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Crap for Days and Years to Come

I’ll be happy when this election crap is over! Every commercial is about voting and why one candidate is more trustworthy than the other.

I don’t usually go political on this blog but right now I’m going to have to say a few things. You know what? People don’t learn. They really don’t. When Obama ran for office people were looking for a magician, someone who could turn everything around in the blink of an eye. They wanted someone who could make the depression/recession go away quickly. They wanted a savior but what they got was a human being. They were sadly disappointed.

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Cricket Breeding

I successfully bred crickets for my fire belly toads. Know what that means? It means I’m the shit, that’s what it means! Because I’m bragging I’ll go in the laundry room tomorrow and they’ll all be dead, cause that’s how this stuff works. You brag, you lose. It just happens that way.

When you think about it, crickets don’t seem as if they’ll cost that much to supply but the cost starts to add up after a bit. As a matter of fact, a months worth of crickets for my 3 toads is comparable to a month’s worth of food for the cat. The other thing too is, I had to travel 30 min one way to get the dang things. Rain or shine the toads have to eat, so travel time can’t stop me. Because I’m a Google addict I hopped on the net and looked up how to breed crickets. I asked people at the pet store but they all told me it would be loud and messy, easier to buy them. Well, that’s not what I asked. I asked “how” to do it. They didn’t know. Heck, a girl at PetSmart said its easy to breed roaches and tried to tell me how to do that. I suggested she try rehab cause clearly she’s on something if she thinks I’m going to do that.  Betty Ford anyone? So, anyway, a YouTube video showed me how to do it. It’s really kinda easy.

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Please Return to the Trailer Park Immediately

I think people should have to carry a license that certifies them as capable of 1) properly raising a child and 2) raising said child along side other families. If people aren’t capable of doing that they should be sterilized, yes, I said sterilized because that way I don’t have to go outside and interrupt their Jerry Springer-like lives just to get my neighborhood back on track. This is in fact my neighborhood. It’s MY STREET. Austin Street, and all the kids know it. I’ve already told them not to act crazy on my corner. I don’t have issues with anyone in my neighborhood and the kids are quite respectful to me… cause it’s my street!

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Izzy

One week old, female, orphaned kitten now named Isabella. I swore I wouldn’t do another foster but once I saw this face what could I do but accept the assignment?

She’s bottle fed every two hours, burped then put back to bed. This little tiny itsy bitsy thing is rather quiet right now but when she’s about 3 weeks old she’ll be much louder in her protests.

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Stuff We Don’t Talk About

These questions aren’t psych related but female health related. I don’t know the answer to these questions and pretty much don’t have anyone to ask.  If I have a cold I can go to my doctor and ask questions about snot. That’s covered by my insurance but I can’t go in and ask basic questions about my body and have it covered by my insurance. Heck, I could look up stuff on Google but who knows if the answer is right or not. I feel kind of stuck really cause I have so many embarrassing questions with so few answers. I have questions about sex, about my body, about love after 40 and a few questions about aging.

Here we go:  I can’t believe I’m actually going to say these things then press publish. Gracious!

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One Life – A Moment of Pause

The long and short of it is this, today one man’s suicide changed the lives of possibly hundreds of people. When I first heard it my heart went out to the man who sat on top of a parking garage, shot himself then fell 8 stories to the pavement. I know the kind of depression and anger towards life in general that can drive a person to want to die. I just said it the other day and in fact I’ve been seriously suicidal for two long months. I know how it feels to be driven to the edge, so when I heard a man killed himself today my immediate response was sorrow and understanding, that is until I heard the details.

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Cell Phones – that little black box

I have a serious hatred for cell phones. I see them and I mean to tell ya I just want to spit. I’m offended by them because everywhere you go someone has a damn cell phone attached to their ear.  It seems like when they put the phone to their ear common courtesies disappear.  Instead of making eye contact with the cashier or watching your kids, you’ve got everyone in line on the phone. People go up and down the isles talking just as loudly as possible on these little life interrupters. Heck, I have a friend that pisses me off because her phone rings every 20 min or so. I told her one time that we don’t ever have a moment together where it’s just two girls hanging out. It’s me, her and every person in the world calling or texting for the most mundane things.  A two minute phone call every 20 min would get on anyone’s nerves. It seems everything comes second to that phone.

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