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We put the “mis” in misanthropy!

I’m having an intensely misanthropic day. I really do hate everyone today. Well, not Nick, I guess. But in general, I’m sick of the internets – particularly fucking Facebook – and pretty much every motherfucker on the planet. I’m on the verge of deleting the FB account again. Whatever. I can’t delete it, I run several pages. But I CAN delete every motherfucker on my friends list…

I don’t really have a reason for all this. Which means it’s probably fucking hormones. I’m still struggling with the Mirena. I’ll be the ONE patient in 100 who continues having periods and the associated misery. You watch. Would not surprise me in the slightest. I’m just that lucky. >:-(

DJ has Struvite Crystals in his bladder. This is common in cats and is caused by diet, Ph of the urine and how long a cat holds urine in the bladder before urinating. I can tell you that DJ is notorious for holding it, so that’s probably part of the issue. We’ve got him on Science Diet c/d for a few weeks to see if that helps. You know what that means: I get to collect another urine sample. DJ does not like the litter box; he goes outside almost exclusively. For those who don’t follow my Twitter or FB, let me regale you of the urine collecting. First, you give DJ lots of wet food and keep him in for a day. Then when he’s begging to go out at 6:30am, grab a small saucer and stalk him in yer jammies as he does his business. While he’s peeing, shove the saucer in the pee and get a sample. And make your neighbors certain that you are, indeed, a crazy cat lady. :/

We’re transitioning to Associated Credit Union. Bank of America can lick our taints. ACU is not nearly as slick as BoA, but at least they treat us with respect, which is a lot more than BoA can manage. I can’t WAIT to close the accounts there.

Heroes Convention is bearing down on us. We’ve got the banner laid out and ready to send off. We still need to get the button art ready and the book done. We’re also going to add one or two new t shirts, but we’re not taking any new stock to the show – just Weasel shirts. Nick is wanting to do some sort of prints for the show, but we’ve not worked that out yet. I’m taking my earrings and bracelets as well as several sets of coasters. I’ve posted a couple of shots on twitpic of the coasters. Here’s one:

And the banner preview print – sorry, crappy phone cam pic:

Another pain in my fucking ass is my vision. Or lack thereof. My eyes have decided that this is the perfect time to further complicate matters by becoming more astigmatic. Great. There is not a contact made that will help me now. Fucking sucks.

And the final insult was at the dentist yesterday. Good news: my teeth and fillings are fine. Bad news: my gums are fucked up in the back and I need $700 of treatment to fix them. Yay. Thanks Lawrenceville Hwy Dental for NOT fixing them years ago so that now I get to have a “procedure” done. Nice.

Ok, that’s all the bitching I’ve got. I’m out. ••••••••••••••••••••••••

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Black Eyed Pea Salsa

1 can Black Eyed Peas, drained
1 or 2 ears of roasted corn (or you can use frozen)
1 roma tomato, diced (take out the seeds if you like a drier salsa)
1-2Tbl diced canned jalapeños (or diced fresh to taste)
1-2 finely sliced green onions
1 clove garlic, finely minced
zest of half a lime
juice of one lime
1Tbl seasoned rice wine vinegar
1/4 tsp chipotle (or ancho) powder (less if you don’t like spicy!)
1/4 tsp cumin
dash coriander
handful chopped cilantro
1 tsp hot sauce (I use jalapeño or Cholula w/ lime)
salt to taste
sugar to taste (if it’s too acidic, mine usually is)

Mix all the goodness together and let stand either in fridge or on counter for at least 20mins for flavours to marry. Excellent with chips or on tacos. The powdered chiles give a slow burn that’s very nice!

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Terrorism as a Marketing Tool, pt 2

First of all, let’s revisit my 2003 rant about GeeDuhbya and his use of terrorism as a marketing tool. Ok, caught up?

Now I invite you to change out references to Duhbya and insert Obama. Still pretty much works, right? Not the imperialism so much, but most of it still fits. I am never disappointed when it comes to politicians finding creative ways to divert attention from important issues. Gotta hand it to them, sleight of hand is their forte.

And the media. Ah, yes, the media. I used to think CNN was a reliable source of news, but after last night’s stupidity, now I put them with FOX in biased sensationalism. From their reports last night of “100% certain!” to today’s “Um, well, there is no body, but, um, he was buried AT SEA! Yah, at sea, and uh…” Yah. Sad. If that asshole CNN commentator said “Osama bin Laden is dead” once, he said it 100 times. He was practically chanting it! Wow, trying too hard? They REALLY want the public to believe this.

Good thing I’m not part of the sheeple herd CNN was clearly chanting to. :/

From the CNN site today: “There are photographs of the body with a gunshot wound to the side of the head that shows an individual who is not unrecognizable as bin Laden, the official said.” Um, what? Spin much? Here’s the ever changing article. CNN keeps revising this post – no doubt to make sure to cast as much golden glow of accomplishment onto the administration as possible.

From my Twitter feed:

WTF? “not unrecognizable”?? I call bullshit. Buried at sea? BULLSHIT. Gov’t LIES to divert attn from its ineffectiveness.

And this ALSO shows quite nicely how Obama is not above the ole shuck and jive if it behooves him. Whatever it takes to get reelected.

For all of you who preach the Gospel of Obama, I’d like each and every one you to SUCK IT. He is the lowest of the low: a politician.

I love this WikiAnswers post about Muslims being buried at sea. The answer is the BEST.

The Obama administration is creating this bullshit story – that can’t be proven, with the convenient “burial” of the body – for several reasons:

    1. to play off Duhbya’s efforts to kill bin Laden – and be “successful”
    2. to divert attention from the fact that this administration has been ineffective at dealing with, well, pretty much anything, just pick one: economy, immigration, health care, reversing the Patriot Act, foreign policies, tax reform, etc., etc.
    3. to rally the Obama Faithful and remind them that he is the messiah and ensure his reelection (which is assured IMO, since there will be no viable opponents)

The Obama Faithful will find my comments most unseemly, I’m sure. And they can all eat a bag of dicks. The fact of the matter, which I have stated from the first day of The Messiah’s reign, is that he’s first and foremost a politician. Therefore, his first and foremost goal is extending his reign. He is not above using lies, ruses, unprovable events or whatever is available to make himself look good to his flock of sheeple.

Any politician worth his salt would do the same thing. Politicians are all the same, people. They are grabbing power and money as fast as they can grab ’em. They have gone out of control and sheeple just keep on being led by whatever ruse is presented.

WAKE UP AND SMELL THE LIES.

Here is the transcript of Obama’s victory speech – complete with plenty of god references at the end. Gee, hope that doesn’t hurt anyone’s widdle feewings. Feh.

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Long weekends are nice

We enjoyed a four day weekend thanks to Nick’s Monday off falling yesterday. We got a LOT done around here. Not much in the name of going out and/or partying, but lots of home projects are off the list. We were going to attend the It’s Not Lupus show at Doo Gallery and pooped out on Saturday. We were supposed to go to L5P for comics and The Porter yesterday and I pooped out. :/

Freecycle worked flawlessly for this batch of crap we got rid of. Between that and Nick taking all the spare lumber up to the warehouse we can now actually see the floor of the crawlspace. Miracle! Freecycle is either really great or really shitty – I got lucky this time.

I’ve got a box of size 9 shoes that I’m gonna get rid of: heels, boots, con shoes, etc. If anyone is interested I’ll post a pic. Next will be the closet. I’m cleaning that bitch out and getting rid of stuff I know I’ll never touch again. Mostly con crap, but some dressy dresses, too. Sizes range from 8-11. Again, if anyone is interested, I’ll post a pic or two.

Free Comic Book Day is May 7. We are getting ready for it. We’ve got a new storefront over at storenvy.com (http://indigodragon.storenvy.com) We are really loving storenvy! All our small merch and books are at the storenvy shop and our Tshirts are still at spreadshirt.com.

I’m working on my coasters. I’ve got the dimensions of the transfers where I want them and the transfers look pretty good. Now it’s the damn oil based polyurethane that’s driving me mad. That shit will NOT dry. AND it is NOT clear, it’s yellow. Feh. I’m going to try a batch with water based poly and see how that is. Since the transfers are full bleed (no border), the more opaque look of the water based poly should be ok. We’ll see. The oil based is just too slow. Dry for 3 days for each coat? Who’s got the time!! ;)

Hmm, what else? It’s hot. Already. We’re gonna fucking BROIL this summer. Being fat does NOT help with the hot/sweaty thing at all. I’m a sweater at any weight, but being this fat makes me absolutely drip with sweat. Not pretty. Speaking of fat, if you want men to magically LOVE your fat ass, I highly recommend getting Avenue jeans. Every time I wear the ones I just bought, I have men stalking me and telling me how awesome my ass looks. ?? It makes me giggle!

Nick’s god mother and hubby are coming to the ATL for a conference this weekend, which means I’ve got to get this place ship shape. Gotta dust and clean the floors. I’m glad I got the new furniture from my Gran’s. Did I mention that? Oh, I got the curio cabinet, the console stereo (it works!) and her sewing machine. The cabinet is in the living room and the stereo is now the phone/recharge table. The sewing machine will not fit in this postage stamp of a house, so it’s at the warehouse for now. Which is the perfect segue into what we’ve decided to do for upgrades around here.

We’ve got several things that need to be done: windows, bathroom and kitchen cabinets. We decided SCREW THAT. We’re going to build a small shed for our lawn equipment as practice, then we’re building a studio. Fuck this house. It’s worthless to us now and frankly, we’d get FAR more pleasure from a studio than more infrastructure around here. We could move much of the crap that’s clogging up the house out into the studio AND I can have the sewing machine out there, too. Probably the treadmill will go as well. Getting all the art stuff and comics boxes out of the house will be a godsend. The studio will have heat/air and perhaps water. We’ll also have ethernet and phone out there, too, natch. :) I’ll put my flower power iMac out there. We’re currently thinking 12×16 with a mansard roof if we can manage that. Downstairs will be studio space with stations for whatever it is: sewing, windows, painting, silver fabrication, etc. We’ll have a loft upstairs for comic books, records and slide storage – stuff that needs temp control. So much of our stuff can’t be put in the attic because it’s too hot/humid/cold/etc.

It’s exciting. I hope we can do it. If my brother gave a shit, he would come help, but he won’t. So we’ll do it our damn selves! Ha! Hey, maybe we should have an old fashioned barn raising! FREE BEER! :D

Welp, that’s the round up, I think. We’ll be a Criminal Records and Oxford Comics on FCBD then on to Athens for Lissa’s Birhaversarywarming. SAHWEET!

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Ah, Politics!

I’ve come to realise that pretty much across the board, young people who are raging liberals really don’t get it. They are completely unwilling and/or unable to see that entitlements and government intervention into private issues really won’t work for the long term. It never has! This is not a new idea! I’ve never been a raging liberal OR conservative, so I really don’t get the reasoning behind it.

I’m a centrist. Every single political test I’ve taken puts me smack in the middle of all the various parties. Which means, of course, I have absolutely no one representing me, ever. I’ve never been all that liberal or conservative. I’ve got liberal ideas such as free college and healthcare but conservative ideas about entitlements and civil rights and drug enforcement. Just want to get that established before I go into my frustration with 20 somethings who worship Obama and blame the problems of the world on Republicans. Continue reading “Ah, Politics!”