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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance         Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days |
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| Enjoy the shade.
Would you rather have a photographic memory, but really bad things are constantly happening to you, or have no short term memory (and for some reason no cameras, or people to remind you of things) and have the most amazing experiences? |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days |
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| Shia LaBeouf has supposedly confirmed that he will be reprising his role of Mutt in the next Indy installment.
Seriously, news to me on all levels. Here I thought Crystal Skull pretty much tied things up (while also jumping the shark with the whole franchise  ). Do we REALLY need another sequel?
I'm wondering if this is just an excuse for Spielberg's wife to reprise her role from Temple of Doom. |
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Rogue If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days |
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Seriously, South Park hit the nail on the head. It was like watching an old, childhood friend getting raped on a pinball machine before my very eyes.  |
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If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days
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My 89-year-old grandmother has been living with us for the past few months.
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She's getting too old to be left alone, and she's had several accidents in her home. She's left the stove on and gone to bed, she's fallen down a few times. She's blind in one eye and hard of hearing (although she seems to be able to hear pretty well from time to time). Since she's also originally from the Philippines, sometimes she'll insist on speaking to me in Tagalog (which I'm far from fluent in). Since my dad is self-employed he's able to be around most of the time, but he works elsewhere on Tuesdays and Fridays. Since she has a caretaker who comes in Tuesdays and Wednesdays, I've been having to stay home on Fridays and make sure she's OK. Things have been all right most of the time. She tends to just sit in one of the chairs in the living room and sleep. Or she'll sit in her room. I've tried taking her out, but she's unable to walk more than a few feet at a time. If I have a car, I take her to the library, but since my car is also currently my dad's and he's in the next county with it on Fridays, we usually sit at home. She's now HEAVILY dependent on her cane. I've been noticing things have been getting worse this week. A couple nights ago, my dad cooked fish for everyone. She usually loves fish. She sat through the meal chewing it, and then either spitting it out onto her plate or onto the floor and grabbed for her crackers that were in a container on the table. Sometimes she goes on about hearing people singing loudly. There's no one there. My dad found her crying yesterday. She wouldn't tell him why. She's suddenly incontinent, and urinates everywhere and blames it on our cats. I figure incontinence is typical for an elderly person, though. But just now, she was screaming up the stairs for me. As I rushed down she started shouting about all of the doors being closed and looked as though she was about to cry. She was also really dismayed about the curtains being down on the French doors in the back. I walked around and opened all the doors. She then went out the front door and started screaming over and over about how my father was trying to kill her. ... I called my mom, and she said this is part of her "sickness" and that I should just ignore it. My grandmother's house is a couple neighborhoods over. It's about a mile away. She can't stay there because her neighbors are really nosy. If she was there alone, they would call the cops and try to have her put into a home or something. They had started saying we were being negligent when she was living on her own. They were constantly calling the city for different reasons (oil streaks on the driveway, trashcans too close together, lawn not mowed regularly, etc) to try and have them remove her from her home. My grandmother really wants to live in her own home. She was briefly living with my aunt. When my aunt had to go to the hospital, she insisted that if she kept my grandmother there, it would kill her. So we took her full time. With her living here, though, it's given this aunt the opportunity to raid my grandmother's house for furniture, tools, knick-knacks, wall decorations, and other things she wants. She's saying that my grandmother gave her these things and that anything that was given before she dies does not need to be split up as part of the inheritance. When my grandfather died 14 years ago, the family was ripped to shreds over who got what, even though my grandmother was alive and well. My aunts were fighting over how they deserved money, my uncle sort of sat back and tried to play neutral, and my parents said everything should stay with my grandmother. To this day, these aunts have been pressuring my grandmother to move out of the house so they can sell it and keep the money. Doesn't have to be split up if it's a gift, right?
In the meantime, while being upset about visiting my grandmother's house and finding so much just taken, I find myself watching her scream bloody murder about my dad into the open air. I just don't know any more. We have our own set of nosy neighbors. The lesbians next door would LOVE to report something like this to the police. They've reported us for less (a fan in the window, people standing on the roof during a party, etc). I'm tired. I'm weary. I'm starting school on Monday and I still have to watch her on Fridays. Things just keep getting worse when it comes to this situation. Anyway... my parents just got home. I'm going to talk with them now. (Last edited by Rogue on 08-20-10 09:23 PM)
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If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days
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Originally posted by Xeus I really don't know any more. I mean, I worked at a convalescent home/hospital when I was in high school and vowed never to put my parents in one since. It was really depressing environment. The nurses had a betting pool over who was going to die next and they frequently ignored the patients. Every single day patients were coming up to me asking when their family was coming for them. Many of them looked heartbroken all the time. Those who weren't catatonic were begging for cigarettes as their only comfort, which some of the nurses gave them. Most were demented and left in their rooms. I figure if she stays with us at least she's among family. For the last couple months I've been going out and getting her fried chicken because she really likes it. It's always Church's chicken thigh and biscuits, every day. She's also on medication. I just talked with my dad and apparently she went to bed before they could give her the rest of her meds last night. Right after our talk, he went next door to see if the lesbians heard anything and to explain what's going on. (Last edited by Rogue on 08-20-10 09:27 PM)
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If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days
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Hahaha, false. But we do have two litterboxes in the downstairs bathroom. Hmm...
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The person below me has had "Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury" stuck in their head some time this week.
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If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days
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Fuck getting ready for a project, setting aside your materials and even selecting specific pictures and things you want (with the whole process taking a couple hours) and then coming back to find everything thrown away and you can't even find it any more.
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Goddamnit.
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If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days
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Jack Ruby.
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What's a fictitious food or beverage that you've seen in a book/movie/comic/whatever that you wish was real or that you'd at least like to try?
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If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days
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Viral marketing on Chat Roulette was genius. I don't
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Rogue |
If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days
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You know what's obnoxious? Having to be stuck in line next to a young couple making out on-and-off for over half an hour. It sounded like someone sloppily eating chicken. And then whenever they speak, you can't help but overhear it and you want to slam your head into a brick wall with how utterly immature and stupid they sound.
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On top of which, they're yelling at the staff members watching over the line to let them into the thing you're waiting for. You know what's hilarious, though? Getting to be the last person in line who gets to go in and having the door locked behind you. Such was the case earlier tonight. Went to the observatory and got to look in the massive telescope for as long as we wanted. The door officially closes at 9:30. Brandon, Stitch and I were literally the last people allowed in. Normally I feel guilty about (or at least try to avoid) schadenfreude, but I actually turned at laughed at the door. Since I'm sure the staffer who closed the door has a key, we didn't open it when we kept hearing knocking and later pulling and shoving it. It was a good day otherwise. Went to the Red Bull Flugtag event. Watched about half of it and headed out for lunch. It was pretty crowded. Later attempted to go to a signing and found the line ridiculously long and just went to a nearby video store specializing in obscure DVDs. Picked up the Thomas Jane (sigh...) "Punisher" for a buck. I actually haven't seen it yet. Then we drove through West Hollywood, got dinner and headed to the observatory. 
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If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days
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I'm not sure about the executor part. As far as I know she and my grandfather had a trust with my mom, her brother and two sisters as trustees. I don't know anything other than that in terms of how the estate will be legally handled on her passing.
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The incontinence has been medically checked out. She needs adult diapers. There isn't much else for it, I guess. Since she has a caretaker come in on certain days of the week, it does free us up when it comes to worrying about who's going to be with her while we're at work or school. The problem is this isn't the caretaker's only gig. She's almost entirely full-time (except for those two days, obviously) elsewhere. Actually she's a whole 'nother set of drama. She wants to be paid in cash, and was asking my grandmother to pay her despite the fact that my mom was paying her. So she was collecting double. 
Last night, while everything was all settled down and we all sat down to dinner it was nice. Since my grandmother seems to have problems chewing, after dinner, all five of us got in the car and went to the store to see about getting softer things for her to eat, maybe get her some Ensure or something. While we were eating, though, my mom mentioned that Lola (Filipino word for grandma) has paranoia and other issues. She's seen doctors and that's what all her meds are for, along with vitamins and supplements. My mom made sure to give her all her medication and there wasn't any sort of eruption today. Apparently the night before last, when my grandmother missed some of her meds because she had fallen asleep early, my mom was on the phone with one of my aunts. My mom mentioned Lola being asleep and questioning whether or not to wake her to make her take her medication. My aunt insisted that it was best not to wake her up. And then that whole my-dad's-trying-to-kill-her tirade happened. My mom confronted her about that, actually. Lola said she was joking. Mom has her degree in sociology and her job is mainly in job coaching mentally disabled people (mostly autistic). She was explaining to me that people who are mentally ill will sometimes throw a fit about the smallest things and you have to find out what it is, fix it, and usually things will go smoother. I suppose, in the case of yesterday it was the fact that the curtains were down on the back doors.
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If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days
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It's actually not a mosque. Cordoba House is meant to be community center.
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It was pretty much going to be a cooking school, daycare center, among other things. Olbermann talks a bit about it: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Olbermann does have a tendency to exaggerate, but in this case he's mostly just providing you with images of what one might actually see at Ground Zero verses the proximity of the center to it. But Jon Stewart has his own way of getting people look and laugh at the situation:
Stewart once again taking on Fox news:
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Rogue |
If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days
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This is how stupidly complex the situation with the caretaker has gotten. My uncle's wife is a nurse and hired this woman who is one of her friends to be Lola's caretaker and at a lower price than one would usually find one.
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I've mentioned to my parents that we need to find someone else, but it would come off as a slight against my uncle and his wife if we did. So I'm completely with you on this one. I just have no control over the situation. Sonya, the caretaker, does her job pretty well, otherwise. She bathes my grandmother, takes her out, gets her hair and nails done, and my grandmother seems to take to her. I should explain the she "said she was joking" part. She tends to say things like that. She never really liked my dad. And in the past she would make comments to me while no one was around about how bad she thinks my dad is. And yet, in her eyes I can do no wrong. Well, I can do plenty actually (she's always telling me to adjust my clothes or wear other things because she doesn't like how they make me look, etc). I happened to be the one who lowered the curtains a few days ago, which caused her to freak out and claim my dad was trying to kill her (with the heat). When my mom explained this to her, suddenly she says, "Oh okay, you can leave them down." This caused my mom to facepalm while I laughed (as this came after my mom explained the paranoia thing as well as my grandmother being horribly bothered by little things). Anyway, whenever things happen around Lola, she's like a little kid, saying things so she won't get in trouble. My mom: "Were you just outside screaming that someone's trying to kill you?" Lola: "Nuh-uh!!" Mom: "Yes you were. Christine saw you." Lola: "I was joking!" Mom: "Did you pee on that chair?" Lola: "Nuh-uh, it was your cats!" I guess I just feel as I mentioned above that I have no control over the situation other than when I watch her on Fridays, or other days if the situation calls for it. Most of the talks between my mom and her siblings are conducted over the phone, in my parents room, before they go to bed. I guess I'm just left wondering what's going on all the time and left in the dark, and the situation is wearing my mind thin from time to time.
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If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days
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Tenth place in the box office this weekend. I haven't seen the complete list of numbers other than that was where it placed.
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It was a really weak weekend as it was. "Expendables" which came in first only made $15 million. "Vampires Suck" came in second with $12.2 million (it's made $18 million since Wednesday and was only $17 million to make). "Eat Pray Love" came next at $12 million, then "Lottery Ticket" at $11 million and then "The Other Guys" at $10. "Nanny McPhee Returns" was at $8.3 million, with "The Switch" at $8.1 million. As mentioned no numbers for "Scott Pilgrim" yet. This doesn't bode well for niche movies. Producers and studios would be less open to making movies like SP if these are the what they have to look forward to. In fact, these numbers are frightening. "Vampires Suck" made its money back in one weekend. That means more of these shitty, pop culture films featuring chicks passing gas are well on their way.
EDIT: There are some conflicting reports of the numbers but here's one report off the Examiner: 1. THE EXPENDABLES: $17.2 ($65.6m) 2. VAMPIRES SUCK: $12.5m ($18.8m) 3. LOTTERY TICKET: $11.4m 4. EAT PRAY LOVE: $11.4m ($47m) 5. PIRANHA 3D: $10.1m 6. THE OTHER GUYS: $9.7m ($88.2m) 7. THE SWITCH: $9m 8. NANNY MCPHEE RETURNS: $8.3m 9. INCEPTION: $8.2m ($263m) 10. SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD: $5m ($20.5m) Fucking tragic. (Last edited by Rogue on 08-22-10 02:51 PM)
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If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days
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I don't even know and I'm laughing. Maybe it's the sound of them laughing or the way the human guy is upset.
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I love how non-sequitur our commercials are getting. Skittles, Geico, Old Spice. Ah, Starburst, you try so hard but it's just not as out there or funny. If the love of your life turned out to be the opposite sex of what they are, would you still want to be with them and go gay (or straight) for them?
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If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days
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Originally posted by Xeus While it started out strong, the middle and ending were VERY disappointing, I'll just say. Obviously the originally trilogy plays with reality and makes things downright unrealistic happen, but Crystal Skull has Shia Lebeouf swinging on vines with monkeys among other ridiculous things. Oh god, and the CG. It's just hard to believe that they spent so many years working on the writing and re-writing for it and that was what they decided was the best.
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If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days
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Getting ready for my boyfriend's show. He's doing a charity concert rehearsal party in a couple hours. I'm also supposed to be reading this book for an interview I'm doing with the author. D'oh.
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What would be your ultimate way to die that would bring you such satisfaction when you've shuffled off this mortal coil?
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If you're reading this... You are the Resistance Since: 08-17-04 Since last post: 668 days Last activity: 477 days
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You can't just post August so far?
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You're just saying that so the month you were a little inactive won't count. 
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Goddamnit.
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