I'm sick. I used to never get sick. what's going on here? anyway, I'm home from work today, supposedly resting up and recovering, but instead I took a nap this morning and then ran some much neglected errands. it's kind of exciting taking care of things that I managed to ignore for so long. I feel so productive. too bad I also feel fairly lightheaded.

in other news, herbie is going on a trip to the apple hospital. his ride came to my door this morning. looks like it's going to be nice and snug in here. I'm going to miss him and I hope he doesn't die. I'm a little bit confused about what I'm supposed to do with him after he's all packed up. do I drop him off somewhere? is someone coming for him tomorrow? no clue.

I was kind of annoyed with olympic coverage last night. NBC must stand for NoBody Cares. because I don't think anyone really cares about ice dancing (aka the stupidest "sport" in the olympics) yet they decided to bombard everyone with gratuitous coverage all night. they showed about 5 minutes of aerial skiing, but hours of ice dancing. I wanted to stab out my eyes with my knitting needles - I would have changed the channel, but I was foolishly holding onto the hope that they would show something more interesting. how wrong was I. thank GOD that it's over and we can move on!

and just cuz I can, I'm posting some pictures of something I bought the other day even though I was thoroughly disturbed by it:

what is wrong with this picture? natural? cheetos? they're not even orange! I think frito-lay is doing everyone a disservice by claiming these "natural" "cheese" "snacks" are cheetos. they don't taste like them, look like them, smell like them... probably because they have no artificial anything and we know that there is nothing in nature that could make a cheeto. the only thing that makes these things cheetos is the word "cheetos" printed on the bag. oh, and this (the only redeeming thing about these):