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I’m dead. I totally fucking died. Or, more specifically, I am fantasizing about being dead as I imaging the long cold nothing is preferable to the half gallon of invasive galactic mucous in my sinuses.
At some point over night the ‘irritating cold’ turned into ‘achy painy mucousy voice loss with eye boogers the size of the Brawny Man’s farts and utter fat girl exhaustion’.
Today was David’s first day back to work after the holidays. I promptly got up and started his coffee etc and promptly wished I was more of a dick and stayed in bed instead of getting him off to work with two apples in his back pack and hot coffee in his hand (in a travel mug, I’m not burning him).
I emailed work, I got really really hot, I sat down, i prayed for death. The thing about being sick is everything is broken down into minutia and every bit of minutia becomes its own novel. I would love to write 3 paragraphs on how cute Chester’s toes are right this SECOND (they are super cute and round and he has the tiniest bit of white fur growing around them and if you gently tickle the fur around his toes it drives him crazy). I ate pasta for dinner at like 9:30 last night, but I’m already really hungry. The next Nobel Prize for awesomeness should be awarded to the dude who invented the baby carrot. How awesome is that?

YAY!

Guess who got a graphic tablet for Christmas? No, really…guess! Yeah, it was me! Now I can draw a picture of a hippo carrying a balloon that looks like me!!! Is that awesome? Yeah.
It’s a PenPower Tooya graphics tablet. The awesomeness of the tablet is that it gives you a giant 6×10 inch drawing surface. The huge drawback is that you will have problems with the software. You will have lots and lots of problems with the software. We could not even get it to recognize the installation CD in my computer, luckily it’s plug and play so at least I can use it I just can’t adjust any preferences. Also, no installation number for the PhotoShop Elements Mac Version. again, ‘sokay, I have other software I can use it with.
Also, customer support from both PenPower and Buy.com is retarded at best. You will get no help with this product at all. BUT!! If you are persistent (and god knows I’m persistent) you can make it work! Also, if your boyfriend wants to return it because it doesn’t work, you should be really persistent about keeping it because it’s a pretty awesome present and you don’t want to give it up!
So, thanks David! Thanks for my graphics tablet (and my mp3 player and the wireless speakers and for cuteness).
more pictures later.