bryan with a baby
That's Chloe Landes and me on a tire swing in the kids' area at Cedar Point. If she looks unhappy, that's because she was looking into the sun. Or at least, that's our story. Don't worry, girl; it wasn't the most comfortable episode for me either, especially considering you had just spit up not long before that. (And why yes, I am letting my hair grow out instead of buzzing it. It still sticks up like a pipe cleaner around the top unless I mat it down with hairspray, but I'm trying to convince myself to be patient until it grows longer.)So what else is new? Work is going better, or at least, I feel better about it now. If the shareholders really follow through with their latest plan, I think things will start to turn around. They were impressed with the job I've been doing the past two months trying to handle shipping, customer service, and whatever all else (very little graphics work though, sadly). But if they really do get this business manager and marketing person in there, I should be able to go back to doing mostly graphics, hopefully with more help and direction than before, as far as marketing materials is concerned.
It seems like I have a lot of quasi-cultural events going on. This past Friday, I went with Allen to see Kalliope Stage's production of Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party, a show I've been wanting to see for several years now. It was an awesome show (literally, at times I was in awe of the sound coming from the lead actors) and I'm glad we went. Lippa is one of the up-and-coming young Broadway composers, so I'm sure we'll be hearing more from him as the years go on.
This Saturday, I'll be playing my digital piano outside at the Lorain County Historical Society's All-You-Can-Eat BBQ. They're serving from 4:00 - 7:00 p.m., and I'll be playing as much as I can during that time frame. I'll do my usual dinner music selections as I do for the church spaghetti dinners, but I'll throw in more upbeat numbers, since it's outdoors and you have to catch people's attention. Tickets for the BBQ are $30 -- it is a fundraiser, after all, and it's all-you-can-eat. Big Dog is catering the event, and their ribs and chicken are awesome. Really. They even catered my brother's wedding rehearsal dinner. Edited to add: Looks like rainy and cold for Saturday. It's probably going to be held indoors at Jack Matia Honda's showroom. Oh well.
On Sunday, I'm going to hear the Cleveland Orchestra perform Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 17 (along with some Mahler and Strauss). Next Tuesday, it's Spamalot at Playhouse Square. I'm considering driving to Bowling Green to hear The 5 Browns, since I missed their Cain Park concert back in August. Then the Sunday following that, I'm going to see The Marriage of Figaro at Stocker Center, as I know several people in the production and we're getting a group ticket rate with the Elyria Musical Arts Society. Then the weekend after that it's time for Camelot auditions.
In other news, I think I'm coming down with a cold. I didn't get my annual end-of-August/beginning-of-school cold this year, and in fact I haven't had a cold in quite some time (March or April, I think?), so I figured I was due. I first noticed symptoms tonight, so I've started using Zicam. I've found that using Zicam cold remedy right away (within the first 24 hours of noticing symptoms), and using it every 4 hours as the directions state, really does reduce the severity and duration of the cold. It also seems to work better than Cold Eeze, because you squirt the gel right into the lower nostrils, which is where cold viruses breed the most. Plus, you don't have to endure the nasty metallic aftertaste of the Cold Eeze lozenge. :)
Oh and by the way, gas was $1.99 at Sam's Club today. WTF, mates?
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Be careful with that Zicam stuff - there's a class action against them right now with a bunch of people who permanently lost all sense of smell after using the product. I guess when you put zince directly on your olfactory nerves, they die. Who knew. In other news, I used the zicam quick melt tab and that got rid of my cold within a few days.
Maybe you could give Chloe some hair advice since hers sticks up too!
Yeah, I recently read about the loss of smell too. The company settled out of court back in January without admitting fault. From what I've read (and believe me, it's hard to google and sift through all the ambulence-chaser sites, like, oh say, zicam-smell-loss.com), there were about 300 cases nationwide, out of millions of people who have used the Zicam cold remedy. The people who experienced loss of smell also had a burning sensation in the nose immediately upon using the product.
I can't tell if those people were using the product correctly -- squirting it into the lower nostril, as opposed to straight up into the nose. It also appears that many (all?) of those people were using it as a preventative medicine, rather than after noticing cold symptoms. I don't know if that makes a difference or not. Unfortunately, I think that's why Zicam still doesn't put any sort of warning about possible smell loss on its packaging.
I'm not sure what they're afraid of; I mean, their Congestion Relief product states right on the box that using it for more than three days in a row can actually make congestion worse and cause a burning sensation, which sounds pretty scary to me. If they just tell the truth, "300 out of 2,000,000 may experience temporary or permanent partial or total loss of smell," it wouldn't be that bad. How many people got cancer from Sweet 'n' Low, again? (Of course, if you're one of those 300 people, that's not much assurance.)
I have Spamalot tickets for Tuesday too! Yaaaaaaaayy!
Anonymous is Michelle.
And what;s up with these word verification "words?" CZXOOBUI???
I don't know dude. I guess I just don't want to take the chance of getting things mixed up in my upper nostril as opposed to my lower nostril - my nose isn't that big and I sure do love to uh, smell things. That and I'm not a big 'squirt things up my snout' kind of girl as a direct result of all of those double dares to snort pixie sticks as a child.
Anyway, the fast melts worked really well and when using them, there is little chance of getting zinc on your olfactory nerves.
But according to a lot of sites, the effectiveness of zinc is still under scrutiny, so maybe I'm just getting better on an expectancy effect. Who knows.
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