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My aunt is going through a rough time right now.  She is diabetic so I can't really send my favorite remedies of cookies and/or ice cream.  She has more than enough flowers.  I'd write her a nice letter or send her a nice card, but she is illiterate!  (I can write in her native language but she can't read that either.)  My friend gave me a creative idea to make her laugh.  One thing that everyone in my family finds funny is the picture I posted in the last entry.  It's not only funny for the slapstick part of it, but because I was being such a brat (not much has changed in 25 years) that I really had it coming.  Everyone who was there snickers when they remember it.

Anyway, I had 30 of those pictures printed and I have been wandering around taking pictures of people holding them and laughing.  We're going to a convention that will have a lot of costumed people, and guess what?  That picture is going, too.  I also plan on photoshopping people that she likes holding the picture (JFK, Kenny Rogers the Detroit Tiger and Kenny Rogers the singer) maybe even some vintage cartoon characters will be added.

If anyone wants in on this, I can send you one of the pictures (I promise not to do anything too diabolical with your address,) or you can print one yourself and send me a picture of yourself with the picture.  I won't post anyone's picture if they would prefer to keep it offline.

When I return from the convention, I want to gather the photos and print them a s photo book to give to her by surprise.  There is no timeline for this project because I intend to randomly send her pictures forever after this just to be funny.  I love my aunt and other than calling her from 10 hours away and visiting her when I can, I am left with little gestures to let her know that I am thinking about her.

I'll update this post as this project continues...

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I like to watch these conversations from these two extremists.  It is almost like watching a Jerry Springer episode without worrying that someone's trailer is going to get repo'd.  (What!?  My payments on this piece of aluminum finery are current!)

I like to find viewpoints that I feel are widly different because it gives me a chance to think about things that I often take for granted.

Besides the idea of taking so many pictures so that you don't have to talk so much is a cool idea.  Too bad, I bricked that camera I got a couple of years ago and am busted back down to snapping pics with the cellphone.  It's just as well.  I couldn't master the point and shoot anyway.

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My biggest concern is that people are so reactionary that we'll destroy the earth in trying not to destroy the earth.  That move from oil to electricity is a smart one (get it?)  It reminds me of how incredibly brutal we can be by trying to be "humane."  Look at all of the methods for executing a person we've come up with because the other methods are cruel and unusual.  Priceless.

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Things just got started...

Last night, my husband and I had to put our dog to sleep.  After 17 years of being quite possibly the cutest, most annoying, smelly, stubborn, and funny creature on this planet she's passed on.  She's been suffering from painful arthritis for over a year.  No one calling themselves her best friend would allow it to continue after it culminated the way it has this week.

She was deeply loved and will be sorely missed (maybe not by the squirrels in the yard.)

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"I am going to be spending this glorious season in Hyboria impaling the unworthy and bathing in the blood of my enemies" gets the raised eyebrow and quiet avoidance that I was hoping for thanks to my Dell XPS 420, nVidia 8600, 4gb of RAM gaming rig.  I hate Thanksgiving.  The only good thing about it is the Detroit Lions game.  I don't like turkey, there is nothing on TV other than said game, hardly anything is open, and those people who call themselves your 'loved ones' insist on spending time with you.  So thank you Funcom for helping me come up with a very gruesome and offputting excuse to avoid all of that.

Christmas is acceptable because it involves reindeer and sometimes cake.  If people really wanted to do something great for me at Christmas, they would get me a video card that would allow me to see all of the brutal atrocities that I commit in Age of Conan and actually let me play it!  I would be more than happy to do the same for you. :)

Thank you for your congratulations on our new president, but seriously butt out.

If you care so much about it, move here.  When other countries have craptastic leaders, I just don't go there.  It's that easy.  I didn't vote for Obama, but I hope I am given cause to do so next time, and oh yes, there will be a next time!

I say that with a bit of an evil laugh because I was watching him on TV yesterday and I swear he looked older.  We were joking that he had just been fully briefed.  If the man had any sense, he would make his escape to Tahiti now.  (You know he's thinking 'Oh, @*#$ what did I do?')

Anyway, people are happy and I am as well.  If you don't live here, I could really care less what you think about it.  The only policy decision another country has made that makes me want to bang a drum and march in the streets about is the UK's decision to remove the parts about the genocide that the Nazis were commiting from their history cirriculum.  I think it is absolute BS, but I don't live there, so it really isn't my business.  If they want to be dumbasses, they are free to do so just like I am free not to send kids to school there.  (Too bad because our education system is screwed 8 ways from Sunday.)

I like to think of myself as politically neutral.  I think this whole election nonsense is such a joke that I am voting for McCain just to amuse myself because if he wins, it would be funny if he called Vietnam and said "It's back on, Charlie!"  Tasteless, I know but it's still funny.  Obama is not funny.  There is nothing funny about him.  Sarah Silverman's www.thegreatschlep.com is hysterical, but unless Obama wrote it, he still isn't funny.

That being said, I still make lots of fun of both candidates and their runningmates because I think they are all wastes of human material.  The writers of South Park are right...  Our choice is between a turd sandwich and a giant douche.  You don't want either of them, but you gotta pick one.

So, my hubby and I were discussing last night's debate on my way to the Metro.  Mr. Miller is a staunch conservative and really really doesn't want Obama to win.  He also thinks Biden is a piece of crap (right on, man.)  He was getting mad that I was kind of making fun of some things that Palin said and he gets on his soapbox and starts going on and on about how Palin is the most like us, blah blah blah...  As you can tell, I just can't keep my mouth shut, so I said "I like to think that I would be smart enough to close my legs after the second or third kid."  So Pikachu, Hello Kitty, and I will be sleeping on the couch if he hasn't changed the locks yet.  I think I saw Hello Kitty wearing a McCain pin...  OK, Pikachu and I need a place to crash...