kirin

If monkey farts would help I got your back, get well soon.

You have to be careful about how much time you spend around people who might carry strange diseases to which you might not have any immunity

Oh wow. I can't wait to see pics from that set!

I have a friend who's a jeweler and he says there is an old and long tradition to melting down jewelry from failed marriages and creating something new from the materials. It's a bit of the "phoenix rising from the flames". Very symbolic and very appropriate.

Hm. you could do a few things:

1. Throw into Mt. Doom. Not recommended, hard to make the road trip. ref - LOTR
2. Exchange with gypsies for gypsy tears: as I understand, said tears are v. useful in the prevention of shrinkings. ref - Borat
3. Throw in sewer so Frank and Charlie can find while they walk naked through the sewers. ref - It's Always Sunny ...
4. Turn them into a perfect filigree that represents your growth and maturing. ref - good idea, but not quite so funny

Good luck with the move. That sucks that the HR person gives you crap about tatoos. Did she not know about them when she hired you? I mean wtf, shes hr its her fault isn't it. Oh, and good luck with the desk thing too. I'm a mechanic, and right now they are doing construction in our shop, so we are being pushed all over the shop, and running into each other, and each others stuff. Its the pits, can't wait for this to be done. Oh and see all those comments up there, thats a bit of a following anyways.

mmmm Chai

kirin did you get my message ? let me know

Ha ha what's funny is you can have one in a cavalry unit

That's a good plan. Sell the old cumbersome furniture. Get newer furniture, the kind that comes in smaller boxes, with some assembly required

Hello Kirin, great you're having this trip to look forward to! I wish you a grand time and an inspired comforting hand in the meeting with your troubled friend.

Concerning our own trip to AZ, we're about to close in on two possible travel periods: either the last two weeks in March or the first two weeks in April (with a possible prolongation into Easter holidays). Do you know when the night-flowers of the Saguaro start to bloom in the Tucson area? March would be too early to travel, or?

Looking forward to that next post of yours!

Well us Canadians are damn hot =) Where are you going for your trip?. Thanks for answering my blog =)

Hi Kirin,

I completely relate. As for the "big c" my paternal grandmother was also diagnosed with breast cancer in late 2009 and today it's moved to all major organs of her body except brain. She now lives with my Aunt who also helps take care of her. She's in good spirits but she's in that "get your affairs in order" place right now. I live with and help care for my maternal grandmother who for 84 is physically as healthy as an ox except that she's quickly moving into servere dementia so I'm essentially witnessing her lose a piece of who she is day by day. All of the above also take place in lovely SE MI which as you know make transporting a fragile elderly grandmother around as stressful as brain surgery. On top of this, I'm unemployed and of course there's not much of any opportunities left here. So I am preparing myself for moving out of MI for some career opportunity and leaving behind almost every family member I still have alive. I too haven't finished school, because of cost but I would like to just get it over with. Perhaps you could do your History major online so that you can begin now and it wouldn't matter where you lived to participate. It can never substitute for the real thing but if you aren't already, maybe you could get your folks set-up with Skype accounts and if you all have video capabilities, you can at least see and hear one another. I do have some family in Northern California and for X-Mas, we had sent gifts to one another and opened them up live via Skype. It's pretty cool. Again, not the real thing but it's a thousand times better than an email or even just a phone call. I'll always be a boy from the Midwest and my family will most likely keep to this area but I know that where you live doesn't make you who you are or eventually long to be. Same goes for you here in MI. In the meantime, work on getting back to where you honestly want to be, both literally and where you'll find true comfort. Good luck on the job hunt, it's slim pickings out there. Until then, I hope that you will leave MI and the Midwest with warm opinion and at the very least you can be one of the few in the SW that can honestly say they've experienced snow and all four seasons for that matter. I've been lucky enough to travel all over this country and abroad and nothing beats the Midwest in the Fall. Twelve hues of stunning foliage, campfires, spiced cider, apple orchards and college football. IMHO of course. Cheers Kirin!!