#256 - it's like betting against God

damn what a week. i learned more about insurance that i ever wanted to know in my life, although it's probably a good thing that i finally did learn what i did. long story short... i'm going through mortgage refinancing, and since financial corporations are damn greedy bastards and banks around the nation are failing and irresponsible people buy things they can't pay for, poor little financially responsible people like myself have to pay the price. haha, anyway they just passed some new refinancing laws this month and NO ONE seems to know how to interpret them. for the past two weeks i've been on the phone 24/7 with offices, agents, brokers, and everyone else under the sun trying to get a legitimate quote on all these new insurance requirements that need to be met before i can close my mortgage refinancing.

blah, it's a long and boring story and even i don't care to rehash all of it, but the bottom line is i'm so damn smart that i figured it all out (with some help, but i had to put together all the pieces, which was frustrating because aren't i paying people to do this for me?). the good this is everyone i was working with was really nice, but i still feel like i'm getting ripped off. well, i don't really like insurance in the first place, i mean, the concept of insurance. it's probably the way i was brought up (my parents don't even like investing in stocks, their philosophy is "if you don't have the money to pay for it now, don't buy it" and their idea of "saving" is putting everything you got in the bank, so it's no wonder i came out so conservative). remember that episode of the simpsons when ned flander's house got destroyed by a tornado or something and homer got everyone in town to rebuild his house because he didn't have insurance because ned saying having insurance "is like betting against God." haha. i mean, for the big stuff yeah you'd want to insure your car or your house, but like personal property? like my tv or whatever? man, if something happens to it that would suck, but then you'd just buy a new one.

anyway, i don't even want to think about it anymore... and hopefully after this week i won't have to really. i went, i learned, i'm done.

so, on to happier things:

1. FRENCH OPEN
this picture makes me laugh. oh yeah, time for grand slam tennis again. i gotta say this is a fun tournament to watch, except for one problem. rafael nadal. i don't like that guy. at least he's not wearing his sleeveless shirts and capri pants anymore, but he's got this flourescent color scheme going on that just looks ridiculous (like shutter sunglasses and skinny pants). but roger's looking good (even though he had some tough matches already) and he just beat rafa in a two out of three set final in madrid i'm definately (like most everyone) hoping for another nadal vs. federer final!

2. so you think you can dance
okay, so it's just auditions right now, but that's the best part, because that's when they have the fun guys doing tricks. like, i could care less about ballroom dancing and even contemporary, but i like the hip-hop stuff and the pop/lock/trick do-ers. and in the auditions they have those guys who do insane tricks but don't get on the show because they can't do anything else (who cares if they can do other dances?). like just check this guy out, that's sick dude...
and man, this little toothpick of an asian girl is damn hot. she looks kinda like she could put on a little cocktail dress and campain for Miss Saigon... but maybe that's part of the appeal? i dunno, but damn this was hot.
3. now for something NOT happy. because spencer said that my posts are boring without me ragging on something, so this begins a new series called "hideous commercials that i hate and should burn and die." since i've been watching so many shows on FOX recently i've been seeing the most horrid commercials, so today's entry i saw during american idol (multiple times) and each time i saw it i called kristen to tell her "awful awful commercial is on again!" it's for comcast but don't ask me what the hell that is because i can't listen to it for more than one second without my ears burning and my eyes bleeding. the commercial incorporates three of my great hates: 1) animated humans, 2) talk-singing, and 3) rhyming. so enjoy, no, don't enjoy... abhor.