GENERAL ANESTHESIA

Toothache.

Pain.

Ice pick in the eye.

Oh, yeah, I’ve been having a wonderful time.  What’s really disgusting is that yesterday was the first truly decent day in over a month; mid-70’s, low humidity, sunny.  I did go out and walk two miles despite the pain.  I am rather proud I can go two miles without the least bit of trouble even when I feel like crap.  I was feeling quite ill at the time but I didn’t want to let a perfect day go by.

Although I have dental insurance, I’ve got nothing left for the co-pay so I can only hope this passes like it has before.

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My sister was here visiting last week.  I picked her up at the airport Monday and then didn’t see her until Friday.  She actually came to my house on Saturday and stayed all of an hour before she had to rush off.  When asked if she wanted to go with us to a concert at the band shell last night she said no, she had to pack for her return trip.  She brought one small carry-on bag.

My family could be the poster children for dysfunctional families.

My parents always treated my sisters and their revolving families differently than they treated me and mine.  This sister has been married 5 or 6 times, has seven children and thirteen grand children.  My parents raised her first two daughters like they were a replacement family during the time I was raising my daughter.  They never once offered to take care of my daughter at any age, they wouldn’t even come to most of her birthdays.  They never came to see any of the events she was involved in.  They didn’t come to her high school graduation or her college graduation.  I’ve been married once for 29 years with one child but somehow I’ve always been the black sheep of the family.  It makes no sense.

I don’t know if I should say these visits are painful for me but they make me feel bad.  They dredge up these memories and feelings that I really have no use for dredging up.  It does make it painfully clear to me why I never had any self confidence when I was younger.  Nothing I did or was good at interested my parents in the least.  The most I ever got from them was, “that’s nice, IF you’re interested in that sort of thing.” It was painfully obvious they weren’t.

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Although I am sick to death of politics, I keep up with the latest bullshit.  Watching the whole Shirley Sherrod fiasco unfold was quite painful.  The absolutely blatant racism on display from Fox News is rather disturbing but not unexpected.  What’s really pathetic is the Obama administration’s fear of Fox News and Glen Beck and their pathetic attempts to placate them.  So, instead of being a story about a lying sack of shit “reporter” making up a racially charged lie in order to promote right wing fantasies, we get a story about how the white house has no backbone.

Who cares if some innocent person’s life is ruined in the process?

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Tell me something.  Why is it national news that poor little Lindsay Lohan is suffering?  In the VIP section of the county jail with hot tub and other amenities?

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And while you’re at it, tell me how I’m supposed to smile through this toothache at work today after I just got an incredible 12 cent raise last week?  I mean really.  A 12 cent raise is like your boss pissing in your shoes while you’re still in them.

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Where’s the three stooges with a great big mallet to your head for anesthesia?

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