food poisoning! cold food poisoning heah!!

in case you were wondering, that's said by a random employee at a baseball game.

so i went out to lunch on friday to see one of my old co-workers (there were 8 of us total that week) and ended up with a bad case of food poisoning. well, honestly, it could have been a lot worse. i mean, i did only throw up the entire contents of my stomach once, and then i was just not feeling well. i could've thrown up every time i tried to eat something after that, but i didn't. so i'm grateful for that. the food was a buffet, and i ate broccoli & cheese, pineapple-glazed pork, salmon, tried a piece of clam fettucini alfredo (wasn't a fan), and a couple of red potato slices, plus bread and salad. so i was pretty full. my guess is that it was the salmon...freakin' seafood!!! i have to admit, now i'm not only wary of all seafood (salmon and codfish were the only things i "used to" eat from that category), but buffet-style food as well! Throwing up SUCKS!!! and i never throw up. i seriously can't even think back to the last time i threw up before last friday. i suppose that i'll get over the buffet wariness, even though buffets really aren't that cost-effective for someone like me, but i think i'll pretty much stay away from seafood from now on. i've never liked the majority of it anyway. i still don't know if anyone else got sick, but i've been asking around.

we've been renting ER Season 1, and it's been really fun to watch it together. it's like Alias and 24 for dan and carolyn. but with ER, we pause while braden explains medical terminology for me. it's awesome; i love learning it, and it's a double benefit, b/c i would like to have medical translation as one of my specializations.
we also rented the simpsons road rage for gamecube; it's pretty fun, but there's a couple of words that i wish homer wouldn't say. overall, pretty entertaining, though. it's evil, though! you can totally run over little kids, and kick old ladies! but you don't kill them though; you run them over, and you'll hear various things like: "this is the worst town in america" and "how'd you like a newspaper upside your head!!?" Yeah, that's what i'd say after being run over by a mack truck!!! lol.

one more story i want to tell. we took back seat cushions for our kitchen table chairs (to WalMart) b/c they were too small. so braden gets to the front of the line at customer service, and says to the guy (early 20's, probably), "i'd like to return these...my butt's too big for them."...and the guy doesn't even flinch, just goes right into, "ok, and...blah, blah..." (i had told braden to say it, but didn't think he really would). so in the meantime, i had to leave, b/c i was laughing so hard. see, braden can keep a straight face if i do, but if i start laughing, it's contagious. anyway, this was a couple of weeks ago, but i wanted to write it down for posterity. :) aren't you glad?