Silverthorne

So, there was the possibility of going 'out' this weekend with friends.

My cellphone ran out of battery charge Thursday night, made a beep to let me know, and turned off. I pluuged it in, charged it, unplugged it when it said the charge was full.

...and forgot to actually turn the cellphone back on once I did that.

So...heh. Missed all my calls. Scared my friends (SORRY!!!!! ^^;), and spent a rather quiet weekend at home instead because of that.

I so fail. God help me if I ever need that thing for an actual emergency. Heh.

When you read a headline that starts with 'Brush Fires' as 'Bush Fires' and automatically think 'what did that dumb ass do now?!?'.

I didn't have my coffee this morning.

I did fine until 1pm.

I now have a headache that's bordering on a migraine and a touch of nausea. And of course, ibuprophen doesn't touch it. Because it's not, you know, caffiene.

Needless to say, I made a few cups to drink, and am hoping that it kicks in soon.

Heh. Oops.

Addictions, wheeeeeeeeeee! (Yet another reason I stopped at coffee and didn't get into drugs, smoking, and alcohol).

*Cinemax's 'Best Sex Ever' comes on*

*Watches for a few minutes*

*Yawns*

*Turns on Saw*

... what can I say? I'd rather do than watch... :P

A tunnel full of baby rats in a horror flick makes you go 'awwwww, cuties!' instead of "EW *SQUICK* GROSS!!!!!"

So, random thoughts of the day--first being is I think I'm going to end up making an icon of the above sentence, just because it's true.

See, if you don't say you're from 'Joisy' (a corruption from invading New York accents, I think), people won't believe you're from New Jersey. Thing is, I'm not even technically from South Jersey (who say it 'right', with the 'er' instead of the 'oi'), Because I was born in Trenton and then lived in Hightstown/East Windsor...which is more like 'central' Jersey headed towards north. And I never heard 'Joisy', even in the Italian neighborhoods I lived in, unless it was someone from New York saying it.

But that also got me to thinking about Nevada, of all things (probably because the news has been doing little tongue-in-cheek spots about how most of the presidential candidates 'offended' natives by saying it wrong), and how to say it 'right'.

Of course, like most folks, I say it 'Nah-Vah-Dah'...which is apparently way wrong. And I've heard it said the right way several times over the past two weeks. (For the record, now that I've stumbled on it again, it's 'Nah-Vaa (as in 'had')-dah, not 'ah' as in...well...'ah', which is how most non-native folks say it.)

Thing is? I'm still stuck on the wrong way, even though I run through other ways to say it (Nah-Vey-Dah...Na-Ved-Ah...Nah-fuck-it). It usally takes about sixteen tries and it's a complete accident when I finally stumble on the 'right' way to say it, at which point I have a Do'oh! moment, because there's no mistaking the proper way of saying it for anything else. And then I promptly forget it all over again the next time, thus having to repeat the entire process.

So, who else has this problem (or hears other people say something cringe-worthy because you know It's Wrong?).

Inquiring minds want to know. *g*