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Re: Question of the Day

Maritzia — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 00:54:18 -0000

Gah...how could I forget ER. So many great female charters of all ages and personalties. Some really good writing there.

And I must join in the Ivanova love for Babylon 5. I loved that character. I'm thinking it might be time to watch that series again.

Re: Question of the Day

Maritzia — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 20:02:26 -0000

Oh, BAG....forgot all about that one. Some great strong female leads there.

Re: Question of the Day

Maritzia — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 20:00:43 -0000

Cagney, from Cagney and Lacey.

Re: Question of the Day

Maritzia — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 19:59:14 -0000

OMGdess, how could I have forgotten Designing Women and Murphy Brown. Two truly great female centered comedies.

Re: Question of the Day

Maritzia — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 19:49:01 -0000

Cagney and Lacey - great show for it's time
Judging Amy (what can I say, I have a thing for Tyne Daly)
Maude
Golden Girls
All In The Family (the evolution of Edith's character over time was wonderful)
Providence
Family Ties
The Good Wife- seriously love this show

Yeah,that isn't just one favorite, but they are all different with different strengths and weaknesses.

Re: Damn

Maritzia — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 18:59:35 -0000

Unfortunately, I was laid off two months too soon to qualify for COBRA subsidies, so I've been without healthcare insurance sir three years now. And this week my unemployment officially ends, and I become one of the 99ers.

I extended my unemployment a number of months through selfemployment, and now like so many others I am now completely dependent on selfeployment to survive, meaning. Of course, that we no longer have any safety. Net. I do like working for myself, but it's daunting to work with no insurance, sick leave, vacation, workers comp or unemployment benefits. What worries me is what happens to all of us selfemployed if the economy is allowed to continue to deteriorate and we lose the little business we have with no net?

Re: Question of the Day

Maritzia — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 23:27:09 -0000

*laughs* Lissa, I only moved across the country after one long weekend together (but like you, countless hours on the phone and internet). My family thought I was completely nuts, but sometimes you've just got to follow your gut. Mark and I will have 9 years together in May.

It was the most out of character thing I've ever done, but sometimes you just know when something is right.

Re: Rodney King, Twenty Years Later

Maritzia — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 14:32:30 -0000

I remember I was in Houston at the time. It struck me especially hard because of a couple of deaths locally of POC by the police. I remember thinking at the time, "Have we learned so little over the years?"

I thought the same thing when the video of the Oscar Grant killing hit the internet. Sadly, I have a feeling I'll be thinking the same thing another decade or two from now when some other innocent is murdered by the police.

Re: An Observation

Maritzia — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:53:18 -0000

Hence the term "playing possum".

Re: The Pope's Creative New Defense of Institutional Abuse

Maritzia — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 15:23:18 -0000

Why can't the Catholic Church hierarch understand that the problem isn't the fact that there are priests who are pedophiles. Pedophiles exist in all walks of life. What is so reprehensible is that the Church hierarchy worked diligently to cover up the pedophilia and allowed the pedophile priests to continue to rape children by moving them to new, unsuspecting parishes. If they had just stepped up when the rapes happened, handed the priest over to the police, and defrocked them so they would no longer have access to children, none of this uproar would have happened.

It's the failure of the Church to take responsibility over and over and over and abetting these pedophiles in the perpetration of their horror that is so incredibly wrong and evil.

And people wonder why I'm no longer Catholic.

Re: Havoc and Mayhem: Holiday recap

Maritzia — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 14:27:59 -0000

Yep, we had the same exact problem with Fed Ex. UPS delivers on time to us with no problem. Fed Ex had our package "out for distribution" for almost a week. Like you, I called and said ugly things, and surprisingly my package was at my door half an hour later.

Fed Ex really does not like delivering in rural areas.

Re: Blog Note, Part Deux

Maritzia — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:40:03 -0000

For $15 a year, I have unlimited towing/roadside assistance on my insurance policy (GEICO, if anyone is interested, and I highly recommend them. My family has been using them since at least 1970). I stopped the roadside assistance for a few years, because I got 5 years of assistance when I bought my car. Now that's gone, I've gone back to GEICO's assistance.

Re: Blog Note

Maritzia — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 11:46:20 -0000

I know you aren't soliciting for donations, but I made one anyway. Money's tight so I haven't donated in a while, but today, you need it more than we do, and I certainly get more than my little bit of donation's worth of information and affirmation from you and this blog.

Re: The 100 Books

Maritzia — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 22:05:23 -0000

31 not counting some I skimmed through when I read them in school. And I've read many of Shakespeare's plays but not his entire works (I assume that would include all of his sonnets and whatnot).

There's many more books that I know of and the gist of the story, and a few I've only seen the movie. Considering that I read on average at least 1 book a week, that's not too bad.

Re: Question of the Day

Maritzia — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 15:21:48 -0000

A huge box of fabric strips for crocheting. I think there was about 20 pounds of strips in that box.

Re: This is a real thing in the world.

Maritzia — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 15:17:28 -0000

I hate to admit it, but...*blushes*...I kind of like that sweater. If I had any extra money right now, I'd buy it and wear it. Which is why, of course, I'm not allowed to go clothes shopping by myself. *laughs*

Truthfully, though, I'm probably old enough to be mother to many of you. And I've always dressed about 30 years older than my age. When I was in the convent, I was 30, and realized that I wore the same shoes as one of the 80 year old nuns. I truly am a fashion fail *laughs*.

Re: Daily Dose o' Cute

Maritzia — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 15:11:54 -0000

OK, you know you've been reading a blog for a long time when you remember the cat on that same monitor as a kitten *laughs*.

Thanks for keeping things going and providing some levity as well important news, Liss.

Re: Question of the Day

Maritzia — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:07:05 -0000

My husband and I have semi-seriously talked about changing our last names to a different name so we'd share a last name, but not the one either of us was born with. We decided it was really the most fair way to have the same last name. The name we've talked about? "Tinkerboltz" *laughs*. It's the last name of our toons on EQII.

At one point, I thought about changing my first name legally to Maritzia. But now I've got a business under my real name, I guess it's not the best time to do that.

Re: AHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHHHHHHHHHHHAHAHA!!!

Maritzia — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 15:16:19 -0000

OhMyGod, OhMyGod, OhMyGod, OhMyGod, OhMyGod, OhMyGod, OhMyGod

I think I might be sick.

I'm definitely going to have nightmares *shudders*. I have nightmares about falling as it is.

*gives in to a bout of trembling*

That whole thing is so wrong in so many ways.

Re: B-b-but BOOTSTRAPS!

Maritzia — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 17:37:22 -0000

I could probably qualify for disability, but if I applied, I'd lose my unemployment, which at the moment is the only money coming into our household. Since it can take years to get disability, I'm pretty much screwed. I guess if my UI runs out and I can't support us, we can always move in with a relative somewhere while I apply for disability.

And of course, because I have no health insurance, I'm doing without a couple of different meds at the moment. I can feel myself deteriorating almost every day. We'll probably be approved by a charity plan through the local hospital that will pay for our doctor visits and tests for a while, but I still have to pay for our meds. My husband and I both have fibromyalgia, and we think that he may have MS. Sometimes it all just seems too much to deal with, you know? Then we read shit like this and I'm ready to go postal on someone. It's a good thing I'm a pacifist and anti-gun *laughs bitterly*.

Re: Photo of the Day

Maritzia — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 15:41:17 -0000

I'm going to send this to my sister who thinks that, at 48, I'm too old to have long hair *rolls eyes*.

Re: Havoc and Mayhem: Who would do something like this?

Maritzia — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:17:16 -0000

If it doesn't look like something is growing in it, it should be safe assuming it's been tightly sealed. Apple cider vinegar does have sugar in it, so if the acidity of the vinegar drops, then it can grow stuff. If it's cloudy, it's a good idea to dump it.

Re: Police State Newz

Maritzia — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:22:01 -0000

This has been happening for a while here in NW Washington. We've seen the ICE agents on the ferries harassing anyone who happens to be Hispanic. And not on the ferries originating from Canada. These were routes that only stopped at US ports. It's absolutely insane. Of course, no one asks to see my husband's papers. He's an immigrant, but luckily for him he's a white immigrant.

Re: News from Shakes Manor

Maritzia — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:09:33 -0000

*laughs* Your stories of you and Iain always remind me so much of me and Mark, right down to the purposeful misunderstanding of words. I think I'm in love with both of you.

Re: News from Shakes Manor

Maritzia — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:09:33 -0000

*laughs* Your stories of you and Iain always remind me so much of me and Mark, right down to the purposeful misunderstanding of words. I think I'm in love with both of you.