|
|
Saturday, October 31st, 2009
| |
8:16 pm - I ain't afraid of no ghosts!
|
|
| Thursday, September 17th, 2009
| |
10:42 am - Four...
|
"We promise to be ever accepting of one another while treasuring each other’s individuality; to comfort and support each other through life’s disappointments and sorrows; to revel and share in each other’s joys and accomplishments; to share our hopes and dreams; to strive for an intimacy that will allow us to accomplish this promise and permit us to become the persons we are yet to be. We vow to establish a home open to all of life’s potential; a home filled with respect for all people; a home based on love and understanding. May we live each day as the first, the last, the only day we will have with each other."
September 17, 2005
|
|
(21 comments | comment on this)
|
| Friday, September 11th, 2009
| |
9:41 am - Thinking of 9/11
|
|
| Sunday, September 6th, 2009
| |
2:23 pm - Creepy Murals of the Pacific Northwest
|
|
| Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
| |
1:50 pm - Bouillon and ice cups and juice... oh, my!
|
And so begins ColonFest 2009! I'm lagging a little behind the annual check recommended after last year's colonoscopy turned up some unwelcome hangers-on. Again, if you have any inkling you should be getting one done, please do! (And yes, ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) zurcherart, you did reschedule last year's test around the Eurovision finals ...though seemingly with good justification!)
I'm very grateful, of course, that we currently have the kind of health insurance and standard of living that allows my primary concern about the procedure to be centered on that horrible liquid I'm going to have to begin ingesting in just a few hours--and not on how the hell we're going to pay for it. I suspect that had I still been covered by the bare-minimum, non-tax-deductible policy I used to purchase as a self-employee via a trade association, I would have likely put off the previous test even longer to quite possibly dire results.
At the same time, I think it's a little obnoxious that I have no firm idea of how much the procedure cost the last go--and how much the doctor(s) ended up recouping when it was all done. Or what might they have charged me directly if I had no insurance? I saw some UnitedHealthcare reconciliations go back and forth, everything eventually zeroed out in the "patient responsibility" column, I filed away the forms and was done.
When the health care debate starting heating up late spring, I began casting about for an opinion. I've long thought highly of Oregon's Ron Wyden--he's always seemed of impeccable integrity and is a long-time consumer/health advocate. Thinking "What Would Wyden Do?" I googled and found that he'd actually authored a Healthy Americans Act!
I think it's got some great points. Chiefly, in my book, finally divorcing health insurance coverage from employment, assurance that everyone will be covered and an estimated $1.48 trillion savings over ten years.
And, with concessions to both the right and the left, it would seem to be actually passable?
|
|
(2 comments | comment on this)
|
| |
1:29 pm - Take a number, pal!
|
One of my new random "friends" on Facebook sent me a direct message through the system, which I kinda get the sense he says to all of the girls:
"If you ever want to dominate a Republican, let me know."
I'll get right on that.
|
|
(7 comments | comment on this)
|
| Monday, July 27th, 2009
| |
11:54 pm - Honey... does this avatar make me look fat?
|
Or is it just that Don Draper looks like such a dweeb in this rendering?
I did, in all truth, "try" on every outfit on the rack. And then ended up sticking with my first choice, just like when I'm reality-shopping. Hey, you gotta know what works...
Perhaps you'd like to wastewhile away a few moments to MadMenYourself as well?
|
|
(9 comments | comment on this)
|
| Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
| |
10:29 am - DVR Alert - In a Lonely Place!
|
|
| Wednesday, July 15th, 2009
| |
12:17 pm - Worlds collide again!
|
|
| Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
| |
6:07 pm - Popping my head out of the bunker
|
|
| Sunday, June 28th, 2009
| |
1:40 am - Somewhere...
|
Coming back from a friend's wedding shower down the shore, the day's crazed mix of rain and sun culminated in the most perfect rainbow I've ever seen.
This is only the half of it...
|
|
(1 comment | comment on this)
|
| Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
| |
2:07 pm - No need for Montana, Jersey seems to have been far enough...
|
I once confided to alanesq my NYC fear that I'd end up an old lady, living alone in a dingy, rent-controlled walk-up apartment, staring up at a bare light-bulb hanging down from the ceiling. He comforted me with the assurance that there was no way I'd ever find a rent-controlled apartment.
 DO YOU BELONG IN NYC?
No. No. No!
What are you still doing here? You don't take advantage of what New York has to offer, and you're clearly irked by all the sacrifices you make to live in the city. Go on-the open skies and low rents of Montana await. But there's hope for you yet! Click here for suggestions about how to really enjoy NYC. Who knows-maybe you'll change your mind.
Do you belong in New York City?
|
|
(comment on this)
|
| Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
| |
4:37 pm - Reverse pervertibles? Dispervertibled?
|
Just dipped into the bedside drawer for some latex gloves, which I used in removing a few eager sprigs of poison ivy from the backyard. And then I carried some mildewy boards out from the basement to the trash.
Getting ready for BBQ season!
|
|
(2 comments | comment on this)
|
| Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
| |
1:43 am - Out of touch...
|
Seeing as how my last post here was back on Easter, thought it high time for me to make another appearance...though, whether you've sensed it or not, I have been lurking.
Meanwhile, I have been making an occasional appearance as CineKink on Twitter, though confining myself mostly to kinky film relevant topics. Briefly considered adding a LisaVnyc identity there as well, but finding the experience much as depicted above, a sense of talking past folks rather than with them.
Much of my time is being spent on Facebook, which feels much more conversational to me and has been taking on the role of virtual water cooler that used to be met solely by LJ. Please find and friend me, if you're so inclined... then become a fan of CineKink, while you're at it!
And, as I begin to catch up from the double-whammy of CineKink NYC + my mom's hip replacement, I'm looking forward to being a more visible resident around these parts. I've missed you!
|
|
(2 comments | comment on this)
|
| Sunday, April 26th, 2009
| |
1:54 am
|
|
| Sunday, April 12th, 2009
| |
2:48 pm - Hippity, hoppity!
|
Enjoy the day, however--and with whomever--you best see fit!
|
|
(comment on this)
|
| Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
| |
12:26 am - Marathon John?
|
As I was trying to wrap up my annual quest for the oft-referenced chocolate Easter egg of my father's Pennsylvania youth, something with a "...kind of coconut but mostly buttercream filling, but definitely a dark chocolate not milk chocolate coating,"* I came across this ad for Marathon candy bars.
My first thought was "what the hell? that's so joebehrsandiego!" But then I got to recalling the 1970s-era candy bar and, as I did more research, started to remember the ad campaign itself (sorta) - and then set off to YouTube to find the video relic, so I could post it here. But alas, nothing...except the realization that I'd orginally set myself down at the computer to finally take on a rathering embarrassing backlog of CineKink email and had instead been seduced into following a random trail of links deeper and deeper into the internet.
Again.
This of course made me think of Kirby Ferguson (CineKink Alum/2005 Polly Wally and 2006 Do You Take It...?) and his new video, which I first saw referenced in his Facebook stream (or on Twitter?) and then posted on Facebook by another friend and former colleague, Joshua Tanzer (Grantonian, 1979-80, Grant High School), even if I was too distracted in either instance to comment, despite any best intentions to do so at the time.
And which video is also now posted below.
Now do you people see why I never get anything done?
|
|
(3 comments | comment on this)
|
| Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
| |
6:44 pm - Hey, Atlanta!
|
alanesq and I will be descending on your fair city this weekend. Actually, we'll be descending on an airport-adjacent hotel for the duration of Leather Leadership Conference, taking place somewhat in your vicinity - and expecting to rent a car, so won't be completely stranded.
Would love any recommendations for must-do local grub/libations and/or possibly sights - and if you're free to meet up, that would be lovely, too! We expect to have Thursday night free, before Alan gets stuck in board meetings, plus I've got all day Friday and then afternoon Sunday-thru Monday to kick around.
My only other visit I was stuck indoors working a pharmaceutical convention, so this is essentially my first time.
|
|
(4 comments | comment on this)
|
| Friday, March 27th, 2009
| |
1:07 am - Amazingly True Adventures of a Traveling Fudge-Packer!
|
Taking a few moments to actually unpack from my recent trip home to Portland, I came across the the one-pound box of made-in-Oregon Monks' Fudge that my father insisted I bring back with me for alanesq--the mysterious culprit that triggered a TSA search of my luggage after its x-ray scan triggered curiousity.
I'm remembering now that the agent chuckled a bit when she came across the box. She did, I'm grateful to note, refrain from inquiring whether I'd packed it myself.
|
|
(1 comment | comment on this)
|
| Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
| |
1:04 am - Hound o' Hell
|
All mostly good. An update is long overdue, but too knackered lately to communicate in bursts longer than 140 wordscharacters. Soon...
Meanwhile, this video makes me happy somehow. And a good thing, too, since Goat Jumping on Bed was apparently taken down for one of those pesky third-party claims.
|
|
(4 comments | comment on this)
|
|
|
|
|
