Bah Friggin Humbug

I know it has been well over a month since i posted. So kill me....shit happens, life gets in the way, work gets in the way, and I just haven't felt in the mood.

The mood still isn't really in there, but I felt like I at least owed you faithful followers some of my time and wisdom. So here are some random thoughts that have gone through my mind in the last few weeks.

* How many times do I have to come home to a new steaming pile of shit that the stepdaughter has left waiting for us?

* How many times do you have to keep defending the inadequacies of your children before you realize that it reflects on you?

* When are we finally going to catch a break and not have to spend money of other people and have the time and inclination to spend money on ourselves?

* Why is it that, people whom you despise and loathe under normal circumstances, always seem to feel obligated to play nice at the holidays, making you feel guilty? Tell them to piss off regardless of the time of year it is.

* How come I always end up in a job I love with a manager that I do not respect and has advanced well beyond their Peter Principle level?

OK.... enough of the soap box. Now a very brief update...

Stepdaughter is working again... yippee hooray, bout GD time.

LB is still a pain in my ass but he is going to preschool now so some of the socialization skills are starting to help. Now if we could just get his OCD under control, he might actually begin to function like a normal 4 y.o.

Shithead is history with the stepdaughter, and we are just waiting for an opportunity to drop a dime on him with his PO and send his ass back to the pen.

L and I are struggling to maintain some sense of a normal life, under all the external pressures from her family. I told her last night again.. Start telling people NO or I will do it for you. We can not and will not continue to be the rescue squad for every little family crisis that someone else has. We have enough shit of our own to deal with... MORE ON THAT LATER.

I sincerely hope that you all have a happy holiday season. I am planning on telling everyone that gets in my way or on my nerves to go fuck themselves and leave my house. WISH ME LUCK.

Friday Funnies - NORTHWEST AIRLINES PILOT TRAINING FILM

You have to wonder if this is how Northwest Airlines trains their pilots after this week's incident of "overshooting the airport by 150 miles.

On The Mend

After a visit to the DR on Monday, it seems that L and I are suffering from the residual effects of a respiratory virus that mimics the flu, and actually could be a mild case of the flu.

Not likely H1N1, but the plain old, garden variety flu. Whatever it is, it sucks donkey dong.

The doc says don't worry, take the horse pills I am prescribing, and if your not better in a week to ten days after the course of antibiotics, then get your will and testament in order get your butt back in here and we will do something else. Gee, what a comfort.

He did say that while he feels my pain, we are not alone. He has seen more patients this fall with the flu than he saw all last year. And while everyone is freaking out about H1N1, he said that more than likely, what people have is the regular flu. According to DR, getting a flu shot does help, but if you have the symptoms for more than 48 hours before you seek medical attention, then tough shit... anything that they give you wont really help. Your body has already started producing antibodies to fight the particular virus strain in you and any additional medicine will just slow down that process. (Guess you all skipped that day of H.S. Biology.)

DR says that the over the counter meds will help the symptoms, but if things are markedly improved after a week to 10 days, then you likely may have a secondary infection.

Long story short, don't screw around with this stuff. If it lingers, get medical help and take care of yourself. Because of all the crackheads out there, Wally World can't sell the really good over the counter medicines anymore, so you may as well get a script for it and stop messing around.

Creeping Crud

I don't know how many of you have been sick this past few months, but I am getting damn tired of feeling like ASS.. as my grandson so eloquently puts it.

It all started Labor Day weekend. My middle stepson came down with some bug, classic flu like symptoms, aches, pains, chills, fever, coughing a lung up and a runny nose like a faucet got turned on. He passed it to L who was home in bed the first week of Sept for 2 days with fever and aches.

Then a week or so later my son got it. Now this boy fights being sick to the death, but when he is laying down on the ground sleeping in the middle of his sisters soccer game because he doesn't feel good, I know he is sick. (Why he as there in the first place was beyond me, but that was his mother's decision... fodder for another blog on how self-centered and self-absorbed she can be at times).

A week later my daughter has it, and guess what, she just happens to have it the nite her and her brother as suppose to be at the house. Needless to say, I feel like my home is becoming a petri dish.

Fast forward to the 2nd week of Oct. I am home sick for two days with fever, aches, and coughing. Then L got it again last week and was home for 2 days.

She went to the DR on Thursday and all that quack would tell her is that she has a viral infection in her respiratory system and there is nothing that can be done other than to let it run it's course. What BULLSHIT.....

So we have purchased countless over the counter medicines to help alleviate the symptoms but that is like putting a band-aid on an amputation.

Guess what.. I went to bed last night with a fever and generally feel like I am walking around in a cloud today. The good news it that I already had a DR appt. schedule for this afternoon to review some lab work. So lucky me, my timing is right on in that regard.

Additionally, my doctor is s D.O. rather than an M.D. They tend to be less formal, more holistic, and less willing to cut and hack on you for something. I have been seeing this guy for going on 17-18 years now and he is the best. He is always willing to discuss in detail my treatment, and given that i am a scientist, he knows he cant bullshit his way around the diagnosis or toss me off with a "you wouldn't understand". I think that also helps me in that whenever I am in a predicament like I am now, with this crud being passed around like it is. He will not hesitate to raid his closet of medicine and help a brother out with a handful of free sample packages to help all of us get through the plague.

Maybe I will hit him up for some Viagra too....you never know.

Friday Funnies - PART 2

I just couldn't pass up posting this one for your viewing pleasure. Brings a whole new meaning to the old Hill Street Blues TV Show line; "Lets be careful out there".....

ENJOY

Friday Funnies

LUNCH ANYONE