Friday, November 20

{ Germ infested and bored }



I woke up this morning feeling much worse than yesterday. This week I was blessed with cold given to me by my loving Fiance. Okay, so it was inevitable. You share things with the people you love right? I would've passed on this one. After a few days of seeing my sniffling, stuffy, raspy throated vegetable state puking Fiance I was gifted with a germ infested cold. I woke up feeling crappy yesterday sniffles, sneezy and stuffy. Sometimes I was chilled as if I had been rolling in snow, at other times I felt like I just finished sweatin to the oldies with Richard Simons. However, I did manage to post a blog yesterday {Laundry: The Right to Hang}. My phone rang this morning at 6:45 am.. I ignored it, went back to sleep.. okay attempted to. After a few does of Theraflu I managed to pull myself together [somewhat] and then I found myself plotting a new blog for today. Oh and if you dont know me well. I have a tendancy to get really weird and silly when I'm sick.. okay.. alot more weird and silly than usual.

Today I feel like Indiana Jones and the temple of snotty tissue (Gross, I know. Yuck!) I began with Yahoo search #1 and typed "Things to do when your sick"
I found something..

what are fun things to do when your home sick and are bored

1. (although this one doesnt relate to being at home sick, I can see myself still doing this.)
Ride your bike to walmart, throw bouncy balls down the aisles and yell, "I choose you pikachu!"

2. (Extensively long, but worth the read) I hope you have read maximum ride... or you won't understand a few of these (I'm not sure what this has to do with the novel exactly, but now I may have a look at it)

1)drink something 2)see how long you can hold your breath 3)see if you can beat that record of holding your breath 4)read (maximum ride is preferred, but whatever) 5)write a novel 6)write a stupid story that makes you laugh so freakin hard but no one else would understand it except you 7)send thousands of txts to your friends, just to tick them off when they turn their fone back on after school 8)learn to play piano 9)learn to play guitar 10)attempt to sing and then laugh at the pain it inflicted on your throat 11)listen to your ipod since the voices and instruments are way better than your attempts 12)create a comic strip 13)pester your parents 14) try to get grounded 15)when you get grounded, blame everything you do on your medicine and claim you have no memory of whatever you did whatsoever. 16)poke things 17)draw 18)email all the famous people you know and claim you wont stop emailing them until they call you and say tht they hope you feel better- and mean it 19)when they threaten to block you, create a different email and then continue bugging them 20)repeat #19 until the second part of #18 happens 21)make a campfire in your room 22)become a caveman/cavewoman 23)when youve accomplished #22 start talking about how insulting geico is to you 24)play chess with yourself 25)fall asleep on the chessboard 26)save the world by threatening to give any villian strep if they do something bad 27)poke the villian anyway cuz they must have done something to get the title "villian" in the first place 28)roll ur neighbor 29)dig 30)learn spanish 31)annoy your parents by speaking spanish nonstop 32)talk incessantly 33)watch every episode of the powerpuff girls from the beginning to end 34)laugh ur head off at their eyes and the names of the characters 35)give yourself another name 36)talk in 3rd person 37)walk around the house mumbling to yourself for an hour 38)beg to be put into a crazy institution 39)run around claiming that the erasers and whitecoats are out to get you 40)create an imaginary friend 41)clap flipflops together nonstop 42)hide the shoes and pretend to read when your parents come in to make you stop 43)when they tell you to stop, blame it on your imaginary friend and that he's making lovely music, and
your parents just arent with the times 44)when they dont believe you, claim he is real, and he's just shy. 45)type with your eyes closed 46)read aloud 47)every time your voice cracks, burst out laughing 48)take a nap 49)dream 50)wake up 51)go around the house acting clumsy and stupid and then lay down on the ground 52)stand up and claim you were sleepwalking 53)chew on something important 54)throw darts at a hannah montana poster 55)pretend ur michael jackson and put on loads of makeup 56)learn something 57)enjoy a beach. 58)if you dont have a beach go find one on ebay 59)pick up telemarketers' calls and make conversation with them thats completely off topic 60)if they hang up, redial the number and act truly hurt 61)make a feind 62)sweep ur closet 63)blow bubbles 64)blare your music 65)grow wings 66)call a lab and ask for your rat back 67)blog 68)prank call your siblings' friends' houses 69)create an evil laugh and save it for when you can talk without being in pain 70)create your own secret language 71)become your own secret service 72)sneak around the house singing james bond 73)read a rap aloud in an english accent as if it were a poem 74)get in the front seat of your car and honk the horn 75)drink water (its kinda required for strep) 76)watch black and white cartoons 77)write notes to yourself 78)create a town made of jello 79)hide your dads office supplies and blame it on leprechauns 80)become irish 81)claim youre actually someone from the past and youre in the wrong body 82)have a staring contest with a mirror 83)go to the dr's office and cry when they say your name 84)pluck a rooster 85)burn a certain stalker book 86)go online shopping for water 87)go to boston in the fall 88)eat pinecorn 89)what??? you dont know what pinecorn is??? its corn from pine trees, now go eat it 90)cook something outrageously disgusting and say you made it special for dinner 91)when they ask if you were serious, tear up and ask if there was something wrong with you trying to be nice 92)crack up when they eat it 93)say gullible slowly- it sounds like green beans 94)swallow your meds with monster 95)when you're bouncing off the walls blame it on your meds and that monster has no effect on you at all 96)find harry potter and poke him, whispering in his ear that youre a dementor see if he does a potronus against you for it 97)become an alien 98)use your created language from #70 and explain that you really are from neptune and you need to get back as soon as you can 99)dry your pool... with hairdryers 100)become a greek god of japan

Yahoo Search #2
Ways to get sick (I wouldn't suggest attempting these. I just found an odd humor about it. These are all random searches I tossed together)

forcing self to eat something old
forcing self to hold a flashlight to head til its warm, then sticking ice around your lips so they turn bluish.
Eat fish, then drink milk.
mix lemon juice & milk and drink it
Don't wash hands
Get high
Get drunk
Leave food on table overnight to food poison yourself
Take laxatives for diarrhea
Touch a poison ivory plant
Eat rotten foods, such as vegetables and fruits
Eat expired food
Miss sleeping for a whole day
Eat food which is way past it's sell by date and has visible mould on it.
Drink some water out of the toilet.
Pick up tissues out of bins and use them.
Kiss someone who is sick.
Drink some really salty water.
Ipecac
Anthrax
Ebola
Meningitis
N1S1
Food poisoning
E. coli
S. aureus
Strychnine
Poison fungi
Eat raw chicken, food poisoning
roll around in nuclear waste

Yahoo Search #2
sick humor Poems

Sick
by Shel Silverstein

"I cannot go to school today,"
Said little Peggy Ann McKay.
"I have the measles and the mumps,
A gash, a rash and purple bumps.
My mouth is wet, my throat is dry,
I'm going blind in my right eye.
My tonsils are as big as rocks,
I've counted sixteen chicken pox
And there's one more--that's seventeen,
And don't you think my face looks green?
My leg is cut--my eyes are blue--
It might be instamatic flu.
I cough and sneeze and gasp and choke,
I'm sure that my left leg is broke--
My hip hurts when I move my chin,
My belly button's caving in,
My back is wrenched, my ankle's sprained,
My 'pendix pains each time it rains.
My nose is cold, my toes are numb.
I have a sliver in my thumb.
My neck is stiff, my voice is weak,
I hardly whisper when I speak.
My tongue is filling up my mouth,
I think my hair is falling out.
My elbow's bent, my spine ain't straight,
My temperature is one-o-eight.
My brain is shrunk, I cannot hear,
There is a hole inside my ear.
I have a hangnail, and my heart is--what?
What's that? What's that you say?
You say today is. . .Saturday?
G'bye, I'm going out to play!"

Being sick doesnt have to mean being completely miserable, it has its ups and downs.
Hopefully we all learned something here. You dont have to be at home sick bored and well if your desperate enough to try and make yourself sick.. I think you might be weirder than I am.

This is Brenadettebizarre *sneezes* signing off.

Thursday, November 19

{ Laundry: The Right to Hang }


Balcony Laundry by tengtan

This morning I was quit disgruntled when I happened to catch a Yahoo News article about a resident of Pennsylvania who was told not to "hang her laundry" outside to dry by a town official and some neighbors.

"They said it made the place look like trailer trash," she said, in her yard across the street from a row of neat, suburban houses. "They said they didn't want to look at my 'unmentionables.'"– Carin Froehlich (U.S. residents fight for the right to hang laundry by Jon Hurdle)

This really bugs me. For ages Americans like Froehlich and ourselves have been hanging our laundry outside. Theres a great history behind it. Our parents and grandmothers who spent days outside in the warm summer sun hanging up linens, blankets, clothes to dry. My Grandmother always said she loved how they smelled after being outside. Not only does this save money but its a relaxation almost mediation state for many of us. Or women who chit chat with there children and friends. Its a time of bonding with outdoors, our heritage and expresses a type of freedom.

"It's an image that epitomizes summertime: freshly laundered sheets pinned on a clothesline, billowing languidly in a warm breeze. But that iconic summer sight — so nostalgic, so pure — is becoming rarer, falling victim not just to hectic lives, but to restrictive ordinances and convenants. " -By Dru Sefton (Clotheslines: Conservation of watts and the old ways drive a movement)

I dont care, its just not right. If you believe in something you should stand up for it. Specially during this time with all the unemployment and low cash flow. I'm sorry but things get expensive, laundry matts are even expensive and if I can afford another meal by hanging my clothes outside I'm going to do it. So move over. I'm coming full force through my yard with a basket of laundry and a bundle of clothespins. If you don't like it "Heres a quarter call someone who cares."




"The Environmentally-Friendly Way to Dry Your Family's Laundry!
In the "olden days" it was a common sight to see housewives hanging the family's laundry
outdoors to dry. It was the only real option, until gas- and electric-powered appliances became
available. Now many families depend on dryers to dry their clothing. Environmentally-conscious
families are returning to the quaint custom of hanging clothes on a clothesline as part of their
effort to reduce energy usage and preserve our environment."- J.E. Davidson (Tips for Hanging Laundry on a clothesline)

Need to refresh your Laundry hanging skills J.E. Davidson covers the basics. If you want more you have to check out the article on associatedcontent.com

1. How To Hang Linens So They're Soft and Fluffy
(tips for avoiding stiff uncomfortable laundry)

2. If You Wear It On Top, Pin It At The Bottom, and Vice Versa
(like hanging multiple sheets and towels in overlapping rows)

3. More helpful hints
(like hanging dark colors indoors, what not to hang, avoiding bird-traffic)





Project Laundry List is an organization dedicated to inform people like us of the Benefits, Rights, and awareness of hanging laundry.

There mission statement: making air-drying and cold-water washing laundry acceptable and desirable as simple and effective ways to save energy.

For those of you looking for more information regarding Project Laundry List or those that are curious here are their principles they've stated from there website.
  • It is not enough to define a problem and offer no solutions.
  • Our consumption patterns create the demand for electricity.
  • The generation of nuclear power is an inefficient energy source producing an abundance of hazardous waste of which we cannot safely dispose.
  • Raising awareness of existing alternatives to nuclear power and large hydroelectric projects will help people and corporations to make appropriate technological choices.
  • Nobody should have to live, work, or play near a nuclear facility.
  • No culture or community should be destroyed by a hydroelectric facility or any other monolithic corporate project.
  • The sun is the most powerful nuclear reactor and can serve many purposes—none of which should be ignored.
  • All citizens nation-wide should have the legal right to hang out their laundry.
  • North Americans, as all people, must lead by example.
  • Frugality, or thrift, needs to be a universally practiced virtue.
I really hope we all pull together and can remember that theres more to just Hanging Laundry outside. For the people that seem to have such a big problem with this I feel really sorry for them. I really do. Something so petty but also one of the most common moments for every person throughout history. If we have to listen to your snobbish remarks, rediculous views of the world and two-faced stories, and lies the goverment tells us .. you can view our "unmentionables" and our "Right to Hang".

Health, Wealth and Happiness,
Brenadette