deathpixie | I should have known... (Reply)

When a tuna sandwich and a cup of miso soup gave me chronic indigestion yesterday, I should have known it wasn't going to bode well. I'm off sick today - nauseous and uncomfortable, with that cough that isn't so much about my lungs as it is about my stomach not sitting well. Yep, Fred the Ulcer isn't happy with me today.

I've taken my meds, I'm curled up on the couch with jasmine tea and the fuzzy green blanket. We'll see if things settle. There may be napping later. Definitely no stress, since Fred really doesn't like stress. Which means not going to work today - things have been hectic of late.

And for distraction, meme!

Comment on this post. I will choose seven userpics from your profile and you will explain what they mean and why you are using them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so others can play along.

[Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] chose the following:

Icon by [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com], one of my earliest. The expression "180 degree sky" always reminds me of growing up on the farm, where the sky stretched from edge to edge, the purest blue I've ever seen.

Icon by [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com]. I can't remember which song the quote is from, but it invokes to me that kind of melancholy you sometimes get. It's my "not horribly depressed but not entirely happy either" icon.

Another [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] icon. It's from "The Body", one of my favourite scenes - Tara reaching out across the gap and letting Buffy know she's not alone, but without pushing or demanding anything for herself. It's my comfort icon, the one I use when I'm trying to express the same thing.

From the webcomic "Writhe and Shine", which I found somewhere. Back during one of the hardest times of my life, one of my closest friends had a way of cheering me up when I was down. "Hey, guess what?" he'd ping me. "What?" "I'm not wearing any pants." This icon always reminds me of that.

From [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com]. There was a series of McDonalds commercials in Australia about adults letting their inner children out to go eat McDonalds - they crawled out through these doors in people's chests, sort of creepy, actually. This image is from that commercial, and I called it "where is my soul?" after a Neil and Tim Finn song. It describes the emptiness you sometimes feel.

From [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com] - I hang around [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com], which is where I get all these from. Futurama is a vastly underrated show - I just adore it. And Morbo is so very good at expressing contempt for the idiocy displayed by the human race sometimes.

Another [Bad username or site: @ livejournal.com]. Wallace and Gromit! I haven't seen this particular movie, but being Australian, how could I resist death threats to rabbits?