Happy …4th of July?!

July 3, 2008 at 3:23 pm · Filed under General

I have always loved fireworks for the simplicity of them. They simply exsist to make people oh and ahh at the tranformation of color, shape and form. It’s a really beautiful idea to me. I have never, ever been to a large city’s fireworks before. Now that I live in the HEART of Milwaukee I’ll be seeing the big show up close and personal for the first time. I usually just watch them on tv. They’re quite spectacular. The budget is obviously huge… and so are the crowds. A half a million people are expected to come out to them tonight. Myself included. HALF A MILLION! It’s mostly because Summerfest is going on all this week too, so there are lots of tourists and out of towners in Milwaukee. I walked down to scope the park I always sit at… it didn’t look to bad. It’s right next door to the “official” park for viewing fireworks. But people had camped out overnight and such. Traffic shall transform into a monster of its own. And let me say how FUCKING AWESOME it is that all I have to is walk three blocks and I’m at the lakefront (where the fireworks are launched). It’s not quite the yacht I’ve always wanted to see them from… but haha I don’t have to deal with parking, paying, nothing! Although… there’s been a helicopter circling the area for a good 15 minutes and it’s getting pretty annoying. I think my mom is coming out and I’m going with her, or I’m going to meetup with some friends that are going. Maybe both. Who knows. People are gonna be so wasted. I hate large crowds. Especially when full of drunk, stupid people. Which, if you live in Milwaukee, you know that’s EVERY crowd. So hopefully I don’t panic. I mean, I get less nervous in the dark for some reason so hopefully I’ll just stare at all the psycho’s and laugh. Though fireworks make me sad as hell to because you ALWAYS see that damn couple damn near fucking right in front of you. Seriously, do you think everyone is soooo preoccupied with the fireworks that they can’t so you boning your girl?! Ugh… to be that girl… HAHA!

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Sorry Lovelies!

July 2, 2008 at 5:34 pm · Filed under General

*pout* Sorry for my lack of updates. It’s not cool and I know it. I’ve been spending the past few days in a listless haze occasionally becoming highly productive for an hour or so. I’m just not sure what to write about. Umm, I’ve decided that all landlords are really greedy and have no compassion for their tenents. They just want money, which I get, but you should at least provide a bit of customer service, no? My landlord said “We can’t schedule anything. This is our busy season!” And I’ve been trying to get them to rip up the carpeting for a month, then she writes me and says, “We remembered that there’s no floor underneath. So all we can do is clean the carpet.” Yikes apparently my second bedroom ain’t so sturdy! I’ll be careful next time I walk on that thing that looks like a floor but indeed is not. Haha! I know what she meant, but I thought it was funny. So now they’re just going to clean the carpet (in a half-ass manner I’m sure) because I signed a damn lease and they can do whatever the please, whenever they please. Bastards! I’ve been having the weirdest day. I woke up for no reason at 6-7 AM. I’ve been awake since then, though a bit drowsy. Weird eh? I usually sleep in until 1 or 2 or something ridiculous. Which is why the maintenence guy can never get in. And then today, I’m all awake and ready for him to come (because I talked to him on the phone yesterday) and nobody ever shows up. And to top it off, Daisy pee’d all over my couch. I have no idea why. But I just got my cover dry cleaned and put my couch back together. Now all I can do is squat on pillows and hope my cover dries up (and doesn’t shrink). I washed off her pee and everything and then I called my mom and she’s like “Ohhhh no! You’re not supposed to get that wet! It’s dry clean only!! It’s going to shrink and you’ll never fit it over your cushions again!” So I was like FUCK! What am I supposed to do then? They don’t sell replacement covers, and I can’t afford one anyways. So I just put it out on my porch (in the thunderstorms) and will wait for it to air dry. Does air drying cause as much shrinking?? I’d hate to take it to the dry cleaners for the second time in two weeks. Here’s my new cell phone wallpaper of Daisy at the park one really hot day:

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Guess who…

June 28, 2008 at 1:20 am · Filed under General

Guess who’s exhausted? I am. And I’m not very please with the amount of boxes still litering my entire apartment. My damn landlord STILL hasn’t come to rip up the carpeting in the studio. It’s frustrating because I cannot hook up my desktop PC in my bedroom and it’s so crampt in here. I’ve got books and things that need to come out of their boxes and see the world! Why is it that calling people and asking for a service is nearly impossible for me? I still haven’t hired the cleaning squad, even though I’ve just been finding more dust/dirt the longer I’m here. And I cannot order delivery food for the life of me! Sometimes I’ll have a craving for something late at night, but then I don’t call for it because I think it’s probably pretty lame to order takeout just for yourself. Seems like more of a group activity type thing to me. Anyways, Summerfest is in full effect here. $10 parking at my favorite quiet park. Needless to say, it’s not very quiet or peaceful anymore. I want to read my “Buddha” book in nature. Beneath the trees and the sun and the birds. But my Daisy get’s restless and I get hot so I haven’t made it very far yet. I’m looking for a personal assistant now. It sounds so weird to say that but, I really do need one. I’ve got a lot of business paperwork, emails, coding, etc that needs to get done. But those tiny things distract me so much from my lovely members and readers. I feel like I’m losing touch with what I’m doing because of all those things. So I’ve searched around for some virtual assistants, as I figure it’s all computer work anyway. Following me around would be quite dull… and I don’t drink coffee. Haha, I’m happy with life right now. Just not with work. I’ve got to get things focused down. Hopefully an extra pair of hands will help me immensly with this.

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I Went Off The Deep End

June 26, 2008 at 5:23 pm · Filed under General

I hadn’t heard of George Carlin before today. But I have to say he’s one of the funniest guys I’ve ever listened to. And then I realized that he died a few days ago. :-(  I think that’s why he’s all over YouTube now. What a perfectly blunt person though. I laughed so hard I almost cried going through some of his clips. So yeah, if you’ve never heard of him, look him up. Cool ass dude! Hmmph… On to another subject then I guess, it’s been really hot here lately. I go down to the lake almost everyday for the breeze and to read my latest book “Buddha” by Deepak Chopra and I’m sweating balls. Summer is great and all, but what happened to ‘lake effect’ temperatures?! It’s been getting gradually more humid which is the worst part of the heat. Gah it’s killer! Like my hair isn’t frizzy enough without all that humidity? And I’m getting a tan on accident. I don’t want one. But I have to let my dog do her duties right? (Sunscreen is for pussies. I’ll become a vampire and only go out at night. Oh and another thing, how sweet of a name is DEEPAK CHOPRA?! You get that name and you just HAVE to be important. Try saying it out loud. It sounds awesome doesn’t it. It doesn’t even sound like a name. I think I need to come up with some sort of false identity for myself with a name like that. “Mam you’re under arrest. What is your name?” And then I’d call out my name like I was Hugh Hefner or something and everyone would back off. Speaking of cops. I got another ticket the day after my last one. Same officer. I think he’s got it out for me. So I haven’t moved my car in daysss. Buahahahh! I’m walking everywhere in the heat, sweating off 5 pounds here and there, just so I can keep my damn parking spot. Haha, that’ll show em. Ehh… maybe I’m losing a few IQ points at the same time. Damn, well I’ve been working on my zine and trying to be all serious and grammatically correct… So that’s my lame excuse for this lame excuse of a blog post. I’ll try to be more profound on a less ridiculously humid day. I’m going to go look for my marbles now…

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Attention Members

June 20, 2008 at 6:00 pm · Filed under General

For all of my members, I just want you to know that there will be a live webcam chat tonight at 9PM CST! For all of the details please check out the message board. I’d love to see lots of you there! I’ll add more to this later. Must go finish a few things before I’m ready.

Real Update: Time has been escaping from me lately. I do not like it one bit. Today I had to wake up at 9AM *gasp* in order to pick up my brother at the train station. You see… on Father’s Day our dad was up north (we say that a lot in Wisconsin, it just means he went up to Door County or some other secluded area where a lot of hunters go and there are cabins and stuff.) His brother had a timeshare rented but his brother was out of town so my dad decided to spend the weekend up there. So he wasn’t around for father’s day. Me and my brother actually had a whole surprise worked out, where my brother would come into town and we would show up at his apartment and he’d pop out and well… you get the picture *suprise*!! But… when I called him to casually ask what he was doing on Father’s Day he said he’d be up north. I was like…. “Of all the days of the year?!?” It played out like a bad joke. So my brother just came out this weekend and we celebrated Father’s Day today. So my planned Saturday of lounging in PJ and updating the site… was to say the least- squashed. So, that’s my new plan for tomorrow! Prancing around my apartment with video camera in tow, maybe doing a quick tour for the members and getting to all darn lovely emails! Honestly, thank you to everyone who wrote, I received many multi-paragraph emails in which people shared their stories and advice and such. And when piled all together it added up to about the same length as a good novel. But now… I want to respond to every page of that novel with my own thoughts and it’s quite a task. Probably why I’ve been procrastinating so bad. Anyways, lazy Sundays are made for meee!

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VISA Now Accepted

June 19, 2008 at 2:15 pm · Filed under General

My website now accepts VISA everybody! *sings and dances and screams* Yayyy! VISA! I’m sooo happy. No more beating around the bush or what have you. Hopefully not too many manual adds. Yay! So VISA people, check it out! I’ll be updating with a video either tonight or tomorrow afternoon. In other news, I got my first parking ticket. But it’s strange because it says “Parking in excess of 2 hours” and yet, I have an overnight parking pass that allows me to park for 24 hours in a given spot. So I’m a little confused. They might not have seen my sticker, but then again they know more about the laws than I. I had so much to write about but now that I realized the VISA thing I’ve forgotten all of it. I have to admit this weekend has not been my best as far as keeping up with business goes. I was sucked into book, magazine and video game world. I’m currently reading, “Snuff” by Chuck Palahniuk. Interesting so far. Oh, now I remember I was going to write about the movies “The Libertine” and “Jimmy and Judy.” Oh and I also watched “Working Girls” because Netflix said I would like it. Yet, that movie really had no plot. At the end I didn’t really know why I watched it. But damn, they were blunt about the industry that’s for sure. Props for that. I got to watch “The Libertine” free on YouTube (haha I’m bad) and I mostly just enjoyed Johnny Depp. He’s such a talented actor. I have so much respect for actors now, just being myself on camera is hard enough. But to be someone else? Damn! Oh and “Jimmy and Judy” was totally unexpected. (Yes I sorta decided to watch it because it had my name in the title.) It was shot Blair Witch style, in that the characters seemed to be holding the actual camera the entire time. Shooting each other while they went on a bit of a crazy ‘road trip’ lets call it. Haha watch it!

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