a lousy 4 points...

Pholph's Scrabble Generator My Scrabble© Score is: 4. What is your score? Get it here.

leave it to mom to give me a name consisting of only one point scrabble letters - and only four of em, to boot. alas, it's all moot anyways - proper names aren't allowed in scrabble. scrambling letters will give you ROIL, a valid scrabble word, still only 4 points, unless ya land on some triples or something...

Paraskevidekatriaphobics, please ignore this post.

learned a new word today - paraskevidekatriaphobia. it's is a fear of Friday the 13th. i'm not particularly superstitious myself - every day of the week's crappy. *8-)

perhaps today's the day to buy some lottery tickets.

tonight's episode of ER...

i must say, i cracked up when i saw the commercial for Lockhart Hummer that aired during tonight's episode of ER, titled "Impulse Control" - they made a very good point of slamming Hummer because of the damage that they can do to other cars. A guy had a heart attack and crashed into a family, killing most of 'em, and the guy was worried about his new car more than his own health situation, let alone that of the people he injured/killed.

i'm thinking Lockhart Hummer (if anyone from their organization saw this episode) will be asking for at least a partial refund on the money they spent on advertising...

good little pancreas...

today's trip to the endocrinologist was a good one - my hemoglobin a1c was 6.6 (surprising, since i haven't been very good about checking my sugars lately), my cholesterol's doing very well, everything seems fine and dandy. well, except for the weight thing - i need to lose some weight.

dr. priscu is quite a woman - i was telling her about my unemployment and how hard it is to find a job and she was telling me about coming from romania years ago and not being able to practice medicine when she got here because she didn't know english, but that there were plenty of jobs for people - if you wanted to work, finding a job was not a problem. but it's just not that way nowadays - she never imagined the US would be in the shape that it is now. she also came out very anti-war as well - it's interesting to learn some of the more personal aspects of doctors, especially when they align with my own political beliefs. *8-)

omigod, they're HUGE!!!

errr, the title refers to my PUPILS, ya pervert! *8-) the opthamologist dilated my eyes during my appointment today - wouldn't ya know it'd be the first sunny day we've had in weeks. i was sans sunglasses, and the drive home was literally painful - i squinted all the way...

doc wants me to up the vitamins and lutein since he's seeing more changes to my macula, as well as my having an increased risk of a torn or damaged retina - ugh. as many problems as mom's had with her vision, i know to take good care of my eyes.

i asked the doc about contacts - since i'm nearsighted, i don't have to have the glasses on 24/7, and i have a tendency to leave them off when i really should probably be wearing them. maybe contacts would remedy the situation, tho dr. alig says that i shouldn't wear them when i sleep. the chicks in the office said he doesn't recommend that for anyone, but he said particularly in my case, wearing em overnight would be a bad idea. regardless, my insurance mandates i go somewhere else (probably target) for contacts, so i wanna look into the costs before i make a decision there...

miscellaneous stuff and thangs...

i've noticed i haven't put much personal stuff in the ol' blog lately, so i'm gonna try to remedy that. i suppose the main reason being i'm in a funk and i just haven't been DOING anything, so there's not much to report...

the job search isn't going all that well - there just doesn't seem to be anything out there for me. believe me, i'm looking anywhere and everywhere...

yesterday i went to the license branch, to get a new plate for my car - can't afford the extra $40 for the Indiana Arts Commission plate this year, so it's back to a plain ol' Indiana plate. i was flabbergasted when i got to the license branch - no wait! i was next in line! woo hoo! so i sit down at the desk and wouldn't ya know it - THE WHOLE COMPUTER NETWORK CRASHED, statewide. i hung out for a while and eventually it came back up and i got my plate - i knew it was impossible to go to the BMV without waiting at least half an hour!!

last week was the end of my physical therapy for the tendonitis in my right hand - it's weird not having that regular appointment two or three times a week now. of course, i've managed to fill this week up with other appointments - today it's the annual eye exam, tomorrow's the therapist, thursday's the endocrinologist.

gonna talk to the eye doc about contacts - don't know much about 'em, but i know that i have a tendency not to wear my glasses but that my nearsightedness seems to be getting worse to the point that i should wear them all the time - perhaps doing the extended-wear contacts will remedy the situation. *shrug*

mom signed us up for membership at the YMCA - now we need to get into the schedule of actually GOING and getting some exercise. i was all psyched to go last night, then she cancelled because she had a headache. shoulda gone without her, but i wimped out. they just recently moved everything in to the Y when all the renovations were done after the tornado, so it's pretty spiffy now.

more later, i hafta get ready for the doc!

great photoshopping...

love this pic:

Fab Five to the Oval Office, ASAP...

you know...you'd think that, with as many people as he's got pulling his strings, at least ONE of them woulda stepped forward and suggested that Dubya actually wear a pair of pants that FIT when appearing on Meet The Press.



well, at least he had tall socks on, eh?