What do you get when you take about 6 pounds of pork shoulder ( Read more... )

While having a discussion with Princess about a 7 year old girl with schizophrenia that manifests in audio and visual hallucinations that have been telling her to kill herself all her life ( Read more... )

General question if you say, have a significant other and said SO works for an intolerable alcoholic; one who frequently says/does things that sends said SO home angry, or in tears, or in a rage, or screaming, or in the grips on an anxiety attack probably 3, 4 times every two months ( Read more... )

Me to cashier: So you need to change the tax because it's an internet purchase then ring in at ( Read more... )

Christmas came and went pretty good this year. Got some Pampered Chef goods, gift cards and two nice belgian ales and their collector glasses. I'm starting a hobby of collecting them, so it was fun ( Read more... )

About to embark for the usual Christmas routine ( Read more... )

Oliva from Sesame Street has passed away ( Read more... )

Christmas Time is here ( Read more... )

Overheard:

"I am a 38, in European sizes."
"Do you know what that is, in US size?"
"Perhaps in your free time you can google up a chart, for those of us who shop in European sizes."

Apparently that's a metre stick up her ass, not a yard stick.

So far the score is:

Leen's Aunt - colon cancer.
My Grandmother - surgery Monday, however, must be off coumadin for 3 days prior.
My aunt: Possible MS. OR, brain lesions associated with H1N1 vaccination / catching H1N1 despite vaccination.

December. You suck.