My blood sugar tests out between 130-140.  Better, but not where it should be.  It’ll take a couple more months.

Glad people seemed to enjoy my Unsucky Vampire Post, even if there was some disagreement.

I will respond to e-mail. I will do a better job of it!

I will respond to comments and also comment MORE on my friends’ blogs.  I’m pretty opinionated in real life, but shy in my online life. Go fig.

Oh, this just in from a latest scientific research project :  Women are most likely to recoil in horror from ugly babies, even their own.  Guess the old axiom about having a face only a mother could love is wrong.

(I’ll talk about Michael Jackson, but not right now. I am still bummed.  A major part of my childhood has gone.  I loved his music, and pitied him, rather than hate him.)

Finally, in dumb ass criminal news…

Clackamas, OR—

A  man, who shall remain nameless—well, ok, I’ll call him Doofus McGee— called 911 for having been shorted money by a McDonald’s. Said he was robbed.  The dispatcher told him that he could be arrested for dialing in an non emergency call and hung up.  The idiot called twice more before they sent an officer to pick the moron up.  Apparently, the dispatchers had realized that A) the caller was mentally deficient or B) they didn’t want to waste an officer’s time.  I’m going with the latter explanation.

Well, I’m off!  To South Carolina!  Expect photos when I get back.

By sucky, I mean good.  That’s what vampires are supposed to do, right?  Suck?  So the opposite of that would be unsucky. That, by my new definition, means that a sucky vampire movie is excellent, two fangs up if you are into that, and an unsucky one is bad, a sacriliege of vampiredom.   The movies listed before are in order, from MY favorite to my least favorite…still a good movie, but not quite up to snuff.  I have judged each movie on their beauty, the actors’ skill at portraying their characters, what they add to the mythos of the vampire…that kind of thing. 

Unsucky movies are a combined effort of craptitude and everything that makes a movie…awful.    In the case of one movie on my unsucky list, it’s simply portraying vampires as one-sided villains.    So …enjoy my list!

Sucky

1. Bram Stoker’s Dracula.  This has to be one of the most visually stunning movies, I’ve ever seen.  The acting is wonderful, especially from Gary Oldman, and even Winona did pretty good in it.  It is lavish and seductive and incredibly romantic.  Plus, I like a few of the historical touches of the real Vlad that Francis Ford Coppola put in the movie.  The real Vlad the Impaler’s (One historical figure I am FASCINATED by) did toss herself out of the castle wall, though the reason she did that is a tad unclear. My favorite vampire movie ever.
2. Interview with the Vampire.  Tom Cruise? As Lestat?  Brad Pitt as the whiny, but handsome, vampire Louis  I could understand,  but Cruise? As Lestat? I was dubious at first, but I watched the movie.  Like the movie mentioned above, it was made with much love and attention to the book…in fact IWTV is a very good adaptation of it.  Wonderful, beautiful vamp flick.
3. Lost Boys.   Mmmmmm. A young Kiefer Sutherland. Hot. Wild. Untamable.  But also acted his ass off in this tale of vampires trying to survive in a rural setting. Lol.  No, it’s more of a tale of a young man being seduced into a tribe of uncivilized ruffians.  Yeah, like IWTV, this has some homo-erotic undertones, but it’s still a movie worth watching, especially when you want to get the bad taste of wanna-be vampires …like…say ….Robert Pattinson out of your mouth.
4. The Hamiltons.  I happen to really like this movie.  It’s a story of a family of rather disturbed siblings trying to survive.  It might not be everyone’s pint of blood, though.  I just happen to enjoy the twist.
5. The Wisdom of Crocodiles.   I’m not a big Jude Law fan, but I have to admit his acting was on par with the villian/victim of this film.  I don’t know how a villain can be a victim also, but he pulls it off.

Unsucky Vampire Movies

1. Twilight.  Who else saw that coming? Huh?  Read about 1/3 of the book before I tossed it to the ground in disgust.  So I know the movie will unsuck. Yeah, I haven’t seen it all, but I have seen enough to know that it unsucks for all eternity.
2. Dracula 3000.  If you value your sanity, do not waste your money on this piece of garbage.  It has a 1.8 rating on IMDB.  It unsucks so much, it blows.  Casper Van Dien, you should be ashamed of your hot self. Oh, and fire your agent/manager for letting you star in this.  You are capable of so much more, hottie.
3. Van Helsing.    Love Hugh Jackman.  The dude who plays Dracula,  who is obviously trying to channel Gary Oldman’s performance? Not so much.  It’s a glossy, shiny movie with lots of special effects and not much sense.  Good for a Saturday night with nothing else to do…as long as you pick it apart ala Mystery Science Fiction 3000.
4. Underworld.  Another pretty movie.  It’s not a bad movie, but it really doesn’t explore the vampires in depth, other than to make them look bad.  Lycans rule, vamps drool seems to be the motto of this flick.
5. Buffy the Vampire Slayer.   The movie blew.  It sucked.  So laughably bad….  If you need to see a Buffy in action, go see the TV series, which shouldn’t even bear the name because it is so incredibly better.

Well, that’s all for now.  My hands are tired.   Comments always welcomed!

Three more weeks and I will be winging my way to South Carolina! Woot! Gonna have so much fun going to the beach and Washington DC…..on July
5th.  It’d be awesome if I could have been there for the fourth of July, but hey….at least I am going!  Double Woot!

I’m meeting my true blue WoW sister and her kids. (Actually, I’m staying at her house.  Don’t worry. I’ve known her for ages, so I am relatively sure
she won’t murderize* me in my sleep. Note the relatively sure part.)  She has internet, yay!, so I should be able to post pics and stuff from there.

Also, did you know the Benny Hill theme makes everything hilarious? Even the Punisher? Follow the links (Here’s the Tom Jane and here’s the Ray Stevenson version) and see for yourself. And PLEASE comment on it on my site!  Really, it is so funny.

Work’s keeping me hopping.  Getting in shape and cooking a decent dinner is keeping me hopping—on one foot.  I feel that I don’t have the time to put forth decent posts.  The desire to do so is still here, however, the time is extremely limited as I write for a RPG group, play a little WoW, and spend some time unwinding.

It seems lately that all my posts have been about updating what’s going on in my uninteresting life, or complaining, or being more than a little insecure.  That’s not what I am.  (Well, ok, I AM a bit whiny and insecure, but I do have a heart of gold underneath it all. Sorry, that issue is under construction.  Probably have it fixed in the year 2020.)

What I need to get back to is entertaining stories, not the fluff that makes up part of my life.  Little tidbits of fun.  Not dire news of a personal nature.  Fun, fun and more fun. With a bit of snarkiness to spice things up.

Yeah!   Time to get out of Funkville. Bleh!

The terms: Idiots, imbeciles, and morons are not synonymous.

Idiot is less than a 25 I.Q

Imbecile is in the 25-50 range

Moron is 50-75.

So if someone calls you an idiot, then a moron, you can thank them for upgrading your intelligence.  Information supplied courtesy of my medical dictionary.

I had a sneaking suspicion about my diabetes diagnosis even before I went it.  It’s in my family history…grandparents had it, my dad has it, a uncle or two have it… so I knew there was a strong likelihood I’d get it.

But, I went through the stages of depression and anger this week–sad at first, then I got angry. Even at my roommate, who tried to help me understand how to load the lancet. I yelled, I cried, I hid in my room until I figured out what was bothering me. (I now just stick myself. It’s easier, but hurts a little more.).  I blamed blame myself for getting it.  I could take the easy route and curse my genetics, which has undoubtedly contributed to it, but that would basically be immature of me and would show an unwillingness to cope with diabetes.  And I have to be willing to cope with it to get it under control.

I have been crying off and on all week—-I think it’s being caused by my high blood sugar (230!!!).  Those in the know will acknowledge how dangerous that is.  It really ain’t good.

Now, I am, more or less, ok.  I don’t have enough money for test strips until next Friday, so I’m just testing once a day.  (My doctor, bless her heart, gave me a monitor with two weeks’ worth of strips.)

Have you ever felt lost inside so unloved within that you almost die? —Shinedown, Stranger Inside

I listened to that at work today, and it resonated inside my brainpan as depressing lyrics often do. That struck a chord in me because that was true for me for a long time. I felt unloved when I looked in a mirror. I felt unloved with my own family. I felt unloved in my own skin…and it was killing me from the inside.

I guess one day I woke up and realized my self doubts were not just bringing me down, they were like vines, clinging and choking me until I didn’t know which way was up. I thought my self esteem would always be low, that I would never amount to anything other than a waste of space.

I was wrong. I was also wrong about once it got to a point where it was good, that it would always be good. I was mega wrong about that. For me, it’s a constant battle. I have to continously monitor against negativity. I mean continously, too. It is easier to just lay down and let the negative thoughts aka “demons” swarm over me.

Let me tell you, I’m not the kind of person who does things the easy. Just ask my roommate.

Ahhh…the halcyon days of youth. When I wasn’t afraid of getting hurt from doing a stupid stunt. I wish I could capture the innocent arrogance of my teenage years.

Also, I’d like the figure I had back. At twelve, I had an eighteen year old’s body. Yeah. Just ask my long time friend, Quiet Girl. I got….teased quite frequently and had I known then what I know now, I would have just chalked the comments up to immaturity. I was teased for other reasons as well, but it’d be better for me not to go into them.

For the record, do not say “Yes” when some moron asks you if you play the skin flute. Just don’t. It took me awhile to realize what the young idiot was referring to and I got so embarrassed, I blushed and looked away whenever I saw him.

Then again….I still feel young at heart and although my happiness about my life is in a constant state of flux, I am glad I’m different than that socially awkward girl.

Wait…I’m still socially awkward but I’m a lot happier.

(Sorry, I just don’t have much to talk about.)

Please note that I’m not Christianity. At all. Just against those people who keep on saying that America is supposed to be a Christian nation.  I’m not feeling so good, still, but I hope to post original content tomorrow.

“I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved–the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced!” – John Adams, letter to Thomas Jefferson

I don’t think John Adams was against Christianity, per se, but rather to the extremes to which it was taken throughout history (up to 1776, anyhow)…i.e
Crusades, witch burnings and other atrocities.

“Experience witnesseth that ecclesiastical establishments, instead of maintaining the purity and efficacy of religion, have had a contrary operation. During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution.” – James Madison, “A Memorial and Remonstrance”, 1785

I have a firm belief that organized religion bears many simliarities to organized crime.

‘Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent Alliances, with any portion of the foreign world. George Washington, Farewell Address, September 19, 1796

I wasn’t able to get the whole farewell address, but I wonder if this means he’d disapprove of our involvment in the U.N, or with our policy of getting ‘interested’ in other countries’ disputes.

“Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.” George Washington, Farewell Address, September 19, 1796

True patriotism is criticizing the government and not merely agreeing with the majority.

“The government of the United States is in no sense founded on the Christian Religion.” -President George Washington (Acts Passed at the First Session of the Fifth Congress of the United States of America (Philadelphia: William Ross, 1797), pp. 43-44.)

I posted this comment on my other defunct blog, but I like it.

“The Bible is not my book, nor Christianity my religion.” -President Abraham Lincoln

I think he believed in God, but rejected people’s interpretations of their version of the truth. As I said before, people are flawed. People are inclined to twist words to fit their needs or just outright lie.

This is official…I have the tickets…I am going to South Carolina!  In July.  I know. It’s going to be miserable for my delicate system.  Humidity and I are not friends.  And in July….woooo boy! I’m going to have to be careful.  I burn easily too.

Why am I going down there?  My WoW sister paid for my ticket to come and see her.  (I love Southern hospitality!)  I CAN NOT FRICKIN’ WAIT.  I am going to have so much fun…we’re going to go to Washington D.C—see the Smithsonian….go to some monuments….eat and drink and just let our feet take us where they will…

It’s funny how my WoW sis means more to me than my real sister.  I’ve known her for 2 ½ years, we email and call each other constantly….every other day… yeah, we talk THAT much.  So I trust that she won’t get me killed or anything.

I’ll bring her something pretty.  Me!  No, I’ll bring her a real hostess gift.