The bad news ~ it was 6!!!!!!!!!!! degrees this morning when I left for work!!! So much for our balmy 20s!
The good news ~ it has been a gloriously sunny, not-a-cloud-in-the-sky day all day long!
So I got the car washed ~ I hate winter grime!
And best of all ~ there are green things sprouting around here!!! First I saw one teeny little sprout in one of the planters out front (a daffa-down-dilly), which made my heart sing... Then I rushed to look at some of the pots stored in the garage... and sure enough! ALL of the mini daffodils are about 2-3 inches high, and there are another couple of reg. sized ones coming up in another pot!!!
Yipppeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
There IS life beyond these last couple of VERY grey weeks we've had ~
Forgive, sounds good.
Forget, I'm not sure I could.
They say time heals everything,
But I'm still waiting
I'm through with doubt;
There's nothing left for me to figure out.
I've paid a price, and I'll keep (I'm done) paying.
I'm not ready to make nice,
I'm not ready to back down.
I'm still mad as hell
And I don't have time
To go round and round and round.
It's too late to make it right;
I probably wouldn't if I could
Cause I'm mad as hell;
Can't bring myself to do what it is
You think I should.
I know you (they)said
Why can't you just get over it?
It turned my whole world around
and I kind of like it.
I made my bed, and I sleep like a baby,
With no regrets and I don't mind saying,
It's a sad, sad story
That a mother will teach her daughter (son)
that (s)he ought to hate a perfect stranger.
And how in the world
Can the words that I said
Send somebody so over the edge
That they'd write me a letter
Saying that I better shut up and sing
Or my life will be over.
I'm not ready to make nice,
I'm not ready to back down.
I'm still mad as hell
And I don't have time
To go round and round and round.
It's too late to make it right;
I probably wouldn't if I could
Cause I'm mad as hell
Can't bring myself to do what it is
You think I should
Forgive, sounds good.
Forget, I'm not sure I could.
They say time heals everything,
But I'm still waiting
Dixie Chicks
And to those who didn't stand when they could have ~ Karma.
So Cheney is POed at Bush for not pardoning his butt boy Libby...
Go shoot another lawyer in the face, Dick-wad ~ I'm sure sure it will make you feel much better.
Yes, I was a total television slut yesterday, having watched more TV in one day than I normally do in a 3-4 week period!!! It was also only the second time I'd ever watched the swearing-in ceremony (Carter to Reagan was the first, because of the hostages).
I didn't get as teary eyed as I thought I would; and the husband did more than I thought he would.
So pathetic that they made him do the oath again today because of Roberts fouling it up, but I'm glad they did, because you KNOW there would have been the A$$holes out there screaming foul... even though by law, he was Pres. at noon, oath or no. Idiots.
I liked the speech ~ telling us to pull our thumbs out and "get 'er done" as America always has. Who cares if there were no "sound bites" in it? Me thinks America has had too many sound bites and not enough balls (or maybe too many!) for quite some time.
To those who say "too much fuss about him being black", I say back off. Being the first, of COURSE there will be hype/fuss... The time when it doesn't warrant comment will come. Chill.
On to Phoenix...
I'll be going there for a long Super Bowl weekend... both to see my scrappy friend Betz, and also one of my old nursing buddies from "Muck-Muck"!! (long story, don't ask!!!) Arrive Thursday, leave Tuesday... I can't wait!!! And blessings to my dear sweet boss, who is letting me have the time off on such short notice! Luv ya, Julie!
Betz and I will be cheering for the Steelers, and waving our terrible towels. And swilling margaritas!!!
One last thing... my friend DL, who was going to be marching in the inaugural parade, called me from near the Washington Monument yesterday morning. She said the air was ELECTRIC, and that she had never seen anything like the crowds that were present. Thanks, DL, for helping me feel some of that electricity!!!
Thank the universe for good friends...
"Free at last, free at last ~
Thank God Almighty, we're free at last!"
MLK
Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.
~Mark Twain, Notebook, 1935
Dem's my Steelers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry, daughter dearest, but me loves me my Steelers ~ they were my first ever football team!!
Champagne will be chilling... Kleenex box will be near to hand... alarm will be set for 0400 Tuesday AM... Dear boss has been told that there is no way on earth I would work that day...
A friend who lives near DC tells me that on Tuesday, from 1pm to 5pm EST, there will be a Wiccan ritual of "unity and blessing" to "clean" Washington from the previous administration and "bless and protect" the incoming administration. Amen to that!! I'll have to see if I can find some sage before then.
And, I just found out another friend will be marching in the inaugural parade!! Sending her healthy and warm thoughts...
So on OSU I see the religious right has even edited out my objections to their censorship...
they are just TOO pathetic !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Must be awful to live in such fear of a thought that doesn't correspond to their own.
In loving memory of George Carlin, I give you...
shit, piss, fuck, cunt, cock-sucker, mother-fucker and tits.
Oh! that felt GREAT!
...tell Seamus that he just had major surgery on Tuesday, and that he REALLY shouldn't be tearing through the house with a case of the zoomies!!!
I about fell off my chair reading this...
Hi, friends ~ I'm back... and I'm feeling MUCH more myself today ~ in fact, mom & dad have had a hard time keeping me from being as active as I wanted to be today!!
Back to yesterday ~ as I said, I don't remember much about the day or evening... I do remember the very nice humans at the place of many smells giving me lots of loving, but then everything went dark. I VAGUELY remember being reunited with mom & dad, and being cuddled on mom's lap LOTS last night. I remember sniffing my tummy and balls, as those areas smelled very strange to me ~ and imagine my horror at discovering that all my hair in those areas was GONE! Totally gone!! I can't imagine who would have done such a cruel thing!!! Even mom is a bit surprised by how much hair they shaved off!
I also remember not having much of an appetite, and not really being thirsty... but for some reason, that didn't seem to matter to much ~ in fact, the whole world was looking pretty rosy colored :-)))
I would have slept pretty well last night, but mom kept checking on me to see how I was doing all night long... I think she needed to take a 'chill pill'!!
Had a good sleep, and woke up much more "me" ~ went out to potty; mom gave me some food, and I had LOTS of water to drink...
Mom gave me something called 'drugs' this morning before she went away that seemed to make the soreness go away... This tactic must have worked, because all I've wanted to do today was my usual running around the yard (that cold white stuff is just disappearing!) and play tag with the funny grey & white dog... For some strange reason, daddy didn't want me doing this!!
And now, it's time for me to sleep again... I want to thank all my cyber friends & their humans for their slurps and good wishes...
Love ~ Seamus Ryan
Hi, folks ~ Seamus here. I've asked my mom to write this up for me, because my eye/ paw co-ordination isn't so great right now. Today has just been a really weird day...
To start with, dad didn't feed me any breakfast this morning!!! I just couldn't imagine what I'd done wrong ~ what I'd done to deserve such torture! Mom offered some soothing "It's OK's", but of course that did nothing to help... especially since I KNOW they fed the funny grey & white dog (FGWD) named Sam that also lives here! What an insult!!
But then, my humans brought out that red strappy thing I use to take them on walks/ rides in the NMM (noisy moving machine), so of course all was forgiven. I was hoping we would be going for a nice long walk, but instead they asked me to get in the NMT. Since that is always fun too, I offered no objections... and I was delighted to know that the FGWD was also coming with us! I just wonder why the FGWD got to ride in my old sleeping box ~
We went for a bit of a ride, and then we came to the house of the million smells. (Ed.note ~ the vets office) Despite my hunger, I loved sniffing every inch of that place!
But then came the sad part... mom lifted me into a very small house, and then she left me!! And though I am usually a very quiet kind of guy, I was SO hungry and SO lonely, I must admit I broke into song ~ I SO miss my mom & dad when I'm away from them!!
After that, I don't remember much until much later in the day. And as I am very sleepy right now, I will finish my story tomorrow...
:-)))
And Sanjay Gupta for Surgeon General? YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cottleston Pie is the Taoist philosophy dealing with our Inner Nature (as explained by Winnie-the-Pooh)
To get the full scoop, read "The Tao of Pooh" by Benjamin Hoff.
The full poem is at the very bottom here...
