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I sit here in a

I sit here in a hospital waiting room waiting for my friend to come out of the surgery that has taken away her ability to ever give life again. She is only 26.

This surgery was not her first choice, but an inevitable one after the years of pain that she has went through. She will come out a stonger person physically from this, because she will not be sick and in pain all of the time. She will also be a better mom to the 2 year old son that she, thankfully, does have. She needed to take care of herself instead of playing the waiting game of "what if..".

Her son came at an inoportune time in her life, she was young and unmarried and not with the father any longer. However, he has turned into such a blessing in her life, because she has been able to experience the joy of motherhood that she possibly would have missed if he hadn't come along when he did, since there was little doubt that her condition would worsen to the point it did.

Her surgery comes the same week that I went to my doctor for my regular dose pregnancy prevention that I choose to take - I choose not to have a child now. I have that option. I can always have another baby at a later time - if I want to. She doesn't have that option anymore. I try to imagine what it would be like to know that I could never have a child again, instead of just not having one now, and I can't - or maybe I just don't want to.

I am not some big pro-lifer, I am definitely pro-choice, however, today I am sad that my friend will never have the chance to make that choice again.

Today is October 17th......which means

Today is October 17th...

...which means it is time for the start of the annual annoyance countdown - also known as "Only 30 more shopping days until Paula's birthday".

That's right, my birthday, (November 17th to be exact), is just around the corner, so I like to give everyone fair warning so that my gifts can be well thought out and not just last minute, gas station check-out kinda gifts, so plan accordingly. If anyone needs any kind of assistance this year, feel free to ask me for any suggestions, or feel free to ask my friends, Tammee or Kelli, who I am sure are not busy doing anything else for me right now {smirk}.

Thank you for your attention to this extremely important matter.
(This public service announcement has been entirely tounge-in-cheek. And as fair warning, since I turn 30 this year, sadly this will be the final year for the countdown - so let's just make this one count, okay?)

Attention Techs!!If I am calling

Attention Techs!!

If I am calling tech support, there is probably a problem and the last thing I need is to be grossed out and ickified by smiley faces and bu-bye's from a service tech. Just fix the problem and don't make me feel like I need to take a shower afterwards.

I'm okay, you're just sociophobic.When

I'm okay, you're just sociophobic.

When you wanna know what some of the more bizarre things people can be spooked by, check out this list of phobias. BTW, the people who would do the thing from the last post are definitely not urophobic.

ewwwww.....Somehow this doesn't really reassure

ewwwww.....

Somehow this doesn't really reassure me.