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Why is it that the news I get on the frigging Comedy Network is actually closer to
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CoCo Update

Sad to report that CoCo has had a complication from her spaying. She is mute. It's been four days and I am concerned for her. She pitifully looks up at me and moves her mouth like a meow and nothing comes out. At the very end of her vocal attempt is a little "chortle" or tiny retch like sound.

The vet offered no immediate answers. Just wait a few days and see if she gets better. Some animals are more sensitive. Of course that doesn't ease my worries. I've told CoCo's story to everyone within my circle of people and no one has had this happen before.

Also I've done at least 400 google searches and found no other cat in a situation similar to CoCo's. I did manage to scare myself with horrible stories of cats who have had intubations go

wrong on the table. I am also aware now just how small and sensitive that airway is...and how easily it can be damaged.

On the bright side, other than the muteness, she bounced back fine from the actual surgery. It breaks my heart to see her try to meow, though.

The Sunday Morning Muse, March 8, 2009

"Pray for good, look for worse,"
Aunt Millie preached as she
walked to church
in her blue dress,
carrying her pocketbook.

Overweight and bow-legged
down the highway
and over the hill.

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Her mantra is as applicable today as it was then. In the 1980's Millie was enjoying her retirement. It wasn't a great time economically here. The Steel industry was going bust, and also the pottery where she spent 40 years of her life would soon also go belly up. But Millie spent her days in good spirits. She attended to odd jobs at the house, or puttered in the garden, ending the afternoon on the porch with a few beers. She never had all that much, but it didn't matter to her. The things she DID have are what counted. I came across her old bible recently. In the front, on a blank page, I saw the beginnings of her last will and testament. Her short list of belongings included, of all things..... her roaster. I can't imagine too many wills mention a roaster. It must have meant a lot to her.

Sweet-- Ballroom Blitz

I am embarrassed but I will admit.... I did Karaoke to this song one time. The DJ said no one had ever tried it before then.

"Oh, I see a man at the back
As a matter of fact---his eyes are red as the sun
And a girl in the corner let no one ignore her
'Cause she thinks SHE'S the passionate one....

Ohhhhhh yeah!"

Muppet News Flash

Keeping You Informed... HUGE ASTEROID MISSES EARTH

The week could have started a whole lot differently. You could have went to sleep Sunday night and never woke up. Most people don't even realize what a close call our planet had with a huge asteroid. The same size as the Siberian one in 1908 that everyone still talks about.


I thought it odd that the asteroid story was only about 10 seconds long last night on the evening news, and it was inserted way at the end of the newscast.


I find this especially strange in the age of Hyped News.
Certainly a lead in could have been written to draw people away from reruns of Everbody Loves Raymond....hmmm, let me see. How about HUGE ASTEROID BARELY MISSES EARTH... film at 11.
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We should have had Bruce Willis on Standby at least, if needed to reprize his role in Armageddon.

Free Advice

"I'm getting rid of a cold," that's the response you should give when someone inquires. It's all about mindset. (man to woman in a restaurant)

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I loved the simplicity of this when I heard it. Why not give it a try? It can't hurt. Gives the impression you have power over the cold instead of it controlling you. Haven't you heard people who just give up? You know the type. "I am soooo sick," they say as they hack and snort, "I've always had these sinus infections this time of year and it'll probably last 3 weeks....and THAT's if I'm lucky... You'll see.. by Friday it will be in my chest... and I'll need antibiotics....and... one year I had pneumonia..."

A New Earth- Eckhart Tolle

I am re-reading A New Earth, and to my astonishment, I'm really getting it this time. (When the student is ready... the teacher appears...)

Anyhow, the story of the duck resonated with me. Isn't it soooo true? Shaking off the negative (and all those emotions that well up inside) and simply moving on with your life. Not carrying around all that negativity and replaying it over and over again. Making the people around you miserable as well. It's all ego stuff. I am becoming so much aware of Ego centered behaviors and the unhappy consequences of them. It is difficult to beat the ego back at times, but it all starts with awareness. Some people never get past even that stage, the awareness that you, inside, are not these negative thoughts. You are the person who is thinking them again and again. And you can change your thoughts.

Can you look past "being right" (making someone else wrong) and choose something different instead? Like getting on with the next moment in your life?

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The Sunday Morning Muse, March 1, 2009

Sunshine and 18 degrees on this first of March, but it's amazing the optimism that has sprung forth. January and February.... DONE. Next week the clocks change, so the days will get longer. The lawn and garden sections of stores have started opening up...and there, not far from the freshly stocked Easter stuff, sit the gnomes waiting to go home to gardens and patios all over the land.
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I'm not a gnome owner myself. But if the right one crosses my path, I may get one to replace the two frogs that perished here last year. The Yard Guy who comes to cut the grass whacked the heads off both of them with the weed wacker. I didn't say anything, because they were not big frogs, and were obviously obscured by weeds... so it wasn't a big deal. But a gnome will gain more respect from the Yard Guy, who certainly won't miss a red pointed hat sticking up, even if the weeds around the place do get a bit high.