I've been out of touch for a while.  It's been two weeks since my last post.  So this one will be quite the figurative dump.  We did a thing at my aunt's house this past Sunday.  Jim collapsed because he wasn't eating or drinking water.  The sheriff came, and the ambulance took him off to Butterworth.  Then of course, we fed the sheriff.

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Kevin Matthews this morning was talking with Mary Ellen Murphy about old-style family vacations.  The last one I was on was to Disneyworld when I was a Junior in high school.  We did this carpool type thing with my dad's youngest brother and his family.  So there were walkies and videos (we had a tricked out van) and psychotic moments.  All to ( Read more... )

What song lyrics would you love to have written, and why?

There's a song by Collin Raye called Love Me.  It was originally released in 1991 and tells this amazing story about a couple of lovers who try to meet when they're younger.  The woman can't make it on time so she leaves this note that her lover (later her husband) reads in prayer when he ( Read more... )

This past weekend, we babysat Maggie the Shi-Zhu (I'm pretty sure I spelled it wrong).  She's a particular young girl.  She likes to chase our Hobbes around to sniff his butt.  But Hobbes isn't in to that.  He won't take the fish off the hook (long story).  Anyhow, she spent most of the weekend rubbing it in to our Hobbes that he wasn't kingpin ( Read more... )

What admirable qualities attract you to your friends?

Um.  Yeah.  Mostly a sense of humor.  It doesn't have to be similar to mine, but most of my friends do have that.  People who won't take my sh*t also helps a lot.  Change rocks me because of my OCD.  I do tend to block out sections of friends though.  I have acquaintance level friends and then ( Read more... )

When we moved to our new house, my father got his dream fulfilled.  Yes, my mother made him trash dozens of pounds of things that he'd been saving for no reason.  But he got a ManShop.

See his sign for the manly ManShop...


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What is my nickname and how did I get it?

I actually have three nicknames that could be covered here.  My parents have always called me one of those three things if not my name.  The first is Megan Pie.  I'm not totally sure how I got this one.  I've always had it.  And it matches my brother's Moose.  Or so I've been told.  The second is Mike.  This ( Read more... )

My parents took me out to Beltline Bar for my non-birthday.  And yes, you can get a wheelchair in and out of those tables surprisingly.  I got gas.  No, not THAT kind.  It was a Speedway card.  And also a subscription to my second favorite magazine ever: Cooking with Paula Deen.  :-D  I told my parents all about Em's house.  They were interested in ( Read more... )

My brother has been spending his time away on rotation for about a month.  The particular place that he's at has housing for the doctors doing this.  He has to share a house with another doctor like him.  The house has one bedroom.  *grin*  Yes, Dave.  It's still a musical ( Read more... )

What do I wish I still had that I have lost?  God, so many things.  Bear with me.  I was out with some friends tonight so I'm a bit long-winded and may not make a lot of sense.  Just be glad you can't hear the accent (long story).  Lol.

I was twelve when my grandmother died.  And oddly, while I would say I wish I still had her, I can't imagine her ( Read more... )