it's been one week...
Okay, so it hasn't been one week, but I love that song, and since I wrote last time about a bad song, I thought I would start this time with a good one!

Moving on... I have lots to update on.

First things first, my friend John just asked me if a throng was a group of people, not to be confused with a thong, which can quickly divide a group of people, or at least one person if you're not careful when you bend over. In case you are wondering, John is right. A throng is a group of people, or a multitude of assembled persons, according to Merriam-Webster.

Moving on, I'd like to give a shout out to my boys Sal and Gary at the sleep lab for Good Sam hospital in Lebanon, PA.

I had a sleep study done Thursday night - and finally recovered by about Saturday afternoon. The test itself wasn't so bad... They hooked all these electrodes and stuff up to me so that by the time they finished, I looked like the love child of Frakenstein and the Bride of Frankenstein (who, heretofore had no name but will now be known as Kippy). So, looking like Frank and Kippy's beloved daughter, I emerged from the bathroom and told the boys it was no wonder I didn't have a boyfriend. Sal offered to take a picture, but sorry folks, I turned him down.

After the boys and I talked politics (go Kerry!) I headed off to bed with Ping and my pillow. We decided to hold off on the happy pills for a while to see if I would fall asleep naturally... Well, it's hard enough for me to fall asleep normally but with all these wires on your head and body it was kind of hard. For some reason, the cameras didn't bother me, take that as you will (did you know that there's a petition out there for Kirsten Dunst and Jake Gyllenhaal to make a sex tape? what HAS this world come to?). After a couple of hours (I think, there are NO clocks in the room) Gary came in and took pity on me and let me take my sleepy pills. I felt like I had just fallen asleep when he came back in at 5:45 and woke me up. That was the least fun of the whole thing.

After Gary took all the electrodes off and got most of the goopy stuff out of my hair (thanks for that!) I talked to Sal who said I had sleep apnea. Greeeeaaaat. One more thing to add to the list. I was not very happy to hear this, although it does explain why I'm tired all of the time. I made an appointment to come back for another study, this time with one of those CPAP machines which make you look like a leper and sound like Darth Vader. Should be fun!

I went home and slept, went to a dress fitting, and slept some more. Five hours of sleep does not really agree with me. By Friday night I was feeling much better and even went to Fenicci's where I got to talk to Ray, the guy who sells me beer, and my friend Patty, who works there. Patty's reaction to my medical news has been the typical reponse: "That's great!" Oooookay... Great for you, maybe, but you're not the one with the tendency to almost stop breathing all night long.

I know they mean well, they're just happy that I have a name for my problem, and it's a fixable problem, even if the fix will make me look like something from Night of the Living Dead. I'm happy there's a fix for my problem, I just wish it wasn't so... bulky.

Anyway, reading people, I should get some work done today. I'm off the rest of the week, so don't expect any posts. Sorry for the inconvenience (I know how much reading about my piddly little life is such a great part of yours) but ARICA IS COMING!!!!! And that's all that really matters. :) Oh, that and voting for John Kerry. It's your civic duty.

Kerry/Edwards 2004!!


Quote of the Blog
"So come together and stand up for a great purpose ? to make America stronger at home and respected in the world. We?re a country of the future; we?re a country of optimists. We?re the can-do people. And we just need to believe in ourselves.

The poet Langston Hughes put it in this way: ?Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be.? ? for those ?whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain, whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain must bring back our mighty dream again.?

In 2004, with your help... with John Edwards by my side... we will bring back our mighty dream again."

~John Kerry