Accentuate The Positive
► I love French Onion Sun Chips. They're a much better alternative to potato chips since they're much easier on my stomach (no more greasy chip fueled diarrhea). Sure I miss salt & vinegar chips, but I can live without them.
► Home for just 2 days and the drama is killing me. Dean missed all of last week and now this week from work. She's seemingly spiraling into a bipolar mania infused breakdown, and I don't think I can keep things together. She missed one day, which caused her to freak out about repercussions at work, so she panicked and missed another day, and so on, and so on. It's becoming a massive mess where she keeps digging herself deeper and deeper into a hole. I'm feeling drained and worn out by the whole thing because I'm basically chained to her. She's now missed 2 weeks of work, so less 2 paychecks, so now she's back into money trouble. If she loses her job, we lose the apartment, and I have no where to live.
I'm now stressed and exhausted, but have to keep playing cheerleader and faithful supporter because I can't risk upsetting her more than she is. This would be a lot easier if she wasn't also short tempered and constantly telling me, the agoraphobic with panic disorder, that I just don't understand what she's going through.
Sometimes I want to run away. Unfortunately I'd have to leave the apartment to do that. Foiled again.
...maybe we'll win the $40 million dollar Lotto Max draw tomorrow night. It could happen!
► While Dean has been a mess most of today, she seemed to be much better yesterday and the day before (when I got home). As such, I wasn't that concerned yesterday, and when I saw a crap load of art auctions on Ebay I went ape shit and ended up bidding on 13 of them. Six of the auctions are from a Japanese based artist named Daikon, and the other seven are from the art dealer I've bought the most stuff from this summer (including the 2 Jean Grey drawings I posted this week).
I low-ball bid on the DaiKon drawings, and have already been out-bid on 3. More than likely I'll be outbid on the other 3 before those auctions end tomorrow night. Of the 7 other drawings, my win percentage has recently taken a nose dive, and while I'm the sole bidder on all 7 of the drawings at the moment, with 4 days left to go I expect to lose all of them spectacularly.
It's possible I might win one or two of the 13 drawings, but I'm not so sure. We'll see what the damage is on Monday evening when the final auctions end.
► Jessica Rabbit Premium Format Figure Gallery - Add this to my ever-growing list of Things I Would Like To Have But Likely Won't Be Able To Get.
► E.T. researchers blast Cowboys & Aliens for getting aliens wrong - What are they, the Alien Anti-Defamation League?
► Super Punch: Peanuts/Jaws mashup - This is just adorable.
► The 10 Worst Sci-Fi Films of All Time - I cry bullshit! The Core was a really fun, entertaining and solid B-movie. It wasn't bad at all! Actually, as mediocre as most of the movies on this list are, they're hardly the worst Sci-Fi movies of all time. Me thinks the author has too much hyperbole to go along with his much too short memory.
► Cracked: 6 Beloved Characters That Had Undiagnosed Mental Illnesses - As usual, I think they're really stretching with Belle and Ariel, but I agree wholeheartedly about Scarlett O'Hara. I actually always thought she had Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
The idea of Sherlock Holmes being either Autistic or having Asperger's always struck me as silly. In the past few years there seems to be an incredibly push by people with Asperger's to try to claim historical and fictional characters of note as their own. Much like how the Gay and Lesbian community had done before. I've always thought Sherlock more likely had clinical depression, and that his "addiction" to cocaine has been greatly exaggerated in recent years, especially since in the stories he always abruptly stops using it when he has a new case to occupy his mind. But I guess a character who only uses drugs recreationally and with seemingly no side effect isn't acceptable.
► CONAN on TBS: James Franco's Sex Tape Disaster - Conan's reaction is priceless.
Quote of the Moment
Philip: Just remember that in every pothole there is hope. Well, you see, pothole is spelled P-O-T-H-O-L-E. So if you take the P, and add it to the H, the O, and the E, and rearrange the letters... or contrariwise, you remove the O, T, and the L, you get "hope". So, just remember, in every pothole there is hope!
- Mixed Nuts (1994)
Drinking: Orange Crush & water
Eating: French Onion Sun Chips
► Home for just 2 days and the drama is killing me. Dean missed all of last week and now this week from work. She's seemingly spiraling into a bipolar mania infused breakdown, and I don't think I can keep things together. She missed one day, which caused her to freak out about repercussions at work, so she panicked and missed another day, and so on, and so on. It's becoming a massive mess where she keeps digging herself deeper and deeper into a hole. I'm feeling drained and worn out by the whole thing because I'm basically chained to her. She's now missed 2 weeks of work, so less 2 paychecks, so now she's back into money trouble. If she loses her job, we lose the apartment, and I have no where to live.
I'm now stressed and exhausted, but have to keep playing cheerleader and faithful supporter because I can't risk upsetting her more than she is. This would be a lot easier if she wasn't also short tempered and constantly telling me, the agoraphobic with panic disorder, that I just don't understand what she's going through.
Sometimes I want to run away. Unfortunately I'd have to leave the apartment to do that. Foiled again.
...maybe we'll win the $40 million dollar Lotto Max draw tomorrow night. It could happen!
► While Dean has been a mess most of today, she seemed to be much better yesterday and the day before (when I got home). As such, I wasn't that concerned yesterday, and when I saw a crap load of art auctions on Ebay I went ape shit and ended up bidding on 13 of them. Six of the auctions are from a Japanese based artist named Daikon, and the other seven are from the art dealer I've bought the most stuff from this summer (including the 2 Jean Grey drawings I posted this week).
I low-ball bid on the DaiKon drawings, and have already been out-bid on 3. More than likely I'll be outbid on the other 3 before those auctions end tomorrow night. Of the 7 other drawings, my win percentage has recently taken a nose dive, and while I'm the sole bidder on all 7 of the drawings at the moment, with 4 days left to go I expect to lose all of them spectacularly.
It's possible I might win one or two of the 13 drawings, but I'm not so sure. We'll see what the damage is on Monday evening when the final auctions end.
► Jessica Rabbit Premium Format Figure Gallery - Add this to my ever-growing list of Things I Would Like To Have But Likely Won't Be Able To Get.
► E.T. researchers blast Cowboys & Aliens for getting aliens wrong - What are they, the Alien Anti-Defamation League?
► Super Punch: Peanuts/Jaws mashup - This is just adorable.
► The 10 Worst Sci-Fi Films of All Time - I cry bullshit! The Core was a really fun, entertaining and solid B-movie. It wasn't bad at all! Actually, as mediocre as most of the movies on this list are, they're hardly the worst Sci-Fi movies of all time. Me thinks the author has too much hyperbole to go along with his much too short memory.
► Cracked: 6 Beloved Characters That Had Undiagnosed Mental Illnesses - As usual, I think they're really stretching with Belle and Ariel, but I agree wholeheartedly about Scarlett O'Hara. I actually always thought she had Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
The idea of Sherlock Holmes being either Autistic or having Asperger's always struck me as silly. In the past few years there seems to be an incredibly push by people with Asperger's to try to claim historical and fictional characters of note as their own. Much like how the Gay and Lesbian community had done before. I've always thought Sherlock more likely had clinical depression, and that his "addiction" to cocaine has been greatly exaggerated in recent years, especially since in the stories he always abruptly stops using it when he has a new case to occupy his mind. But I guess a character who only uses drugs recreationally and with seemingly no side effect isn't acceptable.
► CONAN on TBS: James Franco's Sex Tape Disaster - Conan's reaction is priceless.
Click to viewQuote of the Moment
Philip: Just remember that in every pothole there is hope. Well, you see, pothole is spelled P-O-T-H-O-L-E. So if you take the P, and add it to the H, the O, and the E, and rearrange the letters... or contrariwise, you remove the O, T, and the L, you get "hope". So, just remember, in every pothole there is hope!
- Mixed Nuts (1994)
Drinking: Orange Crush & water
Eating: French Onion Sun Chips