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In my head today….

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

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Yikes… Okay, so….

Friday, August 21st, 2009

Back in 2001-2002, I was looking for music from the movie “The Name of the Rose” on Napster.  It is an extremely rare and out of print soundtrack as the movie was made in like 1986 and you can only find old used copies at somewhere around $35 or higher.  Along the way I found this tune called “Hotarubi: The Name of the Rose mix”.  Out of curiosity I listened.  That was when my love for Japanese rock music was born.  It was a band called Dir En Grey

I still love that tune so much, BUT, the band is now on Rhapsody, and unfortunately, their music took a much darker, louder and noisier extreme over the years.  I just can’t listen to it.  I suppose I should go back and listen to their earlier albums to find any other tunes I might like, but they aren’t on Rhapsody so, eh…  Oh well.

Fast forward to 2007…  This entry explains what happened: Dir en Grey.  That’s when I found The GazettE.  And here I am two years later, still enjoying them and still they aren’t on freaking Rhapsody!  Anyway, just out of curiosity, I thought I’d look and see what Dir En Grey looked like back in 2001 and today vs Gazette and yikes!

Dir en Grey

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Sometime around 2001?

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Current…  Or at least last year…

And Gazette:

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Ha!  Gazette’s prettier.  :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

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“Sorrow Made You”

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

The lyrics from the song I posted earlier are so dark. I didn’t even realize he was singing about half of it in English until later.

I’m trying to play “Aveyond: Gates of Night” but I’m not enjoying it much.  I mean it’s fun and everything like all the Aveyond games are, I’m just not all that interested.  *sigh*  It’s the same thing with EQ2.  I’m just not enjoying games right now.

I’m watching another anime, “07-Ghost”, and it’s good, though the art style doesn’t really appeal to me as much as the weird story.  (I’m not much for giant eyes and shiny-ness.)  I’m taking this one slower, trying not to watch it all in one night.  Probably more out of my own restlessness than anything else.

I still haven’t written Max’s case manager or made the phone call to his teacher.  Of course, Max has pushed around now where we’re going to bed at around 2pm and getting up close to 10pm.  I’m hoping to push him to sleep at around 3pm tomorrow.  By next Tuesday he should be right again.  Once I get him going to bed at 9pm or 10pm, I’ll start forcing him to go to bed on time again.   Once school starts it should be a thousand times easier.  I feel really bad about Max’s teacher, but I just don’t feel comfortable calling so late at night, and in the morning she’s already at the school.  I hope she’s not mad as us for canceling.  :(

I told Cliff I wanted Marjorie to take Max and me to his doctor on Friday, and he seemed upset.  I feel bad about it, but he’s horrible in those situations!  He’s so angry and embarrassing.  *sigh*  I don’t know what to do…  I didn’t call and change the appointment yet.  Should I give him the chance to be different this time?  Meanwhile, I’m just trying to make it to next Tuesday.    Once school starts everything should get better again.

I cut my arm today.  It was totally by accident too.  We had been outside with Max for about two hours early this morning and after we came in I reached over and scratched what felt like a bug bite on my left arm and a second or two later I noticed blood running down my arm and damned if I wasn’t bleeding all over the place.  Luckily Marjorie has bandaids.  It’s just a tiny little spot, but it must be right over a vein.  I get cuts and scratches all the time and they’ve never done that before.  Oh well.  I’m guessing it’s a bite from a *gulp* spider.  It’s so close to my elbow it looks like I’ve had an IV in my arm.  :lol:

Damn, I’m a boring person.  *sigh*

We have an additional appointment coming up.  This time at Social Services.  They want to check to see if we’re still eligible for Medicaid for Ian.  Marjorie is being dropped from Medicaid now because she’s too old and is getting her own insurance from her job as of like last week or something.  So, I guess they want to reassess us for eligibility since we’re losing one dependent.  Fun.  I hate going there.  It ends up being all day.  The appointment is actually set for a particular day, but the time is “between 9am and 3:30pm” or something like that.  An all day adventure.  Joy.  We’ll get it again.  We don’t make enough money.

Again, I am a really boring person.

“Sorrow made you, sorrow made you, sorrow made you….”
- The GazettE – “The Invisible Wall”

For me it’s “stuck in my head, stuck in my head, stuck in my head….”

I can’t think of anything else to say, so I guess I’ll wrap this up and go find something else to do.  I do have some chores that need attention.

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Stuck in my head today:

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

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Been listening to The GazettE all evening.

Saturday, August 15th, 2009

While their music tends to lean a little more hardcore at times than I usually like in the music I regularly listen to, I find some tunes like “Reila” and “Cassis” and “Guiren” and “The Invisible Wall”  get stuck in my head.  I wish their albums were on Rhapsody.  I have to search for videos and hope for the best.  The more I see these guys the more intriguing they are to me.  There’s a petition in place online to try and get them to come here, and I went and read it and considered signing it, except whoever wrote the thing was rather illiterate, or maybe English isn’t their first language.  Whatever the case, it was written poorly and therefore few folks have signed.

In other news, I have a raging headache.  Stress is rampant.  I am feeling a bit neglected and sad in the marriage department which in turn is making me look at rock stars and wish I was 18 again.  (Oh great.  :roll: )  Fear is stacked on top of this and embarrassment about having to cancel with Max’s teacher on Friday and not having called her back yet.  I feel guilty about that because she’s trying to do something nice to help us and I keep putting her off.  I don’t mean to, it’s just that right now we are nocturnal, Max and I.  I also have yet to write back to Max’s case manager even though she wrote me last Wednesday.  She even has an art job for me.  SO, what the heck is wrong with me?  I don’t know.  (Lie #1.)  I think I need a vacation.  Or fat surgery.  Or my brain transplanted into someone beautiful.  I find I just want to run out to an island or a mountain top and SCREAM as loud as I can until my lungs collapse.  (Maybe that’s why I’m enjoying Gazette so much right now.)  I was really enjoying writing, but then I got sidetracked and haven’t been able to get back.  I still have library books to finish reading.  I have dishes to do.  I keep yawning even though I got plenty of sleep.  Max slept ten hours.  It sounds nutty, but it’s pushing him around right.  By the time school starts he should be going to bed on time again.  It’s just going to make for a long week. *sigh*

Anime, take me away….  :shock:

(Speaking of anime, holy cow, Kurushitsuji was so great!!!!!  “I am one hell of a butler” is totally right.  I would love a butler like that.  Where do I sign? *grabs pen*)  :twisted:

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Ha ha ha ha! Oh my gosh!

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

I just stopped by here and I had to laugh.  I was so tired last night (AKA this morning) when I wrote that last entry and my title makes NO SENSE.  What I MEANT was, when you live your day in reverse, meaning, nocturnal, getting up in the evening and going to bed at daybreak, the days seem so ridiculously long.  I think I know why too.  Without the usual shadows and light from the sun there’s no way to tell time without actually looking at a clock.  The days drag endlessly.

Tomorrow I’m supposed to have Max’s teacher come to work on his room.  The problem is, we are so messed up with our sleep that I may have to call and cancel.  I had set it up for noon-ish because I thought when I last spoke to her we would be up.  I didn’t realize how far he was going to push us around on sleep.  We won’t be back to normal until closer to Monday.  She did say if there was a problem to give her a call and change it.  If he’s still up after 8am tomorrow I probably will.

Meanwhile, aggression city.  He’s angry and violent.  He keeps running up and slamming me in the back and tearing up paper and throwing it at me.

Ah, a simple day in the life.  Ain’t it great.

In other news, I put a video tape in my nice new, less than a year old VCR/DVD player (a wonderful gift from Nathan last year – Thank you Nathan!) and fast forwarded to record the rest of Primeval (season three) so I could clear off the cable box (DVR) and the stupid thing not only ate my tape, I can’t get it out.  :(  I think I’m ready for a DVD recorder now.  I’ll move up out of the video dark ages ASAP.  (Probably next year sometime.  Maybe.) And yeah, I know I can buy all the episodes on DVD, but they’re expensive and we just don’t have the money.  Even when we have the money I’m not willing to spend it on that.  Oh well…  I guess I should quit trying to save everything.  (Like THAT’LL ever happen!)

I had “Reila” stuck in my head again and listened for a while to Gazette.  I do like those guys.  Uruha and Aoi’s guitar work is outstanding, though I’m a bit fonder of Uruha. ;)

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Okay, well, now that Max is finally settled down to do something besides hurt me, I’ll try to do something fun for a bit.

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I woke up with another memory in my head that I can’t shake today….

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

I thought it would dissipate, but it hasn’t, so again I have to recount tales of my former life as a teen to twenty-something and bring up a strong memory that bursts into my head when this tune comes on…

I remember the whole night, but the best bit for me was actually riding in his convertible, that big old ugly burgundy or dark red looking monster of a car, with the top down, cruising down Shipyard Boulevard in Wilmington…  Back then the road died at night and it was if you were completely alone, a lonely car on a lonely stretch of road with music echoing off the buildings as we passed them.  It’s not the person I’m thinking of here, but the feeling of flying with that top down and the feeling of excitement and freedom I had at the time.  The most exciting thing that happens to me here is poo diaper changes on an 11 year old (trust me, it’s quite disgusting – I’m trying to force him to at least try the potty once for poo this summer but he’s very resistant)  and cleaning up when guests are coming.  Woo.  Yay.  Excitement.  Woo.  Anyway, I hear this song and I feel that exhilarating wonder that came from just getting away and escaping and pretending for a little while to be beautiful and desired.  Oh well…  “Those days are gone forever, I should just let ‘em go.”   ;)

We are earnestly trying to teach Max potty training this summer.  Wish us luck.  Max resists with everything he’s got.   And then, on top of that, we’ve got his EEG on Friday.  Now that’s going to be exciting… :shock:

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Today is finally Mom’s day…

Monday, June 8th, 2009

Okay, so, unless something changes, today is MY day…  The last one before two half school days and then summer vacation.  Max will still be going to summer school, but it’s only two half days a week, so it’s still going to be like it’s summer vacation for Max.  His worker is planning on working on two opposite days to make sure Max stays in the “getting up in the morning” mode and not the “get up and sleep all times and all hours all summer” which is the way it used to be…..

Man, Fruity Pebbles are totally my favorite right now.  I swear, they are better than cookies or crackers for snack.  I just love the darn things.  But, of course, I’m out of them today, Mom’s day….  Crap!

And one last thing before I disappear into EQ2 for a while (before going back to bed and dreaming the rest of the time until Max comes home)…  Robyn Miller is a really cool dude.  :)  I wrote him to tell him how much I love the soundtrack to Riven, (I listen to it all the time) and he wrote me back.  Nice guy.  :)  Now if only his brother would go ahead and get Uru Live set free for us rabid fans to play again….

By the way, today is usually Cliff’s day off, but he got assigned inventory audit this week so he’s working today…  So the house will be quiet for at least a good five hours or so.  Time to go kill some orcs!  Yeah!!!!!   :D

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By the way!

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

I sold another copy of “Abandoned Hospital”!  Yay!  Thank you CD Baby!  :D
Now I have $16.95 in the bank just for me!  What to do with…  what to do….  Have to think about it a bit!  :)

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Do yourself a favor…

Sunday, March 8th, 2009

Grab someting nice to drink, have a seat, go to the following link, click the play button over on the right side there and just listen.  Libera: A Song of Enchantment

Beautiful, isn’t it?

I’ve been listening to Libera for years but this song comes on the Music Choice Soundscapes channel that we play for Max every night when I’m sitting with him before he goes to sleep and today I can’t get it out of my head….

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