Notable:
Daniel Craig was injured three times making this film.

Quote:
I don’t think the dead care about vengeance.

Rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, and some sexual content

I’ve been in San Antonio for my marathon. I’ve been updating my running blog: JillWillRun.com with details on that experience. Please check it out.

I also had to live without internet for several days. I had my iPhone, but one can only deal with that for all a person’s internetting needs for so long. Twittering, blogging, e-mailing, mapping… it all starts to drain the battery really quickly. And since mapping needs to take precedence over other items so I don’t get lost in a strange city, the other items have to take a backburner.

My feed reader has an astonishing 10,000+ items in it, which is a little overwhelming. So if I don’t respond to things you’ve written recently, it’s because I’m going through it on “super high-speed, clean-it-out mode”. I really do love all ya’ll!

Well, not my face exactly… but the skin on my face is angry. Or maybe it’s just depressed.

Whatever emotion it is currently experiencing, it is choosing to express itself by making my skin look awful and feel awful. And when my skin is acting up, my mental state goes down the toilet. I feel ugly and conspicuous.

In my teens, I had a few pimples. Nothing too serious. Then in my 20’s I started to get deep, painful cystic zits. And now that I’ve entered my 30’s, I’ve been getting an onslaught of monster, painful, cystic ACNE. These things are so mean and nasty, they deserve to be all caps.

I currently have at least 4 on my chin and a couple others on my jawline and hairline. Every single one of them leaves a mark behind on my skin when they finally decide to depart. But even when they do leave, they often return in the same spot. Which is maybe why they leave a mark behind; they know they’re just leaving for a moment, thus they don’t feel the need to pack up everything and make a real exit.

But not only do I have the acne to contend with, I have patches of dry skin on my face too. Even in zones that are slightly oily, the skin is peeling and flaking.

It’s probably not the best practice, but I’ve been changing my moisturizers/cleansers every time the previous one runs out. I can’t figure out a type I really love and once a tube/bottle/pot is empty I move on to something, hoping that will be my new holy grail, only to be disappointed yet again.

Lately I’ve been thinking maybe I should try a natural or organic line under the assumption that those would be more gentle to my skin. Probably the best treatment would be to learn how to relax and stress less, but I’m part of this tech-obsessed world that just wants a quick fix and those options would take too long. And probably a significant reduction in my work hours.

I’m reaching, I know… so I’m opening it up to you guys. PLEASE… if you have any advice on products or techniques or methods that might help, leave a comment.

Work crap, household maintenance, travel details… It’s driving me bonkers.

WATCH MY HEAD SPIN! AAAAAGH!

Notable:
There were a lot of big actors in this film and yet none of them was the sole “star” of this, they all had equal weight right along with the actors that were not household names.

Quote:
This war will never end.

Rating: PG-13 for sequences of intense violence and action, some disturbing images and brief strong language

I like the way my brows look when I get them waxed, but I don’t really have such thick or overgrown brows that it is an absolute necessity. And after this most recent experience, I may be scared away from doing the wax ever again.

My skin was all red around my eyebrows, like usual. It kind of burned and stung afterwards, like usual. I didn’t think anything was that different about the experience. Until the next day, when I woke up and had scabs all across the skin below my eyebrows. Then the skin was raw and flaking off… and it stayed that way for a week. Ouch!

Does that happen often? Remember, this is only my 3rd time ever having my brows waxed so I’m a novice in this area.

I finally decided I could take some pictures of my new cut today, since my brows are pretty much healed. But since it’s kind of dim in my house and I just used PhotoBooth on my Macbook to take the photos, they came out really grainy and ugly. So I just decided to roll with the graininess and run it through a few filters in Photoshop. So here is my haircut with a slight comic-book effect. Maybe this weekend I will try to get a real photo taken, once I have some good light!

(Part of my over-planning, rambling has to do with the fact that he doesn’t respond to me, so I keep talking to fill the void, hoping he’ll respond but he never does. Thus I keep going and going, sounding a little insane at times.)

Recently pop (soda, Coke or carbonated beverages - whatever you call them) went on sale. I tried giving up carbonation but I missed it. I need one vice. So when I saw I could get get a bunch of it for a good deal, I knew I wanted to stock up.

Me: Okay, so after lunch we’ll go to the grocery store. We’ll get a cart and just head straight to the pop. We’ll get some for you and some for me. We don’t need to go anywhere else in the store, so just straight to the pop and then to the checkout and then back to the car. Quick, easy trip.

Him: What will we do if they’re out? (This is him teasing me.)

Me: We’ll sit down and cry.

Him: Okay.

PAUSE

Him: Can that be you and not me?

I’ve done it in the past and I briefly entertained the idea of doing it again. But I decided, “No, I don’t need that pressure.” I have so many things happening in November that it is very probable that I would fail at that endeavor. And I don’t like to fail.

Then I thought, maybe I’ll just rebel and take the entire month off from my blog. Yeah, that would show them. Whoever “them” may be… That’s kind of how I’ve felt toward the site lately anyway, kind of apathetic and wondering who gives a shit.

But then I stepped back and remembered that I don’t blog for an audience. I appreciate that I have people who read and give me advice/insight on issues. I have met wonderful people through my blog. But ultimately I write to get stuff out of my head.

So this month, my goal is to post whenever I feel like it. Just like every other month. I think I can manage that!

Notable:
The film was edited twice and was given an NC-17 both times. The final cut was initially rated NC-17 like the two previous cuts but was appealed to an R rating.

Quote:
I’ve always wanted to watch shit while I shit.

Rating: R on appeal for strong crude sexual content including dialogue, graphic nudity and pervasive language

Notable:
The marathon this film is based around is fictional, created specifically for the movie because the rights to use the London marathon were owned by another film.

Quote:
The only serious relationship I’ve been in ended in a broken collarbone and a dead meerkat.

Rating: PG-13 for some rude and sexual humor, nudity, language and smoking