More Things to Be Miserable About

I'm actually having a pretty decent day, despite waking up earlier than I had to and having a pretty serious case of Draggin' Ass. Anyways, thought I'd share all the things I've found to be miserable about (my new favorite hobby).

1. The weather forecast. Next time I need to remember that God has a great sense of humor I'll just remember how he spends all of March, April and May taunting Logan-ites with good weather. Right now its 62.1 F (more reason to be miserable, I'm here in the library working away with my laptop, not running synthesizing more vitamin D), tomorrow it will likely rain (more misery, I'll be out there learning how to delineate a wetland), Wednesday its supposed to snow.


2. My Hotmail Junk inbox. I tried to highlight all the things to be miserable about with this screen capture.

3. Gmail reads my emails and comes up with terrible recommended ads. It took me a while to figure out exactly why the ads they came up with changed so much. Then I typed "yo yo yiggity yo" into an email (so there would be some text there) and it came up with this.
(Bummer, this one didn't show up well. They put up ads for several yo-yo websites and a Yo Yo Ma concert)

4. Jose O'Flannigan is getting worse. It stings when I put on the anti-fungal medicine, so that must mean its working...right?



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My Life Right Now

So, last week I was stressed out of my mind. This week I should be moderately stressed, but I'm struggling to make myself care. In general, things are good, and I thought I'd share some images of the the pressing issues in my life right about now.

Exhibit 1: Jose O'Flannigan, my potential ring worm candidate. It's gotten worse since last week, it looks really bad in the shower (where I'm deeply paranoid about spreading the potential ring worm around beyond my arm). I plan on looking into ring worm more later, I'll let you know what I find.

Exhibit 2: I won $100 from a poster contest! I looked a little dumb for, as I wasn't there to accept the certificate because I didn't know there was even a contest. Silly me. Either way, it makes the stress I was experiencing last week a little more worthwhile. (On a negative note, I'm kind of worried that the only reason any male came up and asked questions about my poster was because they thought I was pretty)

Exhibit 3: Dill Pickle Sunflower Seeds. One day I went out this guy who was like "Becka, you should try the dill flavored sunflower seeds, it'll change your life." Well, he was right, they've changed my life. I sit all day long and spit sunflower seeds into a mug and do my work. You may say "That's gross." I don't care, I love them very much. I recommend you all try them.

Exhibit 4: Google Earth and Google Maps. I could spend all day chewing sunflower seeds, mapping out my adventures on Google Maps and checking out satelite images of places I want to go on Google Earth. If I could do that, my life would be amazing. This here is an image of where I live right now.

Exhibit 5: Random books in the library with intriguing titles. Maybe I would know more about myself if I were more in touch with my thymus. I guess I'll never know.


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Things To Be Miserable About

Well, I started this morose list on Sunday. Last week was pretty busy and crappy. This week managed to be worse. But I've made it, and things aren't so bad anymore. Anyways...

So Ry-Guy bought this charming book the other day called "11,002 Things to Be Miserable About." and I love it. Saturday I had been thumbing through it when I found out my truck was leaking mystery oil. I was tired, and just wanted to go home, and I've been meaning to get my truck into the shop to stop the shaking...Anyways, it seemed I was going to have to spend the night in C-Town, which wasn't such a terrible thing, but I was tired and really just wanted to sleep in my own bed. The moral of this story is that while I went on a walk and compiled a list of things I was miserable about my dad fixed my truck up enough for me to be able to get home. Because he's awesome. But then I woke up this morning on death's door, and decided to be miserable again.

So here it is, the things I'm miserable about right now:

1. I puked at least 25 ounces of water, saltine crackers and stomach bile this morning and Sunday afternoon.
2. There's mold growing on my bathroom ceiling and wall.
3. I might have ring worm. I do have gross toe nails. Why do fungi like me?
4. My face. It sucks right now.
5. Katy Perry is popular. Why?
6. Incidents of anti-biotic resistant bacteria are on the rise all over the country.
7. It snowed a boat load up here today.
8. I've let the alignment problem on my truck get so bad its shaking random bolts loose.
9. Toilet re-gurge.
10. Flame colored urine.
11. It's almost April, and I'm still gathering my research data.
12. Sciatica.
13. People that kiss at stop lights.
14. Happy people.
15. Making wishes at 12:34, 11:11, etc (3:11 is the only legitimate celebratory minute).
16. Gerbils.
17. Gus's steering and spring components are in multi-system organ failure. I've had the pitman and idler arms replaced (which stopped most of the shaking), and gotten a front end alignment (which stopped a little more of the shaking). Now I've got to replace the leaf springs.
    
18. Liars. Tuesday night the leaf spring story was "That's not a big deal, call tomorrow and we'll track down how much the parts will be." Wednesday the story was "$1,500." That's a freaking big deal.
    
19. My face, again. After the $1,500 debacle I bawled for a bit. It made my face swell up and get all blotchy. However, the zits on my face managed to show up well, despite the extra red.
    
20. Ugly cry face. My own mother said I have an ugly cry face. Its a curse.
    
21. My hair. I hate it right now. It just lays there. I only get a chance to straighten it like once a week. (If anyone has ideas for how I should cut it, I know someone that will do it, I just don't know how I want it done (no bangs)).
    
22. Cats. (The pets, not the musical)
23. Optimism.
    

But in the end, there are many things I can be happy about:
(This is the happiest picture I had on my camera. The sky was really cool looking that day, but by the time I got my camera out it was only this cool. Then 5 hours later it snowed.)

1. Anti-spazmodics
2. It's almost April, which should be warmer than March has been.
3. Depeche Mode is coming to Utah, and I'm going to go see them. Plus Taking Back Sunday and 311 are coming the next few months. Boo ya!
4. My truck usually manages to become incontinent in my parent's driveway, rather than on the freeway. No car trouble-induced accidents for me.
5. I haven't hit another car in like 3 years. Yeah me!
6. I saw American Avocets, Northern Shovelers, Double-crested Cormorants and other birds at the Migratory Bird Refuge the other day. Quite wonderful.
7. Saltines.
8. Netflix. I love it. Right now "Dexter" is waiting for me to have some time to watch it.
   
9. Heroes. Its getting back into mystery and intrigue. Yeah!
   

In the end, life is good. I started this list on Sunday, and despite the odds being stacked against me, I've made it to Thursday. Tonight I have to stand in front of a poster I just got printed off (and its pretty), then tomorrow I get to hear some speeches I'm looking forward to, then I'm going rock climbing.
(One last reason to be miserable: the only time I've been out to my study area with a camera its been too cold for the vegetation to look pretty. However, I still think wetlands are cool)


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