Oh, the Pain

Today I downed four Ibuprofen pills, a mocha, a can of diet Dr Pepper and a cup of Earl Grey tea in my efforts to get rid of a headache I've had since this morning--a headache I thought was due to a lack of sleep. My medicinal, highly caffeinated attempts kind of worked. The headache has faded, though it isn't completely gone.

But now my stomach hurts. Wah.

To take my mind off my current ills, I will think of something positive. Like, what a beautiful day it is outside, here in Southern California. I'll just look out the window and...oh. Wait. It's not very beautiful. All I see are gray clouds, for like the millionth day in a row.

Double wah.

Thankfully for my state of melancholy gloom, I have friends who send me links to wacky stories, because they know how much I adore bizaare news. Today, courtesy of Benjamin, I learned that Disneyland may be the happiest place on earth, but apparently Stalin's World is a close second.

I never even knew there was a "Stalin's World." I mean, other than the rather horrific one he established during his tenure as a Soviet Union dictator. But now it's an exciting theme park too!

Fav quote from the article (on CNN.com):

Statues of Vladimir Lenin, Josef Stalin and other Soviet leaders glower at visitors, and the barbed wire fences and guard towers surrounding the park help give it the feel of a Soviet gulag.

Wow. How joyous!

My life is so much richer now. So very, very much.

But my stomach still hurts. :(