Coming soon to Kind of Weird (aka popculturechick.com), product reviews! Mostly I'll be reviewing books, but I'll also review interesting products, bentos, interesting sites, etc.
Today the blog becomes fully public. Anyone with suggestions on something to review, please feel free to email me!
My main slant will stay with the blog title. I'll be reviewing things that are kind of weird. For example, the first book I'll be reviewing is Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. It takes the original Jane Austen story and gives it new life (death?) with contributing author Seth Grahame-Smith's unique take on it.
http://www.amazon.com/Pride-Prejudice-Zombies-Classic-Ultraviolent/dp/B0023ZLILK/ref=dp_kinw_strp_1
So be on the lookout for my upcoming review, and don't hesitate to throw ideas out there for my next product. I'm always looking for something unique, bizarre, weird, or different!
Monday, July 13, 2009
Friday, June 26, 2009
Flu Are You?
Fluuuu-uuu-uuu. Ok, channeling a bit of Roger Daltry there, sorry.
So my son has the infamous H1N1, or as some know it, the swine flu. I have been terrified of this since it first came about. My kids both have adrenal disorders that make illness a tricky situation. They have to get extra meds as soon as they get sick. If you wait too long, they end up in the hospital. After seeing our son start to slide into a coma when he was an infant, my husband and I have been especially vigilant. So when I heard that H1N1 was making its rounds, I was definitely concerned.
But time passed, as it tends to do, and the urgency of the situation waned a bit. New cases pop up here and there all the time, but it's not much more than the regular seasonal flu anyway. With my husband being deployed and working constantly, rushing around to get the kids to and from daycare, and visiting my in-laws, I just stopped being as concerned.
Last weekend, however, H1N1 reared its ugly head right in my own home. My son spiked a fever over 103 and couldn't keep his meds down. For the first time in his 3 and a half years of life, I had to give him a shot of cortisol. Not fun, by the way. There's a sort of 'pop' feeling when you push the needle into the skin. Doing that to my own kid sucked. But having him go into a coma would suck more. After a visit to the pediatrician, the diagnosis was H1N1 and strep. Lovely.
So this past week has been spent disinfecting everything, keeping the house clean, and keeping my 7 month old daughter out of the house. Meanwhile, I'm still going to work, my mother-in-law comes over in the morning and hands me my daughter. I, in turn, hand over my son. He stays home with Nana, and I take my daughter to daycare and rush off to work. Come home after 8 hours and pick my daughter up from daycare, take her home, pass her back to my mother-in-law, who then hands my son back to me and then leaves with my father-in-law. It's been an exhausting week.
On top of all that, I've been researching. I've been looking up how H1N1 is doing everwhere and who it is hurting most. (people my age and a bit younger, as it turns out) Thanks to my searching on Twitter and following links there, I know that we have about 70-120 days to prepare for the second wave of the pandemic this fall. And thanks to Twitter, I have added about 20 people to follow.
In my search for more pandemic information, I found even more, unrelated, interesting information on social media and what one blogger calls the "Hive Mind" of Twitter.
Check out his blog here:
http://www.twitip.com/save-the-hive-mind/
Take a look and enjoy. You can tweet me http://twitter.com/ali_marea
The upcoming year looks to be challenging and full of uncertainty. But I have hope that we'll all come out of this stronger and wiser.
So my son has the infamous H1N1, or as some know it, the swine flu. I have been terrified of this since it first came about. My kids both have adrenal disorders that make illness a tricky situation. They have to get extra meds as soon as they get sick. If you wait too long, they end up in the hospital. After seeing our son start to slide into a coma when he was an infant, my husband and I have been especially vigilant. So when I heard that H1N1 was making its rounds, I was definitely concerned.
But time passed, as it tends to do, and the urgency of the situation waned a bit. New cases pop up here and there all the time, but it's not much more than the regular seasonal flu anyway. With my husband being deployed and working constantly, rushing around to get the kids to and from daycare, and visiting my in-laws, I just stopped being as concerned.
Last weekend, however, H1N1 reared its ugly head right in my own home. My son spiked a fever over 103 and couldn't keep his meds down. For the first time in his 3 and a half years of life, I had to give him a shot of cortisol. Not fun, by the way. There's a sort of 'pop' feeling when you push the needle into the skin. Doing that to my own kid sucked. But having him go into a coma would suck more. After a visit to the pediatrician, the diagnosis was H1N1 and strep. Lovely.
So this past week has been spent disinfecting everything, keeping the house clean, and keeping my 7 month old daughter out of the house. Meanwhile, I'm still going to work, my mother-in-law comes over in the morning and hands me my daughter. I, in turn, hand over my son. He stays home with Nana, and I take my daughter to daycare and rush off to work. Come home after 8 hours and pick my daughter up from daycare, take her home, pass her back to my mother-in-law, who then hands my son back to me and then leaves with my father-in-law. It's been an exhausting week.
On top of all that, I've been researching. I've been looking up how H1N1 is doing everwhere and who it is hurting most. (people my age and a bit younger, as it turns out) Thanks to my searching on Twitter and following links there, I know that we have about 70-120 days to prepare for the second wave of the pandemic this fall. And thanks to Twitter, I have added about 20 people to follow.
In my search for more pandemic information, I found even more, unrelated, interesting information on social media and what one blogger calls the "Hive Mind" of Twitter.
Check out his blog here:
http://www.twitip.com/save-the-hive-mind/
Take a look and enjoy. You can tweet me http://twitter.com/ali_marea
The upcoming year looks to be challenging and full of uncertainty. But I have hope that we'll all come out of this stronger and wiser.
Friday, May 15, 2009
Panic Switch
This song has been stuck in my head for the past two days. Panic Switch by Silversun Pickups.
First I blame Greg Roche. (afternoon DJ on DC101) He has been playing this song every single day, I think. I don't miss many of his broadcasts. Anyway, he thinks the song needs to be a follow-up to one of the Bourne movies. Having never seen them, and detesting Matt Damon, I just got sucked into the song based on the guitar riffs and the strange vocals. At first I thought this was a chick band. Finally, after days of getting the song stuck in my head, I looked it up and got info on the band. Dude. That is a dude singing. Wow.
So, ok. Weird vocals for sure. Only one chick in the band, and I'm still not sure if I like any of their other songs. That said, I've played that damned song about 80 times today.
Then comes my other obsession, of course. Bentos. I think I am going to have to stop buying bentos until I:
A) Have more room to store said bentos.
B) Use them more than once every couple of months.
C) Stop going to 7-Eleven in the morning to get my day's worth of food.
I can't help it though. I'm hopelessly addicted. I love bentos and bento accessories. I'm worse than Hank Hill and his propane.
Finally, I have gone beyond interest and gotten sucked into the cult that is Hello Kitty love. I blame my daughter. Before she was born I just thought Hello Kitty stuff was cute. I had a few things and that was it. Since then I have been on a mad search to find all things Hello Kitty. I want to buy a Hello Kitty CD player/radio for my daughter's room. I also want to get her a HK cool-mist vaporizer, HK build-a-bear, and HK blankets.
My husband thinks I'm weird for the interest but has so far been accepting of the quirk. Just don't mention to him that Hello Kitty sun-shades for the car are on the way from my most recent ebay purchase.
First I blame Greg Roche. (afternoon DJ on DC101) He has been playing this song every single day, I think. I don't miss many of his broadcasts. Anyway, he thinks the song needs to be a follow-up to one of the Bourne movies. Having never seen them, and detesting Matt Damon, I just got sucked into the song based on the guitar riffs and the strange vocals. At first I thought this was a chick band. Finally, after days of getting the song stuck in my head, I looked it up and got info on the band. Dude. That is a dude singing. Wow.
So, ok. Weird vocals for sure. Only one chick in the band, and I'm still not sure if I like any of their other songs. That said, I've played that damned song about 80 times today.
Then comes my other obsession, of course. Bentos. I think I am going to have to stop buying bentos until I:
A) Have more room to store said bentos.
B) Use them more than once every couple of months.
C) Stop going to 7-Eleven in the morning to get my day's worth of food.
I can't help it though. I'm hopelessly addicted. I love bentos and bento accessories. I'm worse than Hank Hill and his propane.
Finally, I have gone beyond interest and gotten sucked into the cult that is Hello Kitty love. I blame my daughter. Before she was born I just thought Hello Kitty stuff was cute. I had a few things and that was it. Since then I have been on a mad search to find all things Hello Kitty. I want to buy a Hello Kitty CD player/radio for my daughter's room. I also want to get her a HK cool-mist vaporizer, HK build-a-bear, and HK blankets.
My husband thinks I'm weird for the interest but has so far been accepting of the quirk. Just don't mention to him that Hello Kitty sun-shades for the car are on the way from my most recent ebay purchase.
Monday, April 6, 2009
What's new pussy-cat?
I have a serious addiction to Hello Kitty. I partly blame my daughter. Before she was born in November, I just liked Hello Kitty. I had some Hello Kitty bento stuff and that was cool and good enough for me.
Now, however, I am completely, over-the-bend, addicted. I have a Hello Kitty mouse.
In my cube at work I have a Hello Kitty poster. I also have a Hello Kitty tumbler and stickers and even a Hello Kitty chap-stick.
At home I have a Hello Kitty eye-mask in case it's too bright to sleep.
I definitely give credit to my daughter for part of the new obsession. Her room used to be an office. It was so bare and boring looking that I felt like it failed as a nursery. During one visit to Target, I noticed a decent price on these wall-stickers. There were 4 large sheets of these stickers for only 10 bucks. That seemed reasonable to me, and they were cute Hello Kitty designs. I picked one of those up for her (and Cars for my son) and headed home. Not only were they incredibly easy to put up (just peel and stick), they looked great! Now my daughter's room looks like someone actually decorated in there.
After that, I felt like she needed more things to match. So now I want to get her this Hello Kitty radio (to play baby music on), a Hello Kitty lamp, and a Hello Kitty cool-mist vaporisor. Is that going too far?
Honestly, at this point, I don't think I'd know.
I need a 12-step program.
Now, however, I am completely, over-the-bend, addicted. I have a Hello Kitty mouse.
In my cube at work I have a Hello Kitty poster. I also have a Hello Kitty tumbler and stickers and even a Hello Kitty chap-stick.
At home I have a Hello Kitty eye-mask in case it's too bright to sleep.
I definitely give credit to my daughter for part of the new obsession. Her room used to be an office. It was so bare and boring looking that I felt like it failed as a nursery. During one visit to Target, I noticed a decent price on these wall-stickers. There were 4 large sheets of these stickers for only 10 bucks. That seemed reasonable to me, and they were cute Hello Kitty designs. I picked one of those up for her (and Cars for my son) and headed home. Not only were they incredibly easy to put up (just peel and stick), they looked great! Now my daughter's room looks like someone actually decorated in there.
After that, I felt like she needed more things to match. So now I want to get her this Hello Kitty radio (to play baby music on), a Hello Kitty lamp, and a Hello Kitty cool-mist vaporisor. Is that going too far?
Honestly, at this point, I don't think I'd know.
I need a 12-step program.
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