All hail the foetus!

Read an article on Salon.com today about a family guy who innocently took pictures of his kids, some of them naked, whilst on a family camping trip. Then had them developed at Eckerd Drugs. BIG PROBLEMS ensued, as the Eckerd employee reported the "pornographic" pictures to the local police.

Enter a year and a half of hell for the family and their friends and relatives.

Even worse, I read another article today on Alternet...about how some southern Senator wants to make it a crime for a pregnant woman to smoke cigarettes.

What's going on here? Since when do the rights of a glob of cells supercede mine? My parents have pictures of me and my sister bare-ass naked on baby blankets when we were babies. Are they pornographers? Would they pass the Eckerd's test? Remind me never to shop at Eckerd's again.

I am sick to death of how child centered this society is becoming.

Children don't enjoy greater rights than I do. They enjoy the same. That's it.

$42.50

Is what it cost yesterday to fill my car with gas. This is a '97 Ford Taurus. Geez. $85 a week to drive to a job I can't stand. Hmmmmmmm.........

So glad I don't have an SUV.

Let's see...I could stay home, keep my house clean, exercise, cook, read, do art, volunteer...if I didn't work. I would also have no money...which makes the world go around. But I'd only need $1.05 for my morning coke. Hmmmmm.......Dan just got promoted, so I think he could afford it.

Big Kerfuffle on the blue line(the El, the subway) this afternoon..one car of of an 8 car train derailed, caught on fire, and filled the tunnel with smoke. Since 8 trains were bombed this AM in India...the first thing everyone thought was terrorism. At this time...it's just a de-railment. Harrowing for the passengers, nonetheless. Dan called me, kind of panicked, even though he was on the Metra. I just told him to get his ass out of there....you never know, these days.

The Fireworks that are my Teeth.....

I finally got up the nerve to go to the dentist for the first time in about 10 years. One of my front teeth was abcessing, so I figgered it might be time to see someone. Dentist agreed and said "out with it" and 2 others. So, last Monday I had 3 teeth pulled. A few more have to go, he said, and "they're just waiting to explode." Yay. So now, I am missing my 2 front teeth, which probably suits my heritage(Hillbilly outta Kentucky)just fine, but I don't care for the look myself. I have a temporary dental appliance called a flipper, on the way. So soon I'll look like a Yankee again.

Oddly enough, there was no post-extraction pain. Which means I now have a nice stash of Darvocet. I also have to decide whether or not I want implants or partial dentures. Gaaaak to both, and I'm having trouble deciding. Dentures are disgusting, and so is the thought of someone drilling into my jawbone.

Then we start on the long and expensive road of getting the periodontal disease under control, and replacing missing teeth. Saving the ones we can, and getting rid of the ones we can't. See kids, when you don't go to the dentist for a long, long time because you don't like pain, your teeth will become painful, and you'll have to go to the dentist.....the circle becomes vicious quickly.