Living In The Shadow Of My Life

"Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them." - John Updike

I survived Mother's Day and a visit to my parents.

B and I finally got a chance to spend some time together last night. B's mother seems to be improving but will be in the hospital until the end of next week.  Her recovery is going to take some time. With his mother in the hospital for an extended period of time, B will have a new roommate for the next 3 weeks, his father....hahahahaha.  I had to talk him off the ledge yesterday after going a couple rounds with his dad at the hospital. B had to do a quick job to de-fag his apartment before his dad arrived.  His dad is an old school type of guy and has questioned every purchase B has made.  It's to the point where his dad is telling him to stop wasting money on bottled water.  These little things push B to the breaking point.

All in all it was good to see him and spend some time together.  He feels guilty when he is not at the hospital, but since his mother is in ICU the visiting hours are limited.  We will have to enjoy the limited time we have together until his mother is in the clear.
 
Quick Reminder

Mother's Day is Sunday.

Mothers cannot do it all
But surely do they try.

Mothers hear the angel's call,
To comfort all who cry.

Mothers for themselves may fall,
For others they will fly.

Mother's bear the weight of all,
For their children, they would die.

A Mother's gift extends beyond
All bounds of time and space.

Her lovingness and nurturing
Make Earth a peaceful place.
 

"Appreciation can make a day - even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary." - Margaret Cousins 

Happy Birthday Ballistik

It is now time for our weekly tornado warning...........

 
Happy Birthday
fattastic & thyesc

"Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do." - Kahlil Gibran

GRAFENWOHR, Germany -- Legislation that would restrict the sale of certain men's magazines on U.S. military bases around the world would be bad for morale, according to soldiers at Grafenwohr.

U.S. Rep. Paul Broun, R-GA [right], has introduced legislation that would close a loophole in the current law that allows the sale of some sexually explicit material on military bases by lowering the threshold required to deem material "sexually explicit."

A Department of Defense committee that reviews materials sold on bases ruled last year that magazines such as Playboy and Penthouse are not pornographic. But Broun's Military Honor and Decency Act includes language that could make those magazines eligible for the ban. The prospect of missing out on men's magazines was not welcomed by soldiers at Grafenwohr.

"We all read 'em," said Pfc. Paul Rubio, 31, of Bakersfield, Calif. "There are times we just read 'em for the technological parts like the new gadgets that come out. They have good stories sometimes too." Sgt. Simon Brown, 34, of Daytona Beach, Fla., said men's magazines build morale. "It's not all about the pictures, although 80 percent of it is," he said.

Send them to fight an obscene war, but don't let them read "obscene" magazines. 

(via joe.my.god blog)

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." - Helen Keller