Sinister: that's what i like about you

[Christine Irene]

that song....what i like about you...by the
romantics....it's on the radio right now.  i don't
really like that song very much.

ah well.  the weekend was riddled with mayhem.  my
goodness.  tornadoes everywhere.  winds upwards of 50
mph.  cold.  rainy.  ick.  


saturday i worked for an hour or two...then
went...don't remember what i did to be honest.  ah
well.  i guess it musn't have been too exciting.

yesterday i met my family for breakfast. i intended on
meeting them for 8:30 mass...my tummy had a different
agenda apparently becuase when i woke up on sunday
morning, my stomach was swollen, more than it has been
in a long time.  none of my clothes fit me and i
wanted to die.  i am thinking i should just bite the
bullet, go ahead and schedule my endoscopy.  at this
point, what difference will an additional $7,000 in
debt really make?  i dunno.  i really don't want to
have these episodes though....they really aren't fun.
so yes, breakfast.  met for breakfast and everyone
pestered me about why i wasn't eating.
then i went to my brothers house (again) and he fixed
my car (again).  i am hoping that the car behaves for
awhile.  i also bought a l'il (foot)(soccer) ball air
freshener  :o)  

after that, i went to my cousin kelly's house.  we
don't really ever see one another as we both tend to
avoid large family gathering type situations.  i love
my family....i guess...most of them anyway.  my aunt
kathy i could do without....grrrrrrr......

so we had a nice time.  

the insane storms of the weekend and the
aforementioned wind storms brought some sadness. 
well, lots of it i s'pose.  there is this giant pine
tree that has been in my gram's yard for over 40
years.  the wind blew it over.  can you believe that? 
crazy.  luckily it didn't hurt anyone, or the house,
but it is sad to think of that big ol' tree not being
there anymore :o)

ah well.  i s'pose those things happen don't they.
trees fall...people fall....people die....trees give
us oxygen.  i dunno.

perhaps many of you had read/heard about this high
school girls scandal.  there is a tradition amongst
the suburban chicago girls in their junior and senior
years in high school, to participate in a "Powder
Puff" football (american footbal...gridiron, if you
will :o) game.  last weekend a group of girls held
this years game at a local forest preserve as the
school no longer sponsers it.  in lieu of playing a
game, the lovely senior class members, proceeded to
hit, kick, and beat on the junio girls.  in addition
to throwing pig fecal matter, some sort of animal
intestines, and a slew of equally disgusting matter,
onto the underclassman.  some of the girls parents
were thoughtful enough to supply them with alcohol
(which is illegal...must be 21 to buy, drink, or serve
anything alcoholic in IL).  smart girls, recorded the
whole thing.  several of them, i want to say 10?  had
to go the hospital, get stitches and a series of other
things.

i dunno.  maybe i'm naive.  maybe i am old.  maybe i
am turning into one of those people who say "when i
was younger, we never would have done such things."  

honestly though, i don't think we would have.  even
the most popular kids in my school left the least
popular alone.  i participated in powder puff at my
school...we never did anything even remotely like
that.  no organs thrown on anyone, no bodily fluids,
aside from sweat perhaps, and we just played.  we had
fun.  we didn't try to beat or mame or humiliate
anyone else.  weird.

the girls who did the beating, throwing, etc, are
facing criminal charges as well as discipline from
their high school..even though it was off school
grounds on a saturday.  the parents who supplied the
alcohol are going to be in shit loads of trouble as
well.

people are so crazy.

hoping things are more sane in your neck of the
woods...

~stine

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