http://www.brendastardom.comBrendaStardom.com - BS ReportCopyright (C) BrendaStardom.com.en-USwww.miguelsantos.com - Klick and Kreatehttp://www.brendastardom.com/arch.asp?ArchID=1571Ok, I was going to write something brilliant, twisted and witty but I just read a so-called professional's comment that stated he didn't want to "loose" his computer. It grates on my nerves, this misspelled word, as common as a hoe in Times Square. I think of the song, "Born to Lose" and if umpteen million people had their way, it would be "Born To Loose" and that would be wrong because it would have to read "Born TOO Loose".Sun, 06 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.brendastardom.com/arch.asp?ArchID=1570If anyone thought I was reviewing an old Marilyn movie, they're wrong. Today was a most bizarre day at the bus stop and aboard the beasts. I had to wait for the first bus in an area of Seattle most deem ghetto and scary. Well, if the two ghetto girls I encountered were spotted by any of the Seattle neighborhood snobs, the bad rep would be rightly deserved.Thu, 29 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.brendastardom.com/arch.asp?ArchID=1569Just who does this tool think he is? God of the Internet? His plans to connect everyone with everything is both disgusting and frightening. For those poor souls who are clueless as to privacy issues with Facebook, this will be a disaster. A large majority of the people I know on there can do two things with their computers. Facebook and email. I'm not kidding. Trying to get them to protect their privacy is an exercise in futility.Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.brendastardom.com/arch.asp?ArchID=1568Yeah those pills I mentioned that i couldn't get until they were approved by my inSUREance, causing me to go without food and only sips of water for 3 frigging nauseous days? My friend, empath that she is saw me shivering and shaking and on the verge of tears so she drove me to the pharmacy and we sat in drive-through where I was hoping to catch a movie instead of being in one. oh yes mind wanders but not now. I get the bag with the pills. The money it "saved me" ... whoa are you ready? $599.89!!!! for 30 pills. Insane mygawd what if I wasn't covered? I got one of my glaucoma drops, a tiny tiny bottle and it was $98. I pick up another today and it will be around the same price.Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.brendastardom.com/arch.asp?ArchID=1567Well hell what's that smell that's the odor of my brain burning rubber. I kid you not. I've fought many battles since "Let's Face It". I was hospitalized. Yep, when the doc realized things were quite crazy I found myself wrist-banded and in a room with a view. That's true. It was great for a hotel but this wasn't a hotel it was hell in dress-up. Actually not that bad it's just that even with 5 doctors all checking me out like hey hey what's with the freak. I may speak of myself that way. I'm feeling quite freakish. Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.brendastardom.com/arch.asp?ArchID=1566Here I go again getting personal. It really doesn't matter anymore because it has to be obvious that I'm not that into keeping this column going. I need to write this as a follow up to the last one about my eyes and red cheek. The hits just keep on coming. This is about my face.Fri, 02 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.brendastardom.com/arch.asp?ArchID=1565It happened last Friday. My left eye, the one with Glaucoma, was reacting to one of the drops I have to take. My face was red, like I had a sunburn and was swollen. I called my ophthalmologist, pretty freaked out, and announced "I'm coming in". It was a good thing I did.Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.brendastardom.com/arch.asp?ArchID=1564The headline has nothing to do with the rest of this neglected site. I've never gone this long between reports. I have many reasons, some embarrassing, some valid. I never, ever thought I'd get into Facebook, but it's the first thing I check when I wake. I'm not as bad as many of my friends who only Facebook, email and chat online. But, it's addictive and surprisingly, fun. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.brendastardom.com/arch.asp?ArchID=1563Oh yeah, that's what's been going on for over a week. Today is the first day I haven't been coughing up a lung. Last Tuesday I had a sore throat and ached all over. Then came the cough. By Friday I had to see my primary care doctor who told me I had bronchitis and the flu. I had a breathing treatment in her office and was sent home with an inhaler and antibiotics. It seemed as though neither were working and yesterday morning I woke, coughing away like mad and I checked to see what made me itch like a bitch all night. A rash. Ohboy, I was like, what's next?Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.brendastardom.com/arch.asp?ArchID=1562I woke with a headache that felt like a hangover, but I was in bed at 11 and I don't drink. It's a persistent sucker...like a heavy bean-bag weight on my forehead and behind my eyes. That didn't stop me, I had this pull to go to Goodwill. The wait for the 7 was long but I did meet Nonny, a woman from the Phillipines who lives here now and she works at Goodwill. Sometimes a wait brings rewards like making a new friend. We clicked despite our backgrounds. She's also a compulsive thrift store shopper.Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.brendastardom.com/arch.asp?ArchID=1561Ahhhh, what a morning. I'm trying to unwind and John Lennon's "Happy Christmas (War Is Over)" is helping. it's a great song and I'm leveling out. It was sad today, on the bus and on the corner of Pike and 3rd. Could be Pine, not sure. Anyway a big beefy white-haired man in a wheelchair, one calf missing, was seated across from me. He told me he was on his way downtown to get an early start on panhandling. I never blink. Why should I? Anyway, he told me he'd made over 100 bucks yesterday and was anxious to have a repeat. He seemed to be in his late 60's and when he said he was 54 it was hard to keep the eyebrow down. Same for when he lifted his shirt and patted his enormous gut. Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.brendastardom.com/arch.asp?ArchID=1560I was taken aback yesterday when reading of a Florida woman's announcement of her son's death on Twitter. I've read so much I almost know this by heart. She was twittering, excuse me, tweeting, just a few minutes before her 2 year-old-son was found floating in the family pool. She tweeted from the hospital, asking her some 5000 friends to pray for him. He was already dead and she didn't know it yet. After she was told he died, she tweeted again, something about her million dollar baby and put up pictures of him.Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.brendastardom.com/arch.asp?ArchID=1559No, not Bush, who cares. I got this dollar bill a couple of days ago that was stamped with words on both sides..."Track This Bill", "wheresgeorge.com", and what was like bait to me, the words "See where I've been, track where I go next". Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.brendastardom.com/arch.asp?ArchID=1558I'm talking about how cold the past few days and nights have been and continue to be. Or not to be, that is the question regarding weather predictions. It's a crap shoot. I just read there just may be snow here Monday. Maybe it would be warmer because 18 degrees is bloody cold to me and everyone else. Yes, people in places where snow, lots of it , is a given, and 18 is probably a warm day, if reading this, are rolling their eyes and tossing around "oy veys", but it must be explained, why I don't know, but we're not used to it this cold. Ain' enured enuff of da coal stuff.Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMThttp://www.brendastardom.com/arch.asp?ArchID=1557It's been quite some time since I've received a variation on the Nigerian scams. According to the message header the one I just received came from Japan. I'd never heard of HSBC before. I had to look it up to be sure it's an actual bank. I found out a lot about the scams supposedly coming from HSBC.Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT