Bored.

This always happens with me.

I want summer to be here, and once it's here, I'm bored. Then, when school comes along, I want it to be summer again.

*sighs* It never, ever ends. What a vicious cycle.

sinusitis SUCKS.

Yes, I'm still up. I've been multitasking and I should really really be in bed.

But see this guy? This is how I feel right now.

Yep, I have sinusitis. And it SUCKS.

That's all I wanted to say.

7.7.07...luckiest day of the year? Yeah, right.

Everyone on the new has been gushing about 7.7.07, and how it's the luckiest day of the year. Normally, I'd agree with them, but not today, because my monthly bill came today [all you women know what I'm talking about...maybe a few of you guys as well]. Now, how is this the luckiest day of the year/century for me?

If someone asks how I spent my 7.7.07, I'll say, "With a heating pad on, hopped up on caffeine and ginger tea." Ginger tea, by the way, is the nastiest crap I've ever tasted!

Oh, another thing...that STUPID Always slogan: "Have a happy period." The packages are even flowered now. Question: since when are periods a happy thing? I cramp. I bloat. I'm crabby. I mean, come on.

some people just don't get it.

...and I'm speaking in reference to my ex-boyfriend.

We went out for three months and it wasn't really that great. He was an asshole and treated me like shit.

Now, he comes into my place of work tonight and tells me he was an asshole and that "maybe we could start over." First of all, I was the main one giving in that relationship. I wasn't appreciated. I don't have anything more to give to him and I don't want to. I told him as such. He said he understood, but he's asked me to get back together with him before.

We'll see if he FINALLY gets it.

disappointments.

Isn't the third movie in a supposed trilogy supposed to be the best one? That's what I thought. Lord of the Rings NAILED the last movie in the trilogy. Star Wars? Yes. Indiana Jones? Check. Harry Potter (even though it's not a triology)? Double check.

Spider-Man 3? No.

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End? No.

What were the major problems with each?

Spider-Man 3: For starters, too many villains. Sandman, Venom, and Green Goblin. Should've stuck to the formula that made the other two movies successful: one villain and one villain only. Secondly, wrong casting. Venom shouldn't have been Topher Grace. Period. And Gwen Stacey...she didn't even belong in the movie at all.

Last, cheesy dialogue ("Can you help me?...I'm a little busy here, Pete!") and too much Peter and M.J.

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End: I once read someone named sequels do better than numbered sequels. I expected a hell of a lot more out of this than what I got. Not enough Jack Sparrow or Barbossa. Too much Will and Elizabeth. Not sticking to character (Barbossa would tell Will and Elizabeth both to get bent when they asked him to marry them in a middle of a fight. Yeah, sure. Who'd get married in the middle of a fight.) Chow Yun-Fat's character didn't even need to be there.

Overall? I was very disappointed.

Hope Shrek 3 and Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer are better.

websites.

I'm building a website.

I forgot how much work it is.

HTML annoys me.

Blech.

no, this is not a perm.

I don't mind people complimenting me on my hair (I'm a natural curly head. Get it from my mommy). But it gets a little bit tiring when people ask me if I have a perm. No, this is not a perm. And then they say, "You're so lucky. Do you like having curly hair?" If I said, "Oh, yes!" then it'd be a lie. So, I answer them truthfully. I say...

"Most of the time."

Since I am a curly head, I go through about one bottle of defrizzing product and one bottle of gel a week. If I had all the money saved up from what I've spent on hair products, I'd be a quadruple millionaire.

idioms "get my goat".

Apparently there is more than 12,000 idioms in the English language. From http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com:

The idiom dictionary is compiled from the Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms and the Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms.

The Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms explains over 7,000 idioms current in British, American and Australian English, helping learners to understand them and use them with confidence. The Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms, based on the 200 million words of American English text in the Cambridge International Corpus, unlocks the meaning of more than 5,000 idiomatic phrases used in contemporary American English. Full-sentence examples show how idioms are really used.

*****

A professor of mine once mentioned that it was hard for ESL learners to get our American idioms, and I don't blame them. How does "get your goat" translate to being annoyed? How does "getting up on the wrong side of the bed" translate to being cranky?

An idiom that always annoyed me was "add insult to injury." The idiom dictionary defined it as follows:

to make a bad situation even worse for someone by doing something else to upset them.

I wondered if John Mayer had anything to say about idioms in his blog and he did...particularly about the one I just mentioned (I had to dig back to 2006, but it was there):

Here's the only way you should be allowed to incorporate the phrase "to add insult to injury" into a conversation:

"Gary socked me in the nuts with a glove full of coins. And then, to add insult to injury, he called me an asshole."

Yes, there are other ways to incorporate this. But this one actually made sense. (It also made me laugh.)

Apparently there is an album out also titled "Add Insult to Injury". See here.

The things you can find out....