Things I'm Currently Annoyed With

Due to the fact that I've been sick for the past several days with a bad case of Bronchitis, my brain doesn't seem to want to put together a decent blog entry. Instead - following are the things I'm currently annoyed with:

My cough - I'm so sick and tired of this relentless coughing - although the cough medicine seems to be helping a bit, the cough is still there and it's annoying. I mean really - how many times can one cough before their body just gives out? How hard can one possibly cough before breaking a rib? Maybe it wouldn't bother me as bad if I were actually coughing something up - but I'm not (which is part of the problem) - it's an unproductive, annoying, hacking cough

My passive aggressivenes - WHY WHY WHY am I "all bark and no bite"? Why can't I just grow some balls and give people a piece of my mind every now and again? A good example was yesterday - I had a Doctor's appointment at 4 and after waiting 30 minutes in the lobby & another 30 minutes in the exam room, I finally got up and walked out, mumbling to the nurse as I walked by, "sorry I can't wait anymore, I have to take my daughter to college" . What the hell is that about? Instead of popping my head out of the exam room to see where the hell the Doctor was, I sat inside the exam room with my daughter and moaned & groaned about how long it was taking. And then, instead of totally losing my mind when I lift - all I could muster was a "sorry - I can't wait"! How lame is that? Don't get me wrong - I can be a real bitch at times - and if pestered enough I can get really nasty - but for the most part, when I really need to pull that bitch card out, I don't. UGH

This crazy weather - one day it's warm & sunny, and the next day it's cold & snowy. I never know from one day to the next exactly what the weather is going to be like and it never fails that when it's really cold I usually somehow end up wearing either a short sleeve shirt or a thin long sleeve shirt. No wonder I'm sick!

The current season of American Idol - After seeing the first few shows of the season, I decided not to watch it last night. I'm sick of watching horrible performers auditioning in front of a group of judges who seem to get a real thrill over watching these horrible performs humiliate themselves.

My winter wardrobe - either my clothes are too tight, too loose or they just don't hang right. My sweaters just all seem a bit "worn" and faded. I know I need to lose weight (20 lbs), and I really shouldn't buy any clothes until I get my weight where I want it to be, but I think I feel a good clothes shopping trip coming on.

Tyra Banks extra weight - who cares if she weighs 160 lbs - at her height (I believe she's 5 ft 9 or 10) - that's still skinny to me! I'm tired of the media throwing her weight around like it's some big huge (so to speak) deal. As long as she's happy with the way she looks and feels - who cares if she gained 30 or 40 lbs! I think she looks great!

American Idol

I'm pretty excited that the new season of American Idol has started - but after watching the first 2 episodes last night & Tuesday night - I'm not so sure I'm going to be all that into it this season. Surely some of these contestants know that they can't sing worth a damn, but why why why why why would they put themselves (and the viewers) through the torture? I think the two contestants that scared me the most last night were Darwin Reedy (the lady with the gold shirt who should have really worn a bra and who auditioned with her mother standing right beside her) and Melissa Stavros (who stuffed herself into some black/pink netty looking outfit) - not only were they dressed horribly - but they couldn't sing at all - as was the case for the majority of the contestants from Seattle & Minneapolis.

It's pretty apparent hat the producers of American Idol focus on the horrible peformers for the sake of pure entertainment. Truthfully - performers like the majority of those shown on TV last night, know they can't sing. They simply go to get their 15 minutes of fame, knowing that they aren't going to go any further on the show.

Come on American Idol, stop wasting our time & your time - let's make the show more about the true entertainers and performers!

My new must have!

As everyone probably knows by now, Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone yesterday during his keynote speech at the annual MacWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco. From Apple's Website:

"iPhone combines three products — a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and a breakthrough Internet communications device with desktop-class email, web browsing, maps, and searching — into one small and lightweight handheld device. iPhone also introduces an entirely new user interface based on a large multi-touch display and pioneering new software, letting you control everything with just your fingers. So it ushers in an era of software power and sophistication never before seen in a mobile device, completely redefining what you can do on a mobile phone. "

Ok - that's enough to sell me - the fact that it combines a PDA, with a cell phone, and an Ipod and features web-browsing & a multi-touch display AND will run on the Cingular Network, makes it something that is going to the top of my list of "things I need to have..."

Awesome

I ran across this yesterday, but really didn't think much about it until my niece came over last night and talked about it:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/03/subway.rescue.ap/index.html

What an awesome story! What a terrific ending to something that would have otherwise turned out very tragically. This man truly meets the definition of a hero!