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Wednesday, May 29, 2002 This Has got to be the funniest site I've seen on locks in a long time...reminds me of a friend of mine from college. We started locking at the same time, and after about a month, i saw her sans locks. I asked her what happened, and she said that the itching nearly drove her mad and she started thinking about things like...lice... mosquitos taking up residence on her scalp...deserts....cactus....wool....more lice... I asked what she used to start her locks with, and she said..."beeswax..." BEESWAX? No wonder her head was itching like she had poison ivy! You NEVER use beeswax to start locks...it gums them up and makes your hair a walking vacuum for all sorts of dirt..unless you course, you're going for that nifty, no care..nasty look, where you just..umm..let them form, with no shape or care to them whatsoever. Personally, I think they look scary, but to each their own. In a pretty good today...so I broke my promise to not read blogs until various nastiness was over (at least, the blogs of people I don't really know that well) and noticed lots of new designs... Pretty! Would add more people to me blog list that I actually read, but apparently to some people, it's a faux pas to link people whom you've never talked to before. Personally, I don't give a damn whether or not anyone links me or not...if they do, that's great. If not, oh well.....But then again, I don't want any emails in my inbox with the subject line "Why the hell did you link me I DON'T KNOW YOU" either. :/ Cheer up, Baby Giger....*hugs* But meanwhile....back at the ranch... Yay! I must hold my breath and thank the stars.....one of my fav people, teh Amsterdam Lady herself...Ms AfroSheeni is moving BACK to Metropolis! I knew the woods would lose their appeal, and she would come back to us...heh heh...must call her and see the new digs.....and while I'm doing that, need to give Archer a ring-a ding and see if he's going to be around for the last weekend in June. I hope his job doesn't send him away then. Maybe we can grab Her Afroness herself, and have a big-ass food-fight in the middle of Roscoe's Chicken....yummmy.....who says that just because you're older, you can't regress sometimes? malkavians carried london away @ 06:45 PM CST Sunday, May 26, 2002 Hold on to your pants and take a seat, 'cause it's London's rant time again about things that are a boil on my ass. There's many a thing that gets on my nerves, but none so much as these of late... 5. Nice buildings allowed to go all to damn: It's so sad, especially if the building's a graystone. But the pubic hair in my cereal, the boil on my ass, the splinter on my finger, the thing that makes me miserable, minute by minute, is this: 1.WHY IS IT WOMEN WHO CHOOSE TO STAY AT HOME WITH THEIR CHILDREN HAVE SUCH A PROBLEM WITH WOMEN WHO WORK? Seriously, if I read another freaking article, or talk to another well-meaning friend who thinks that women who work outside the home are selfish and put money over their kids, I'm going to throw up. You will NEVER hear a bunch of working moms sit back and say: "Damn, those stay at home moms are a bunch of lazy, trifling bitches who want to be taken care of. They just clean their houses and sit on their asses all day. And furthermore, what's the point of getting a degree if you're never going to get a job, and the reason why you went ot college is to find a husband;" but you'll definitely hear them talking about us, and it's a disgrace. Some people can juggle both successfully. Other women HAVE to work, because they are the sole breadwinner. And furthermore, everyone shold have some sort of trade, because you never know when you may have to use it. Just because your husband left for work today, there is NO guarantee that he is coming home tonight. look what happened on September 11...lots of breadwinners didn't make it back home that day. Ther are no guarantees on life. Your marriage isn't guaranteed, your lover isn't guaranteed, your job isn't guaranteed. I know plenty of couples who both work to make ends meet. When a man works, it's considered an accomplishment; when a mother works, it's considered a shame, even in the year 2002. Personally, I think that if you are the type who wants more out of life than being a housewife, you are NOT going to make your kids happier if you're there and miserable. And just becuase you are home doesn't mean that you're doing a damn thing. Don't get me wrong; parents who actually stay at home (both moms and dads) have by far the hardest job that anyone can have. The stakes are extremely high, and it's sometimes a thankless job at times. I just wish those stay-at-homes had as much respect for us working moms as we have for them. malkavians carried london away @ 11:04 PM CST Thursday, May 23, 2002 Whaddaya do when you're annoyed about something that you really don't have a right to be annoyed about, but you are anyway? Whaddaya do? Whaddaya do? B M D REALLYpisses me the fuck off, but hell, it wasn't anything I didn't already know. Besides, it would be hypocritical because I have Kupo. What I don't like is getting one part of a story now..an dgetting a different version later. I know that sometimes people leave out details because they don't want to upset you. What they don't realize is that when you do tell, it pisses people off even more. malkavians carried london away @ 09:30 PM CST Wednesday, May 22, 2002 My shoulder still hurts, but at least things are peaceful around here now. malkavians carried london away @ 10:33 AM CST Monday, May 20, 2002 My shoulder blade STILL hurts..I have no idea of what I may have done in my sleep 3 nights ago to make it ache so, but hopefully I'll never sleep like this again, because this sucks. We didn't go to the multimedia shin-ding Saturday because i really wasn't feeling well, so we went to Ye Olde Noodle Shop and had sme more of those fruity drinks. There was some talk about sneaking without the kids to see Star Wars, but we decided against that as well, so we just vegged out and watched Blood- The Last Vampire (which other than wonderful graphics, really wasn't worth the time it took to watch it...I liked Vampire Hunter D a hell of a lot more) Mamasan and Ivyvine are at it again. Ivyvine went someplace in conversation with Mom that she had no business going, and Mom is severly pissed off about it, which means that she's also pissed off at everyone else as well. Ivyvine has serious issues, to say the least, and I found out some stuff that seriously showed me her mooch potential and pissed me off to boot. She's so damn ungrateful, its unreal. As for me, I'm staying the hell out of this paticular can of worms and trying to stay the hell away from EVERYONE until this crap blows over...no use in getting caught in the explosion that's sure to come. I'm tired of dealing with sisters who should know better acting like Kupo's age. And believe it or not, she's OLDER than me by 3 years, so if you know how old I'm am, you know that's just ...pitiful. :/ But enough about them. I got a chance to post my student work on here, and I'm glad that's finished...all those shrinking down of images, making .pdfs and such was a colossal boil on my ass...most of these pieces are 12x24 and up. And to piss me off further, one of my favorite pieces called "mutiliation snapshot" I can't even FIND the .zip that has the .psd file on it, so I had to scan the damn thing (insuring major croppage since the actual print in my book is larger than my scanner bed). Actually, that may be a good thing, because the title of the piece and the service announcement part i don't really care for now, so I may redesign it, using the scanned piece as a base. At least the professional work is mostly direct mail pieces so that section is not going to be that bad. Now if I can only stop my shoulder from hurting.... malkavians carried london away @ 10:35 AM CST Friday, May 17, 2002 It never fails, it never fails...I'm just in my house, minding my own business, when suddenly, the world finds me: *ring ring* *huff, puff, run, curse at streetlights, whatever* school guard: hello, kupo's not here. your mom came and picked him up about 10 minutes early. *sigh* oh yeah, on another note, i finished and uploaded the layout for the archives...hurrah!
malkavians carried london away @ 05:43 PM CST Thursday, May 16, 2002
Fixed the tables on this thing..I'm pretty happy with the way it looks now, especially the side panel. But anywho, in other news: Parent Fact #105: Whenever your children get sick, it's only a matter of time before we catch it as well. Oh yes, how can I forget....congrats to Baby Giger for actually getting an email back from a one Christopher Shy, who said that yes indeedy she could use one of his images that she manipulated for one of her sites, AND he said her pic was slamming to boot! That's absolutely yummy, hon! *hugs the Gigerish One* Ms Moon is still going thru the same shit, different day, same people...*sigh* I really have nothing to say about this, other than keep your head up. Even if people don't realize that life is short, YOU do, and go on and keep living it, and stop having jackanapes who want to keep the shit barrel stirred up upset you so much. One person's opinion does not you make, and to quote Bette Davis: "If everyone likes you, you must be incredibly boring." Or something like that. Anyway, you know what that means. Or to look at it another way: "jackasses who talk too much soon eat bone." ^_^ I've seen so many lovely new layouts lately, I don't know where to begin, so I won't. Just assume it is you I'm talking about, and you would be correct. malkavians carried london away @ 06:49 PM CST Monday, May 13, 2002 I got all sorts of goodies! ...even if I celebrated a day early! I got: - A hand-drawn Pokemon pic saying how I was the best mom ever from me son, Kupo, and the following loot from mah man: I got Mom some plants to replace the ones Hellfang smashed in her garden and told her how much I loved her, heh heh. Then Ronin and I wanted to go to the movies, but I really wasn't in the mood for movies, I just wanted to spend time with him, so we stayed at his house and watched corny 80s movies and laughed until we cried. I LOVE Mother's Day! XD But anyways...today I went on another interview in sunny suburbia. As much as I love Metropolis, it is nice to see greenery sometimes. I sat on the bus and read the whole way over, and surpisingly, the interview went rather well. It's weird..almost at the same time you gt over that geeked "I think I've got it!" mentality and the dreaded "they think my work SUCKS" mentality, and go over into the "I don't care one way or another" mentality, it seems at that point, you start to relax more, and in return, it makes for a more enjoyable experience. Enjoyable, that is, until the ride home. Apparently, in suburbia, they don't give a damn if you get to zone a to zone b..there's some routes that run only at certain times, and I needed one of those routes to get home, dammit, so I was forced to go all the damn way around and make a complete "U" around Metropolis via subway, just to get the fuck home. I wasn't that put out, though. I love trains, I love going through all sorts of different neigborhoods and people watching in general. A bum was smoking on the train when a guy stood up, announced that if the train caught fire he was going to beat the living shit out of him, causing the smelly bum to change cars as people cheered. At Trendster Stop, two amazingly beautiful and haughty-looking Naomi Campbell look-alikes got on and started chattering away in French to each other, then looked at my locked hair and got all prissy. I gave them a wicked grin and whispered the dreaded words that no self-respecting Perm Queen wants to hear: "It's going to rainnnnn...." It was worth it just to watch the look of utter horror on their faces as they searched desperately for umbrellas that they didn't have, heh heh. Also stopped to help some tourist who didn't know where a well-known landmark was, even though it was marked in big letters on the subway map itself, and they looked at it for a good five minutes. I hate people who give bad (or wrong) directions to tourists; if I travel, I damn sure don't want someone sending me on the crap goose chase just for kicks. But then again, whenever I travel, I aways get a map and stuffs beforehand, so I can study the subway system, streets, parks, etc...so I generally have a good idea of where I want to go, but I realize not everyone's like me. And besides, it doesn't cost anything but a moment to be helpful to someone. malkavians carried london away @ 08:13 PM CST Friday, May 10, 2002 It seems that my plans to get off teh demon weed (cigarettes) with help from meds is sadly failing..partly because I keep smoking, dammit! I hate that..shows that I have 0 willpower. Oh well, I will try again..after I finish this last pack...I will beat this thing. If I can quit smoking, I can do anything. Kupo and Hellfang went out into Mom's sacred garden (where they're not supposed to go) and apparently Hellfang sat on her Jalepenos (as well as ate some not-so-ripe strawberries to boot) and Mom came home and lost her mind. I knew something happened when those two ran in the damn house so fast; I then went outside to see a completely pissed-off Ma, trampled jalepeno plants, and a strawberry plant with a strawberry on it that clearly had a bite mark: Mom: MY BABIES! *sob* good grief. and speaking of that, I really need to get off my ass and fix my blog layout. It's really looking crazy.-_-. Serves me right for rushing through it. malkavians carried london away @ 09:47 PM CST Wednesday, May 8, 2002 Ugh, I can't figure out why my blog entries aren't rolling off, and it's beginning to piss me off. but anyhow... Saturday, I went to the Vietnam Art Museum with Ronin, and I don't know what the HELL possessed me to bring Kupo. They're a client of Ronin's, (which led me to being a bit pissed at him) and I guess he would know whether or not it was appropiate or not, but apparently, I should have known a lot better...the only thing they have sent his company thus far was just one slide of work that was fairly benign, and even he didn't know what else they had..it was our intention of just stopping by and telling the curator hello, and to make sure they were color-correcting that painting correctly. But OMG....this place... Extremely...beyond disturbing. The photos that some vet took of dead Vietcong were among the tamest...the most moving were the paintings done by vets...One of them entitled "Hey Mom, I'm home" was like looking into an emotional abyss that you didn't forget anytime soon. Done only with shades of black, looking in the picture gave me an impressoin of no lights on...and if they were, you would be extremely frightened by what you saw inside. Another, done entirely with broken glass, gave an interesting look in the artist's psyche. The paintings made me feel a lot more than what I intended. It was like a complete sensory and emotional overload, and I honestly feel that if I had spent more time in there, I would have went completely mad. So much emotion...and above all, anger. These vets who did these pictures were so angry. Angry at this country, and angry for the average person that really doesn't understand what happened to them there. and you can see all the movies on the topic you want, read all the books, maybe even talk to some vets, and you will never know the horror that they experienced over there, but their paintings give you a glimspe, a hint...a opening into hell. I saw people all around me, weeping openly..I was too busy trying to keep Kupo away from some of the more maddening and violent exhibits (one of them, entitled "Class of 71" had nothing in it but a soldier in the bush, looking down on a line of dead comrades...all lined up and waiting for the medivac to come collect them) and to keep from screaming. The last time anything like this has effected me so was an exhibit of Bosch that I caught at MoMa. His pictures look just like snuff to me, and gave me nightmares for months. The worse was when my son just looked at me and asked me in a sad voice: "why?" He studied Vietnam in school last year, but nothing about the war, you see. Just things like the country itself, export, produce, etc....Why indeed. Some things, you can never understand. And one of the things I can't is humanity's ability to heap great pain and suffering upon other humans. And I guess, for some things...you just can't have an answer. Or maybe the mere fact that we can ask it is a judge of our own humanity. I don't know. I do know that one of the hardest things about being a parent is trying to explain the unexplainable. After that emotional hurricane, we left and went down to Chinatown to eat at a noodleshop that we've often passed but never eaten at, and that cheered the spirits of all, thank God, because I honestly felt like screaming until I simply couldnt' stop. There's something to be said about good food in a bright, cheerful place that cheers the body right up. We were so full on the appetizers, that when the main course came, we got doggie bags. Then we just hung out walking about, doing a little shopping, etc...and that night, no nightmares for Kupo, thank God. I just stayed up, thinking about what I'd seen. I'm glad that museum exists. I'm glad those vets have an outlet for their demons within. To make people see...to make them understand what it did to them..did to their minds. To hold their demons back, or maybe to expel them, brushstroke by brushstroke. To release the poison until maybe, one day, they wake up and the poison is gone. My kudos to them, because no matter what they've seen..they are still HERE, and still fighting to be here, and to help people make sense of a sensless time. My heart bleeds for them. malkavians carried london away @ 09:04 PM CST Tuesday, May 7, 2002 So much to blog about..so little time...guess I'll leave it until tomorrow... malkavians carried london away @ 11:57 PM CST Friday, May 3, 2002
Started collecting insect pics for a series I'm doing.....thanks to a v.weird dream I had, lol. Oh yeah, went to Borders to look for Clanbook: Malkavian and found malkavians carried london away @ 07:23 PM CST Wednesday, May 1, 2002 My gran is doing a lot better, thank goodness. They released her from the hospital today. Went to pick up Kupo's report card today, and surprise, all is grades went up one level, so he once again can play video games once more. Actually, I'm quite proud of him. Things seem to be going well for him at school now, since I went into Super-Bitch mode up at that school.. Parent Fact #217: After all that, went to the the Head Doc for something to help me sleep, dammit. I also told her that I've been a miserable, unsufferable bitch because I've been trying to quit smoking. So she upped my pharmaceutical cocktails to include a well-known anti-depressant that miraculously helps with nicotine withdrawal. Hip, hip, hooray! I so want to quit smoking...I so want to be good...and I will use it...right after I finish this last pack I bought today. ;/ malkavians carried london away @ 07:41 PM CST |
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