Link of the day...

Sister-Out-Law Codi sent me this link, and it definitely amused me: Pregnancy Test

Deserve...

there's a word i've been hearing a lot lately, and it's really irritating the shit out of me.

DESERVE

people saying they deserve this, they deserve that...

the definition provided by Webster's says deserve is "to be worthy of : MERIT"

ehh, not much help there.

i guess what bugs me is that this use of deserve that's been going around is akin to "i have the right to..." - and then people rattle off a list of things that really aren't "rights"...

Alrighty, work's crazy, your home life is even crazier and you want to take a paid vacation and get away from it all - you don't DESERVE it. you might want it really bad, but that doesn't mean you DESERVE it.

Yeah, sure, you want a job making fifty grand a year that will work around your schedule and acquiesce to your needs, but you don't DESERVE it.

hell, the more i think about this crap, the more i begin to wonder what any of us really deserves...

*shrug*

What Your Underwear Says About You

What Your Underwear Says About You

You have a lucky pair of underwear. And you wear it more than you should. You're not afraid to lay around resting your hand in your pants.

The Underwear Oracle

How Many Condoms Can You Wear at Once?

er, well, not YOU personally - i'd never ask such a personal question of you! How Many Condoms Can You Wear at Once? is the question posed at myscienceproject.org (which also did an interesting study on how much alcohol you can get into a jello shot)

a very amusing experiment, particularly the photos - somehow i suspect they'll end up in a Fark Photoshop contest...

can't think of a title...

lot's gone on since my last post - 2 days after the baptism, mom was moved from the transitional care unit at st. francis to manor care healthcare center - the nursing home that my grandparents lived in about 20 years ago. now the insurance company's urging us to get mom home and use hospice care, forget about the rehab treatments and all. i know that it's all a matter of numbers - the cancer doc's looking at statistics and life expectancies and such, and the insurance company's looking at the bottom line, what's cheapest for them, but dammit, she's not giving up, so why are they insisting that she do so? alrighty, so her cancer's advanced and it's incurable, but that does NOT mean that she's dead now - why treat her that way?!?!?!? she wants to keep going on! she's not able to stay at home alone in her current condition, that's why she needs to stay at the nursing home (yeah, i'm here living with her, but considering my epilepsy and the fact that we don't know when my next seizure's gonna happen, i can't be reliably counted on to care for her) and it's all just a big headache. she's thanked me and my aunts and cousins for all we've done, but we've told her that we're doing it so that she can focus on herself, making herself comfortable and living the way she wants.

*sigh* dammit, this is hard.

i'm a godmother!!!

today was the baptism of my godson Dominic (as well as his brother Atreyu and sisters Alanis and Alivia) and so it's now official, i'm a fairy godmother! ;-)

yeah, i've joked with everyone about the fairy godmother thing, what with my lesbo status automatically adding the FAIRY to my godmother title, but i do take the responsibilities very seriously. i am going to be there for Dominic, to guide him and teach him the ways of being a good person. and while my faith has waxed and waned over the years, be it religious or agnostic or atheistic, i feel that it doesn't matter what a person's beliefs are, as long as there's a mutual agreement to support and guide my godson in leading a good life, and i'm going to be there for him, no doubt.

dametri was there in spirit as well, i just wish he could've been there in person to join in the festivities.

not gonna say it...

i've determined that i'm NEVER EVER again going to say "sheesh, things can't possibly get worse!" because i'm continually proving that wrong.

it's bad enough my mom's got cancer and 1-3 months left as a prognosis...my cousin joanie was in the ER last night and was diagnosed with a pseudotumor behind her eye - holy crap! the neurologist she saw today thinks it's treatable, but still, the combination of head and tumor is NOT good.

*sigh*

fark's a godsend...

nothing like fark.com to take your mind off real life...it can take you all over some scary corners of the internet...for instance, until this fark thread about mapping sex offenders in your community, i didn't know a thing about Ohio sex offender Brian Peppers - farker Vin Diesel showed me this page featuring photoshops of the guy...and Brian Peppers even has a page on Snopes about him...so of course i hafta check out recent postings to Snopes while i'm there, and read this link about an advice column story of a boy and his searching out "camel toads", which of course ends up sending me to The Camel-Toe Report...

sigh...

momma's still in the hospital, they moved her to the Transitional Care floor this evening...she's not well enough to go home, she needs to get some more physical therapy. her final radiation treatment is tomorrow as well.

we spoke to her oncologist this morning, and i asked that question that everyone wants the answer to but nobody wants to ask: "How long's she got?" 4 to 6 weeks was the initial diagnosis, but then she said 1 to 3 months - FUCK. i knew things were bad, but still....

the cancer that she's got in her brain cannot be treated with chemo, and radiation will only lessen it for a bit - it can't be eliminated. so we go through the course of radiation and hope for the best. chemo for the lung cancer is not going to do anything but wear her down all the more - the bad crap she's going through is from the cancer in her brain, not her lung.

this royally sucks.

Let It Out...

Let It Out's always good for a laugh...since i've been offline, i wasn't able to read the snarky comments from fellow Hoosiers...a few that i just caught up with:

The quicker I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up!

I weigh a lot less in metric.

I hate to admit when I'm wrong, so I don't.

If everybody in the world is weird but you, wouldn't you be the weird one?

another sigh...

no posts for a long time cuz the internet got cut off - paying the bills is a new responsibility i've assumed. problem is the gaping holes in mom's filing system - can't really pay the bills if i don't know they exist, and i don't know what's set up for automatic bill pay or whatever. at least i know the mortgage is paid, the electricty is too, and we've got internet - guess i don't hafta worry about anything else, right? har har har, dare to dream...

momma's in the hospital yet again - had to take her to the ER yesterday because of some abdominal pain, and her complete lack of strength. she's having bowel problems now. i think she needs to stay in the hospital until her radiation treatments are completely done, because as it is we're missing treatments and dragging things out longer and longer. if she can stay in the hospital and get through these last 3 or 4 treatments, perhaps she'll get a bit stronger once they're done so that we can get ready for chemo - and who the hell knows what sort of consequences that stuff will have on her.

sigh...

this whole week's just been a flash...seizures at the beginning of the week had me in the hospital...now momma has taken it upon herself to be the one in the hospital - a urinary tract infection, combined with the radiation she's going through has just completely sapped her strength - we had to call an ambulance yesterday because she couldn't get off the toilet. this royally sucks. i know i can't take care of her the way she needs taken care of, and yet i don't want to say "alrighty, off to the rest home you go" *sigh*

lots of huge life decisions going to be made in the near future - and i fucking hate it.

a guaranteed winner...

think i'm gonna buy 146,107,962 lotto tickets so i'm guaranteed to win the $205 million Powerball jackpot - that leaves me with $58,892,038...of course, with my luck, this would be the week that the jackpot gets split 92 ways....

never a dull moment...

*sigh* monday i took mom to her radiation appointment...after we saw the doc, i went go get the car. waiting outside the St. Francis Cancer Center, i decided there wasn't nearly enough excitement going on and while waiting for mom, i had a seizure. one feature on my mom's car that irks me is that when ya get in the car, it locks you in. thankfully, i wasn't driving the car, i just had it in park, so it was just a matter of security getting a slim jim to break into mom's car. then it was off to the emergency room. fun fun fun.

today i slept the whole day, and still i find myself exhausted. i definitely don't need this shit right now.

a buck twenty two...

i swear, i should be the poster child for Coupon Clippers Anonymous - LoBill (the el cheapo Marsh grocery outlet store) had good prices on Prego spaghetti sauce and Hamburger/Tuna Helpers this week. with my coupons added to the good prices, i made out like a bandit. and it's really cool cuz these are items that are in high demand at the food pantry - i can't give em oodles of cash donations, but i can clip coupons like a mofo and spend a little time to give em goods that are needed just as much as cash.

Purchased:

10 jars of Prego spaghetti sauce
6 boxes Tuna Helper
2 boxes Hamburger Helper
1 2 liter bottle of Orange Soda (Tropicana sent me a coupon for a freebie)

After coupons, i paid:
$5.72

then the register spit out three separate coupons for $1.50 each off my next purchase of anything there at the store, making my net cost a grand total of $1.22. not too bad.

next stop - kroger. *8-)

how are you doing?

"how are you doing?" that's what several friends and family members have asked me today - well, the answer has been "Fine" - fine until you asked. then i want to just completely fall apart. i was a bit on edge because at 3pm Mom was scheduled to meet a lawyer, to do all those legal things, draw up a will, etc...

didn't happen. at mom's regular 2pm radiation treatment the medical staff noticed she wasn't doing too good - her breathing's really labored and she has no strength at all. sent her for a chest x-ray and to the emergency room, not particularly because it was a major emergency but because they'd find out what was going on faster than if they sent her to her pulmonary doc and then he ordered tests, blah blah blah... so, at the er we find out that she's not holding her oxygen very well, they're giving her breathing treatments and gonna keep her overnight. she was having some pain, so they gave her a little bit o morphine - i'm praying it was the morphine that had her in la-la land. she was talking to me, and i asked her to speak up - "Flanner & Buchanan?" she said. now, even if it is just the drugs talking, when Mom babbles about funeral homes, i'm FREAKING OUT.

so i came home to get her meds so that we can tell the hospital precisely what dosages of what she's taking (why she doesn't have a list of hers printed out like i do mine, i dunno) and now i'm waiting for the hospital to call and tell me what room they've put her in so i can go to her.

this is so damned hard.

friday nite!!

this thing's weird....

Guess the Dictator or Television Sit-Com Character - i have yet to stump it, it's guessed all the sitcom characters i've recollected - Kip Wilson, Marge Simpson, Cliff Huxtable, Peter Brady, Mork, Fonz, Balki, Arnold Drummond, and on and on and on...

Northern Sun...

i'm not sure which i find more obnoxious - the plethora of Lance Armstrong bracelet knock-offs or all the of magnetic car ribbons out there nowadays. not sure if the magnets started with the yellow ribbon "support our troops" message, but nowadays there's something for everyone...

got a Northern Sun Merchandising catalog in the mail today, and literally laughed out loud when i saw this magnet:



too bad i can't stick magnets to my made-of-plastic saturn...

StumbleUpon...

StumbleUpon is a cool utility for surfing the web, finding websites you didn't know existed but are spiffy...

apparently someone on fark has similar StumbleUpon prefs to mine, cuz there have been fark discussions about things i've recently seen and/or mentioned - ie the Speech-Bubble Stickers in NYC...