Saturday, April 12th

Meh.

I suddenly have the urge to redesign this page. Haven't decided what to use tho....

Well, as usual, I lead a boring life, so there isn't a whole lot to report when it comes right down to it.

I seem to have managed to fix the keyboard problem I was having, which is a good thing cause seriously.... talk about insanely frustrating. I was ready to chuck it out the window and be done with it. The problem apparently has to do with typing too fast. Which is kind of funny cause I'm really not all that fast, maybe 60-70 wpm.

Anyway....

Still up to our eyeballs with dogs. Clyde almost had a home but the family had a bit of an emergency and it fell thru. *sigh* We have Zoe (Chloe) back again. Good grief I usually just want to strangle that dog. What a handful. We've started calling her Hurricane Chloe.

I finished my first built-at-home corset.... sadly I am not a good seamstress. But I did learn a lot about what to do and not to do. Also found a few good pointers. Not sure when I'll attempt the next one. Have some really great fabric for it, but it's a tad pricey and I really dont' want to start cutting on it till I know exactly what's going on.

A few sucky calls lately. There are people you meet that you really wonder how they managed to make it to adulthood. But last night I managed to dodge a baby bullet.... by like 7 min. Heh, wasn't going to complain about that.

The nephew turns a year old this week. Holy cow it doesn't seem like that long ago he was born. Feeling really, really old.

Been working on my Emma Frost costume. I think I have most everything right now except the corset itself. Still trying to decide whose corset to use. My thigh0high hooker boots are a tad delayed due to a mix up with the company I ordered them from. They sent the wrong boots and they are slow as shit about fixing things. If I hadn't gotten them for less than 20 bucks I'd be really ticked!

Apparently I might be out of a job July 1. Long story but basically the hospital service I work for is, as always, having money problems. So the solution for the politicians is to close the EMS dept. Go figure. *sigh* We'll see. Going to take the advice of a friend and not worry about it until May 15.... finding a new job shouldn't be terribly difficult... but it's still a PITA.

Well, that's all I've got for now... trying to decide what layout to do for this page next.... Night all.
Labrynth on 04.12.08 @ 08:05 PM EST [link]

Tuesday, March 4th

Engineers & Blondes

The bf told me this joke and it cracked me up.... of course any engineer joke is usually funny....

Two engineers were standing next to a flag pole trying to decide the best way to figure out how tall it is. They had been tossing around ideas for a while when a blonde walks up.

"What are you guys doing?" she asked.

"We're trying to figure out how tall this flag pole is," one replied.

The blonde looked at the pole a second and shrugged. "That's easy." SH e drops her back pack to the ground, rummages around and comes out with a wrench. She unscrews the bolts at the bottom of the flag pole, lays it down on the ground and measures it. "It's 23 feet long." She puts her tools away and walks off, satisfied with a job well done.

The engineers look at each other and laugh. "Stupid blonde, she told us how long it was not how tall it is."

Labrynth on 03.04.08 @ 01:30 PM EST [link]

Thursday, January 24th

More Angel season 5 comments

Smile Time

Ok, I liked the continuity with Nina. It's nice to know they were paying attention at least somewhat.

Kind of funny to watch Angel get hit on and not realize it. Interesting to see Wes note the true happiness and how unlikely it would be for it to happen again. The shipper in me wants to feel that he's also hinting that it would never happen with anyone except Buffy.

Was laughing at the blood habit and baggage comment he made. He's got baggage and he knows it. How much of it begins with Buffy?

Aw Wes likes Fred and he's too damn stupid to pay attention. The “Talk about dense” like made me smile. Men are never big on signals.

Also nice to see they haven't forgotten vamp strength with the lock thing. We saw Buffy lose some of her Slayer-ness a few times... like they seemed to have forgotten all the things she could do.

Ok, the “Stupid plastic piece of crap” line made me laugh, but honestly puppet Angel was just silly. David did nice voice work IMO, but I just couldn't take any of it seriously. The scene of him walking out with the sword and the dramatic music mostly just made me roll my eyes.

ROFL at Lorne's “Muppet pumpkin”

“Wee little puppet man” yet Spike still got his ass kicked. Heh.

Interesting to see the boss being controlled by the puppets. A twist I didn't see coming.

LOL at the “Short bus bastards” line

The “We eat babies lives” was a little chill worthy. Ouch.

Bad Nina... don't eat Angel, stupid little puppet or no...

Ok seriously, the dying Angel puppet thing was just asinine. Tho the “Is there a Gippetto (Sorry don't know how to spell it) in the house” about made me wet myself.

We all knew Gunn had changed but I guess we're seeing more of it. It's not just the upgrade either. They should have played the scary foreshadowing music when the Doc is making a deal with him. I mean Duh. It's too bad Gunn allows his weaknesses to be played on like that, but I guess we've seen it on more than one occasion. He fears being “muscle” so much. It seems that Gunn spends a lot of time worrying about what he isn't instead of worrying about what he is.

Poor Fred, “I'm looking at-” She's trying.

Hee! Stupid puppet fingers indeed.

Ok seriously, the whole “Let's take out some puppets” was again just so damn silly and cheesy I couldn't take it seriously.

Tear you a new puppet hole. *snerk* Sounds like something from Greg the Bunny.

I've got a lot of demon in me. Puppet vamp, still just silly. Tho interesting to see Angel talking about that side again.

Maybe Angel understands that breakfast and a crush don't mean he has to fall into bed with her, or even love her. Poor Angel never had has much luck in love... every woman he's loved has treated him like shit or he's tried to kill her.

Minimal Spike is always good. I never thought I'd see the day when I'd say such a thing. *sigh* Heh. He still got his ass kicked by a puppet.

So, Fred grows a pair and goes after what she wants. And again with the doomed foreshadowing music....

I think if I hadn't had some of the basics about this eppy (Or the season in general) I might have enjoyed it more. Not that it was bad, just over the top cheesy in some places. It made some good points and had some character growth I liked seeing, but I guess I didn't love it as much as so many others did.


A Hole in the World

Ok the whole firey romantic thing was almost as cringe worthy as pancake kisses.

LOL at the “You just like stabbing me”

It was nice to see Wes ask Gunn how he felt about it, also nice to see Gunn ok it but still care enough about Fred to take offense if she got hurt. I actually felt like they were friends again here.

WTF? Cavemen vs Astronauts? Ok, the fact they were actually ARGUING over it was laughable, but yeesh. The mind boggles trying to decide how that conversation even got started. Tho it also goes to show just how easy they push one another's buttons.

Ok, it doesn't show but I sense Knox is bitter...

Hmmm, maybe Angel realizes he and Spike will just keep tearing each other down. Snickered at the “You mean we annoy other people” like from Spike. I got the feeling that Angel trying to get Spike to leave wasn't all about just wanting to get rid of him. Perhaps he realizes there is some self destruction happening there as well? One can hope...

The look on Lorne's face when Fred sings those few words was chilling. I think he knew right then she was going to die.

Spike obviously likes and cares for Fred. This is the first time in a number of seasons that I liked him. For once he didn't have an ulterior motive for wanting to help her. He just truly wanted to help. Kind of reminds me how he seemed to feel about Joyce.

Why is she still in her regular clothes in the hospital bed? Sorry, just curious. It stuck out like a sore thumb for me.

LOL at Wes shooting the guy. The idiot has obviously never actually MET Wes to think he wouldn't be working on Fred's case.

Huh, still up in the air on what I think about Gunn with the Conduit.

So, the Senior Partners already own Gunn. How much of him do they already own exactly and can he get it back? (When the demon takes your body it doesn't get your soul. That's gone...)

Lorne is obviously growing darker. I'm not sure exactly what prompted this exactly but we can see the dip at the top of the hill for him here. I didn't have a big problem with him hitting Eve, again he cares deeply for Fred, but the line about killing her himself.... Dunno. Lorne from yesterday would have been content to let Angel kill her I think.

So we're back to the original demon. Interesting. And they apparently killed each other off left and right. Also interesting.

The source books can find anything. Huh, I wonder if Wes really understood the power of those things.

Fred is still obviously VERY haunted by Pylea. I wouldn't be surprised to have learned she still had nightmares about it. She is also haunted by the feeling of helplessness she obviously experienced.

Watching Fred lose her memories was so sad. Knowing you were dying is bad, but losing the memories that are near and dear to you is worse.

What book is Wes reading to her? I assume it's a classic of some kind, but I didn't recognize it.

LOL Ok, I don't know if it's David or Mike, but someone get those boys a new sword pose. Whichever one it is always uses the same one initially.

Knox worships it? Heh, Gunn's gonna kick some ass....

Why does the Guardian of the Well not like Spike? I mean I realize he's annoying, but for someone who hasn't been able to lie for what I'm betting is a good number of centuries, he seems to take specific offense to Spike. Just interesting....

So, Knox chose Fred. Huh. Did Illyria have some kind of Shanshu prophecy? Is this something they should have seen coming? If it's predestined, shouldn't it be written somewhere?

As first Fred's comment about the cavemen winning seems vaguely amusing, but then you start to wonder about the Shanshu prophecy and the ongoing battle between Angel and Spike. Foreshadowing?

So LA is where Illyria's kingdown had been. Another Hellmouth maybe?

Wow, Gunn is taking it hard that this whole mess comes back to him. And once again he kills for Fred.

I'm intrigued by something that might be older than the concept of time. Is there anything else out there that fits into that category? The First? Which reminds me.... is The First dead because they closed the Hellmouth, or is it just trapped? It seems like you couldn't kill something that is kind of the source for all things evil. Sorry... tanget...

Ok, so I understand the concept that Illyria will basically drag anything down with it in order not to be stuck in the coffin again, but why can't they just bring Fred there? Then no people have to be in the way. Unless I'm missing something with the concept.

We saw Buffy make the choice to save Willow by trading the Box of Gavrock once and questioned if she was making the right choice. Now we see Angel being forced to make a disturbingly similar choice. And like Buffy he chooses to save his friend, his family.

Fred's line “I walk with heroes” seems like a big of foreshadowing as well.

“There's a hole in the world. Seems like we should have known about this.” Again I'm taken back to if this was written somewhere.

So, Wes admits he's loved her since he's known her. Not a bad thing, just something we've all suspected I guess.

“Why can't I stay?” was the most painful line. Amy gave a very nice performance and deserves to be recognized for it.

Again since I was spoiled in part for this (Not the episode in particular, but the death of Fred and Gunn's involvement), I'm sure I ended up not liking it as much. I was never a big spoiler person. For once I actually liked Spike and wanted to see him kick the crap out of something. Amy gave a fantastic performance and we got to see that Knox was as slimey as he felt. Angel is willing to sacrifice anything for a friend and we're still going to be left to wonder if he made the right choice. Buffy stopped the Mayor at the end, but at what price? And we see that Gunn is slipping. The dark side that WR&H used to manipulate him is being brought out full force. And Wes finally got what he wanted after so long to have it ripped away rather cruelly.


Labrynth on 01.24.08 @ 12:51 PM EST [link]

Sunday, January 6th

There are days when my job sucks beyond the telling of it.

22 year old female who gave birth 6 days ago. She's in the bathroom bathing her other child when she starts screaming for her mother saying her chest hurts and she can't breathe. I get there and she's very lethargic, not talking. Get her to the truck and she stops breathing. Head for the hospital and she goes into full arrest. By the sounds of it she had a massive pulmonary embolism. They worked her quite a while at the hospital but ended up calling her about 30 min after we got there.

The only positive thing about the whole damn call was that was my first successful intubation in the field (not that I've had a ton of opportunities). And considering a baby now doesn't have his mother it's a pretty hollow positive.
Labrynth on 01.06.08 @ 02:30 PM EST [link]

Sunday, December 16th

Nothing interesting

Yeah, I know I haven't posted anything worth looking at in a while. Can't help it. Lots of chaos as usual. And to top it all off my keyboard went nutso a while back and started added strange things into everything I typed. No really, I don't type well but I don't usually toss a lot of extra A's or S's or even spaces into everything. Not as a general rule anyway.

That being said.... hmmm where to start.

Well work is.... work. Apparently a lot of folks were defecting to another company so they gave us all an across the board raise and a retention bonus, which is nice and all but I'm not sure it's enough to make me stay quite frankly. This 4 day a week shift is killing me. I lose too much money on it. I did have an offer to switch back to a night shift but it's also 4 days a week. Of course I'd at least get some of my shift diff back which would be nice. That $300 a paycheck drop was a little on the painful side. But anyway, I haven't decided if I want to take it because it's Thursday, Friday, Sat, Sun..... which means I work all weekend and that kind of makes it hard to do the things we usually do on weekends. Like grocery shop. I guess this is why most of us hook up with firefighters, officers or other healthcare personnel.... we all work strange shifts. None of us get the luxury of working a normal person's shift. Not that I'd go back to five days a week. I'd have to smother myself with a pillow.

Christmas is less than two weeks away and we still haven't managed to actually put up the tree yet. Just too damn busy lately. I'm hoping we can get it up today just so I can have a place for all the presents I currently have stashed in my office closet.

The Sunday after Thanksgiving we picked up two dogs. Clifford and Clyde. Both very sweet. Clyde was in pretty good health all things considered. Just a little skinny and he had intestinal worms. Not that that was a big surprise or anything. Clifford however, is not in the best of health. Aside from being VERY underweight and having intestinal worms, he is also heartworm positive. VERY heartworm positive. As in the vet won't give him the usual treatment because he has too many adult worms in his system and it would kill him. Comforting eh? We're treating him slowly instead, so he will probably be heartworm positive for a year or more, but he does have a chance of getting rid of them. Unfortunately he's also been showing some aggression signs, which is not a good thing. Right now we don't know if it's directly only at poor Clyde, but if he's going to be dog aggressive period then he is going to have to be put down. All of this after we've already spent about a thousand dollars we don't have to treat him and make him feel better. *sigh* Why can't I ever rescue a cheap dog? The poor bf had to sacrifice his half of the garage so we could build a kennel in there for the both of them. They aren't allowed to mix with the general population. In a few days (He just got neutered) I'm hoping Clyde can come out and play with them cause at 9 months old (And 70! pounds) he really needs some play time. We still don't have a place for them yet unfortunately. This time of year is really hard on rescues as they end up crazy full due to the idiots wanting to get rid of their dogs so they can have Christmas vacation. Did I mention idiots? And since Clifford is 8 years old and is HW+, most rescues don't want to deal with him. Still not sure what we're going to do because we're really not set up to deal with them both long term. I swear I'm going to start sitting on the corner with a can and ask for donations for the damn vet bills.

Buttercup the pit bull keeps getting hot spots on her tail. What a fiasco. The first one she got she wouldn't let us near it so she had to go to the vet and get sedated so it could be shaved and cleaned up. No, really. I said sedated. Stupid dog. She's got one on the very tip of her tail now, so I had to cut the hair away so I cold get to it. LOL it looks ridiculous now. She's also managed to get one kind of at the base of her tail which is much harder to get to since you can't really clip away the hair there the same way as the tip. We're trying to stay on top of them so they don't get as back as the first one. I told the bf if she's here for Christmas then I think she's just ours. She's been with us for almost a year now.

Had a candle party that was mediocre at best. Sold stuff but the turn out was slim. Kind of disappointing.

My nephew is getting bigger and bigger everyday. He has teeth now! And damn is he cute. Not that I'm biased or anything.

Finished The Darkest Evening of the Year by Koontz last week. Was happy to see rescue represented very well. If even a half dozen people take away some information from that book it will be amazing.

E miscarried again. *sigh* That makes twice at nearly the same time. She's going in for some tests to see if there is a physical reason for it. She took it really hard. I wish there was something I could do for her but unfortunately at this point I guess it's all just words.

Grandpa is going blind. Which is pretty much killing him I think. He's always read several books a week and now he can't even do that. My uncle set him up with some audio books, which seems to be helping some. I finally found kind of an audio books Netflix so I think I will probably sign him up for that and pay for the first year for him. My uncle can fill in books as needed and that way he shouldn't run out of them. I'd die if all I could do was sit and stare at the walls.

I still haven't gotten the tulip bulbs I bought LAST year planted. So damn busy with everything I haven't had the time. I really should get them in the ground.

Anyway, I guess that's the it. You people know I lead a boring life.
Labrynth on 12.16.07 @ 11:57 AM EST [link]

Tuesday, November 6th

Confessions of a corset addict

No, really, I'm serious. Oh it started off innocent enough. One here and there from someplace like Fredericks. Harmless enough. Then I stumbled onto Casta Diva and my life (And my bank account) as I knew it was history. No more would simple little plastic boned corsets do. Oh no, NOW I have to have the real deal. The 20 steel bones, squish your internal organs until you can't move kind. Oh yeah, you heard me. And then there's the custom made corset. The one that is created exactly to your measurements. *gasp* So sadly, I'm auctioning off all my old "crappy" corsets on eBay. Why? Because I can buy more of the real ones that way.

And once again I will be wearing a corset with dress pants to a Christmas party this year. *eg* I believe it will be the light blue Casta Diva....


Labrynth on 11.06.07 @ 12:58 AM EST [link]

Saturday, October 13th

Hey all I'm working on getting this back up as well. At least greymatter is working now. woohoo. Hang with me while I get it all back up the way it's supposed to be.
Labrynth on 10.13.07 @ 09:31 PM EST [link]