According to King5 News, that icy car crash video was shot at the corner of SW 20th Ave & SW Salmon St, just behind PGE stadium.
On a completely unrelated note, I slept horribly last night, and now I have a monster headache. I didn't start getting ready for bed until 1am because of some email forwarder problems, and then I was in the bathroom getting ready for bed when I felt a hair fall off my head and land on my arm.
I was putting lotion on my face at the time, so I just kind of wiggled my elbow and kept at it. It didn't fall off and it was kind of tickling me, so before I leaned back in to put on my lip stuff I turned my head quickly and blew on my arm to try to get it to fall off. No such luck. I was plucking at my eyebrows and it finally got SO tickly that I turned my arm to try to feel for the hair and brush it off with my hand. It was at that point that I saw the dime-sized black spider crawling up the back of my arm, just above my elbow.
Now, I really do love spiders. I normally don't mind seeing them around, and I've even been known to pick them up with my bare hands to put them outside. Once in Louisiana I even (without thinking) picked up a female black widow. The widow didn't bite me, but I have been bitten before (by a Hobo spider) and I have the scar to prove it. I'm STILL not usually afraid of most spiders. But there's something to be said for the element of surprise, and when I saw this little guy on my arm, alone in a dimly lit room in the middle of the night, I screamed. Like a little girl. And jumped.
Once I was done shuddering I decided I was a little too uncomfortable with him to just leave him in place, so I used a piece of plastic from the trash to scoop him up and set him outside. Where he'll probably freeze to death, but I'd like to think that's not really my problem. I snapped a couple photos of him before I put him outside, but I'm not uploading them today. I have a lot of shit to upload to flickr, and some of it's on Brett's computer, so I kind of want to set aside a few hours to go through all of it and upload a few sets at once. I'll mention it in a post here once it happens.
So anyway, that spider story goes out to anyone who's squealed about a spider in front of me, only to have me mock them and laugh.
I finally fell asleep around 2am, but then had to get up at 6am to help Brett finish up the Chinese New Year (or CNY, as it's known in our household) party invites for his team at work. It's a party only for his work team, so don't grumble because you didn't get an invite. Unless you're on his team. In which case it's Brett's bad, not mine.
Anyway, so I was supposed to finish up the invites the night before, but I forgot. So we did them together this morning, and I tried to go back to sleep but I always have trouble with that. I finally fell back asleep around 8am, only to be woken up over and over again by the same person alternating calls to our home phone and my cell FIVE TIMES within about an hour and a half. You know who you are. And then I finally decided to just give up on sleep and call you back, and you were busy. BUSY!!! So you said you'd call back in a minute, but that was like six hours ago. And I never went back to sleep. So now my head hurts, and I'm tired. And Brett and I have dinner plans tonight, and if I fall asleep over my curry, I'm blaming you. Not really, but still. Geez.
Okay, I'm done complaining, and I should shower soon so we can leave. But has anyone ever tried anything similar to Smashbox's O-Glow? Or do you know anything about the science behind it? I know it's pretty new (hence the beauty insider link), but I'm really intrigued by the idea of something that just forces a natural flush, rather than coating my skin with a pigment. Since I'm so pale and my skin's so sensitive, it's really hard for me to find a blush I like. My current holy grail is Becca's Creme Blush in Amaryllis, but if I don't use it sparingly, even THAT looks too dark on my skin.
My only concerns are that 1) my skin would build up a tolerance for it like my lips appear to have with lip venom, and it wouldn't make me flush anymore, and/or 2) that whatever causes the flush would also cause breakouts due to inflammation.
That's all for today (I REALLY have to get in the shower), but if you have a strong tolerance for insects & arachnids and my spider story didn't phase you, you can check out my all-time favorite/least-favorite bug story at my all-time favorite bug site. It's the one titled "Tampon Infestation." I read this story a few years ago, and ever since then I've thought about it at least once a month.
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