I am alive!

Alive!

I have eaten two meals today and both meals stayed where they were supposed to! This is exceptional news!

I spent the day in bed, hoping to survive. I got up around 3 to eat something and the soup I had stayed down. Then later I had some pizza (I know, a big jump but I WAS STARVING), and that made me feel a little yuck but I think it was all that food at once. I now feel okay.

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In side news, something is disturbing me and I feel that it is time to out my feelings. I called my Sister the other day over this very thing and made her promise, PROMISE not to succumb to the peer pressure, ever. No matter if someone else pushed her, to never succumb.

Any ideas?

I am sick and tired and even more sick and tired of every minivan and SUV on the Godforsaken Northside of Indianapolis being adorned with little stickers showing children and/or sports with each child's name.

I mean, seriously folks, do you truly believe anyone on earth, aside from your immediate family gives a raging shit that 'Susie' is a gymnast, 'Joe' is a soccer boy or 'Annalise' is a cheerleader? Seriously?

I find it interesting that in an age where we are so concerned with safety and the safety of our children that people willingly advertise their children's names and their sports. Don't you think (as I do) that this is a safety issue? Why not invite child molesters to follow your minivan home, I mean, hell, they already know what your kids are involved in and what their names are -- why not give them a house key too?

As I live on the northside, you might imagine I see these every day. Yes, I do. Every Damn Day I am behind a minivan, monster SUV or other oversized vehicle with these stupid stickers on them. I am beginning to think this is a sign of the apocalypse. Or perhaps just a sign of overwhelming stupidity.

As a related but not direct thing, I am also 'over' the whole 'In Memory Of' thing on the back of cars with people's names on them. I get that you miss your relative, friend, whathaveyou, but do the people driving these cars honestly believe they are honoring the memory of that person by putting a sticker on a car? A disposable item with a limited lifespan? Why not put that person's name on a gift to charity, a scholarship fund or perhaps a gift to a local park? WTF? Since WHEN is it honoring a person through a STICKER?

Let me say this now: if I kick off, if any of you, I mean ANY of you put my name on a sticker on the back of your car, I am haunting your ass. Yep, full-on poltergeist activity with door slamming, cover-pulling, cold-chill passing, the whole nine yards. It will not cease until the offending sticker is removed. If you feel so compelled to honor me, give to charity or give time to charity. Or just share a round of brewskis and have some laughs. Whatever. Just no fucking stickers, okay?