{"id":49,"date":"2007-04-30T04:13:14","date_gmt":"2007-04-30T04:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bethbrenneke.com\/?p=49"},"modified":"2007-04-30T04:13:14","modified_gmt":"2007-04-30T04:13:14","slug":"being-sick-is-no-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beth.unspunproductions.com\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"Being sick is no fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WTF is going on with me lately?  I mean, I FINALLY got over all of the Lexapro withdrawls (a little over a week of bad headaches and a general crap feeling), and now I&#8217;ve got a sinus infection!  Matt can attest to the fact that I look and sound like hell.  It started a few hours after I decided to dust the ceiling fans and light fixtures.  I haven&#8217;t dusted them in a good 6 months.  I know; I suck at housekeeping, but you all know that.  So, the dust aggravated my allergies, which in turn developed into an infection.  I won&#8217;t go into details, but I&#8217;ve been miserable.  On the bright side, I am feeling a little bit better.  \ud83d\ude42<br \/>\nSo, my friend Sara is trying to move to St. Louis.  She&#8217;s currently living in Atlanta, and is miserable there.  I feel so bad for her.  Her job is a complete nightmare, and she doesn&#8217;t know a single person outside of work.  She&#8217;s hoping to come into town some time this month (yay!) and check out more of the city.  She went to Mizzou, but never really ventured into STL. I&#8217;m sure we&#8217;ve all seen this list a million times, but I&#8217;m going to print it off for her when she moves here:<\/p>\n<ul><b>You Know You&#8217;re From St. Louis When:<\/b><\/p>\n<li>You love toasted ravioli with Budweiser beer.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Vacation&#8221; is a choice between Silver Dollar City and Lake of the Ozarks.<\/li>\n<li>You can find Pestalozzi Street by aroma alone.<\/li>\n<li>You can get anywhere in 20 minutes, except on highway 40.<\/li>\n<li>You can debate for 30 minutes whether Missouri Baking or Marge Amighetti makes the best Italian bread.<\/li>\n<li>You know what &#8220;Party Cove&#8221; is, and where the &#8220;lake&#8221; is.<\/li>\n<li>You still can&#8217;t believe the Arena is gone.<\/li>\n<li>Your first question to a new person is, &#8220;Where did you go to High School?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Your non-St. Louisan friends always ask if you&#8217;re aware there is no &#8220;r&#8221; in &#8220;wash.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>You know at least one person who&#8217;s gotten hurt at Johnson Shut-ins.<\/li>\n<li>You know in your heart that Mizzou can beat Nebraska in football.<\/li>\n<li>You think the four major food groups are Beef, Pork, Budweiser and Imo&#8217;s.<\/li>\n<li>You know there are really only three salad dressings: Imo&#8217;s, Zia&#8217;s and Rich and Charlie&#8217;s.<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;ll pay for your kid to go to college unless they want to go to KU.<\/li>\n<li>You would rather have a root canal without anesthetic than drive on Manchester on a Saturday afternoon.<\/li>\n<li>It just doesn&#8217;t seem like a wedding without mostaciolli. AND YOU PRONOUNCE IT &#8216;MUSKACHOLLI&#8217;. The balance of the menu is ham, boiled roast beef, string beans with ham and of course pitchers of Busch Bavarian (class weddings have Bud)<\/li>\n<li>You know, within a three-mile radius, where another St. Louisan grew up as soon as they open their mouth.<\/li>\n<li>You know what a Pork Steak is&#8230;and what kind of sauce to put on it!<\/li>\n<li>Everyone in your family has floated the Meramec River at least once.<\/li>\n<li>A hoosier is someone that lives just south of Chouteau, not a person from Indiana.<\/li>\n<li>You have made fun of Mike Shanahan and tried to imitate him ordering another cold, frosty Busch Bavarian Beer.<\/li>\n<li>You have listened to Mike&#8217;s broadcast on KMOX, while watching the game on TV and wonder what game he is watching. A tear forms in your eye as someone mentions their favorite Jack Buck story.<\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;ve said, &#8220;It&#8217;s not the heat, it&#8217;s the humidity.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Your favorite summer treat is handed to you upside-down<\/li>\n<li>You bleed Blue between September and May <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I don&#8217;t necessarily agree with everything on this list (FYI: I have NEVER been to The Hill in my life), but overall I thought it was funny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WTF is going on with me lately? I mean, I FINALLY got over all of the Lexapro withdrawls (a little over a week of bad headaches and a general crap feeling), and now I&#8217;ve got a sinus infection! 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