| THIS IS A READ-ONLY ARCHIVE FROM THE SORABJI.COM MESSAGE BOARDS (1995-2016). |
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You're on stage with a mic in your hand in front of a large audience. You have two minutes to answer the question. Go. |
I'm waiting for a rudder. I'm rudderless. |
I'm waiting for next summer. I'm waiting for soemthing really special that will happen a little ways down the road. |
Im also waiting for scan disk to finish its dirty business. |
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i'm waiting for the first miracle to come out of the Human Genome Project. hopefully it will be either a natural appetite supressant or a superhuman ability to process mass quantities of chocolate without gaining weight. or a cure for cancer. i'm waiting for a decent alternative to tampons and maxipads. i've been waiting all my life to feel settled. to all at once be in a place personally, physically, socially, and geographically where i feel like that's where i'd be happy to live the rest of my life. i'm waiting for a real man. someone who isn't deep in his core afraid of himself or what other people think of him. someone who hasn't been brainwashed out of his natural manhood by modern feminism. someone who is genuinely kind, highly intelligent, well-groomed, socially sophisticated. a man who knows what he wants and goes for it. but also a man who doesn't take himself or life so seriously. someone who isn't afraid to tell me when to shut up and follow. someone who knows how grab me by the back of my neck and pull my hair and fuck my brains out. i'm waiting for the day mark thomas announces he's engaged to be married. i'm waiting for the server software to arrive at my office. i'm waiting to fall in love, get married, be loyal, buy a house, cook meals, have five children, and drive a minivan. i'm waiting for the next sorabji-fest, the next margarita, my trip to hawaii, my trip to florida, and my trip to greece. if i think of anything else, i'll let you know. |
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i thought of one more this morning: i'm waiting for droopy to come back to us. i miss him big time. |
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also, i'm waiting for some of you lamers to take your turns in scrabble. |
I've told him I miss his absence from the electronic world, too. Maybe he'll come back soon. |
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do i need to take a drive to ft. worth? |
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I'm also waiting for the pandyr to turn up with his stuff, however the house is a bombsite and I'm not sure where we are going to put things. I'm waiting for the toast to pop. I'm waiting for the next 28 days to be over so the zinc supplements I have started taking kick in. I'm waiting for this flu rundown thing I have to fuck right off. I'm waiting to see my maori boy again. |
patrick, i've told you five million times that i would play games with you. what am i, chopped liver? |
I actually done with all the waiting. I just finished making some split pea soup with curried squash, which turned out very well, thank you. My car just passed 200k. So I suppose I'm waiting for it to die utterly. I feel like I should do something special for it, like throw a 200k birthday or wash it or something. |
Patrick/Platy : www.itsyourturn.com - my user name is moonit_nz |
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but agatha, this is the first time ive been given the web address. i kinda needed that info. |
Rhi, come play! |
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patrick, what's your user name on itsyourturn? how about you, spider? |
yeah yeah yeah. we dont want in your exclusive firly club treehouse anyway. me and platy and moonie will stick to our checkers just fine. |
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I'll play with you,too. |
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spider....you gotta try again. first you thought it was a pay site.... |
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yeah! |
"What are you waiting for?" I'm waiting to feel better emotionally.I couldn't write about this before,because it was too upsetting. But now I think I'm ready. I had to put my old dog to sleep this past Satuarday. It was really hard. She was 17. She was a Viszula. Her name was Saba.Buth we called her "Tooth". She had been deaf for several years. But we would still call her. She'd been really healthy,untill about a month and a half ago,still running and playing. Kind of a bitch dog. Didn't take any crap off off the other pets. She was the top dog. When she got sick,she went down fast. Fot the last week of her life, she couldn't stand up. I tended her,like I would a beloved grandmother. Brought her food and water,and cleaned up after her,because she couldn't get up and go outside any more.[this bothered her,I could tell she was embarrassed] It was congestive heart failure.She became incrediably edematous. I was giving her medicines,to help relieve the symptoms,to make it easier for her to breathe,so she could be more comfortable. I just wanted her to die peacefully at home. My vet had had surgery himself,and had been out of the office for the last week. Satuarday was his first day back. It was one of the hardest things I have ever done. To make that call. "Jim,I have to bring my old dog in,and have her put to sleep." I was hysterical.Crying,but trying not to. He saw us first.He tried to comfort me,"Leslie,17 is really old for a big dog.We hardly even see little dogs that old." At one point,I screamed at everyone,"Stop it,you're scaring her!" How crazy is that? I'm there to kill a beloved friend,and I'm yelling at them. The killer potion has to be injected into a vein,and because she was so swollen,he was having a hard time finding a vein.She was trying to bite,because it was hurting,and they had to hold her head down.Thats when I yelled. He said,"Thats really weird,its usually instantanious,but she's fighting it. She's still breathing." Then he took his stethascope,and listened,and said,"She's gone." I didn't think it would be like that. I wish it hadn't. I wanted it to just be peaceful.I didn't want her scared. We brought her home,and buried her with her Winnie-the-Pooh toy.She loved that toy. She wouldn't let the other dogs play with it. Ever. I am fighting with myself,thinking that I did the right/humane thing,to put her out of her suffering.But half the time I feel like it was really shitty,to take an old friend and have her killed. |
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Hang in there. When you're feeling particularly low about the whole thing, give your kids and your other pets some extra loving, and dedicate it to Saba. |
Thanks Agatha,thats the hardest,wondering if i did the right thing. Its been rough. |
*hug* |
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you did the right thing Czarina. i'm sorry for you loss, very sorry. i know how awful it is to lose a family member. |
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