DoktorFroggFan

I haven't been on dA for a while. Kind of got busy with other things in my life.

I will be working more on my fanfic. I sort of lost the muse for a bit, but feeling like I need to get back onto it.

I had big blow to my love life lately. Got dumped over something trivial. It came as such a shock. I thought he had real feelings for me. Guess not if he could break up with me over a misunderstanding during a cellphone txt.

So I guess that's my muse. When my love-life sucks, I write. Bad for me, but good for anybody who wants to see how "Unexpected Side Effects" turns out.

The world isn't my oyster, it's my ashtray.

DFF

No, this is not an April Fools' Day thing. It's for real.

Tomorrow, April 2, Nicktoons will be showing an Invader Zim marathon for 9 hours! It starts 12 noon pacific time. That would be 3 p.m. east coast.

I've heard a rumor, mind you a RUMOR... that last month's showing of Invader Zim on Nicktoons was a test of sorts. It's been almost a decade since it was cancelled, and popularity of the show has increased as well as the opinion by many that it was brilliantly original. The scuttlebutt is that if the one-month only broadcasting of Zim brings in enough viewers, the show will get resurrected!

Now the deal last month was to bring back Zim for one month only which inspired Jhonen Vasquez to compare Zim to the one month only, once a year McRib sandwich thing, has been broken. They've decided to show a bunch of episodes, out of order mind you, and it isn't March anymore.

So I'm hoping that it's a good sign. Maybe they're re-thinking the choice they made so long ago to kill a show because it didn't remind them of stuff they've already done, and already seen. Perhaps they are paying attention to the throngs of faithful fans who have loved the show since its debut and were horribly disappointed at its cancellation as well as the fans the show has attracted since then.

And perhaps they are paying attention to the dismally low number of viewers that they have for so many of their current shows (re-runs of older, better and more popular animation excepted).

So I will watch the Zimmathon. And even if I can't, I will turn the tube onto Nicktoons and leave it on while I do other stuff that I have to do. I would love to see IZ back on the air. If Jhonen Vasquez, Steve Ressel, and Frank Conniff do not return with it, then I hope whoever they get to work on the show are talented, clever, and have respect for the style of the original as well as stay true to the characters.

It would be horrible indeed if it were to turn into SpongeBob Zimpants.




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Thank God for Invader Zim.

That may sound weird, but true. It's been tough lately, looking after my mom and doing all of the house work, and I mean all of it. She's too weak to do much of anything so all the cooking, cleaning, grocery shopping, etc., is up to me.

I haven't gone out or done anything with friends for so long, stir craziness right around the corner for me. One thing that helped was Invader Zim on Nicktoons. Sounds lame, maybe even pathetic, but it cheers me up immensely. Especially since Cartoon Network is no longer showing League of Super Evil, or Storm Hawks for that matter.

I sure wish they'd bring all of those shows back. There's still hope for LOSE and Storm Hawks, but both the creator and director of Zim said they wouldn't do it if they revived the show. Nickelodeon must have pissed them off. Oh well.

Having something fun to watch helped to take away the dreariness for a while. I would make sure that I had that time free aside from everything else I'd have going during the day.

Who knows, maybe Nickelodeon will bring Zim back even without Jhonen Vasquez (creator) and Steve Ressel (director). If they do, I hope whoever does it stays true to the characters and the style of the show.

Anyway, still a Volunteer Minion for LOSE, but my goofy evilness admires the Zimster.





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I've been pretty sick the last few weeks.

Double trouble on that, so has my mother. In fact, she didn't tell me that she had health problems the last time she went for a check up and didn't do what the doc told her to improve her health.

So now she's really sick, I'm sick, and I have to take care of her.

My problems are the same as they ever were. Dizzy spells, nausea, stomach problems, severe fatigue. It isn't constant, but happening more often and lasting longer lately.

Last July, the doc told my mom that she had lost too much weight and was anemic. She was supposed to be increasing her caloric intake as well as taking iron supplements. She did neither of these things. Forgot about them. Now she forgets about a lot of things. Stuff that happened just a few minutes ago she will have forgotten.

For months I've been telling her that she didn't seem well to me and needed to see the doctor. She'd tell me that she would make an appointment later but never would. I finally took control of the situation, called the doctor's office, told them that she wasn't well and I was taking her in and they gave me an appointment for that day.

That's when I found out that she was diagnosed anemic months ago and wasn't doing anything about it. Also that the doc told her that she needed more calories. Instead my mom had been eating less. She's 5'5" and 114 pounds with all of her clothes and shoes on. That means she's about 110 pounds!

Anemia + severe weight loss = weak, sick, forgetful and incoherent.

I was in the office with the doctor. She gave me all this sh*t like it's my fault. I've been trying to get my mom to eat more. If I make a pasta dish with chicken, broccoli, artichoke hearts and olives and she only takes three bites and then says, "I'm full, I can't take another bite" am I supposed to duck tape her to the chair and force feed her! I didn't even know about the anemia and she came down on me for that too.

I think that doc is uncomfortable whenever I'm around because she has miss-diagnosed me more than once and is afraid I might report her or something. She forgets that I've been missed diagnosed a bunch of times by at least a dozen other doctors, so she's not alone.

Anyway, if you all don't hear from me for a while, you'll know why.




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The post office has been messing up big time around here.

Last year, my aunt and uncle sent me a birthday card with a gift card inside. A couple of weeks after my birthday my aunt called to ask what I bought with it. "What gift card?" It never arrived. Either it was delivered to the wrong address, or someone felt the plastic card inside and opened it. She later told me that she had it looked into and the card was used at a Target not far from where I live.

Last weekend our land line phone was turned off. Our next door neighbor came over to tell us that it wasn't working. She tried to call my mom about something and got a recording that the number had been disconnected. When I tried to use the phone, the recording said that our service had been interrupted.

Mom called AT&T to find out what the problem was. Our phone service was turned off due to non payment. She swore that she had mailed the check, the service person said they had not received it.

I looked at the checkbook myself. Mom had made out the check and mailed it. She then called the bank. It had not been cashed. It would have been nice if the phone company would have called us first to let us know about it instead of just shutting off our service. It's been paid by credit card and the phone is working now, but the letter warning us that our service would be interrupted never arrived either.

On Monday, a pink slip was left on our front door informing us that our water bill had not been paid. Our water would be shut off by 5:00 PM Wednesday if it wasn't paid by then. This morning my mom called about that too. She had sent a check in the mail for our water bill. The lady she spoke to told her not to worry about it. The check had arrived the day before. They weren't even going to charge us the late fee because they could see by the date on the envelope from the post office that it had been sent almost two weeks ago. Two weeks to send a letter to an office that I could walk to in 30 minutes. It had been lost in the mail that long.

Today I retrieved the mail from our mail box. I was about to throw away some junk mail when I saw that there was a letter stuck inside of some advertisement flyer. On the front of the letter was printed the words "IMPORTANT: TAX RETURN DOCUMENTS ENCLOSED". This letter was for a Xuan Thi Bui, that's not me or anyone at our house. Not only was it delivered to the wrong address, I almost threw it away because it was stuck inside of junk mail.

So I wrote, "delivered to wrong address" on the envelope and will send it back out tomorrow. I hope this Xuan person gets it in time.

I showed this to my mother and she said, "This is another example of how well government run services operate. If we do ever wind up with socialized medicine, it will eventually get to be just as bad."

My mom doesn't tend to get political. She hardly ever talks about stuff like that. We both believe that improvements can be made in the health care industry, especially when it comes to insurance. Maybe setting laws to make them more fair to the consumer would be better than just taking it over.

She told me about a documentary program she saw about 8 years ago about government waste. At that time the Bureau of Indian Affairs lost over a billion dollars in one year. This was money paid by the taxpayers to go to the welfare of people living on reservations. They had no idea what happened to the money. On the reservations where that money was supposed to go, people were still living without electricity or indoor plumbing.

On another reservation, a business entrepreneur had opened a plastics factory (they made plastic knives, forks and spoons) and had employed the residents of that reservation. The employees were living in houses nicer that the one I live in now.

The reason the people of Boston threw the tea into the harbor was because they were protesting taxation without representation. The problem we have now is taxation without accountability.

Any business that took a billion dollars from investors, lost it, and could only say, "we have no idea where it went" would be thoroughly investigated. You bet someone would go to jail.

When a bureaucracy does it, most of the time you don't even hear about it.

It would be great to live in a country where anyone and everyone could get the medical treatment that they need no matter what kind of job they have or even if they are unemployed. I just think that Washington needs to clean up their act first, or we're going to end up with another mess.




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