5 o'clock and time to rock
what's in the 5 am brain today...hmmm...
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" Year of the Rabbit "
Snakes and rabbits being what they are, it only stands to reason that the year of the rabbit would run badly for the snake. The Snake mused on this as the Snake typed and if you have to ask how a snake updates an online blog you're sort of missing the point of ' why would a snake want to have an online blog to begin with' Obviously because posts like " ate mouse today LOL " are very important for the world at large to know about.
Snake...was tired. Snake had just had a nice knock-down drag-'em-out fight with her significant other who had slithered out the door in a huff and she wasn't sure if he'd be back at all or if he'd take the first flight out of town and head to Ireland. Fights were stupid and this one had been stupid. So he'd ate the last lizard in the fridge. Big deal. But this was the year of the rabbit and things were meant to go badly for snakes. She'd read that in her horoscope way back in January. ' Beware relationship troubles ' And then he'd gone and eaten the last lizard in the fridge. And in musing on it she decided why yes...it DID bother her. She'd just come in from a long day at work and her boss had yelled at her for one thing or another and then she'd stuck her tongue out at her boss. Not intentionally of course. She was a Snake after all. That's how snakes were. But her boss didn't understand and that had earned her a demerit. And then after coming home, hungry and despondent and not wanting to go with take-out again for the third time that week...would it have been so much to ask for him to leave the lizard? Stupid bastard. He was always thinking about himself. She was probably better off without him. He was always shedding all over the place, leaving skins everywhere never apologizing, curled up on the couch all day long in the sun doing nothing. " It's because it's winter and I'm cold-blooded. " " Well DUH I'm cold blooded too! " And so on.
Snake checked her online bank account and to her dismay she was about 200 dollars in the hole. The check for the car had bounced. Damn it all. More bad luck. And again if you're wondering why a snake would need a car you are missing the point.
About that time the phone rang and Snake sighed, left off updating her blog and slithered over to the phone. It was her mom. She spent about ten minutes listening to her mom talk about what a lousy bum her father was..." it's because he's a king snake. King snakes are all the same they think the world owes them or something. I don't know why I even married him to begin with, honey if you ever settle down go with a rattlesnake. I dated a rattlesnake once. Best years of my life, they get a bad rap I think. Speaking of dating are you and your boyfriend EVER going to get married? I'm getting old you know and so are you and is it so much to ask for a cluster of grandsnakes and..." About that point Snake pretended that her service had dropped the call and quietly hung up.
Getting back online Snake saw an IM from Rabbit of all people: OH HI HOW R U
LIFE SSSSSUCKS, Snake typed back.
;___; said Rabbit and then with typical Rabbit obliviousness started telling Snake about all the wonderful things that had been happening to her. Rabbit's significant other had gotten a promotion. The kids were doing great in school. They had gotten their taxes done early and were expecting a nice fat check. They were thinking about taking a vacation sometime in early May and heading out to Colorado or maybe New York. Oh and she thought she might be pregnant again so of course they were both thrilled.
Snake listened to Rabbit's happy chatter for a while, thinking about everything that was going wrong today and wondering why in the hell she stayed friends with Rabbit to begin with. It's not like they went out for coffee or anything, just knew each other from work. Most of the time it was all about Rabbit, gushing on and on about her fabulous luck and her fabulous life and reminding Snake of everything that was wrong in her life. Snake really resented Rabbit sometimes. Rabbit in fact was sometimes a major pain in the cloaca for all her cheeriness and good fortune.
Snake studied her blog and then quietly logged out. She sat there thinking and listening to the IM alerts chiming gently at her with Rabbit's every enthusiastic comment. Thinking about her life. Thinking about the Year of the Rabbit and how unfair horoscopes and birth years were sometimes.
Then abruptly Snake smiled.
HEY RABBIT, she typed in the IM. WANT 2 COME OVER 4 DINNER?
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" Year of the Rabbit "
Snakes and rabbits being what they are, it only stands to reason that the year of the rabbit would run badly for the snake. The Snake mused on this as the Snake typed and if you have to ask how a snake updates an online blog you're sort of missing the point of ' why would a snake want to have an online blog to begin with' Obviously because posts like " ate mouse today LOL " are very important for the world at large to know about.
Snake...was tired. Snake had just had a nice knock-down drag-'em-out fight with her significant other who had slithered out the door in a huff and she wasn't sure if he'd be back at all or if he'd take the first flight out of town and head to Ireland. Fights were stupid and this one had been stupid. So he'd ate the last lizard in the fridge. Big deal. But this was the year of the rabbit and things were meant to go badly for snakes. She'd read that in her horoscope way back in January. ' Beware relationship troubles ' And then he'd gone and eaten the last lizard in the fridge. And in musing on it she decided why yes...it DID bother her. She'd just come in from a long day at work and her boss had yelled at her for one thing or another and then she'd stuck her tongue out at her boss. Not intentionally of course. She was a Snake after all. That's how snakes were. But her boss didn't understand and that had earned her a demerit. And then after coming home, hungry and despondent and not wanting to go with take-out again for the third time that week...would it have been so much to ask for him to leave the lizard? Stupid bastard. He was always thinking about himself. She was probably better off without him. He was always shedding all over the place, leaving skins everywhere never apologizing, curled up on the couch all day long in the sun doing nothing. " It's because it's winter and I'm cold-blooded. " " Well DUH I'm cold blooded too! " And so on.
Snake checked her online bank account and to her dismay she was about 200 dollars in the hole. The check for the car had bounced. Damn it all. More bad luck. And again if you're wondering why a snake would need a car you are missing the point.
About that time the phone rang and Snake sighed, left off updating her blog and slithered over to the phone. It was her mom. She spent about ten minutes listening to her mom talk about what a lousy bum her father was..." it's because he's a king snake. King snakes are all the same they think the world owes them or something. I don't know why I even married him to begin with, honey if you ever settle down go with a rattlesnake. I dated a rattlesnake once. Best years of my life, they get a bad rap I think. Speaking of dating are you and your boyfriend EVER going to get married? I'm getting old you know and so are you and is it so much to ask for a cluster of grandsnakes and..." About that point Snake pretended that her service had dropped the call and quietly hung up.
Getting back online Snake saw an IM from Rabbit of all people: OH HI HOW R U
LIFE SSSSSUCKS, Snake typed back.
;___; said Rabbit and then with typical Rabbit obliviousness started telling Snake about all the wonderful things that had been happening to her. Rabbit's significant other had gotten a promotion. The kids were doing great in school. They had gotten their taxes done early and were expecting a nice fat check. They were thinking about taking a vacation sometime in early May and heading out to Colorado or maybe New York. Oh and she thought she might be pregnant again so of course they were both thrilled.
Snake listened to Rabbit's happy chatter for a while, thinking about everything that was going wrong today and wondering why in the hell she stayed friends with Rabbit to begin with. It's not like they went out for coffee or anything, just knew each other from work. Most of the time it was all about Rabbit, gushing on and on about her fabulous luck and her fabulous life and reminding Snake of everything that was wrong in her life. Snake really resented Rabbit sometimes. Rabbit in fact was sometimes a major pain in the cloaca for all her cheeriness and good fortune.
Snake studied her blog and then quietly logged out. She sat there thinking and listening to the IM alerts chiming gently at her with Rabbit's every enthusiastic comment. Thinking about her life. Thinking about the Year of the Rabbit and how unfair horoscopes and birth years were sometimes.
Then abruptly Snake smiled.
HEY RABBIT, she typed in the IM. WANT 2 COME OVER 4 DINNER?