Cheap Thrills

1. When you are sad, I will jump on the person who made you sad
like a spider monkey jacked up on Mountain Dew!!!


2. When you are blue, I will try to dislodge whatever is choking you.


3. When you smile, I will know you are plotting something that I must be involved in.


4. When you're scared, we will high tail it out of here.


5. When you are worried, I will tell you horrible stories about how much worse
it could be until you quit whining, ya big baby!!!!


6. When you are confused, I will… Continue

Made it through Thanksgiving & Christmas without too much trouble. I mean, it was sad and sometimes it really hurt but, I did get closer with a lot of my wife's family. I've known these people for years and never really was that close to them, even though I had seen most of them grow up, get married, have kids and helped bury their grandparents and parents and even one of my wife's sons, my stepson's younger brother. I spent half my life with my wife, but never expected to be spending the en… Continue

Seems I was warned about all this. My doctor/psychologist had told on my last visit there, that the holidays were pretty much going to be rough to get through. Well, he was right. It's not even Thanksgiving yet and I'm starting to get those down feelings.

Even though we never traditionally had Thanksgiving dinner at our house and it's always been at my sister's, because she has a bigger house. The memories of being with my wife on that day have begun to weigh on me. I guess after 24 years of do… Continue

After months of begging and pleading with him to get on disability, my brother is finally home. Two guys he works with drove him up last week. He's still having vision problems and his walking has become much worse than mine. He's been on one of the treatments for MS almost three years now and though the drug is supposed to slow down progression of the disease, he only looks worse for the whole ordeal of giving himself an injection once a week. I was on the same drug for a year and the night I t… Continue

So, it finally is going to happen. I just found out today, the company my brother works for doesn't want him returning to work after his last episode. I'm sure he's devastated by the news, but it's for his own good. His friend Pete that also works with him even took his car keys away from him because his vision is really screwed up and has been for the past few days.
To say the least our parents are happy. They worry about him all the time because they really don't get to see him that much and t… Continue