Fully sick, for real
Apr. 24th, 2009 11:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
todayiamadaisyLogging in to post this, I've just noticed that my last entry was titled 'fully sick'. Oh, irony. Because after writing that, I became just that. With a mildly scratchy throat and a few sniffles, I became the Sickest Person In The World. I even took a sick day off work, my first one in the four-and-a-half years I've been in my current job, leading my colleagues to believe I was on death's door. But no, just sleeping.
On my way to work this morning, I passed the best Salvation Army window in ages: a display of office furniture and stationery supplies, with the sign Give Satan an inch and he'll become a ruler, which I thought was hilarious. Although that could be the Sudafed.
My mother was very excited when I spoke to her yesterday. The husband of one of her friends won a new car in a competition (he found the magic ticket when he bought a slab of beer or some such), then went on to win the grand prize of $100,000, plus a new car for someone else (I didn't quite understand that bit). He lost both his legs in a car accident a few years ago, so it's nice this win happened to someone who could do with some good news. Anyway, as to the eternal question about what people would do if they won the lottery: they haven't decided, but they did take a number of friends (including my mother) out for dinner. So that was all very jolly.
The local paper was also very excited yesterday, because a former local boy was named Australia's Most Eligible Bachelor by a women's magazine. A former Australian Idol finalist turned MTV host turned soap star, once sacked from a job after exposing himself on stage at an awards show, and he's the best option? That's just depressing.
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yaaresse?) might be interested in this: big pictures of Saturn from the Cassini spacecraft.
On my way to work this morning, I passed the best Salvation Army window in ages: a display of office furniture and stationery supplies, with the sign Give Satan an inch and he'll become a ruler, which I thought was hilarious. Although that could be the Sudafed.
My mother was very excited when I spoke to her yesterday. The husband of one of her friends won a new car in a competition (he found the magic ticket when he bought a slab of beer or some such), then went on to win the grand prize of $100,000, plus a new car for someone else (I didn't quite understand that bit). He lost both his legs in a car accident a few years ago, so it's nice this win happened to someone who could do with some good news. Anyway, as to the eternal question about what people would do if they won the lottery: they haven't decided, but they did take a number of friends (including my mother) out for dinner. So that was all very jolly.
The local paper was also very excited yesterday, because a former local boy was named Australia's Most Eligible Bachelor by a women's magazine. A former Australian Idol finalist turned MTV host turned soap star, once sacked from a job after exposing himself on stage at an awards show, and he's the best option? That's just depressing.
Oh, and some people (
yaaresse?) might be interested in this: big pictures of Saturn from the Cassini spacecraft.