I'm lonely. I'm not starved of company, I have plenty of acquaintances and friends I can talk to and be around.  However....I can be in a room full of people and still feel lonely. I miss my husband.  I'm so envious of couples who live together.  I wonder sometimes if they relish waking up with each other every morning, or if they take such things for granted.  I miss Dave.  I miss his smell...I have a T-shirt that he wore to sleep in the few days bef...

I know that you read my blog.  Yeah you....you know who you are.  I know that you read because your reading what I write here is what kicked this all off. You say that your feelings are hurt because I wrote about you. Did you ever stop to think that your actions hurt MY feelings, and that was why I wrote about them?  Do you not see that this blog is like my journal; that I vent here?   Do you not understand that I don't say anything here that I wouldn't say to yo...

Link Be warned, it's pretty graphic and a bit gruesome. It makes me and D getting matching tattoos seem lame!

I was doing some reading about the American Family Association this morning, and I came across this: Link Yes, it's an older article (written in 2001) but the AFA'a statement in it about violence directed towards homosexuals was so outrageous (to me, at least) that I had to blog about it. Gary Glenn, the AFA of Michigan's leader says:  "The Triangle Foundation and other homosexual advocates are themselves to blame for the overwhelming majority of violence experienced because of t...

Yes, I'm doing it again. I'm interrupting the flow of oh so important articles about politics and current events to talk about an appliance.  If you don't like reading about such things, I suggest you not read any further... I got me a new toy today. I got a Dirt Devil Floor Keeper.  I saw it at the BX, and it was marked down a whole bunch......it usually retails for $99.99, but I got it for $35. It's worth the $100, believe me.  This thing is fantastic. ...

My daugter took down the bird feeder from the tree and hung it on the shepherd's crook in the back yard this afternoon. I looked out of the window half an hour later, and this is what I saw: That's Fatso, our resident squirrel, hanging upside down from the feeder.  The first picture shows him grabbing seed, the second one shows him eating it. He stayed there for a while, hanging like that....until I rapped on the window because he'd thrown half the seed out onto the gra...

...I am sooooo getting me a T-shirt with this on it: (Kudos to marsha for the pic)

No, I won't grow up.   Hell no, I won't grow up.   I'm not even going to age gracefully.  Screw that.    I'm going to keep dying my hair un-natural and funky colors, and I'm going to enjoy my weird hair cuts and styles.   I'm going to wear clothes that are totally inappropriate for a woman my age.    I'm going to get more tattoos and I may even throw in another piercing for good measure.   I'm not going to behave in an manner appropriate for my a...

My friend Paris got this chain email from his dad....and he got irritated enough to respond to it.  It's a kick ass response too, I've made it bold so you can see where the email ends and his words begin... DID YOU KNOW? As you walk up the steps to thebuilding which houses the U.S. Supreme Court you can see near the top of the building a row of the world's law givers and each one is facing one in the middle who is facing forward with a full frontal view  ... it is Moses a...

Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book, as long as any document does not offend our own ideas of decency. That should be the only censorship.   ....(we should)  not try to conceal the thinking of our own people. They are part of America. And even if they think ideas that are contrary to ours, their right to say them, their right to record them, and their right to...

My blog is like a personal journal to me.  It's a place for me to vent, to write about how I'm feeling and why.  It's semi-theraputic; I find that writing about things helps me think them through better and be less emotional about them.  So, if people get upset at what I've written about how I'm feeling, should I apologize?  Should I remove what offends them and say I'm sorry for feeling that way?  Should I have to censor myself and my emotions? I don't think ...

My boy Jake smashed his front teeth yesterday. My friend Kim was watching him, and last night I got a frantic call from her saying that he had been 'bunny hopping' on his scooter and had hopped too high....he had hit his face on the handle and smashed his upper front teeth. The one on the right is 75% intact, and I think that the dentist might be able to rebuild that one...but the one on the left is about 75% gone.  Shattered into a hundred little pieces. Poor Jake was so upset... ...

I collapsed in the ER foyer this morning. I had been leaking cerebrospinal fluid for the past 48 hours, and was in a pain that I can only being to describe as excruciating.  I wouldn't wish it on ANYONE.  My friend Kim came and carried me to her car, drove me to the ER (with me crying and puking the whole way), then ran and got some people to carry me the rest of the way. I cannot begin to tell y'all how much it hurt.  CSF is like a 'buffer'; your brain and spinal cord and n...