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  • Finally Fall!!!

    Here are some pics I took on the way home from class Tuesday. The leaves are finally changing here!!!!!
    (they're not the best; I was driving when I took them)

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    This is Mario wearing a wreath for a tu-tu. sigh........................

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    You ain't no redneck - you're all Yankee!

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  • So, I've been having fun with my new scanner. I went crazy with the few pictures I have in the apartment....I need to go get some albums from my parent's house. Here are some pics of my sister and I many years ago:

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  • I have to tell you about the crazy shit that happened Thursday night. Mario had a really bad day at work and came home completely stressed out with two bottles of wine. He had just popped the cork on the first bottle when his father called. These are NEVER short conversations. Anyways, his dad is a physician's assistant at Children's Hospital. His specialty is spinal surgery. So, his dad tells him about what happened that day at work: a 10 year-old girl came in to have an operation. Her spine was bent at a 90 degree angle, causing her to walk bent over, facing the floor. She should have had this surgery when she was months old, but her family is poor and didn't have insurance to cover it; Children's did the surgery pro bono. During the surgery, the doctor's discovered that because of her bent-over condition, one of her ribs had grown into and fused to her spine. When they were trying to fix that situation they moved too quickly or something and her spine cracked. The little girl is now paralyzed.

    Ok, so Mario hears this story, gets a bit teary-eyed, and then comes to sit on the couch. He teaches children, if you don't know, so he was just thinking of the girl and was very upset. We started talking about bad things happening to children, and I'm like "I don't care if something happens to a child or an adult, a tragedy is a tragedy. Why is it worse if it happens to a young child? If it happened to a 40 year-old, well they're someone's child, too." Mario starts talking about 'innocence' and stuff like that.

    We decided to just drink and watch TV and forget about the horrible story. So we turn on one of our new favorite shows: Shark (did I mention we have cable now! hel-lo 21st century). So, incase you didn't watch Shark this week, it starts with a beautiful young teenager getting run over by a car. Then her mom comes and sees the body and freaks out. I looked over at Mario and he was not liking this. I was like "Well, let's not watch this, let's watch something funny." I turned on Comedy Central and South Park was on; this should be funny and take our minds off of the paralyzed girl. Alas, the episode was about Stan coaching a Pee Wee hockey team, and one of the players (like, three years-old) has cancer. The sick kid is like "Why does God hate me?" and shit like that.

    We couldn't believe it: we couldn't escape bad things happening to kids. But, we thought, South Park will surely have some big joke at the end to make us feel better, even if it is a sick joke. Well, we were right, there was a joke at the end, but it was pretty sick: The team gets massacred and the kid dies. It would have been really funny if not for the evenings previous occurrences.

    When it ended, we were like "Fuck this!" So we went to Jacob's and did many things to forget what happened. It sort of worked.


  • Remember Katie? No, not this Katy. THIS Katie: Friends 047

    Well, she and I made some candles last night because 1- It was freaking COLD last night and 2- I had just gotten a 26# box of soy wax chips in the mail. (ebay rocks)

    So, we made some fabulous candles......my apartment smells SO good right now. Katie made candles that smell like Spearmint and one like Mulled Cider. I made a Red Velvet Cake candle - it was supposed to just be pink, but I used too much color - and a White Tea & Ginger one. I also made a coffee scented candle for Mario. Here, have a look:

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    Don't you wish you could smell 'em? Yeah, you do.

  • Ceramic deer no match for the real thing

    OOSTBURG, Wis. - A ceramic deer came out the loser when attacked by the real thing. Ruth Hesselink of the town of Holland reported that the deer replica in her yard was destroyed in the attack that happened Sunday about 6:45 p.m., according to Capt. Dave Adams of the Sheboygan County Sheriff's Department.

    Hesselink told authorities a buck took on its ceramic counterpart.

    A deputy who went to the scene found "obvious track marks" that supported Hesselink's account, Adams said Monday.

    Among the damage, the head of the ceramic deer was knocked off.

    When deer are in their fall rutting season, the desire to mate can make bucks more aggressive with other males and less cautious when pursuing does.