Thanksgiving 2008…

and what I wound up being most thankful for.
When Thanksgiving comes around every year, I think we often think about all the regular things we are thankful for…our blessings…the food…our health…
and that is where things went all wonky donk this year.  Before the Longhorn even made it home this year, she had herself a scooter [...]

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Nest Update, November 2008

Mother Bird here, glad to report that my firstborn is officially a fledgling.  Her spot in the nest is still sort of full of stuffing and pieces of string, but we’re in the process of cleaning it up to make room in the nest for the ever present other baby birds who still frequent the [...]

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Parenting Advice from Chrisyub

First, the back story…and there always is one.
When I was growing up in GR, I was the only child of an older, single mother…an older, single, very overprotective mother.  I was her entire world, and other than the kids she babysat, i was her company…her confidante…and her highest priority in life.
That said, she held the [...]

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Taste Watch 2008

still…nothing.  No taste.  No smell. 
Yet, still hungry. 
Yes, I am, apparently, the one human being on the planet that doesn’t lose their appetite if they can’t smell or taste anything. 
Which is why, I guess, that in my history I have never, EVER lost weight during any illness I have ever had EVER. 
Yes, I am the one [...]

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An Ode to My Olfactory Senses

For my whole entire life, smell has been very important to me.  My earliest early smelly memory is the blankie that I slept with back when I still sucked my thumb.  To be sure, it wasn’t just the smell of the blankie, but also the silky lining of the blankie that imprinted on my young [...]

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I Think I’m the Outbreak Monkey

Do y’all remember the movie Outbreak?  If I remember correctly, it all started with a monkey that was infected with a horrible malady.  I remember this scene in a movie theater where one of the patrons sneezed and GERMS spewed forth into the whole movie theater…thus advancing the epidemic.
When this little disease I have came [...]

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20/20 and the Pregnant Man…

As we were scanning TV channels, after we’d watched our usual Friday night Ghost Whisperer and The Price is Right Military edition, it came down to Numbers or 20/20.  We don’t watch Numbers, so that wasn’t really an option.
So, we watched 20/20 and the Pregnant Man.  And while I won’t go on about the logistics of the [...]

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An Ode to Mucinex

Oh, Mucinex…you blue and white tablet that promises to expediate the expulsion of all this shit that is in my chest…
I say ARE YOU SERIOUS?
I started taking you days ago and I still sound like Whoopee Goldberg’s grandpa. 
While i give you points for loosening up the mucus in my head, since i have gone through [...]

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Does it Start Like This?

Can it, for me?
You see, last Sunday, as I was driving about the ‘hood, I saw this man, this tall, older, lanky fella walking about the ‘hood armed with a hedge trimmer and a green extension cord.  And I thought, you know, cool…he’s going around trimming hedges. 
and I gave it no more thought.
Until he knocked [...]

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SO, YEAH

I took the Boy to the doctor last week for an ear infection sort of thing…
and woke up the next morning with a raging sore throat, which was followed by a raging cough and head congestion and chest congestion that can only be rivaled by actual tuberculosis.  I am here to tell you that I [...]

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