The Curse Of The Lightweight Pansies

And yet still... we wait. For the Child Support Check. It's been exactly 30 days and the letter says it takes up to thirty of forty days to get it. That is, IF WE GET IT. Oh, I do indeed have special plans for that money and it involves something fantastic for the kids, but I won't reveal it just yet in case they come across this blog because I want it to be a surprise. But I have made a decision about what I want to do with part of it!

Work's going Ok. And life's going OK. Not much drama here, and that's a fabulous thing. Oh! I do need to comment on my sister tho. I saw her last weekend and she is waaaaaay toooooooooo thiiiiiiiiiiiiin. She's 5'3" and she can't weigh over 80 pounds now. My daughter is the same height and she weighs 105 and I think she looks perfect. My aunt made a comment about it (bless her for that, because I knew I wasn't sayin anything) and my sister said she thought she needed to lose more weight! I am going to say something to Mom. But it won't do much good. It's not that my Mom doesn't care, but my Mom just doesn't know how to do something about it. It makes sense to only me but it makes sense. Now, I am going to say some really mean spirited things about my sister but it's my blog, and they are my feelings whether they are nice or not.

Here's what I don't like about her: In a nutshell, she takes after her Dad's side of the family. This is my stepdad we are talking about here, and they are all completely crazy in that family. I don't mean a little goofy or nutty either. I mean, sucidal and neurotic. They are manic-depressives and compulsive hoarders. Now, my sister is not quite that bad... yet. If she has a bona-fide eating disorder than in my opinion she has slipped into their territory of insanity. I know. Mental Illness is an Illness. You can't help it if you are cursed with such an affliction. But my sister has never fought back that hard to conquer it. Which is what I believe you have to do if you have it. If that girl had had even ONE TENTH of the hardships that I have had to face in my life, I believe that she would have been reduced to a pathetic sobbing puddle on the floor, unable to move for the rest of her life. Her response to a personal crisis is usually a suicidal one. Which I have no tolerance for whatsoever. So for her to be literally wasting herself away, some serious shit must be going down in her life and somebody needs to talk about it.

There. I said it. I know it's mean. I don't care.

Best Movie I Saw This Week: Wallace And Grommit And The Curse Of The Wererabbit. This movie was rated G (I think) and I haven't laughed this hard at a movie in a while. How could a dog, a claymation dog, steal the scene every time? Grommit doesn't talk (which makes sense because dogs don't) but the expressions on his face say it all. This movie had several themes that were just great. One is the humane and ethical treatment of animals and hunting is bad. Which is all right but I don't subscribe to that 100 percent. The other, which I do subsribe to fully is that of making a big deal out of something that might seem important on the surface but really is not. Like the townspeople in this movie are all hyped up about growing the biggest vegetables so they can win a golden carrot at the fair. But The Wererabbit ate all of them, so the town was in a tizzy. Nobody mentioned that by losing their vegetables somebody would starve, so was it really important that a giant carrot was gone?

Book I'm Reading This Week: The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls. I've read this before and I've commented on this before. I was so broke I had to pull down old books off the shelf instead of buy a new one.

Best Song I Heard: We went to the Korn Family Values Concert two weeks ago. I loved it! But listening to music like that for ten hours straight has is pitfalls. For one, I felt like my cage was thouroghly rattled. It is SO LOUD it vibrates your ribcage and your poor liver is doing it's best to process all that beer and it's getting all shook up too. Bands like Deadsy, Flyleaf, Bury Your Dead, Direnger, and Stone Sour were there. But my personal fave was Ten Years. Wasteland (Good Intentions) was a STANDOUT and my favorite moment of the whole day. I want to say that Korn was the highlight, but sadly for me, we had to LEAVE before they finished because my boyfriend started getting sick! This was the whole reason I wanted to come here! To see Korn! And lightweight pansyboy can't hold his liquor anymore! Sigh. Oh well. I still had a FUCKIN BLAST.

Top News Story: The Crocodile Hunter died this week of a stingray attack. That's the big story. Oh, and CNN will re-broadcast it's news coverage of 9/11 on the fifth anniversary of 9/11 which is this Monday. I have to work all day, but I wish I could watch. Is that wrong? I have to ask myself, is it because I want to remember, or because it's like the car wreck you can't stop staring at?

I love Bill Maher and his show. Interestingly, my ultra-conservative mother had just one comment about him: He's too mean. She's right. He is too mean, Even I think that! But I was shocked that she didn't say that he was evil and what's wrong with this country, etc. But anyway, of all people, Rob Thomas of overrated or underrated depending on your opinion, 90's band Matchbox 20 (which I always liked by the way, but you can only take them in small doses because the lyrics are all so depressing!)said the BEST THING last nite. When talking about the Iraq war he said something like this: Let's say somebody has a really dirty house and it's your job to clean it. You can take one look at it and decide that it's too messed up and walk away. Or you can decide that it's too dirty to work on, but you take their cable and plumbing and then walk away. And Bill said: That's a great analogy of Hitler's fascism too! Funny. And Sad, But True.

And with this segue, I will be making my last comment of this post. I think Magni should win RockStar Supernova. He's the best, and has been since day one.