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WARNING: IF YOU'RE A GUY YOU MAY WANT TO SKIP OVER MOST OF TONIGHT'S ENTRY. IT'S RATHER GIRLY AND SORTA PMS-Y. SORRY.

I've been feeling very old the last few days. I don't know if I've been living in denial for the last couple of years, but ever since my birthday in Feb. I seem to notice pain and the aging process more. I get home and my feet hurt, sometimes my legs and arms hurt. I'm usually scratched up and have paper/cardboard cuts on my fingers.

This weekend I went to a child's birthday party and a graduation party (in the midst of inventory prep of course). It took forever to find something to wear. I know I've put on some weight in the last month or so. I haven't been eating very well as far as lunches go. I haven't done too bad at home, but I just got tired of the same freakin' chicken salad everyday. Anyway, I went through about 4 shirts that fit fine two summers ago, but now are of the sort that you can wear standing up. You know, they are fine when you are upright, but sit down and the freak show that is your middle section (or for me my barrel-esque chest---thanks dad---and my middle and my lower gut) suddenly balloons and you are frak out of luck. My jeans have been okay, so it's mostly right in the middle. Long story long, I just felt crappy which I'm sure didn't make me the best company this weekend.

GENTLEMEN, YOU MAY RETURN AT THIS POINT:

Okay, enough of that. Inventory was okay. The people that do the counting seemed less forlorn this year. One of them was actually our bug guy a couple of years ago. Things seemed to go by without incident. Well, if you don't count music guy (mentioned in the Lynyrd Skynyrd entry) who walked around with his headphones on most of the time apparently attempting to contact, as Kathy said, "the mothership." I got home around 2:50am.

Watched the 400th Simpsons this morning when I got up and I gotta say they did a great job with their homage to 24. Hell, they did a better 24 episode than 24 has done the last few weeks. Speaking of 24, tonight's finale was sorta not that exciting. Not much happened in the first hour and the big action stuff was done by 30 past in the second hour. You got the sense that everyone on the show was just glad to wrap this one up. I read a blurb recently where the producers said they didn't have a clear path for this year and they realized it about half way through, hence alot of similarities to things they've done before. They are hoping to move the action to somewhere other than L.A., but that will cost money so they don't know if it will happen. I'm sure I will still check it out next Jan.

WATCH IT:

Futurama--reruns on Cartoon Network, new eps coming to Comedy Central in '08. Matt Groening's other cartoon that is at least as good as The Simpsons, if not better. Very smart and really heartfelt--not many adult cartoons have made me cry.

LISTEN TO IT:

Minutes To Midnight-Linkin Park---okay, for some of you this may ruin my music cred in your eyes, but I like this band. Their new cd was produced by Rick Rubin and you can tell it. To me, Rubin records a band in a very clean, but not sterile manner. He strips away pretense and just leaves the band to fend for themselves. I know one of the members did a side project last year and his rap stuff is barely around on this album so I wonder how much he worked on this record. Instead, you have more of a true rock album (rather than a rock/rap/electronic hybrid) featuring the lead singer's voice. It is still Linkin Park, but I don't think Jay-Z will be snagging samples from this cd anytime soon and that isn't a bad thing.