Sunday, February 12, 2012

Post Christmas Hell

Does anyone else go through this?  It can't be just me.  I hate that Christmas is now viewed in my head as a terrible time of year, but for me it is just one giant stress ball.  As it must be for everyone, work is a constant battle of making sure you put in a strong effort to prove worth and value so that you don't have to worry about being let go with our tight economy.  This feeling is only heightened after Christmas since it is our slow time of year, but combine that with the lack of funds left over from putting together a Christmas that my two little girls will enjoy, and my head just wants to explode.  I hate not having any money, especially at this point in my life.  I've worked hard, put my head down and just plowed forward and have done well without a degree of any type, but now with a child support payment, I am left with peanuts.  Cheap value brand peanuts, not even good Planters peanuts.  I keep telling myself its to make sure that my kids have a good home life at their mothers while away from me, but with this payment every week, I am left with nothing to give them a good life at my own place.I know that its not all about money, but when its Sunday and I just got paid Friday and its ALL gone on bills already, that's something tough to swallow.  I've never once received state funding for any type of help, and have never even asked for it before now, but now that I do need it, I am told I don't qualify because I can't claim the child support as a bill since it is taken after taxes.  To me this is a big flaw in our system.  But hey, this is just me being a whiny ass on a Sunday morning that is in desperate need of coffee and that is being taken care of right now.  Stay tuned to some new top 5's coming this afternoon.

Sunday, January 15, 2012

Blogger

I'm still quite new to blogging and have been looking for other blogs to read.  I have been clicking the "next blog" button to search out what I thought was random blogs but I keep getting sent to blogs that are either Korean, Spanish, or completely over the top Christian??  I am unaware of how this is happening but maybe I clicked a button when I signed up that said I was a trilingual bible thumper?  not that there's anything wrong with that I'm just a little rusty on my Korean right now

Saturday, January 14, 2012

All Time Favorites - My Top 5's

I always enjoy reading other peoples lists of all time favorites, whether it be movies, books, people, songs, singers, albums, whatever, I enjoy the top 5 lists.  This may be why I like the movie High Fidelity so much but who knows for sure.  With High Fidelity in mind I think I will start today with my top 5 movies, non genre specific.
5.  High Fidelity – for the simple reason that it gave me the idea to start this post, John Cusack has managed to worm one of his movies into my top 5.  Although according to him it may be disqualified for its direct referencing but fuck it.
4.  300 – If you don’t walk away from this movie wanting to grab a shield and sword you have no adrenaline in your system.  I loved what they did with the CGI and apparently I am not alone with the recent increase of similar style films.  Just plain old fun to watch.
3.  Gone in 60 Seconds – You don’t need to yell at me I am aware that it has some pretty horrendous acting in this but I fucking love to watch this flick.  And that Eleanor has one fine tail you can’t deny that.
2.  Dazed and Confused – This carries my back to my high school days in more ways than one and makes me long for the days that once were.  Once again I can’t even count the amount of times I have seen it and have quoted it but it is just a great feel good movie to me.
1.  The Big Lebowski – This is by far my all time top favorite movie.  I can’t even begin to count the amount of times I have watched it let alone quoted it.  The Coan brothers outdid themselves with this gem and I firmly believe that the world would be a different place, and not for the better, if some of us had not been introduced to the Dude, Walter, and Donny.  If you haven’t seen it you need to leave right now and go and see it.  I can’t guarantee that you will like it, but you have to experience it.

This is me at Halloween

Talk amongst yourselves, I’m a little verklempt

The Standoff Is Over

I hate bills.  Yep.  All of em.  I hate them even more if the name on the top of the bill is Crapcast.  I am still confused as to how the cable industry operates and how it isn't deemed a monopoly.  It may not benefit one cable company in particular but not having any choice of carriers doesn't seem quite right either.   That being said I am not sure that there are any good ones out there to choose from but if I am going to take it up the rear from a cable company I feel I should at least have the right to pick who's bitch I am going to be.

I started this blog a few months back and had every intention of continuing it and posting regularly, but I got into a fight with Crapcast and my services were disconnected due to some choice words that were said.  I have made amends with my conscience and have come to a compromise; use my neighbors WiFi and pay them.  I happen to have a very nice Android phone but its internet just isn't the same so I have bowed under pressure to get it back.

So here I am and stay sexy San Diego