Valkyrie's Aerie

Part II

There are many reasons I am not happy. One is that I feel as if I am trapped like a rat, trapped in a place owned by my parents and I feel as if I am still under their thumb. I have been here for over ten years and have been griping about the situation for six. (On various blogs) I recognize this restlessness for what it is; a NEED to alter the very way I am currently living. Seriously? Even six more months of this and I will go bonkers.

I am also 34 years old, haven't been out on a date for ...years. To be blunt, I have been infected by lust. Well, I AM 34, you go do the biology. There is just a raging inferno in my heart and quite possibly my loins. Ok, ok, too much information. The dating pool around here is very shallow. Out of the 6500 people that live here, most are families or other ineligible people. A lot are kids. Some are old. Some are too religious . Or otherwise not suitable for me. So ....that brings the total to about maybe 200 people. Maybe. Believe me, the genetic pool in Scab-town is shallow and should be chlorinated.

I simply am trying to better my life. I actually am thinking of moving to Pennsylvania. Or South Carolina. ;)

Horoscopes Pulled Out of My...Hey, Hey!

Aries: Mar 21 - Apr 19
Hmmm....I see a smoker and his lighter in your near future. Too bad you decided to use flammable hairspray. My advice? Get used to the bald look.

Taurus: Apr 20 - May 20
Beware of that soft clucking sound in your ear. Your doom is at hand. Or claw.

Gemini: May 21 - June 21
Two-faced people always get what's coming to them. Watch both of your backs.

Cancer: June 22 - July 22
Halloween's just around the corner. Follow the rules of scary movies during that day and you'll be alright.
1. Don't have sex.
2. Don't drink beer.
3. Never EVER go off alone and say "I'll be right back."

Leo: July 23 - Aug 22
Three words of warning for you Leos: de-clawing and neutering.

Virgo: Aug 23 - Sept 22
....Snowed in hotel...croquet mallets...blood everywhere. Guess what? You're going with your family to the Overlook! Have fun!

Libra: Sept 23 - Oct 22
I see the most horrible of fates for you; life as CPA.

Scorpio: Oct 23 - Nov 21
A friend of mine has scorpions. Another friend (that lives with him) has said if they got out, they are as good as smushed. Live in captivity and be safe....or be free with high probability of extinction.

Sagittarius: Nov 22 - Dec 21
Think to yourself "Things can always be worse. I could be a Libra."

Capricorn: Dec 22 - Jan 19
Don't eat anything slushy. I foresee tragic consequences involving frozen concoctions. And straws.

Aquarius: Jan 20 - Feb 18
Don't eat any of that tuna sealed in plastic bags. Or go out to Sushi. In fact, stay away from fish all together.

Pisces: Feb 19 - Mar 20
You're the best sign there is. In fact, you're perfect in everyway...and you'll win the lottery so that you can quit your office job. You'll travel the world, giving money to blog friends, then settle down so that you can write a novel of romance, horror, science fiction...that will be a bestseller for many years to come.

Pet Peeves

Pet Peeve:

Pedestrians that break the law by just walking out in front of my car when I have the right of way. Good thing they don't live in NYC, or they'd have been run over.

Pet Peeve:

People that bend my paperback books spine so that the front and back covers meet.

Pet Peeve:

People that give away the endings of novels or movies I haven't seen yet.

Pet Peeve:

Indeciveness

Me: Where do you want to go for dinner?

You: UH...I don't know.

Me: Red Robin?

You: I dunno.

Me: Old Spaghetti Factory?

You: I dunno
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Me: Izzy's? (A Pizza and Salad Bar Buffet)

You: I dunno. You decide.

Me: (Silently go ARRRRRGHHHHH!!!!!) Ok. We're going to my mother's for dinner.

You: NOOOOOO!!!! Let's go to Izzy's.

Rants and Raves

Ok, just a rant

Rant number 1:  Disney has bought Marvel. DISNEY HAS BOUGHT MARVEL.  Disney is like a creative sort of anti-freeze.  Sweet tasting, but poisonous to imagination.  Ironic, because Walt Disney was an artist with amazing talent. Now, it's just a conglomerate that sucks ideas, homogenizes them and sells them out to an increasingly dumb and docile populace.

Disney has a reputation for "sanitizing"  (aka censoring) stories and concepts to make them more "kid-friendly".   I don't want to think about what they could do to the X-Men or *gasp* the MAX line of Marvel.  I dread to contemplate them exchanging Wolvie's claws for less threatening metacarpal extensions.

But....on the plus side, if Disney can eventually be able to do movies, maybe Pixar will get involved.  I would LOVE to see a Pixar Avengers movie. That would be the awesome.  Hey, that was kind of a rave. Kind of.

P.S. I hope they fire Joe Quesada for poor creative and fiscal choices. That is all.

This video offends me on so many levels.  That "Save the Whales" sign is so very condescending and just plain rude...    How could even PETA sink that low?  It really cheeses me off how people can pick on the "fatties".

Have some frickin' compassion.  Or I'll frick you up. Good.  With a stick!

True Blood: No, Not a Crappy Vampire Series

Life is back to a bleh sort of grey. (Or is it gray? Does it make a difference?) Hey, it's better than being all bitchy. Well, I am slightly annoyed with something.

I am annoyed with the stories of the aging Manson family members that want to be free after so long behind bars. I hope none of them gets out, but I heard one was released, because of those horrendous murders that took place 40 years ago. Probably the worst in the last fifty or so years...really awful stuff that turns MY stomach. (I probably read the Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry, which graphically details the Manson crimes, when I was too young. I was about 15 when I was exposed to that book.***)

Sharon Tate and her unborn son, murdered. Reading an CNN article on the slaying, I noted that Sharon had repeatedly asked for mercy, but one of the killers (Susan Atkins, who is dying. Painfully. She tried to get out on compassion release not too long ago.) refused to stop. Susan Atkins said, "I didn't have mercy for her."

No mercy for a pregnant woman? Then why should society have mercy for her? Killers don't deserve mercy. At all. If anyone can make an argument for why killers should be treated with compassion, I'd certainly like to hear it. Go watch the Strangers....a harrowing movie that is pretty good and see if you feel the same way. It is scary and it feels as if it could have truly happened.****

Personally, I believe that all the Manson family killers should have been given the death penalty. People like that do not need to be in any aspect of society, and that includes the prison version. I'm a moderate liberal about many issues, but on the issue about murderers? Not so much.

Here's the names of the other victims so that they will be remembered:

• Abigail Folger

• Wojciech Frykowski

• Leno and Rosemary LaBianca

• Steven Parent

• Jay Sebring

***I wonder if that book had inspired in me a fascination for crime stories. Maybe...

****I just did some Wikipedia reading and the director is to have said the book, Helter Skelter, helped to inspire the movie. I believe it.

Why do people take for granted those they love? Or are supposed to love? Get this done, get that done....no sex tonight, or for several months, for you. Some people treat their spouses, and I know of more than one couple like this, akin to indentured servants?  (I, by the way, would love to have someone to love. Well...maybe I do, but...it's complicated and it's not something I want to get into at this point.)

What happened to the love and tender feelings? What happened to being able to emotionally connect to the one person you are supposed to love forever and ever? Yeah, I realize there are times when people float adrift, but people can come back together.

I personally blame our society for encouraging disposable everything. Items, like love, aren't disposable.

When a relationship dies, it isn't always all at once. It dies slowly, until nothing is left but a hollowness that won't go away. It's sad when a relationship dies, or moves on. It is a dissolution of souls that have met for a reason, and it hurts me to see good couples drift away.

Don't let your love die. Please.

And if you are in the phase of the relationship where it seems you are doing nothing but work, it's time to sit down and talk. Try, at least. But if there is nothing there, go. As much as I don't want to see divorce, neither do I think people should remain trapped in a loveless marriage.  If it's truly dead and gone, nothing can bring love back.

New Beginnings

 

Today, I think I finally have enough courage to ask my friend to leave the house. I have the courage to kick her out. I will ask her to help out with the rest of this month's rent and utilities, until I have it under control...(next month). Or maybe she should leave sometime next month...when the bills are paid up.

She's a friend of twenty plus years....but in order to save the friendship, I have to ask her to move. I can't continue to live life like this. I CAN'T. I want...well, what it is that I do want I don't know yet, but it's certainly better than this. Contentment, for one thing, and a person who can give and take, sharing with me what I deserve.

I hurt all over from the decision, but it's the best one I can make right now. I am filled to the brim with resentment and the feeling of being held back..  I will try to save the relationship when she's not here, but for right now,  if she doesn't give me some space, and wake up to take care of her own financial situation, I'll end up hating her.

Randi ’s Rants

Brought to you by Mountain Dew….a proud sponsor of V for Valkyrie! Please, if you are an adult, use the word probably. Do Not Use: prolly. It makes you sound like an idiot. A teenage idiot. Act your age and take the time to say (and spell for that matter) PROBABLY. If you don’t know how to spell it, get a dictionary—read it, love it, engage in a love affair with wordplay. You might think “prolly” sounds cute but it isn’t. Drivers, I don’t care if you pass me. Just don’t slow down as soon as you get over into my lane—unless I can see a good reason for it. Such as getting a Mr. Impatient Pants off your own hiney. The primal side of me will see that as an act of passive-aggressiveness to make yourself feel as you’re better than someone else. Mainly me. If you slow down so much that I have to pass you, please do not play vehicular leapfrog with me. In my mind, I’ll be imagining that I am playing Crash Bandicoot racing with you….and giving you a bowling ball bomb, making you bounce harmlessly to the side of the road. Then laugh maniacally as I drive past you.                  People who deny me my beloved Mountain Dew. ‘Nuff said. As an aside, don’t try to sneak up on me after I’ve had a 20 oz bottle. I tend to shriek like a banshee. I have a set of pipes that you wouldn’t believe. I really can scream. This post was cheerfully powered by Mountain Dew. Can you tell? Huh? Huh? I’m full of ‘tude and caffeine…uh …uh here comes the crash…

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I know. More snow issues. But we have over a foot of it and I'm quite concerned about flooding--especially with us living so near a creek. Yes. Good times lay ahead for the [Insert Last Name Here] Ponderosa. It sure is pretty out but cold as Pluto. It almost looks like Alaska: I guess the polar bears can move down here. What is running through my mind? News. Depressing. People are getting shot. Bones of children are being discovered. Hmmm. Speaking of bones of children...they finally found Caylee's bones. I am sure her mother is responsible. One doesn't report a child missing a month later..without having some part to play in the disappearence. Here's how any real mother would act: the second the child disappear, she would not stop until she got her baby back. There would be real terror in her actions, not some "Oh no. My child is gone. She's been gone a month. Do you suppose I should call the police?" Someone lock her up in jail now, and throw away the key. If she had any home movies, they should play them in a continous loop for the rest of that mother's life. Death even by execution is too good for a mother who betrays the ultimate trust that was given to her. Oh, if anyone leaves a comment, it had better damn well be respectful. This blog is not a democracy. It is written by someone who does not tolerate disrespect. AT ALL. And besides, I don't give a damn if I am a fatty. Try using words that really sting next time. That's right. I don't tolerate insulting comments. T. S for you, then. Also, it's RANDI not Randy.