A lesson... X-Files style
Current mood: selective
Category: Life

I have this habit of thinking that the people in my life are not two faced back stabbers... Other than Harvey Dent that is   But I learned that the games that people play when they are in junior high are the same games that they play all of their lives.  I want to lambast them all here and say who they are and what they said but then I would just be lowering myself to their level.  Don't get me wrong- I am far from perfect and have been known to poke fun at the occasional kid who wanders into my sights at the Starbucks and thinks that society owes him something, sitting for 2 hours drinking ice water since he spent all of his money on pot... I have been known to do that once or twice before.  Okay, maybe three times.... If you have read my blog you know it is my bread and butter to make fun of people but usually they are random strangers.  Not normally do I take someone I know- a coworker for instance- and make fun of them, or talk shit about them thinking they will never find out. Notice I said normally... we are all guilty of doing this but I have learned that no matter how much you try to help or be positive or compassionate it really does not matter in the end.  I will be helpful and compassionate towards those who deserve it- but for those whose true faces I have seen.... And Done.  I wish that they could all learn the truth- that those people they talk shit to and about, are talking shit about them behind their back... I guess that is the universe's way of keeping balance or something.  Any whoo- I guess what I have learned is... Trust No One... There are people in your lives that you can trust- your bff, your family and true friends, and your significant other (Rawr) but the others- well, lets just say they will not be hearing a peep from me anymore.  I learned my lesson.  

Currently listening : The Truth And The Light: Music From The X-Files (Television Series) Release date: 1996-10-08

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It’s just one of those days....
Current mood: lonely
Category: Life

I woke up this morning and having had some problems the last few weeks with my wrists and elbows I have been sleeping with wrist braces on... And, yes, I do feel like an old woman ;) But when I woke up today I could not move my arm- got a little scared and then realized that even though I could not move it I could still feel a lot of pain in my shoulder so I saw my Doc and he said I had sprained my shoulder... What?  When?  And why do I not know what I was doing when this happened?  So I have a lovely new sling to wear (no, it isn't black :-( ) when my shoulder hurts and am having a steady relationship with motrin that is growing every day...
Friday I got cornered outside by the local pest control dude who was dying to come in and spray the house for spiders- and being one who cannot stand the heat I told him to come in because I was tired of standing outside.  Not a smart move- I also told him I would not be signing up because my roommate who owns this house was out of town until Tuesday.  Another boneheaded thing to say... So he left and went on his way and I realised that A.) I let some strange guy who talked to my chest into my house when I was alone and B.) I told him I would be alone all weekend.  I know, I know- it's like I want this moron to show up in the middle of the night.  As though my sword needed to be sharpened by his sternum.  So I spent a couple of sleepless nights thinking about life and how much I hate spiders as I have been killing a lot of them lately.  And, yes, I freaked myself out and that is why it was so hard to sleep.  Last night I fell asleep early and slept pretty well but am going to be glad when the roommate is home tomorrow.  So, yeah... nothing else of interest to report.  But I will stay vigilant and share the fun :)

Currently watching : Family Guy, Vol. 5 (Season 5 Part 1) Release date: 2007-09-18

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Why I love Homer and Peter... and Fry
Current mood: creative
Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities

In case you are wondering, yes I am referring to Homer Simpson and Peter Griffin... Probably 2 of the worst examples of husbandry and fatherhood in the realm of television, but... One thing I appreciate about both of them is the picture of utter honesty they paint.  At no time do you see either one of them living as though they are not alcoholic, lazy underachievers who have absolutely no social skills whatsoever.  Being a 38 year old woman I have to say that although neither one of them is my idea of the perfect guy (although Blue Harvest rocks!) I am very much attracted to the idea that a man can be himself and still be loved and appreciated by a beautiful woman.  Yes, Marge and Lois are both beautiful women to me.  Although when it comes to younger men, well, Philip J. Fry is pretty damn fantastic.  I have found it curious though that men who grew up pretty  much in the same time frame that I did have created such amazing and REAL characters.   The Groening, Macfarlane and Whedon men all make me happy.  Whedon for so many reasons- but I am going to stick to animated shows for here... Everytime I am having a moment of insecurity or insanity I can pop in Simpsons, Family Guy or Futurama and they come forth with all of their life changing lessons to soothe my soul.  I even have a talking Homer on my dashboard and when road rage approaches he has replaced the cigarette for how I deal with stress... He was one of my favorite Xmas presents.  I am actually watching Futurama now while I wait for an ebay auction to end and update my viigo reader on my Blackberry.  I also have found myself reading blogs on everything from beauty to the geek news to dumbass awards and everything in between.  I am actually thinking about joining the ranks of the beauty reviewer because as anyone who knows me will confirm I am a makeup junkie and have purchased enought of it in my lifetime to fill hundreds of blogs.  Lately though I have found myself purchasing only the best in cosmetics from high end (no, not La Mer because honestly it is like a gazillion dollars an ounce) to low end - bonne bell lipsmackers anyone?  So if any of you are interested in reading about it let me know and I will link you to it...
Only I could go from my love of animated men to La Mer cream in one blog :)

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B-E-N-D-E-R
Current mood: sassy
Category: Life

Ah, a day in the life of the Queen is a somewhat fascinating thing... or would that be boring?  Work yesterday was quite amusing since the Liz brough Ugly Betty and I was able to get my fashion fix ... says the girl who dresses in head to toe black no matter the season- I have begun to think of my wardrobe as iconic- nice, huh?  It makes me feel like less of a freak that way :)  I had a call from one of those people who just annoys with the tone of their voice and she was quite the demanding little nurse and was bound and determined that she was going to talk to the Doc no matter what ... Well, the policy of the Doc in question said no- no home health nurses wanting pain meds for patients... It just isn’t done and she got more than a little demanding after I said no- she got downright bitchy.  So I put her on hold and yelled a couple of expletives at the top of my lungs because, well, I just had to get it out or I would explode.  So Liz, who was outside on her break, came to the door and asked if I was okay because I scared her (I am not a yeller and when I get pushed by a caller to that point it freaks my coworkers out)... Luckily I was able to finish the call at the heights of my professionalism even after she demanded my name and said she was going to complain to the Doc about me... I spelled it for her :)  I used to feel really bad for people who had recently had surgery and ran out of pain meds on a Friday and then after my own surgery I realized that a lack of planning on their part, well, you know... It really is our own responsibility to make sure that we have what we need to take care of ourselves.  I know when I am about to run out of something and if it is a Saturday and I don’t have it I suck it up and leave my Doc the hell alone.  There is no excuse for the girls who run out of birth control and just assume the Docs will call it in for them on Sunday afternoon.  Irresponsible.  I am going to step down off of this soapbox before I really get going...
A few days ago I took Rachel to her first movie and it was AWESOME.. Not the movie itself, just the look on her beautiful little face as she was completely enraptured by the big screen.  We saw Horton hears a Who and it was a cute movie- and she loved it... She ate popcorn and drank water and cuddled with her stuffed Horton and cuddled on my lap when the monkeys got scary :)  I LOVE being her Aunt Lala... I am the luckiest girl in the world- and, yes I will be referring to myself as a girl until I’m 80, it is just something that I do- speaking of lucky girls my sweetie is on the East Coast for training for a new job for 2 more weeks- and I miss him soooo much.  It’s funny -I usually am able to take most things in stride and have learned patience over the years... The wait for the next Batman movie no longer kills me ...tee hee... But in this instance even though I can be patient I find myself missing him very much.  I try to read and watch tv and write but he is always right there in my mind and heart.  If I have learned anything from the last week away from him it is that absence definitely makes the heart grow fonder... And I can’t wait to see him again ... :)  Although I do fill the hours with what I refer to as comfort tv- The Simpsons, Futurama, Family Guy... And I watched the Futurama Episode "The Honking" which has the best opening ever~ Bender singing about how great he is... I love me some Bender... B-E-N-D-E-R, Bender ... you gotta see it :)  It is cathartic- trust me on this, when it comes to filling empty hours with cartoons- I can always pick the best ones... it is a skill- if only it were marketable :D

Currently watching : Futurama, Vol. 4 Release date: 24 August, 2004

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Rockin’ Pneumonia...
Current mood: amused
Category: Life

I got to speak to my Dr. yesterday... His name is Dr. Ngo and every time we talk I cannot help but say "DR. NO!!!" As he is from Vietnam he is less than familiar with James Bond movies but gets a kick out of it since I explained the significance. He told me that my chest x ray showed pneumonia and I was greeted by silence when I asked if I also had the boogie woogie flu... Yeah- pop culture is not his thing... So I am on 4 medications and 2 of them are for asthma which may or may not go away after the infection is gone. Seeing as how I have never been asthmatic though I am betting it will go away. But no smoking for Kelli.... In fact since I have been unable to smoke this is the time when I have decided to quit. It’s too expensive and I can still have coffee as a vice so I am saying goodbye to the smokey smokey.... Hopefully I can do it without paying exorbitant amounts of money for nicotine gum but we will see- the cravings have already begun.
I have been off work since Saturday and really miss it. I miss talking to the doctors and listening to the patients and their enlightening stories that usually start with "well, about ten years ago..." which miraculously leads up to why they are calling today. Wait, I miss that??!?! Yeah- I do, but luckily have awesome coworkers who covered my shifts for me. Lucky girl I am...
Well, time to take another couple hits of albuterol (which tastes terrible in case you were wondering) and get back to whatever it is that I do these days...

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Testing 1...2...3
Current mood: awake
Category: Life

Today’s experiment is to see if I can write a blog on the blackberry... I have been lax on writing them because I don’t have a computer right now since my roommate runs her business from hers, and, well it is the oldest mac computer in existence... So I got this cool little machine so that I could have internet access and so far it has proven to be the awesome-o of phones :) It has great games and a big screen which makes viewing pictures and videos really cool... But since blogging is a huge part of my internet life I am finally testing to see if it can be done successfully from here... So that I can literally share my thoughts with you 24 hours a day from anywhere. One thing I have noticed is that I get really annoyed when I am tooling around on the net or playing a game I get really frakkin’ (uhm, yeah, watching some Battlestar Galactica) annoyed when the phone rings... And then laugh at myself when I realize that,duh, it is a phone! Yes I know~ I know... So the sickness has me home from work a second day and I am waiting for the Doc to send me for a chest x-ray... But since I can surf the web and read e-mails in bed (as well as playing mahjong or poker) I think my sanity is safe. If only I could watch cartoons on this thing...

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I hope it’s not ammonia...
Current mood: sick
Category: Life

So I have been hit by the plague that has been making the rounds in Northern Cali and when I talked to my Doc today he said it might be pneumonia... I don’t feel all that bad but he can rd a chest x-ray and I , alas, cannot...so I am off work for a couple of days and just lying around the lair thinking about comics and their creation. I made an acquaintance with an artist/author that wants to do a dark faeries and I have been working that one around in my brain since wondercon. Brainstorming has been the buzzword for the last several weeks and since I am not working tonight I am going to be playing cards in my head with my characters to learn more about them... Here’s hoping I can make some headway on my story...
The other news is that my phone died so I replaced it with a blackberry since they were on special- I had no idea how cool or addicting this little wonder was- now I can’t stop using ti to check my email, text my boyfriend or play poker blast- the tetris of card games :) I fear I am becoming an crackberry addict but hopefully the new will wear off soon and I will use it as a phone more than anything else...
Since I am saving my voice because it hurts to talk too much and the roommate is at a party I am sitting in nearly perfect silence- punctuated only by the keystrokes and it is kind of nice. I have the whole evening to chill out and work- BF is on a boyscouts trip with his oldest and roomie will be out for a few hours so I am going to do what I do best- procrastinate writing the actual comic and watch cartoons instead... Just kidding! (this is where Liz yells out "She is not kidding!!!") I think I will sit down with a hot cup of tea and start my card game with my main character Rachel... and see where we go tonight! Who knows- maybe we can accomplish together what I have been unable to do on my own the last couple of weeks :)

Currently reading : The DC Comics Guide to Writing Comics By Dennis O'Neil Release date: May, 2001

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By the sea...
Current mood: grateful
Category: Life

I have sat down to write this blog more than once and always seem to feel as though I have nothing worthwhile to contribute. And then tonight it hit me- you don't read this blog for something necessarily worthwhile- you read it to see in the window of my life... So, without further ado~ here is what is going on in said life...
I have said for years that I hate musicals- while secretly I know all of the words to The Simpsons episode "A streetcar named Marge"... And have come to find out that it is not musicals I hate- it's Grease the musical... Why you wonder? I don't exactly know but I just hate it. I went to see Sweeney Todd with the Liz and found myself thoroughly enjoying it. Granted it is about as dark as you can get musical wise but it just rocked. I find myself listening to the soundtrack and singing along with Mrs. Lovett about serving Priest on a bun... sick no? I am planning to dress as Mrs. Lovett on Halloween- taking a trip down to Broadway and singing on a street corner- so I can say I sang the part of Mrs. Lovett on Broadway- smart, no? A girl's gotta have a goal....
Speaking of goals the time of year when most people set them, but call them resolutions, is 28 days behind us and I think I am ready to set some of my own- so what does 2008 hold for the Queen? Hmmm.... let's see... Lair time- definitely! Comics convention? ABSOLUTELY... Batman movie? HELL YES... I actually began sifting through the piles that have become of my life and have started the process of weeding out the shit that I am tired of moving~ so, yes, Brian you will be getting your Alice in Chains, South Park season one and House of 1000 corpses back :) Only what 5 years later? I am such a loser!
The catalyst for beginning to weed was my sister and her husband moving into their very first house! WHOO HOO... I saw that even the people in my life who don't have to own every little thing have a lot of stuff to move and I am done being that woman who hoards every book and cd and dvd 'just in case'... The accumulation of crap is too much and I am done with the whole thing. I know that most of you are shaking your heads but I am getting rid of a lot of stuff- except for the comics collection- that is not going anywhere :)
I am still dating the most awesome man in the universe- and he supports my comics addiction which just about makes him the perfect guy :) I am looking forward to a new semester of Statistics and will try to post a blog more than once every two months... promise ... Just remember- if you have twin girls and name them Heaven and Nevaeh (that's heaven backwards) I will disown you and pretend we have never met... :)

Currently reading : Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean By Douglas Wolk Release date: 02 July, 2007

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Omicron Persei 8 or Bust!
Current mood: hopeful
Category: Life

Rumors of my death have been highly exaggerated :) Alas, I have been a busy bee this semester trying to handle the math class that the man says I must take in order to eventually have my degree. I have also been working a lot and am dating the most fabulous storm trooper ever. So, seeing as how i basically work 2 jobs and go to school there is very little time left for blogging :( But I am excited about Bender's Big Score which comes out very soon- giving me more of an opportunity to put fabulous quotes into my repertoire which already includes such doozies as "That dog won't hunt monsignor", "I know a genuine Panaphonics when I see one" and "They all come back to the Zapper"... Oh how horribly unfunny life would be without Matt Groening :) So, yes Mary I am alive and still kicking as much as possible- just very busy and a horrible hermit doing homework et al. But, after tomorrow's big test I have a 5 day break from math and will get some serious updates going- Promise :)

Currently watching : The Simpsons - The Complete Tenth Season Release date: 07 August, 2007

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Does it not say Queen somewhere on my uniform?
Current mood: awake
Category: Life

So my fair and fabulous readers it has been quite the week for your beloved Queen... My car Wilma Rae, whom I had been with for almost 6 years passed away- although not unexpectedly- on Tuesday and was, well, replaced by a 1995 Silver Acura that I have lovingly dubbed Georgia after my favorite character on Dead Like Me- makes sense, no? On Tuesday I worked the split shift and had time between shifts to drive my new little car and listen to music... Wednesday? Awesome day- had a coffee date with a fabulous man that I have more in common with than I thought possible. And he doesn't think that girls who read comics or debate why Batman is the best ever are siily, stupid, or refusing to act their age. So- made a new friend- gonna see him again soon- and looking forward to it :) Great idea for a date with the Queen? You know it- The Simpsons Movie. ;)
Thursday was a whirlwind day off full of smog checks, new insurance and transferring Georgia into my name- I also got to have lunch with my Mom, see Rachel (whoo-hoo!) and she likes my new car so much that she approves... You know, waiting for the approval of a four year old to drive a car? Priceless. She likes the color better than the old white one too... And she says that she is a princess just in case any of you have forgotten that. (See pictures of the Queen and the Princess together in my pictures- and, yes , Liz we are of the Royal House of Winchester...) Friday was a math class workday extravaganza- Liz and I watched Harry Potter's Goblet of Fire before the time for her to leave came upon us and I had two hours to fiddle with jewelry, watch Stargate and answer the phone. Which comes to the best call of the day-
"My daughter had a hysterectomy a few days ago that failed. Now I need to talk to the doctor because if she vomits again, it will fail again."
Okay- so the doc and I both agreed that she must have been talking about the incision opening because, honestly- hysterectomies don't fail... Once it is gone- it is gone. But the funny thing is I had this image in my head of this young woman whose hysterectomy had failed getting pregnant overnight. I know- weirdness abounds. And this brings me to my final, well, almost final thoughts for this lovely afternoon-
There is a hole in my life where the creepiness of the security guard used to be. I recall the relief I felt when I found out he would no longer be there on weekends as he was getting a little to close to trying to convert me manually for my taste. But- I have not seen nor heard of him in several months and it is kind of weird not to have him to blog about. Don't get me wrong- I don't miss him- I just miss the idea of him I guess. No one has tried to actively convert me for some time and, lets face it, my blog was that much more exciting before he left right?
Okay- final thoughts- I was on the phone with the lucky man yesterday when the crows that have been stalking me created a ruckus so loud that he could hear them. I was finally able to discover, to my relief, that they weren't a figment of my imagination. Every time I have gone outside the house they are there- if I go out the front door they are in the trees in the front just screaming at me... in the backyard? In a tree back there screaming. I feel like they are watching me and it makes me just a skosch uncomfortable you know? Yea- never mind :)
It was good to talk to you all again and I will try to blog more often about what's going on in the world of the Queen ... because I know you are all dying to hear about my math class, right?

Currently watching : Stargate SG-1 Season 1 (Thinpak) Release date: 13 June, 2006

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