Food Poisonink!

Ellen Cherry Charles here...

Mama has had one rough ride of it lately. She had a bbq with a friend and ended up eating "new to her" meat and it was a terrible mistake. Both of them got sick, but Mama ended up in hospital suffering indignities there before dropping her fever and coming home full of new smells (some of them worrisome). She spent the last two days and nights in bed, coming out to sit on the computer for a few minutes at a time.

She confided in me that she can finally trust a fart...

Anyway. The new dresser is great - a new place for me to land on from my perch on wardrobe. Mama hasn't filled it full of stuff yet. I'll be sure to see how much stuff I don't knock over on my way down.

Pinky is losing a front tooth again, but is still able to eat crunchie food. Mama is keeping a close eye on him and he seems to be doing ok, and will be making some gruel for him when he needs it. It was the first thing she noticed when she came home from hospital and asked him why he had the "Elvis sneer" on.

Mama's Reading:
nothing

Mama's Listening to:
nothing

Mama's been in her bed, really. Talking on the phone from time to time. Today she is stronger, she'll actually try turning on the tv for a while...

Headbutts to you,
Ellen

Garage Sale Frenzy

Miss V'lu here, sadly reporting that Mama came home today to find me wearing a DelMonte banana sticker...she ridiculed me to no end, and told me that under no circumstances were WE to play "StickerFun!" without her. Hmmph. I didn't even know it was there until she pointed it out, on my left rump. She said it was unfortunate that I wasn't wearing a price tag instead.

Anyway. Mama's been busy. She has been BEADING and getting ready for a GARAGE SALE. Her entries include some little knick knacky things and her beaded stuff - all marked down, of course, as it is a garage sale. She went to Bev's to set up today and has already spent $15 on herself - she got an Adult dresser and some clay Sun/Moon wall hanging things that are mostly purple. The dresser is a big deal too - her first dresser since when Ellen was a kitten! She'd lived in a place with a walk-in closet and ditched her unmatched set of dressers waaaay back then. It is a nice one too - she brought the drawers home today, five of them - and it has doors on the front to conceal three drawers inside. However, she's placed the drawers so we can't crawl inside them.

Mama's Reading (when she's not playing fun money poker as of late):

"Wild Ducks Flying Backward" - the short writings of Tom Robbins. Oh, so much hilarity! Apparently he's written for magazines and such...so all short essays.

Mama's Listening To:

sigh. Still, the Mars Volta. She's memorizing every note of "Amputechture"

don't you pretend
that I'm not alive
my bones never ache
unless she's nearby
where is your face
in a safe of dead tongues
i can see your reflection
in your totem first born
i suspect
you've been carry a pack of wolves
i regret
not killing you while i had the chance
maybe i will always haunt you
mark the somnolence with truth
better hang your dead palace
that have a living home to lose
in the river ganges god damns my name
don't let these hands
sharpen your eyes
a rasp of tails

---Vicarious Atonement, The Mars Volta

At least she's not singing...her favorite song as of late is:

Away away with fyfe and drum, here we come, full of rum!
A-lookin for kitties to pat on the bum, so early in the morning!

This is accompanied with DANCE. WITH US. There's dirtier stuff that goes along with, I'll tell you one here:

Canadian women, they are the shits, they have no ass, they have no tits!
And they whack you off with a pair of mitts, so early in the morning!

Oh, yes there's more...much more. Websites dedicated to the song, which is a military Canadian "standard" from the WWII days.

http://sniff.numachi.com/pages/tiNATLANTC;ttNATLANTC.html

http://www.fivetribe.ca/nas.html

I think I've said enough...
V'lu