Called in sick

I woke up at 8am this morning with a stomachache from hell. Why? I have no clue. All I know is, I hate the possibility of it being caused by food that was delicious and that I love to eat whenever I get the chance. In this case, it's either the Chinese food I ordered after work yesterday (when I met Grandpa at Vons) or the Blueberry Morning cereal I had for a late dessert while I was watching a Sailor Moon S marathon.

(By the way, smrffers-- Usa Day *WILL* start next week, and I might even contribute something for it if I can get my brain churning. I'm already thinking of some articles for the SM-section of Epiphany, which I really want to get live before the end of summer.)

So I called in sick, because I'd gone to bed with a horrid headache, and the slightest tinges of it were telling me it was going to come back. And it did. I went back to sleep and woke up again (around 10:30 or 11) feeling like someone had partially chopped my head open (think headband-style). I kept touching my head thinking I was going to find some disjointed part of my skull where I could just reach in and touch my BRAIN! Eew. Shudder-twitch-EEW!

So I'm still feeling kind of ill (want to eat, but something tame-- maybe Cream of Wheat with just raisins and some cinnamon?), and almost scared to go back to sleep even though my head is pounding-- I mean, what the hell prompts dreams about getting beheaded improperly? (Does this have something to do with my wanting to go to Egypt and everyone in my family always saying "No, not this year, you'll get your head chopped off!"?)

Speaking of Egypt, yesterday I got my copy of "Pharaoh Gold" (which includes the Queen of the Nile: Cleopatra expansion) yesterday, and I tried to install it-- it seemed to work okay, but I couldn't run the game, even with either CD in the drive. I didn't get an error or anything-- nothing came up. There was an hourglass, then nothing, just an arrow sitting there all "Dur, what you want me to do?" So I figured, maybe there were some remnants from the copy of the game I had (the single CD version that was all scratched up-- a U.S. edition, I should note, because the Pharaoh Gold copy is from the U.K.), so I removed the new program, edited the registry to remove all data about the OLD game. I made sure it took effect in the Add/Remove programs list, and then re-installed Pharaoh Gold when I got home.

...Still nothing. I thought it was odd that my Windows drive was saying it was about 8GB when I clearly specified in Parallels for it to be expanding up to 15GB, and all these damn "Low on disk space!" errors were getting on my nerves, so I searched the forums, discovered Parallels 3 no longer has Image Tools (which you would use to resize the virtual disk image after you'd created it and put stuff on it), so I had to use this other DOS-based tool to do it. So I did, and I also defragged the drive... but still, NOTHING, even after the defrag (not the Windows one, either-- a much more intensive one I found a 30-day trial for) proclaimed my drive "healthy."

I click on the game icon in the start menu, my Games shortcut folder, or in the Recently-Used programs list, and NOTHING HAPPENS. No error, no pop-up, no nothing. Just a brief arrow-with-hourglass, and then NOTHING. >_<

HEEEELP! What do I do?

Life is short, carp climbing waterfalls

Okay, so I finished putting my bookcase (the new one with the holes in it... freakin' "rustic" finish) in its place, and I started putting books back on the shelves. Now to decorate with posters.

So I'm going through my tubes of Sailor Moon posters, and I start noticing something odd for the Sailor Moon S (anime) posters I have.

Chibi-Moon is supposed to have a circular brooch with a heart-shape in the middle. This brooch unlocks and reveals the 30th century Ginzuishou.

However, in one wall scroll/poster, she seems to have a heart-shaped pendant, similar to what she has in SuperS. But unlike Sailor Moon, Chibi-Moon doesn't gain her Super form until SuperS, correct? So she wouldn't have a heart-shaped pendant...

Furthermore, Sailor Moon gains the feathers in her hair upon turning into Super Sailor Moon, but Chibi-Moon doesn't have them for herself when she first appears, right? That's what I remember from the episodes I watched last night, and I have at least one piece of art that shows her without the barrettes until she's in Super form. But then I have a few posters where she DOES have the feathers in her normal (pink skirt with no stripes) form! Or does Chibi-Moon gain those when Sailor Moon gains her Super form?

I know when Chibi-Moon goes Super, she gets the barrettes, new earrings (her pink studs become crescent moons), a heart-shaped pendant (to be more precise, it's crystalline like Super Sailor Moon's, with a crown on top, a star below the crown, and wings attached to the star), a new collar (yellow with a pink heart, rather than her pink-with-pink heart that she had before), and a new skirt (striped, like Super Sailor Moon's, but pink and yellow, rather than blue and yellow). Her tiara also changes from having a red gem to having a crescent moon, like Sailor Moon's has since Super. Also, the stripes on her collar (she has two) turn from white to yellow, and her boots gain a yellow crescent moon at the top.

So... er, basically, do I have messed-up art, or does Chibi-Moon have stages in her costume when she gains certain accessories? I'm confused.

Okay, gotta rant

Has anyone seen the new Emma Bag (apparently named after Emma Roberts, a.k.a. the girl who thinks she can play Nancy Drew) from Dooney and Burke yet? Let me tell you in advance if you haven't: EEW. It looks like a freaking sausage. And not the delicious kind you might have a watery mouth over. Think more like, one of those sausages you see rolling in its own grease on some movie theatre's warmers.

I can't believe they hyped about it so much only to produce something so bland and horribly shaped.

Next-- GRRGH! Against wallpaper. Fuck this, if I ever own my own house, it will be PAINTED. Every damn room, painted. Bright colors. In the meantime, I'm stuck in this pink room with flowered wallpaper. Does anyone have suggestions for hanging posters on wallpaper OTHER than putting MORE holes in my walls with nails/screws/pushpins/thumbtacks/similar?

Uhm... that is all. (I've already posted too much for a supposed sick-but-working-on-my-room day, haven't I?)