English sucks

By Jennyjinx | Published: January 29, 2010

I haven’t written a school post yet this semester. I am, indeed, slacking. Honestly, though, I’ve only got one week under my belt so it’s not quite that bad.

I’m done with my maths. Did I mention I passed Trig? Oh, yes. But now that I’m done with those courses, I don’t get to see Professor SexyPants anymore. This is sad, but we must all move on. We can’t dwell on the negative, people! Buck up and all that jazz.

Now I’m working on the final 6 courses for my AAB–which I’ll finally have next December1. This semester is going to be interesting because I get to break work on Windows Servers and cool ass websites (again!!). I’m also taking College Writing as my cake course this semester. Hahaha! Or so I thought.

Want to hear a funny? We were having a discussion on cultural stereotypes and how advertising drives those. The one ad we were critiquing had a dude in outdoorsie clothes, in the woods, getting ready to board a hydroplane. The ad said “Are you ready for Adventure?” Now, my first thought was that it was either very homoerotic (considering the adventure wording and the dude’s facial expression) or it was a dude getting ready to do some kickass adventure stuff in his plane. Apparently I’m stupid, because I was way off (according to my professor– who is very odd and not at all sexy).

Most of the class decided that the ad was aimed at wealthy men or women because dude had a compass on his watch. Apparently these are very expensive. I dunno. He also was walking toward this plane. The ad mentioned “lemon zest” and “sparkling grapefruit” so I’m thinking dude is in Florida and getting ready to take some folks on a jaunt to the Caribbean2. But the rest of the class thought it was an elitist ad, mostly because that’s the way the professor led them.

The problem for me came when I tried to explain my train of thought. If you ever experience fibrofog, don’t ever do this. Ever. I had the worst case of tip-of-the-tongue I have ever had. I couldn’t find the right words to save my life. Someone in the back laughed at me3 and the professor just kind of cocked an eyebrow in my general direction. But did I stop? Hell to the no. Of course mortal humiliation isn’t going to shut me up.

So, I tried to explain why I thought Adventure Dude was going to hop down to the islands for some fun in the sun. That reinforced their idea that he’s elitist. I couldn’t articulate that I thought drug running was actually the way he made his moolah. I mean, seriously? They couldn’t see that? Don’t these people watch “Burn Notice” or old episodes of “Miami Vice”? Sheesh.

Then we’re discussing another ad. This one is stark white, with black lettering that says “YourSpace”. There’s a vehicle of some sort pictured (it’s green) and some shit at the bottom. What stood out to me about the ad was the text at the bottom which included “when a homepage just isn’t enough”. Hello! Not only did they play on “MySpace”4 but they added to that internet based language. Did anyone pick up on that? No. And the professor, God bless him, insisted that the “YourSpace” meant that there was enough space in the vehicle to have an enjoyable ride.

Of course I tried to explain to him that maybe parents would be interested in getting their kids off of MySpace or FaceBook and their texting paraphernalia, but he didn’t get it. Did he miss the age of the Intertoobs? Apparently. I bet if I brought up Ceiling Cat he’d look at me like I had a big old booger hanging from my nose. Of course, ye old T.o.t.T struck again and I looked like a complete and utter idiot. That didn’t stop me though. I’m pretty sure my new Prof hates my brain-damaged guts. I guess I wouldn’t blame him. I mean, I did sound like I’d been hitting the tequila way too hard.

Now for a little whine: it’s fucking frustrating to be want to participate in the conversation and explain why his outdated ideas are all kinds of fuckered up but not be able to do that. I wanted to come home and just sew my own damned lips shut. Humiliation is not a strong enough word for what I felt when I left that class. What’s the point of having a brain but not being able to use it. I’d live with 100x the pain of this god-forsaken disease if I could just get rid of the fucking fog. Fibrofog may not seem serious to anyone else, but it’s pretty much driving me over the edge.

I’ll have to remind myself to shut the fuck up on Tuesday. Really. I mean, the man did say to let someone else talk for a while. I don’t blame him. I’d kick my ass out of the class if I was him.

And so ends my first school sucks post of the semester.

Peace, love and lollipops.

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  1. I’d have that motherfucker this May if it weren’t for some dude cheating on my ass, but that’s water under the bridge, yes? [↩]
  2. For some killer smoke, of course, but I didn’t bring that up. [↩]
  3. Which caused me to glare at them as a mother would at her disrespectful child. [↩]
  4. Double fucking Dur [↩]
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Firebaggers

By Jennyjinx | Published: January 19, 2010

Firebaggers1 can fuck off.

What’s a “firebagger”, you ask? It was originally coined by someone at Daily Kos ( in reference to FireDogLake’s new love affair with Grover Norquist and the teabaggers2. Of course, Jane Hamsher lost her fucking mind and thought “Well, shit, if they oppose all things Obama and I oppose all things Obama then we’re peas in a pod!” And that’s how the two names became forever entwined.

Now, a few months later, the termed as become to mean something a little broader. Instead of just referring to those on FDL (who love to hate all things Obama) it’s defining other Progressives who would as soon join with the teabaggers as stand against them. These folks decry the term “teabagger” as offensive and insist that they be referred to as “Tea Party Activists”. They see no reason to stand against them and think progressives should reach out and bring them into our fold. They say things like “They’re just like us– except uninformed!” Suddenly instead of being what they’ve proven themselves to be– against Obama at all costs, birthers, racists, cry-babies, anti-union, anti-Progressive and general idiots– the teabaggers are “populists” just like liberals.

Huh-wha?

I was listening to Thom Hartmann’s radio program today and I just couldn’t take it anymore. He was spouting this bullshit about the teabaggers3 being on the same side of us and how they’re just regular folks who don’t know and blah blah blah. The more he yammered, the more irritated I became. I was, for a while, a fan. I haven’t listened in a couple of weeks because I had other things to do. I wasn’t prepared for the teabagger lovefest. And he became just another firebagger to me.

Teabaggers are anti-union. They believe that unions are the bane of the American business. They don’t believe that workers should have the right to organize. They think that auto-workers make too much money and don’t do enough work. They’re happy for the corporations that send their manufacturing overseas (and get tax credits for it).

Teabaggers don’t believe in global warming or environmental protections. They believe global warming is a hoax perpetuated by unions and liberals to further their “anti-business” agenda. They believe that environmental laws inhibit business and cost too much money. They think that Wal-Mart should be able to put a store any damned where they please. They see nothing wrong with logging the rain forest.

Teabaggers are against any kind of regulations on businesses. They think that the banks should be further deregulated, as should the insurance companies. They blame programs for the poor for the financial meltdown. They think the solution to the nation’s health care woes is to completely deregulate the insurance companies– which is their solution to all other problems regarding industry.

Teabaggers want to privatize social security4 and do away with most other social programs. Those damned poor people are just leeches, welfare queens and free loaders. Make them all get jobs, but don’t give them minimum wage because that’s too hurtful to businesses.

Where do the teabaggers and Progressives agree? Where? Well, firebaggers join with them when they’re busy opposing specific Obama policy– which is pretty much every Obama policy. Firebaggers have decided that since the teabaggers seem so organized then they must be on the side of good– or would be if they were just “informed”. Bullshit.

Teabaggers aren’t uninformed. If anything, they’re willfully ignorant. They were happy with government waste when a Republican was running it, but as soon as that black Democrat with the funny name was elected they decided they were pissed. Mostly they were pissed because that guy won, but they found so many other reasons to be suddenly overwrought with anger at government spending. Especially the spending that would help other people (social programs and/or HCR).

Teabaggers deny Obama’s very citizenship. They ask for “proof” of his birth– even after seeing that proof. They applaud those brave citizens who legally challenge Obama’s legitimacy. They doubt his parents’ marriage was legal. They call him “the Anti-Christ”, “Manchurian Candidate” and “affirmative action candidate”.

Firebaggers are just pissed because Obama hasn’t invited them into the Whitehouse and/or isn’t the Great Liberal Savior they thought he was going to be (depending on the firebagger doing the bitching). Anyone who doesn’t declare Obama a sellout or Rahm puppet is declared a sellout, Obama-worshipper5 and/or paid shill for [insert name of evil government lobby]. They say that we shouldn’t call them “teabaggers” because they’ve got good intentions and ignore the signs that teabaggers carry to their rallies (Obama as a witch doctor anyone?). And since teabaggers are against the same person they are against, they ally themselves with them. They’ve even taken to airing attack ads and doing negative polling against Obama.

Disgusting and pitiful. I believe that the majority of firebaggers are just PUMAs remade. I firmly believe that they would have opposed Obama no matter what stance he would have taken on anything. And I believe their leader(s) is(are) using them in the same way that the teabagger leaders are using the teabaggers. They want power and prestige and donations and are willing to tear down anyone that gets in their way. They are using the anger and disillusionment of some Dems6 to their financial advantage. I mean, they didn’t write “Crashing the Gates”, so they had to get on the teevee somehow. Right?

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  1. Because some people take offense at the term “firebagger” I will use it as much as I can. Pfft. [↩]
  2. A name which firebaggers now consider “offensive”. What the fuck ever. They named themselves. [↩]
  3. They named themselves. [↩]
  4. Except theirs. [↩]
  5. Straight from the PUMA playbook, by the way. [↩]
  6. The ones that weren’t fucking paying attention during the campaign. [↩]
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Take that, Insurance denying fuckers

By Jennyjinx | Published: January 19, 2010

**Note: I have a small Fibro fog issue today, so please excuse any typos as I don’t feel like waiting to write this.**

Wanna hear read a funny? Remember when they were trying to decide if I had cancer1? Well, last week I got a letter from my insurance company. It reads, in part:

We are in receipt of a claim for the above referenced patient. In order to determine if a pre-existing exclusion applies to these services, we require additional information.
[...]Date Span: 11/07/2008-5/07/2009
1. Did the patient have medical coverage for the date span above?
YES ____ NO ____
2. If yes, please submit evidence of coverage (a certificate of prior coverage from the prior insurance carrier or a letter from the prior carrier with dates and types of coverage held.)
3. If no, please complete the attached questionnaire.

[Stuff that's unimportant to this post.]

When I got the letter, I called the insurance company to see what I should check. I had insurance until March 20, 2009. Since I was only uncovered for a little over a month I wasn’t sure how to proceed. I was told to check option #1 and fill out the questionnaire. Crap. I didn’t know what claim was being potentially denied nor could I remember all of my doctor’s appointments. I knew, since this was the period where my marital status was up in the air, that I hadn’t seen my rheumy, but what about the others?

So, I called all my doctors. You’d think they’d want me to pay them for the dates of service, but they were pretty understanding. I had only been to the doctor for my ganglion cyst (did I even mention that on my blog?). I couldn’t get a hold of my Gyn until today and guess what? Hadn’t been there during that time period either!! Woo-hoo! Take that, coverage denying fuckers.

Of course, they’ll probably deny it anyway. Even though I didn’t go without coverage for a full 63 days, this particular insurance company is so sucky they’ve reportedly told one patient they hoped they didn’t die when they denied cancer treatments for that patient2. Meh.

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  1. I don’t, thank all that’s good and holy. And, yes, I will repeat that every time I bring it up. [↩]
  2. Which is the fault of both the insurance company AND the doctor, if you ask me. Why couldn’t the doctor lower the costs and take payments for something that dire? HUH? [↩]
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Because I Have a Pre-Existing Condition

By Jennyjinx | Published: January 15, 2010

I was working on a post laughing at people contacting me (via my contact page) asking me to put links up for them1, but then I see yet again idiot progressives bitching and moaning about one of the Health Care Reform bills. These folks, in case you’re not watching, have been dubbed the “bill-killers” because they’d rather see us get nothing — which leaves us exactly where we are — than to see us get something.

They don’t care about the people who will benefit from the ban on pre-existing condition exclusions or annual limits, of course. They wave away stories from real people about how either one of these bills would be helpful. It’s not helpful to them (they claim) and so they don’t want it. That’s not progressive, Jim Bob, that’s picking a goddamned scab over the pain of a 2008 loss. Or just a way to follow the piper, who is playing that tune to get page views and up her advertising dollars2. Someone who is so desperate for Obama to fail is jumping into bed with that uber-liberal Norquist (hahaha!!) and feeding hapless followers lies and distortion.

A lie, for instance, claiming this MSNBC article is saying that Obama is going to exclude the employer mandate– though they claim any mandate is bad, but are outraged because of this– and the fucking article doesn’t say any such thing. I triple dog dare you to read that article and come back to tell me where it says Obama is going to eliminate the employer mandate.

I’d also like to add that Jon Walker has since changed the link in the article to point to a more favorable Yahoo! article. Oops. But, let’s examine the Yahoo! article– especially the part which says:

Instead of requiring employers to offer health coverage, the Senate bill penalized businesses if any of their workers obtained government-subsidized health care.

Do you know how the federal has convinced states to pass speed limits, seat belt laws, automobile insurance mandates and drunk driving laws? They’ve penalized the states by refusing to award them highway funding. No, the federal government didn’t say “You’d better do this now!” Instead they said “No, you don’t have to do this, but if you don’t do this you get no money from us.”

Holy shitballs! Only the most hard-headed of libertarian (or contrarian) legislatures refused. They didn’t get their highway money. You know what?

This is the same sort of thing.

Federal government: You don’t have to buy insurance for your employees, but if you don’t you’ll have to pay a penalty for your employees who get federal money to help buy their own.

Employer: Fine. I’m not gonna buy it. Bite me.

Federal government: 75 of your employees get subsidies and/or qualify for Medicaid– fork over the money, bumble wad.

Employer: Fuck. Might as well get them something.

Same fucking thing. See how that works? It’s called strong arming. Happens all the time. But don’t let that fact get in the way of your attempt to derail all things Obama (Hail, Grover Norquist!!!).

But wait! There’s more! These are the same people that were pissed that there was any mandate and now their throwing a collective fit because there might be less of a employer mandate– or at least employer mandate with different language. The cognitive dissonance is clogging up my brain. Help!

Of course, they’re pissed because there will be an excise tax on insurance policies that are worth so much a year– but only over that certain amount ($23k as of right now). Those are the ones, apparently, negotiated by the labor unions for their members. I don’t know what is covered by these plans, or any of their benefits. I don’t even know how I feel about it. But someone on Daily Kos made a point (in one of the posts by someone pissed off that Obama was elected, no doubt).

What would have happened were the union able to forgo the negotiations for health insurance and, instead, negotiated for higher wages? The argument being that with more restrictions on health care, there wouldn’t have been a need for the higher-cost plans as they’re benefits would’ve been excessive (or some such nonsense) and something cheaper would have been just as good. The argument went that the unions would have negotiated for pay raises instead which would have been taxed as income. Would that have been just as bad?

Guess if it was implemented under Obama it would have been. For some of these people Obama is just as bad as Bush. HE LEFT HIS LIBERAL ROOTS!!!!extra, triple super-duper exclamation point with a side of eleventy!!3

I hate moving of the goal posts just as much as I hate hypocrites. No lie. I mean, if you’re pissed that there’s an individual mandate (that would be subsidized by the government for people who aren’t wealthy) then you should be dancing in the streets and declaring victory if there’s no obvious employer mandate. Right? Of course. Not for the bill-killers.

Besides the fact that is not yet a real bill to oppose (except if you’re opposing both bills), either of them will provide multiple benefits to the people who need them most. Both of them offer immediate relief on the ban on pre-existing conditions and annual/lifetime caps. Bernie Sanders’ proposal of Community Health Centers is the bomb-diggity and will most likely make it through conference. That’s a huge win for people who need health care and can’t afford it under the status quo. But since it’s not the public option– which would only cover at most 7 million people– and/or it’s happening under Obama’s administration as opposed to the Other Clinton’s administration, well, KILL THE BILL. Idiots.

Now, let’s talk about me again4.

You’ll remember that TheMan lost our insurance when the randy fucker got laid off from his job last spring5. Then I was able to get shit insurance from my job waiting tables6. You’ll remember that my shit insurance only covers a total of 5 doctors visits a year (which is an annual cap, if you’re keeping up on that sort of thing). Remember that my shit insurance only pays up to $50 for medications a month (not much really). You’ll also remember that a few years ago I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia and, recently, I was tested for uterine cancer (I’m cancer-free). I actually consider myself lucky with my shit insurance because a lot of people don’t even have that. They can’t get a check up and they can’t afford their pain meds.

Well, a couple of days ago I get a letter from my insurance company. They want to know if I was treated for anything between November 2008 and May 2009. Dur, of course I was. They want proof that I had coverage. Well, I went one month and one week without coverage– which was between when TheMan’s coverage lapsed and mine went into effect. I actually hadn’t seen anyone for my FMS during that time, but I did take medication for it. You know what that means? They’re going to deny payment to my new FMS doctor on the basis of my pre-existing conditon. And I won’t be able to see him again under that insurance plan (unless we get a health care bill).

So, TheMan became eligible for his employer insurance again, which made me all kinds of happy. Fuck my crappy insurance, I thought. FUCK them straight up the ass with a red-hot poker. Then I read the coverage information of this new insurance.

No coverage for pre-existing conditions unless there was 1 year of aggregate coverage prior to the first date of coverage (or some such shit). There isn’t even a “credit” for the time I’ve had my crappy insurance. Nope, I’ll have to wait until May to get treatment for my condition– if they don’t count my medications as treatment. If they do, well, who knows if they’ll pay for my new doctor?

I’m still fucking screwed.

I can’t go to my new doctor on my own plan until April (or May because they’re moving my active coverage date, apparently) because of annual caps and I can’t get there on my husband’s new plan because of pre-existing condition exclusions. See how that works?

But the fucking bill-killers are happy about that. They want it to stay like that. They’d rather see me go on disability and try to qualify for Medicaid for my condition (which can be debilitating under the right conditions…oh yes…wobbly JJ here!) and give up my measely job and stop being productive. All so they can declare themselves the winner! And, probably, continue to enjoy their own good health and/or health insurance.

Isn’t that nice? And folks wonder why I’m so angry. Honestly, I might feel differently if I wasn’t in so much goddamned pain all the time or I was able to pay my fucking doctors straight out of my pocket. I might be able to stand on principle and ignore the fact that this is an Incremental Change country (and always has been). But that’s not the case with me.

I was so sick yesterday that my mother-in-law took my daughter to school and I slept until 2:30pm. I slept for 15 fucking hours. But that’s all good. People like me should be glad of…something. We shouldn’t want the little bit of change that is offered in either of these bills. We should stand on principle. What happens, though, when the pain in your legs and back is so bad that you can’t stand at all?

Oh! Another story, because you need these stories of my own personal life. My new doctor prescribed me Cymbalta and gave me two weeks worth of samples to try it. Cymbalta is approved for FMS treatment as well as depression (being sidelined by pain can be extremely depressing, I’ll tell ya). Anyway, I took this shit for 2 weeks and went to pick up my prescription. It would cost me $99 with my insurance. Not only that, if I would have been able to scrape that money together I wouldn’t have been able to get my meds refilled this month because that prescription drug cap. So I told the girl to put it back on the shelf. I wasn’t buying it.

Since I was on it for 2 weeks, my body became slightly acclimated to it and I’ve finally started to get the SSRI Discontinuation Syndrome symptoms. Not really bad, mind you, because I wasn’t on it that long. But enough to make my lips feel like I was kissing a cattle prod. Still, it sucks major donkey balls7.

The point, of course, is the my FMS expert doctor wanted to start a treatment plan for me, but I couldn’t afford it. Now we’ll have to figure out something else– after I can see him again in April (or May). He wanted me to start physical therapy to learn some very specific exercises (he’s the expert, remember), but I can’t do that either. Annual limits and all that jazz.

You see where I’m going with this? You see why I’m some goddamned invested? Do you see why the bill-killers make me want to gouge my own eyeballs out? Fuck. I’d tell you what it would cost out-of-pocket for me to see my new doctor, but I haven’t even asked his office. I’ve given up hope for that and these motherfucking bill-killers couldn’t care less about what I’m going through (Did I mention crying like a baby when I found out I couldn’t afford my medication?).

And don’t even try to share your story with them. They don’t give two flying fucks. They’re nasty and mean and consider you to be a paid shill for the insurance or pharmaceutical lobby. There’s no way that real people would support this legislation for free of course. None of us are personally invested because our lives suck gigantic dinosaur turds. Nope. We’re all paid.

If I’m getting paid, I want a raise goddamn it. Fuck this not being able to afford the $99 for the meds. If I’m getting money from big insurance to support this shit, then they better pony up some more money. Mama needs some new clothes!! Oh, and if George Soros is still paying pro-Obama bloggers, I want that money too. I’m thinking a sleep number bed would be awesome.

P.S.
I’ll get back to that other post later. I’m waiting to see if I get any new offers to sell my links (money, motherfuckers, makes the world go ’round… or something). If I get some extra traffic I can demand more money, right? Controversy attracts eyeballs, people, don’t forget that and eyeballs equal traffic which equals bigger advertising dollars which equals more and better shoes. Just sayin’.

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  3. Except for the whole fact of Obama not being liberal ever in his whole Senate career. Hello! He voted to expand FISA. Dur. [↩]
  4. I know you’re shocked that I’d do such a thing on my own damned blog, but you’ll get over it. [↩]
  5. I call that Karma, but whatever. [↩]
  6. I IZ RICH!! [↩]
  7. I won’t be going back on that shit even if I can afford it in the future. Fuck that noise. [↩]
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5 years of mixing it up

By Jennyjinx | Published: January 7, 2010

First of all, I mentioned on my FaceBook page that my biopsy was normal and there was actually a story behind how I found out, but I don’t feel like getting into that right now. Thanks to all who sent along good energy for me. And a big ol’ kick in the ass to my doctor who insisted I go to her office (a half hour away) a week early, use up my last paid visit and pay the copay to hear what she could’ve told me on the phone. Woo-hoo! Gotta love it, right? Pay good money for the good news. I was supposed to be happy, but I ended up pissed. Go figure.

Secondly, I promised my friend, Dav, that I would post his videos. I’ve been slacking lately so I haven’t done it yet. He does a really good job, so check them out (and go rate them if you can). He’s a real activist and deserves many kudos for his work.

This one is SOOOO true and Dav edited it himself. Imagine if insurance companies were on the beach on D-Day.

Dav, sorry it took so long to post these! I’m a little bit slow nowadays.

Onward march! I was perusing my archives and, guess what? This month mark’s my blog’s 5 year anniversary! How awesome is that? Now, that’s not saying that Fabulously Jinxed has been alive for 5 whole years or that I’ve been blogging for only 5 years, it only means that I have archives going back 5 years.  If the Web Archive had available copies of my old blogs going back further than that, I would have copied those entries here. Considering they were pretty long, boring and religious, you should count your lucky stars that they were lost in the Internets black hole. Le

I started sometime after my son was diagnosed (in utero), which was 2003, on GeoCities. That was basically just the chronicling of my pregnancy. I also did some writing on Delphi Forums back in the day. GeoCities was the shit back then. Oh, I remember we all had our memorial pages (in my Potter’s Syndrome group) and that was oh-so cool for me. That was when I learned HTML for the first time. And, yes, there were animated GIFs on those pages.

Then I moved to LiveJournal. It was way cool back then. I did that mostly for the Pagan community. Considering what I was going through, I was searching for a divine answer and, since I’m not Christian, community with like-minded souls. The Delphi Forum was filled with Christians who were shocked that I didn’t believe like them. And so I turned to the LiveJournal and BeliefNet communities (BeliefNet for the boards, of course, there were no blogs there then).

Then I became pregnant with Lil’lady and somewhere in my 3rd Trimester I started actually liking the baby inside me. So, my blogging (journaling, at the time) took yet another turn. I became a “mommy blogger”. Holy shitballs! I wrote about my healthy pregnancy, and when she was born, my healthy baby. Oh, the fun! There was a lot of “Here I am. Wide awake again.” type posts. I was really tired all of the time back then. And depressed. That was the fun part. Ugh. So, I lost interest in the Pagan side of things (not really, but you know what I mean) and moved again. This time I went to Blogger (I do believe this was just prior to Google buying them).

For a while I continued to write mommy posts and then I started posting in the BeliefNet politics forum. Some of those people would get me so fired up! I would go back to my Blogger blog and rant away. And thus my addiction to politics was born. Even back then I would respectfully (to the best of my ability) debate on the forum, but go blow my top on the blog. I was way better then. I did research, provided links and actually made coherent sentences! That, of course, was prior to my Fibromyalgia. Anyway, that blog turned political and, pretty soon, got to be a little bit well-know (which I really didn’t like). When I was writing well, I couldn’t be stopped. I was known by a different pseudonym then and had a few contacts in the “important” lefty blogosphere. We had fun poking wingnuts and I was even trolled hilariously. Then I wanted to do some personal blogging, but wanted it to be separate from my political stuff.

That’s when I bought my first domain name and uploaded my first WordPress blog. I have no idea when that was exactly, but the name was so fucking corny I’m embarrassed to even repeat it. I didn’t do a whole lot with that blog, I don’t think. A few posts here and there. Back then linkage was actually worth something and I remember some guy linking to me out of pity. It was funny because my blogger blog did so well and this guy thought I was a newb. I loved it. At any rate, I stumbled upon a certain blog “review” site and in the course of reading some links came across a blog called “Ultra Violet” and another called “Awaiting Xtasy”. I helped Awaiting with her HTML code (and we became quick friends) and UV (ha!) was having some issues about pit bulls and I was all on her side—or something. That was a REALLY strange situation. Anyway, we too became friends (along with a few folks from Miz UVs regular reader brigade). I then went on to meet many other wonderful people—Vince, Kelly, Monique, Steph, Tim, Dav and, my secret crush, SG (If I forgot you, please accept my apologies and, please, remind me in the comments).

So, things evolved and I bought a new domain, called Fabulously Flawed and made that my new political blog. Then I got sick of having two blogs and combined them again. Then, I don’t even remember why, I changed my fake-name and my blog’s name (to Fabulously Jinxed) and combined everything again. Apparently, I’m not afraid of change.

And here we are.  I repurchased Fabulously Flawed (I don’t know why someone didn’t snatch it up because the second I deleted my blogger blog someone got it AND it’s page rank) and haven’t really done anything with it. I was going to make it my tech heaven, but, shit, I can’t even blog here with any regularity anymore. I’m probably going through one of my phases and will once again regale you with tales of drunk neighbors and crazy mothers. Or whatever it is I’m focused on at the moment. Right now I’m kind of just in my own little world and thinking about stuff that seems like it doesn’t belong here. So, I’m actually considering yet another blog. I’m pretty sure I won’t do it though because, really, do I need another one? No. I think I just like setting them up and thinking up stupid names. I dunno. I confuse the hell out of myself. Ha!

I will tell you that I’m planning on killing my FaceBook page. I think I’ll go to the Google Reader thing to keep up with those of you in hiding (you know who you are), but FaceBook is killing me with their Mafia Wars and Farmville shit. Did I mention I have an addictive personality and I just want to get to level400!!! OMG! I don’t really even interact on there either (those of you not my friends on there aren’t missing anything). I suck at FaceBook. And I will kill that account at some point in the near future. I’m sure you won’t miss my “You’ve found a lost cat!” posts. And I’m pretty sure some people have actually blocked me on there. My bad. Please accept my most sincere, addicted apology. Pffft.

Oh, and when I do kill that account I’ll be sure to check my email more regularly (haven’t opened that thing in days). My bad again. I really need to find better ways to waste my time. ;)

I’m not killing my blog. What are you crazy? I will have one blog or another for the rest of my days—even when blogs become obsolete and no one can make money off of them anymore (I can’t wait for those days!). Though I may be going dark for a couple of days if I don’t pay my host on time (please, gov’mint, send my money!). I’m way too vain to through all of my hard work down the tubes. Seriously, isn’t my skunk just adorable? C’mon, admit it!

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