Oh, my, is that girl happy to be going home! What a beauty she is. The photo of that little, bitty girl with the nebulizer mask and her daddy's comparatively huge hand... poor thing. And poor parents. Makes me love the going home shots all the more. Thanks for the link, Cash.
Spike? It's you. It's really you! My therapist thought I was holding on to false hope, but…I knew you'd come back. You're like…you're like Gandalf the White, resurrected from the pit of the Balrog, more beautiful than ever. Oh…he's alive Frodo. He's alive.
Andrew ,'Damage'
Spike's Bitches 33: Weeping, crawling, blaming everybody else
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
JenP - Dec 21, 2006 4:23:59 pm PST #6876 of 10004
Cashmere - Dec 21, 2006 4:30:44 pm PST #6877 of 10004
Now tagless for your comfort.
The photo of that little, bitty girl with the nebulizer mask and her daddy's comparatively huge hand... poor thing.
That one made me cry!
Time to recharge the laptop battery. And clean. And pack.
libkitty - Dec 21, 2006 4:34:10 pm PST #6878 of 10004
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
I missed this too. That last shot gave me allergies, but the going home one is fantastic! She just looks so very happy. I'm so glad she's better.
But when did she grow up like that?
Topic!Cindy - Dec 21, 2006 4:37:18 pm PST #6879 of 10004
What is even happening?
Frakking, blessed nebulizer. I hate it, like I hate no other thing I love. I guess I hate that they need it, and hate that it has to be what it is, but love and appreciate that it gets the job done.
vw bug - Dec 21, 2006 4:41:15 pm PST #6880 of 10004
Mostly lurking...
Oh, Stephanie! I'm so glad she's home and doing better. She looks fabulous!
bug, you are in Kansas? What for?
Visiting my brother and SIL for Christmas. My other brother flies in tomorrow, so it'll be the whole family for a whole week! YAY!
vw bug - Dec 21, 2006 4:42:19 pm PST #6881 of 10004
Mostly lurking...
And, speaking of nebulizers, I'm off to do one. Two cats and a house filled with really gorgeous winter wreaths and trees, etc. have done me in.
Amy - Dec 21, 2006 4:46:30 pm PST #6882 of 10004
Because books.
Breathe easy, vw. And have fun in Kansas!
Stephanie, the Ellie pictures really are heartbreaking. And she has gotten so big! (I am Repeat-O Girl tonight, I guess.) I think the one of her on the floor with the toys, and the IV still connected, really broke me, because she looks so little, and so happy to be playing, but there's the horrible IV...
I'm so glad you're all home and better.
tommyrot - Dec 21, 2006 5:04:33 pm PST #6883 of 10004
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
In Defense of Kansas: [link] Apparantly the Kansas flying monkey problem is exaggerated.
It seems that most non-Kansans I meet have a negative attitude toward visiting the state of my birth. More often than not, they seem to view Kansas as a long, grueling stretch to suffer through while on the way to somewhere else. Upon investigation, though, I usually find that this attitude is based not upon actual experience, but upon two false assumptions.
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The second assumption is that if you drive through Kansas, you will be attacked by flying monkeys. This canard is the fault of both L. Frank Baum and, especially, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
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MGM, on the other hand, was thoroughly irresponsible. Their 1939 film version of The Wizard of Oz depicts its flying monkeys as being the size of chimpanzees, existing in large numbers, wearing militaristic uniforms, and possessing the ability to carry a teenage girl through the air. All of these fearsome traits are unrealistic and false, and I’m convinced that such misconceptions are responsible for the loss of millions of potential Kansas tourism dollars.
The truth is that the typical Flint Hills flying monkey is no larger than a cocker spaniel, and the two- to- three- thousand- member troops, or flerds, that once roamed the blue Kansas sky have dwindled every year since 1964, when the last of the great Cottonwood Falls banana plantations brought in its final harvest. In 1998, zoologists at Kansas State University in Manhattan estimated that no more than twenty flerds still existed between Wichita and Topeka, with each flerd comprising only 400 to 600 individuals. Those numbers are almost certainly smaller now.
Furthermore, there is no record of Flint Hills flying monkeys, either as individuals or groups, ever carrying off a human being larger than an infant. In fact, there are only three documented cases of even that happening — and in two of those cases, the infants were dropped before the monkeys could reach their usual cruising altitude of 300 feet.
sj - Dec 21, 2006 5:28:16 pm PST #6884 of 10004
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
The pictures of Ellie are making my allergies act up. I am so glad she is home and well now.
I hope JZ wasn't stuck in traffic too long with the baby.
My hair is done. It is not my best red or my best cut, but at least I no longer have an inch of black roots with grays popping up all over the place. TCG and I organized all of the gift basket stuff tonight, which now just need to be assembled tomorrow.
juliana - Dec 21, 2006 5:45:24 pm PST #6885 of 10004
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Love the pictures of Ellie coming home.
Yay new hair!
I am uber-pyro girl tonight - there are so many candles lit that I don't need any other lights on in my apartment. Mmmm, candles.