A one year old boy, who could have a tracheotomy, be taken home from the hospital and live his life, may have his ventilator removed at the wishes of his mother and the HOSPITAL TRUST PAYING FOR HIS CARE, because his severe physical disability has been deemed 'intolerable suffering'. His father disagrees and is fighting for his son's life.
I turned in my two week notice at work. I feel way better about life in general now.It had gotten to the point where I could barely get out of bed because I was so filled with dread at the thought of going in . I have an interview today and I am pretty sure as long as I don't go in and make a complete ass of myself I will get the job.I think my unhappiness in my job has been playing a big part in how bad my depression has been lately, as soon as I put in my two weeks I felt like a huge cloud was lifted off of me.
While out driving on Halloween the other night, I drove through a neighborhood in full trick or treat mode. Though a minority of older kids walked from house to house, most kids were driven by their parents to each house, getting in and out of the vehicle (mostly ubiquitous minivans) ever 25 feet or so.
This meant that the road was clogged with pausing and slow moving vehicles, which made it very difficult for through traffic to drive down the street. It also made it more dangerous for drivers like me because it made it harder to see kids on foot, and made it more dangerous for the kids, as it made it harder for them to see through traffic, and because of the unpredictable movements of the minivan parade.
I don't know why the parents of small children just didn't park their vehicles and get off their lazy asses and walk
with their kids to each house. And the parents of older children
should have been home giving out candy and let those kids travel in
groups to trick or treat on their own. It seems to me that if you're ten or eleven, having to spend the night getting in and out of a car with your parents there the whole time would suck all the joy right out of Halloween.
Halloween is totally different now for kids than it was when I was a kid trick or treating back in the sixties and early seventies. For one thing, only the smallest children had parents going with them to trick or treat, and even then the parents walked with their kids, they didn't drive them from house to house. And from about the second grade onwards (age 8), kids trick or treated on their own in groups in their own neighborhoods and the parents stayed home to hand out candy to other kids.
I lived in a huge subdivision where nearly every house participated. My mother would give me a king size pillow case and I'd fill that up, then return to get another one to fill. Trick or treating typically began at dusk, and continued for a few hours.
It was a lot more fun for us than it is for kids nowadays and I kind of feel sorry for kids now because they won't experience Halloween like most Baby Boom era kids did.
It seems as if I have a homing device to attract the religious of all stripes. I don't know what it is; perhaps it's my air of disrepute that attracts them like moths to a flame.
Recently, they hired a new guy at my place of employment, a squeaky-clean, straight arrow kind of person. I didn't have a problem with him until he started peddling his religion on me. He'd heard that I liked music and had some formal musical training, so he used that as a way to start preaching to me. Starting out innocently enough, he told me that he was the "praise leader" at his church, in charge of providing the music for their services, blah, blah, blah.
After a few moments of this, he got to his point of the entire conversation -- he wanted to know where I went to church. All the fundies do this, as they believe it's their duty to sell their religion to one and all.
Not really caring to discuss my opinion about religion with him, I simply told him that I didn't go, hoping to leave it at that.
No such luck.
He invited me to attend his church, telling me that I could be an asset to their "praise team" with my musical training.
I nearly choked and laughed myself to death all at the same time. Hell, talk about barking up the wrong tree! I'd probably burst into flames if I ever set foot into his smarmy, fundamentalist church.
Still not wanting to discuss religion in a work setting, I merely declined, citing the fact that I'm scheduled to work every Sunday.
Fortunately, at this moment, he had to get back to work, so I was spared being more blunt with him. But I'm guessing that some time soon, I'll have to tell him to fuck off in no uncertain terms.
Go forth and fill your libraries with media.
Seriously, thanks to everyone for being so amazing and patient. You are the reason I love Vox.
I looked at my latest car payment statement. I only
owe $660 more on my car, so I'll be finally free of car payments by the
beginning of the year. It's been a long time since I've not owed on a
car and I'm looking forward to having more money at my disposal for other things. I just hope the car doesn't fall
apart once I get my title in the mail.
I hope to use some of the money I used for car payments each month to go towards paying my credit cards down. I'll start with the one I owe the least on and concentrate on getting it paid off, then move on to the next one. I'm sure I'll be spending money on car repairs, but at least I won't have to come up with the same amount of money each and every month.
Getting this particular car loan paid off is a victory of sorts for me. I was only a year into the loan when I was fired from my last job. My first thought as I left that job for good was that I was going to lose my car. But despite six months of unemployment, followed by having to take a job that paid less than half of what I'd been making before, I've still got the car and I'm about to own it free and clear. I almost feel like driving by my former place of employment to thumb my nose at them as a symbolic way to show them that despite them kicking me down, that I was far from out.
Here's a sample of quotes I found about sex while surfing the net. Enjoy!
Love your neighbor, but don't get caught.
-- Unknown
Sow your wild oats on Saturday night -- Then on Sunday pray for crop failure. --Unknown
When I'm good I'm very, very good but when I'm bad I'm better.
--Mae West
Happiness is watching the TV at your girlfriend's house during a power failure.
--Bob Hope
You know of course that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
--Somerset Maugham
A nymphomaniac is a women as obsessed with sex as the average man.
--Mignon McLaughlin
I believe that sex is a beautiful thing between two people. Between five, it's fantastic.
--Woody Allen
"What's the three words you never want to hear while making love? Honey, I'm home."
--Ken Hammond
I am always looking for meaningful one night stands.
--Dudley Moore
It isn't premarital sex if you have no intention of
getting married.
--Matt Barry
Leaving sex to the clergy is like letting your dog
vacation at the taxidermist.
--Camille Paglia
A man needs a mistress just to break the monogamy.
-- Unknown
I believe that trust is more important that monogamy
-- Savage Garden
While monogamy may be a great thing for families, it clearly is not for intellectuals
--the inventor of the birth control pill
Chastity: the most unnatural of the sexual perversions.
--Aldous Huxley
I've been too fucking busy and vice versa.
--Dorothy Parker
She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.
--Raymond Chandler
Older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.
--Ian Fleming
It's not the men in my life that counts - it's the life in my men.
--Mae West
It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses.
--Mrs Patrick Campbell
Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
--S. J. Perelman
Is sex dirty? Only if it's done right.
--Woody Allen
When
authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important
lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.
--Matt Groening
I don't see why I have to make one man miserable when I can make so many men happy.
--Ellyn Mustard
Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life.
--Dorothy Parker
Sex between a man and a woman can be great, provided you get between the right man and the right woman.
--Woody Allen
How many husbands have I had? You mean, apart from my own?
--Zsa Zsa Gabor
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge. --Voltaire
Sex on television can't hurt you unless you fall off.
--Unknown
Promiscuous, adj. Someone who gets more sex than you.
--Author unidentified
