Told ya so...

Bye bye Kim Kardashian (STILL have no flippin' clue who the hell you are) & Mark Ballas

I'm surprised she made it this far, but you could just tell she was not going to preform any better... compared to Cloris who actually is showing improvement... not a lot mind you but she still has more moves than young wee Kim.

and it's gotta hurt standing next to an octogenarian and losing...

See ya later alligator...

ROCK ON CLORIS!
I will continue to vote for you!

Dance Ellen Dance.

It was a surprise to everyone last night as unscheduled special guest stars, (and newly wedded lesbionics) Ellen "Gotta Dance" Degeneres and Portia de Rossi danced for all to see...

Get a room already!


Seems Tommy boy is not a fan of the Lesbionics...

Tippy would be happy...

...but I am not.

Yesterday when I arrived at work I saw a dead bird on the grass at the foot of the building. A cute little thing. It's neck obviously broken by flying into the building.

Then today, four more little things.

It's that time of year when birds are migrating south.

I spoke to my Office Manager to speak to the Building Manager to ask if we can dim more lights, or better yet turn OFF the lights at night. What purpose does leaving office lights on 24/7 accomplish anyway?!

Our Office Manager said "It's for security."

I said, "Isn't that what the alarm systems are for? and the Cameras?"

She said "Well, some people work in the evening."

"At 3 in the morning?!" I inquired.

At this point she realized that I wasn't giving up... and I didn't even get a chance to talk about wasted energy and carbon emissions... heh

She said she would report this to the Building Manager. I added that they might want to collect the birds, as they will only attract rats or raccoons or god knows what else...

Seriously WHY are office buildings always lit up at night?

Anyone?

That's the way Love it goes...

Seems that Janet's (that's Miss Jackson if you're nasty) concert was cancelled last night here in Montréal... a scant 5 minutes before the concert was scheduled to begin.

Seems she fell got "suddenly ill" during Sound Check, was rushed to hospital and remained for the evening under observation.

As of posting there is no update on Janet's official website.

...I can only assume she had never tried a Poutine before... (don't get me wrong, I LOVE the stuff; me? I'm a Canadian, but she's just an American singer/dancer... it takes years to perfect eating this stuff.)

(Calls to friends in Emergency Rooms through-out the city have not yet been returned)

meow

Who's a ...



I AM!

Just doing a little bit of clean up around the joint over the next day or so...

Hope ya like...

Misster-Kitty chooses (almost)

After tonight's episode of DwtS I'm almost ready to select my favourite couple, and the ones I will vote for exclusively.

I have narrowed down my choices to either Brooke Burke & Derek Hough, or Warren Sapp
& Kym Johnson. I just want to see them do one more dance.

As for tonight they BOTH ere incredible again.

My guess is it's either Rocco DiSpirito & Karina Smirnoff or Kim Kardashian & Mark Ballas heading home tomorrow... I'm thinking Cloris Leachman & Corky Ballas are safe for another week.... I personally thought she very much improved last night! (whodathunkit) We will see.

With that in mind I likely wont watch the elimination show tonight, because the guest 'singer' is Jessica Simpson, and I simply cannot abide her and will not be a party to her continued 'career' but watching her 'preform'... I'll just tune into the last 2 minutes. heh

OH, and I have one other comment, I just want to wait til ABC posts a picture so I can back up my claim... stay tuned...

Touch of Class.

A news report today says that the family of Heath Ledger is transferring his estate to daughter Matilda Rose.

Seems Ledger never updated his will and left everything to his parents and sisters.

It's a touching, sane and ethical thing I find, that the family realizes that had he updated his will it is likely all would have gone to her anyway.

In an age of I want I want I want - gimmie gimmie gimmie - mine mine mine, this is refreshing, and indeed touching.

worth a thousand wörter

Now I'm not going to use the 'n' word here, because frankly I really do believe it diminishes the true evil of what they did... not only to the Jews, but to Gypsies, Intellectuals, Homosexuals and on and on and on...

...But what I cannot stop myself from saying after seeing a picture like this, especially considering her views on local, national and international issues...

is...



...SIEG HEIL!

I has a scared...

SNORT!

Ok I don't know why I'm focusing on Sarah Palin so much lately... it's not like I'm American and am trying to make an informed vote. (personally I'd write in vote for Dolly Parton if I COULD vote there) I think it's just because I love me some grade-A nuts and she is CHOCK-FULL!



Then add in that I'm not really a fan of David Letterman either, (ah, but then it's his writers that do the Top Ten lists not him)

I heard a tape of this Top Ten list while getting ready for work, on the radio, and it tickled me deep down:

Top Ten Surprising Facts About Sarah Palin.
(Presented by residents of Wasilla, Alaska.)

TEN
Sometimes Sarah calls John McCain "grandpa"
(Interior Designer, May-Lynn Pauling)

NINE
She stole that sexy librarian look from me
(Grasshopper Aviation Pilot, Dave Glenn)

EIGHT
Recently passed legislation to build a bridge to Funkytown
(General Manager of a Mexican Restaurant, Jerry Ochoa)

SEVEN
Does great impression of Tina Fey
(Banker and Race Car Driver, Erika Bills)

SIX
Favorite meal: moose nuggets and beaver jerky
(Private Music Teacher, Ana Hartman)

FIVE
Working on "Knight Rider" spin-off about a talking snowmobile
(Virtual Golf-Shooting Range Owner, Calvin Culverwell)

FOUR
Favorite book? "Late Show Fun Facts" -- available at fine stores everywhere
(Flight Paramedic, Steven Heyano)

THREE
Once spent a week in the hospital after attempting to put lipstick on a pit bull
(Dental Hygenist, Kathy McCone)

TWO
To improve her foreign policy experience, she recently went to the International House of Pancakes
(Deputy Mayor and Chiropractor, Kris Larson)

ONE
Only person I know who's not afraid to go hunting with Dick Cheney
(From the Wasilla Chamber of Commerce, Lyn Carden)

B-minus-0 BLAST OFF!!!

Let it be known...

...throughout the land that my erstwhile bff, (and as this photo will prove) amateur drag queen N@ Lauzon...



... is a big stinky meanie!

That is all.

Witches vs Bitches

What I really like about US politics is the candidates are soooooo much more entertaining. SCARY, but entertaining...

Case in point:

"Palin once blessed to be free from 'witchcraft'"

And I'm proud (and a little surprised) to see they actually posted my comments. Llook for "Shawn from Montréal"

GOD I love slow news days!

Here are the combatants:

WITCHES

BITCHES


Which do you fear?

I just don't get it....

I can't sleep. This is driving me mental. (ok MORE mental...) Why do the Pussycat Girls want to have boobies when they grow up?

I mean they're kinda cute, what with their blue feet and all, but seriously, what's up with that?!

I'm just sayin'...

YAY! Cloris is still on the show!

But whoda thunk it'd be Ted McGinley that was going home tonight? Not I.

And let me, for the record just say that the Jonas Brothers ought to be drawn and quartered. Lordy but there's no talent there, and they're not even cute!?!?!?

B-minus-1

Outta line

So I had to run into the Dollar Store on my lunch hour to pick up a few cleaning supplies (HEY! Don’t judge me, Why spend $5.00 plus for a bottle of Oxyclean when you can get it for a $1 ?!?!?!)

ANYhoo... I get what I gotta get then head to the cash. I weigh my options, the line with 20 old ladies or the line with one young lady and an old man... I choose the short line DUH... It’s ONE woman with a cart of 25 things or so and an old man with a bag of butterscotch candies vs a million old ladies with pretty plastic things… what would you have done?


Well as you can imagine… that was a mistake because after being in line for about 5 minutes while the lady was rung through, and while the TWO cashiers smiled and indicated for me and Old Man River to be patient (which we had been) we stood there thinking we’d be next. They finished up with the lady and then turned their signs to “Closed. Next Cash please”

EX-FUCKING-SCUSE ME?!?! It – was - on!

But before I could start, Mr Butterscotch went off like only an old man can… and I couldn’t understand a flipping word. So I just sighed extremely loud and said “JE-ZUZ FUCKING CHRIST!”

One of the cashiers looked at me and had the nerve to say “Excuse me sir, but you are out of line!”

I replied, “No. Actually, if you care to look, Me and my friend here are IN line. In the line we’ve been in now for over five minutes patiently waiting our turn. You saw us and even asked us to be patient. Well we’re no longer patient, we’re pissed. You COULD have turned the signs around before we got in line, but you didn’t Blanche. So, you’re going to pass both of us before you go for your smoke, or your lunch or where-ever it is you think you’re going.”

“Sir, I do not have to take this abuse…”

“Yes you do. And if you don’t want this to get much MUCH uglier, because I assure you it can, then you’ll ring us both through. Now.”

Amazingly we were both rung through.

When I left I said, "Have a nice day!" And I left a penny tip. :-)


Ya know, I don’t look for this shit to happen but when it does, I’m packing heat.

- - - - -

And my GOD that felt good.

To celebrate I had sushi for lunch!

There's something in the water...

...which is painfully obvious because the Celebs lately have gone total bat-shit mental...

In the latest celeb confession... Nicole Kidman is giving responsibility for her pregnancy on a RIVER in Australia.

Ok FIRST, the rivers name is Kununurra

Second if there were SEVEN women who got pregnant after swimming in that water I'd be first going some DNA testing on all them kids and find out if they all share the same father.

And third, I'd be looking for the guy that seems to be using Kununurra River as his person 'depository'.

Seriously, this kinda grosses me out!

and just in case...

...you're not up on all the other gays out there... here's a short list of others you may be shocked to know are/were homosexualists...

kd lang (shocked? me too, considering she's Miss Chatelaine and all)

Melissa Etheridge (no really! she's gay!)

Ellen Degeneres (funny AND gay? it can't be!)

Portia de Rossi (but she's pretty?! Guilt by association... and um, gay marriage)

Rosie o'Donnell (Ok, technically, she's not gay, but her girlfriend is)

Elton John (so THAT'S what the song Rocketman is all about? Hnn, I never knew!)

George Michael (and here I thought he was only a druggie?!)

the Pet Shop Boys (They have an exclusivity supply agreement to Richard Gere. heh)

Eurasure (trust me)

Lance Bass (Well obviously)

Rupert Everett (WOW! and here I thought all that refined femininity was because he was British?!)

Dolce & Gabanna (and? AND?! Dolce, ok sure! but GABANNA too!!!)

Boy George (There's something up with that name George)

Neil Patrick Harris (OMG! They got Doogie Howser!)

Freddy Mercury (well that's a given, his band's name was QUEEN, ok, fine)

Liberace (I shit you not!)

And in no particular order a few others you may or may not have heard of. This is obviously not a complete list of all the gays out there... this is more or less just to bring you up to speed a little...

Alan Cumming
Alexander the Great
Alexis Arquette
Alice B. Toklas
Andy Warhol
Angela Davis
ANT
Aristotle
ayem8e
Barney Frank
Billie Jean King
Carson Kressley
Charles Laughton
Christopher Isherwood
Christopher Marlowe
Christopher Rice
Clive Barker
Cole Porter
Colette
E.M. Forster
Eleanor Roosevelt
Federico Garcia Lorca
Francis Bacon
Gertrude Stein
Greg Louganis
Hadrian
Hans Christian Andersen
Harvey Milk
Herman Melville
Ian McKellen
J. Edgar Hoover
James Baldwin
James Dean
Janis Joplin
Jean Cocteau
John Amaechi
John Waters
King Edward II
King James I
Lady Bunny
Leonard
Leonard Bernstein
Leonardo da Vinci
Lindsay Lohan
Lord Byron
Marcel Proust
Martina Navratilova
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Miss Coco Peru
Misster-Kitty
Mitzi
Montgomery Clift
Nate Berkus
Nathan Lane
Noel Coward
Oscar Wilde
Peter the Great
Rainer Maria Rilke
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Richard Hatch
Rock Hudson
Rudolf Nuryev
Rufus Wainwright
Saladin
Sappho
Shirley "Kevin" Heezgay
Socrates
T R Knight
T.E. Lawrence
Tchaikovsky
Tennessee Williams
the Notorious J*0*E
Truman Capote
Virginia Woolf
Walt Whitman
Whalen
Yukio Mishima

Oh shit, I almost forgot...

Siegfried and Roy and John

...maybe I just thought they were a given... there's always one or two in every group that just 'read'... ya know?

no shit!

This just in from the "Blatantly Obvious News department"...



Clay Aikin is Gay!!???!?!?!

I'm sorry I just cannot believe it! This is obviously a hate filled rumour being set forth by Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones, oops, I mean John McCain and Sarah Palin and the Republican pary to disparage the image of masculinity and forthright heterosexuality that is Mr Clay Aikin. Shame on them! Shame on them and their political agenda.



SEE!?
He's BUTCH!

Just leave him the fuck alone!

Happy Hump Day

Lucky number 13 ?

What's this? I accurately predicted the first couple voted off this season? You so know I'm buying a lotto ticket for tomorrow nights 6-49 draw!

Say goodbye to Jeffery Ross and Edyta Śliwińska.

Maybe this serving of humble pie will resonate with Edyta this season and she'll come back next season wiser from this experience. I swear it's like she was paired with him KNOWING they'd be voted off quickly...

- - - - -

Highlights of tonight:


Brooke Burke & Derek Hough.
Wow!
WOW WOW WOW!
BRAVO!

Lance Bass & Lacey Schwimmer.
Another top notch performance.

Warren Sapp & Kym Johnson. Not as great as last night, but he's still getting my vote, as the two already mentioned did as well... same as Cloris - I'm just not ready to see her go, even though she can't dance that great, considering she's 82, I think she's doing rather well!

My guess for tomorrow night would be Kim Kardashian & Mark Ballas. She reminds me Clyde Drexler from season 4. The man had no talent, did not seem interested in even being there and it showed. OK, she''s not as bad as him but it's close. And I still don't know what the fuck she does or who she is, but I'll tell you this, it doesn't really matter 'cause she's soon gonna be packing her bags...

B-minus-2

Unbreak her heart

I don't want to say I told you so, but...

I told you so!

Back on September 2nd I said, of the Diva Braxton:

"She'll likely do well, then have a relapse of what? bankruptcy? drugs? and stay a couple extra guilt laden weeks and then be gone."

Well I knew I was good but to have predicted this would occure on the premiere episode.... In her "Lets get to know the contestants and fill the 2-hour time slot" the first words out of her mouth were "I was recently diagnosed with Microvascular Angina and so I am doing this to to show myself that I can do it... yadda yadda yadda"

Now don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to make light of her health, but shouldn't she have tried to coast a couple of weeks before dropping the faulty-heart-bomb, like say when she messed up on a dance and needed the sympathy vote?!?

Don't be wasting those votes now gurl, you did good last night!

Oh and for anyone interested I've just launched Misster-Kitty's Psychic Friends.

1-900-675-4889
That's...

1-900-MR-KITTY

Call now.

Call often.

$5.99 for the first minute. $3.00 additional minute. Minimum 5 minutes per call.

Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night

...and how!

Well if this season is going to prove anything, it's that we're running out of D list capable dancers.

There were a few hits, a few so-sos and a lot of misses.

I'd be DAMNED surprised if 'comedian' (I've had hemorrhoids that were more entertaining than him) Jeffery Ross and dance partner Edyta Śliwińska make it past the first elimination tomorrow night. But then I've been wrong before...

Here's who voted for tonight, and why, but I'm not saying how I divided the 13 votes...

Misty May-Treanor & Maksim Chmerkovskiy

... but only because I want to see Maks shirtless before she gets them voted off...


Cloris Leachman & Corky Ballas



... their combined ages are 129. WTF?! OK I heart Cloris muchos and she's got a mouth on her like a stevedore, and really that's a turn on, but lord I fear she's gonna snap a leg bone and crack a few ribs before too long. I'm just not ready to see her go yet. The woman is a legend!


Lance Bass & Lacey Schwimmer



A sister's gotta look out for her family. Know what I'm sayin'? And besides I thought they were one of the two stand out performances of the night. And you just knew Len wasn't gonna like their routine, if only because they moved so fast and his eyes moved so slow that he couldn't really see them. (actually of the 3 judges, Len is the only one I respect, and he's right it was too much flash and boogie woogie, but still they kicked ass)


Warren Sapp & Kym Johnson



OK, now for me, this was the dance of the night. Man that guy is huge!... he actually made Kym look like she only had a b-cup! I was very impressed with their dance and thought for a man the size of Wyoming, he was incredibly light on his feet. And you could just tell he enjoyed himself... that smile of his said it all.

Can't wait for tomorrow night and see their second dances...

B-minus-3

tsk tsk tsk

George, George, George, now really!? When are you going to stop doing naughty things in public bathrooms?

George Michael arrested and cautioned for possession of class A drugs

- - - - -

FYI I had to use a more dated pic of GM because, quite frankly I cannot stomach to look at more current pics of him. He used to be a bit of a dish, now it looks like he drinks dish-water...

You know what today is?

Ok YES, it's the first day of Autumn, which as we all know is just a momentary stepping stone to Winter and SNOW so, yea, I'm all up in dat!

...but no! today is something far more important... something, more than snow (SHUT UP, I KNOW!) I'd far more like to 'get up in'...

MAKS IS BACK!



Maksim Chmerkovskiy
*sigh*



Dancing with the Stars starts tonight with Season #7.

And just so there's no confusion on the matter... hands off betches, Maks is mine, all mine I tell you! MINE!

B-minus-4

Yes Master.

Sit back, it's Meme-Time!

It's the Genie Meme.

First, the rules...
(we gays love rules)

· link back to your genie.
· tag anyone you like.
· you are allowed ONLY three wishes for each question, so at NO point may you ask for more wishes. if you do, you will be instantly disqualified and a plague of termites will descend upon your home. your hard drive porn files will be completely erased and replaced with vacation pics from the Harper / Bush / [enter your country's current political leader here] family (depending on which county you hail from), a thousand fleas will invade your armpits, a thousand crabs will invade your crotch, your toilet won't flush but will back up... you get the picture...


Here we go...

Gay Genie #1
(ain't he cute?)


Appearance?
· first and foremost, I want my foreskin back (AND in full working order, I just don't want it plunked down on the coffee table)
· I want Steve Kelso's body
· 20/20 vision



Gay Genie #2
(ok not so cute, but still... Gay)

Love life?
· A little more naughty-naughty
· Spontaneity
· OK, basically like a Colt/Titan/BushCreek "film"



Gay Genie #3
(Toooooooooootally Gay! Seriously, how many times was he in a dress AND kissing men?! and all the show tunes?! PLEASE!)


Global village?
· no more disease
· no more republicans/conservatives/communists/right-wing arseholes etc etc
· end to global warming / environmental issues


Gay Genie #4
(Gay: check. Genie: check)

Career?
· writer for some terribly witty show
· nobel peace prize
· singer and record only one CD that will eclipse all CDs before it. - duos with C.Lauper, A.Lennox, K.Bush etc etc etc

Gay Genie #5
(Shut up, you KNOW this is fucking GENIUS!)

Sex with celebrities?
(if I must)
· Robbie Williams
· Dave Navarro
· Colin Ferrall

Gay Genie #6
(Mekaleka-hi, Meka-hiney-GAY!)


Overall?
· Well off. (REALLY well off... I'm thinking something in the 50+ million range)
· International traveller
· Live to the age of 99



Gay Genie #8
(This is a 'G'-rated still from a little gay porn called "Wet Dream of Genie" Don't ask me how I know, just accept it and move on)

I tag:
· Mitz
· N@
· XUP

MY Genie: Why... Kevin (aka Shirley Heezgay) of course!

B-minus-5

B-minus-6

Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrg!

This is dedicated to our favourite Mean Dirty Pirate: ayem8y.

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY!

(I shit you not. It's all here.)

Avast ye, matey.

Walk the plank, ye scurvy dog.

Land ho!

Shiver me timbers.

Yo Ho Ho, and a bottle of rum.

etc. etc. etc.

- - - - -

Next year I'm going to make this International talk like a butt pirate day! Now won't THAT be fun!

B-minus-7

Such a lot of fuss over a few extra S's

I'm glad to Report Shirley Heezgay is back, in her new incarnation as "Kevin" (of all names!) over at the Lisp.

Now, as soon as I saw the new name of his blog I could not help but remember a classic Buddy Cole skit where he says, in part, "Such a lot of fuss over a few extra S's"



...and I couldn't agree more...

...although in this particular case, Fuss IS indeed warrented.

Check out the Lisp, or as I refer to it (over in my links) "the lissssssssssthp"

R*A*M

After a couple days thought I've decided to make Random Acts of Music it's own Blog.

SURE I might still post the odd video on here, but for the intents and purposes of posting the songs that make the Kitty sing... well, you'll have to check that out here...

Fringe

Have you seen the new FOX drama FRINGE yet?

We’ve watched the first two episodes and I have to say I’m hooked! It’s a skotch similar to the X-Files, but I’m good with that, since I was a huge fan of that show as well. I’m a little unsure of the female lead – Anna Torv, I find her facial expressions a little heavy on the annoying side. Seriously… it’s ok to smile. And the ‘not so good’ Doctor is a little too much on the eepy-cray side – not the character himself, sure he’s a mad scientist, it’s the LOOK of the actor John Noble, bless him, he looked better when he had that ‘Ted Kaczynski’ thang going on in the first episode.

The true saving grace to the cast is the Male Lead – Joshua Jackson.

He’s Cute with a Capital Q.

We’re looking forward to the show and aside from the promised ‘out there’ plot lines, but more than that I’m personally looking forward to watching more of Joshua, Mr Jackson if he’s nasty.

OH PLEASE BE NASTY!

Happy Hump Day

back to my gray roots

I don't bitch about things as much as I used to... I miss that. And it's not that there's a lack of things to bitch about... and so...

Today's topic: Shit Music.

I'm not really sure if it's my age, kids today like the crap so the studios keep pumping it out or the studios create it and the kids today are too stupid to know better - which of course are one in the same. But jesus mary and joseph the music the last couple of years is really starting to snag my craw and I don't know how much more I can take before I start yelling at the radio... oh, wait, too late. In fact I'll even send in nasty, yet humorous emails to a particular radio station, that shall remain nameless - but you know who you are.

And hey, yes, I'll accept part of the blame because I continue to listen to that nameless 'top 40' station day after day... but in my defense it's because of the 80's 90's nooner, hosted by the terrifically talented and always witty N@. If it weren't for her show, and well, the fact that I'm too lazy - and just a little scared - to change or look for another station.

But c'mon people, what's with this crap music? And it's bad enough that the songs themselves are so repetitive, but they have to play/replay the song ad nausium throughout the day. And it's bad enough that the songs themselves are so repetitive, but they have to play/replay the song ad nausium throughout the day. And it's bad enough that the songs themselves are so repetitive, but they have to play/replay the song ad nausium throughout the day.

It seems to have started with Rhianna's Umbrella. (Hate it with a passion assion assion assion eh eh eh) Then there was that god-aweful Girlfriend from Avril Lavigne. Lately it's Metro Station with Shake Shake (I so want to effing shake shake them by the neck til they shake shake no more) and there's that heanous I Kissed a Girl by Katy Perry, (which I rambled on a while ago back) add anything that was even remotely touched by Timbaland and soon my teeth ache from listening to it...

...and just who the HELL is this Divine Brown?! Wasn't she that 3rd class fugly hooker caught with Hugh Grant back in the day?

Don't even get me started with that skank Lady Gaga... and really... "Lady Gaga" First of all there's nothing Lady-like about her, the "gaga" part is accurate to a point because I want to cry when I hear her song.

And speaking of Skanks... what is with all the skanky looks ... the Pussycat Dolls, Girlicious, Lady Gaga you name em, they is skanky.

SKANKY CRAP MUSIC.
that is all...

R.A.M.

'Lose Your Love'
by Blancmange

Blogcation

Fret none my pretties...

Misster-Kitty has not forsaken you. I just took a little Blog Vacation; in part because I had nothing to blog and also because I was otherwise occupied on Friday getting electrified needles in my legs, then getting my blood tapped, working out til I dropped on our new Wii FIT program on Saturday and Sunday, and then today having a hearing test...

Jambe de Kitty, (bien cuit).

On Friday, I had a an 8:30 am EMG for my feet. I am suffering from Neuropathy in my feet, I have little to no feeling in my toes especially the big ones (wink wink) It's a concern because of my Diabetes but thus far they cannot diagnose if it is caused BY the Diabetes or a lower back injury I received 12 years ago. ... either way because of the diabetes it IS something we have to watch.

An EMG (ElectroMyoGram) Basically it's a test where they measure responsiveness of your muscles by sticking a needle in your muscle and coursing electricity through it. Fun, no? Well, actually NO! I was fortunate in that the preliminary tests were just electrodes on my feet and then a low dose of electricity shot multiple times starting at my ankles then inch by inch up just behind my knees. One leg at a time and the father up the leg they go the more it hurts. Look I'm no pansy, I think I have a fairly good threshold on pain, but when it comes to repeated electrocution, yea I flinch and it friggin well hurts. When it came time for the actual EMG they only did my right leg as it is the worse of the two. They plugged the needle into my lower leg three separate times. And at each insertion they like to wiggle the needle around a bit... and THEN they add the electricity and THEN they ask you to relax while at the same time flexing your muscles. That was Friday morning, and it's now Monday night and you can still clearly see the holes left by the needles.

But that was only the start of my day, because I also still had to go for some blood work. I didn't HAVE to get it done the same day, but quite frankly I just wanted to get it over with, and at that point in the day, what was a few more needles, right? Well at least they were electrified!

We Wii are Fit.

Saturday we started with our newest Wii game. Finally after 5 months we were able to get a copy of Wii FIT. OH MY GOD this is amazing. It's really a workout. There's a balance board that you stand on and then do your choice of Yoga, Strength training, Aerobic activities or Balance activities. It's deceivingly entertaining while at the same time actually giving you a great work out. It charts your weight and BMI and has you create goals and has ongoing motivational virtual 'trainers'.

So far my favourite activities are Hula Hoop, Super Hula Hoop, Penguin Fishing, Ski Jump, Slalom and snow-board as well as the yoga. Gee-zus the yoga really works you out. I never understood how it was possible, but ho-ly!

We are WiiFit addicted!

Sunday was pretty much a repeat of Saturday. We continued working out with WiiFit and continued uncovering more and more new games and activities. We had friends from Quebec City visiting for the weekend and we totally got them hooked. We received an email from them this evening telling us they will be buying a Wii in the coming days.

He said Kitty, I said wot. *

And so that pretty much brings us to today. Over the past few months I've noticed a pronounced difficulty in my hearing, so I spoke to my Doctor who referred me to a specialist for a hearing test. I arrived at 10:30 am (10 minutes late) I first saw the Doctor at 11:45 am, had a check-up and then had to wait for the actual hearing test until 1:00 pm. Results came with a consultation with the Doctor 15 mins later.... As was expected I have hearing loss in both ears, slightly more in my left. He gave me a rating of 25 for the left and 20 for the right. Not much to be done yet and again, as with my Neuropathy it's a question of what is the cause... stiffening of the bones (yea yea Bobbie get it out of your system, I said 'stiffening of the bones') or blockage from my sinuses and ears. So for the next few months I have to snort a steroid twice a day and then have another test. If it's a question of a blockage then I continue with the snorting, if it's the stiff bones then it's a question of time and then a possible surgery...


So, that was my long weekend... filled with highs and lows... a little pain a little joy... and yes Maria it was a 4 day weekend! MUAH AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

So how y'all been?

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* Apologies to Captain Sensible

Electoral Auction

To:
Stephen Harper, Conservative Party of Canada
Stéphane Dion, Liberal Party of Canada
Jack Layton, New Democratic Party of Canada
Gilles Duceppe, Bloc Québecois
Elizabeth May, Green Party of Canada
[Insert your name here], ________ Party of Canada


I would like to take this opportunity to open up my vote to all Parties running candidates in the riding of “Laurier – Ste-Marie”, in the upcoming 40th General Election of Canada on October 14th 2008.

Seeing as you all seem to think that Canadian voters can be bought, I may as well feed your delusion. (and make a few bucjs at the same time) To that end, I am now currently accepting bids and will give my vote to the party that bids the highest on the auction.

Bidding opens at $21136.06 *

All bids accepted.
No reasonable offer refused.

Bid now.
Bid often.

Auction closes at Midnight on Monday October 13th 2008.

Thanking you in advance,

Shawn

PS: the winning bid should submit payment by Money Order made payable to CASH.

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* Calculated from the recent Ford Canada bailout by Stephen Harper, the Conservative Party of Canada and their minority Government. 80 million divided over five years and then divided again by 757 (the number of employees at the plant in question). By my calculation this is as good a starting bid as any.

R.A.M.*

Liberty!
by Kon Kan

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* Random Act of Music

I am going to post, occasionally, songs that Misster-Kitty likey... for my own amusement if for no other reason.

Happy Hump Day

Umbrella-ella-ella-ella

Nothing can set my mood - for the worse – like being out in the rain. Especially if it’s during rush hour and I’ve got my 45 minute commute on the bus and metro… It’s not that I’m made of sugar and am afraid of melting, it’s the smells that seem to escape from the huddle cramped masses in the buses and metro cars that simply put give me dry heaves…

As it happens yesterday I left the office, as I usually do at 5 o’clock, made my way over to the buss stop and no sooner was I there then the sky decided to rip wide open. Fortunately, there is a shelter there and having arrived just before a throng that had to wait for a light to cross the street I was well into the shelter before they arrived.

The bus arrived and we began to enter. I started to make my dutiful way to the ‘back of the bus’. By about mid point in the process though, my dislike of crowded wet buses and to be perfectly honest – people in general took hold. Their lack of respect of the others trying to get into the bus, move back to make room for others wears me very thin, VERY fast. And so, ‘elbows out’ and with ‘heavy feet’ I trod, and checked a great many of the idiot sardines who try to pretend they don’t see others trying to enter the bus. When one made a snide remark I simple said “Yea, standing in the middle of the isle… you’re fucking brilliant. MOVE.” Then pointed to the sign that appears a good 6-8 times indicating that people should “Move to the back of the Bus”. If the rain had not set the mood already, that putz certainly had.

The remainder of the trip was fairly uneventful, if not a skotch smelly… How a metro car with no dogs can smell like a dog shelter complete with limburger air fresheners is beyond me, but there you go. Forty-five minutes later exit the metro and head to the grocery store to pick up a couple things for supper.

As I started my short trek home from the grocery store the rain stopped and so at least I didn’t have to manage the ‘awkward holding two bag of groceries while holding an open umbrella’ walk. I closed my brolly and continued walking home. At Papineau and Ste-Catherine - a very busy intersection (due to bridge traffic) - I waited for the light to change. Knowing that the drivers wanting to turn from Ste-Catherine onto Papineau to get to the bridge often make the turn with great haste, I am always cautious. As soon as the lights change there’s always a couple cars that rip around the corner regardless of the pedestrians that are waiting to cross, and whom I might add have the RIGHT OF WAY. But then there are always a couple of people who need that extra 5 seconds of their life to attend their very very important lives at home… After they pass, I and two others waiting at the corner make our move and start crossing the street on the, wait for it… CROSS WALK. We get about midway, when this ass-wipe pours on the gas and not only starts turning, looking directly at us but cuts us off and turns onto Papineau on the wrong side of the street. This move not only was NOT done to avoid hitting us, rather it was very plainly maneuvered in spite of us. Not to mention the car that was arriving at the intersection on Papineau on the – right side if the street – that had to slam on his breaks to avoid being hit. As he passed, we three cross-walkers had to slam on our own breaks. I took the opportunity to voice my immediate rage at the situation by cursing “FUCKING ASSHOLE” at the car, and since I was close enough because Mr. Wipe cut us off I swung my trusty umbrella around and hit the back of his lovely SUV. The two other people on the crosswalk laughed.

Misster-Kitty: 1
Mr. Asswipe: 0

Feeling a sense of calm, after venting, I finished crossing the street. At the corner I saw my friend Alex who too, was on his way home, but in the opposite direction. He laughed, gave me a high five signal and said “That was fucking awesome. Uh-oh, he stopped his car…” I turned looked and shrugged, said ‘Whatever’, wished Alex a good evening and continued on my way home.

At the next cross street to Ste-Catherine, as I was crossing, who should appear, but Mr. Wipe, screeching on his breaks in front of me. I made the slight detour to move around his car (he stopped on the crosswalk… nothing but class, this guy) and got out. I looked at him and said, “Well at least you stopped at THIS crosswalk:” and continued on my way. He began to scream and curse at me telling me to ”get back here. You hit my car… blah blah blah”. I waved my hand back at him and kept on walking.

Misster-Kitty: 2
Mr. Asswipe: 0

Looking up ahead I saw a cop car 2 blocks away. He had now left his car running and was coming after me... Yelling as if I’d just murdered his first born. I turn and said “Listen asshole. You cut me and two other people off on a crosswalk, and nearly hit a car. Now you’re parked ON a crosswalk and look, here comes a cop. Maybe we should stop him and discuss what happened. I’m sure we can find the two other people you just cut off, and if not, my friend Alex was at the corner and saw everything… “ He said “You’re a fucking asshole, you know that” I said “Am I?” and raised my arm to flag the cop that was almost beside us. Mr. Wipe said “Shit” and ran to his car. I turned and said “Have a nice evening, fucktard.”

Misster-Kitty: 3
Mr. Asswipe: 0

To some my actions might seem over the top, unnecessary or even reckless. To them I say, I am only doing what many would want to do and say but don’t. Now I know this Sophia Petrillo-like behavior, where I do and say what I think, even in high tension situations is probably not all that wise, but then I can’t help it, it’s who I am, it’s what I do. And I can also tell you this… I will continue…

My Cup of Tea...

I've had a massive crush on David Duchovny since I saw my first episode of the X-Files back in the mid 90's and it's never wavered...

...until now...

I have to say with all this talk in the news about his sex-addiction that I actually am MORE attracted to him ...what does that say about me? Who cares! I don't know WHY, but that he's got sex on the brains apparently 24/7/365 just makes me want him more....

Happy Hump Day

NO, it's not late...

It's only a four day work week so we're right on schedule...

If this is September...

...it means DwtS is about to begin!

And if you do not know what "DwtS" means then you may as well stop reading now...

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OK, you still here?

Good!

Here's this season's celebs, pros and my thoughts...

Lance "the gay one" Bass

'N Sync
Dancer: Lacey Schwimmer

Sorry but I'm gonna play the gay card and vote for him... but y'all know my heart belongs to Joey...


Toni "Unbreak my heart" Braxton
Grammy Award Winning Singer
Dancer: Alec Mazo

She'll likely do well, then have a relapse of what? bankruptcy? drugs? and stay a couple extra guilt laden weeks and then be gone.


Brooke "Who?" Burke
Model/TV Host
Dancer: Derek Hough

Oh, wait.. she was the host of Dog Eat Dog... OK, well she'll last til the 4th to 5th week...


Rocco "zzzz" DiSpirito
TV Chef and Cookbook Author
Dancer: Karina Smirnoff

Couldn't care less...


Maurice "whatever" GreeneOlympic Gold Medal Winning Sprinter
Dancer: Cheryl Burke

I'm sure I don't know....


Kim "Seriously... WHO?" Kardashian
Model, Stylist And Reality TV Star
Dancer: Mark Ballas

Seriously, I haven't got a frickin' clue who this is...
Anyone?
Anyone?
Bueller?


Cloris "Frau Blücher" LeachmanOscar Winning Actress
Dancer: Corky Ballas

I'm a huge fucking Mel Brooks Fan, AND Facts of Life fan, so I'm just GOING TO HAVE TO VOTE FOR HER!


Cody "bait" Linley
Teen Actor
Dancer: Julianne Hough

Paging NAMBLA, your mascot has escaped. ...
...Seriously, again, who the hell is this?!?!?


Susan "LaLucci" Lucci
Daytime Emmy Award Winning Actress
Dancer: Tony Dovolani

I never watched a day of her career, but the Membership Committee has informed me I am obliged to vote for her...


Misty "zzzz2" May-Treanor
Olympic Gold Medal Winning Volleyball Player
Dancer: Maksim Chmerkovskiy

This breaks my Heart! I cannot vote for her, even though she's with my future ex-husband... Maks... But I saw far too much of her, in every sense at the Olympics and I already want her gone, even before the show begins.


Ted "Stupid good looking" McGinley
Actor
Dancer: Inna Brayer

Say what you want I always had a crush on Ted, especially when he played the dumb but hot gym teacher on Happy Days. I shall vote for him.


Jeffrey "I ain't laughin" Ross
Comedian and Director
Dancer: Edyta Śliwińska

I can smell just how bad he's gonna be... and that does my heart well knowing that Edyta will soon be gone!


Warren "?" Sapp
Former NFL Player
Dancer: Kym Johnson

NO clue...

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Personally I'd like to see:
Lance, LaLucci, Cloris and Ted in the Final four. I'll reserve naming my fav until at least week 3.

Let the games begin!

The Kitty has landed...

Back from VayCay...

...but EXHAUSTED...
(all in a good way mind you)

I'll be blogging all about it, you know I will... just need a day or so to recharge into this worker's world... but this I can say,and Piss Maria off in doing so... I don't have a 5 day work week until Mondat Sept 22nd...

Lobster-a-Day 11

You are what you eat...



This is what happens when you eat Lobster every day for 10 days...

White Water Rabbits

White Rabbits
White Rabbits
White Rabbits

(if you look closely there are actually two white water rabbits in this one)