Relentlessly Restless

my favorite subject... poop

2009-12-03T23:11:53Z

I've got lots of stuff going on right now, but since I am much too lazy to type about it, nor do I want to focus on the negativity in my life, I thought I'd impart this information to you guys. Did you know because, you see, I didn't until a few weeks ago, that there is a such thing as a fecal transplant? If you ever come down with a severe clostridium difficile infection in your guts, you have the best chance of beating it when someone kindly donates their shit to be placed in your colon after you've emptied yours. Wow. It's sort of like eating yogurt and taking probiotics, but much more immediate, or maybe drastic is the more appropriate word.

best costumes in Houston!

2009-11-02T23:40:31Z

Okay maybe not but we did get lots of compliments. Josh as Bender, which you ppl who attended the Robots vs Ninja party know it was a brilliant costume, Ethan's last minute creepy Gary Busey face which I believe was made from this very photo:

and then myself as Leela. I heard there was one other Leela and a Fry somewhere on Westheimer but I'm told that my costume was better because her eye was painted on while I suffered, being rendered completely blind, to ensure that my eye was as realistic looking as possible. Ha! Seriously, three of us could barely see anything. I think I'll cut slits next time rather than poke tiny holes. I hope there will be a next time because I think we need to add a Zapp Branigan, Zoidberg , Profesor and Fry to our ensemble. And next time I'll buy a purple wig because using 3 cans of purple spray didn't produce the results I wanted and I sprinkled purple dust everywhere, but I was broke so.. Oh and I'm hoping my friends took good pics of us becuase my camera bit the dust early in the night. This is my excuse to buy an awesomely bad ass one in the next few months, but the timing was awful because I have no pictures of Josh and I. Oh yes, and if I can find my memory card reader, I'll post the 3 or 4 pics that I did get because one of them is my friend, Joy, in a really cool Chun Li costume. So, hopefully I will be able to post these soon, but for now, I bid you all adieu..

kiya!

2009-10-30T21:40:28Z

my Leela costume is coming along well The eye looks great, though I won't be able to see a thing. Now the only thing I have to worry about is the purple hair. Hopefully the 3 cans of purple spray will work.

sew so

2009-10-13T23:01:27Z

I'm contemplating getting a sewing machine, but whenever I go take a look in the sewing machine aisle, my eyes glaze over and my mind screams "butbutbut, I dunno know what I need!!". I figured this would be the perfect place to get recommendations from all my artsy craftsy friends on which machine I should invest in, what to look for etc. I'm completely inexperienced with any sort of sewing machine so I'd need something user friendly and it has to be kind of cheap, perhaps in the <200 range, in case I totally suck at this and decide to let it serve as a paper weight instead. I plan to use it for simple skirt patterns and maybe some scrubs and hopefully I'll try my hand at quilting at some point, though I know that gets expensive because my supervisor is an avid quilter and spends tons on fabrics. She is actually about to invest in a $5,000 machine!!! Anyhow, that's my plan.

wunderbar...

2009-09-28T22:48:49Z

Finally saw Inglourious Basterds last night. I thought it was very entertaining and totally Tarantino at his best. I had to keep myself from cheering out loud at certain points and towards the end I was on the edge of my seat thinking "come one COME ONE DO IT!!". I think Colonel Hans Landa was brilliant and creepy. And I developed a little crush on this particular fellow:

Whose name happens to be: Daniel César Martín Brühl González Domingo. Dude has six names!!

watch the very first scene

2009-09-15T23:43:10Z

The young guy in the very first scene reminds me of a young, preppy version of one of my lj friends!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NdSXKK3odk

like peeling tape from my eyeball

2009-08-25T22:28:47Z

This is what my eyelids feel like sometimes. My eyes are so so dry. I've been holding off on asking my dr about Restasis because the last thing I want is to be put on meds that may somewhere down the line, completely fuck up my kidneys or make my eyeballs swell til they pop out of my head or something crazy. I do not trust our pharmacutical companies, but jeez, my eyeballs are parched! I don't think I could shed a tear if I tried. I hope this doesn't last forever.

Blip.fm is quite nice. It's got me going though my mental music catalog. I think I'll find some old music to post. I was thinking about what was super cool back in 6th grade. I don't think I'll blip them but I do feel like I should mention these gems.

Sophie B Hawkins - Damn I wish I was your lover. What a crazy obsessed bitch! And this title is much too long. I loved this song though

Shakespear Sister (?) - Stay. Staaaay wiiiith meeee-e-e I really tried to sing along to this everytime I heard it, which was like 15 x a day

KLF uh huh uh huh uh huh Last Train to ...shit I don't remember the name, but it was cool I tell you!

These songs were from my teased bangs/shit brown lipstick/sheer sleeved shirt days. I would post pictures from these years but all I have are a few from a photo booth at the mall with 2 other dorks. ha!

listening to "Digitalism - In Cairo" on Blip

2009-08-25T17:10:01Z

reminds me of dancing at Coachella

listening to "Caribou - Melody Day" on Blip

2009-08-25T17:07:01Z

day dreamy kind of song

listening to "Julian Plenti - Games for Days" on Blip

2009-08-25T17:03:30Z

for Interpol fans. Paul Banks solo stuff

jen_if_er @ 2009-08-24T18:27:00

2009-08-24T23:31:22Z

I have a blip fm account. Add me people!

http://blip.fm/invite/defiant_frenzy

Oh yeah and...

2009-08-19T22:35:20Z

One of my parents friends was just here the other day railing against Obamas health care plan (which I'm a bit concerned about as well)...well he's an extreme right wing conservative Limbaugh devotee kinda guy so he hates Obama with a passion. So here's my question, what do YOU think? I don't know much about this whole socialized medicine thing and while I think our health care system needs an overhaul and private insurance companies are totally screwed up, I'm not sure I like this plan but then again I don't know too much about it. This dude says this system is the govt's way of getting rid of the sick and the old, but I mean, what about people that are currently uninsured ? They are not getting the care they need. Besides, tax payers are already footing the bill for them. On the issue of ""they're gonna ration our healthcare", ummm well, as far as I can see insurance companies are already doing that. I'm sure anyone with any sort of health issues knows insurance companies like to deny procedures and prescriptions all the time so I don't see how this could possibly get much worse. The end of life counseling issue, he says "the gov't is advocating euthanasia. They're gonna decide when and how we die!" Thats sounds a bit paranoid to me. I feel at some point, if you are terminal, these are things that need to be discussed. Die with dignity as people say. Its not like they're going to drag you off to some chamber and kill you. There are options that need to be discussed and I know that personally, if I am suffering and there is absolutely no hope for a good prognosis, I want to be able to say please get my family together to say their goodbyes and put me out of my misery. I see nothing wrong with it. Abortion: while I am proud to be pro-choice, I can see where many folks do not want their tax $$ to pay for this procedure so I can somewhat see the outrage, but still, its a medical procedure, therefore, let it be. Anyhow, I'd like to know your thoughts. By the way, here is the link he sent me.

http://www.liberty.edu/media/9980/attachments/healthcare_overview_obama_072909

like major stuff man

2009-08-19T22:19:19Z

2 things:

Chris starts high school in a few days.

I got my first gray hair. I cut it immediately.

You can imagine how incredibly old I'm feeling right now.

jen_if_er @ 2009-08-11T17:41:00

2009-08-11T23:30:14Z

Summerfest was kinda cool, but there are certainly a few kinks that need to be worked out by the organizers. Finally saw The Octopus Project and they were really cute and fun. Definitely made me long for a keyboard and a theramin. Watched Of Montreal again, which is always a treat. Why do I find Kevin Barnes so attractive?? I guess I've got a thing for skinny guys with makeup and girly frocks (I blame Robert Smith for this). I looked up a few images of him earlier and right there, page one of google, is Kevin Barnes on stage with his wang danglin. hehe .
So the festival was mostly local acts from Houston and Austin and because we didn't want to lose the spot we snagged in front of stage one, we were forced to endure a rap group by the name of Devin the Dude, which included like 8 dudes rapping, not DJing or planing any sort of instruments. Just spewing disgusting lyrics and grabbing the crotch of their oversized pants. Thats 7 dudes too many. And they sucked horse balls...because thats mostly what every song was about. Bitches lickin their balls and them stickin their dicks into some married chic while her husband is fighting in Iraq. Tacky gross stuff. No one wants to hear some nasty dude rapping with rather graphic lyrics about his junk. Yuck. Oh, but the last song was supposed to be inspirational, encouraging everyone to pray and shit Awwww yeah. I was expecting, from the name, some silly white dude with a banjo or something! Anyhow, that was my weekend. I hope they do it again next year, perhaps as a fall fest, with more booths for food and such and no lines to buy tickets to buy beer.

jen_if_er @ 2009-07-25T10:49:00

2009-07-25T16:30:02Z

I've finally gotten back into reading material other than Vogue and Budget Travel. I'm not sure why (perhaps its because almost all of my books, including the new, unread ones, are currently in storage?)...well, actually I think I had lost interest in novels for some reason. I can't believe I'm actually admitting this because normally I loooove to read. Several months ago, I got about halfway through a Hunter S. Thompson book, Generation of Swine, which held my attention for a while but I suddenly lost interest and decided I was much too distracted to focus on anything more than a magazine. And so it has been that way until I went to Barnes & Noble (yes I am ashamed I payed full price for a book, but 1/2 Price Books was out of the way so..) and purchased Augusten Borroughs latest memoir A Wolf at the Table. It's an excellent read (quite sad, unlike his previous memoirs. I am somewhat familiar with the feelings, but for different reasons) and I finished it within a couple of days. I'm ready for another novel. I began to realize the reason I had lost interest in one of my very favorite pastimes is because I'm letting myself slip into even more of a crappy routine and wasting what little time I have away from work. This is why I hate hate hate working 5 days a week. My job takes a huge chunk of my day away from me 5 days a week. I have just enough time to go home, get online for a short while, play with the dogs, nag Chris, take a short nap, go to the gym, watch the one soap I like to watch (yes yes this is so unnecessary, but what can I say? Its my one guilty pleasure!), shower and then its already past midnight and time for me to sleep again. I want 4 10 hr days so I can have 3 days to myself! This is but a silly little dream because that will never happen.
So anyhow, I went to Mr Burroughs (born Christopher Robison) website augusten.com, and read a few of his blogs and articles he has done for Details magazine. I think he is my new favorite author. Brilliant and hilarious, and I feel I can relate to him just a bit because of our "different" upbringings, though his childhood was much crazier than mine.

I must empty my bladder which has been filled to capacity for a while now. There is almost.... almost no better feeling than to get all of that pee out when you've been holding for way too long. It's like the biggest sigh of relief ever.

Baytown/Houston folks should go to this

2009-07-10T22:10:17Z

Summer Fest 2009

http://texasdillo.blogspot.com/2009/06/free-press-summer-fest-houston.html

Ethan, you may like this as well.

jen_if_er @ 2009-07-06T23:42:00

2009-07-07T04:48:39Z

It sucks to see a good friend go through the same thing I went through 2 yrs ago. When you lose someone, especially when it's not in the correct order, it totally screws up your reality. Life is so strange and fragile.

jen_if_er @ 2009-07-02T18:12:00

2009-07-02T23:25:51Z

Hmmm

Why do I as though I should be doing something with my life involving creativity, yet I am not creative?

Why do I feel as though I should be doing something to better myself, to learn some new skill, yet I cannot figure out what it is I should be doing?

Why do I find it so hard not waste what little time I have left in my day once I get off work?

Why do crackheads, crazies and the wealthy seem to win the lottery or somehow come into large amounts of money, and regular folks like myself, who would actually manage the money quite well, stay just above poverty level (even with a college education)?

Why can't I just do what I really want to do, which is wander around the world 6 months out of the year?

Why did I find myself Googling information about which over-the-counter retinol cream is the most potent? (next up: mid life crisis? Botox? nose job? yikes!)

jen_if_er @ 2009-06-26T18:51:00

2009-06-27T00:01:52Z

Man, I remember the video for Thriller scaring the shit out of me as a child! Especially when all the zombies started breaking into the house. eek!
Poor dude.

Meanwhile at a hospital here in Houston, a woman who has been a dear friend of our family for the past 25 yrs or so, passed away yesterday, after a long battle which all started with a perforation in her stomach/intestines. Evidently too much Ibprofen can cause serious ulcers and she let hers go for way too long and once you have a perforated stomach or bowel, its really hard to get them working again.

I can see clearly now .......

2009-06-22T23:36:45Z

Wooooo hoooo! The doc came in, took a look at my eyeballs, said everything looked perfect, removed the contact lens (I could see immediately), looked at my right eye again and made me blink blink blink and then said it looks as though my cornea never moved. Everything looks perfect. I can seeeeeee! My vision is pretty close to 20/20 but he says it'll take about 10 days to really start seeing clearly. I've still got some swelling in the eye they had to float. I still get some halos around lights which can last a few months and, well, the dry eyes will be with me for a while but I just have to get used to carrying around eye drops, something I should have done in the past anyhow. Sooooo to celebrate, I went to the Galleria and spent some major cashmoneys on some Oakleys. I'm ashamed of how much I spent, but I needed polarized lenses (the sunlight is now my eyeballs' enemy) and I will be wearing them pretty much every time I go outside so I'm trying to convince myself its a small price to pay to protect my investment.
Wow, I still can't get over the fact that I am able to type this without glasses on my face or contacts in my eyeballs.

jen_if_er @ 2009-06-21T21:24:00

2009-06-22T02:56:06Z

So Friday I had Lasik. Man it was pretty freaky. Soooo weird to watch someone pull your cornea from you iris. I was absolutely terrified and the one valium (I should have demanded 2 like the lady after me did) they gave me didn't calm me much because I kept thinking they didn't numb my eyes enough. Once they put the speculum in though, I knew I was numb because that shit should have hurt (see below video. This is not my surgery, but it is basically how mine went). The speculum makes me think of The Clockwork Orange. Anyhow, it didn't hurt (a slight bit of pressure while they sliced my corneas) but it made me cringe because I was watching press on my eyeballs and mess with my corneas and it was just creepy *shudders*. The laser just looked like a bright red light with red speckles in it. Strange experience but I wouldnt hesitate to do it again. I am one of the unfortunate few that had some complications after the surgery though, so I am currently not at 20/20 vision. When I got home from the eye center, I slept and slept and did not wake up to put in the artificial tears they gave me, which, folks when they say you'll have dry eyes after lasik, its no fucking joke. Jeeez. Anyhow, My right eye got waaay too dried out and my eyelid caught onto my freshly cut corneal flap and moved it ever so slightly, but enough to put a little wrinkle in it and fuck up my vision. I freaked and called the Dr who said they can fix it the next morning. Fixing a corneal flap involves 2 Drs, one to stick a syringe full of sterile water with a plastic curved tip under the cornea to "float" it and the other Dr has to push the plunger because if the one holding the syringe moves to much, it could damage my eye. Then they had to scrape off a layer of epithelial cells from my iris because the cornea had already started healing in the wrong position, and then refloat the cornea and then smooth it out (this took longer than the actual lasik procedure). All of this was fine until the anesthetic drops wore off. Oh my I was in ALOT of pain...but it subsided after about 4 or 5 hours and now I am anxious to see what happens tomorrow. They will remove the contact from my eye (acts as a bandage) and the contact happens to be a prescription contact so its making my vision hazy so I'm hoping once it comes off, I will be able to see! I think what happened to me is pretty rare though because everyone else who went in for their post op walked away with 20/20 vision. I was so jealous :( Soooo wish me luck!!!

Looking back...

2009-05-26T00:29:18Z

So I have a few 12" vinyls sitting up in my closet that I remember purchasing back in I dunno, 1990-91. Must've gotten them from Record Rack. I decided to look up old late 80's techno that I used to love and I never knew how fucking ridiculous the videos were. In this case, the song too! ha!

And this song...All theses years I totally thought this was a dude singing. And WTF does the video have to do with the song? Acid + weightlifters + wrestlers = eh?

And last but not least, looks at these poor goofy looking bastards. Jeeezz.. But the song is pretty cool.

care for a slice of my eyball?

2009-05-18T21:57:54Z

I've taken a giant leap...for me anyhow. I've scheduled a consultation at the Mann Eye clinic to see if I am a candidate for Lasik. If so, I'm going to have it done ASAP before I chicken out. I am absolutely TERRIFIED of the actual procedure but to be able to open my eyes each day and be able to see my surroundings without first feeling around for my glasses (because I cannot see them My eyesight = -6.25 . Seriously bad!) That will be soooo amazing. I haven't had 20/20 vision, without lenses, since about 2nd grade. I will informing them to give me the best shit they have to ease my nerves because the very thought of anything but a contact going near my eyeball makes me want to kick and scream. Eeek! I really look forward to life without lenses though.

jen_if_er @ 2009-05-11T18:04:00

2009-05-11T23:21:46Z

I've recently been having dreams about people from my past. People I don't really give a shit about. They just pop into my little dreamland for a bit. Nothing profound or meaningful. They just appear and disappear just as quickly. It's irritating because I begin thinking about parts of the past that involve them and ...well I don't really care to think about them because they are just random, annoying people from my past. Why can't I dream about the cool parts of my past, like walking around inside a mountain carved by a waterfall in the Alps or getting lost in Paris?
Speaking of, I wish, I wish, I wish I was going somewhere completely awesome this year. I'm having travel withdrawals. I look at pages of my most recent Budget Travel magazine, boasting the wonders of Istria and the deals to be found in New York and practically drool. I'm reminded of that song by Metric, "buy this car to go to work, go to work to pay for this car". Grrrrrr I hate car payments and full coverage insurance! Not that I'm competely broke, but I am trying to be responsible seeing as how I've already made one large purchase within the last 8 months so I should hold off on those $1000 plane tickets. Also, I want to purchase a home. Soon. Now.

too many dicks on the dancefloor........

2009-05-10T03:53:10Z

By the way, Josh and I had the pleasure of seeing Brett and Jemaine live at Jones Hall. If ever you have the chance to see them, DO IT. They were so adorably hilarious and awesome. Geniuses those guys are.