Just an ironic Monday

(sung, of course, to the tune of Manic Monday, which was not ironic but DUMB since the singer was so NOT manic).

Anyway.

Monday's child is, apparently, full of irony, and it's ekeing out today. Witness:

IRONY NUMBER 1:
I had my regular cholesterol check today; my physician decided last fall that I'd fought the good fight, but that diet and exercise were just not working for me, and put me on Lipitor (ticked me off, incidentally, but that's another post and I've moved on, thanks!). Today I had to go back to see if said Lipitor is working nicely.

For cholesterol, they need a fasting sample, so no food for me after 9pm last night. My appointment was 9 am, I have a hard time remembering not to eat before these things (says so much, doesn't it!), so decided not to bring my breakfast with me to work, just to be safe.

Which, of coures, meant that at 9:15 when I was done with my I was HUNGRY. And most take-out breakfasts involve some combination of eggs, cheese, and your favorite breakfast-meat...all cholesterol producing! I supposed I could've gone with a muffin, but please, is an oversized, highly processed muffin any better?

IRONY NUMBER 2:
I saw a reference today to the simplified version of Wikipedia, a version of wikipedia with simplified language so that children or those learning English can more easily understand things. I love real-wikipedia, so went to it to check it out. One of the sections is a simplified version of Wikiquote, which I thought initially was ironic, till I read the blurb; the quotes themselves have not been changed, but the explanations following them have.

OK.

But then they had this quote, from Albert Einstein: "Things should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." And the explanation? "Do not make things too easy to understand, or you might change what it means."

Um, yeah. That's ironic!