deathpixie | I should have known...

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?

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*cuddles* Being sick suuuucks...but damn, tea sounds good. I might have to shuffle into the kitchen to make some. I hope Fred starts behaving himself soon.

Ooh, and me for the meme. :D

, and

The modo icon is, indeed, most excellent.

He's a very grumpy alien, yes. You want seven more icons to explain? ;)

Yeah, sure. I'm always up for more talking about my icons. -g-

Me! Also, love the BtVS icon. "The Body" is one of my all-time favorite episodes, and I think that scene is really the best example of why Tara was a Scoobie. She was also a vastly underrated character and I don't know why they waited three years to put her in the opening credits.

Yeah, I never liked how Joss treated Tara. Season 6 she really came into her own, and of course then she had to die. *grfs*

It's the subtle twitching in the Bunny icon that makes it win.

It's so subtle, you don't even notice it at first - took me a while to realise it was indeed moving.

You wants to meme?

I love to meme!

Meme is you!

And me!

I hope you feel better! I can't really do the icon meme as I just picked cute fuzzy animals and a couple from comics. I'm horrible at having good icons.

I'd feel better if Angel didn't insist on walking on exactly the wrong place on my stomach in an effort to get attention. :P

Pet the kitten! Kittens must be petted and adored!

I did, when I wasn't trying to type. ;) He's got a habit of wanting my hands when they're on the laptop. He's asleep in my blankie now. Not sure where Spike is, but he was napping on my other side earlier.