It's me. I'm still pretty much a wreck, although I have slept for three nights in a row now. Can't imagine for those who have lost home, job, loved ones... For me, it's mostly in my imagination of "what might have been"--and in a certain nostalgia for the New Orleans of my memory. So much of that has truly been revealed as fictional.
There are some funny stories to tell, though. (You gotta laugh, you know.) Like about my niece, Erin, the animal lover. Her pet snakes are still at home, toughing it out. I guess snakes are fine without food for a while. While I was still at home with my family (barely two weeks ago), Erin had bought a rat to feed "Sneaky" (the snake). She nonchalantly dropped the rat into the snake's cage. Well, the rat didn't take kindly to the idea of being Sneaky's lunch. So the rat bit the snake. Erin reached in, grabbed the rat and dropped it in another cage and then took the snake...to the vet...for a shot and to have its wound irrigated. When she got home (with her bandaged snake), she faced a new sort of dilemma. What to do with the rat? "You can't feed it to the snake now," her Mom informed her. "It's in a cage! It's a pet!" So while the snakes were left at home, Erin brought the rat, her family's two dachshunds and the two cats (one of whom was the Animal Hospital blood donor for a while; I think its name was something like "Plasma") into exile with her. They should be in Mississippi sometime this afternoon. (Mom will be glad to have the rat's cage off of the top of the refrigerator in the cabin they are using as temporary residence.)
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Folks, when you see comments I've deleted, it is generally because they seem to be only attempts to draw you to click on someone's site to drive up their traffic. They probably have ads on the page, and get paid for every "click," so they will use any means possible to direct traffic to those pages. Your eyeballs mean money to them.
Even with the extra little obstacle, it looks like I'm not going to be able to keep up with eliminating these pseudo-comments. So be alert!
I know what you mean Sister, in one day i had about 15 comments like those that you aretlaking about and they drive me nuts. I have still 8 of those comments on my compouter simply becuase I have not had tiem to delete them off my blog and I thought it was really rude and kinda disrespectful to put those kind of comments or adds on a obit blog entry!!!! Dont you think so????
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