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Adventures in… ear flushing

by zel

So about once a year I usually get my ears flushed. Usually my right ear gets plugged up first making sleeping on my right side very uncomfortable and that sucks because the lamp is to my left, so I spend the night attempting to sleep while facing the light.

So why don’t I turn off the light?

I can’t sleep in the dark.

Even in my apartment, I would leave the closet light on. I need light, somewhere. This use to bother my husband, but he’s grown use to it. What a good sport!

So anyway, the last time I went to the doctor to get my ears flushed, they mentioned you could easily do this at home. Here’s the deal with my husband and someone saying “you can do this at home”, he’ll do it. He will watch very carefully, ask questions and then, attempt to do it at home. I seemed to have missed this considering the assistant was flushing my ear while telling him this and it was a glob of earwax that was not coming out. I was too focused on how squishy the inside of my ear sounded.

So, it’s now that time of the year again (I really should do this twice a year to prevent my right ear epic build up) where I need to flush my ears. So husband got an earwax removal kit. Oh.

Here’s the difference between this and what I’m use to. When I call the hospital to set a flushing appointment, they tell me I need to “prep” with drops. So I skip it and I just spring it on them after a check up or something and I don’t use the drops. They just go straight to the flushing. Well, with the home kit, there’s drops and for some reason, this freaks me the fuck out. I read reviews and I have a blogger friend who does this and they say you’ll here “fizzing” and “popping” which means the solution is working then you flush. I’ll hear WHAT and WHAT? Hell no.

So last night I decided to skip the drops and go straight to the flushing. It wasn’t that bad but it sure didn’t help either. Like, at all. My blogger friend even commented that I was brave for attempting such a thing and assured me (again) the drops were the easy part. So later today, we’ll attempt the drops then the flushing. But let me tell you, I’m not excited.

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Book Review: Beastly by Alex Flinn

by zel

Beastly by Alex Flinn
Released: October 1st, 2007 by HarperTeen
Details: 304 pages, paperback
Source: Bought
Summary (Goodreads):
I am a beast. A beast. Not quite wolf or bear, gorilla or dog, but a horrible new creature who walks upright – a creature with fangs and claws and hair springing from every pore. I am a monster.

You think I’m talking fairy tales? No way. The place is New York City. The time is now. It’s no deformity, no disease. And I’ll stay this way forever – ruined – unless I can break the spell.

Yes, the spell, the one the witch in my English class cast on me. Why did she turn me into a beast who hides by day and prowls by night? I’ll tell you. I’ll tell you how I used to be Kyle Kingsbury, the guy you wished you were, with money, perfect looks, and a perfect life. And then, I’ll tell you how I became perfectly beastly.

I finally got around to reading Beastly. In honor of NaNoWriMo (and the fact I’m writing a re-telling) I decided to make November re-telling month. With that, Beastly was up first. Because I put it off for so long. This was another one of those won’t-watch-the-movie-til-I-read-it things but to be honest, the movie didn’t look all that interesting. I just thought they casted weird people. I’m not a Vanessa H or Olsen hater but I don’t know, the Olsen part sort of bothered me.

Anyway!

Kyle was a jerk. I mean he was a jerk. Like I wanted to reach through the flippin pages and strangle him. It’s so sad that his mindset was passed down from his father, who was an even bigger ass. I thought this would be your typical boy is a jerk and pisses off a witch and blah blah blah, which it was, but you couldn’t help but feel bad for Kyle. His dad completely judges and ignores him and you could tell all he wanted was just a little bit of attention. And maybe if he had gotten that, he wouldn’t had been such a jerk.

I loved Linda. She was sweet and caring and optimistic. Her father was also a flippin ass though, probably the biggest ass of a parent I’ve seen in a re-telling so far. How do you treat the only daughter you have like that? She cares for you, puts up with you and you just treat her like trash? And poor Linda, she shouldn’t have to feel guilty for anything when it comes to her father, ever!

I also loved Kyle’s teacher Will. He was a pretty great character to be around. He cared about Kyle even though he hardly knew him and didn’t judge him. He always gave him the advice he needed and was just what Kyle needed in his life. The maid as well, she was also a really great character.

Beastly had a lot of similarities to Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. I haven’t read the original tale so I can’t really compare. It did have it’s distinct differences like Kyle grew obsessed with growing flowers and I thought that was a pretty symbolic thing. Before his transformation he never cared for things and especially not silly things (his words, not mine) like flowers. And I think the fact that he cared SO MUCH for his garden was what really made me feel for him, it was really the only thing he had.

While I wasn’t completely impressed with Beastly, I did enjoy the journey. But I still won’t see the movie lol!

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I dare you to move, like today never happened.

by zel

SPiNNiNG: Dare You To Move by Switchfoot

This passed week was one of those really irritating ones that make you want to rip your hair out. Thank goodness I had CJ there for me to bitch endlessly to and Martin to make everything better the best he could. I did manage to (hopefully) fix my loan mess, build back some of my publisher contacts, set an appointment for one of my biggest phobia’s and husband started playing FFXI again *shrugs*.

I’ve been addicted to KFC’s new Famous Bowls with bacon. Seriously, bacon is what this was missing. It’s. So. Damn. Good!!!

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Colder nights and sweeter candles.

by zel

The nights are getting colder and just to make things more interesting, we run the fan. I love absolutely bone chilling cold nights! Wrapping myself up in my big blanket and curling into a ball. It’s something I look forward to every year.

The room (as well as my room) is still a big huge mess and I know I should deal with that soon, perhaps tonight. If I’m feeling like it. I’m tired of seeing the clutter, but I just… ugh. Sometimes I hate cleaning cause I honestly just don’t know where to begin. I just have so much stuff! I still have 3 boxes waiting to be unpacked and I just don’t have the room to store everything. I wish I had labeled them or something cause some of my winter clothes (why I brought winter clothes to Florida is beyond me) is in one of the boxes, I just don’t really know which one.

I’m reading two books right now both of which need to be finished and reviewed like, yesterday. Awesome right? My Halloween challenge is being a pain in the ass. I could had done better, but my mind was MIA for a week and I was just all over the place. I need to get situations in check and realize that certain things will never happen no matter what is said.

I’m outlining my NaNoWriMo project. But even with a guide, I still don’t know what the eff I’m doing. I wonder if any author really knows what the eff is going on the whole time or do they just wing some scenes and hope that it comes out epic? I’ve got a good base for the beginning, I just have to somehow make it un-cliche. I think that’s the hardest part since I’m not creative unless I sit and think and wait until inspiration hits. Maybe I’ll just wing it and word vomit and hopefully something epic will spring up somehow. It’s better to try than to not try at all.

Husband is working on his animation, it must be epic cause he’s been ignoring me for last hour and a half. Dammit, I forgot I had to prep my posts for next week on both my review and book blogs too, gah. I’m itching for Monday so I see how much money I have left after paying the bills, I really really want to read Demonglass. The sequel to Hex Hall. No idea why I waited so long to read this book. Holy shiz it was entertaining! I’m also looking forward to Destined but I told myself no books for October, so many I’ll wait until November. Which isn’t that far away. I was thinking of writing a greek myth re-telling, but I think I’ll focus on my current re-telling before starting another (which requires much much more research). I have a few other started WIP’s floating around, not sure where they’re going but better to write down scenes that pop up in my head then to lose them, right?

I’ve been really liking this new camera app I found for Droid. As much as I really want an iPhone and Siri, I’ll miss using a Droid and all my apps.

Cold weather, I’m ready for you (:

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One short day, with so much to do…!

by zel

Autumn is here, or well, it’s suppose to be… it was raining and freezing last week. This week it’s like, high 80′s. It’s ridiculous. Give me back the cold and rain! Mostly because when it’s hot, like this and there’s no A/C, I’m most likely to do nothing but complain.

October is half way done and that’s just insane to think about. I’ve only read two books from my Halloween challenge (out of 12) but that’s because I needed to squeeze in review books too, I’m on my pretty much last review book for the month from Amazon but it’s a thick one. Hopefully I get done with it before the next Vine email comes around. I have two for publishers that need to be done, one that needs to be done by the end of this month and one that’s for next month. Then there’s NaNoWriMo creeping up in two weeks, I’ve toyed with my idea and wrote a bit down, but not enough to ensure a smooth sail for NaNoWriMo this year. Oh well, I’m still hoping! I think that’s it as far as bookish things for the next month or so.

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