me-1987-88

Heh. Dad uncovered this photo at his Print Shop while he was going through old files and packing them away. Taken by a friend who was a yearbook photographer, in 87 or 88, when he was determined that I should be in the yearbook somewhere other then my picture page.

Thing is – I thought, and was told, time and time again, how FAT i was back then. *Snort*

3 kids, 4 pregnacies, 4 surguries, and almsot 20 years later? I’d *LOVE* to be that size again…

STOP THE WORLD! I want off.

OK – so, remember when I said the dog had a golf ball sized lump in her throat last week?  She stopped eating her dry food, her eyes got goopy, she got lathargic, and just generally didn’t seem herself over the past two days. So I called Auntie Ladybug, who agreed a vet visit was called for, and they got me in right away.

She has canine lymphoma, which is universally fatal. We’ve been given some prednisone, which should make her comfortable, and even happy for the next month or so, putting it into temporary remision, but she has only a few months at best. If it doesn’t seem to be better in a few days, we won’t even have that long with her. My heart is breaking, and I had to tell the kids, and it’s just not fucking FAIR. They lost their dad, now their dad’s/our dog is going to die, and the cat is looking worse by the day and likely will not survive the next couple months either. All in one year.

Life officially sucks giant green donkey dicks.

How smart is you?

Heh. How many did YOU get right? No cheating! *g* (answers after the cut)

1. Do they have a 4^th of July in England?
 
2. How many birthdays does the average man have?
 
3. Some months have 31 days; how many have 28?
 
4. Lisa gives a beggar 50 cents; Lisa is the beggar’s sister, but the beggar is not Lisa’s brother. Why?
 
5. Why can’t a man living in the U.S.A. be buried in Canada?
 
6. How many outs are there in an inning (of American baseball)?
 
7. Is it legal for a man in California to marry his widow’s sister?
 
8. Two men played five games of checkers. Each man won the same number of games, but there were no ties. Explain this.
 
9. Divide 30 by 1/2 and add 10. What is the answer?
 
10. A man builds a rectangular house; all four sides have southern exposure. A big bear walks by. What color is the bear?
 
11. If there are 3 apples and you take away 2, how many do you have?
 
12. I have two U.S. coins totaling 55 cents. One is not a nickel. What are the coins?
 
13. If you have only one match and you walk into a room where there is an oil burner, a lamp, and a wood-burning stove, which one would you light first?
 
14. How far can a dog run into the woods?
 
15. A doctor gives you three pills and tells you to take one every half-hour. How long would the pills last?
 
16. A farmer has 17 sheep, and all but 9 die. How many are left?
 
17. How many animals of each species did Moses take on the ark?
 
18. A clerk in the butcher shop is 5′ 10” tall. What does he weigh?
 
19. How many two-cent stamps are there in a dozen?

 20. What was the President’s name in 1964?
(answers below here – no cheating!)

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Gay
Oy! Of all the unfortunate names to have when AIDS hit mainstream news. That you were born to hypocritical asshats made it even better. I admired your serenity through it all, though I’da changed my name.