You can add to last week that I got sick Friday night, had to leave the club early, and go home and then proceeded to be up all night and continued to be sick all day on Saturday.  How miserable is that?  Being a mom and being sick do not go together very well…..

• My computer died. Hard drive failure. Everything was up to date (virus, spyware, updates, etc.). 
• My husband’s computer died.  Before he could use it to fix mine.  Everything was up to date (see above).  Doesn’t look good. 
• My son was sick with the flu. Not horribly but enough to throw a wrench into trying to fix computers.
• Had to buy new computer because both of us work at home enough and who knows how long it will be before we can fix ours.

On a side note… this was in a memo I received:  “Building Company is putting bilingual signs in the restroom telling people of items that should not be flushed.”  Why do I find this slightly humorous?  The bathrooms in this particular building get backed up – a LOT.  By a variety of things.  I guess they feel its the cleaning crew doing it since no one in the building speaks Spanish (except for those who are bi-lingual) primarily except the cleaning crew – a great bunch of women who are sweet and do an excellent job.  So now I guess they are “almost” being blamed for the backups.  We all know toilets get backed up by men…..

<a href=”http://blog.washingtonpost.com/celebritology/2006/08/tom_jerry_bad_influences_1.html”>TNT Wants to “scrub” old cartoons</a> to make them “better” for the future. Whatever.  My daughter has just discovered Tom & Jerry along with the Smurfs, the Pink Panther, and a few others on the Boomerang Network. And she LOVES them. I don’t smoke and I watched all those. I’m fairly confident it isn’t a cat smoking that drives kids to do so.  Idiots!

I was going to do my first salsa performance yesterday (Sunday).  It didn’t happen. And what’s better is that it seems one friend is trying to hijack my other friend’s dance group and make his own group.  I find that pretty under-handed myself.  But then, I’m a very loyal person.  I had a long, kinda bad weekend and am fairly down in the dumps about it all.  My computer died at home and apparently its all my fault. After having a stressful week last week, this one isn’t starting out any better. 

There is a new add for Victoria Secrets with Heidi Klum. I can’t tell one supermodel from the other since they all look gaunt, skinny, and bland, but during the add she says “They call me ‘The Body’”. So I tell my husband – “Wow, Elle is doing VS – strange!”. I don’t know if it is or not really, but, I don’t recall her doing one in the recent past. Anyway, I was wrong. As TvGasm reports (link), Elle is a bit peeved that Heidi called herself ‘The Body’ since that was her name back in the day. Time Magazine (link) ran a story on her and dubbed her that as well. So now Elle wants to sue VS and Heidi and honestly, I don’t blame her. It is quite arrogant of Heidi to come out and say that. If I knew Elle was dubbed ‘The Body’ than it has to be fairly common knowledge. So go Elle! I’m not a fan of Heidi anyway. She can disappear forever and no one would probably even notice.

This summer there have been a lot of reports of actors and actresses who are collasping in the heat or having to go to the hospital because of heat-related issues.  The latest is Jennifer Garner who I adore, but, really – I thought she was in better shape. Yeah, I know, being in shape doesn’t have anything to do with it right?  I don’t necessarily agree.  When we had our 5 days of 100+ degree heat, the guys who work at the construction site across the street continued their work.  Sure, they arrived earlier and were allowed to leave early a couple of days but there they were… working out in the sun…in the heat…and I didn’t see one of them collapse. Not. A. One.  Does this mean that Latinos are tougher?  Maybe they are more used to the heat since they come from countries where the heat is more of a constant than here.  Maybe they are just tougher and drink more water and aren’t whimps.  It kills me to put Jennifer G in the same category as Lindsay Lohan because she so isn’t.  Jennifer G is sexy, strong, cute, and has fabulous hair (jeez – I could be writing about myself here). And yes, I know its hot in Arizonia so I’ll let it go this time.  But let’s not let it happen again. I can’t be having my strong women falling over on me.

Can’t help but love the word and will continue to use it whenever I want…for whoever I want.  That’s. My. Perogative.

squeeze is all I ask… please?  I really hate it when I’m talking to someone and they have a small pimple that is just so ready to pop and all I want to do is lean over, pop it, and move along my day.  I know that’s gross but I just can’t take it.  I’m forever looking for blackheads on my face and removing them and want to do it to the world.  I guess I don’t understand how people can just leave them there…. white… (or black to be fair) and not pop them.  If you can’t do it, call me in!  I’ll do it.

The Starbucks I used to visit on a daily basis has gone downhill.  In its hey-day, the baristas knew our names, our coffees, were friendly, and fast.  Now, they are grumpy, don’t listen, and can’t get orders right while taking forever to fill them.  I’m glad I gave up Starbucks now.  There used to be a girl at the Starbucks who was the sweetest.  She worked there for like 3 years.  She’s gone now and its sad.  Not only was she super cute, she was also sweet and always asked about my daughter.  So I guess I won’t go back there.  I’d rather go to Starbucks-light (in Safeway) if I’m desperate for a mid-day coffee.

In other news, I’ll be back to blogging regularly soon.  My goal is to break all of the Cheese’s rules about blogger.

Cheese – just thought I’d let you know on here instead of a personal email like I normally would.  Hehehe.