been kicking around on the internets.  my hair (and face) are super oily.  gross oily.  overactive nasty oily.  i figured that if i didn’t shampoo my hair it would lead to mega disaster, so forget that . . . maybe if wen was not almost $30 for 16oz i would consider trying it.

then liz and i were strolling though the new section at the christmas tree shop and way up on a top shelf this caught my eye:

way, way up there on the top and i still heard that little light in my brain go “ding.  look at that.”  it smelled good, which might make me want to buy most anything (hence my love for bath and body care products, so many of them smell good).  the cucumber smells nice, but i liked the smell of the olive better, but the olive was for dry hair, and mine is not dry.  the “hair one” is available at sally beauty supply for $10 as well as the christmas tree shop for $9.

here is a picture of my hair after a recent haircut, it’s all styled up, but i washed it with shampoo.  let’s call this the “before picture”:

after a few weeks of “hair one” washing i will update with an after picture.  i would also really, really like to try “wen” but i’m not sure i will get around to it because it involves internet ordering . . . although it is available on amazon.

the good:  i can access wordpress to post to my blog form the public library.

“why is this good?” you ask . . .

the bad: our computer crashed.  kuplunk.  done, gone, dead.  photos.  music.  liz’s knitting paterns, also gone.

the ugly: we are able to access the internets at home apart from our internets able cellular telephones. 

“why, how??” you ask . . .

well, with my decade old gateway solo 1200 of course

“how will this effect me?” you ask.  my posts will be fewer and furtherbetween for the time being.  the computer is getting a brand spanking new hard drive, and should be back in action this weekend, but it will take me some time to get my junk together after this massive blow.

i bought the jvc air cushion in-ear phones for just under $30, by far the most expensive pair i have ever purchased.  the sound quality is by far the best i experienced, maybe even better than my full size noise canceling headphones.  they feel alright, not popping out or causing sharp pain, but still like there is something large in there.

upside:

• no unbearable pain
• great sound
• they lay flush against my head, so i can wear them while laying on my side (bedtime listening is very important)
• blocks out a lot of ambient noise
• lower price point

downside:

• i can hear everything in my head, like chewing, swallowing, breathing, my jaw clicking (just turn that shit up louder!)
• if my cat chews the wire i will be $30 pissed, instead of my usual $9.99 pissed

• pushes the cartilage at the front of my ear outward, but not as badly as everything else i have tried

i love earbuds for several reasons:

• they woun’t mess up my hair
• i can shove them in my purse or a pocket
• they work fine for bedtime listening (i am a side-sleeper)
• they are fairly unobtrusive
• i can wear them under a hat

there is one thing i really hate about earbuds: they are too big for my teeny-tiny ears and they hurt.

liz’s solution was a pair of phillips earclips:

they feel nice, but i cannot wear them to bed, and they are a bit too bulky for my needs.

if i had my way i would get a pair of “shure” earbuds . . . but at close to $500, forget that.

any suggestions?

last month we were visiting friends that i love to play scrabble with, but apparently i am the only one of the four of us who doesn’t get tired of scrabble.  our friends pulled out rummikub.  i had never played before, but liz and i have been trying to learn new games (because she is tired of loosing scrabble, i’m sure) and played rummy with a deck of cards, so we were up for it.

rummikub was very easy to learn, with the same basic principal of setting matches and runs as the card game.  we had a ball, and a few weeks later bought the game.  when my family came over for the holiday we all played for a few hours, and everybody had fun with it.  my sister immediately bought a set and made my parents play with her for the rest of their visit.  my mother said that she was going to buy it when they get home, and my father moaned and groaned a bit, but he liked it too.

i was hopping that i could get liz to play rummikub with me more often because she seems to think it is easier than scrabble, and therefore less stressful, but so foar not so much luck.

and to think that when we got our scrabble set liz practically had to beg me in the store to agree to play with her.  i am so, so, so very bad at spelling that i thought i could never play well enough to have fun . . . but that ended up not being entirely as important as forming smaller, easier to spell words.  my scrabble game is not great, but good enough to hold my own with a game played with four.  i never would have guess scrabble would be my favorite game.

martha stewart’s apple razberry slab pie.  last night with champagne, this morning with coffee and orange juice.

this is my parent’s last day in town, back to peonix they go tomorrow.  i made it.