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[cleolinda]

This entry is long-delayed because the Reign of Unemployed Terror has officially started. Actually, today was pretty good--Mom went to some kind of networking meeting and got to be with other people in the same situation and came back bright-eyed and bushy-resuméed. The problem was the three days before that--a swamp of intra-family tension, resentment, houseguests, longterm feuds and housecleaning. I am serious: she has announced her intention to scour the entire house. As for the feuds, well, my sister and my stepfather have never gotten along and I doubt they ever will. The houseguests, at least, have gone.

So, let's tote up our latest round of trials and tribulations, shall we?

>> Pthoolhu secreted a colony of "subterranean ants" ("Even worse than carpenter ants!" Which sounds so marketing-department to me. "Thicker thoraxes! Chewier mandibles! Bigger leaks and repair bills than ever before!") in the deck surrounding the pool. He still lurks under the last two feet of sludge that we haven't pumped out yet.

>> Mom's glasses broke.

>> Sister Girl has a cracked and infected tooth, while two wisdom teeth are attempting to make the beast with two molars, or something.

>> So I'm up with her at three o'clock this morning and she's sobbing on my floor because she's had four Advil and twelve Aleve over the course of the night and the pain is STILL so bad--right on the nerves--that she can't see straight, and she has to go to Panera at five because it's just her and the brand-new manager on the busiest morning of the week (Tuesday? Who knew?), and I'm just sitting there in my computer chair, for an hour, trying to calm her down because I can think of nothing to do to help her.

>> Also, she needs braces.

>> Again.

I am reeeeeally hoping beyond hope that we will be able to go see the movie tomorrow, because I really, really need to see stuff blow up at this point.

Meanwhile, for some reason, I am totally obsessed with the last Garbage album, which came out however many eons ago. I liked "Run Baby Run" and, to a lesser extent, "Metal Heart" immediately, but the rest of the songs left me cold. This may be because, while I do like guitars a lot, my favorite CD of theirs is Version 2.0, with is a lot more techno-dancy (I fell in love with "Temptation Waits" immediately). But even on that one, which I felt was nearly perfect at the time, it still took me months to appreciate "Hammering in My Head," which I love now. I think Bleed Like Me just kind of overwhelmed me with the guitar-harsh at first, and it took a spontaneous urge to listen to the whole thing several times over the other day for me to get it. And now I love "It's All Over But the Crying" and the way Shirley Manson says, "Do you really think I'm made of stone, baby, come on," and "Why Do You Love Me" ("WHY! DO! YOU! LOOOVE ME!"), and "Bad Boyfriend," even though I kept listening to it and not getting it, and then this morning I was just like, "Holy shit, this is awesome!" So I do, at least, have this going for me at the moment.



Patriot Act Game Pokes Fun at Government. "The object of the game is not to amass the most money or real estate, but to be the last player to retain civil liberties. 'I've had people complain to me that when they play, nobody wins. They say "We're all in Guantanamo and nobody has any civil liberties left," ' he said. 'I'm like 'Yeah, that's the point.' "

aliaspiral: "Pancake Meow stuff is cute, but im still wildly in love with the plushies at My Paper Crane. Seriously, i fell so in love, i iconned the smore. *points* "

vampirepig13: "I don't know why the scented dessert jewelry thing put me in mind of this -- I guess it was just the cuteness factor -- but I feel the need to whore these adorable plushies: Kristin Tercek's Cuddly Rigor Mortis line. I guess I should have done this around Halloween, since they're spooky-themed plushes, but what the hey. She has a livejournal, too, and she's uber-nice." TOO. CUTE.

Your Old Skeletor Doll Day! Heeeeeeee. Today's entry is also good.

Navy Exchanges Fire With Suspected Pirates.

The battle to ban birth control.

Oh, some awesome batshit. A group of fans approach you at a charity sporting event and present you with a box of sex toys. What do you do? Accounts still differ as to how Michael Rosenbaum really feels about it, but a wanky time is had by all (as it were).

"Help me, CuteOverload—you're my only hope!"

Vote for the greatest living British writer. Again: destined to end in tears.

Chapter One of Diane Duane's "The Big Meow" is now online for free viewing.

"Kevin Federline Has Officially Gone INSANE."

Mystery Dada Tomato Threats at Neil Gaiman's journal: "Are they real lawyers? The kind who went to law school?Are they actually billing someone for writing these 'take down your non-existent link to an unspecified website' letters? Is it an internet prank? Are they perhaps surrealist lawyers, or cooler than that, Dada lawyers, who have decided to spread artistic confusion and mystery with their 'legal letters'? The plot thickens ("Disappointingly not Dada at all...") when it turns out that the lawyers are just idiots, and a separate, completely uninvolved lawyer suggests that Gaiman shouldn't link to Rotten Tomatoes, the movie review site, either, because someone might come after him for that, leading us to the astonishing conclusion that there are two law firms who think that linking to things on the internet is "bad," rather than "the point of the whole damn enterprise in the first place."

Comments

[spadix.livejournal.com]

*huggles* wisdom teeth and glasses breaking sucks :( I hope everything starts to go better.

[palmetto.livejournal.com]

She should try tylenol and ibuprofen together. Two extra strength tylenol and three or four ibuprofen. Aleve didn't do anything for me when my wisdom teeth went bad.

She should also be careful and get in to get her teeth taken care of soon. I took so much ibuprofen that I almost had an ulcer.

[rebel-waltz.livejournal.com]

i like that K-Fed is kind of the Vanilla Ice of my generation(at least i think it's mine, i'm 19) becase he's 390349842x worse.

[spectralbovine.livejournal.com]

Have you heard "Badass," one of the B-sides off that album? It rocks muchly. If you want, I can YSI it.

[scornedsaint.livejournal.com]

Cleo, I am so sorry about the Reign of Unemployment. Hug your sister for us.

(Thanks for linking to the Greatest Living British Writer Poll. Le Carre made it on there!)

[arpeggiodreams.livejournal.com]

I just downloaded obtained a bunch of Garbage songs. It's quite sad that version 2.0 came out when I was 10, and I distinctly rememer Sleep Together being one of my favorite songs. And I knew what it meant.

And! OMGOMGOMG so much snuggly love!

[arpeggiodreams.livejournal.com]

Oh, and your decants will be going out tomorrow.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

*checks* I do have it, yay! Another one I need to listen to.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Holy crap, I was in high school when their first album came out. I AM SO OLD.

(You got it, then?)

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Sorry you guys are having such a hard time of it. Hope things get better, as usual.

I love the Shub-Niggurath-- it smells like a cross between hot cinnamon candies and oatmeal raisin cookies on me, depending on how far my nose is from my wrist. Thanks!

Oh, and I had an amusing cat-vacuuming incident today:
http://particle-person.livejournal.com/43894.html

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Oh, and is there an easy way to open imps that does not involve keyboard-monitor oil spills? The cap kind of popped off on me.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Not really. You just have to be very, very careful--I haven't really found an easy way to do it.

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

Speaking of weird toys, have you seen the microbe plushies?! (http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/plush/6708/images/)

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Have you seen the stuffed kiwa hirsuta (http://www.mediatinker.com/blog/archives/009547.html#009547)?

[missmp.livejournal.com]

My sentiments exactly.

[punkiejeannien.livejournal.com]

if you guys have a doctor friend who calls things in, tell her she should try to get voltaren-- it's a painkiller similar to aleeve that works really well, and isn't really too expensive either (even without insurance!)

hope the tooth gets better, god I feel her pain so much...

[sea-of-tethys.livejournal.com]

*hugs* So sorry to hear about everything that's going on. That sounds hardcore nasty.

[scarlettfish.livejournal.com]

Bleed Like Me is definitely one of those albums that grows on you. When I first listened to it I was all 'huh'. But now I am madly in love with you - particularly Metal Heart, which I love like crazy.

[pescivendolo.livejournal.com]

Damn. Poor Sister Girl. Has she been to a dentist? If not, she should go IMMEDIATELY because if it's infected the only thing that's going to make it better is a root canal or a yanking. And antibiotics in the mean time. And a dentist could numb it up for a day and give her much better pain pills.

Trust me. Happened to me just (http://pescivendolo.livejournal.com/313499.html) last (http://pescivendolo.livejournal.com/313978.html) week (http://pescivendolo.livejournal.com/314242.html). Broken tooth, infection, 10 out of 10 pain, crying on the floor, dentist, numbing, root canal scheduled for April, antibiotics, Vicodin. And now thanks to the antibiotics I'm peachy. Haven't even had to use the Vicodin in about 4 or 5 days. Oh, but make sure she counts the pain pills before leaving the pharmacy (http://pescivendolo.livejournal.com/314428.html).

[bigeyedrabbit.livejournal.com]

Oh. Oh. Four Advil and twelve Aleve and still in pain. Poor Sister Girl.

I hated Garbage for the longest time and then I started listening to them on Pandora (http://pandora.com) and something cracked inside me and now I am one of Shirley Manson's biggest fangirls. ;)

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

LOL.

[bardintraining.livejournal.com]

I never really gave Garbage a chance until about one or two weeks ago when I stumbled across on of their songs. Now they fill a good percentage of the iPod.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Oh, she went to the orthodontist yesterday (after which the pain suddenly got really bad), and we got her to the dentist as soon as he could fit her in today.

(That's really weird about your pills. Not that someone took them, but that the pharmacy was like, "Oh, those. Yeah, we'll... get you some more.")

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Which song sucked you in?

[eyespaintedred.livejournal.com]

while two wisdom teeth are attempting to make the beast with two molars, or something.

So, so very funny. *wipes away tears* Sorry for all the trials and tribulations, though at least it's not boils again.