Rockin the Suburbs

So we failed again at this family thing. Erich stayed home with me and I thought watching a light-hearted Disney movie would cheer me up. Yeah right. We rented Up from redbox. Well the whole first segment is about these 2 kids who are childhood friends, grow up, get married and discover they cant have children. Oh that helps. Holy crap, by 20 minutes in I was waiting for them to drag poor Marley the dog out and shoot him. Jesus. Totally ruined the rest of the movie for me. And did not cheer me up either. After I get the blood work results today I am asking for a referal to an endochrinologist. Yesterday I went to the doctor in the morning at 9:15. They told me I was fine, by noon I knew it was over. I seriously do not understand what the hell is going on. My levels this time were really great – Progesterone was over 30 and hcg more than doubled over 2 days – so they stopped testing me, well at good ‘ol 5.5 weeks everything falls apart, again. Seriously, how many times can a person be expected to handle this? Also 6 months between success and failure is really wearing on me. I do not want to be one of these 40-year-olds who realize they’re pregnant and go what the hell do we do now? Maybe we should move to the Carribbean, that should fix everything.

Back on the Island of Misfit Toys

We weren't born to follow – my ass

OK, so it’s no secret that I love Bon Jovi. Well the new record – The Circle – is coming out and there is a tour. The date for Chicago was announced as JULY 30, 2010 and the freakin tickets go on sale TONIGHT. WTF? Also the damn fanclub appears to have sold it’s soul to the devil. You used to be able to get tickets in a special section at face value, you just had to be there in person with your fanclub ID, then they changed it so you could buy the tickets over the internet and they tacked on like $20-$30 to sit in the special section (sometimes these sections are nothing special). But you do not get to see your ticket before you purchase it, in fact you have no idea where you are sitting till an hour before the show… hmmm I’m sure there is no abuse there. Surly some members aren’t given preference due to their history with the club, oh surly not! (shyeah). Now I look at the tickets for this show and they are astounding! So expensive I don’t know how I could possibly afford it. According to the fanclub rules, I can’t share their site with you. so here is a link to the freaking TICKETMASTER site that is selling the EXACT SAME PACKAGES. EXACTLY the same as the fanclub!. holy crap! So to sit in the ninth row it would be $995 PER ticket. Well hell, for $995 we could go to freakin Hawaii (and have spare change to eat at the airport). HOLY SHIT!

TO: Bon Jovi (Clearly A Major corporation that has more in common with Bank of America than with me)

What the fuck is your issue? Don’t tell me you don’t control ticket prices. You are releasing a new album about how hard the times are when you are so clearly disconnected from what it was like to make – lets say less then 1 MILLION DOLLARS for 3 FREAKING HOURS of work.

I AM ANGRY AND DISSAPOINTED.

jerks.

Of course, I register to vote at my new address when I got my new license. And I find out now (too late to do anything about it) that the DMV never filed my registration – great. Just great. Illinois has never embraced the Motor Voter Act from 1993. Compliance has always been at the minimum, making more work and more paperwork and more steps for everyone. Now I can’t vote in our local elections, I can only vote in the Federal Election (thank god). But seriously, WTF?

We are officially free of the condo monkey on our back. That’s pretty much as far as the good news goes. And can I just make an open statement to the banks of this country:

You big, stupid, fat cat corporate bankers are shooting yourselves in the foot with your ridiculous lending guidelines. People with good incomes and excellent credit should be able to buy a house in metropolitan areas without 20% down. You are being ridulous and reactionary to YOUR mistakes, not the mistakes of the middle-class, middle-income borrowers of America. So to you I say – Get your heads out of your collective ASSES!.

That’s all I have to say about that.

We are STILL living in the condo downtown. We decided to push the move to the ‘burbs back AGAIN till June 14th (which I now know is Father’s Day AND our little neices 2nd birthday) It is soooo frustrating! We just want the condo sold and to be free and clear in single debt in the ‘burbs (just like everyone else!)

Anyway. Enough ranting! We are showing the loft tomorrow and the calls keep coming. So I will *try* to remain positive. but no promises!

This new blog is kinda fancy. Milk Man set it up and I have to figure out all these bells and whistles. So bear with us as we adapt to change (never a strength for me or MM)

Furniture shopping this weekend – it’ll either be a blast or we’ll kill each other by 4pm Saturday!