Nancymarie’s House

Tonight was the series finale of Air Farce. We watched it and Empath got a little teary because it’s been on since he’s been alive. This is the thrid episode I’ve ever watched. I finally got to see the opening credits and learned Lu Bagoy is actually Luba Coy.

Jumbo video is selling used dvds 2/$6 and we couldn’t pass up such a deal. Empath chose Ultra Violet and I grabbed Puddle Cruiser. We watched PC last night. It’s Broken Lizard’s first film iirc and it’s not bad. There are a couple scenes where the co-star obviously emailed in her lines, but the BL boys were very good at making the whole scenario believeable.

A friend who shops at the store where Empath works gave him a gift card for East Side Mario’s. We redeemed it last night for the pizza for two (8 piece pizza, 2 sides [fries and Caesar salad] and 2 deserts). Speaking of food, I’m going to cut back on spicy foods like pepperoni, salami, sausage, BBQ, onions and black pepper. I woke up about 2a with a severe case of indigestion.

Last night, we watched The Dark Knight on dvd. BTW, there’s nothing interesting on the dvd – play movie, scene selection and languages – so save your money unless you are really into the franchise. It was good. I’ve read a lot of praise and comments about how “dark” is was. I must be so jaded because nothing in there came off as “dark”, “gritty” or “menacing” (see the rating warning reasons: violence and menace) to me; well, Maggie Gyllenhaal looked horribly old in every scene containing light. Not that she’s hot stuff in the dark either, just a Kirsten Dunst wannabe. The downsides imo: 2 1/2 hours long and not enough blond/es.

We had an okay holiday.

The both of us got mostly clothes. Empath got several types of shorts because his mom didn’t like him walking upstairs in his underwear/boxers. God, be happy he bothers to wear any sort of pants. His marrying me has brought him to such low-brow depths, lol. His mom also told us we needed to lose weight or we’d die from heart attacks. Yeah, you keep thinking that. Empath bought for each of us Episode 2 of Forumwarz and a shirt for him (from me though he paid) which says GEEK in flaming letters and a tote bag for me which says “Ask me about my evil plan”, the last 2 from Arcane Times’ CafePress shop.

We were able to have a nice supper upstairs by ourselves. The ILs went to a friends’ house for the evening and we were able to cook the baby ham, mashed potato, corn and biscuits without MIL getting in the way. The ILs also gave us 2 Xmad crackers to open. Empath got a purple party hat and whistle and I got a pink party hat and a tiny flashlight. Supper was very yummy and we managed to restraint ourselves from eating all of it.

I called my daughter and gave her wishes for a happy holiday. She taunted me with her dessert of  “caramel apple walnut pie … 10 inches”.

My period is a week late. Time I would be upset and praying for it to appear, but there’s this thing called “intercourse” that hasn’t happened recently enough to affect my cycle. I do understand that menopause doesn’t just happen overnight, taking years to manifest fully. There’ve been times that I’ve been “late” which were due to stress (moving to Canada and the first time I had to let Empath leave), but I’m pretty clockwork-normal for my periods. Even my pregnancy was “normal”; no spotting just no period for 10 months. Though the Cosmic gods enjoy a good laugh at my expense every now and again, I do hope Santa brought me menopause for Xmas.

Empath is puking and my head is exploding in pain with any type of movement. Advil, take me away!

I dreamt of Mom this morning. We were walking hand in hand through a cematary. Mom was acting like an Alzheimer’s patient – she didn’t know/remember who she or I were, what was going on or why, but she knew she could trust me to help her. Once an hour, she’d be totally coherant and cognizant. The vibe I was getting was that she wasgoing somewhere away and was working hard to stay in touch with me. We met up with my sister, brother and E. Mom is upset about E acting like she is over the family assets and I make it my job to needle E to keep her grubby mitts off the rest of Mom and Dad’s stuff. Mom also noticed a fire upstairs directly above the kitchen (the fire was put out a long time ago in the dream world).

I woke up very worried at 7a and couldn’t get back to sleep for a few hours. I’m not feeding off memories of the past; these are typically new talks I have with Mom. I think Mom may be going to a higher plane in the afterlife where she can’t keep in contact with me.

ION, my daughter brought her semester grades up to a C- and better. The C- is in geometry.

I had a plethera of dreams last night, each segueing into the next like badly editted footage

It began with me as a spinsterish woman who is in charge of a run-down orphanage (the building is the house I last lived in before moving to Canada). I’m being tormented by Angelus, who pops in every night to rape,  sodomize and generally humiliate me. I put up with his behavior under2 threats: he’ll slaughter every living creature residing with me (children and  animals [we've got a family of ducks]) and turn me into a vampire then staking me. The problem with the spinster character I’m portraying is though what Angelus does to her and makes her do disgusts her, she physically enjoys the rape and humiliation. If I admit I enjoy all he does, he’ll sire and stake me. It’s really about whether I want to allow him complete control over me or not.

Dream 2 has me following Willow (I read BtVS: After the Fall 2 weeks ago) down the main stairs of a college I went to. A pack of bullies taunt her and I get in their faces about it. I walk Willow to her next class, then run out to my car and get a necklace for her to wear. It looks like a Christmas ornament ball (white with tiny red flowers) on a string. I put it around her neck and she feels a lot safer and stronger against the bullies.

Part 3: I’m at my old house getting my mail when the old lady next door screams at me. She’s calling me a thief and housebreaker and throws things at me. I’m trying to convince her I’m only picking up my mail, but she chases me 2 blocks to my folks’ house.

Last section has me sitting out in the backyard of my parents’ house with my mom, my daughter and Simon Baker. Mom is regaling Simon with stories of my brothers and sister jumping off the roof of the house with a mattress on the ground and a “good” bedsheet as a parachute. Simon is just looking at me in amazement (that we all lived to be adults) when my daughter runs up to me with a jellyfish burn on her thumb. I’m asking Simon to pass me Band-Aids, but he’s dumbstruck.

I had a doctor’s appointment yesterday at one of the hospitals in town. It was for a visual field test to map out this blind spot in my right eye. Worst part was the 3 sets of eye drops. The doc says I have optic nerve drusen, though it’s normal to have some drusen, this condition is about have way too many of them hanging around. He dilated my eyes and I spent the afternoon sleeping because what can you do with no sight? The doc is comparing the test with the MRI I had in 2003. I had a VFT in 2003 also, but there’s no paper record of it, so he’s going to see if it’s still in the machine’s system. If the blind spot hasn’t changed, the drusen aren’t causing problems.

We bought a 2009 calender finally. It’s about dragons, pics and descriptions. So much better than the shitty Star Wars one from last year.