SweetMisery’s Neighborhood

I got statements in the mail today for two accounts that I have with my broker (darling guy I used to work with at the big bad insurance company - my accounts are with them). I let him do whatever he wants with the allocation (although he always checks with me first). Although they've always run well, he changed things around last year. If I remember correctly, last year's growth was around 9%. My statements today are for the first half of 2008. The pure growth (not counting money I put in) for only six months is 3.7% each. I'm a happy gal.

....and that is...WHY?

The first annual Canadian Cheese Rolling Festival is set for next month in Whistler.  Check out what it is here.

And no......it's not what you think it is.

The world is filled with wierd people doing wierd things.

LOL!

"In the modern world, capitalist exploitation is rampant almost everywhere. Capitalism is now rapidly moving into the final stage of degeneration. In the early part of the capitalist era, society experienced certain advantages, but towards the end, society has become the victim of insatiable rapacity, unbearable hardship and heartless deprivation. Those countries suffering under the weight of capitalist exploitation are rapidly moving towards worker revolution." - Shrii Prabhat R. Sarkar
http://www.worldproutassembly.org/

So I'm back from what I still maintain is the Best Double Feature EVER.

I'm sure all those who want to have seen The Dark Knight by now, so I won't discuss it much except to say, "That was AWESOME."

Heath Ledger was amazing, and Christian Bale did his usual great job.  I love Harvey Dent and bravo to Maggie Gyllenhaal for making an awful character much less awful.

And the X Files.  Well, the movie wasn't as great as I hoped it would be, but I had a fantastic time and it was so, so great to spend an hour and 40 minutes (yes, I'm bitter about the length) with Mulder and Scully.  I hadn't realized how much I'd missed them.

I do want to see both movies again. :)  I will likely buy both as well. 

(Incidentally, the movie was a very good standalone--you don't need to really know the show to be able to follow it, I don't think.  You may be a little confused in at least one part, but I don't think it'll ruin your enjoyment.)

I've got the opportunity to put an ad in the upcoming Construction: The Magazine, which is circulated not just to this city, but pretty much every single contractor, supplier and builder in the interior of BC.  The small ads (business card sized) cost almost 300 bucks, and let's face it... no-one sees those.  My options are narrowed down to 1/2 page ($700) or full-page color glossy ($1200).  I can even request inside front or back cover for a further $300, but that's probably a little much.

However, if I get even ONE (1) job out of this, it more than pays for the ad, plus it'll probably pay for my gas for the rest of the year.

However, it is also more than our mortgage, and even though the banks upped Throkky's credit limit to somewhere in the range of nine grand, I still don't wanna blow this much money on something that might not work.

However, I am probably three (5) seconds away from grabbing a pickaxe and going to Burger King just so I can get out of my hole.

Anyone have teh advices?

Prince Tantra likes to sit in the window so that people inside and outside have the opportunity to worship His Purrfection.

Prince Tantra's Window

Fluffy Puffy Tantra

Big Princely Yawn

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I'm going to see OMGMAMMAMIA!!!!11!!11! tonight with one of my best girlfriends/roommate's girlfriend, Eileen.  We're both theater geeks at heart so naturally we're all over this. 

I think that Mamma Mia is one of the best efforts Broadway has made at reviving somewhat of a lost art, the rock musical.   But the genre has been warped into the concept of the "cover" musical i.e. Movin' Out and Jersey Boys, both of which did remarkably well whereas musicals using John Lennon and Bob Dylan's music totally flopped.  

Even though ABBA's music is more similar to pop and disco, it translates on stage very differently.  It doesn't feel like ABBA.  Every song feels like it's own story being told.  In fact, it wasn't until I first saw Mamma Mia that I started to appreciate that ABBA's lyrics are complex and full of relatable emotion making it perfect material for a musical.  I've seen Mamma Mia on B'way twice and I'd see it again in a heartbeat.  So needless to say I'm fucking stoked for this movie.  I have a feeling it will make a smooth transition to the screen because the script sets the play in many places on the Greek Island so the set designers for the staged version created scenery that is suggested whereas on film, everything can be real life - Not to mention freakin' GORGEOUS.  So it's not like Steel Magnolias (which I'm lukewarm about) where they essentially had to re-write the thing to accomodate for multiple settings and male characters that are not seen in the stage version.

Anyway.  YAY!!!  I cannot wait to hear Meryl Streep belt out "The Winner Takes It All", truly the most heartbreaking number in the show.     

To My Friend Shutterfly

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I thought everyone might like some pics of the sunset here in San Antonio. I'm up on Commanche Lookout...

 The flowers are for Shutterfly because I misplaced a message...and I just felt really, really bad about it.

 I've been a little busy as you can see from the previous post...and then there was Dolly...one thing after another. But, its life...and its the only game in town.

The jobs going well...as in well, its a job (hahaha)

I'm allllllllllll alone in my area, with the exception of new chick, whom I don't particularly care for, and supposedly she's not feeling well anyway, so hopefully she won't feel chatty. I'm shocked she hasn't left already, actually, since she doesn't seem to feel she has to put in the same number of hours and days per week as the rest of us. New admin chick is here, too, but she doesn't sit close by, and we won't even get into what's wrong with her. Everyone else is on vacation and LBJ just left for something to do with one of her kids. It's been a hellish week here, and LBJ and I have been hoping for Friday since Wednesday. Sortaboss will

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be back for three days next week, then he's off again until the 12th or something like that. Maternity girl will be back on the 12th as well. Boss and girl in front of me are back the week before that. When people are away, it's either dead or hell, never just chugging along. Anyway, needless to say, I don't feel like doing too much for the rest of the afternoon. Monday is time enough for more serious work, of which I still have plenty.

I have had Jazz Butcher's "Grey Flannelette" going through my head but couldn't find a video to post for you. Sorry.

It's absolutely lovely out today. LBA, LBJ, and I had a great lunch out on a patio at the pub up the road. They have a fantastic buffet for super cheap.

What else can I bore you with? I really should try to do stuff around the apartment this weekend (if that sign-up sheet isn't loaded, anyway), but knowing me, I'll only get a fraction done of what needs doing. C'est la vie, yanno?

I'm disappointed that as soon as I discover that loltheist is still up and running, they haven't posted anything new in two days.

Okay, off I go to do a bit of work for the last hour. Please feel free to leave a comment with your own Friday inanities. Really. Give me something to do other than work. Please.