Thankfulness meme
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shalannaThankfulness post:
1. Not dead yet.
But is that a GOOD thing, or. . . .
2. Yes, the precious Pom's kennel cough is still there. He's a lot better. But he COUGHS and it's HEARTRENDING and it echoes through the house. This can last for over a week, and in fact it HAS. Mama has bronchitis (and because the actual diagnosis for the dog is "tracheobronchitis, infection," it's kind of the same thing) and has spent the past three days dragging an oxygen tank and coughing and moaning and crying. Hubby escapes by going directly back and logging on to play his online game, and the soundtrack of the 14-year-old GIRL who runs the dang missions and the stooopid young guys who talk through his speakers would incite a psychotic break in any saint. I do not like Thanksgiving foods and would just as soon not cook any of this stuff, believing that a holiday built around eating should result in other people weighing 300 lbs. rather than in my gaining another pound or two just from touching the yams. I would jump into any passing car that would let me in and take me anywhere but here. Now I understand why people abandon their families. But I can't leave the dog, as I am the one who picks him up and rocks him until the coughing spells pass, and I also give him the pill hidden in a wad of cheese. (Yep, the cheese is probably making his mucus thicker, but he "finds" the pill and "loses" it in everything else.) Um, I suppose there isn't a "thankful for" bit in #2 except that they're all still alive and I haven't left.
(This was not the day to have me do the "I am thankful for" meme. Perhaps later.)
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"Upon the rocks the ugly houses stand. Come see my shining palace built upon the sand!" --Edna St. Vincent Millay
"Is that thunder I hear? Waak!"--Donald Duck, standing on beach a moment before Auntie Edna's lovely sand castle is destroyed in a deluge
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Is it true that thorns appeared on roses only after the fall of Mankind caused by Adam and Eve's original sin? Because if it is, then we shouldn't have done that six thousand years ago. Life is a thorn. Whose side should I stick into today?
1. Not dead yet.
But is that a GOOD thing, or. . . .
2. Yes, the precious Pom's kennel cough is still there. He's a lot better. But he COUGHS and it's HEARTRENDING and it echoes through the house. This can last for over a week, and in fact it HAS. Mama has bronchitis (and because the actual diagnosis for the dog is "tracheobronchitis, infection," it's kind of the same thing) and has spent the past three days dragging an oxygen tank and coughing and moaning and crying. Hubby escapes by going directly back and logging on to play his online game, and the soundtrack of the 14-year-old GIRL who runs the dang missions and the stooopid young guys who talk through his speakers would incite a psychotic break in any saint. I do not like Thanksgiving foods and would just as soon not cook any of this stuff, believing that a holiday built around eating should result in other people weighing 300 lbs. rather than in my gaining another pound or two just from touching the yams. I would jump into any passing car that would let me in and take me anywhere but here. Now I understand why people abandon their families. But I can't leave the dog, as I am the one who picks him up and rocks him until the coughing spells pass, and I also give him the pill hidden in a wad of cheese. (Yep, the cheese is probably making his mucus thicker, but he "finds" the pill and "loses" it in everything else.) Um, I suppose there isn't a "thankful for" bit in #2 except that they're all still alive and I haven't left.
(This was not the day to have me do the "I am thankful for" meme. Perhaps later.)
"Upon the rocks the ugly houses stand. Come see my shining palace built upon the sand!" --Edna St. Vincent Millay
"Is that thunder I hear? Waak!"--Donald Duck, standing on beach a moment before Auntie Edna's lovely sand castle is destroyed in a deluge
Is it true that thorns appeared on roses only after the fall of Mankind caused by Adam and Eve's original sin? Because if it is, then we shouldn't have done that six thousand years ago. Life is a thorn. Whose side should I stick into today?
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Date: 2007-11-21 02:53 am (UTC)Sometimes my house is like that too.
I wish you peace in all the bedlam.
And I hope your dog will be okay!