Just a Diamond in the Rough…

13 Guilty Pleasures 1. Reading trashy magazines during my lunch breaks at work. 2. Watching Celebrity Eye Candy/ Fabulous Life of… on VH1 3. Buying clothes for my nieces 4. Spending money when I know damn well I don’t have the money 5. Collecting pets. The collection so far: 2 birds, 1 gecko, 11 fish, 2 dogs. And counting. 6. Spoiling the fiance, with clothes or cooking his favorite meal. 7. Shoes. Nuff said. 8. Eating bad foods, a la french fries and chocolate. In the same meal. 9. Jewelry. 10. Making other girls jealous over how well the fiance treats me. 11. Seasonally decorating my house. Yay for Halloween coming up! 12. Manicures and pedicures when I can afford it. 13. Sleeping in all day when there’s housework to be done. Links to other Thursday Thirteens! 1. (leave your link in comments, I’ll add you here!)

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My two year old niece has taken my breath away, literally. Since I babysat her, my fiance caught a cold she had. It started out as a simple, meaningless cold, with a slight fever, loss of appetite, body aches, coughing and a sore throat. By the time it reached me, I had lost my voice. Severely. I blame it on the germ infested toddler. Good news is, no strep throat, just sever laryngitis. Bad news is, I can’t talk to my boss or my associates, or even customers at work, and those pesky customers get offended because I don’t talk to them. Or they laugh at me when I try, because it seriously sounds like I swallowed a dying cat and its trying to come back out, through my mouth. And then there’s school: I just started my classes Monday and I can’t even let teachers know of my presence because I’m hoarse. My condition is amusing, but you wouldn’t know it because no sound comes out when I laugh. So for once, this chatterbox has been rendered speechless.