A Melancholy MMP

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Sorry you lost your mom so young, Spaz. Thanks for sharing her poems with us though. They’re fun!

{{Alessan}}

Good for you Pie, for helping your mother with the reasonable accommodation thing. I hope that gets straightened out soon.

I’ve got a bit more sympathy for people who get upset over the JesusPhone thing. I grew up with a pretty strict interpretation of “Don’t take the Lord’s name in vain” and so on. I never said “oh my god” until a couple years ago and even now I don’t say it around my mother. I think it’s just a respect thing for a lot of people. We wouldn’t be surprised if people of other religions got upset if we mocked their deity. Why is it different with Christianity? (Note: I’m not trying to pick on you, MindDude. Just pointing out the other side of the issue.)

I’m off to find NOL. More later!

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I need my bazooka again.

I don’t remember how much of my Kaiser financial assistance drama that I’ve mentioned, but I just returned a call to the social worker. She said, “I know that you’ve got a negative income from last year, but I need to have a number for your day to day cash flow.” So I said, well, I didn’t really have one, I was using credit cards. So then she WANTED TO KNOW MY CREDIT CARD LIMITS SO THAT IT COULD BE COUNTED AS FUCKING INCOME. I told her that I’d have to get back to her.

Any suggestions for dealing with this stupidity? (other than the bazooka)

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Beautiful OP, Spaz. Your mother sounds like she was a wonderful person - I’m so very sorry for your loss.

It’s all the more touching since I just spent a weekend with my own mother, who is both one of the strongest people I know and one of the most fragile. She seemed a bit better by the time I left, but I’m still worried about how she’s coping with my sister’s stupidity (latest update - both The Boy and I have been stripped out of Facebook “friend” status… insert baby and bathwater metaphor here)

Montreal was rather enjoyable otherwise, though. We even managed to squeak in a couple of hours to taken in the Yves St-Laurent retrospective at the art gallery, which consisted of many drool-worthy gowns and almost as many giggle-inducing silly examples of couture gone wrong.

LiLi, sorry to hear about BiL. In a sense, it sounds like he’s MUCH better off without that toxic harpy in his life, but it’s never ever a good thing when there are kids involved - still, as the child of divorced parents, I’m always the first to speak up for the benefits of two parents living apart in relative happiness, rather than subjecting themselves to abject misery “for the sake of the kids”… it rarely does the kids any favours, in the long run. Hope this mess ends as well as it can, given the circumstances.

doggio, I can’t believe how big our little Thrak is getting. Hooza cutesy LOLCat? Hoozat? Hoozat? Izzit our widdle Thrakky? Awwwwwww.

Mindy, smack that Holy Roller with a sanctified wet trout. Hmph. Some people really need to grow a sense of humour… you’ll gain more converts by being able to laugh at yourself than you ever will by being a stick-in-the-mud twisty underants grump.

{{Allesan}}

OK, I believe that uses up my entire daily quota for aimless rambling. Time to go find some N.O.L.

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Yeah, I know they had a crummy marriage, but what I’m really worried about is that the kids will end up with the toxic harpy. I like that term. They will, no question.

Sigh.

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Mindy, perhaps you should send Complainy McGod a coupon for this fine t-shirt.

So far today I’ve washed the dishes, swept the entire driveway, got three blisters from said sweeping, swept the kitchen, took out the trash, tried to watch Red-Headed Woman, gave up on Red-Headed Woman, did 45 minutes of yoga, and finished outlining a leaf on the never-ending cross-stitch project.

Today is my day off, I might add.

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I forgot- Dotty, you have my extreme sympathy.

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Hey, Olives! Long time not see! :slight_smile: Now stay here for a while.
Pretty please!?

**Pie **-- it just doesn’t end, does it? :frowning: I hope they’ve come to fix the A/C at least by the time you read this!

**Ivory **-- some people just suck :mad: I hope he gets his ass thrown out of college, no reimbursement!

**Aleq **-- I’m not expecting you to show us anything that doesn’t belong to you… :smiley:

Is there a *JewsForJesusPhone *organization anywhere? If I join, do I get a free JesusPhone? If I’m offended, do I get a beautiful woman to come and untwist my panties for me…?
One of our dogs has gone Walkabout. For going on 10 hours now. He’s an old critter, too… been pretty sedentary lately. I’m hoping he’s just been picked up by the Municipality… if I don’t find him when I take the other dog out, I’ll call the pound in the morning.

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I’ve gotten off my ass and found the original reference to JesusPhone. In retrospect, the original holy roller offenderati would be absolutely appalled with me, since in other circles I regularly refer to Mayberry as East Jesus, NC. Which now makes a JesusPhone a must have…

Does Swampy get burly men to untwist his drawers? Equal opportunity, after all…

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OK… spill!

To each their own, of course! :slight_smile:

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And… So the a/c people have not been here yet.

In the meantime I called to cancel the Wellness plans on my dogs. Except that they won’t let me do it because they have contracts that apparently roll over year after year even though I haven’t signed anything in about 3 years. So, I could either buy out the contracts or wait until the are up to cancel. So I decided to keep them going and in return they waived 7 payments amongst three dogs. Not what I wanted, but better than nothing I guess.

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**Lunch ** and everyone else here is the JesusPhone reference. Lunch keep us posted on your dog. :frowning: I hope you find him soon!

Mt. Laundry is all done, folded and put away. Other than that I’ve edited a few pictures and put them on Flickr, but that is only Day 1.

Speaking of Flickr does anyone else have an account? I would love to add you as a contact!

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Oooooh… Ooooh… Add me!! Memememememe!!!

(Sorry, I just had three chocolate brownie cookies… I’m a little hyper from all the sugar)

Here’s my Flickr profile. I’ve been lazy lately, though I’m trying to be more diligent about taking my camera wherever I go in case inspiration strikes (not that I took any this weekend - no cameras allowed at the YSL exhibit, and pouring rain on Sunday meant I was stuggling to keep the camera dry instead of looking for good photo ops).

I hate waiting on repair people, Pie. Hope your AC guys show up soon… as in, real people soon, rather than the repair-guy interpretation of “soon”.

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NOL is et. (Chili doused with green Tabasco. Yum. Or rather, yub.)

Mahna[sup]2[/sup] - I’ve always felt that comedy was a better salesman than drama. But some people hold fast to their dogmas I guess, and don’t like people making light of them, even if the act is done in purely good humour rather than genuine derision.

Morgyn - Ooh! Ooh! I could use that whenever I’m approached by Watchtower-toting Jevohah’s Witnesses or door-to-door Christians. I could say, “Yeah, um, thanks, but no. I don’t subscribe to your magical way of thinking – but just in case I end up being wrong, I have this trump card, and Jesus will be all like, ‘OMGWTFBBQ?’, and I’ll be all like, ‘PWNED!’”

Or is that too over-the-top?

Smartypants - You said it, man. Nobody fucks with the Jesus.

[sub]Eight-year-olds, dude.[/sub]

Taxi - Oh, I understand where the guy’s head is, it’s just that the terminology isn’t intended to mock, but rather to draw a humorous comparison. Nobody is expected to take it seriously or personally, and taken as a whole, it doesn’t really have anything to do with religion anyway. It’s like referring to Bush as the Antichrist. Nobody is implying he really truly is the devil. It’s just hyperbole, drawing a ridiculous comparison between the devil and Bush’s perceived “evil doings.” It’s exaggeration for comic effect – and let’s be honest. Nobody is more immediately identifiable nor messianic than Jesus. If I were to try and draw a comic or at least witty comparison to a single entity which has an inordinately large and devoted following who will endure hardship and sacrifice for it, to whom am I to refer?

[sub]Do NOT say Hillary Clinton.[/sub]

Spaz - Ha! Love that shirt. He’d probably evacuate his internal organs through his left nostril if he got it in the mail with a note saying, “From JesusPhone Central*, with love.”

[sub]* Not the actual name of the blog. But maybe it should be. Hmmm…[/sub]

Special1 - There’s no official JewsForJesusPhone yet, but there is a loose association of such fans who would be willing to send an Ernest Borgnine impersonator over to help with that wedgie.

So, anyone have any suggestions as to how I should respond to this dude? I’d kinda like to avoid being rude and offensive – I prefer to do that to the readers at large – but at the same time I’d kinda like to couch “My blog! Not yours! Consecrate someone else’s turf” in more digestible terms.

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Me too. I have to pee and I know that as soon as I run to the bathroom that he’ll be knocking on the front door. :smiley:

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Wow, y’all are a chatty bunch today! Ok, well, you’re always a chatty bunch… :smiley:

So Reboson made it on time! And said that both the math and English tests were a cinch. Actually, about the English portion, he said, “I kicked that test’s ass!” Hee!

I’m very proud that he’s taken this first step into going back to school. He takes the other portions tomorrow - History, Social Studies and Science. I expect he’ll do well on those also.

Thanks fot the crossed appendages!

Bak to work… (I’m trying to read along, though…)

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Mr. Lissar hasn’t updated in a while, but here’s his flikr account. Mahna, I have bookmarked your food blog. Hah! After I got a stand mixer I spent a month working on chocolate danishes. It was not good for my waistline. The apricot-almond pastry looks wonderful.

Someday I’ll have time to do complicated baking again… ten years or so. :smiley:

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Alessan I’m so sorry for your loss.

I don’t find “JesusPhone” so much offensive as well, stupid. Just a dumb term IMO. I mean gettin’ all excited over a phone? Talk about a need for perspective!

However… I have been guffawin’ over "iKingdom come, iWill be done… " for the past twenty minutes. :smiley: Good one Mindude!

I’m home. Yay. Gonna go grill some chicken boobs in a few. Dindin is grilled chicken, Those Friggin’ Good N.O.T. and green beans. MMMMM… I’m gettin’ hongry so it sounds especially good right now.

Yay for spaz Abby snark!

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I’ll add both Mr. Lissar and Mahna!

Here is my Flickr account, just so you don’t think some crazy person is stalking you. :stuck_out_tongue:

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My god people, you have nothing to do all day???

:wink:
I’ve been everywhere but where I had to look at a computer today. It was kinda nice.

Now I am done and on my way home to take a loooong bike ride before my meeting tonight.

Well, that was boring…

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Well, I have a flickr account under the name* chernabogzr2 * but I have no idea how to link to it… If you figure it out, McUne, let me know! :smiley:
A/c guys are here now, up on the roof.