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Friday, 11 April 2008

Wednesday, 12 March 2008

  • Head..........Liners

    So do you really think that Hilary can look at a cigar without wanting to rip it to shreds?  I would be willing to bet that on more than one occasion tobacco could be found in the crevices of Hilary's perfect teeth.  Ya know darn well she was a Lorena Bobbit wanna-be.

    I have little faith in the idea of "standby your man"...................most women would not, they would run like hell. 

    The headlines all read...Why Powerful Men Cheat?,......   or   Do Idiotic Things?"..........yada yada you can fill it in.  All men do really dumb things, the powerful ones just think they have a better chance of getting away with it.  You would think public scrutiny would deter these fools, but that notion just doesn't prove out.

    My beef is with the wives who stand by these rejects.  Is there really sanity in defiant dignity?  Not by a long shot.  Most of these jilted wives claim to act brave over concerns for the children.  Hmmmmmmmm, seems a weak response.  I personally would want my girls to see me rebel against The Big Boys Club.

    It would be much more powerful if these women had not stood at their husbands side, while said loser tried to explain his way out of a putrid situation.   Better yet, heres a classier image, stand there at your spouses side, holding your nose and wearing a look of sheer disdain.

    Spitzer's wife just looked weary.  Yet there she was, slightly back from her husband, looking like she wanted to fade away.

Tuesday, 11 March 2008

  • Is college education a must for most people in the modern world? Why or why not?

    In the future we will become a think tank nation.  College is getting to be more expensive, and most tech industries are growing at a rapid rate.  At the rate that technical information is being developed, I believe we will not be able to compete in a global world and will have to find alternatives to a college education in order to supply the work force.

       

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  • Funkin.....

    Its been a long weekend.

    I just talked with hubbie, and he is ready to come home.  He does this, never leaving footprints in one place too long.  He loves the idea of adventure and new places, but soon realizes it is not as much fun in a new place without the family.  He and I are so very different.  I always want to stay put, and feel out of sorts the minute anything abnormal occurs in my everyday.

    My best friend has been here, on business the past two days.  I love him to death, but often feel as though a tornado has blown through my life whenever we visit.  He is caustic and deeply unhappy with most aspects of his life.  Everything he does is over the top, as though tomorrow his life will be shutdown.  He dances with the devil, and most everyone who hangs with him, dances right there at the edge with him.  Long ago I gave up trying to keep pace with him and I think that is why our friendship still works.  We gave up trying to fix each other, and I often wonder if that is the key to a happy marriage as well.

    My son has been sick with some sort of intestinal virus.  This is not fun.  The poor kid's eruptions are uncontrollable, causing him great distress.  Of course I must head to work tonight with very little sleep last night, and that causes me distress.  I can feel my stomache rumbling and have been wondering all morning if I am going to get the virus, or just the pity poops.

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    It is no small wonder that my son has caught this virus, it is flourishing at work.  It is a vicious circle, from work to home and back to work.  It is one of the downfalls of working in healthcare.  I think someone misjudged the strength of the flu this year, the flu shot has kept very few people from getting ill this year.  So much for science!

     

Saturday, 08 March 2008

  • Happy Birthday Son

    In a few weeks, the day before Easter that is, my son will turn 14.  He is the baby.  Born into Prince status, my hubbie breathed a sigh of relief that finally he had a child that didn't require tampons when he reached teendom.  Having three girls already, we had often laughed about our lack of stock in Tampax Corporation.

    So there was my son, small by my previous spawn standards.  He had shocking red hair, that stood straight up.  Mohawk seeking wannabes cried at the sight the world over.  Try as I might in the days following his birth, that rooster hair would not lie down, he had a cowlick of phenominal proportion. 

    We named him Gabriel, and the Dr. quietly asked if he looked like anyone else in the family.  This was his subtle way of trying to explain that my son had been born "different."  I knew immediately that my son had Downs Syndrome  Of course the Doctor went on to explain that he suspected that our son had Down's Syndrome, but would need extensive genetic testing to prove it.

    The nurses kept trying to whisk Gabriel away, wanting to clean and weigh him, but I wouldn't let them.  I wanted him there on his back, looking up at me on the bed, while the Doctor droned on.  I didn't want to concentrate too hard on the diagnosis, preferring instead to stare into the steady gaze of my newborn son.  I felt pressured to know him, as though in those few moments the imprint of my sons soul would be permantly be burned on my brain.

    The absolute stillness of those moments when Gabriel was born were affirming and reassuring for us both, mother and son.  We were a team, capable of walking together, in the midst of chaos.

    It was chaotic in the first few months.  Gabe was diagnosed with a heart condition common in Downs children.  The first four months of his life were spent in constant stress and uproar.  He was in a perpetual state of mild congestive heart failure, that would flare without warning and require frenzied trips to the emergency room.  He was on special formula to help him gain weight in anticipation of the open heart surgery he required.  He was also on a diuretic to keep fluid around his heart from building.  Yet still, we had crisis after crisis, and knew Gabe's Pediatric Cardiologist well enough to hug him when we saw him.

    Somehow, we got through those early years, better than I had first thought.  Still, something happens to a marriage, when faced with such intolerable stress.  Hubbie and I were blessed and have managed to be grateful for what we have.  We have managed to stay together despite the stress.

    So in a few weeks that frail newborn will turn fourteen.  He lost his shocking red crown, in favor of dirty blonde, and his hair no longer stands straight up.  Gabe is cheerful and endearing, despite his daily challenges.  Happy Birthday Baby!

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