Rest in Peace

We lost a love today. His name is Church. He had pneumonia and was too far gone to be rescued despite all our efforts.
He was such an animated cat and we'll never forget him. We rescued him from a previous upstairs neighbor when we lived in Erie. He was just a kitten and thrown out in an Erie blizzard and we took him in and have had him ever since, a little over a year now. He did get his Christmas gift early-Fancy Feast cat food. We miss him already.

I'm a Hufflepuff!

Like I said...

"You belong in Hufflepuff, where they are just and loyal,Those patient Hufflepuffs are true and unafraid to toil."

Ba Humbug Day

I listen to a radio station out of Ashtabula (homey's birthplace) and today they announced that it was "Ba Humbug Day" and you can gripe about 12 things today, so here goes:

1. Ba Humbug Day

X-mas season or not, I can gripe if I want to, damnit. I am not St. Nick, I am not jolly, too bad.

2. Yodeling

Hey Jewel, yodeling has no place in holiday music.

3. Dogs barking to "Jingle Bells"

It made me want to veer me and my van into the nearest ravine.

4. "Santa Baby"

I don't care who's singing it, Eartha Kitt or not. I do not like it. ESPECIALLY if Eartha is singing it. You made a great catwoman or whatever you were on Batman, but I want to stab my eardrums when I hear you singing this song. Okay, I have to say the same goes for Barry Manilow singing "My Favorite Things" A Fanilow, I am not!

5. Asshole drivers

I can never say enough about this and I know nobody wants to hear it, but please don't pull out in front of me and fishtail between two lanes trying to catch up with the natural flow of traffic that you just fucking obstructed. Asshole.

6. Special Forwards

I have to admit I love a good forward, especially if they make laugh like a jolly old elf, but please don't send me the ones that say, "You have to forward this to 10 or more people and if you only forward it to 1 person, you don't have many friends, blah, blah, blah" I have friends because I don't forward these emails to them. When I start forwarding these emails, I will lose those friends.

7. Shopping

I know that both of my sisters just inhaled their cocoa from gasping, but they should also know that I can't stand shopping. I love giving gifts more than anything, but the very idea that I have to go shopping for them is horrid. Mix screaming kids with adults that have no common sense and cashiers that, well, shouldn't even be greeters and it's a nasty mix no matter how you add it up. That's why I thank God for creating the internet on the 7th day. She's such a wonderful God. Point, click, wait for the mail.

8. Frank Snot-ra

Dude, I about fell asleep in the van driving home because they were playing some Frank. Thankfully, I had a needle to stab beneath my fingernails to keep me awake. I know, I know...change the channel. I did. Three times. First station, Jewel yodeling to White Christmas. Second, Dogs barking to Jingle Bells. Third, Santa Baby. Need I say more?

9. Being in the Slytherin category on Kristen's page

At first, I was like, "Okay, there's probably something good to be said about that. Hey, Monsieur le coq is here! Wait, I'm in the class with the dogs? Where is that damn sorting hat?!" I just don't like it, no sir I do not.

10. GameSHOUT's Top 10 Holiday Movie List

Sorry, Patio; I know you didn't create the list. I don't have any problem in general with the list, just the fact that Die Hard 1&2 are #3 on the list. I know that the theme of the movie occurs during the holidays, but so do a lot of movies. That doesn't mean they should make it to the top 10 of Holiday Movies list. It belongs on a whole other category. Something like..."Movies that never should have made it to the silver screen"

11. These cats

One wants to "become one" with me while I'm on the computer. One is trying to die of pneumonia. One nearly had to have his tail amputated. 25 pounds of cat and no tail does not look good. One has to cuddle like an infant, but ONLY on the left shoulder. Nobody has a good left shoulder in this house. One I forget we have because all she does is hide and sleep. Halfpint swears about every other week that she's on her way out, but we've been together for almost 5 years and this cat ain't goin' nowhere! I think we have too many cats, but the truth is, if a stray showed up on our door and stayed there for like 5 minutes, I would take it in and say we have 6 cats. Every once in a while, Halfpint says, "We gotta start getting rid of some cats." Not happening chick!

12. Having to come up with 12 gripes

Says who? Peace out, Napoleon!

Just in case you were bored...

Look into the crystal ball.






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A friend of mine sent me this link and it was a little strange at first, but now that we've figured out the formula, it's not as strange, but still a little fun. Go ahead, give it a try!

What's wrong with the world, Mama?

Some may say you should treat people kindly because of the holiday season and some may say it's being "a good Christian", but it's neither. It's just seems like common sense to me to treat people with decency. If you ask me, the holidays seem to bring out the worst in people, not the best, yet society and the media preach this loving and spiritual holiday. If you really take a good look around, you'll see it just isn't so.

In the stores it can really be a nightmare. I was coming out of the grocery store and there were a fair amount of people. We were exiting in a line about two carts wide, leaving a bit of room for people entering the store through those doors. I've got this older lady behind me who apparently wasn't too happy with the speed of things. There were some people ahead that were going a little slower than what we may deem necessary, but who cares? The line wasn't stopped, it was a slow, steady pace. Well, this chick saw the green flag and was on the hunt for the checkered flag. She passed me on the left, then she nudges in front of me. Wow, you're a whole cart ahead and we're almost entirely out of the building now. I wonder if she felt like she actually accomplished something. I never did see if she made it to the checkered flag first. What an ass.

Then we have traffic. I can go a day and a half on this subject, but I'm sure it's nothing you all haven't witnessed before. My favorite part is people that are racing to the next red light. What the hell is that shit. In town, we have one of the main drags, East/West 12th Street. It has lights every block or two. Why are you laying tire when the light turns green? You're first in line or third in line and that's what you'll be at the next red light. If you don't like traffic signals every block or two, take the Bayfront or the Interstate and leave the local roads to the idiots who can't pump their brakes on black ice.

Speaking of driving- I don't care if you have tepid heat in your car and duct tape and a hefty covering one or more windows- you're at least in the car and not openly exposed to the elements. So, if you happen upon people crossing the street in wind that is freezing everything it's passing over, let them cross! Even if it's raining or blazing heat, just let them go, but especially in the cold. They're not out there singing "Walking in the winter wonderland", they're trying to get from Point A to Point B without becoming a human popsicle. You won't die. On the other hand, it drives me crazy when people see you approaching a green light and cross right about when you hit it, so you are pumping the brakes like it'll produce life-saving blood for a dying relative. Are you begging to be hit? I know plenty of people that'll keep going and make you race to the curb because they don't give a shit if you get hit or not. They'll just keep on going like they hit another pothole.

I don't know what the problem is, but let's not pretend the world is a better place because it's the holiday season; It's the same as every other time of year. Good people are good and assholes are still assholes.