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Mindymoo

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  1. I'm not a praying woman Readalot; I don't even believe in god. But I lit a candle and meditated for you last night. I did the same for you, HappyFatChick. Just trying to send out some of my good, heathen, somewhat Buddhist vibes into the universe for you and your families.
  2. The Ophelia one pissed me off. I just saw "Hamlet" live on stage three weeks ago, and her method of death was suicide by drowning. So why did she have all of those scabs and pustules all over her face?
  3. No, honey, those are love pustules. And of course your nose has always looked like that. No need to see the gyno and have tests done- that's for harlots and unbelievers!
  4. Muffyn, I've got a somewhat similar story. My parents and I were packing to spend a week in Godderich and then Stratford, Ontario. Because of my heart problems, I passed out in the shower and broke my arm. They took four x-Rays- three showed a break, one was ambiguous. What did they do? Go by the ambiguous one. No cast, no pain meds, nothing. My mom bought me sarongs and scarves to wear as slings to immobilize it, and I was miserable. My dad went to every pharmacy he could find to get any codeine-infused product on the shelf to treat my pain. The entire time, I thought "how can I fracture this the rest of the way so I can get a cast and real pain management"? People there were so kind though- holding doors for me, carrying packages to my inn, helping me get the sling off and on if I wanted to try something on. I was about to turn 17, and a couple bartenders took pity and slipped me some Creemore to numb the pain I was obviously in. When we got home a week later and saw the orthopedist, he had the nerve to yell at my parents for not having it cast sooner and put a huge pink cast on, along with a huge prescription for vicoprophen. One week too late, dude. And work on that bedside manner.
  5. I'm from Toledo, which is about a 45 minute drive from the Ambassador Bridge. I spend as much time in Canada as I can.
  6. My Busia used to give us the blackberry brandy too, but that stuff is so vile to me that I'd end up projectile vomiting it. Instead, we replaced it with vodka, honey and lemon.
  7. To treat my colds, I use Polish cough medicine: vodka, honey and lemon, and then I put it in the microwave for a minute. It take care of the cough and it knocks me out for awhile. Or if the cough gets really bad, I hop over to border and get some codeine cough syrup in Windsor.
  8. Feel better soon, GeeGolly! The best thing about stand-up, for me, is how cathartic it is for me. I've been in and out of hospitals since I was 13. That's over half my life now. I made doctors and nurses laugh, and then my mom said that I should do it professionally. I have been able to make fun of my health, my weirdo family, and even have touched a little on my sex abuse and people just love it. Even if I never get famous for it, I will be glad I did it, because it is such good therapy for me. Tig Notaro is one of my biggest inspirations, and her being able to take the topic of her bilateral breast cancer and make it funny, or Richard Pryor making jokes about the night he set himself on fire where he should have by all means died, proved to me that I can make what's wrong with me funny. I deal in gallows humor, and people are not only amused by it, they're inspired by it.
  9. Yep. If I'm on stage, I can do my thing, entertain people for the allotted amount of time, and get off. When people come up to me after shows, I have no idea what to say! I have serious social anxiety and alcohol can take me down from a 10 to about a 6, but I'm not one who likes to drink whilst onstage or backstage.
  10. You know what's funny? I'm more comfortable up on stage telling jokes or playing a guitar and singing in front of hundreds of strangers than I am making small talk with people. Now that freaks me out.
  11. I haven't worked them into my act. My comedy mostly revolves around my health, my insane family, bizarre stories from my upbringing, that kind of stuff. I haven't done it since before the hysterectomy, but have been working on material non-stop since then, and plan to try my hand at it again in a few weeks. I just hope people remember me and that they don't boo.
  12. Bruce Springsteen, believe it or not. At first I thought it was Annie Lennox!
  13. Did anyone watch the series twice and find the finale much sadder the second time around? I mean, when the first two parts aired, I read up about Nick on Wikipedia and was very sad, but watching it a second time devastated me and left me in tears. This was such a fantastic miniseries, and I can't wait to see what David Simon does next. (Even if it is just being a drunken narrator on "Drunk History".)
  14. I like Rondstandt, but I agree, she wasn't the right voice to cover his music. Warren Zevon and Frank Zappa are gods to me, and I am just on a Zevon binge for now. I remember watching that final Letterman episode with my parents and being in tears, and watching it again all these years later had me bawling like a baby. I read an article about that show where afterwards, he gave David his guitar and asked him to take good care of her, and I just cried and cried. He was such a brilliant songwriter, a man who never got his due, but his music touched a lot of people. That album "Life'll Kill Ya" came out before he was diagnosed, and it had that song "My Shit's Fucked Up", and it was so eerily prophetic. I just wish I could have seen him live.
  15. Aww, again you guys are the best. I try not to let my dire health issues keep me down too much. I actually laugh at it all as a defense mechanism, and it gives me fodder for my stand-up comedy. I figure that if I wasn't laughing, I'd be crying, so why not have a laugh and make everyone else laugh too?
  16. And not only did she get shot in the head for it, she still persevered, and her father was just bragging on Twitter about the straight As his daughter received. Can you imagine Jimboob being proud of one of his daughters for getting such high marks in school? (And I don't mean their fake-ass home school.)
  17. Man, I'm so glad I have this implant in my spine and an internal battery pack (I'm a cyborg!) and I never have to take another MRI again. The magnets will straight up rip those devices out of my skin. I would get panic attacks so bad that they had to sedate me with versed.
  18. When I was on vacation in Stratford, Ontario a couple weeks ago, a new record shop was up and I sort of splurged. I got: Warren Zevon- Excitable Boy ELO- Eldorado David Bowie- The Man Who Sold the World (alternate album cover) Rush- Exit... Stage Left The Mothers- Just Another Band from LA Queen- The Game Lenny Bruce- Sat. Feb. 4th at Midnight All of the albums were in near mint condition, and the prices were amazing when you consider the exchange rate. Ever since, I've been on a huge (and I mean HUGE) Zevon kick. He's always been one of my favorites, but I can't stop listening to the guy. I've been watching his old clips on Letterman, including his final show before he died of inoperable mesothelioma, and he was just amazing and brilliant. He's so much more than just the "Werewolves of London" guy, and I wish that other songs from his catalogue had become the huge hits that that one did. I miss his voice every day.
  19. I've learned to use it to my advantage. It's just fodder for my stand-up comedy now. I learned a good decade and a half ago that I have to make fun of it all, or else I will go completely insane.
  20. I've been on Ativan for years for PTSD and anxiety. I get 120 2mg pills a month, and there are days that I take it every six hours, and there are days that I go stretches without taking it at all. I've luckily not had any withdrawal symptoms from it. I've had adverse reactions to both klonopin (losing time) and xanax (hives) but Ativan has been a life saver for me. I've had a ton of adverse reactions to other meds though. I was diagnosed with a latex allergy right before my 12th birthday. They put me on Atarax for that, and it turned out I was deathly allergic to that too. I have gastroparesis, a disease that paralyzes part of my gut. One of the only drugs you can use to treat it is Reglan, and I had a psychotic reaction to it. Ditto to domperidone, a drug for the gastroparesis I had to pay out of pocket and have made specially at a compound pharmacy. I had a horrible reaction with hives to Darvocet, and a few weeks later it was taken off of the market. Welbutrin? Hives. I was on morphine for seven years due to RSD, have been off of it for almost five, and when I was in the hospital after my hysterectomy, they tried to give me morphine via IV for pain control, and guess what? It made my arm swell up where it went in via IV and my mouth started to swell. The only drug that works to take care of my nausea anymore is compazine (unless I'm receiving phenergan via IV) and I can't take that anymore because it started causing tardive dyskinesia as an allergic reaction. I'm deathly allergic to penicillin. And then there's the fact that I can't take Coumadin for my chronic dangerous blood clots because it doesn't work due to my genetic toxic blood disorder. I'm 29 years old; I'm too young for this shit!
  21. I'm really bummed about Jason. He turned out to be such a huge disappointment. I have a dear friend who does makeup for drag queens just like him, and who travels across the country doing makeup, prosthetics and costuming for travelling ballet and musical productions, and for some stupid reason I expected better from him. He was just so underwhelming from the word go.
  22. Ah, backmasking. The brilliant thing about that is if you write words down, you are being suggested that that's what they're saying, so of course that's what you're going to hear. The human brain is very easily persuaded by the power of suggestion. ELO, of all bands, got in trouble for supposedly backmasking Satanic messages in the song "Eldorado Overture" off of their "Eldorado" album. Yes, that ELO, who has the awesome and adorable songs like "Mr. Blue Sky" and "Bluebird is Dead." Well, as a joke, Jeff Lynne actually did put backmasked lyrics on the first track of his next album, the song "Fire on High" from "Face the Music" as a joke. The lyrics? "Turn back! Turn Back! Turn Back! The music is reversible but time is not!"
  23. Since we're talking about dreams, does anyone else have recurring dreams where their shoes are missing? I have had these dreams for years, where I am out in public and I'm not wearing shoes, and I can't enter any buildings because of the "no shirt, no shoes, no business" rules. And mostly I'm alone in these dreams, and far from home, so I can't ask someone to just run in and buy some flip-flops for me or something.
  24. That is seriously the most beautiful rendition of "Bring Him Home" I've ever heard. I love that song, and I sang it to my great grandmother the night she died. Wow, what a voice. RIP, Kyle Jean-Baptiste. This is so sad. He was one amazingly talented young man.
  25. I didn't get the impression that Nick actually slept with Vinnie, especially when the woman chastised her for making that phone call. I think she was playing dirty politics. Nay was shaken by it, but she believed Nick, and I did too.
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