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Two Ton Tony Tomatillo is having dental work. I don't have children and I don't have a cavity, yet I will be spending $500.00 for a cleaning and extraction on my flabby tabby. I told him to floss!!! Bad kitty! :)

This weekend, I visited my folks in Olympia. I was wearing a tank top because it was hot. My little two year old niece, Regan, came up to me and pointed to my breasts and said "BOOBS!!!" Yes, I said, those are my boobs. Then she said it again: "Boobs". Again: "Boobs". I said, "look at the kitty cat! Look at the toy mousie on the floor". "Kitty cat, mousie, boobs." At this point, I said, "Yes, these are my boobs and considering where your genetic make up comes from, you'll have a pair of your own someday." She replied, "Boobs".

My friend Marcella's boyfriend returned from Afghanistan with a mangled leg. He is vacillating between keeping it and staying in pain, or loosing it and getting a state of the art prosthetic limb. He is 25 years old. My father is 67 and with a paralyzed leg with the sympathetic nerve system still in tact so he's in constant agony and he is considering loosing his leg. They are not my legs, yet I am so sure I want them both to let go of their limbs to gain freedom. How can I be so sure?

I just finished reading "Reading Lolita in Tehran". It is currently my favorite book. More on this in a different post.

James, I haven't forgotten our debate. I have been fighting a cold. A real disgusting, phlegmy cold.

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