Two headed babies, dying plants, and the best gift in a long time...
Where to start....how about the fact that I hate December....I will have finals the rest of my life and they will always be around this time. There is never enough money for christmas presents and somehow most of my family has no clue what to get me.
Lets start with my family. It will go like this; Mother, Hortons, and then the father's side.
My stepfather has congestive heart failure. He has just won a settlement for disability for about five years back payment. We're talking a large chunk of change. He sent five thousand out to my mother. We're talking a high six digit settlement and he can only send that to my mother for the kids. With the money came a stipulation. He would get to see the kids for a week. Well the divorce decree states that he can only have supervised visits so my mother would have to go with them. I couldn't go with her because I can honestly say that I would attempt if not succeed at killing him. So this is hell. And my mother is there right now.
Did you know I hate my mother's mother? Her name is Rita Loy. She is the second worse person I have ever known in my life. She has spent every moment with me telling me how horrible my parents are. I would feel sorry for the fact that the only person she had ever loved died except for the fact that she has deprived so many of love that isn't hard to show. Okay. Now on to Rita Loy's brother, TC. He has been paralized from the waist down and has to a degree brain damage in the memory area. Rita Loy hates TC. He was the youngest and the only boy of three children. Their parents lavished him with love and affection while the girls, Rita Loy and Sharron apparently felt neglected. So now that their parents are dead, the sisters (specifically Rita Loy) are taking their anger out on TC. For Christmas Rita Loy went up to Colorado with her son Jim, other daughter Clair, and Clair's husaband Sam. Sharron went with her husband, daughter and family to their house out in Hawaii. Both sisters refused to let TC have the money to fly out to Kentucky to spend Christmas with his daughter and her new baby. Their reason; he went out there in November for the birth of his first grandchild. So he was left up at the family ranch out in Cedar Crest. No family, just alone. My mother swooped in and helped him host the first party he's ever had in his life.
Okay, now dad and that side. A cousin that my grandmother is close with sent me a card. To be specific, she sent me the exact card that I sent her for Christmas last year. I know it's mine because I signed the inside with a sharpie last year. The only difference is the hot pink post it note on the front.
My grandmother had her friends come over for Christmas dinner. I went up to Powdrell's to get her barbeque for this meal. She told me to get extra for us to freeze. She had her dinner. There were left overs. Then they came over again tonight to eat the left overs. Now there is little left for freezing.
My dad sent me a card with my Christmas present. Now, most know I live in the same house as my grandmother. My dad failed to send a card to his mother.
Okay, now on to the two headed baby. Remember the post I put up about parasitic fetuses? Well this is a step farther. Imagine that conjoined twins begin to form but something goes wrong and one of the twins only partially forms. The twins are connected at the head and one twin only has a head. No organs, no limbs, nothing but a perfectly formed head with a brain. Now it is considered parasitic because it is using the blood and heart of the other twin. But, it has it's own emotion, it's own fully formed brain and responds to stimulus. It cries when the other twin is asleep, it suckles. By my belief, this parasitic twin could very well have a soul because it has a brain. But only three cases have lived past delivery. One lived on for several years as a side show. One died from uncontrollable bleeding after having the surgery to remove the parasitic twin. And the last one survived completely but did have brain damage. So, I ask the questions again. Is it abortion? What does religion say? In the case that survived the surgery, the family lived in Egypt and the mother reference the Koran, so it goes to say she is Islamic. What would you choose for fate?