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un.deux.trois.dis: miroir noir.

here is how my insurance used to work. i would go to the the doctor, give the card to the receptionist, and go home. there was no co-pay. there was no bill. the visit, the prescription was free.

then my disability kicked in. after 9 months employment-free, the government agreed with me that i was not physically or mentally able to work. but they now disagree with my feeling that my medical care should be free. they want to count my disability as income. i was put on what they call share of cost medicaid. in other words, now that i was receiving income - a whopping 800 bucks and some change a month - the government and i should share the cost of my treatment.

the government believes this to mean that i should pay all bills until the amount of 640$ is reached. then they will kick in and open their change purses. i'm not good at math but if you take 640 out of 800, you end up with 160$.

160$ a month is not enough to live on. i might cover two weeks' worth of groceries. what about rent? what about electricity? what about water? what about phone?what about all the things that make life life - like renting some shitty horror movie from blockbuster, buying a new pair of sweatpants [they are all i wear now]. sending care packages to friends...where is the logic? [shout out to my mom who makes living possible for me, who makes it so i don't have to seriously think about these things]

luckily, chemo is expensive as hell and having it the first monday of every month covered the 640 and i played nothing. now chemo is on hold while various tests are done to see how it's been working or not working. i've just had a cat scan and a bone scan. i'm having an echocardiogram on monday.

when i had my first hip surgery, i had a physical therapist and a nurse come to my house every day. the therapist said there really was not much for her to until my other leg was worked on.

well, the other leg was worked on - where is she? i need her. this leg is not healing and i don't have the discipline to do the exercises by myself. where is the nurse for when my heart is beating out of my chest so loud i want to turn down the bass?

sounds like an infection.

that's what he said when she told him my toenail was falling off.

pictures of my dog toffee

people seem to like my dog. well, here's a little background info on him. he is five years old and his name is toffee. he was the runt of the litter and when i first met him, he peed on me. he is food, toy, and dog agressive. but he also loves to cuddle under the covers.










part one of the startling sea-monkey adventure!!

i like money.

i don't know if you knew that or not. i don't like the money itself, i like spending it and getting things that make me happy. like mad libs. who'da thunk it? but my mom bought me an american dad mad libs she saw on sale one day and that was it. i was hooked.



oh wait, i forgot about the ones i just got..hold on...they're in the other bag.



i like zines. for those of you who don't know, zines are little magazines that people make themselves at kinkos and friends and markers and stickers. they were a huge phenomenom in the early 90's but i certainly wouldn't say they are a dead art form.



i like sea-monkeys. i was very happy when my sea-money kit came yesterday. i started preparing it today.



the kit came with water purifier, eggs, food, and super duper growth formula! the little yellow thing is the spoon.



here is what the kit would look like on top of my dresser/bookcase, if all had gone well.



only the best water for my sea-monkeys! fuji! at room temperture!



here we go, ready to rid the water of any and all impurities. if you believe the shit written on the back of the bottle, it doesnt have any but better safe than sorry eh?



do you think kirstie alley is too fat? maybe too fat for jenny craig but certainly not too fat for me. i'd take her over valerie bertenelli any day.



i stir the disturbingly large amount of water purifier in the tank with a chopstick.



and if you look at the left hand side of the paper towel that has suddenly appeared under the tank, you can see that it is leaking! yay!



but all hope is not lost! stay tuned for more zines, a book or two, part two of my startling sea-monkey adventure! it probably wont be 'til monday so calm the fuck down.

pictures of seaworld from last friday

last friday, my mom and i went to seaworld. they have a fun little program going on where going one day gets in you free for a whole year. just one of the many perks of being a florida resident. my mom had a new camera and was very excited about taking pictures with it. it's pretty and red and it actually needs to be charged for the full three hours like the instructions say or else the batteries die out right as about you're about to take pictures of a shark with a mouth that looks like a saw. oh well, good thing we can go back any time we want. here's all the rest.







these are the manatees. they were all, um, sleeping. and that crocodile pool? was totally full of pennies even though there was a bright yellow sign saying don't throw in foreign objects. fucking morons.


all the dolphins were, like, battle-scarred. i felt bad for them. it was like there were welts all over their bodies, like if they didn't jump through that hoop, the trainer was gonna take his belt off....

there is absolutely no way to tell this but this a picture of a sting ray pool. i fucking love sting rays. i could spend quite a time just sitting there petting them.


hello, i'm a regular bird you see every day walking down 1-92 but i got tired to dodging toyotas to get to the other side of the street so now i like here at seaworld. yaaaaaaaay!


the end of international drive

today was a day of many purchases and i always feel better after a day of many purchases. i bought a bunch of zines from atomic that have yet to arrive. i bought a new sea monkey kit which, oddly enough, my mother is encouraging me to have. she wants me to have something to do with my days and god knows i do too.







it includes everything your average sea monkey enthusiast needs - water purifier, the eggs, plasma III, the million bubble air pump, the aqua leash, and a glowing galleon that sits at the bottom of the tank and reflects light,otherwise known as glow-in-the dark.



i bought several packs of wacky packages stickers, 13 mad lib books [not one over 1.50$], an official walt disney world coloring book [for only 2 bucks!], this book will change your life again, some fruit mentos and a sea monkey game for my gameboy!



and i now, instead of excited, i feel desperate and anxious. i'm here alone. i just can't take being alone. i can't stand the darkness outside the door. you know, my mom sleeps with her tv on all the time. she just needs that noise. and i'm beginning to need it too. even though im trying to listen to music, i have the tv on. i need the noise. right now i need something, someone, an intangible to ease and sooth me. i don't have it. and i don't know what to do about that.right now, im gonna take a bunch of xanax and hope for the best but what do i do in the long term? sometime before thursday i have to write down what i think triggers my anxiety and email it to my therapist. oh my mom is back, thank god. later, dudes.

i'm a fucking shrub, ok?

my therapist's teeth are very white and very straight. they are white like dentist's office propaganda. there is a billboard on orange avenue for a dentist that claims to also treat chickens. he is holding a little circular mirror tool into a chicken's mouth. i think it is a rooster, to be specific. in any case, my therapist anastasia.....her teeth are very white. i think i am suspicious of people with exceptionally good teeth as i have very poor plaque and tartar covered broken teeth. but she also has small tits so i guess it balances out.

she is wheeling me into the therapy office because my mother has purchased a new wheelchair that does not have two big wheels in front. it is lighter and easier for her to remove from the trunk but completely strips me of any independence i might have had in the chair. she asks me to hold what she is holding so she can push. it's some sort of evaluation paper and it is me. throughout the session, i am dying to read it. the session last 2 hours, more actually but at least 2 hours when it should be 45 minutes. at the end, i get the paper.

panic disorder without agoraphobia
dysthymic disorder - depressed mood for most of days than not
polysubstance dependence
r/o social anxiety - persistent fear or one or more social or performance situations in which the person is exposed to unfamiliar people - exposure of feared social situation provokes anxiety - the feared social or performance situations are avoided

the short term goals i have agreed to are to identify and write down my history of anxiety attacks or symptoms to help identify my triggers. i will email this to her. i agree to discuss my feelings during session and decrease my habit of hiding my feelings. i agree to take medication as prescribed. i agree to attend sessions and will call if i am unable to come.

now i was given an old outdated paper. she will give me a copy of the new paper with juicier details next week. i like that i am given a paper with fucking psychological terms on it and i dont have to try to steal the fucking folder from the file cabinet. no one ever wants to tell you anything, like labels and words have lost all meaning to feeling.

and no, its not anything i didnt already know but thats not the point.

ironically,rather than have my mother ask questions about it, i tucked into the new issue of rolling stone i was reading at the time - britney spears:inside an american tragedy. its surreal but its hardly a fucking tragedy. the fucking iraq war, the fact that when mccain gets elected there will be an iran war, fuck! animal cops detroit is more of a fucking tragedy than some pop star who is having a nervous breakdown. we're all going through it now, aren't we? if you're about 25, you're fucked and freaking out. you just don't happen to have papparazzi following you about.

my mother's name is evelyn

go here.
download.
play again and again and again.

it's rare that i post pictures so pay attention

i spend most of my time nowadays in my room. i spent most of my previous time in my room but it was by choice. i can go but so far with a fractured hip. so i thought i would post pics of my room so you can get a feel for where i am.



this is a picture i actually like of myself, even though you can see my double chin. its from my birthday.






toffee always look sleepy or drunk as hell when you take his picture.





i went to a horror convention last year and my mom just finished putting finishing touches on the photos with the three main celebs i went to see. this is james duval. soo hawt i have to spell hot incorrectly. then there is jennifer rubin from nightmare on elm street 3 and lisa wilcox from nightmare on elm street 4 and 5. they are hanging above my closet.







karla gave me this clock for my birthday. homer says something different every hour. my fave is when he sings "i gave my love a chicken, it had no bones" whilst trying to seduce marge.





my music wall. most of that stuff was taken from virgin megastore displays and such when i worked there. the mates of state i got signed when i went to coachella in 06. they seemed impressed by it.





my dvds. i got the mannequin at a universal garage sale when i worked there and karla gave me the octopus puppet.





my other music wall. the poster you cant see is for the last rob zombie tour. i got these from a stencil site, my mom cut out the designs, and i painted them on the wall.it was like therapy. its robert smith from the cure, bjork, trent reznor from nin, sufjan stevens, and elliott smith.





last but least, my pharmacy. it actually doesn't look so big in this picture. but i guess when you consider i take this shit every day...


to appease the masses

toffee

this is my dog toffee. he's a sexy motherfucker.

mandy goes to med school

to nullify any confusion swirling in your melo-addled brains, i used to be this girl.
maybe i still am this girl. i'm not sure. she has the same favorite color as i do. she's unlucky in love like i am. she writes, i write. and i too, think of suicide, in the double digits.

but she has all these people commenting to her..and it makes me remember what melo used to be for me. it was like coming home. every single day, i got to come home although i'd never really left. people light years away, telling you they love you and they mean it, of course they do. i mean, i meant it. right?

i don't know if it can be that way again. and that makes me want to chuck this page in the garbage. but i've already paid for a year of eliteness so no matter.

this here is me. forever and ever amen. i'm hiding my face cause i don't like it so much.
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miss you a lot today. hope you're well

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Just thought about you today. No particular reason why, I guess because of the holidays. Have a good one, chickadee.

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i love you, angelique. and i hope you feel that love wherever you are.

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i find myself thinking about you from time to time. how wonderful you were and how amazing you were for me. zelda and cheese sticks will always remind me of you. its not fair that good people get taken from this world while the assholes get to stay. if i knew then what i know now i would have never let a distance grow between us.

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<3 saw you in my logs, hope you're doing well

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thinking of you ♥

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thought of you today... what a world, huh?

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i want to hug you right now.

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thinking of you.

i miss you <3

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I miss you, Angelique! ♥

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love you

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je vous aimerai toujours et je vous manque quotidien.

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I didnt know you when you were alive, save for occasionally browsing your cancer folder to see what was going on. Fuck cancer. I'm sorry your time came so soon, as did others before and after you. I hope you've found peace somewhere, you deserve that much.

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i still think of u...miss you...

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Missing you

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&Hearts;

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i still love you <3 zelda will never be the same.

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I miss you

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i never knew you but i miss you

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happy five year meloversary!

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For you, Angelique.

All your pretty pictures have gone missing :(

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happy meloversary and happy thanksgiving.

you must be sitting pretty now, i bet you don't have to deal with all the BS and the cold and the rain.

i hope you're still smiling, i loved your smile. i still listen to that cd from time to time, but then it got buried in all my other music. i really should find it.

i hope you're watching over me, i hope you're taking good care of all of us (your friends) and most of all i hope you've found peace.

love you and miss you

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I am thankful for the ways your digital footprints have impacted and influenced my life.

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another year gone by. I pray you've found peace

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happy meloversary.

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Happy meloday. :) Thanksgiving is a good day for a meloday I think. :)

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hey there
hope your doing very well, up there
in peace
basking in love
we still have your stuff you sent us.
i wonder if you ever read the book i gave you, or maybe your mom is reading it :P
I don't think you got into it

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Remember what you told me?

"Don't forget the peanuts!!!"

I didn't. :)

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You made the melo cake. :)

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i get a little "????" too when i see you on these days, but i know it's only b/c you miss us as we miss you so much as well.

<33333333333333

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Evelyn, it still freaks me out when you come online.

I miss Her. <3

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<3 Hope things are good wherever you are, if they have cupcakes, save one for me. :-) RIP sister. <3

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Always sad when any meloer leaves us. thanks for leaving what you did...a very cool melo. RIP

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i've been thinking about you lately, and it seems that you're a real hotbed for visits, i get more hits from people coming from here to my melo than anything else (save for people coming from their "my melo")

much love hun, here's hoping i can make it to L.A. to toast to you and the 10 meloversary.

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r.i.p <3

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