Being Natalie

I recently got hit with a viral infection of some sort. Whatever it was, I was chained to the bathroom like you wouldn't believe with whatever I had put in my system POURING out of me at the speed of light. Or at least that's what it felt like. Anything I put into my system, it just came right out. One way or another.

So yesterday I went to see my doctor b/c if I was going to call in sick to work, I better know what I was sick with. So I called, I got dropped off and in I went and I didn't come out until 7 hours later. During that 7 hours, my doctor sent me to another unit to get me on an IV with fluids. The nurses called it "pile driving fluids" into me to get me back into shape. They said this happens with thin people like me. Apparently I have no mass for my body to burn or feed off from while things were pumping out of me. So they hooked me up and for good measure, took a CAT scan of my belly to make sure nothing was infected there.

So there I am, sitting in a reclining chair, hooked up to an IV, my hair is all gross from not showering for two days (yea, I was icky), in a hospital gown, looking demented and I awoke from a half sleep to see a person's profile right outside my room in the hallway. For a bit I was kinda bewildered b/c I couldn't figure out if it was a man or woman. Then I heard the voice and immediately my heart started to race. Shoulder length brown hair with highlights, slender body, under 6' in height, funky sweater, jeans, and sneakers to boot. The person turns their back on me to talk on a cell phone. They then turn around. Our eyes locked, I'm stunned and yelped out "OH MY GOD!"

With a stunned look, a big smile, he waves hello and mouths out hi while listening to his cell phone.

HOLY SHIT IT'S STEVEN TYLER FROM AEROSMITH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He turns around again and I feign ignorance. He was on the phone with someone for work. Not sure what it was, but I tried really hard to not listen out of respect. I look at my camera phone, then at the US weekly magazine that sits right underneath that. I debated the whole ethics of it all. Should I, or shouldn't I? Could I or wouldn't I? Finally, my internal debate was over, his friend who had came in for some sort of treatment was all set to leave. She goes follow by him and as they leave, he politely said "goodbye" to me and I yelled "goodbye" in return.

*sigh* I exist and it wasn't a dream!!! My nurse confirms the sighting and relays a funny story about him and a doctor 15 years ago in that same hospital.

Oh and another run in, now that I think about it, I think Danny Ainge of Boston Celtics fame held the elevator door for me.

If anyone can please confirm whether or not Danny Ainge was wearing a green and black striped polo short sleeve shirt with black slacks and was in a Boston area hospital this past Monday (yesterday), please let me know. I need to thank him for helping me on and off the elevator.

Umm, so yea. IV fluids for dehydration does wonders to a body. After one CAT scan, two bags of IV fluids and an encounter of a famous rock star, i'm feeling better. With a slight headache, toothache and sluggishness, never felt better.

Moral of the story: Wash those hands and watch what/where you eat. Also if you have the misfortune of landing yourself in the emergency care unit of a hospital, be on the look out for celebrities, you never know when they will be right around the corner.

Dad and I was in the city tonight to have dinner with the family plus a relative from the west coast. It's late, we're driving back to the burbs and up the street that our street is connected to. Suddenly, we see an ambulance leave (no lights or sirens on) followed by a town cop car (again no lights or sirens). Where I live, you rarely see such an event. So, OK, our minds began to kinda ponder ... what went on?

As we get closer to the intersection of where our street meets up, we see lights! Say it ain't so... Just say it ain't so... Of course, here I am, thinking that our house somehow caught on fire. As we get to the corner, I was a bit relieved. It was just a truck plowed into the lawn.

Damn thing plowed over the street sign, missed the hydrant, the rose bush, pushed one of the bolders and dragged another along with it as it barrelled into the yard. Some people thought the bolders were for asthetics. Nope, it's function over fashion. We live right on a curved corner so its quite easy for cars to skid into the lawn (and on several occassions they've hit the corner of the house). One car even made it to the backyard (we didn't see the car, but it left tracks in the lawn).

So to make things even more head shakingly disgusting, turns out the driver is an 18 year old who was apparently inhebriated. He took a ride not in the ambulance (thank God for his sake), but in the nice little town cop car. Probably the same one that passed by us as we were turning the corner.

To make the situation comical, when the flat bed arrived to drag that truck's sorry ass off the lawn, it got stuck in the mud, smack dab in our front lawn!! So the fire truck had to use the wench to help drag the flat bed off the front lawn. Right now a regular tow truck is here. I'm going to go and witness the event. This ought to be fun. The reason the flat bed couldn't enter the way the truck entered was b/c it was too wide to wedge between the remaining bolders and the fire hydrant...

I'll draw a pic tomorrow. Right now, I have to take some video for the sibs.

Good night everybody.

UPDATE
So the tow truck was successful in dragging the truck out. However, the front axle is broken and the wheel at least the right one from my vantage point was busted up (tire shreded and rim definitely bent), so that means they need to flat bed again. The sad part is that the town tow truck, there's only one guy on duty. He's been going back and forth from work, getting the right type of truck here. Poor guy. I feel bad for all the officers and support staff that has to deal with this nonsense. If it weren't for irresponsible teenage BOYS, people wouldn't have late night incidents such as these.

I mean thank GOD that 1. no one was hurt and 2. no real damage had occurred, but still ... GET A FRAKKING BRAIN PEOPLE!

Oooo, more commotion ... brb

I have returned! But barely. So what prompted me in making an entry? A good friend took me off their friends list b/c of lack of activity in my journal. The nerve! But I do not blame that person. They had every right to do what they desired. However, I would like to thank them for doing so b/c w/o their actions, it would never have prompted me into logging into my LJ account to see that i've missed out on A LOT of events on the past half year that i have been absent. (Wait, has it been a half year?)

Oi, either or, I realize that I need to play some catch up on people's lives. What better way than to just cut to the bullshit and figure out what happened to them the past month b/c I don't think i'll be able to read a half years worth of entries for each person i have on my friends list.

And while I peruse other people's LJs, I would like to leave you to ponder this:

If you had to choose between the words "racist" and "sexist", which one of those two words would best describes Don Imus's statement as being?

You paid attention during 97% of high school!

85-100% You must be an autodidact, because American high schools don't get scores that high! Good show, old chap!

Do you deserve your high school diploma?
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nimoz

Undifferentiated

You scored 43 masculinity and 43 femininity!

You scored low on both masculinity and femininity. Your personality includes characteristics of both traditional sex roles, but your gender is not strongly defined.

My test tracked 2 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 99% on masculinity
You scored higher than 99% on femininity

Link: The Bem Sex Role Inventory Test written by weirdscience on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

So it was brought to my attention that my last unprotected entry is outdated.

Apparently, it was too depressing to look at for those people who were either too lazy to login and read my inner thoughts OR they don't have permission to view my privates.

So to appease the Gods: Things feel good. My mind isn't helping, but I'm working on that. (Sorry that is as cheerful as I want to get in unprotected territory.)

Now stare at this:

HowManyOfMe.com

There are:
10
people with my name
in the U.S.A.

How many have your name?

blink. blink. still alive.

will read entries of friends as soon as the monkey gets off of my back.
("the monkey" is not a reference to the man, but "THE MAN")

miss all much.

Leaving Thought: Is it worth it to be so busy you forget to pee?

downtown parking spot ..... $2
watching a preview screening of MI3 ..... $0
driving with the top open on a moonlite night ..... priceless

Movie was excellent. Having that much action and other characters makes up for the fact that it was totally over hyped by Tom Cruise. However the really spooky thing about the movie is the fact that the actress that plays the love interest resembles Katie Holmes. Spooky man. So if you like JJ Abrahms or you like Alias, you'll love this movie. It has his footprints all over it.

I was so rushed to get to work, when I got up to the D&D drive thru window, I took the coffee, paid the lady and left. What I didn't realize until now as I sit in my work chair, I forgot to grab the donut...

*sigh* I'm so hungry right now.

So. This is different. It's a little after midnight and i'm writing an entry in LJ.

Yea, DSL is cool. My new laptop kicks ass.

I just found myself dragging my ass to connect my laptop to the DSL modem in order to respond to a work issue.
Not just to peruse the net. Not just to work on something else online. Not to chat with people out there.

I logged on to do work.

I'm doomed...

I had the utmost pleasure of running into a red carpet event!

I was in bline tonite with the man having dinner at the local swank sushi place. We were walking back to my house when we happened upon an event in front of the Coolidge Corner theatre. I put two and two together (basically read the marquee) and realized that Meryl Streep was accepting an award the theatre was giving to her for lifetime achievement (I can only assume).

So the man and I stood outside the theatre behind the barracades and behind a very odd man who had an odor problem (he didn't shower and it smelled like it). Per chance, I had my camera in my purse, so that made me want to stay outside to "gawk" at the stars as they walk up the red carpet. Also upon the insistence of the man (thank you my man!). After a couple of minutes, I realized that C would want in on the actions and she'd totally kill me if I didn't tell her the 411 on the situation in our sleepy town.

Here's how the beginning of the 3 minute phone convo. went:

"Hey guess what!"
"What? You saw a celebrity? Who was it?"
"Get your ass down to Coolidge Corner now, Meryl Streep is coming!"

About 5 minutes later, she was running down the street with camera, sharpie & index cards at hand.

I love C, she's so prepared! We'd make one kick ass celebrity stalker team!

We saw/recognized/were pointed out: Robert Altman (director), Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Kevin Kline, John C. Reilly, Susan Orlean (author of The Orchid Thief) and Charlie Kaufman (screenwriter for Adaptation).

I've got pictures to prove it! *sigh* I wonder if I was seen on the local TV news station with all those cameras around...

ripped from the site of

quacx who ripped it from

nimoz!

You Should Be A Gemini

What's good about you: witty and energetic, you're simply the most fun to be around

What's bad about you: you're flighty - losing interest in people and projects quickly

In love: you enjoy the "honeymoon phase," but after that it's hard for you to stick around

In friendship, you're: likely to have many groups of friends, with many different interests

Your ideal job: mime, guru, or cartoonist

Your sense of fashion: casual and simple

You like to pig out on: fast food, especially burritos

ZOINKED from

nimoz

You Are Likely an Only Child

At your darkest moments, you feel frustrated.
At work and school, you do best when you're organizing.
When you love someone, you tend to worry about them.

In friendship, you are emotional and sympathetic.
Your ideal careers are: radio announcer, finance, teaching, ministry, and management.
You will leave your mark on the world with organizational leadership, maybe as the author of self-help books.

So I finally said, "to hell with it" and caved in. I now have DSL at home. All I have to do now is get a laptop that will become my "primary PC"!

Laptop b/c I have portability issues to say the least. Currently I've borrowed the Company laptop this weekend to catch up on work that I need to get done before the first quarter ends, also to test out the whole wireless thingy and see if it's cool to actually sit down at a cafe somewhere and do work while other people are watching, looking on in astonishment that I could get ANY work done in a public area.

However, sadly, I have no freaking clue why the wireless LAN on this laptop isn't picking up any wireless signals. I think something got disabled, but all signs point to "NO".

But yea, so moving on I've had my mind made up on getting a Dell. Now i'm reversing myself b/c the IBM ones are so damn sexy.

Oy, speaking of which, i'm going to go peruse now, but soon need sleep so I can brunch w/friends in the morning.

Oh and I've caught up on a months worth of LJ entries and I must say I've missed out a lot on ppl's lives. NEVER AGAIN!!!

Connected I will stay!

So of the comments that i've gotten so far, it's 3 against 3!

Here's more information to know, I did a search and the putter costs around $50, while the watch retails for $65.

Does that help?

I need a tie breaker.

Oh and if you haven't figured it out yet, the tailgate thingy is out and now it's down to the watch vs. the putter.

So it's my five year anniversary at The Company and I get to choose my anniversary gift. I'm caught between the following (here's where the viewers at home help me decide):

* Woman's Calypso Quartz Watch. Features white dial, stainless steel case and link band, date, luminous hands, and sweep second hand. Water resistant to 150 feet.

- I wouldn't mind a stainless steel watch, don't have one. Would be nice to wear on dressy occassions (if need be). Maybe this would be the stepping stone for me to retire my beloved Disney watch that I got at Disney World.

* Man's Wilson Green Machine Putter. Features face balanced head, chambered sole, heel-toe weighting. Includes true temper shaft with regular grip.

- I need a putter. I bought a set of new clubs and I need a new putter to go with it (also a new driver as well).

* Tailgate Outing Kit. Includes 45"x50" fringed acrylic blanket, one-pint foam-insulated bottle, and black insulated linen bag.

- This I thought was a neato thing to have. Not necessarily going to use it for tailgating, but I figured the blanket and bottles would be handy for an impromptu picnic.

So, please anyone and everyone from the Peanut gallery, choose, but choose wisely. I only have like a day on deciding these things. Thanks.

I'm finally going to dig into my pockets and get myself a laptop. It will become my primary PC, but I will use it for work as well. I know what types of stuff I want inside the machine, I just don't know what model of a machine I should get. Therefore i'm posing this question to all who is reading:

Should I get a Dell Inspiron/XPS or an IBM Thinkpad?

Standing in the shower, shampooing my hair, my brain got on the subject of coloring one's hair.

My ultimate question to the readers of this blog:
1. Would you color your hair as you age?
2. Would you encourage your significant other to color theirs as they age?

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