I took the "Who's Your Zodiac Match" quiz at Tickle for shits and giggles. Gee, who knew?

Krystina, the best Zodiac Match for your personality is Taurus

Taurus, the Bull (April 21 to May 21): This warmhearted and determined partner is just your type. Initially, a Taurus may catch your eye with a romantic gesture or their penchant for having a good time. But as you get to know them, you're even more likely to be drawn to your Taurean's unwavering devotion and dedication. People born under this sign typically know what they want out of life and stick by the decisions they've made. This devotion to their own truths can make members of this sign seem stubborn or critical at times. However, know that most Taureans are also sentimental types who like to focus on their romantic relationships. In the bedroom, you're apt to find that the Bull is a creative and expressive lover with a high sex drive. It's just another aspect of their vital nature, one that finds pleasure in everyday things and has an eye for beauty.

Well, OBVIOUSLY he has an eye for beauty - he's with me, no?

In addition to my mystery illness, I'm also PMS-ing big time. Lately, I've been going through my days hardly eating, maybe a few crackers here, an orange there but that's it until dinner. Today? I think I ate my weight in reduced fat cream cheese and Ritz crackers plus two hot dogs with some ketchup. I'm still starving (this was around 10:30 this morning) and wondering what I can bring to work that I can eat at my desk that'll actually fill me up. I have some super cute rock candy that he won at work and promptly turned over to my two year old self but that's not so great at the filling up, ya know? It is really, really, tasty though, especially the blue-raspberry one that tastes like Kool-Aid. I may have to make him ask his job where they purchased them from because I think I'm thisclose to being addicted. We're only technically allowed to have candy on the floor (and drinks) at work because in theory, candy doesn't cause crumbs but other food does. Plus candy (I don't understand how mints and candy bars fit into this theory) is supposed to "melt in your mouth while potato chips and other foods will cause crunching on the phones". They are weird at my job, have I mentioned it?

Speaking of my job, I didn't end up going yesterday because Angelique ended up calling me and offering to work for me if I'd work for her today since her brother had graduation today and she wanted to go, plus she knew I felt like shit. After thanking her fifteen million times, I took her up on her offer. I dread saying it but outside of the PMS, I do feel a little bit better. I'm still coughing and ready to die but I slept until about 10 and I think that did me a world of good. Plus I've been drinking lots of the liquids and foods that my doctor had told me to eat when I get sick (pedialyte, oranges, diet drinks, popsicles) and I think that's helped as well. I still have the rib cage breaking cough and I really think that's what is doing me in. It shakes my whole body and basically exhausts me. As for work tonight, it's just for a few hours so I'm not too worried about, besides, it's Friday and I'm pretty sure most people will be out so I'll just get a lot of hang-up's or answering machines. I made my five sales the other day so I'm not too worried about making five more today. If I do, great, that'd be 175 bucks in sales and that sure isn't bad for still being in training.

I got yelled at by a broad in a chat for using tampons. She's one of those women that believe in using cloth menstrual pads because they're healthier and better for the environment and saving money. Okay, I can buy the healthier part (although the chances of TSS are so fucking slim, I'm really not all that worried, k?) but how the hell is better for the environment and saving money? If you're using cloth pads that you have to wash, I'm assuming you don't hand-wash them because if you have a computer, I like to think you have a washer and besides, it's just nasty to think about washing menstrual blood soaked pads by hand and thinking they'd actually be CLEAN. So, you're washing them and therefore using both water and power (gas or electric) to wash them. Now perhaps you hang them out to dry but let's assume you don't - that's even MORE power used to dry them. I really would like to know how that's supposed to save more money than me going to Sam's Club, picking up a bulk box of tampons for five bucks and it lasting three or four months. I am all for people doing their own thing, I just wish they wouldn't harp on me for not doing the same damn thing.

This brings me to my mother who wants to know why we have a dryer if we don't use it or at least use hers. I took some of Christopher's shirts over there last night to put in the dryer for a few minutes but I put the rest of the load on the clothesline to dry earlier this afternoon. I like the smell of my clothes better when they're dried outside and it saves both us and my mother money when we do it. I've also been doing a lot of grilling lately, because not only does it taste ten million times better than anything I could ever make on the stove, it's also not using any gas. Dad is going to come over one of these days and take some of our wood off the fire pit for his and then I'm going to try cooking in that because, ultimately, I'd like to reduce the need for even charcoal. Do we need to save money and pinch every penny? No. But is it nice to have the money for other things and it's just common sense. I had left some shampoo over at my parent's house and my brother wanted to know why we used Herbal Essences shampoo when there are "like, so many other better shampoos. I buy Bumble and Bumble, you know." Mind you, he is just seventeen but that seems to be the general consensus of society - the smaller the package and the more expensive it is, the better. I bought the Herbal Essences because we needed shampoo and it was on the clearance for two bucks for shampoo and conditioner in a multipack. That's a dollar each and it's about what I pay normally for our Vo5 stuff so it didn't matter too much. I could go out and spend 15 bucks on stuff they sell in salons and even the drugstore (Paul Mitchell, Aveda, Rusk, etc...) but if Vo5 does just as good a job as Paul Mitchell, why would I pay thirteen dollars more? Because I have nothing better to spend that thirteen dollars on, apparently. Sure, I love the way John Frieda's Beach Blonde shampoo smells (super minty) but I still can't justify spending almost seven bucks on a 10 ounce bottle. We've also stopped using paper napkins and towels in our house because it's turned out to be much cheaper to use old rags and just throw them out or wash them by hand and hang them up outside to be used again. I pointed that out to him the other day, about exactly how much money we may have saved by switching. I would like to look into rain barrels eventually too.

Speaking of Sam's Club and bulk, I want to go get some damn Montreal Steak Seasoning there. We bought a small thing the other day and it's almost gone with all the burgers we've been eating. Well, that reminds me, I better run next door and get the matches that (psycho) Mom picked up for me. She's been on my ass lately, for, well, everything. No insurance, no husband, no children, no size 6 figure, no good car, basically, to her, if I don't have all those things, I'm a failure to her as a child and she will constantly remind me of it. Ah, talk about motherly love.

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