rain?

in Texas, 60% chance of rain has come to mean 'partly cloudy'. i'm really starting to get a complex with the way the weather man keeps letting me down.

we are studying one of the Noble Virtues a week in school and this week is Discipline week. this is the first virtue that we've studied that needs work among the kids. the little ones have somehow equated discipline with brushing their teeth alot, so we have some really fresh mouthed little heathens around here! Daylon really needs to work on his discipline. he's a pretty good worker and he does more chores than any of his friends, but i have to tell him what to do and when to do it. every day. it's the same old thing, every damn day. he's living on the hope that mom'll get distracted and forget some of his chores. which really isn't working for him. at least he's persevering, right?

anyway, over spring break i was working on a human interest story that threatened to change the world and make my family rich. there was a woman who got a really bad infection in her lymph glands under her jaw. it made it's way into her throat and she told her husband that she needed to go to the doctor, but her husband replied, 'honey! you know business is slow right now! how will we pay our sub-prime loan if you go to the doctor? you don't even have insurance!' so the woman suffered on in hopes that her body could fight off the nasty infection. she was losing the battle and the infection spread to her sinuses, her ear, and even her eye. when her eardrum ruptured, she resigned herself to death. in her last moments she reflected on the state of the world...the recession, the mortgage crisis, uninsured citizens of America...and she realized that if she were to die, the media would grab hold of her story and her grief-stricken family's tale of the mother who died of a simple sinus infection would grab the heartstrings of America, causing all to join together in the cause of nationalization of mortgages and banks and universal healthcare...Bryan would be invited to the White House to bowl with Obama and the kids would be moved to Washington DC and enrolled in public school....

she said, 'to hel with that!' and borrowed some antibiotics from her neighbor and lived happily ever after.