thoughts, whims, and delusions of a middle aged mama

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Dying fish, upset children....



Well, I'm in that rut, again....

Wanting to write something profound and all I can think of is talking about my fish dying....

We had bought a large, pretty, orange and white koi a few weeks ago....along with three smaller butterfly koi.....

Turns out that the big girl wasn't all too healthy....

Despite lots of effort and much money on medications, she died on Monday afternoon....

And, as it now turns out, half our fish are sick....with several fungal and bacterial infections....

So today was spent draining about a third of the pond's water, removing all the plants...replacing a couple of hundred gallons along with aloe and stuff to dechlorinate the new water...

Tomorrow we will get medication that is being UPS'd to us and start treating the entire pond.....

Hopefully we won't lose anymore fish....

I know it sounds silly, but I have grown quite attached to some of them....one of the blue shebunkins regularly comes and eats from my hand....
Anyway, I'm feeling kinda sad....
Laurie, my favorite daughter-in-law stopped by with Ethan this afternoon....right in the middle of the pond draining mess....and Ethan promptly picked up Dusty, my 19 yr. old cat, by the throat....poor cat...he's so old and frail he couldn't even muster the strength to scratch or object...he just sorta hung there, captive to a two year old.....and I yelled at him....porr baby...he had no idea that he was hurting the cat.....or that Nana can turn into a monster...now he knows....many tears later....
Then Laurie was bitching about Mike....and me, always wanting to balance things, I pointed out a couple of Laurie's areas of issue....like nit picking about money to the point that Mike is less than candid with her....Oh Lord!!!....wrong thing to tell Laurie....she left here in tears, threatening suicide, homicide, general genocide of all things male, except Ethan....
On the lighter side....Becka had two seizures on Sat. morning and we immediately started her on the valium protocol and it worked!!!!!!....she was stoned out of her gourd for three days but no more seizures!!!!....it broke the cluster!!!!
Well, gotta go fix something for supper.....
NOT fish!!!!!!!

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Better picture of Tai.....


I took this when Tai was visiting....
I like this one so much more than the more "contrived" ones Josh has taken...
she really is an extrodinarily pretty young woman.....
She's coming to visit again on the 4th of July....Maybe we'll both be a little less nervous and a little less judgmental!!!!
We'll see...
I really want to like her...hell, anyone who can keep Josh from drinking is "A" okay in my book!!!!!
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Our new "Post Racism" political world

I don’t know if you’d call it racism, or not, but the ‘issue’ of race in this election has never been so apparent, at least to me, as when all of the brou-ha-ha over the guest priest at Obama’s church broke out.

I’m white, female, middle-class, reasonably educated, and I thought the man was funny as hell. I also thought the newscasters and pundits were out of their minds making such a fuss over it….And when Obama was put into the awful position of having to denounce the man, I abjectly realized how far apart we still are concerning ‘color’ in our society.

Obama got it….the humor….and he also ‘got it’ that the man was making commentary about global attitudes and not Hillary, specifically…it was ‘black-inside-humor’…not intended for the uninitiated….yet he had to pretend it was something it wasn’t….and denounce what he had to pretend it was…what a load of crap that is…but it is the reality of being ‘post racism’…..

Clearly most journalist’s and newscaster’s sense of humor is ‘pigment challenged’. And those who are themselves persons of color, get caught in this horrible web of having to pretend to be ‘pigment challenged’ because it just isn’t politically correct, or economically safe, to be too ‘black’…….
So we all pretend….and in the meantime, a good man, who has a very funny, George Carlinesque, sense of humor, got hurt by the reality of our ‘post racism’ world….Which, from my perspective, is still dominated by the accents, speech patterns, mores, and yes, sense of humor, of the wonder-bread class…..

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First I am a mother, and grandmother....that is probably the single most important aspect of my life. Then I am a family advocate for a large, national advocacy organization. I work primarily in "systems advocay", helping to identify needs and change policies in children's behavioral health. And I love my dogs, my garden, my pond and fish, and trashy murder mysteries and the occasional shot of good scotch.... Fell free to post a note in whatever the most recent entry is...I love meeting new people!

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