It Seemed Like A Great Idea.....

I have been sick for two days, my body aches and I feel like I will never be better.  Living the stereotypical Irish catholic wreckage of the future. Being sick and laying down all you have time to do is think and the topic of late revolves around my waning days of my 40's.  I have the big 50 coming up, is that old anymore?  Can I buy into 50 is the new 40 load of horseshit?   Can I still have dreams or is that all gone and now,  do I really need to act my age.  What the hell does that even mean?? Well, I guess it means I should open my mail at least, that seems like a responsible thing to do. Sweet Jesus on a stick!  AARP??? Really?? People think I am funny, but really it is some cosmic joker who arranges these things in my life so that the jokes write themselves. Well, NO F'ING WAY.  I ain't doing it, I certainly am not retiring anytime soon, if ever!   So what is the sense? Then........ Movie discou...

Howdy Folks I am back from the dead and want to apologize ahead of time; I have several posts that I will be putting out in the next day or so and this is going to be long.  I was pretty sick there for a couple of weeks and could think of things to write but just couldn't muster up the energy to type (whaaa, I am such a baby when I am sick). It started out with Liam getting sick about a month ago.  After he had got better, he came and showed me a patch of red rash in the middle of his back.  I didn't think much of it, but by the next morning, it had gotten bigger, so we went to the clinic.  Well, a trip to the pediatrician and then a dermatologist and pediatric derm and finds out the kid has shingles.   Is he Ten years old or Seventy?  It spread from his back to the front of his chest, in his armpit and down his arms to his finger.  Thank god it was Liam though, he didn't complain once, and my boy took it like a champ. The...