grrr

My first week of freedom has not been productive at all. In fact, it's been kinda sucky. Here are the top ten reasons:

1. Been having lower abdominal/intestinal pain that's increasingly bothersome. Been worried about it and can't get a doc appointment to a GI specialist til xmas eve.

2. The Patriots lost last week to the Dolphins, and they didn't particularly look good today in their win against the lowly Panthers.

3. Most of my tv shows are going on hiatus, just when I have all the time in the world to watch them.

4. Weather sucks. It's been cold and dreary. It's actually not so much the cold part that's sucky but the dreary part.

5. Can't seem to write if my life depends on it. I tried again tonight, and the result is quite uninspired.

6. Spending too much money already. Last Monday spent over $200 at Costco. Then bought a suit from JCrew for almost $500. And I've got three more weeks to go.

7. Still can't decide on which health insurance plan to sign up for for next year, and now I am locked out of the website because there was some glitch when I was required to change passwords.

8. All the year-end lists and decade-end lists are sorely absent of anything I truly love. Okay, I think the LOTR trilogy got a few mention here and there, but I am seriously overdosing on Beyonce, Lady Gaga, & Precious coverage. By the way it also sucks that Peter Jackson has been getting pretty bad reviews for The Lovely Bone. Being a Peter Jackson fanboy, I was rooting for him to knock another one out of the ballpark. Ang Lee this year also made a movie (Taking Woodstock) that nobody had any love for. Meanwhile, there are some predictions that Mariah Carey will get a best supporting actress nom for wearing no makeup in Precious. What gives? Has the world gone mad? Actually it has already, but I was just hanging on to the few bright spots left (like Ang Lee and Peter Jackson make good movies, and Mariah makes Glitter), and they are being taken away from me one at a time.

9. Tiger Gate. I think we are up to thirteen fourteen women now. Don't get me wrong - I was never a Tiger fan unlike the majority of America (never understood it). So it's not like I am disheartened by the fall of a hero. I just don't want to read about it anymore. Can anyone really tell one homewrecking whore from the next? By the way, they are all kinda ugly, aren't they? Tiger's Swedish wife Elin is way hotter than any one of them. Yeah, Tiger is not only a douche, but he's also an idiot, but then again most douches are idiots - they kinda go hand in hand.

10. Every time I drive by the airport and see planes taking off, I wish I were going somewhere and spending xmas in another country.