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That's a literary reference, by the way. Andre Dubus III wrote The House of Sand and Fog, and then Ben Kingsley and Jennifer Connelley were in the movie adaptation.
But that isn't where I live.
I live in a house that has been host to a stomach bug, with all 3 of my children sparing no expense (on the part of their parents) with regards to cleaning up their bodily ick. Ignoring the more delicate subject of their, shall we say... southern charms... their more Yankee inclinations covered floors in at least 3 rooms, 2 beds, I have no idea how many shirts and pants, but were careful to deliver upon the persons of each of their parents at least once. The couch, the kitchen table, the chair I am sitting in as I type this blog entry. It is quite disgusting, actually. We have had to go buy color safe bleach because the house stinks of stomach and vinegar wouldn't get the stink out of their sheets and clothes.
ICK!
GROSS!
DISGUSTING!
But, I was very impressed by the Magician through all this. Generally a whiner, something of a sissy nerd (odd in a daddy's boy), he nevertheless got up in the middle of the night, after throwing up on both sleeves and ruining his bed, and got a towel to clean it up. He didn't lie in bed crying, waiting for somebody to rescue him, he got up and HANDLED IT. And he totally didn't even have to. Puking the bed is a free pass to complain. I developed my symptoms about the exact same time he developed his and I know how gross and not-wanting-to-stand I was feeling, but he soldiered through. And during the whole recuperation he was especially one with the manners, telling the Goddess, when she changed shirts (a sign she was feeling better) that she looked beautiful.
The good news is that everybody is alive and seems to be over the worst of it, for which we will be giving thanks on the 26th.
But, man, there was an awful lot of sick up.
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And speaking of health... CNN wants to ask women, "how well do you take care of your girls?". So if you are not currently a woman, but know somebody who is, you should send them to that link. Even though breast cancer awareness month is, I'm told, October. Frankly, I don't think that one should ever be far from our thoughts.
And add Save the Ta Tas to your holiday shopping because, not only do they have the greatest ever slogan, but a portion of every purchase goes toward breast cancer research.
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And since we're on the subject of holiday shopping, Time has some thoughts about what the hot tech gifts are going to be this year. But, honestly, I doubt we will be giving a whole lot of plastic junk this year, not when everybody already has phones or cameras or DVD players or MP3 players and our nation is generating over 254 million tons of garbage a year (that's about 7 pounds per person per day, btw) and we have perfectly good alternatives like cows to developing communities or good health to kids.
I'm just saying, is all.
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