Flight of the Conchords on HBO is funny..flight of the Conchords on HBOL (en Espangnol) is friggin hillarious!

I have blatantly stolen this from greeneyedtengu who stole it from someone else because it is funny beyond words.

Who knew? Evidently to some the term "black hole" is racially offensive.
 From the City Hall Blog at the Dallas Morning News: (you have to watch the clip)

A special meeting about Dallas County traffic tickets turned tense and bizarre this afternoon.

County commissioners were discussing problems with the central collections office that is used to process traffic ticket payments and handle other paperwork normally done by the JP Courts.

Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield, who is white, said it seemed that central collections "has become a black hole" because paperwork reportedly has become lost in the office.

Commissioner John Wiley Price, who is black, interrupted him with a loud "Excuse me!" He then corrected his colleague, saying the office has become a "white hole."

That prompted Judge Thomas Jones, who is black, to demand an apology from Mayfield for his racially insensitive analogy.

Mayfield shot back that it was a figure of speech and a science term.

Judge Jones should be very glad that the central collections office has not become a white hole, a theoretical object that ejects matter from beyond its event horizon, rather than sucking it in. It wouldn't be fun for Dallas to find itself so near a quasar.


The sad thing is these are the "intelligent" people who are running our government.  I love how angry the commissioner is at the very end....look at his face...you know he just wants to shout "Jane you ignorant slut!" 

Is very much worth watching.  You can really see the Pan's Labrynth influences throughout but it stands on it's own.  A very nicely done fantasy.  Not quite the laughs as the first but worth the money to see it.  I would give it a B+

Immigration's answer is................that there is no answer.


Fucking hell!

Seems their doctor's have a backlog and that our caseworker really doesn't know when they might give us an answer.

It could take several more months and which case our medicals and FBI reports will expire and we will have to start all over again.

This sucks ass.

So, now I have to figure out something.  I know in the states government agencies have a certain time to complete information...if they don't you can go to their immediate supervisor and get some action however if I do that in this instance will they simply deny us for being bitchy.....I don't know.

Looks like I will be making some phone calls Sunday.

I really have been felling the pressure lately.  I really can't stand the waiting any more.  Case worker said 2-4 weeks....that will be up on Wednesday.  If your going to say "no" then say it already!!!  Why make us wait it out?  I am just sick of the waiting game.  Either give us the residency VISA or tell us "no" but get off your arse and do SOMETHING!

I have really been out of sorts lately.  Don't know if it is the pain from the back (which seems to finally be getting better) or the hormones from the Mirena.....or just the 2 year old that sucks my every ounce of energy...but I have been a real bitch lately.  Sad and moody...much more so than usual...and terribly lonely.

I just want to fall from the face of the earth. Wow...I didn't know we had a bottle of Jose Cuervo.  I just looked over at the wine cabinet and there she sits....oh yeah...I remember now.  Jess brought it over for a pot luck one night.  I swear to God if we finally get out marching orders we are going to have a big party on the spot and drink till we pass out and I fall into a deep diabetic coma!!!

The same thing applies if we don't get them...with less celebrating and more drinking of course.  I just realized something...oh funny....haha...I did a tarot reading last Saturday...said we would have our answer in 10 day or less......10 days puts us at Wednesday....hysterically funny Tarot cards...jokesters they are sometimes.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

I am rambling like a complete madwoman....and yes I have become one...moody...dark...angry with a black cloud over my pretty head......just make a decision already!

Had the roller coaster nightmare again.  This time I was waiting to ride "The most EXTREME coaster every built!"

In fact it was sooooo extreme that the policy was :If you have had something to eat or drink within 90 minutes of riding you MUST use the bathroom facilities to evacuate any food or drink bio matter otherwise you could suffer from internal injuries.


The shit my mind thinks up is just fucked up. 

Wait for the DVD people...don't pay full price to see this movie.

Ok so I thought this was going to be total cheese....but I didn't care because I was a big Get Smart fan as a kid.

It wasn't.  It was completely hillarious from start to finish.  Every single person in the film was spot on.  There were no dull or slow spots...just funny, witty, and impecibly timed.

Ok there was a little bit of cheese but overall very nicely done.  One hillarious scene with a fat chick was done so well I almost cried.  You would think that they would coin the obvious fat jokes but they did not. This scene so tastefully done that it was one of my favorite of all times. OK well not tasteful....but they didn't go the OBVIOUS fat joke route....it was too funny.

My favorite scene of the whole movie (no this won't spoil anything and I may not get the wording exactly)

Max: "Chief, are you thinking what I am thinking?"
Cheif: "Yeah, sure, if you are thinking 'oh shit, oh shit, my head was almost impaled by a swordfish'!"


A definate must see.

I would actually pay to go see it again.

So the evil sister has taken it upon herself to choose the setting of the Graduation party for Jason and His girlfriend Gabby.  No, not the sports bar like she had been pushing for but a picnic like I had been pushing for.  Only problem is....it is at the home of someone who has made damn sure that I know I am not welcome.

...and sis knows it.

That is why she picked it.....cause she is a cunt.

Oh and she has also left Gabby out of the celebration.  Seems she is not happy with little Gabby for wanting to go away to college and leave Jason so she didn't include her.

Did I mention my sister is a cunt?  So I will have them over Thursday this week for a little celebration with us first..and my sister can go fuck herself.

Oh she sent me an email AFTER I got the invitation.....since you didn't write back to me I assume this was ok....only problem is she NEVER wrote to me in the first place.....cause she's a cunt.

Actually working 9-1 today...getting some overtime in because we are broke. It's getting tougher to balance things now with me earning less and the bills increasing due to high fuel prices.  I still have a lot more to do.  I was doing all the things that I can't get done during the regular week because of constant interruptions.

Jenn and I were talking yesterday (cause she had to let me in..I don't have a key) about me coming in today and Amanda Jumps in with "You're coming on tomorrow Con?  Great can you do this, this, and this for me?"

"Ummmmmm......no!"  I am coming in to work on things that I can't normally do with you and Gail around...I have my own agendy for Saturday...but I will help you all I can on Monday"

She didn't like that answer but too fucking bad.  She monopolizes my time so that I can't get these basic things done and she doesn't understand that by straightening out the files, I will become more efficient and can find thing more easily.

Gail had heard the same conversation and asked if we wanted her to come in and help...."Ummmmmm...no!  you might be tempted to do the same thing.  Give me more work to do and I have my own things that i need to take care of...so just stay home and relax tomorrow."

Jenn and I both expected her to show up anyway.  Surprisingly she didn't.

Now that I am done at work...and by the way..the chiropracter was a big help and I can move and walk again...which also measn I get to clean again.  That is next....dishes, laundy, house cleaning....what a way to spend your day "off".

But dear lord not on FREE DAY!  Yesterday admission was free to the Zoo. I have been wanting to take Andreas to the zoo, so I used this as my opportunity.  When I was  kid, I loved going to the zoo.  I remember the elephant house which not only housed 4 elephants but 2 hippos, 2 rhinos, and 4 giraffes as well.  Now it has 2 elephants.  The Giraffes are supposed to be back but we didn't see them.  In fact we saw hardly any animals at all and those we did see were freaking FARM animals!  What happened to the Bengal Tigers? The regular Tigers? Lions? Where did the sharks and other aquatic life go.   The seals are gone!  The little penguins that used to jump and play around monkey island and swim round it with the ducks and swans...hell... where are all the fucking monkeys? 

We saw 3 bears, a couple of cats that looked like house cats, a few monkeys and baboons (but not on monkey island), and two Rhinos briefly before they hid behind a rock and then the goats, cows, and sheep at the petting zoo...which was behind wire fence so that you couldn't actually pet anything.

We saw 1 peacock there used to be like 10. You could hear their cries all over the zoo when I was a kid. Several of the displays were closed like the Manatee's and the Birds of Prey.  None of the shows were playing that day.  The zoo is also trying to make things seem more jungle like and have planted so much vegetation, and allt he roads and exhibits spreal back over each other, that you can get lost rather quickly.  It was just awful. 

The only animals we saw were actually walking outside of the cages....people.  They were the worst dregs of society...rude..impatient...dirty.  Never go to the Zoo on free day.  I can't decide whether the Zoo was saying..."What do you want for free?" or whether they were saying "Here's a glimpse..you want more? Pay to get in" or whether thsy simply do not have the animals any more.  We used to have one of the tep ten Zoo's in the country....where the heck did all of the animals go?  Depressing.  I wish I could have shown more of the beautiful creatures to my son.

Not broken hearted just broken.  I took some codeine for the back which has taken the edge off of the pain but it gives me horrible, vivid nightmares...so now I can't sleep. 

I was calling my chiropractor today to try to make an appointment but he is on vacation.  Dr. Scott Shelby.  He's really great!  His brother is taking care of his patients while he is away Dr. Sky Shelby.  Wonder if they are twins?  Sky, Scott...seems a possibility.  I will see him tomorrow after work. I was getting a little frustrated when I couldn't get a hold of his office and made the comment to Terri, "Gah they need to answer the phone.  I really need to get in to see him" To which she replied, "you can't go to the Chiropractor this week...everyone else is gone and Jenn won't allow you to leave me alone."

*blink*blink*

I am in so much pain I can barely walk, my overall work production is being affected, I can't run around in the warehouse and find things like I need to, nor move product like I need to and this woman is telling me I can't go to my doctor because she would be left all alone in the showroom?  Who the hell does she think she is?  This coming from the woman who take a half day off yesterday because she chipped her tooth and didn't realize it until she looked in a mirror.  Part of the reason I can't get my severe pain taken care of is because she has a follow-up with her dentist to make sure her new crown looks pretty. 

Sever pain + unreasonable bitch overstepping her bounds= Connie going off.

"I am in pain and I AM going to the Chiropractor"

No you can't

"I am in pain and I AM going to my Chiropractor!"

No you can't leave me here alone.

"Let me say this one more time.  I am in PAIN and I AM going to the fucking chiropractor and if you say that to me one more time I will simply take the entire fucking day off and you can fuck yourself....how does that sound? It's not up to you whether I go to the chiropractor or not...YOU are not my boss!"


I think she got the point.  I mean how dare you?  I had even told her my chiro keeps weird hours and I was planning on seeing him at 7AM long before I even had to be to work and she is forbidding to go?  Who the fuck do you think you are lady?  It did get a little more heated.  I cussed at her a bit more which is something I don't typically do at work but it seemed the only way to get my point across to her plus I was a bit testy. 

Oh and when Jenn, my actual manager came out of her meeting and I told her my plan to see the Chiropractor...her response was, "whatever you gotta do girl, get yourself better....we'll get someone to cover if you need to be gone during business hours."

I love my manager.

You can tell I am in pain...EVERYONE has commented on this week and last.  I am usually running allover that building at all times, now I am consolodating my trips upstairs and to the warehouse to reduce the time on my feet.  I am barely walking at all, and when I do I am biting my lip to keep from crying out from the pain....it is completely obvious to eveyone that I am hurting...except of course Terri.  Gail has actually been exceptionally nice.  She is taking things to the warehouse for me, pulling the files from the lower shelves so I don't have to bend (that is the worst).  It's a little disconcerting when she is nice...but I am definately not looking a gift horse in the mouth. She has been there and knows how dabilitating back pain can be.  I guess if you have never suffered from it you really don't have a clue.  Back pain affects ever other part of you.  It is causing headaches, pains shooting down my left leg, nausea, and my knee and other muscles are hurting because the way I am compensating for the back pain is cause stress on other areas.  I am walking in a way that is contrary to normal.

Becker's is a place that really does care about their employees.  I will be hard pressed to find another company that is so good to me.  Just wish the pay was a bit more...but it is a fair wage for my position so I can't really complain.

So I see the chiro actually after work tomorrow cause my chiro's brother keeps weird hours too, just in the opposite direction. Instead of early morning it is late into the evening.

I need to get back up to speed at work.  I am falling behind.  Hopefully I will only need one adjustment but it will probably be 2-3.

The Cleves Fireman's festival was this weekend.  This thing happens every year since the dawn of time I think.  Cindy and I took the boys and they had such a good time together.  The one ride we were both afraid would be the worst for them was actually the best....the roller coaster.  They LOVED it!  They were so cute together.  Dillan cried when Andreas headed home at long last.  He wanted to still play together.  But it was 11:00PM we stayed for the fireworks...Andreas was amazed by the colors and explosions.

Andreas has also learned how to furrow his brow...it is the cutest thing ever!  And we gave him a hair cut.  it took both Chris and me to hold him down and cut it off.  It's shorter than what I wanted but at least it is even.

Sometime Thursday I killed my back at work.  Don't know what I did.  It didn't hurt at the time, but I have done an amazing job of half cripling myself so that I can barely walk.  It hurt so bad I had to take a percocet Friday just to function...which of course made it impossible to function. I was so completely stoned.  I have only 1 left but the back is feeling slightly better from rest.  Hopefully i will be well again in a day or two.

Took Chris shopping for father's day.  He is napping with Andreas right now.  I really have to go get cleaning.  I couldn't do it with Andreas around and my back is really killing me so I don't know if I can do it now...but I guess I have to try.

Went to see the Hulk yesterday.  It didn't suck as I expected it to.  The cast was great (well except for William Hurt who is much like an expressionless zombie in whatever he appears in). *Spoiler*  Much like Iron Man though it was predictible with the two hulks battling it out in the end...good guy vs. bad guy style.  I hope all of these remakes leading up to the big combined movie aren't all going to be good guy vs bad guy fight climaxes.  That is just to boring. 

we..and by we of course I mean me..cause i do it all....we mailed the medical info on Friday.  Hope to have a decision real soon.  Although from what I have been reading lately seems New Zealand is suffering from the same tanking economy that we are.  High fuel priced driving up the costs of basic goods, housing market in a slump, rolling blackouts expected from an overtaxed energy system, the National party is expected to oust the Labor party in November elections because the people and even some members of their own party are sick of the Labor party...who are acting quite a lot like our own Republican party.  It sounds like home sweet home...only subtropical...and no medical expenses.


On other news it is hot Hot HOT...and our air conditioning is evidently broken.  I get to call the landlord tomorrow and hopefully get it fixed by the end of the week because it is HOT!

My son Jason is officially a high school graduate....yeah!

He didn't walk (and of course Terri from work...poor little oblivious Terri told me that I should have "made him walk"....really why would I do that? If he didn't want to then he didn't want to and making him would only have been for selfish reasons...for me..or for the family and not for him and wasn't this his accomplishment? I really just want to beat her some days.) That was his choice.  He always felt like an outsider and I know EXACTLY where he is coming from.  But now comes the Graduation party.  I asked him what he would like...."some place where he and his friends could play video games, eat, and hang out"

Since he is living with my sister (and by the way through our chat I found that he has been sick of the cunt since about his 3rd month there but since she let Gabby move in with them he would rather stay with his girlfriend and live with the cunt than live at home without Gabby) Sis feels that she gets a say in the Graduation party.  Oh lets face it Sis thinks she is his mom and that everything is HER decision.  She actually takes Gabby shopping and wants to help her pick out her clothes...including bras and panties.....weird....she's not Gabby's mom either..and Gabby is freaking 18 and capable of picking out her own clothes.

Anyway so Sis thinks of Dave and Busters and if we pool together should only cost us about $300 each.

Ummm...no...I don't have that kind of money to piss away on a party...especially when Jason said he just wants to play video games and hang out with friends and family.  Someone's house will do nicely.  I am trying to see what we can come up with.

Doesn't stop her so Dave and busters is $10 and too much well here is this other similar place and it is only $9 a person.

She doesn't fucking listen!!  I told Jason I can throw him a party or give him a graduation present.....he would rather have the money as a graduation present.

Oh but of course this isn't just about Jason it's Gabby's graduation party too.  What exactly is there about Dave and buster's that screams I'm a girl who wants to have a party here?  Nothing.

so both Graduates don't want a party in a hall or a party location....why does she keep insisting?  Cause she's a cunt.

If she wants to pay for it all she can..but I am not.  I would rather give the money to my son and his girlfriend as a gift that they can use rather than give it to Overpriced Dave and Buster's thankyouverymuchyouunthinkingcow.

Actually I was dead tired from the moment I hit the door today but no rest for me.  I bought Andreas a Tricycle and he road it everywhere, fed him dinner, and then he wanted a bath....but he says "bah".  He took me by the hand, led me to the bathroom, made me open the door then he got naked and jumped in the tub...that's how I figured out that "bah" meant bath.

He's a funny guy.

I am still awake however because I am getting the last of the medicals together for mailing tomorrow....woot!  I have no idea why it took Andreas' dermatologist to type his letter....it is exactly 3 sentences long.  It took him 10 days.

I have all the tests results, doctors reports, a letter from my health coach, and it is all going in the mail on Friday.  5 business days later it will be in in London...and hopefully within 2 weeks we will have our answer.

Lets hope it is the answer we want.

In other news:

My co-workers are still crazy bitches.

My sister is still a cunt.

My children still want money from me.

And the world is still firmly in place upon my shoulders....but today was not such a bad day.

Last night I cleaned our bedroom and re-arranged the furniture so that our brilliant but dangerous child will not escape through the window again.  If he can move that computer armoire I will be amazed.

The house is quiet....my work is done...I can either watch a little TV or head to bed.

Oh and I got my "Financial Peace University" package at long last and have been looking through it.  Our employer is sponsoring these seminars during lunch N learns to teach us financial planning and how to become debt free...forever.

I was a bit skeptical at first....but I think some of the ideas are fabulous and I can't wait to impliment them.  According to the hype...the seminars last 13 weeks and in that time the "average" student saves over $2500 and pays off over $5000 in debt.  13 weeks nearly 8 grand...well we don't have that much debt so I am sure our results won't fall under the "average" household...but I am optomistic anyway.

This will help especially in light of the news I got from my employer.  Seems Beckers has neglected to take my health insurance premiums out of my pay check for the last...oh ..as long as I have been there.  $4600 I owe them.  I was covered..they just forgot to take the money out of my check.  There was a dental/vision deduction but that wasn't the medical.  The cool thing is that Beckers feel slightly responsible and said that they will foot half of the bill so I owe $2300 which they will take out of my commissions and spiffs rather than my actual pay check.  But that means that $190 bi-weekly will now come out.  We are barely making ends meet as it is let alone if they start taking another $400 out a month....ouch!

But if you look at it in a positive light...really I am getting a discount on my health care.  I am actually making $2300 not loosing it.

ahhhhhhhhhhh the bed it calls to me.

It doesn't matter how long it has been since I last was at Faire...all thing Rennie make me happy.  Despite the heat, rain, sleet, long hours, thankless work, and stupid politics of ren faire...I will alwasy have such fond memories of my time as a performer.

I am stealing this from greeneyedtengu  because when I read it...it brought back all of those fond memories...and right now I need something fun to think about. 

I simply had a share a couple of things from work this past week from when I had laryngitis.

No voice Thursday through Tuesday.  Only a whisper.  Answering the phones and waiting on customers was a hoot, most people were very friendly, although a bit standoffish not wanting to catch what I had.

Then there were the psychos.  I had:

One woman did not comment on the fact that I couldn't speak but simply had to comment on how pretty my hair looked.

One man yelled into my voicemail "why the hell don't they have someone leaving a message for her...she doesnt' have a voice I can't hear a damned thing she's saying this is retarded!"  Of course he completely forgot to leave a message telling me who he is or what he wanted.  Lucky for me, he called back...yeah!

One man yelled at me because I couldn't speak and went on an on about "what kind of place hires someone who can't talk to answer the phone?  I demand that you give me to someone right now who can talk to me!"  Of course I was the only there.  Two people off sick, one at lunch, one with a client already.  Told they guy he could talk to me or call back later.....suddenly he was miraculously able to understand me...Asshole.

So Andreas decided he wanted to try to break his own nose yesterday.  He was throwing a temper tantrum...he is officially two!...and flung his face down onto the floor.

I heard a wet thud...a pause...then the screaming.

His nose immediately swelled up, turned red, the left side turned purple, it bled a little bit and there was lots and lots of holding.

Thankfully he did not break it.

Just wow.

Then today he chokes on a piece of fruit, bites through a pen and covers himself in ink, spills grape juice on my white bed, pulled all my hats down from my hat rack, and does a half a dozen other things that requires my constant attention all in a two hour period. 

Geez he is such a little boy!

There will be no rest until he turns three.