i'm crazy? honey, i'm the original one-eyed chicklet in the kingdom of the blind

So I took the kid to the store to get cat food. When we got back and he wanted to help feed them was the first time I realized that in a short couple of years I will be able to foist this duty off on him on a permanent basis. er, hold please – he is in the kitchen telling himself that he is doing a great job . . . no worries he was just watching the cats eat and if they knocked food out he was putting it back in the dish. ya just never know what a toddler considers a great job.

So anyway, we are at the store – walmart – now I know that comedians have asked this question before but as yet I haven’t heard an answer – what freaking criteria do they use to determine how many parking spaces should be handicapped??? I mean are there ever really gonna be 24 handicapped people at walmart at the same time??

Carl and malachai are building with blocks this morning and I hear this

Malachai: no, don’t knock it over

Carl: well, you knocked over my house

I just talked to cathy. My friend who has cancer. It is stage four breast cancer that is in her brain; bones; liver and lungs. it's fucked. we didn't speak for nearly fifteen years and then ran into each other at a mutual friends 40th. i told carl i shoulda just not spoken to her. sorry; that's my attempt at humor but i fear it won't translate well for everyone, huh? in 98 stage 4 held a 20 percent chance of survival and 10 years later - it's gotta be better, right? i hadn't asked her before where she was living. turns out she is living on the street that gideon lived on in high school. i don't know exactly why i find that weird but i do. i do know i really don't want to play this game.

so tonight the kid says, out of nowhere "okay, bye" i said "bye. where are you going" and he walks over to the door and says "i'm going to yoga" "oh, well, that sounds like fun" then he takes a second, reconsiders and starts walking back and says "now where are my keys" :)

remember a while back there was all this hub-bub about an snl skit that was supposedly pulled off the air. well, my father sends it to me and it's the one that is poking fun at democrats. this one http://www.blogcatalog.com/search.frame.php?term=snl%20bailout%20skit&id=f18ef0623693720d92d1f7a7007cd78e

only that wasn't the one. the one that was the subject of controversy is this one - warning; it is about the big 3 bail out so if that is going to upset you . . . . http://www.blogcatalog.com/search.frame.php?term=snl%20bailout%20skit&id=39685366be19a0f38881217b34d0cd51

my point in including it is again the whole republican/conservative spin. it's just annoying. my 'sister-in-law' has been sending the following tag on her emails "be a liberal . . . rewrite the past, lie about the present, offer nothing for the future!" what can i say, i got annoyed i replied "be a conservative . . . lie about the past, fuck up the present and ride everyone in the middle class' back into the future" what can i say - i've just about had it.

honestly, i've just about had it with a number of things - to finish what i started . . .

cuz at least i admit the world makes me nuts!