"Rode Hard And Put Up Wet" & H8
Rode hard and put up wet.
Michael used to say that all the time.
I never really understood it. Now I do.
This morning with the pain pills worn off, I am feeling my canoeing adventure in an intense way. My knees (the righty and the lefty, the ones that were sunburned a couple of days ago) and sore and stiff, and both still have impressive "goose eggs". My right ankle is a little tender and since that whole leg is cut up from my big toe to my knee, I am favoring my left leg, which at first wasn't giving me problems I think because yesterday most of the pain was in my right leg and that was receiving my attention. Both of my hands have also swelled up and in fact I had to take my wedding band off. My shoulder is killing me.
My mom is giving me the day off from her list and has gone to the store to get a couple more Thesauruses (that is waaaaaaaaay too many S's for me! Thesari??) for the bookbags and a few more things that the kids need. Tomorrow is the actual day that they are supposed to put the bookbags together with the children's names and everything, but she has a group from her congregation doing that with her, so I will probably head home when she goes to do that. I have to be back by Thursday because Tito Mark has babysitting duties.
She does have one Snoball bush that really needs to be pruned, so this afternoon I'll do that. She hates it when it gets overgrown past the top of the deck off the back of the house but my dad always loved it when it would do that cuz it gave his naked ass some privacy in his hot tub. Well, since he and the hot tub are no longer with us (my mom sold it shortly after he died because it was a constant reminder of his daily soaks I guess) I will hobble up the ladder and top it off for her at floor level to the deck. I'm still a little fuzzy from the pain meds yesterday so I have to wait for that to wear off before I go climbing on ladders with sharp instruments (LOL but not really) because I already used up another of my lives yesterday and I don't want to push it.
It was very interesting watching Kathy Griffin last night with my mom since it primarily dealt with Prop 8 in California. My mom is a Cali girl (born in Merced, raised in Santa Maria, and nursing school in San Francisco) and probably about 95% of her family lives there. While my mom and her mom (who passed away in January) are fairly liberal, the rest of her family really isn't. Most of you longtimers here remember my position last year in the election. That position cost me alot of "friends" here who defriended me during the whole ordeal.
What they never really understood was that I was not and am not against gay marriage! But I am against trying to think that we can change people's fundamental beliefs about gays getting married. Left to the vote of the general population, most states will never allow us to get married. Our only hope is with the Courts, and I use the Capital C because it will ultimately go to The Supreme Courts. I think that everyone, gay and straight, should be allowed to become legal partners. THEN, if you or your straight brothers and sisters, or whoever, wants to have a ceremony in a church, and call it marriage, then by all means, you should be able to do that if you can find a church that will do such things (for the gays). I bet there are still PLENTY of churches out there today that will not marry a white male and a black female heterosexual couple and that is just as wrong!!
So, while I would always vote in favor of gay marriage, I just don't see it happening. If we would put the focus on equal civil unions for gay, bi and straight couples (with the individual option of a church marriage ceremony if that floats your canoe boat) then I think we would get further with the general population. And there is no need to go all Plessy V. Ferguson on me, because like the straights.... I am old and set in my beliefs.
Michael used to say that all the time.
I never really understood it. Now I do.
This morning with the pain pills worn off, I am feeling my canoeing adventure in an intense way. My knees (the righty and the lefty, the ones that were sunburned a couple of days ago) and sore and stiff, and both still have impressive "goose eggs". My right ankle is a little tender and since that whole leg is cut up from my big toe to my knee, I am favoring my left leg, which at first wasn't giving me problems I think because yesterday most of the pain was in my right leg and that was receiving my attention. Both of my hands have also swelled up and in fact I had to take my wedding band off. My shoulder is killing me.
My mom is giving me the day off from her list and has gone to the store to get a couple more Thesauruses (that is waaaaaaaaay too many S's for me! Thesari??) for the bookbags and a few more things that the kids need. Tomorrow is the actual day that they are supposed to put the bookbags together with the children's names and everything, but she has a group from her congregation doing that with her, so I will probably head home when she goes to do that. I have to be back by Thursday because Tito Mark has babysitting duties.
She does have one Snoball bush that really needs to be pruned, so this afternoon I'll do that. She hates it when it gets overgrown past the top of the deck off the back of the house but my dad always loved it when it would do that cuz it gave his naked ass some privacy in his hot tub. Well, since he and the hot tub are no longer with us (my mom sold it shortly after he died because it was a constant reminder of his daily soaks I guess) I will hobble up the ladder and top it off for her at floor level to the deck. I'm still a little fuzzy from the pain meds yesterday so I have to wait for that to wear off before I go climbing on ladders with sharp instruments (LOL but not really) because I already used up another of my lives yesterday and I don't want to push it.
It was very interesting watching Kathy Griffin last night with my mom since it primarily dealt with Prop 8 in California. My mom is a Cali girl (born in Merced, raised in Santa Maria, and nursing school in San Francisco) and probably about 95% of her family lives there. While my mom and her mom (who passed away in January) are fairly liberal, the rest of her family really isn't. Most of you longtimers here remember my position last year in the election. That position cost me alot of "friends" here who defriended me during the whole ordeal.
What they never really understood was that I was not and am not against gay marriage! But I am against trying to think that we can change people's fundamental beliefs about gays getting married. Left to the vote of the general population, most states will never allow us to get married. Our only hope is with the Courts, and I use the Capital C because it will ultimately go to The Supreme Courts. I think that everyone, gay and straight, should be allowed to become legal partners. THEN, if you or your straight brothers and sisters, or whoever, wants to have a ceremony in a church, and call it marriage, then by all means, you should be able to do that if you can find a church that will do such things (for the gays). I bet there are still PLENTY of churches out there today that will not marry a white male and a black female heterosexual couple and that is just as wrong!!
So, while I would always vote in favor of gay marriage, I just don't see it happening. If we would put the focus on equal civil unions for gay, bi and straight couples (with the individual option of a church marriage ceremony if that floats your canoe boat) then I think we would get further with the general population. And there is no need to go all Plessy V. Ferguson on me, because like the straights.... I am old and set in my beliefs.