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Rent (again)

So I went and saw Rent with my roommate, and yes I cried again, though I was much better about the talking during the movie. I think that is mostly a thing between me and 1031. I have also read a few reviews about Rent that have kind of pissed me off. One stated that they didn't understand putting Seasons of Love a the begining of the movie with just the cast on stage singing it and that it didn't fit. While yes, for a movie this may be an odd move, but for anyone who actually say the musical they would know that that was how the second act opened. It was just the cast on stage singing the song, and it makes sense for a musical. Now Seasons of Love is one of the best songs in the show and is reprised a few times in different songs so they couldn't get rid of it and you can't just jam it in the middle of the movie, so putting it in the begining makes perfect sense to me. Another review didn't like the fact that the cast got older. Well, if you really think about it no ones age is given except Mimi's (19) and Collins is a college professor and Joanne is a lawyer, so the absolute youngest they can be is 25, and you get the impression they have had their jobs for a while, so now they are in their late twenties to early thirties and no one in the cast was too old to play that. Besides we have 25 year olds playing kids in high school all the time on television and no one says anything, so the critics can just stop with the age thing. The one that really got to me though was someone who seemed surprised that Jesse L. Martin could really sing. They obviously did not do their research; he was in the original cast, his background is on broadway, just because they only knew him from Law and Order doesn't mean that is all he can do. Many critics also made it a point to compare it to Chicago and say that the movie did nothing to revive the show. It seemed like the movie wasn't flashy enough for them. Well, its about life below the poverty line in New York and most of the characters have AIDS, nothing to get flashy with. It was never meant to be a flashy show. It was meant to be real. The magic is in the heart and soul of the songs, not flashy sets and costumes. It was also said that the story is not timeless, that it was dated to when AIDS was a death sentence. Well, while advances in medicine have made it possible to live a lot longer with HIV, last I heard people where still dying of it. Besides the main themes are about love and living for today and as far as I know, those themes are timeless. It was also said that the show lost its shock appeal because gays are everywhere now, well I doubt Jonathan Larson had shock appeal in mind when he wrote it. The characters are meant to represent those who were most effected by aids in the early 90s, meaning gays and drug addicts, which the characters are. Well, except the nice Jewish boy, but he doesn't have AIDS. Most of the critics on of this movie need to get their heads out of their ass. Stop comparing it to other things and let it be what it is; a wonderfully moving show with beautiful songs about life, love, loss, and living for today.

Fuck Dial-up

So I am home, and haven't gotten around to turning the cable internet back on, and again this is my one day off this week so there is no time to do it. I just want to say fuck dial-up and fuck aol!!! I can't get a decent connection, I get cut off every few minutes and it is really starting to get to me. If I am not commenting or posting much, now you know why. I had a wonderful time back in Omaha. In fact it was the first time ever that I was actually quite sad to leave. I just didn't want to go, I didn't want my visit to end, and now I don't want to be in California. I had a wonderful time seeing 1031 and Ithiel, I didn't realize how much I had missed both of them. After not seeing 1031 for 9 months or Ithiel for like 6 years, both friendships were just picked up where they had left off and it was extrememly comfortable. Being in Omaha felt like being home for the first time since I left, complete with some relationship drama. I can't stand the way things were left between me and my ex. He is with his girlfriend again because he got harrassed by her, her parents, his parents, his friends, and his sponser. Now I can understand caving under that much pressure, but I could move on with my life if he just loved her and wasn't with her out of obligation. She was there for him when he went through surgery and was close to death. That is wonderful and a good reason to keep her in his life, but he doesn't love her, isn't attracted to her anymore, and she annoys him. He has no problem cheating on her. I was kind of hoping I would go back and that spark just wouldn't be there anymore, but I was wrong. After seven years its still very much there and now I can't stop thinking about him and its making my life here miserable. I don't know what to do, if I should just get over it and move on, or if I should move back to Omaha in 6 months when my lease is up. I could live a lot cheaper in Omaha, I would be close to my friends and family, and I would be a lot closer to Chicago as I miss a lot of people there terribly as well and can't afford to ever go back just for the heck of it. Living in Omaha I could probably get back there at least a few times a year, lord knows I have done that drive plenty. I just don't know. I swore I would never move back to Omaha, but its not like I am doing anything in California that I can't do in Omaha. I just pay a lot of money to be in a much nicer climate. My allergies don't bother me at all out here, I do have some wonderful friends here. I would miss it, but I don't know if that is enough to keep me here anymore. I have a lot of thinking to do.

Literature

Shakespeare: Sonnets. Everyone has heard of you,
and almost everybody can find something
touching in you. You are calm and control
yourself, even though your wisdom and your
messages are no lesser than those of others.


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Thanksgiving

Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving! My mother is already driving me nuts, but I guess that is just part of the holiday. I will be back at my safe distance of 1000+ miles away in a few days. I am glad that it isn't too horribly cold here. Yesterday was nice, I nice little transition from my nice warm climate. Well I guess I can't hide in here from the family forever huh? Though it is a nice break. It is times like these when I wish I could still drink. Family is so much more tolerable when I am a little tipsy.

Rent

My long wait has ended and I finally got to see Rent last night with 1031. Wow, I loved it!! Well worth the wait. I can't say it is better than the broadway show, but it does do it justice and that is saying a lot. I was somewhat able to contain myself from singing throughout the entire movie. I mostly mouthed the words to the songs. I did however quote most of the movie because lines that were sung in the musical were spoken in the movie. I did cry like the little girl that I am at a couple of scenes. I couldn't help, I knew it was going to happen. No matter how many times I saw the show live and how many times I listen to the music, every time I see it I cry. I can't wait to see again with my roommate when I get back to California, and then watch it again and again when it comes out on dvd. I would still rather see the show live, but with ticket prices being like $50 each, I think I can settle for the movie. I would do an actual review, compare and contrast but its Thanksgiving and I am full of turkey so maybe after I see again I will do that.

One day left...

Until I return to Omaha. Looking forward to seeing my family and some friends. Not really looking forward to the cold. I am spoiled out here in California, its been in the upper 80s and low 90s the past few days. I'll try not to complain too much about the cold. Its also one day until Rent. I can't wait!! Been listening to the original broadway recording for the past week now. I'll do my best not to sing along in the theatre 1031! May have to bring some duct tape for my mouth though. I just love this show so much. I saw it in London, New York, and Chicago and now most of the original cast is back for the movie. I am so excited. I loved the quote I saw on one of the sites about why only 5 of the 7 cast members returned. It said something like these people (the original cast that is in the movie) are as young and in shape as they were when they first stepped on the stage. In other words the original Mimi and Joanne have gotten old and fat and we couldn't put them in our movie. It looks like who they got to relace them will be great though. Too bad the cable internet is down, I miss my daily Rent trailer. Dial up is too slow to try to watch it, it just pisses me off. When I get back into town I'll have to get that back up. Well, much to do today. I'll see some of you soon!

Another Long Week

So in the past two weeks I have worked about 110 hours at two different stores. A lot of that time I volunteered to work, and I will be very happy once that paycheck gets deposited, but right now I am pooped. I went back to my store tonight after working at a different store all day. Why all the hours? Because big time corporate people are coming in to the stores and they must "sparkle." I spent a good part of my evening cleaning out candy bins. Oh the fun I had. And now I have no cable, which means no high speed internet. It was all in the ex's name so I just didn't pay the bill and didn't really have the money, so on my day off before my trip to Omaha I get to run around and have them change it to my name so I can start with a clean slate and not have to pay the back $200 that is owed. Thank you asshole ex for giving me months of free cable and internet, but now that time has ended and I must pay my own bills. At least with all these hours I can afford it. I am looking forward to my little trip to Omaha. It will be nice to be 1000+ miles away from work and seeing my family and friends again. 1031 it looks like my mom will be too busy to see Rent with me, so if you can be talked into going I would love it! If anyone else is interested in seeing me while I am in town my email is in a comment on the previous post on this subject. I still haven't heard back from you Ithiel. I would love too see as many people as I can! I miss you all!! Well, its way past my bed time. Hope to hear from you soon.

Its almost Harry Potter time!

Ha ha I have now gotten my new roommate into Harry Potter and she will be joining me tomorrow night to see it. So I guess if you want nothing to do with Harry Potter ever you cannot live with me. I was asked to once again work a double shift at Blockbuster on Saturday and then open again on Sunday, and when I said I couldn't because I have to see Harry Potter on Friday night my store manager laughed at me. Hey I have priorities. There are very few movies I spend the money to go see in the theatres now that I can see them for free like 4-6 months later. I think this year I have seen a total of 3 movies in the theatre. One of course was Star Wars, another was The 40 Year Old Virgin, which I did not pay to see, and the other was The Jacket and I saw that only because a bunch of friends were going. So needless to say I am very excited for this movie. Oh and for Rent which is just a few days later. I have pretty much been listening to the soundtrack for Rent for the past two days straight. This is another movie my roommate would never have thought twice about until living with me. Now she is almost as excited about these two movies as I am. Its scary how much influence I have over people. Now If I could just channel that power into something other than seeing movies who knows how far I could go.

What I do with a day off

So I have just today off of work this week and what do I do? Laundry, cleaning, watching movies...no. I figure out how to put pictures on my blog and how to add links. (Thanks again Ithiel.) Oh and I paid bills. That was fun. I spent over $400 in one hour just so my car won't be repossessed and I can have a phone, water, gas, electricity, etc. At least I got to sleep in. I was a complete vombie yesterday. Oh here is a fun story from work. A guy comes into the store to return some movies. He then tells me he returned a game for a friend and it had the wrong game in it and would like it back. I told him sure, where is our game? He said he didn't have it, but wanted that one still. So in short he 1) didn't rent the game 2) didn't own the game that was returned and 3) didn't have our game. He threw a fit when I wouldn't hand over the game. He wanted the number to my boss, complained about my customer service, and asked several times why I was making it so complicated. I don't really see the complication, return our game and I will give you yours or really your friend's game. Not complicated. He was told on the phone the previous evening that we would gladly swap the game for him. Apparently he does not understand what the word swap means. Another customer came in shortly after and asked if he could exchange a game he rented because he didn't like that one. I asked him if he understood the concept of the rental system. He didn't appreciate that too much. Sometimes all I can do is sit back and laugh at the stupidity of my customers.

My Trip to Omaha

I will be in Omaha for Thanksgiving this year. I think it is the first time in about four years that I will be back for more than two days and no one died, and I think it is the second time in six years that I spent Thanksgiving in Omaha. I will be in town from Wednesday afternoon until Saturday evening and it would be great to see some old friends. Leave me a comment if you want to get together.

Testing...

This is only a test. I have no children, but I have cats :)

So Tired

So I just finished working 60+ hours at two different Blockbuster stores this week and I am exhusted. It will be well worth it come payday though. Hopefully tomorrow I will have time to attempt loading some pictures on here. I have had so little free time, I have barely been able to see any movies this week and I have to return them tomorrow before they come out. Did make the time to see War of the Worlds and Skeleton Key though. Very disappointed in the ending to War of the Worlds. I didn't think it explained enough. Maybe I should read the book to get the full story, but getting me to read anything except Harry Potter can be difficult sometimes. Skeleton Key wsa good though, I did guess the ending, but when they put on the box "best twist since The Sixth Sense" you can help but guess a bizzare twist. Well now I must sit back, relax, and watch Madagascar.

Why there are no pics...

I can't seem to figure out how to put pictures on here because I have a mac and it doesn't seem compatible with the picture loading thinging. If anyone knows how to fix this problem I would be very appreciative. Well, I am fucking tired and I have to open my store in the morning. Maybe I'll feel up to writing a real post tomorrow. Believe me there is a lot more than this on my mind right now. Fucking men.

So Bored

I've just spent the last 3 hours online and now I must get ready for work. I really must get a life. I don't know what happened to be once I got sober. I stopped doing things. I could have spent that time doing something interesting or at least getting out of the apartment, but no I spent it looking at blogs, taking quizes and fucking around on myspace. Yep, I am a loser. Oh well, I'll get over it.

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Career Inventory Test Results Extroversion ||||||||||||||||||||| 70% Emotional Stability ||||||||||||||||||||| 66% Orderliness ||||||||||||||| 46% Altruism |||||||||||||||||||||||| 73% Inquisitiveness |||||||||||||||||| 56% You are an Inspirer, possible professions include - conference planner, speech pathologist, HR development trainer, ombudsman, clergy, journalist, newscaster, career counselor, housing director, character actor, marketing consultant, musician/composer, artist, information-graphics designer, human resource manager, merchandise planner, advertising account manager, dietitian/nutritionist, speech pathologist, massage therapist, editor/art director.

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Well, one of my jobs is on there, not that I do much with the massage therapy thing right now.

I rule

Does this mean if I actually use my English ablities I could rule the world? Now if I could just learn to spell.


You are a GRAMMAR GOD!


Congratulations! If your mission in life
is not already to preserve the English tongue,
it should be. You can smell a grammatical
inaccuracy from fifty yards. Your speech is
revered by the underlings, though some may
blaspheme and call you a snob. They're just
jealous. Go out there and change the world.


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Another Amends

This time specifically to my former roommate. Anyone who reads this probably has read the recent post and subsequent comments left on his site, but I wanted to apologize again on my site for my comment made to him upon his telling me of his departure from California and any and all pain that I have caused him. It was a horrible, inexcusable thing to say to someone who has meant so much to me over the years. It was said in the heat of the moment with a lease hanging over my head. It wasn't until after he was gone that I knew how miserable he was out here, and by that time it was too late. All I want for my former roommate is for him to be happy with his life, which he seems to be now. That is all I want for anyone I care about, and any of my friends that are reading this that I haven't actually spoken to in years that applies to you too. Life is too short to not be happy in the moment. Sure everyone has times when they are down or depressed, but if it is an ongoing thing, do what is necessary to change the situation, but now I am getting off point. I was thrilled that my comment on his page was so well met. I really didn't know how he would react to it, but it seemed like he reacted well, and though I do not expect forgiveness right away, we seem to be on the road to communication for the first time in a long time and that is a huge step. I do hope that one day he will forgive me and that our friendship is not lost forever, but for now I am very happy with the steps that have been taken.
As for the pain that was caused for the relationship thing, that is a much harder issue to deal with. It was never fully discussed while he was living here, and until afterwards, again I had no idea the pain it caused him. My only explaination for my actions is that I was getting clean for the first time in my life and my feelings were coming and going and were confusing even to me. It is recommended in the program not to date for the first year of recovery for this reason, but it was always said for the benefit of the person getting clean and the possibility of relapse. It never occured to me the damage that may be done to the other person. Addicts are very self centered in nature, and I have been guilty of this, but it is something I am trying desperately hard to work on.
Now I want to make this clear, I am not trying to defend or excuse my actions. I am only trying to explain some of the reasoning behind them and apologize for the effect they had on my roommate. I just really felt the need to own up to my part in things and pray that someday he can find it in his heart to forgive me.

Highly Offened

So at work tonight I got to sit on my ass and spend the first hour finishing my sexual/workplace harassment training. Yeah, it was so much fun. Then I went out of the office to see what was going on in the store. Pretty slow, Thursdays usually are so the store manager, a CSR and the new person that was hired to be a shift lead and I were just kind of sitting around and talking. It was brought up that I may be moving back to Omaha to get back together with my ex. Now I know that this decision may seem very odd to many, but there are a lot of feelings there between us and not going back to explore them may be the one thing I would truly regret. So anyway, I prepare and get the usual questions. "You dated him how long ago? Do you really think it would work? Why would you want to move back there?" I am used to this; I expect and deal with it. Keep in mind, I have not actually made up my mind on this matter, it is something I am strongly considering and won't make a final decision until after I go back to Omaha for Thanksgiving and actualy spend time with him. Now usually the conversation ends there, but today the new guy decides to ask some rather odd questions like "how do you know its really him, he could be having a friend say all this stuff to you. I am from Vegas and I have heard about that kind of stuff before." To which I simply reply that we have talked on the phone and the details from our past the we have discussed are not something you would share with a third party. He balks at this, so I tell him something simple, not wanting to get into too much detail about him remembering what I was wearing when we met. To which he comes back with saying he sounds like a stalker because no man would remember such things. Now I am getting mad. At some point during all this (probably during the he is lying to you part of the conversation) I made the point that maybe people in the midwest have better morals than those living in Vegas. He replies to me that the midwest has the highest incest rate int the nation and that people go to family reunions in order to find a date, so he doesn't know about their morals. Now I am truly offended. I told him maybe he should watch what he says, he doesn't know me, he doesn't know my situation, he should just stop. He again laughs it off saying that it was okay because he is from Georgia. What that has to do with anything I have no idea. All I know is I never want to work with this asshole again, and if says anything else like this to me again I am calling human resources on him. I don't even want to go into work tomorrow and deal with him. Who in their right mind talks to their manager that way? I am just so pissed right now I could scream.