Flippy - I Rant, You Read

Sunday, May 24, 2009

late evening

Sometimes college degrees aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on, d’oh!

“we are not illeterates”

Saturday, May 23, 2009

late at night

Ah, now here’s “real concern”  ROFL (with friends like this…)

First, you have lost your mind.  Nancy, if you are so incredibly smart, and just got FM a couple of years ago why don’t you have any money?  Because you have worked a total of 18 months in the past 12years?  Because you could not work because you had to pee to much.  Because you had a headache and could no show up for work and got fired?  You are in your mid 40’s and you have NOTHING.  I am done being nice to you.  You have been in 2 relationships your whole life, the first woman hid you, the second well we can see what happened.  I have been sticking up for you, even with your brothers, feeling sorry for you.  Now you insult me again???  This illiterate girl makes more money in a year that you have made in a life time, no Leigh-Ann’s income does not count.  You don’t have a degree, you have no skills, you have no job, you rely on your very amazing parents to even buy your drugs for you.  Who is the looser? I just feel incredibly sorry for you, I really do.

This was after the “concerned” email where she accused me of being a drug addict.  I guess if I haven’t worked more than 18 months in the past, then the IRS can stop hounding me for the back taxes that I couldn’t afford after my back surgery and the medical bills.  I’ve been fired from one job, and that was due to a made up reason, because I proved their original “reason” was incorrect with stats of what I’d done at my work-from-home job.  It was a job where I made my own hours, so I couldn’t be fired for not showing up.  They said I hadn’t sent out enough “emails”, and frankly, I thought contacting 400+ people in less than a month was pretty decent.  I signed over 400 bloggers to syndication contracts in less than two years, so I wasn’t fired for lack of work product.  That’s it, I’ve never been fired from another job in my whole life.  Not once.  Oh wait, when I worked at a personal injury law firm, my crazy immediate supervisor fired me, then called me five days later to offer me double what I’d been making, in cash, plus an extra $100 bill each week.  After two weeks of the glorious extra cash, I talked to the attorney and said that if I was going to work there, I wanted it to be legal, and I wanted to have benefits.  So, I was hired “back”. 

Gee, and to try to make fun of me for not having a college degree.  Uh, her husband, my brother doesn’t have one either.  Anyway, I went to college for 3.5 years and didn’t know what I wanted to be when I grew up.  So, I went to paralegal school after that and got my paralegal certification.  Bah, whatever, Bill Gates dropped out of college, too.  A college degree is not an indication of intelligence.  Maybe being able to spell “loser” might be though.   Frankly, I still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up, but I know exactly what I DON’T want to be.

By the way, I told my “loving” and “concerned” sister-in-law that I was going to post her emails if she didn’t stop harassing me.  So, she had adequate warning.  By the way, she claimed to know nothing (and I quote, “we don’t know what this hide my whatever is”) about the HideMyAss.com proxy viewing of my blog, but that’s kind of funny because one of the emails she sent me, she had tried to post as a comment on our TiredGirls.com blog, using the email address of .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).  Er, duh, hmamail.com is from HideMyAss.com.  LOL.

It’s not really fair to have a battle of wits with an unarmed woman.  So, I’ll quit, as long as she stops writing harassing emails/comments to both of us.  Otherwise, I’m going to keep airing her dirty laundry on my blog.  I’m not ashamed of my life.  I’m not ashamed of herniating a disk and needing surgery, of ending up with Fibromyalgia, nor of taking pain meds for, well, pain.  It is what it is.  I’ve actually been in more than two relationships, but since she doesn’t know much about me, I’ll let that go because it’s not important.  Yes, one of my partners was closeted for part of our relationship.  It happens.  It’s not easy to be gay in this world, and it was even harder almost 20 years ago.  No, I didn’t like being a secret from part of her family, but the rest of her family knew and even stayed with us on a vacation.  She was closeted at work because she worked in all-male homophobic mysogynistic company.  She was out everywhere else, with our friends, with my family, with part of her family, etc.  Heck, even *I* wasn’t out to my parents at the beginning of our relationship.  It’s scary to come out to people.  So, no, I’m not going abuse my ex for not coming out until she was ready.  That’s how it works.  We all have our own timelines.  As for my relationship now - well, any of you who know us know that we’ve been together very happily for almost 12 years.  Leigh-Ann was jokingly telling someone at the vet’s office that she was going to run off with one of the vet techs there.  (Leigh-Ann and I *both* harmlessly crush on her - hey, she’s cute!)  The woman that she said it to said, “No!  I’ll cry if you and “Flippy” break up.”  They’ve seen us in good times (when we could afford to bring goodies to the office), in the most trying of circumstances (when we’ve had pets die), and just hanging out.  I’ll stack my relationship with Leigh-Ann up against anyone’s relationship.

Mockng a sick person because they haven’t been able to work because they haven’t been able to find a job that is flexible enough, is so classy.  Yes, I need to find a job that will allow me to work from home because I don’t know how I’ll feel from one day to the next.  That’s why my last job, which was actually more than 18 months all by itself, was a commission-only job, which was fine with me.  In fact, that’s perfect.  I work the hours I can, which allows me to make the money I should.  I don’t know if my s-i-l wants me to put up my tax returns where I had one month of making $22,000, followed by the next month of $13,000, then the third month of $12,000.  Yeah, it was pretty awesome to be number one for “massage chair” in Google.   It was a terrific year of earning.  Actually, I may even have the whole year written down, day by day of what I made.  $500 here, $400 there, etc.  True, it’s kind of depressing that I can’t make that now, but life has its ups & downs.  Like when “Miss I Make So Much Money” called me a few months ago because, omigawd, she discovered that her house was going to be foreclosed on in a few DAYS!  Yeah, apparently she’s just swimmin’ in cash.  But, whatever.  I don’t think a good life is based on how much you make, because obviously Britney Spears kicks most of our butts all over the place in earnings.

Being sick sucks all kinds of ass, being poor sucks all kinds of different ass, but my relationship will survive both because money isn’t everything.  It sure would be nice to have some, but I’m no different than many other people with Fibromyalgia who can’t run out and work two jobs, then come home and feed the kids and clean the house.  Due to post-exertional malaise, which can now be accurately measured, doing that for one week would have me bedridden for at least a month.

early afternoon

I guess obsessive reading of my blog is also supposed to be “concern”

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Anyway, thanks to the overwhelming “concern”, after I was starting to feel almost halfway decent (last week, I woke up one morning actually feeling rested, which is the first time that’s happened in at least eight months), and was hopeful that it might continue, the delightfully “concerned” letter and the phone call accusing us of stealing people’s pets & threatening that I’m going to end up a “spinster” (another word that means something other than what you think it means, although I guess it’s true, I am unmarried, at least until my next trip to Canada) put me back in a FM flare.  Lovely.  It makes me so angry that their “concern” makes me physically sick.  That said, after getting up to take the dogs out, I’m going back to bed because I’m exhausted.  David & Ilona, you can take at least several hours off to celebrate being 50, but acting much, much younger, because I’m going to be asleep.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

the wee hours

Idiots of the Day - Our Politicians & Military

This is a copy of my (poorly worded, written late at night, but I just read about this and I’m spittin’ mad!) letter to Sen. Harry Reid and copied to President Obama.

Sen. Reid: It’s absolutely reprehensible that the military would kick Lt. Col. Fehrenbach out (2 years before his full retirement - how convenient…use him for 18 years, then toss him away) because of his sexual orientation.  I cannot believe how backwards this stupid law makes us look. Have you compared the other countries who also kick out their gay servicemembers?  We’re just like Iraq, North Korea, Iran, Saudi Arabia, etc.  Doesn’t that embarrass you, personally?  It should.  We’ve wasted millions of dollars with these witchhunts and we’re WEAKENING our military by kicking out Arabic translators and decorated combat veterans because oooooh, they might have a same-sex boyfriend or girlfriend.  Ewww, cooties.  It’s so stupid.  I’m embarrassed for our country, for our president, for our senate and congress.  We’re no better than those we fight against.  We’re facing trillions in debt, yet we’re wasting money investigating honorable members of the military because of what they do in their private lives.  It’s disgusting.  Every single senator and congressman should hang their heads in shame.  President Obama, although he wasn’t responsible for this law, owes it to those who voted him into office, those who didn’t discriminate based on his color, to stop the military from discriminating based on orientation.  While he didn’t “promise” to end DADT, he said that he “thought” he could end it.  He hasn’t even seemed to try.  He should be ashamed as well.  The whole lot of you, letting the military act like children who are afraid of cooties.  How embarrassing for a modern military - afraid that their members might be gay.  It’s fine and dandy to torture prisoners, but the fear of gay men and women is just too much to handle, huh? Nancy XXXX “Lieutenant Colonel Victor J. Fehrenbach, a fighter weapons systems officer, has been flying the F-15E Strike Eagle since 1998. He has flown numerous missions against Taliban and al-Qaida targets, including the longest combat mission in his squadron’s history. On that infamous September 11, 2001, Lt. Col. Fehrenbach was handpicked to fly sorties above the nation’s capital. Later he flew combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has received at least 30 awards and decorations including nine air medals, one of them for heroism, as well as campaign medals for Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq. He is now a flight instructor in Idaho, where he has passed on his skills to more than 300 future Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force weapons systems officers. Since 1987, when Fehrenbach entered Notre Dame on a full Air Force ROTC scholarship, the government has invested twenty-five million dollars in training and equipping him to serve his country, which he has done with what anyone would agree was great distinction. He comes from a military family. His father was a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, his mother an Air Force nurse and captain. Lt. Col. Fehrenbach has honored that tradition.” - Aubrey Sarvis, Executive Director Servicemembers Legal Defense Network

Monday, April 13, 2009

the wee hours

Tonsillitis - Go Away!  (Added Bonus:  People I Don’t Understand)

I’m getting tired of having tonsillitis.  It used to be that I’d just get it once every few years or so, but I think this is the third time in the past six months.  Enough!  I had the swollen gland in my neck for a few days before my throat started hurting, and it’s only swollen on one side, yet both tonsils are affected.  Hmmm.  I have no idea what that means, other than it’s gross to look in the mirror with a flashlight to see pus on your tonsils.  The last time I had it, I got antibiotics from my doctor, but I think I’ll see if I can wait it out this time.  It’s supposed to go away within four days or so, and I’m already on day three or four.  I don’t think it’s going to instantly be gone when I wake up tomorrow.  Frankly, I’m just plain tired of being sick, in one way or another.  Plus, my internet connection has been really lousy for the past couple of days, so if I AM going to be sick, then I want my speedy connection back.  It seems only fair, right?

Hey, I have something funny (not funny haha, funny strange) to tell you guys.  We discovered that we’ve been accused of abusing our pets…wait, wait, you’ll love the quality reasoning behind this - because we get vet care for our pets.  Yes, that’s abusing them and ruining their lives, getting healthcare for them.  I guess we’re supposed to take them into the back forty and shoot them or something.  Because yeah, getting antibiotics to take care of a cat or dog’s bladder infection is just cruel and inhuman.  Of course, this comes from the same sharp minds accusing me of faking being sick and of having my back surgery for, uh, I’m not sure why, just that I supposedly didn’t need it.  Geez, so now, not only do I fake my own illness, I (or maybe Leigh-Ann?) fake illness/injuries for the pets?  It’s so weird.  Do we just have our doctors and vets fooled, too, so they treat the whole household for imaginary things?  Actually, I’m not sure if we’re inventing the pets’ illnesses or if we’re just not supposed to get them treated…because it’s, uh, “cruel”.  So, so, so, so incredibly weird.  Do they think the same way about their kids?  That if they get sick, they shouldn’t take them to the doctor to get treated?  Is it a huge lack of empathy for other living things?  Or is it that pets aren’t supposed to be treated like a member of the family?  I really don’t get it.  And, honestly, I don’t think I even want to get it. 

I can’t imagine not taking a sick pet to the vet.  We have older pets who have arthritis and they live normal lives by taking meds to help their arthritis, just like people do.  You don’t kill off your kid/parent/sibling because they’re achy when they wake up in the morning - you give them something to help them feel better, like Rimadyl for dogs or Celebrex for people.  This is so bizarre and rambly because I don’t even know how to approach a defense for the weird accusation that we take our pets to the vet when they get sick or injured.  My response is basically, “Well, yeah, duh.”  Sick pets deserve treatment just like sick people do.  Yeah, sometimes we can’t afford to pay for expensive cancer treatment for our pets, but they also don’t have county hospitals for pets where they can be treated now and billed later.  So, if the accusation is that I treat my pets like I would my children - guilty as charged.  Fortunately, all of my friends are the same way, so I don’t feel the slightest bit misunderstood in my circle of friends.  They’re people who are willing to get surgery on an elderly dog so that it’ll feel better in its last years; people who did everything humanly possible to save their cat, including Sub-Q fluids and a multitude of meds; people who have their elderly dogs on Rimadyl so the dog can still get around and enjoy life with its family…all the same things you would hope that they would do for you, if they were responsible for your care.