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Percentage of subjects with 4-year carotid plaque occurrence according to quintiles of relative peak expiratory flow values. Quintile 1 indicates the lowest relative peak expiratory flow values; 5, the highest values.
Zureik M, Kauffmann F, Touboul P, Courbon D, Ducimetière P. Association Between Peak Expiratory Flow and the Development of Carotid Atherosclerotic Plaques. Arch Intern Med. 2001;161(13):1669-1676. doi:10.1001/archinte.161.13.1669
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Numerous population-based studies have suggested that impaired lung function is associated with subsequent coronary heart diseases–related mortality and cardiovascular disease–related mortality. The relative contribution of atherosclerosis in these associations is unknown.
To examine the association of peak expiratory flow (PEF) with the occurrence during 4 years of atherosclerotic plaques in the extracranial carotid arteries in a sample of 656 subjects (aged 59-71 years) free of coronary heart disease and stroke at baseline.
Peak expiratory flow was measured at the baseline examination. Peak expiratory flow values relative to the predicted values (relative PEF values) were calculated, predicted values being obtained from previously published sex-specific regression equations of PEF on age and height. A carotid B-mode ultrasonographic examination was performed at baseline and 2 and 4 years later. The occurrence of carotid plaques during follow-up was defined as the appearance of 1 plaque (or more) in previously normal carotid segments and/or the appearance of new plaques in the carotid segments that previously had plaques.
The proportion of subjects who experienced an occurrence of carotid atherosclerotic plaques during follow-up was 16.8% (110/656). The unadjusted odds ratios from the highest to the lowest quintiles of relative PEF values were 1.00, 1.07 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.69-2.79), 1.08 (95% CI, 0.52-2.24), 1.38 (95% CI, 0.69-2.79), and 3.07 (95% CI, 1.62-5.85) (P<.001 for trend). Adjustment for major known cardiovascular risk factors did not markedly change the results, and the multivariate-adjusted odds ratio of carotid plaque occurrence in subjects with the lowest quintile of PEF compared with those with the highest quintile remained highly significant (odds ratio, 2.84; 95% CI, 1.45-5.71) (P = .002). Particularly in all smoking categories, carotid plaque occurrence was higher in subjects with the lowest relative PEF values. In never smokers, the multivariate-adjusted odds ratio of carotid plaque occurrence in subjects with the lowest quintile of PEF compared with those with the highest quintile was 2.80 (95% CI, 1.14-6.88).
Reduced lung function predicts the development of carotid atherosclerosis in elderly subjects. The nature of these associations remains largely unknown and merits further investigations. Nevertheless, assessment of lung function, which is simple and inexpensive, could help identify a population at high risk of atherosclerosis development and coronary heart disease.
ESTABLISHED cardiovascular risk factors, such as advancing age, male sex, smoking, hypertension, and hypercholesterolemia, do not fully explain the risk of coronary heart diseases (CHDs) in the population. Other unrecognized factors could also contribute to the risk. Numerous prospective studies1- 12 have suggested that impaired lung function is independently associated with subsequent myocardial infarction, cardiovascular disease– and CHD-related mortality, and all-cause mortality. However, the physiopathological mechanisms underlying these associations are not known and the relative contribution of atherosclerosis to the subsequent CHD events in subjects with reduced lung function remains speculative.
Atherosclerosis is obviously the main underlying pathologic feature of ischemic cardiovascular diseases. Until recently, direct assessment of atherosclerosis was principally restricted to autopsy and angiographic studies that were conducted in highly selected populations and in subjects with advanced atherosclerosis. These facts could explain, at least in part, the lack of population-based studies investigating possibly more-specific relationships of lung function with atherosclerosis development.
High-resolution B-mode ultrasonography is a noninvasive, valid, and reproducible method of directly visualizing and assessing carotid atherosclerosis,13 and it is used in many population-based studies.14- 19 Angiographic and ultrasonographic studies20,21 have found that carotid atherosclerotic plaques are associated with the presence of other localizations of atherosclerosis and can be used as a marker of general atherosclerosis.
In the present report, based on the longitudinal data of the Etude sur le Vieillissement Artériel study, we assessed the associations of peak expiratory flow (PEF) measured at the first examination and carotid plaque occurrence during the 4-year follow-up of a population of 656 subjects aged between 59 and 71 years.
Details of the Etude sur le Vieillissement Artériel study have been reported previously.22- 24 The initial study population was composed of 1389 volunteers, aged between 59 and 71 years, who were recruited from the electoral rolls of Nantes, France. The study protocol was approved by the Comité d'Ethique du Centre Hospitalier Universitaire du Kremlin-Bicêtre, and written informed consent was obtained from all participants. After the baseline visit, which took place in the morning between June 3, 1991, and July 2, 1993, subjects were invited to participate in 2- and 4-year follow-up examinations.
Medical information, obtained at the baseline examination by a standardized questionnaire, included demographic background, education, occupation, medical history, drug use, and personal habits, such as cigarette and alcohol consumption. In addition to the 6 specified common diseases (myocardial infarction, angina, stroke, hypercholesterolemia, hypertension, and diabetes), each subject was asked whether he or she had ever had an asthma attack or had experienced other chronic medical conditions such as chronic bronchitis. "Respiratory diseases" used in the analysis regrouped subjects with a self-reported asthma attack or a history of chronic bronchitis.
The smoking habits' questionnaire included detailed information on whether the subject had ever smoked cigarettes, the duration of cigarette smoking, the average daily number of cigarettes smoked, and the age at which smoking ceased (if applicable). Subjects were classified as never, former, or current smokers. For ever smokers, cigarette pack-years were also calculated by multiplying the number of years of smoking by the average number of cigarettes smoked per day, divided by 20. Two independent measurements of systolic and diastolic blood pressure were made with a digital electronic tensiometer (model SP9; Spengler, Frankfurt, Germany) after a 10-minute rest, and the mean value was used in the analysis. Subjects with a systolic blood pressure of 160 mm Hg or higher, those with a diastolic blood pressure of 95 mm Hg or higher, and/or those who were using antihypertensive drugs were considered to have hypertension. Hypercholesterolemia was defined as a total cholesterol level of 6.2 mmol/L or higher (≥240 mg/dL) or use of lipid-lowering drugs. Subjects who reported a medical history of diabetes, use of antidiabetic drugs, or a fasting plasma glucose level of 7.0 mmol/L or higher (≥126 mg/dL) were considered to have diabetes. The body mass index was computed as weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in meters.
The PEF test was performed only at the baseline visit. Measurements of PEF were taken between 9 AM and 11 AM, before the ultrasonographic examination, by trained research assistants using the Mini Wright peak flowmeter. Subjects were asked to take a deep breath and blow as hard and as fast as they could into the instrument while they were standing. The cooperation of subjects in performing the PEF test was recorded (good or bad). Three measurements of PEF were taken. The coefficient of variation for PEF measurements was 8.9%. The maximum of the 3 measurements was used for analysis. The highest measurement was within 10% of the second highest for 95.1% of the subjects and within 15% for 98.4% of them.
The same device was used during the entire study period (14 months). This device might have lost accuracy after repeated use. Peak expiratory flow values were thus split according to examination periods (each 1 month), and no measurement drift was detected over time.
Ultrasonographic examinations at baseline and at the 2- and 4-year follow-up visits were performed using an ultrasonograph (model SSD-650; Aloka, Tokyo, Japan), with a transducer frequency of 7.5 MHz. Acquisition, processing, and storage of B-mode images were computer-assisted, with software specially designed for longitudinal studies (EUREQUA; TSI, Meudon, France).25
Details of the protocol have been described elsewhere.22- 24 At each examination, it involved scanning of the common carotid arteries (CCAs), of the carotid bifurcations, and of the origin (first 2 cm) of the internal carotid arteries. At the examination, the intima-media thickness (IMT) was measured on the far wall of the middle and distal CCA as the distance between the lumen-intima interface and the media-adventitia interface26 using an automated edge detection algorithm. One transversal and 2 longitudinal measurements of IMT (at a site free of any discrete plaques) were completed on the right and left CCAs; the mean of the 4 right and left longitudinal CCA IMT measurements was used in the analysis.
The near and far walls of all arterial segments (ie, CCA or bifurcation-origin of the internal carotid artery) were scanned longitudinally and transversally to assess the presence of plaques. The presence of plaques was defined as localized echo structures encroaching into the vessel lumen for which the distance between the media-adventitia interface and the internal side of the lesion was 1 mm or greater.
The same 4 ultrasonographers performed the ultrasonographic examinations at baseline and at the 2- and 4-year follow-up visits. For each subject, we attempted to have the 2- and 4-year follow-up examinations performed by the ultrasonographer who had performed the baseline examination. This was the case for 76% of the subjects. The reproducibility of the scanning and reading procedures has been reported elsewhere.24 Briefly, to study the reproducibility of plaque detection, 75 baseline examination images of carotid bifurcation–internal carotid artery (52 longitudinal and 23 transversal images) with plaques, as defined by the ultrasonographers, and 80 images of carotid bifurcation–internal carotid artery (44 longitudinal and 36 transversal images) without plaques were randomly chosen and sent to a single expert ultrasonographer (P-.J.T.) to assess blindly the presence or absence of plaques. The κ coefficients for agreement between the 2 readings were 0.86 for longitudinal views and 0.91 for transverse views. To study the reproducibility of CCA IMT measurements, a rereading study was made on a random subsamples of images of CCAs (n = 81). The mean absolute difference and the correlation coefficient between repeated readings of CCA IMT were 0.06 mm and 0.82, respectively.24
The occurrence of carotid plaques during follow-up (at the 2- and/or the 4-year examination) was defined as the occurrence of 1 plaque (or more) in previously normal segments and/or the occurrence of new plaques in segments that previously had plaques.
For each subject, the PEF relative to the predicted value (relative PEF value) was calculated, predicted values being obtained from previously published sex-specific regression equations of PEF on age and height.27 The means of PEF in the whole population, in men, and in women were 410 mL/min (SD, 100 mL/min), 496 mL/min (SD, 92 mL/min), and 357 mL/min (SD, 62 mL/min), respectively. The means of relative PEF values in the whole population, in men, and in women were 86.6% (SD, 14.9%), 88.9% (SD, 15.9%), and 85.1% (SD, 14.1%), respectively. The relative PEF values were divided into 5 categories according to quintiles of sex-specific values. The cutoff points of the 20th, 40th, 60th, and 80th percentiles were 78.1%, 88.2%, 93.0%, and 100.0%, respectively, for men and 76.0%, 83.1%, 89.6%, and 96.4%, respectively, for women.
Standard procedures from SAS statistical software (SAS Institute Inc, Cary, NC) were used for univariate and multivariate analyses. Associations of the 5 categories (quintiles) of relative PEF values with 4-year carotid plaque occurrence and baseline cardiovascular risk factors were assessed by χ2 tests and analysis of variance. Baseline cardiovascular risk factors considered in the analysis were age, sex, smoking habits, alcohol consumption, body mass index, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, diabetes, CCA IMT, and the presence of carotid plaques at baseline. For multivariate analyses, we used dichotomic multiple logistic regression models with plaque occurrence (yes or no) as the dependent variable and categories of PEF and baseline cardiovascular risk factors as independent variables. Multivariate-adjusted odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) of plaque occurrence according to quintiles of relative PEF values, independent of baseline cardiovascular risk factors, were estimated by a multivariate logistic regression model, using the group of subjects with the highest relative PEF values (quintile 5) as the reference.
The PEF protocol was implemented in the Etude sur le Vieillissement Artériel study from the 11th month on (up to the end of the baseline examination, 14 months). For this reason, the PEF test was not performed in the first 604 subjects. The subjects who underwent the PEF test were slightly older than those who were recruited before implementation of the PEF protocol (65.2 vs 64.8 years; P = .02). No statistically significant differences were observed for the other baseline cardiovascular risk factors, the presence of carotid plaques at baseline, or 4-year carotid plaque occurrence. Furthermore, 57 subjects who reported at the baseline examination a history of angina, myocardial infarction, or stroke were excluded from the analysis. Of the 728 remaining subjects, 656 (90.1%) had complete data on baseline PEF and cardiovascular risk factors and underwent at least 1 follow-up B-mode ultrasonographic examination (589 underwent 2 and 67 underwent only 1). At baseline, there were no statistically significant differences between subjects who participated and those who did not in the 4-year follow-up survey for PEF, cardiovascular risk factors, and ultrasonographic examination findings.
The associations of baseline population characteristics and baseline ultrasonographic examination findings with quintiles of relative PEF values are shown in Table 1. Subjects with the lowest relative PEF values (quintile 1) had a higher mean CCA IMT. They also tended to be older and to have a higher prevalence of carotid plaques, but the differences did not reach statistical significance. Alcohol consumption, body mass index, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, and diabetes were not significantly related to PEF categories. As expected, smoking habits and a history of respiratory diseases were strongly associated with PEF categories. The cigarette pack-years among ever smokers from the highest to the lowest PEF quintiles were 15.2, 19.9, 23.0, 22.3, and 27.5 (P = .02 for difference).
The proportion of subjects who had an occurrence of carotid atherosclerotic plaques during follow-up was 16.8% (110/656). The distribution and ORs of carotid plaque occurrence associated with quintiles of relative PEF values are shown in Figure 1 and in Table 2. After adjustment for age, sex, body mass index, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, diabetes, smoking habits, alcohol consumption, CCA IMT, and presence of carotid plaques at baseline, the ORs did not markedly change and the multivariate-adjusted OR of carotid plaque occurrence in subjects with the lowest quintile of PEF compared with those with the highest quintile remained highly significant (P<.001). In the multivariate analyses, the substitution of cigarette pack-years (as a continuous variable, with never smokers assigned the value of 0) for smoking habits categories did not alter the results. In this model, the multivariate-adjusted OR of carotid plaque occurrence in subjects with the lowest quintile of relative PEF values compared with those with the highest quintile was 2.92 (95% CI, 1.51-5.86).
Analyses stratified according to baseline cardiovascular risk factors are presented in Table 3. In all categories of smoking habits, carotid plaque occurrence was higher in subjects with the lowest relative PEF values. In all other subgroups, carotid plaque occurrence was also higher in subjects with the lowest relative PEF values, although the association was weaker among hypertensive subjects.
A further multivariate analysis was performed in the group of never smokers (n = 406) (Table 4). The multivariate-adjusted OR of carotid plaque occurrence in subjects with the lowest quintile of PEF compared with those with the highest quintile was 2.80. In never smokers without carotid plaques at baseline, this association was even slightly stronger (Table 4).
The exclusion of subjects who reported respiratory diseases at baseline (n = 50) did not alter the results. The multivariate-adjusted ORs from the highest to the lowest PEF quintiles were 1.00, 1.09 (95% CI, 0.50-2.38), 1.21 (95% CI, 0.56-2.67), 1.39 (95% CI, 0.64-3.02), and 2.73 (95% CI, 1.32-5.63) (P<.001 for trend). The association of PEF categories with carotid plaque occurrence was also observed after the exclusion of subjects who had respiratory diseases, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, and/or diabetes (data not shown).
When subjects with nonrepeatable measurements of PEF (>10% difference between the 2 highest values [n = 32]) were excluded, the multivariate-adjusted ORs from the highest to the lowest PEF quintiles were 1.00, 1.14 (95% CI, 0.52-2.50), 1.40 (95% CI, 0.64-3.07), 1.56 (95% CI, 0.71-3.42), and 3.11 (95% CI, 1.42-6.81) (P<.001 for trend). The exclusion of subjects with apparent poor cooperation in performing the PEF test (n = 25) did not modify the results (data not shown). We also divided our population into 3 groups according to examination periods (0-5, 6-10, and >10 months); the amplitude and mean of PEF measurements were not different in the 3 groups and the association of PEF with carotid occurrence was observed within each of them (data not shown).
Instead of quintiles, the relative PEF values were also divided into 2 categories usually used in asthma management and prevention28: greater than 80% (n = 474) and 80% or less (n = 182). The unadjusted ORs of plaque occurrence in the 2 groups were 1.00 and 2.50 (95% CI, 1.64-3.82), respectively. The respective multivariate-adjusted ORs were 1.00 and 2.32 (95% CI, 1.47-3.70).
When we defined, a posteriori, the carotid plaques as localized protrusions of the vessel wall into the lumen with a thickness of 1.5 mm or greater instead of 1 mm or greater (102 subjects had a plaque thickness of ≥1.5 mm), the multivariate-adjusted OR of carotid plaque occurrence in subjects with the lowest quintile of PEF compared with those with the highest quintile was 2.98 (95% CI, 1.48-5.47).
In this 4-year longitudinal observational study performed in a large sample of relatively older subjects, low values of PEF relative to the predicted ones were associated with increased carotid plaque occurrence, even after adjustments for conventional cardiovascular risk factors. In a recent article on the Etude sur le Vieillissement Artériel study,24 it was reported that age, sex, smoking habits, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, CCA IMT, and the presence of carotid plaques at baseline were also related to carotid plaque occurrence.
The association of PEF with carotid plaque occurrence was observed in several important subgroups, including men, women, and never smokers. The magnitude of the associations and the consistency of the results are noteworthy and, to our knowledge, this is the first study that reports the relationship between reduced lung function and the subsequent development of carotid atherosclerosis. Recently, cross-sectional results of the British Regional Heart Study29 showed that reduced forced expiratory volume in 1 second, in subjects aged between 56 and 77 years, was associated with an increased CCA IMT and a higher prevalence of carotid plaques; the latter difference was not statistically significant. Our cross-sectional findings corroborated with these results (Table 1).
Several explanations could be formulated to explain the observed association of PEF with carotid plaque occurrence. The association could be due to the relation of confounding factors, especially smoking habits, with lung function and atherosclerosis. To test this hypothesis, analyses were conducted adjusting and stratifying for major conventional cardiovascular risk factors. The main findings were the apparent independent association of PEF with carotid atherosclerosis in the overall group and the observation in all subgroups of a higher plaque occurrence in subjects with reduced lung function. Furthermore, more than 60% of the subjects were never smokers and results were similar for all smoking categories. Despite our efforts to take into account the major conventional cardiovascular risk factors in the statistical analyses, residual effects of them and the effects of unknown or, to a lesser extent, unmeasured factors could not be entirely ruled out. However, the strength of the observed association of PEF with carotid plaque occurrence would make unlikely that these factors could account for more than a small part of the association between PEF and carotid atherosclerosis.
Ventilatory lung function, especially in elderly subjects, could be regarded as a measurement of the overall health status.30 Assessment of pulmonary function could be also dependent on the participant's effort, willingness, and ability to give maximal performance.31 Reduced lung function may then be a sign or a symptom of other disease processes that could ultimately lead to atherosclerosis. However, our results were based on subjects free of CHD and stroke, and when we further excluded in the analysis subjects with chronic cardiovascular and respiratory conditions and those with apparent poor cooperation in performing the PEF test, the results were not altered and were similar to those observed in the whole population.
Another explanation of the observed association in our study is that reduced lung function and atherosclerosis are dependent, at least in part, on the same physiopathological processes, and decreased lung function might be then an earlier response to these processes than plaque formation. In regard to this hypothesis, inflammatory mechanisms may be of particular interest. On the one hand, poor lung function could result from increased airway responsiveness and allergy32; both of them are prototypes of inflammatory diseases. On the other hand, an increasing body of evidence supports the hypothesis that atherosclerosis may be an inflammatory disease that shares many similarities with other inflammatory or autoimmune diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.33,34 However, the study of the inflammatory and immunological components of atherosclerosis is still at its beginning and is raising more questions than answers.34 Other mechanisms might also be important in the development of respiratory and cardiovascular disease, such as oxidative stress.35- 37
Another explanation of our results is that impaired pulmonary function itself may contribute to the causation of atherosclerosis. However, the mechanisms by which a low value of PEF confers an increased risk of plaque occurrence are not clear. Reduced lung function may result in chronic hypoxemia,2 and the imbalance between the demand and the supply of oxygen in the arterial wall has been suggested to be a key factor for the development of atherosclerotic lesions.38,39
Our population consisted of volunteers with a relatively low prevalence of CHD who agreed to undergo follow-up examinations. Taking into account the high rate of participation in the follow-up survey (90%), the potential effects, on the observed associations, of selective survival and self-selection biases are probably small but could not be ruled out. The weaker association of PEF with carotid atherosclerosis observed in hypertensive subjects should be interpreted with caution since we performed, in this part of the analysis, multiple statistical comparisons and a chance finding could not be excluded.
Most of the studies that have suggested that lung function predicted overall mortality and mortality from cardiovascular diseases used forced vital capacity or forced expiratory volume in 1 second as the measure of lung function. Although PEF is widely considered and used as an indirect index of airway caliber,40 it might be a less sensitive measure of lung function than are spirometric measures.40 However, the strong correlation between PEF and forced vital capacity and forced expiratory volume in 1 second is well-known1,40 and, as expected, reduced PEF in our study was associated with respiratory manifestations and smoking habits. Recent international guidelines31,41 support the use of PEF measurements for clinical and epidemiological purposes. Furthermore, several studies1,7 have reported an independent association of PEF with cardiovascular disease and death.
Peak expiratory flow measurements were obtained by the Mini Wright peak flowmeter, which is simple and easy to use in a population survey. We do not think that the device used lost accuracy during the study period. No PEF measurement drift was detected over time, and similar patterns of association of PEF with carotid occurrence were observed according to examination periods. Most established designs of portable PEF meters hold their calibration for longer than 3 years,42 and the Mini Wright PEF meters aged up to 14 years can give readings that are as good as new meters.43
The reproducibility of the instantaneous measures of PEF was in agreement with the results of other studies,40 and the number of subjects with nonrepeatable measurements was low. Although the exclusion of these subjects yielded similar findings to those reported in this article, we preferred to present the results obtained from the whole population. In fact, several studies44,45 have shown that the application of rigid repeatability criteria for lung function tests may bias epidemiological findings by the exclusion of subjects with high risks of accelerated loss of lung function and mortality.
In accordance with other investigations,46,47 a definition of plaque as a localized protrusion of the vessel wall into the lumen with a thickness of 1 mm or greater was used in our protocol. One could argue that this value is relatively low and that a minor wall irregularity may be mistakenly considered as a plaque. However, the results of the reproducibility study, for the presence (or the absence) of plaque, were satisfactory, and a reanalysis of our data using a more restrictive definition of plaque thickness (≥1.5 mm) also showed a strong association between baseline PEF and the occurrence of carotid plaques.
In conclusion, our results suggest that reduced lung function predicts the 4-year occurrence of carotid atherosclerotic plaques in elderly subjects. The nature of these associations remains unknown and merits further investigations. The increasing prevalence of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease worldwide48,49 should push further attention of the possible relationship between the respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. If lung function or its determinants were causally related to atherosclerosis, our findings would provide new insight on the determinism of cardiovascular risk in the population. Nevertheless, from a practical viewpoint, assessment of lung function, which is simple and inexpensive, could help identify a population at high risk of atherosclerosis development and CHD.
Accepted for publication December 11, 2000.
The Etude sur le Vieillissement Artériel study is organized under an agreement between the National Institute of Health and Medical Research, Paris, France, and the Merck, Sharp and Dohme-Chibret Company, Paris, and is supported by EISAI Company, Paris la Défense, France.
We thank C. Frette, PhD, for setting up the respiratory part of the Etude sur le Vieillissement Artériel study; J. M. Fève, MD, C. Leroux, MD, C. Magne, MD, and I. Ruelland, MD, for performing ultrasonography; and F. Neukirch, MD, for critical reading and constructive comments during preparation of the manuscript.
Corresponding author and reprints: Mahmoud Zureik, MD, PhD, Unit of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Epidemiology, National Institute of Health and Medical Research, Hôpital Paul Brousse, 16 av Paul Vaillant Couturier, 94807 Villejuif CEDEX, France (e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com).


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-Sherlock is my new favorite thing in life. Only three episodes is absolute balls.
-I have the two best friends in the entire world.
-tumblr is fucking addicting.
I am ridiculously sad about Ryan Dunn. That is all.
So, um... does anyone else have huge love for Game of Thrones? I'm a long-time fan of the books, and the show makes me squeal with glee every single episode.
Betty White's "get well soon" note to Rue McClanahan: "I hope you die, so I can be the last Golden Girl!"
♥ ♥ ♥
So, I've been sleeping even worse than usual, what with all the sadness and tears. So tonight, my insomniac ass has decided to self-medicate with really, really fucking adorable YouTube videos. And now, I subject you. I am both incredibly sorry and very not sorry all at the same time.
From the animal kingdom:
(This one is so cute that my brain nearly imploded. Srsly.)
And then I decided a bit of Matthew Gray Gubler being really awkward and adorable was called for:
Then, the Merlin boys being retarded and singing:
And the Children In Need special:
Which, of course, led to...
(I am disturbed by how much my dog, a white boxer, looks like a fucking Ood, by the way.)
And, because of the Whoness, I had to go to my favorite anything ever:
And, of course, from Doctor Who, we have to go to Torchwood...
And I will spend the rest of what short time I have left before Marcus wakes up and I have to spend three hours trying to get him to keep his goddamned voice down so as not to wake everyone else up watching Ray William Johnson and Phillip Defranko and quietly giggling to myself whilst drinking a never-ending supply of orange soda.
I hope my insomnia has entertained you at least a little bit, friends. Love you all.
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The end.
You know what, True Blood? You need to get rid of the annoying characters: you know, Sookie and Bill. Give me Eric, Pam, Lafayette, Jessica/Hoyt. That's all I need, bb. I'll be good to you.
P.S. Fuck you, two weeks. *emos*
The Nicolas Cage Game
No, seriously.
I may actually die laughing.
Violent Acres is hosting a Charity Challenge on her blog... apparently, she'll post a picture if she meets her goal. It's a retarded incentive, but apparently effective... and the challenge is for a good cause. More info here.
I worked for eleven hours and want to die now. Also, my tattoo is itchy as hell. I hate itchy-tattoo-stage.
Rainbow Twist Twizzlers? TASTE LIKE ASS. ASS AND PLASTIC.
...Amy Winehouse. I'm not sure what I think. Hmm.
Yes, that's what I've got.
Worked at Lowes today. Well, trained. Their training is 90% computer training, and their stupid headphones hurt my stupid ears. However, it still looks way better than Pizza Hut, so I'm content.
And then? (By the by, you can blame this whole section on autumnyte for pointing out this first thing.) The internet fucking won. Won what, you may ask? EVERYTHING. It's mildly terrifying that you can buy that online so cheap, but that's all blocked out by the comments. THE COMMENTS ARE SO FUNNY, OKAY.
Then, of course, since it is Amazon.com and Amazon.com does provide literally everything, you can also get a military grade tank, a UFO detector, and The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. (What amuses me most is that, in the little section where it has the "Customers who bought this also bought:" it has anal douche syringes and Smallville DVDs. *dies laughing*)
SPOTTED DICK IN A CAN. FRESH WHOLE RABBIT CARCASSES. (The best part of that one, is, of course, the "Customers who bought this" thing suggests male posing pouches as something frequently purchased with dead rabbits. SO CREEPY. SO FUNNY.)
The eyes are the groin of the head.
Remember that, people.
I just overslept, I have to be at work in an hour, I have to walk, and it's raining.
Today is going to last forever. I've been outrageously tired all weekend (and unable to sleep, of course), and I'm kind of exhausted, and today is going to drag.
On the plus side of things, I am going to Wal*Mart to get a new hat (or two) and also a Three Musketeers bar (because, you know, craving).
I may or may not have put Viva la Cobra on my mp3 player... you guys. YOU GUYS. I still haven't listened to the entirety of Venus Doom, but I'm going to listen to Cobra Starship. I am a horrible fangirl.
I loved House tonight, but the one thing that sticks out most in my mind is not how awesome the episode was, but how incredibly smokin' hot Azura Skye is. I mean, WOO. I've seen some of her guest appearances, and every time I'm struck with how completely gorgeous she is.
I have to go to bed now before I fall asleep on my keyboard. WOO.
I am selling old DVD sets, so if anyone is interested, they can be found here.
Okay, I totally give. I fucking love the woman who writes Violent Acres. I want to have angry sex with her, then have twenty of her little asshole babies.
...too much? OH WELL.
I went to the doctor and now I have, like, five inhalers. How that happened, I'm not sure. Also, I have Tater Tots. I'm even less sure of when I may have acquired them, but I'm damned sure I'm gonna eat them now. Om nom nom nom. Tater Tots, oh yes.
And Cherry Chapstick! This shit is just, like, magically appearing. Hell, I love cold medicine.
That is all.
Um, I have a feeling that the only thing that I'll be able to say at the end of the episode is this, and so I'm saying it now:
ETA 2: JIM! I didn't think I could love you more, and then I did. And JAN!
God, I love this show.
ETA 3: TWoP is recapping The Office now? I am incredibly unsure how I feel about this. On the one hand, it is Wing Chung. On the other, TWoP has managed to tear into some shows so hard that I actually stopped liking them. I'm... so confused.
Well, um. I guess I'm not waiting till Monday to be online anymore! This because I worked even longer than I was supposed to and completely and totally fucked up my back. I have no idea what the hell I did, but ow.
...Saves the Day and Leathermouth at the same show. Does that hurt anyone else? Right in the soul?
...yeah, that's all I got.
Also, upon further pondering, I have decided that Darryl/Kelly is totally my new favorite thing in life. Make that happen, The Office, kthx.
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Um. More when it's over. I just had to let that out.
I hate my job!
In other news:
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To sum up: Toby FTW! I love me some Toby. *pets him*
Tomorrow, I am repotting Bob. (For those of you who are new, Bob is my aloe plant. He is ginormous. He is five years old now! I love him for serious). He has two more babies, so now I have to find homes for them, whatev. Hez is bringing her aloe over tomorrow for repotting too, methinks.
Also, I got a package in the mail and opened it to find the most adorable thing ever. It is Marcus's Halloween costume... he is going to be Steve from Blue's Clues. THE SHIRT IS SO TINY AND GREEN AND CUTE.
The bruise on my jaw is just plain yellow now. It looks like I fell asleep on a highlighter. WOO.
I was hauled out of bed at five this morning... my grandmother had to go have carpal tunnel surgery... she, of course, "forgot" to tell the surgeon that she's diabetic, and thus needed an appointment EARLY so she wouldn't bottom out while waiting for the anesthetic to wear off. Her appointment was scheduled for eleven thirty, and they called yesterday to reschedule it for five thirty in the morning. SHE, however, didn't call my parents until five this morning, because she, once again, "forgot". (I'm really pissed off at her for this. She's been "forgetting" things a lot lately... because she thinks my Dad doesn't pay enough attention to her, and she knows how he got all obsessive about helping out when Pap was diagnosed with Alzheimers. So now she's trying to guilt him into doing more shit for her, and it's just... pathetic, really.)
So Dad wakes me up at five. He pounded on my door, then yelled, "Okay, so, um, you know. Your grandmother's appointment was rescheduled for five thirty. I have to go to work now, and I won't get off until ten, and your mother is leaving now to take Gramma to the hospital. And, um, you know. It's pouring down rain. So I need you to get up now. You have ten minutes to get dressed, and I'll drop you off at Denny's. You can eat hashbrowns. You know? Get up. GET UP."
That was pretty amusing. I'm not fully conscious for at least half an hour upon waking, so I wasn't actually aware that I was awake until I was sitting at Denny's with a cup of coffee, talking to a waitress about the Eragon books. That was pretty amusing.
...I am going to go take a very hot shower, and then I will read porn all night. YAY!
Also, you know? BEST THING EVER:
Today was made of fail!
Two highlights:
1.) While horribly busy at work, I ran up front and started helping. Four customers stopped me and did the leaning-in-worried-look thing and said, "honey, are you okay?", putting way too much emphasis on a whispered "okay", so I just laughed and said yes. I figured my face must still be swollen, whatever. THEN, I ran into the women's restroom to refill paper towels and noticed that I have a giant green-brown-yellow bruise on my jaw. It's huge... and it wasn't there AT ALL this morning. I am kind of disappointed that no one asked me after I discovered it how okay I was... I would have liked bursting into tears and sobbing, "He just won't stop hitting me!" to see the general reactions.
2.) Okay, it hasn't happened yet, but HELLO, tonight is the WHOLE HOUR LONG season premiere of The Office! *happy dances*
(Sorry, Supernatural peeps, I just can't get into it anymore. The Office for the win!)
Also, I would like to laugh heartily at everyone making such a big deal over bandom. YOU GUYS, shut up and enjoy the porn! That's what life is about!
And now I am going to take a long, hot bath. YAY! (Also, the memory foam mattress topper I got? IS MADE OF NINE DIFFERENT KINDS OF WIN. It doesn't make the bed more comfortable, per se, but I woke up this morning without back pain for the first time in many, many years. *dances*)
ETA: Um, so I just noticed that I have a fairly decent sized backlog of comments to get to. *SIGH* THANKS, LJ, FOR CONTINUING TO ONLY SEND ME SOME COMMENT NOTIFICATION. If I owe you one, especially in regards to the interest meme, I will get back to you eventually, I swear... just probably not tonight. ILU, though!
So, around four o'clock, my face started throbbing, like, more, and I got all nauseas and dizzy and blah. So, I threw up, took a pain pill, and laid down.
And I dreamt.
Hee. HEE.
Okay, this dream requires backstory. To wit, I live at home with my parents. We none of us get along very well, but we pretend. Heather is my best friend in life. Her boyfriend is Jim (who is an asshole), and he's black. My dad? Is incredibly racist. He doesn't mind Heather in the house as long as it is for very brief periods of time, but Jim isn't even allowed to pull into the driveway when he drops me off. Also, Heather and Jim have two (and a half) children. Marcus is two, TJ is one, and she's pregnant again with Riley, who is due in January. Heather's children are also not allowed in the house... when Dad is home. Mom loves them, though, because they're babies and she craves grandchildren (though, amusingly enough, Marcus is terrified of her, and has been since day one).
Okay, that should be enough backstory, so I'm going to go into the dream now, but first I ought also say that, alright, I realized I was dreaming about halfway through, and I'll tell you why, and you'll probably laugh. But I should have totally realized it was a dream at first, because some details were just absurd, but you know how sometimes you just don't realize you're dreaming? Yeah, this was one of those times.
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Then I woke up. I firmly believe that I only woke up because my brain went, "Wait, what? That was fucking stupid." Then I told my mom and dad and called Heather and talked to my sister and told them all about it, at which point, every single one of them pointed out that I should have realized it was a dream when Dad said he wanted to invite Jim into his house. Dad's actual words there were, "If you didn't realize that was a dream right there, then you're fucking retarded, you know? I don't know what that dentist gave you, but I think I want some, heh, you know?"
And that was the highlight of my day. Woo! I'm going to go take another pain pill and see if I can recreate the stupidity!
Also, thank you, those of you who commented with sympathetic noises at my last post. Yes, I do have pain pills (which, I suppose, given the dream-scene, is obvious), and yes, I am definitely taking advantage of that fact, because apparently, having your jaw bone sawed into is incredibly painful. *whimper*
I just got home from the oral surgeon.
I was all happy and giggly until, like, ten minutes ago, when my face started to throb.
I guess... the surgeon said he had to cut into my jawbone? Or something. I don't really remember. But it's apparently going to hurt, like, worse than it would have.
Also, OW.
I worked for twelve hours today.
Tomorrow, I work for ten.
My paycheck is unsatisfactory. Meaning that I am unable to purchase my HIM tickets until next pay. I'm convinced that by the time I have the money scraped together, The Electric Club will have sold out. Woe is me!
Monday, I'm having teeth ripped out of my face.
...at least the spoilers for The Office are fucking awesome. Oh yes, they are. Dwight! ILU.
And Venus Doom? Pretty fucking good. Really depressing, but fantastic none the less. And I've been... really depressed lately, so this is totally my new jam. Oh, Ville. Plz to be not killing yourself tragically, okays?
I am just feeling... crazy. And alone. And... I don't feel alone often, because I'm not, but... I am, and I think I intend to stay that way for, like, a very long time, and... loneliness passes, eventually. Until then, there is always chocolate and Eric Millegan being adorable and webcomics.
I am blah.
Like, my entire life is blah right now.
My job sucks.
My teeth hurt constantly.
I am terrified of having them pulled on Monday. I suck at handling even tiny amounts of pain.
I've been getting headaches and forgetting things again. I could go see my doctor, but... without prescription coverage, it seems sort of pointless.
I am always tired and achy and you know what I want right now? I want the fucking weather to change. I want fifty degrees and cold breezes and leaves changing colors. I want to take my nephews trick-or-treating. I want it to be the end of November so I can go see HIM again.
I think I would really, really like to fast forward my life right now. That would be super.
I had a dream last night that was... weird, to say the least, but it had a cameo by two guys who I have, at one point in time, considered incredibly good friends.
I sort of wish I wasn't such a fuck-up, because I might still be friends with at least one of them if I wasn't a moronic basket case.
But... this one guy, I haven't seen in in three or four years. And he's not, like, the easiest guy to track down... his name is Mike Smith. My Mikey. Possibly the only guy I have ever truly considered marrying.
I... wish there was a way I could talk to him again. But, sadly, after I moved back to Pennsylvania, I was briefly contacted by a mutual friend of ours who told me that Mikey had moved to Florida and...
I miss him. And so now I feel all emo and stupid and... blah.
On the plus side, I am wearing a beret, and I look disturbingly adorable. Also, my homiest made me deviled eggs, and I bought cheese. So... yeah. Yum. And I have a Finnish subliminal messaging CD and really cheap hair dye, and FAST RELIEF Tylenol PM. Life could be worse, and I shouldn't really complain. I just wish that life had a rewind button sometimes.
Okay, so.
My boss, the one who quit? Got fired yesterday, because HIS boss couldn't stand the fact that Bubbles dared quit when he wanted so badly to fire him. So he made shit up and fired him, leaving pretty much everyone completely assfucked because Bubbles had a fifty hour schedule that is now blank.
I'm going for my oral exam tomorrow, and I have no idea when the hell I'm getting my teeth pulled. This is knowledge I need, since I'm going to have to take time off of work.
Also, I can't stop reading Violent Acres. V is a bitch, but she's so fucking awesome.
Also, my favorite waitress bought me peanuts because she loves me, and I have had somewhere around six hours total of sleep in the past three days.
...and I want hashbrowns.
Also, the fact that Gerard Way got married in a unicorn shirt to Girl!Frank with Torosaurus as the ring bearer... pleases me. I'm actually really startled that I've seen posts about how horrible it all is. Plz, he has more than enough money to make mistakes, and maybe Lyn-Z is not a mistake. She is six different kinds of gorgeous, and talented to boot, so everyone stfu now, k?
SO! Fic recs for the month of August, aren't ya'll excited?
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Oh em eff gee, that took forfuckingever to do. WEE!
Bear in mind, some of these were written in August, some weren't. This is just what I've read. And I have a "to read" folder that contains more links than I have active brain cells, so I'm going to have these recs going for a long, long time. *g*
I fucking hate the dentist.
Today, shockingly, my appointment was only about five minutes long, but that's because the dentist opened my mouth, thanked me for brushing my teeth before I came, and then laughed and said, "Oh, yeah, let's send you to the oral surgeon."
*is terrified*
I have to have my wisdom teeth and two others extracted. *whimper*
The oral surgeon's closest appointment is on the sixth, so fine, but that's just my exam, I don't know when I'll have the actual surgery. I found it pretty amusing that the receptionist asked me on the phone if I wanted to be sedated during the surgery. UM, YES. I interrupted her with, "I want to be very, very sedated. I want to be half dead. I want you to have to perform CPR on me when you are finished, because I want to feel nothing."
I am going to the store with homiest now. And then I am going to come home and curl up into a little ball and die because my face hurts so hard.
Okay, so. Marcus and TJ's new favorite song is AC/DC's "TNT". They both rock out to this song. It's completely adorable.
...so I have a dentist appointment tomorrow. *bites nails* I loathe the dentist, but my wisdom teeth need to come out... though that might not happen tomorrow, but still. The sound of that drill introduces a fear in my heart that is possibly deeper than any fear I've ever had. I think it started when I was five, and my mother and grandmother took me to the first dentist appointment that I can recall. The entire drive, my grandmother stated over and over and over again that she would rather deal with three days of intense labor and childbirth than go to the dentist for any length of time.
I'm sort of hoping that the pure and unadulterated joy I still feel since I found out Bubble's resigned will help me coast through the visit. That, and a hearty dose of laughing gas. WOO.
Sparkle Motion by bexless. Gerard/Frank. "We are a group of very special boys."
Zen and the Art of Kissing by ink_like_blood. Gerard/Frank. "It's an audio book," Frank added.
Gerard laughed so hard, Frank hit him with the box.
Middle of Nowhere, Idaho by fvckofagun. Gerard/Frank. It's a truckstop in the middle of nowhere, Idaho.
Crackfic by bexless. Ray POV, But apparently, because Gerard is a complete asshole, he gave them lame, embarrassing, sex-related superpowers.
When Fanfics Bleed Into Real Life by isolde13. Gerard/Everyone and their mother. TOO FUNNY, GUYS.
Untangle It by opensound. Mikey/Bob. He winces, buries his face a little in the pillow. "If I were. You know. A fag. Liked the cock, and all. What would you do?"
Frank Has Died of Dysentery by dsudis. Gerard. "Frank died of dysentery," Gerard said, still not looking up. "And we lost Toro fording a river, but I'm getting pretty good at hunting, so I don't think Mikey and I will have to eat you."
Sticks and Stones by dsudis. Gen. I can't quote it or I'll spoil it.
Semi-Decent Proposals by misspamela. Pete/Patrick. "And if 'Sugar' hits the top ten, I'm going to marry you, motherfucker."
MCR and FOB:
Starring You Instead of Me by ficbyzee. Pete/Frank, Bob/Frank. Pete thinks wistfully of his own body, and of the days when he didn't have morals.
Sing Ourselves to Sleep by dsudis. Gerard/Patrick. Being exhausted is nothing like being drunk, but some nights Gerard gets too tired to remember that.
Human Wreckage by airinshaw. Gerard/Patrick. He laughs at the look of total horror on Patrick's face as he gathers the takeout menus to his chest as though Gerard just insulted his children.
wake up and notice you're someone you're not by soundslikej. Pete/Patrick, Frank/Gerard, minor Patrick/Gerard. The rest of the day was spent passing phones back and forth while the two bands went through the five stages of body switching.
Untitled by bexless. Bob/Patrick. "I love Gerard to death, but like, I can only have so many conversations about the endless night sky. You know?"
When Drummers Harmonize, or, How Bob Got Patrick Laid by calathea. Bob/Patrick. Patrick slept in his car because he was afraid to walk back in on his roommate having a threesome and Patrick thought inflatable cacti were valid decorating choices.
This post brought to you by twelve hours of sleep, Dove chocolate, and Cherry Chapstick.
Ahem. Sorry about my last post, I had an outburst. *g* I just got so excited... I was really upset about being unable to go to Projekt Revolution, and all of a sudden, my old friend Tommy, who I haven't even seen in over a year, messages me and asks if I'm going, and tells me that Heather, Justin and I are all more than welcome to hitch a ride with him. So, YAY!
In celebration, I bring you bandslash recs! Mostly! Okay, yeah, some Vam, too, because I was rereading a few of my favorites lately and I have to.
Don't Knock It by off_floof. It's shmoopy! Yay!
Like Home by _justwords_, who may just be my favorite Vam writer ever.
Moonsong, by spiderweb_x. The link is to the epilogue, and it's spooky and neat.
Watercooler Romance by marigolde. More schmoop. AU, set in an office.
Walk Into the Sun by lemon__crush. Unfinished AU, excellent in all ways. Links to the next chapter are at the bottom of the page.
Three and Not The Two by one900. "Oh, wait, I know one. Well, it's not really a secret, but. Frank had his first lapdance to 'Jump, Jive and Wail' by the Brian Setzer Orchestra. Said it was the weirdest experience of his life."
They Won't Miss the Little Things by gryphonella. Ray's kind of a kleptomaniac, or pack rat, depending on your definition.
Minutes by normalhumanbein. No pairing, some drug references and quite a bit of swearing, and really sort of sad.
Interesting by valerie_z. This is actually mostly FOB, but Gerard pops up, and is sort of the focus, and by the way, if you haven't read everything this lady has written yet, get to it. She's the funniest fic writer I've ever encountered.
OKAY, ENOUGH FOR NOW. I am off to go be happy some more.
If I could get a ride to a bookstore on Harry Potter Day? I could die happy.
( Also, some musicspam! All zip files, mp3 or wma.Collapse )
So, okay. I CANNOT HELP MYSELF.
I am one of those people that clings to the edges of various fandoms. I lack talent, so I do not write fic, do manips, no vids, no nothing from me.
But I can rec, and so I will.
NOW. Bear with me here, okay? I know that there are not a lot of bandslashers on my list, but that is, apparently, my new thing.
My Chemical Romance bandslash, to be precise.
( So, let me introduce you to the band:Collapse )
There are nine hundred thousand other awesome things about this band, but this is all that's popping up right now in my exhaustion-riddled brain, and I think it is a good enough start.
( And now, for the fic.Collapse )
This is, of course, only the tiniest sampling of recs, mostly to see if anyone is actually interested before I do any more, but I had to share these, because this fandom has some of the best fic I've seen since the SPN fandom started. So please, bandslashers or not, give these a go... most of them are AUs, anyway, so there's not a massive amount of confusion going in. Also, if anyone wants the music, just let me know, I have the three studio albums, and the Life on the Murder Scene audios.
zomg i am dying.
Thursday night I got two hours of sleep.
Last night I got two and a half.
I'm sort of afraid to fall asleep now, cause then I'll be up all night tonight and wrecked tomorrow.
I woke up this morning and stumbled downstairs, only to be surprised as hell to be greeted by Pap, who said, "You weren't sleeping, were you?" in the loudest voice ever with a big smile on his face.
I love my Pap.
Mom and Dad took him to the nursing home a bit ago. He seemed to like it well enough, and he's a lot more conversational with Gram not around.
Oh, yeah. Gram didn't go with them. She went to get her hair done.
So, me and Jenn were right. She really is a selfish bitch.
Am talking to Heather on the phone and want to be there badly.
Today is beautiful, weather-wise. It's cold and wet and I love it.
I hope it's like this, somewhat (hopefully less wet), for Kennywood next Sunday.
Fuck. I can't get my hair cut today.
I think I am just going to go curl up in the living room and play FF:T and do my laundry until it's time to wake Mom up, and then I'm going to crawl into bed and die.
I really do feel sorry for Mom and Dad, and their lack of celebration for their anniversary.
Before I go, I have to say: This weekend has renewed my love for LJ. You guys are all awesome. Thank you so much for being here for me. *smooshes* Yesterday afternoon was miserable, and thanks to you all, Heather, my sister, and Rob on AIM, managed to not go insane. Group hug, ya'll.
Group nap would be so much more fun.
For all those who commented on the earlier entry, thank you.
Pap is fine. There was nothing wrong. Gram went into her room to get something, and Pap went down into the basement. She's stupid, and instead of looking for him, she called his name a couple of times, which was about useless since he doesn't really remember it anymore. Plus, he hates her and doesn't talk much when she's around, and rarely responds to her. So she called the damned police, instead of taking ten seconds to look around her own damned house.
They took him to the ER anyway for a psych eval. The only good thing to come of this whole retarded mess is that he's being placed in a nursing home tomorrow morning. That's what I've been doing all night... calling the nursing home, the nursing home admins, making the arrangements for his placement. And dealing with all of her stupid fucking relatives who keep calling to find out where they are. If ONE MORE PERSON calls my house and demands to know who I am instead of saying fucking "hello", I'm going to snap.
My sister and I both think that Gram did it on purpose. The whole calling-the-cops thing. See, she really hates my mother. Isn't that fond of my father, either, but since he's her only living child, she pretends. All week, my father has been telling her that he's happy to be there any time, but that he was unavailable today, since it's my parent's thirty first wedding anniversary. My sister and I, and my mother agrees (though she hesitates to say it out loud), that Gram either knew where he was, or at least knew he was in the house, but she "panicked" on purpose, to ruin their day.
Wouldn't be the first time her dramatics came out to play in time to ruin someone's day.
The hospital did the evaluation, sent it on to the nursing home he's going to tomorrow, and sent everyone home. However, at this point, my father flat out refused to let my grandmother stay with Pap by herself. Rather than bring him here (it can severely confuse and even physically damage those with severe Alzheimeror dementia to be moved multiple times in the course of days), so Mom and Dad are staying there tonight.
Which leaves me here. And while I'm not complaining that they're staying there, as I think it's best for Pap, I'm freaking out. Cause ever since my house in Monessen, when Roger broke in and kicked my ass, I've been sort of terrified of being alone at night. Not... everywhere, I've to make that clear. But this house isn't really small... nor is it that big. But two floors, a basement, and a lot of random noises... so I'm freaked the fuck out.
I loathe that woman.
Jim had his license suspended, so Heather's father has been taking him to and from work, and taking her to and from the store and such. Jim can't drive, and Heather's dad is, at the moment, too fucked up to get behind the wheel, so I have nowhere else to go. So I'm here, alone, freaking out, and I'm feeling really selfish about panicking for myself, so I didn't say anything to anyone, but I am.
Today turned out to be really fucking peachy, no?
Now I'm sitting here, watching SVU, trying to eat a piece of pierogie pizza, and trying to concentrate on not letting myself stray into panic attack territory.
At least the weather is still workin' it for me.
I don't even know where to begin.
Today was such a good day, right? It was my parent's anniversary, they went out, had fun. I got my good medical news and my good work news, and my Lush stuff and it's beautiful outside and I'm wearing a hoodie and I love hoodies and I smell pretty cause of the Lush stuff and today was so nice.
And now Mom just called, said her and Dad are on their way to the hospital because something happened to Grandpap. She doesn't know what, only that Gramma called and said, "I can't talk, the ambulances here, he just got away from me" which means that she WASN'T FUCKING PAYING ATTENTION AGAIN and now Pap is hurt because she's a selfish, stupid whore.
I can't even BEGIN to describe how angry I am right now. I'm CRYING and I only cry when I'm pissed.
If she would have just listened to ANY OF THE SUGGESTIONS any of us have made over the past three fucking years, and more notably the past two weeks, none of this would be happening right now. If she would have listened to us three years ago, he would have had a psych eval and the Alzheimers would've been caught early enough to maybe slow down his deterioration. If she would have listened to me and dad this week, the alarms Dad put on the doors would've been active, and the baby-gate would've been up in front of the steps, and he wouldn't have been able to wander off or fall down the stairs or whatever he did. If she would have just opened her eyes for two goddamned minutes, he would be fine.
So now she's successfully ruined Mom and Dad's anniversary, my good day, my sister's good day, and Pap's whole fucking life.


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In all the hoopla surrounding John Mayer's recent Playboy interview, everybody missed snowboarder Shaun White's 20 Questions.
White reveals he once misplaced his Olympic gold medal, which he won for the men's halfpipe at the 2006 Torino games, and eventually found it in the back pocket of the front seat of his car. He was "stoked to have it again."
We should say so.
White also comments on smoking pot with Olympian Michael Phelps. "With Phelpsy? Old Smoke on the Water? No. To be honest, I've never been into going there. My friends, I'll admit, most of them do … and now, because it's Olympic time and everybody's getting tested for drugs, you see them just sweating bullets, man. I'm like, 'Ah, whatever.'"
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Contrary to the conventional wisdom, the British people are quite used to coalitions. After all, they were governed by the Blair-Brown coalition for 13 years before the present one. In our discussions about our forthcoming book on the New Labour governments, Jon Davis and I returned again and again to the relationship between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. But it was not until the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats formed a government last year that we found a model to help us understand the period that had just passed.
Blair and Brown's rivalry and intermittent co-operation was like a coalition. It was more than mere personal manoeuvring over the right to the top job. It was more, too, than a conflict between strands of opinion in the Labour Party. It was also more than the latest manifestation of the historical tension between Nos 10 and 11 Downing Street – a tension that usually takes time to develop. This was a working agreement between institutionally and ideologically distinct parties, the Blairites and Brownites.
In Parliament, each party had its own whipping operation to organise its MPs. Brown's whips caused most difficulty for Blair during the House of Commons passage of bills to bring in foundation hospitals, university tuition fees and trust schools.
The two parties even had separate funding and polling arrangements. Lord Levy notionally raised money for the Labour Party, but the secret loans raised for the 2005 election were almost personal to Blair, while Peter Watt, Labour's general secretary, spoke of a secret "fund with no name" in the party's accounts at Brown's disposal even while Blair was leader. Philip Gould, the party's pollster, was personally answerable to Blair and distrusted by Brown, who used his fund to pay for his own private polling.
In government, important policy decisions on operational independence of the Bank of England, the euro, and NHS spending, were taken by the leaders of these coalition parties alone. Much official business was conducted between the two faction leaders or their trusted deputies. That, rather than Blair's "presidentialism", was the real reason that the Cabinet role was downgraded.
A New Labour coalition agreement even existed in the form of the Granita deal of 1994, when Blair ceded some control over economic policy and the wider domestic programme to Brown. The agreement was updated several times, notably at the Admiralty House dinner brokered by John Prescott in November 2003, when Blair undertook to hand over to Brown the following year in return for co-operation on policy. This was superseded by Blair's October 2004 declaration that he would fight the next election, but not the one after that, and his appointment of Alan Milburn as heir apparent. That deal was partially reversed in the "ice cream" pact by which Brown was restored to the dual leadership in order to fight the 2005 election, and then fully negated by the Brownite coup of September 2006.
When Blair stood down nine months later and Brown took over, the new prime minister continued to operate his government as a coalition with Blair's followers. After trying to distance himself from his predecessor, Brown appointed two of the most Blairite, Peter Mandelson and Andrew Adonis, to his Cabinet.
There are differences between the Blair-Brown coalition and the present one. The main contrast is that relations between the coalition partners in the Labour government were characterised by mistrust, hostility and personal ill-feeling. Senior civil servants tell us that the conduct of government has been politer and more straightforward since the 2010 election than it had been for the preceding 13 years. Mind you, that difference has been rather eroded in recent weeks.
The second important difference is that Nick Clegg is not agitating for David Cameron's job and has no prospect of getting it. The forces holding this coalition together and those pulling it apart are different. They are related to the third difference, which is that the Blairites and Brownites never competed in general elections. (Although there were furious internal battles over the selection of parliamentary candidates, most of which were won by the Brownites.)
Yet many of the dilemmas of coalition that are explicit now were implicit then. Brown, like Clegg, had to judge the balance between differentiation and working together. Brown had to stay within a notionally single party's policy, although he had the advantage of a reputation as a successful chancellor presiding over sustained economic growth. Until recently, Clegg refused to use his greater freedom to assert his party's separate identity, preferring to stress how united he and Cameron were on policy. In fact, in the heady early days of this coalition he used to quote Tony Blair in private, saying: "It's worse than you think: I believe in it."
Brown was never so enthusiastic, in public or private, about the Blairites' policies, but he and Blair both suffered when he sulked, and they both benefited when they publicly united in the 2005 election campaign. That is the problem that Clegg now faces. He has made himself unpopular with his party's former supporters by trying to show responsibility and unity, but if he now disagrees with the Conservatives that is likely to make him more unpopular still, because most voters say that they like the idea of politicians working together. That seems to apply whether they belong to notionally separate parties or not.
After one year of this coalition government, the surprise is how little fuss this supposedly freakish novelty has caused, and how easily the British constitution has adapted to it. Benjamin Disraeli said, "England does not love coalitions," and that was said to be one of the reasons why the status stayed quo in the referendum on changing the voting system. But, actually, we have been living with coalition government for much longer than the past 12 months.
'The Blair-Brown Coalition', by John Rentoul and Jon Davis, will be published by OUP next year
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December 18, 2016 - February 26, 2017
Thicker than water. Family concepts in contemporary art
Opening: Sunday, December 18, 11 am
In view of changing realities family has to be thought in a new way. At the latest with the protests of 1968 criticism of rigid role models and patriarchal power is part of the social mainstream. Yet as soon as it comes to defining what family is the topic develops a new explosive force. What makes up the families core/the core of the family?Besides value and generational conflicts social debates about family are coined by the development of new technologies like IVF or surrogacy as well as alternative lifestyles/outlines of life. Instead of a biological legitimacy family can also be perceived as a production process or doing family. Therefore the development of communities und society interact and lead to the question if the notion/concept/idea of family can be interpreted individually and filled with all forms of living together. Thus family affairs do not only have a private, but also a politically dimension. They are expression of changing social structures and different family conceptions
Personally involved or at a distance the artists reflect the present status of family. Which meaning does family have in view of globalized working conditions and pluralized ways of life? In what way do networks and friends replace classical family structures?
Familia, the Latin origin of the word family, soberly translates to household. Instead of blood relationship and community of fate the term rather suggests a community based on voluntary commitment and with that captures the plurality of current family designs/concepts. Is family only a cause of free choice nowadays and no longer of genetic chance?
The exhibition presents works by Candice Breitz, Omer Fast, Simon Fujiwara, Badr el Hammami & Fadma Kaddouri, Nan Goldin, Verena Jaekel, Haejun Jo, Nina Katchadourian, Byung Chul Kim, Ragnar Kjartansson, Neozoon, Johannes Paul Raether, Gillian Wearing and Tobias Yves Zintel.
This is a cooperative project with the Kunstpalais Erlangen, where the exhibition is shown from September 24 until November 27, 2016
Since 18 May 2014
Lois Weinberger – Mobiler Garten
Opening: Sunday, 18 May 2014, 12am
The "Mobile Garten" by Lois Weinberger is a project organized by the Villa Merkel, galleries of the City of Esslingen am Neckar. It is installed in front of the winter garden and continues there over a longer period.


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Saturday, July 12, 2008
Seaside Rose
This fabric came out around five years ago. I would buy a piece here and there, whenever I saw it really. Occasionally I found it on sale and bought a little more. Thus far I have made four baby blankets, two outfits and this extra large queen quilt with it. This pattern is from Quilts n' More Summer 2007 issue. They used the same fabric in the magazine as I did in the quilt. I had to send this one out to be quilted because it is too large to fit under the arm of my machine. Quilting Cottage in American Fork did the loopy design. I bound it a few days after the quilting was done and now we will sleep under it tonight!
2 comments:
- Lonely Paul said...
- July 12, 2008 at 6:03 PM
- The Pope 1/2 Dozen said...
That is one beautiful Quilt!!
- September 10, 2008 at 8:07 PM
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