Pole Dancing In The Dark

Quote of the day

It's not that I think stupidity should be punishable by death. I just think we should take the warning labels off of everything and let the problem take care of itself.

Friday Flowers

Things aren't going as well as we hoped on the IVF front, and there have been several bouts of tears on my end. Hubster has been a rock. He has also been spoiling me fierce. Check out the beautious blooms the man has provided me with:

a little blurry, but lovely fall colors:

He told me that the florist didn't have star-gazers the first night, so he special ordered them and brought home the fall flowers the first night and these the second:

MAC beat down

Michelle beats down MAC. Because us conservative women care about the way we look too...

Personally, I won't purchase MAC cosmetics due to the fact that they hired the most un-funny "comedienne" known. Not to mention the fact that she is just plain damn scary looking. Seriously. Reminds me of Willem Dafoe in drag during the Boondock Saints. Granted, I'm not any ravishing beauty either, but I am not the one insulting a good deal of the female population while hawking cosmetics.

'Bout time

How to Negotiate with Terrorists

Amen brother... it's about time someone summed up and simplified exactly what is going on. Thank you.

And thank you Linda for emailing me the link... many props to you.

Ace made me do it

Who Are You In The Cthulhu Mythos?

You are a HOUND OF TINDALOS, a fearsome quadroped that travels between dimensions by materialising through corners and angles, from which the only hiding place is within a sphere. The hounds hunt the dimensions in search of food, humans being a particular favourite, whom it devours with its huge conical tounge through which the victims' vital essences are sucked.
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Thanks Ace, I think...

Somehow it seems appropos as I have been (sorta) been playing Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth. It's been creeping me out more so than usual due to the current hormonal state that I am in. These damn shots can't end soon enough for me. But bonus, because of the three day old migraine, the doctor has broken down and finally given me something better to deal with it than Tylenol.

Update: Somehow this seems to add in quite nicely: Two Lumps - The Cthulhu Mop.

The List

The List of Hollywierd folks that now have some of my respect. Actually, I have always adored Gary Sinise. He (and Rob Lowe) were the only things that made The Stand worth watching. Loved him in Truman.

Anyways, thanks to Radio Blogger for posting it.

And thanks to the people that had the courage to add their signatures to it. That must not have been easy considering the "ill wind" that's been a blowing.

Goin' 'round me noggin'

Who are you to wave your finger?
Ya' must have been out your head.
Eye hole deep in muddy waters.
You practically raised the dead.

You must have been high.
You must have been high.
You must have been.

-Tool "10,000 Days"

It's been rolling round all day long... I think it's time to go home.

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Not the chocolate!!!!

I'm just wondering why the man felt it necessary to step into the chocolate to unplug the tank... and who was that now contaminated chocolate going to? I don't even want to think about it.

It's a mortal sin to mess with food of the gods...

Because I have nothing better to complain about

So, today - more precisely - this morning I gave myself the first (of many) injections. Today's cocktail - Lupron Microdose in a Insulin needle. Good news - If I am ever diagnosed as a diabetic, I now know that I can actually shove a needle into my skin. Bad news – about 10 minutes after administering the medication I felt sick to my stomach and got a walloping migraine for my trouble. Hubster was good enough to check the side effects of the medicine (just to make sure that the two were related) and sure enough- voila! Instant gratification –well, that’s not the word I am really looking for, but the old noggin’ is a throbbin’ so it will have to do.

I decide that perhaps I should check on other known side effects and there is the usual list, headache (check) nausea (check) vomiting (nope) death, leukemia, dismemberment, osterioperosis and other icky things… great. Also, some possible hairiness- fabulous. Hubster! I don’t want to look like Hagrid!!!

By the way, I still hate the doctor… for many reasons too personal to go into here.

So that’s the personal status.

I came across a Golda Meir quote the other day that seem to fit the current world’s situation perfectly:

"We will have peace with the Arabs when they will love their children more than they hate us.�

I was reading the letters to the editor in the local rag when I saw it, then someone snatched the newspaper away (in all fairness, it was theirs.) I thought to myself, I need to remember that quote, because I want to post it on my blog. Then I was distracted – possibly by some bright shiny object, or not. When I remembered to post it, I had all ready forgotten parts of the quote. But fear not, I had found it elsewhere in the blogosphere.

Thank you, Little ole Lady.

(Oh yea, stick around and read the blog, she has some fabulous things to say. She will be joining the other links on the sidebar, when I get time.)

Gotta Love Flickr

I just love all the toys.

Spam o'matic

Well, after deleting some 50 spam comments just today alone - my comments have been closed until I get some anti-spam comments thingy... yes, that is the technical term. Leave me alone, it's Friday.

Anyway -SPAM!!!! WOOO HOOO!!!! I have arrived!!!!

Things that make you go

WTF!?!?!?!

Gee, I don't know why I wouldn't trust the mainstream media.

Just keep a scrolling down the page at The Jawa Report if you need more evidence of who the real enemy is turning out to be. Freedom of the press shouldn't include the freedom to make shit up. Isn't that what used ot be called "Yellow Journalism"? Isn't it nice to know that Reuters is about as reliable as the National Enquirer?

Friday Wrap Up

My husband loves to give me a good dose of perspective on a regular basis and sometimes it is needed in the most dire of ways. So, I apologize to those who may have been offended by my “It’s too freakin’ hot to breathe� rant the other day. As he said, at least I am not serving over in the mid-east in full battle gear. Those who are there get the utmost respect from me, and to the men and women serving in the US military over in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as those few Rochesterians that have since signed up for the IDF that I have heard about, if you ever visit Rottenchester, let me know so I can hook you up with a cold one. Ya’all deserve it.

So, there is that.

Next bit – for cryin’ in the sake, let’s give the whole Mel Gibson anti-Semite thing a rest all ready. Yeah, he was ignorant for saying what he did. But like the rest of us mere mortals, we are prone to make stupid mistakes and say really moronic things. Granted, there may be a whole aspect of the personality of Mel that we don’t like to know about, but the man has apologized, his career is probably ruined and he will be heavily fined (I hope) as well as spending time in rehab. Let’s let it go for now, shall we? Turn the other cheek and whatnot? Or at least get it off the front page of the news. I’m tired of the “How the mighty have fallen� rubbernecking.

On the family front… I start a whole barrage of shots the Friday after next. The amusing thing is that the doctors have put me on birth control pills. Does anyone realize how freakin’ much it galls me to pay for medication that prevents pregnancy while being treated for infertility? Granted, I can understand why they are doing it –it’s just irritating.

And this is beautiful:

Seven bicycles rolled to the pumps at 5:16, inciting a couple of anti-war honks. Out came the trash bags. To stunned motorists, the activists said things such as "no gas today," "keep driving" and "we're taking over."

With a feathery boa wrapped around her Peaches T-shirt, Finken commandeered the easternmost pumps. She kicked off the chants with "money for health care!"

"Stop the war!" called the rest of the Code Pinkers.

Finken: "Funding for education!"

Code Pinkers: "Stop the war!"

Half the QuikTrip customers: "F-ck you!"

If you read the whole thing, and then read the comments, you will note the delicious irony that these idiots at Code Pink held their little demonstration at a station that gets it’s gas from…

Wait for it

Citgo (which I call shitgo) .

Hmmmm… isn’t that the stuff coming from Hugo Chavez, whom Moonbat mama is in love with? Who happens to support Code Pink? I wonder how mister shithead would feel about them tampering with his ability to make money off us greedy Americans…

Hmmmmm…

Oh, and one last thing. As of this past Tuesday, I have been officially been blogging for five years... if anyone is ever interested in reading my first blog entry, I reposted it last year. If not, that's ok too. Even I am not that interested in it anymore. :)

Happy Friday!

IT'S HOT!!!

Now, I try to rarely complain about the weather, mainly because it's an asinine thing to do. No one has control over it (though many of us wish we did) and ya can't blame anyone for the obscure yet extreme variations.

Now, I have lived in Rottenchester for most of my life (the exception being the four years I spent in Erie at Gannon U.) So I am used to cold winters, late springs and early falls. Not really used to the extreme heat. For me, that means anything over 90°F. (and in this area, the humidity is almost always through the roof - being near a large body of water and all...)

Anyway, I did the conversion.

Currently it's 86°F (or 30°C) with a heat index of 97° (36.11111° C)

The high today is supposed to be 98°F (36.6666667°C) with a heat index of 110°(43.3333333°C)

Now, before any of the Southerners go off on this Yankee about not knowing what real heat is, just remember I'm not used to it. 95°F is like boiling in hot water to me. You would have my sympathy if it were 0° (-17.7777778°C) with a windchill of -15 ( -26.1111111°C) because I know it would be a shock to the system and something the southern folk aren't used to...

Basically, what I am trying to say is that if I wanted to be this hot, I would be living somewhere much further south instead of NY. That is my whine for the day. And since most of the country is in the same bind as I am, you all have my sympathy. Try to stay cool, stay out of the sun and stay hydrated. This too shall pass (from the National Weather service, my reprieve comes on Thursday...)