Another Slice of Funny, Part One…this Funny, I&II are for Rootie especially!

Okay, study this map  (there will be no quiz later, but yes, it will come into play…)

Click to enlarge if needed, but the pink  indicates places within the US I have lived for, oh, more than 6 months.  You may, aside from one wayward state there, note a theme amid those places, and if you have ever lived in the state that seems wayward, you will know that, in fact, that wayward state is not so wayward.  As an officer of the law from said state once said unto Ernest after a bar brawl  “Well son, a bunch of people who really didn’t need a reason went and got drunk”…  Oh, and America’s Wang there?  I did not live in the Southern Half of it. 

So yes, note the pink.  Part II will come after I have stopped laughing and composed my thoughts a bit more on the matter.  I do warn however that nasty sarcasm and such might be flowing like cheap whiskey at a Road House….

Medical Pregame Show…

Okay, yah, so 3/11 is – should all go well- knife in neck day.  Prior to that, however, say, oh, Friday, is the filing of the flight plan and all that as it were.  I go to my regular doc for blood work, the EKG, all that good stuff that says  “Ok, she’s HEALTHY….CUT HER OPEN!” Then I go to the neck doc to sign all the forms that say why yes, I know what she is doing, and why yes I realize that since I am being put under I may not wake up, why yes, I realize that this may not turn out as great as we all hope, blah blah blah.    And the joy here is….this is one of possibly more than one surgery.  Gah.  Oh, and because it is my neck, and you know, that is a hard place on your body NOT to move, after the surgery, I am prolly gonna have to wear one of those whip-lash collars until the stitches come out.  Grrrrr.  Oh!  OH YEAH!  AND, chances are….post surgery…I will need more shots!  So YES, round TWO of magic stabby game!

This is one of those things where I thank all that is sane or holy that I have a sense of humor.  For real.  I am hoping (perhaps unrealistically) that all of this is said and done…I mean all of it….by July of 2010….you know, like the official 2 year aniversary of the actual burn. 

In other news…well, in my attempt to stop smoking I am down from about a pack and a half a day to about a pack every three days, so at least it is progress.