Detroit Diva

If you live in Detroit, and are really hard up (no pun intended) for something to do this weekend, make your way down to the International Sex and So Much More Show at Cobo Hall.  It's described as an "upscale consumer trade show" and features guests like porn king Ron "The Hedgehog" Jeremy.  My friend, Paige, collects hedgehogs.  I'm making no inference there - It just popped into my head and I'm now laying on the floor laughing.  Laugh, P, it's funny.

Speaking of sex, I heard on the radio that Screech from Saved By the Bell has just had someone release a homemade sex tape of him (Screech) with 2 women and no, one of them was not Pamela Anderson Lee Rock.

There are a group of people who have been standing on the corner of Woodward and 9 Mile roads in Ferndale  every Monday night since we invaded Iraq.  One of them was holding a sign last night that said "The Rapture is not an exit plan".  Love it!  In November, Michiganders will be voting for Governor.  The Republican candidate is, it goes without saying, an icky guy, by the name of Dick DeVos.  The UAW has sent out stickers that say " A vote for DeVos is a vote for De Bush" Love that, too!

Ahoy Mateys, tomorrow is Talk Like A Pirate Day!  Ok, as if that's not goofy enough, some people actually do the pirate thing all year round (evidently Wife Swap is having a pirate couple on this week).  I'm guessing it's along the lines of Civil War reenactors.  Am I the only one who doesn't get the attraction?  I mean other than Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom.  Maybe I'm too much of an introvert but dressing up and pretending to be a pirate or a wench just seems like it would wear thin pretty quickly.  I'd rather read about pirates than be one.  But, I do get a kick out of my smiley pirate - especially the fake stubble!

Congrats to the Detroit Shock!  They're the 2006 WNBA Champions! Woo Hoo! 

TGIF.  I have been losing it this week.  If I de-stressed from my vacation you sure wouldn't know it now.  Work was hell. Ok, maybe not hell, but one of those weeks where every thing that could go wrong did.  We had 2 days of no computer service - no Internet, no access to files, no database access, etc..  90% of my work is related to the computer - even though I'm a librarian my job entails being a database manager.  Can't manage a database when it doesn't work for 2 days.  By today I was so irritated that when one of my co-workers decided that a personal phone call was more important than doing their job - I blew.  I did something that I consider a big no-no.  I yelled at them and if that wasn't bad enough, I did it in front of another employee.  Not good.  It may be hard to believe but I'm not a yeller but I was extremely angry (it's been building up for a long time with this person) and I don't even think that you should discuss personnel issues in front of other employees regardless if there is yelling involved.  My stress level is through the roof which might explain why I came home and ate 4 - count them - 4 trail bars.  It's a good thing I signed up for 2 classes at the Y today - I'm going to need something to burn off the crap I've been eating.  I really need to just quit telling myself I can control myself when I have stuff like that in the house.  In fact, that's been another theme this week - telling myself I have control when the reality is I don't have control over anything.  I have control issues but I don't think I'm a control freak or at least not a psychopathic one.  I only need to feel like I have control over one little thing and I'm okay.  If I feel like I don't have control over at least one thing - I'm a freaked out little puppy.  And that's where we are this week.  I'm home and I'm going to relax now.

Hope you all have a good holiday weekend!