50th Blog!

Two momentous occasions today, this is my 50th weblog entry and I'm 25 points away from getting a 5000 rating and a green star on eBay :-) I actually have over 6800 positive feedback points on eBay, but ones from repeat bidders/seller don't count toward your total. I've been buying some things lately on eBay, I got my first Living Dead Doll (Lottie from Series 3, she's just too cute!), and I've been working on completing some assorted vampire & vamp romance series that I've gotten behind on. I pulled a big stack of vampire and horror novels out to make room, ones I've read or am just not inspired to read, I'm getting picky in my old age, so look for them on sale cheap in the next few days if I can get my act together.

The weather has gotten bad again so I spent almost $300 bucks at the grocery store tonight so we can eat in this week in style and not have to go out in the bloody freezing cold. I wish I had an electric blanket, I grew up using one year round and then in my 30's went through a period where I got bizarre hot flashes and night sweats so the idea of anything purposely hot turned me off for years. Seemed to be a bad reaction to a prescription medicine I was taking, the doctors never could give me a decent reason. It also began my bouts with rosacea, which majorly pisses me off because perfect white skin has always been my only real bragging right physically. I've tried some of the different drugs and creams for it, but I've found stimulus avoidance to help more than anything. That, and really good quality skin care products. My favorite sensitive skin care products are from Clarins. I use other brands occasionally, too, but I always go back to Clarins.

I'm dreading taking a shower tonight, I have to use the cold bathroom at the back of the house because the plumbing in my nice bathroom is acting up. We've been pouring Liquid Plumber down the drain, but I'm afraid it's a real certifiable plumber problem, the sink, bathtub and the toilet have all been acting weird. We've been in this house almost four years now and this will be the first "digging the ground up" plumbing problem we've had, hope it's not too bad. We don't have an outside drain entrance, which I'm not sure I understand becasue the people we bought the house from had three kids. But then, they didn't have cable TV either... We had constant battles with our cheap ass landlord at our last house because it constantly had sewer problems, had to replace the entire line once, he was not happy about that, too many old trees and invasive roots. Our last house only had one bathroom also, so when we had a problem, it really was an emergency.

We watched Primetime's special on the porn industry tonight, really interesting. It focused on a young Mormon girl who became a hardcore star in just a few years and all the hell the girls who work in the industry have to go through. The actresses really don't make that much for the work they do, Houston is like the strip bar capitol of the US, and from people I've spoken with that have worked in the industry here they make a pretty comparable salary and don't have to risk getting AIDS, etc. The poor girl they were interviewing tonight looked like she was on the verge of a nervous breakdown. She started when she was 18... I can't imagine going through that period, but as a teenager? Luckily I've never wanted to be famous or beloved by millions, though rich wouldn't be a bad thing. This girl won an adult film award and she was still only pulling in about $100 grand a year max (as the top porn actress of the year?). Of course, the filmmakers and distributors make millions of dollars a year. Not to infer that there aren't some reputable erotica companies out there, but it sounds like the majority of them are just sex farms, using up and spitting girls out. The special said the average career of a porn actress was only 18 months.

Uggh, bracing myself to go use the icy shower (there's a damned window in the shower stall!). We have old fashioned gas heaters but can't really use them because of carbon monoxide problems, etc. There's a central air vent in the bathrooms (unlike our last house, which was really cold!), but it's teeny tiny... brrrrr... Soon I'll be whining about the weather being too hot, I can't wait!

Posted by Morticia at January 24, 2003 03:15 AM | TrackBack