Susan's World of Absolute Insanity

Update

2008-06-28T05:22:14Z

We finally got the cable people to recognise that our address exists, and lo, we haveth the interwebs.
I am hooked on this show from Showtime, Just watched a few eps today on instant veiwing on Netflix. It's "Weeds". It's hysterical.
Not as funny as the link   tsaiko posted earlier to a Batman comic review, but still pretty funny. And very good.

It's hot down here, It rained today. Jayson is gone to work. I have been hunting up some Pocket Dragons for Duo. I've been meaning to start collecting them for him since he was born. I am a horrible procrastinator, as evidenced by the state of my kitchen at the moment. If my Grandmother saw it she would probably have a heart attack.   Anyway, I just got one on ebay. Got some more I'm watching. There are a lot more of them than I thought. Some of them are way to pricy for us though.

Hasbro is finally recognising the pony collectors, there are several things on the Hasbro Toy site I want to get. Including a Minty. I was surprised when I went over my list that I didn't have one yet.

I gotta ask my bro next time he goes to the comic store to keep an eye out for some volumes of "Castle Waiting". I got the first anthology book, and then discovered there are about twelve comic issues after the end of it that are out already. Got the newest volume of Fables. It is very good. Up with Haven, Down with the Empire!    I'm still waiting to get Girl Genius Vol. 7. Apparently it's out of stock at Amazon. I ordered it at the end of May, around my birthday.

the new Pixar movie came out today. Haven't seen it yet, but we're planning on it. I'm kinda nervous, b/c this will be Duo's first time in a theatre. Last summer I took him to the drive in, which is the only way I got to see a lot of the stuff from last year. I miss that drive in. I just hope he gets interested enough in Wall E to sit through the whole thing.

We're all on a funky sleep schedule since Jayson's been working grave shift. I need to go to sleep soon if Duo will cooperate.

laterz.

Chuck Norris for Prez!!

2008-06-02T23:32:44Z

Vote Chuck Norris for President! No one will mess with the USA then. Better than any candidate we have been offered thus far.

In other news, we have a place and are fairly settled. I had a birthday. Jayson made me a chocolate pound cake from scratch. It was very very yummy.

It is very hot in MS now.
Watched Sweeney Todd finally, it is good, but they left out mine and Jayson's fave songs and the end that lets you know somebody got a happy ending.
Started to watch The Golden Compass, but got so disgusted I stopped about half an hour in. Way too much exposition too early, not enough charecterization. Too bad, I had been looking forward to it. Won't see the sequals if they make them. If you've read the books and haven't seen the movie yet, don't bother. It will just irritate you. That's my opinion.
Should be getting 27 Dresses next. Hope it turns out to be as good as reported. I love Katherine Heigel (?sp) anyway.

Saw Prince Caspian in the theatre, It is very good. Ben Barnes who plays Caspian looks a bit too old, but I just kept thinking he looked familiar, and finally remembered to look him up. Found out he was in Stardust. That's why I recognized him.

My dad forgot my birthday for the third year in a row. I'm gonna go over there soon and guilt trip him in front of my stepmom, which should garantee a fair amount of concillatory birthday money.

Speaking of birthday's . . . HAPPY LATE BIRTHDAY SARAH!!! I would have sent a card, but I don't have the address.

The cable people still think our address does not exist. Twice they have called to say they fixed the problem but when we called back it was gone again.

later.

LJ Changes POLL

2008-03-18T18:53:08Z

I was looking at the news section of LJ and it prompted this poll.

View Poll: Thoughts on the changes

I like this quiz

2007-12-18T02:16:43Z

I Am A: Chaotic Good Half-Elf Ranger/Bard (2nd/2nd Level)
 Ability Scores: 
Strength-13 
Dexterity-14 
Constitution-13 
Intelligence-14 
Wisdom-15 
Charisma-13
 Alignment: Chaotic Good A chaotic good character acts as his conscience directs him with little regard for what others expect of him. He makes his own way, but he's kind and benevolent. He believes in goodness and right but has little use for laws and regulations. He hates it when people try to intimidate others and tell them what to do. He follows his own moral compass, which, although good, may not agree with that of society. Chaotic good is the best alignment you can be because it combines a good heart with a free spirit. However, chaotic good can be a dangerous alignment because it disrupts the order of society and punishes those who do well for themselves. 
 Race: Half-Elves have the curiosity and ambition for their human parent and the refined senses and love of nature of their elven parent, although they are outsiders among both cultures. To humans, half-elves are paler, fairer and smoother-skinned than their human parents, but their actual skin tones and other details vary just as human features do. Half-elves tend to have green, elven eyes. They live to about 180.
 Primary Class: Rangers are skilled stalkers and hunters who make their home in the woods. Their martial skill is nearly the equal of the fighter, but they lack the latter's dedication to the craft of fighting. Instead, the ranger focuses his skills and training on a specific enemy a type of creature he bears a vengeful grudge against and hunts above all others. Rangers often accept the role of protector, aiding those who live in or travel through the woods. His skills allow him to move quietly and stick to the shadows, especially in natural settings, and he also has special knowledge of certain types of creatures. Finally, an experienced ranger has such a tie to nature that he can actually draw on natural power to cast divine spells, much as a druid does, and like a druid he is often accompanied by animal companions. A ranger's Wisdom score should be high, as this determines the maximum spell level that he can cast.
 Secondary Class: Bards often serve as negotiators, messengers, scouts, and spies. They love to accompany heroes (and villains) to witness heroic (or villainous) deeds firsthand, since a bard who can tell a story from personal experience earns renown among his fellows. A bard casts arcane spells without any advance preparation, much like a sorcerer. Bards also share some specialized skills with rogues, and their knowledge of item lore is nearly unmatched. A high Charisma score allows a bard to cast high-level spells.
 Find out <a href='http://www.easydamus.com/character.html' target='mt'>What Kind of Dungeons and Dragons Character Would You Be?</a>, courtesy of Easydamus</a> <a href='mailto:zybstrski@excite.com'>(e-mail)</a> 

This amused me greatly. Thank you for the two people on my f-list who posted their results already and let me know this existed.

Happy day!

2007-10-22T19:58:12Z

Twelve days until Jayson gets home! Yay!!

But what really made my day was when I went to the post office to get some big envelopes to send off the pics of Duo to family. The lady behind the desk thought I was 16!! OMG! That has totally made my day. She didn't think I looked old enough to be Duo's mom. I laughed so hard when I got out to the car. I am just tickled pink. Nothing makes a girl over a quarter century happier than someone thinking she's ten years younger than she is.

I gotta go clean out the car now, since it's nice out today and in the 70s. No telling when/if we will have this kind of weather again.

Love to my Jayson!!

Birthdays and stuff

2007-08-28T22:00:54Z

Happy Birthday to Tiffanie Pearce!!! Even though she has no LJ and doesn't read this. I wish her a happy birthday anyway. I should also email her later. Hope the address is still right.

Also, my mind has been warped by the discovery that there is Calvin and Hobbes crossover fanfiction. Crossed over with this other comic "Foxtrot". They are in college and it is hysterical. Cause you know, that a college age Calvin would probably have wound up hanging with us. I'd never read Foxtrot before so I had to go and find it so I would get character background.

In other news, my garbage disposal is fixed! Yay! However, I am still being plagued by a swarm of fruit flies. They go after my bananas. And if there is anything in the sink with water in it they go for that too. Dunno why. I've bug sprayed em but there are always more of the little buggers.

Also watched this old movie called Crossworlds. It had the potential to be a good movie, but there were way too many plot holes and people kept doing stupid stuff. I had stuff figured out way ahead of the main character, who was very dense. Rutgar Hauer(?sp) was in it as the only reasonably intelligent good guy. They only won because the bad guys kept not killing them, just beating them up. Dumb villians.

later.

Happy Birthday!!!

2007-08-27T15:48:29Z

HAPPY BIRTHDAY azrael665!!! I LOVE YOU!!!

It's 2 a.m. Do you know where YOUR children are?

2007-08-24T06:09:11Z

I know where some of the kids on Tamarack Drive are. They are running around outside chasing each other and screeching, and occaisionally going through my flower bed. And it's been going on for about an hour. Duo is asleep. I can't sleep. I also can't find a phone number for the Carthage Police Department. Apparently it doesn't exist. Along with whatever passes for those kids parents. Honestly what kind of people are going to let their kids run loose at this time of night? They just better not do it again tomorrow night or I'm gonna go down there and get them. And drag them back to their good for nothing so called parents by their ears.

I am soo pissed off right now.

MOVING!!

2007-08-23T04:21:28Z

Yes, you read that right. I have been assigned housing on post. It's still in maintanance, which probly means they are cleaning it, but I could get a call anytime starting. . . well, today actually since it's after midnight. Saturday is my first pre-clearing inspection, which means they will come and tell me all the stuff I have to either fix or pay to get fixed. So if I am not around at all, it is because I am in a frenzy of cleaning and packing, made more complicated by having a two year old following behind me to mess it all up again. I'm gonna clean it all myself b/c I don't wanna have to pay 300 freakin bucks for someone else to come clean it after I already did. I can get it all just as clean as they can. And they have a crew that comes in and redoes everything after I'm done moving out anyway, so really what is the point? Just gotta see if I can borrow Tammy's carpet cleaner/shampoo thingie. Everything else I got covered.

Also, when I do make the move, it could be a while before I have internet again. The cable people are as backed up as the army movers.

Now, excuse me while I go do some stain removal on the carpet while Duo is asleep.

Wish me luck. I'm gonna need it.

BTW all my MS people, the high today was 65 and I am cold. This is so not what August is supposed to feel like.

jaysons_lady @ 2007-08-20T13:06:00

2007-08-20T17:09:58Z

Happy (Late) Birthday bunglechiv!!

To find out who reads this

2007-08-19T05:20:12Z

Stolen from tanz_fanatika

Comment with one of my fandoms and I'll reply with:

01. The first character I fell in love with
02. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now
03. The character everyone else loves that I don't
04. The character I love that everyone else hates
05. The character I used to love but don't any longer
06. The character I would shag
07. The character I'd want to be like
08. The character I'd slap
09. A pairing that I love
10. A pairing that I despise

Meme quiz thingie

2007-08-13T18:33:06Z

70.2/100RateMyLife.net - Find out if you suck at life

This is an interesting test. I think I would have scored higher if Jayson was home.

Ganked from Dania

2007-08-12T18:13:33Z

This was amusing. But I have to wonder what purpose we would be sold for to arrive at this figure.

Rantyness and note of warning. . .

2007-08-09T21:01:21Z

I've been buying stuff on ebay for quite some time, and overall I have had good experiences. But yesterday I found out I'd been had by an unscrupulous seller. My total item cost was $24.99. This was on three combined items. Her shipping charge was $27. I paid this, as I know shipping is getting more expensive and didn't know what it would cost her to ship it. When the package arrived yesterday, it had the postage on it. For $7.55. Will someone please explain what costs justify the extra $19.45 dollars I paid her? I would also like to note that there was no special care in packaging (which I didn't expect anyway), such as bubble wrap or packing peanuts. I understand charging handling costs, but doesn't that seem a bit excessive to anyone, or is it just me? So I gave her a nuetral feedback score. Said items as described, quick shipping, HIGH shipping charges. Which was, is and will always remain factual. So she nuetral's me back and says "Buyer wants everything for free" and that I'd agreed to the cost. Well, yeah, I did, when I thought it was going to the cost and not just to line your greedy pockets. Anyway her ebay user name for anyone who cares is: lisa0994. I will not be doing business with her ever again.

In happier news I have 87 MY Little Ponies now, with no doubles. None that I'm counting anyway, since the doubles are bait ponies. I've got some re-hairing and stuff to do on some of them, but all some needed was a bath and lots of conditioner and a good combing. I've got quite a few more on the way with only one double I think. I'm only missing four flutter ponies and one of those is a mail order which I will probably never get seeing how much people on ebay are wanting for theirs. Of course two of those had the original wings. One didn't and they still wanted $45, which is a little more than I'm willing to spend on a single pony right now. And she wasn't in otherwise minty condition either.

Anyway, three months until Jayson comes home, YAY!! Originally he would've been home already, but our prez and people decided to extend them all. Joy. At least we get paid extra.

Got VanDread from Netflix yesterday. First 3 discs. Watched them all. It's still as awesome as I remembered. Gotta send em back so I can get the next three.

Gotta go eat and stuff, later people.

Late in the day but I remembered!

2007-08-08T03:36:28Z

Happy Birthday orasa!!

Unbreakable boy!

2007-08-06T15:06:01Z

So, while reading interesting news bits today, I found this one. Is he a mutant, the antichrist, did angels help, or is he just damn lucky? YOU decide!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,292208,00.html

I will be looking out for anything else.

I can't believe I forgot to say this. . . .

2007-08-05T17:03:12Z

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

nickymccloud

!!

I am sorry I'm late with this.
Gomen nasai!

Stuff that keeps me busy

2007-07-28T22:28:41Z

ARRGH! The Girl Genius site is down again! And they're at ComicCon, so they won't be able to fix it until they get back. GRR.   Well, at least by then there should be two new pages for me to see instead of just one.

Also, as anyone who also has  gakki  on their f-list knows, I am going to start customizing My Little Ponies. Gakki is going to help me. Since he is the sculpy knowledgeable one. I'm gonna make some G3 Boy ponies.   So, getting some ponies, and researching how to do customs. Also got hooked on this weird Japanese game which is all Victorian ladies slapping each other. It's addictive. I figured out the controls and I can get up to the boss (on easy mode) but haven't beat it yet.

I've been working on packing. Got maybe half of the books packed. Hopefully Jayson will be able to get me the paperwork I need by the second week in August. I'd like to get moved before Duo's birthday, but towards the end of August, so that there will be less pro-rate rent to pay.   The playgrounds on base are awesome. Much better than the ones here. They have baby swings, and some of them have those Merry-go-round thingies that you push. That was my favorite thing. Hopefully everyone knows what i mean.

I got a working record player, and some records. The record player is fisher price, and apparently it has a church devoted to it. ( I am not kidding either)

Finally saw 300 Thursday night. It was good. On Netflix this week I watched: Marie Antoinette(?sp), Secretary, and Preaching to the Perverted. They were all good, but Secretary is my favorite. I'm gonna have to get that one. Also thursday I saw Order of the Phoenix. It came on before 300, and I was sucked in by Luna Lovegood, who looks remarkably like my friend Tiffanie Pearce. Sounds like her too. So much so that I had to watch the credits to make sure it really wasn't her.
I'm going back to the drive-in this weekend, tomorrow probably, to see The Simpsons movie and the new Die Hard movie.

That's all I can think of at the moment.

Oh, yeah. I got to talk to Jayson yesterday. I miss my Jayson.

Later.

What I would like to do to someone (RANT)

2007-07-08T16:23:15Z

That fucking bitch. And upstate New York has crap for animal cruelty laws. It is pouring down rain outside and that fucking skanky ass trailor trash BITCH has left her dogs poor puppies outside. They are stuck in a pen no bigger than five feet across with NO shelter whatsoever. She leaves them out there all day every day. These are supposed to be purebred Chespeake bay puppies. I hate fucking breeders like that. It's like that guy who lets half his litters die rather than give them the proper care. He breeds bulldogs. Some people should just not be allowed to have animals. OR children. This is the same woman who flat out told me, not joking, that she had put beer in her daughter's sippie cup, and her daughter was all of two years old. And they beat her when she has an accident(of the poopy persuasion). If she's having accidents she should still be in diapers! She's obviously not ready to potty train yet.

She is the main reason I don't go out back anymore. I don't want to have to deal with her narrowminded ignorant white trailor trash bitch ass self.
And you're not even supposed to keep your dogs in a pen in the yard. And it's a homemade crappy one that the puppies could climb over anyway. If they really tried. One of them did. And she wasn't even going to worm them until Jessica told her she needed to. And they're barely 8-10 weeks old and she's had them outside all day every day since at least the beginning of June. WithOUT their Mother.

Sometimes I seriously think the world would be a better place if all the humans just died.

Worst Dream EVER! and really weird too.

2007-07-05T16:45:47Z

This morning I had the worst dream of my entire life. It started out a normally weird dream. Jayson was home on leave, it was summer, we were in MS, it was his first full day back. I had my old car, a 1990 white pontiac grand am. Something was wrong with it and we were trying to fix it. I think it just needed some more oil and we were having trouble starting it too. And Jayson had his car.    Then there was this whole bit where my car ran away with me (like a runaway horse) and I finally got it stopped by the side of some winding country back road. And I discovered that Duo was with me. Coulda sworn I'd left him with mom. We went looking for a gas station. We found a crazy horse. There is then some weird bit involving the horse and a diaper, then his owner agreed to watch Duo while I rode to the gas station and back. But right when I was about to leave for the gas station a bunch of people pulled up. My Mom was with them. I got this terrible feeling in the pit of my stomach. Some guy handed me this card that was supposedly from Jayson. It was weird, all I remember being in it now were the words: step, skip, skip, skip, skip, skip, skip. It greatly confused me at the time. When I woke up I realized it wasn't even in Jayson's handwriting. Then the guy said that we needed to go back to my Mom's and Austin Brown was waiting there to tell me something. I had a feeling that I knew what the something was and I just totally freaked out and started screaming NO and I wasn't going to let the army tell me he was dead while he was home on leave, and stuff like that. Then I implored my Mom to tell me what the heck was going on, but I knew by the look on her face already. Really I had known when I saw them pull up. I don't really remember much else. I woke up soon after that part with this song stuck in my head. "There's a hole in my heart that can only be filled by you, and this hole in my heart can't be filled with the things I do. . . ."
So that was the worst dream I have ever had. Even worse than the one where I was covered in spiders.
So now I am waiting and hoping that Jayson will call me today so that I can quit worrying so much.   Because sometimes, my dreams are precog. And that never worries me more than when someone dies in my dreams.

I love you my Jayson.
Please call me soon.

O.o Weird Dream

2007-06-15T15:37:10Z

This morning I had one of the weirdest dreams ever. I dreamed I was an Aztec Goddess. I know this b/c I was hanging out with Xochiquetzel. But none of us were in full power yet. To get our powers back we had to get some ritual ornament thingies back. This super evil dude had them because he wanted to be able to control us and the world.   And for some reason Anthony DiNozzo from NCIS was there. And whoever I was in the dream had dated him.   And he didn't know it but we had a kid together. O.o   So weird. And one of the other girls who was a goddess had been living in France. She had two or three kids with her. They were a handful. There were a few other kids from the other Gods and Goddesses. The most annoying one was a teenage boy. He'd been really into magic before he ever knew about his bloodline and when we were all captured by the evil dude and his little army, the dumb ass tried to summon a freakin demon. I stopped him and told him if he tried it again I would personally see that Tezcatlipoca sacrificed him next.   And then there was some mortal dude who was NOT happy about Tony being there. Maybe Tony'd done his wife, i dunno. but Tony was uncomfortable being in the same room with him. BTW I don't think I was married in this dream though I apparantly had at least one other kid who was not a secret. The one with Tony was a big secret for some reason.   Also I was a warrior goddess.   I had snuck in alone to steal my jewelry back and taken out guards to get it.   But then that dumbass little punk teenage boy screwed it up and got me caught. He'd followed me and I caught him and then he didn't listen to me so we both got caught. I managed to get out with some of the stuff, but apparently I'd had to fuck the evil leader dude to get it. There wasn't a sex bit in the dream fortunately, it just skipped to a later scene and I knew what I'd had to do.
We all managed to get up to our stronghold which was some old stone fort/temple/castle thing on a really steep hill. Then Duo woke me up right when I was about to intoduce Tony to his son.

I have the strangest dreams.   and now I'm wondering who in the Aztec pantheon i was. I just know who I wasn't.
I wasn't Xochiquetzel, or Itzpapalotl, or the Eater of Filth, whose proper name I can't remember. I wasn't Mayauel, and that is where my knowledge of Aztec Goddesses stops. There is actually one more I know of but I can't remember her name or title and I wasn't her anyway. So now I'm gonna go look. Be weird if I find one that matches my dream persona.   Like this dream wasn't weird enough already.

Sorry you weren't in this dream Jayson. Or maybe i'm not. You probably would've been pissed about Tony.

anyway, I love you my Jayson!!

later.

Muse again

2007-06-12T02:11:09Z

Well, my muse has smacked me in the head but good. And now it's turned out that it's a romance novel I'm starting. Oy. Why me? I don't think it's even a very good romance novel. But if I don't keep writing it there is no telling when my muse will come back. I don't want to get blocked again. This is the most I've written in MONTHS. Ignoring your muse is dangerous. they might decide to go be the muse of someone who will appreciate them. So I continue to write the story. Got this whole party scene written out. Makes me think of "Gone With the Wind." And my characters keep taking unexpected turns. I don't even know what I'm gonna type until I'm practically typing it. I don't think I've ever written a story this way. This is the way I wrote for Comp 1 computer essay tests. It's weird. Now i'm wondering if I have any civil war books to read so I can keep my mind in this frame of thought.

I have to admit, this story has been brewing for a long time, but it's not coming out at all like I had originally thought. Back then, Ruth's fiance or whatever was fighting for the Confederacy and not the Yankees. It's like I'm channeling something. I wonder if other people feel this way when they write. I hope my muse sticks around long enough to let me finish this. I want to know what's going to happen.

I gotta go.

I love you, my Jayson!!!

Muse

2007-06-11T22:47:23Z

This morning I watched Cold Mountain, finally. It was good, but sad or I would rate it 5 stars. Don't want to spoiler for anyone who hasn't seen it. But someone dies and that greatly irritated me.

And so my muse decides that instead of working on the 5 or more other stories I am in the middle of, I will now start a Civil War Story. so behind the LJ cut is what I wrote today. Please note that this is the first draft.

It was hot. But it was always hot. Elisabeth had gone out without her sunbonnet again.
The girl had no sense of decorum at all. Her browned skin flashed in the sun as she returned to the house with
a catch of fresh trout.
"Look what I caught, Ruth," she shouted happily to her older sister.
"You're lucky you haven't caught sunstroke," the autumn haired girl replied. "Or worse yet, Yankees."
"The nearest Yankees are miles away. There's nothing to bring them out here."
"Food. Horses. Us. Why can't I get you to realize the danger out there, Beth?" Ruth relplied with exasperation.
Elisabeth shook out her wavy golden locks, loose from her braid, as usual. "You worry too much. We're too far from
all the fighting for anyone to bother with us."
"What about the deserters, from either side? You've heard the stories, same as I have. All I ask is that you stay
closer to home, that's all. Don't go out looking for trouble when it's likely to find us soon enough."
Elisabeth threw her arms around her sister. "I won't look for trouble. I know this war has been harder on you than
the rest of the family, but I'm sure Owen is fine. He's probably a lot better off than our Confederate boys right
now.

but Owen was not fine. Stuck in the trenches of (insert name of battle) he was covered in blood, not all of it his
own, with cannon fire and muskets blazing overhead while he tried desperately to stop his best friend from bleeding
to death. "just hang in there. I'll get you to a medic, I promise" Owen said.
"Don't make promises you can't keep," James replied as he coughed up blood. "I'm done for," he whispered. "Tell my ma I love her."
"Tell her yourself dammit! Don't give up. You can get through this, You're stronger than that!"
but after another heavy coughing fit, James gave one last gasp, and gave up the ghost.
Sick at heart, Owen did the only thing he could. He picked up his gun and turned to begin figting once more.

If my muse hits me over the head again, or I get some feedback, this story snippit might continue. Damn it. With all the stories I have pages and chapters of already, my muse gives me this. It might have been longer, but baby duty calls when it wants to, not when you want it to.
I think I'm going to start posting some of my stories on here.
give me some feedback and let me know what you think.

My weird link of the day

2007-05-31T16:41:02Z

Titled: Lara is not a Porn Star, or How to Make it in Porn Before you were Born

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2007/05/31/violetblue.DTL

Boy, some porn companies are really stupid.

A Whole New Meaning to Being Bugged

2007-05-29T21:07:11Z

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,276182,00.html

BTW it is my birthday today. I am 26. It is a nice day outside, but there will be no party for me. Nothing even resembling a party. I got cheesecake but I will have to eat it all by myself.

Oh well. Kay Sera Sera. (?sp)