I speak with my mom 2 or 3 times a week, sometimes every day. It is less now that I don't have TV, because I used to call and we would watch Jeopardy together on the phone.

I don't consider us close, but maybe I should re-think that...

Dillo's dentistry went fine. He clammed up about drinking the sedative and I had to force him to take it with a syringe, but for them he was an angel and they got a LOT of work done (all of it) in one go. Now he's watching TV and poking his upper lip. He's not nearly as dopey as that kid on Youtube.

Playboy Energy Drink - Review

The first sentence of the third paragraph made me laugh:

After finally cracking it open, I must say that my favorite part of Playboy is still the articles. I got the regular version, not diet of course, and it's got an orange...ish taste to it. In fact, it's the first energy drink I've noticed needs to "breathe." Upon first opening it, it had a taste not unlike...well, you know if you've ever imbibed just the fizziest part of an orange fizzy drink? It was like that. Then it mellows out and eventually tastes like...an orange version of every other energy drink.

I speak to my parents a lot right now. We don't have a lot to say, just how the day went on both ends, weather, news - that type of stuff. I do think that when you are in more regular contact with someone that it builds on itself and you develop more stuff to talk about. If I only called once a month, like used to be more common, I wouldn't know where to start with them. Now I know about what is going on in my mom and dad's week (he's working the stock show and she is taking bridge classes) and can ask specific questions.

Before my dad died, I talked to one or the other of my parents a few times a month, Dad more than Mom, but they were local. Now that Dad has died, Mom and I talk 3 times a week for an hour or so (well, she talks, I put her on speakerphone and go on about my work day.) Of course, since I hung up on her after she refused to believe that I'd tried to water her plants, she hasn't called.

I'm glad to hear Dillo's appointment went well and he's doing fine. Seriously, I've been thinking about him all morning.

I talk to my parents a couple of times a week, more when Joe is gone. We talk about the kids a lot but also about my mom's classroom and what I've been up to. I honestly enjoy talking to them though and they are usually the first people I call with any interesting news.

I do think that when you are in more regular contact with someone that it builds on itself and you develop more stuff to talk about.

Yeah, that is 100% true.

Although, I was just talking to the mother of an old friend, and she was saying how the friend had said to her that we always have a great time when we see each other, even though it's only every couple of years. It's especially weird because I wouldn't say we were ever super-close, but man we are just like this now. (You have to picture me making that two finger eye-to-eye gesture.)

I continue to be envious of people had/have families that are parts of their everyday lives. My sisters and I reach out to each other every now and then, but it just fades away in a fog of "Well, we never really talked to each other when we lived in the same house, how does this work?"

Hubby called his mother regularly, and he calls his sister about once a month. I'm sorry me and mine missed out on the instant friend/ally thing.

I do think that when you are in more regular contact with someone that it builds on itself and you develop more stuff to talk about.

You're also more immediately present in their mind, so the impulse to call/talk/share pops up a lot more regularly.

Pat Robertson may have kicked it off, but nobody can set the bar for assholes like Rush.

Limbaugh: Obama will use Haiti to boost credibility with ‘dark-skinned’

Rush Limbaugh tells America not to donate to Haiti

I believe he also complained that it took longer for Obama to respond to the Underwear Bomber than the Earthquake. I have a hard time understanding how those minds work.

I know I shouldn't pay attention, but how does this dude get sponsors?