Wednesday, September 20, 2006

fun with photos

I'm starting to get to the major fatigue part of my pregnancy. Due to heartburn, excruciating groin pain and residual scabies scratching I usually wake up at 1:30 am and don't get back to sleep until 5 or 6. I used to just lie there in bed and think about how miserable I was. Sometimes I would selfishly whine just enough to make sure that I had company during my pity party, but Alex is very adaptable and quickly learned how to tune out my whimpering so he could remain in his state of deep sleep. It took me a few weeks, but I finally realized if I actually got out of the bed I would probably feel better and maybe have a fighting chance at sanity.

During the wee hours of the morning I've found a bevy of things to do:

Project Cat is been something I've been working on for awhile, I force the cats together and see if they'll actually get along. It was going okay until the other day, Irene now has an injury on her face. (not my fault, I swear)

I think I've hit my limit on Sudoku, I finished one book right after I got out of the hospital and I'm almost done with a second.

I can tell you all about the Magic Bullet, because that infomercial is always on.

Entertainment Weekly is an easy and quick read, while Seed doesn't really do it for me like it does for Alex.

What To Expect When Your Expecting may be the worst pregnancy book ever written. I figured this out about 7 months ago when I was about 10 pages into it, but now I just read it so I can roll my eyes and say things like "oh, come on, that's ridiculous" while I get cynical and bitter and feel bad for women who consider this book useful.

Then of course there's the internet. I have my regular sites that I visit, but one of my favorite things to do while I'm wasting time on the old laptop is to peruse through other people's photos on Flickr. I have a couple of different methods of how I browse, sometimes I search the tags for obscure keywords or look in the groups section for interesting titles (such as "the hidden charm of flea markets" or "what's in your fridge?"). But my new favorite way is to go to into the Explore section and look at the pictures labeled "most recent uploads." Usually I find at least one thing worth clicking on in those thumbnails. Once I find a photo I dig on I check out that person's profile and maybe check out some more of their photos or their favorites. After I've seen enough from them I pick a contact from their list and check out those photos, and so on. I've found some pretty crazy pictures, but a little while ago I found this. At first I thought it was some sort of art project, because every single one of Kulhanek K's photos are of someone covered with a scarves. Once I checked out his contacts, it dawned on me that this is no art project, it's a fetish. I felt so naive. Of course I had to check out more than one of his contacts, you know, to confirm that my suspicions were correct, and now I wish I never had. Go ahead and delve in further, if you dare. But I'll warn you right now that there are a lot of unattractive and slightly overweight, yet under-dressed, Midwesterners who seem to enjoy scarves in more ways than I ever thought were possible.

Because I went overboard and had already tainted my psyche forever with Kulhanek K's contacts photos I took that extra step and searched through tags of things I knew would end up somewhere unsavory. Like, say, for instance, badonkadonk. And lo and behold, I found beauties such as this, this and this.

I will end this post with a plea: Please don't judge me, it's the fatigue.

2 comments:

Dee said...

Connor wants a magic bullet for Christmas. He knows the infomercial by heart!

AHEM...I loved "What to Expect..." I had the whole series...they were my bible!

Anonymous said...

I think you should name the baby Badonkadonk.