At some point during my workout on Friday morning I pulled something in my back. Throughout the day it started to hurt more and more, making such complex and demanding physical tasks as breathing extremely painful.
Saturday morning found me with only a dull ache, and since my Saturday workout isn’t that intense I went in early and did it.
I regretted doing so, so I decided that I would skip the workout on Sunday in order to give it some time to heal.
The weekend was largely uneventful, though Saturday morning I did remember to check the DVR and found that in the time I’d left it on it had finally downloaded the program guide.
So last night I set it to record two movies that I wanted to watch, but which were on well after I would have gone to bed (even with not getting up early to workout I still had to get up at 5 am, so it’s difficult to stay up late on Sunday nights).
The first movie was “Reefer Madness,” Showtime’s adaptation of the musical based on the incredibly bad 1936 anti-marijuana propaganda movie.
Anyone who’s seen the original “Madness” knows how unintentionally hilarious it was.
The modern version aims for deliberate laughs, and often misses, but is on-target often enough to be worth watching (even if it was made by those bastards at Showtime who took my beloved “Dead Like Me” away).
The other movie was “Jason vs. Freddy.” Yes, it is incredibly cheesy, but hey, I’ve seen enough of both of their movies to figure it was worth watching the two of them together.
It was about as bad as I expected, so I’m glad I didn’t bother seeing it in theaters or rent it.
One thing about it that was sort of stood out about the movie is that, despite following essentially the same formula, both characters’ movies have their own distinctive qualities, and one would have expected a movie featuring both of them to sort of bring those qualities together.
There was a definite attempt to do that, but the melding was less than organic, feeling incredibly artificial and ultimately leading to something less than the sum of its parts.
The one bright spot was the pure, chaste, and virtuous heroine, portrayed by actress Monica Keena.
What a cutie. Only 5’ 1½” but with proportions designed for a much taller woman, if you know what I mean….all right, I’ll come out and say it: she’s got huge boobs.
I’ve seen her in other things, most notably different episodes of the Law & Order shows, but she was especially cute in this, though that was mostly because of the tight, white (often wet) top she was wearing.
Beyond her most obvious assets, though, she has an overall “fullness” that is very pleasing to look at, and she is a very pretty young woman
At one point in the movie, Freddy got his claws on her and actually cut up her chest a little.
I yelled, “You inhuman monster! Why would you do anything to mess up such perfect boobs?”
I mean, killing little kids and horny teenagers is one thing, but some things are just way out of bounds…
Today was another “unscheduled” day, as I didn’t put together anything for it in my planner.
I got up, watched “Madness” (which lost points for me, by the way, by being a musical; I just don’t like musicals), talked to my mom, took a shower, watched “Freddy Vs. Jason,” and then headed out for the one thing I did have written in my planner.
That was my “consultation” at the oral surgeon my dentist referred me to for getting my teeth pulled.
I was annoyed about having to go for the consultation in the first place, and I was even more annoyed after it was over.
When I arrived I had to fill out some paperwork, and then I sat and waited. And waited.
Finally the doctor met with me, talked to me for about five minutes, and then we were done.
I then had to wait even longer to schedule the actual appointment.
The whole thing ended up costing me $10.
No, that’s not a lot of money, but considering that my insurance was charged considerably more than that ($85 to be exact), it was pretty annoying.
After all, basically the doctor told me a bunch of stuff that I already knew, namely that he was going to pull some of my teeth and that I have different options for anesthesia, but that I’d probably be fine with just Novocain.
There’s some reason they couldn’t have just told me this over the phone?
I mean, yeah, I had to fill out paperwork to let them know who my insurance provider is and whatnot, but considering that this was a referral, couldn’t they have just gotten that information straight from my dentist?
The whole thing was just a pointless waste of time and money.
As it is, I won’t actually be going in to get the teeth pulled until June 6th.
It’s just as well, as I have to wait at least four weeks for my gums to heal enough to get my partial, and if I did it any time before the end of May I’d have to go home with still-healing gums.
In any case, that was pretty much my day. Nothing especially interesting or exciting.
I may write more later, but I doubt it, so I hope this will be enough for you.
Somehow, if I don’t write more, though, I think you’ll manage…
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