Denise Austen is a BITCH!
Yes, I love her, and her psycho smile and sing song voice telling me to "keep it up, you're doing great" really do keep me going but I just finished 35 minutes of pilates and SHE'S A
BLEEP.
I've been doing the abs, core and pilates challenge for about two weeks now and it's getting so I don't fall over hardly at all anymore.
Last night, we had a very low key new years. Zack went out, after getting an earful from both parents regarding stupid behavior; his own and everyone else's, and warnings that the cops were everywhere so don't be foolish, yada yada yada. I'm pretty sure all he heard was "Tonight...
white noise...Charlie Brown's teacher's voice...more white noise..."
Josie and I were planning on watching Pirates of the Caribbean III but she decided that playing UNO with her buddy next door was more fun, so Jay and I had pork chops without her.
I had heard all day that the ball in NY's Time's Square was green, not the color, but the politics. Here's what I don't get; we're supposed to switch to those horrid compact fluorescent bulbs, because they last a really long time and they're better for the environment, right? Well, they give off a weak, hideously ugly light, so who wants them to last? And if you accidentally break one, you need a hazmat team to come clean it up for you because
they're full of mercury!
Am I missing something here? Break it = HAZMAT. Since when is something stuffed with mercury good for the environment? I stopped buying light up tennis shoes for my kids when I found out the lights worked on mercury switches and now I'm supposed to sacrifice the beauty of my home for light bombs filled with the stuff??? Is it ironic or just stupid that these bulbs are being pushed by the same folks who think pesticides on crops are bad?
I guess if you'll buy that human behavior can affect the climate, you'll buy anything.
So....what happens to all those "green" bulbs that lit up the Austrian crystal ball in Time's Square? Did they give them to homeless people? Switch out all the bulbs at Macy's? Good luck finding anything that looks good on you in their fitting rooms if they did. Jessica Alba looks like crap in the light those things cast. Maybe they sent them to Gitmo. Now that would be torture. Granted, as an artist, the way things look and the quality of light is very important to me, but I'd rather be waterboarded than have to live in the light those fluorescent bulbs cast. I guess they just left them in the crystal ball, didn't they? After all, we'll be dropping that thing for years and years, won't we? Unless Billary gets elected next November, in which case the world will surely end immediately. One hopes, at any rate.
I hate halogen lights, too, but at least I'm pretty sure if I broke one I wouldn't have to call in FEMA. And then wait in the dark for weeks and weeks and weeks. (Note to self; tell FEMA you are white.)
To sum up; it's a new year, I hate light bulbs and Denise Austen is a bitch. Happy 2008!
