September 14, 2009
As many of you know, my world has been a little weird lately. From managing my father's pallative care to wrestling with the question of whether or not I should put both him and my mother into a nursing home, to my husband's recent severe and as-yet unexplained illness, it's been a really rough couple of weeks.
Luckily, the astronomers at NASA and several wonderful anonymous YouTubers are helping me keep it all in perspective.
Here's some linky goodness I'd like to share with you all, you know, for those times when you, like me, need to be reminded of your own insignificance for your own damn good.
Or, as I put it to my five-year-old:
But wait! That may just be only the beginning!
And if you need help coping with all those big numbers, I find this always helps:
If you want some illusion of significance, here's one for you: The LJ family of websites (three counts as a family, right?) is fast approaching its 1,000,000th comment. Considering the puny number of comments here on Lawrence.com versus the vast amount of inane bullshit that passes for comments over on the LJworld and KUsports boards, I think it's y'all's civic duty to start commenting like mad over here. Serious, well-thought-out, philosophical comments. Comments that could change the world. Or at least make me snort Coke out of my nose, for once. Seriously, I've been on here for longer than my children have been alive, and something in me will die a quiet, bourbon-soaked death if my beloved site's millionth comment is an "LOL!" posted in response to some other idiot comment over on the Very Special Rodeo that is the LJWorld's boards.
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MyName (anonymous) says...
C'mon, don't hate the rodeo, hate the clowns! No seriously, some of those guys are a little weird...
September 14, 2009 at 10:24 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
cutny (anonymous) says...
Three websites? Yo mang, someone's forgetting the boomergirl.com conglomerate. I kinda dig those chicks. Sorry for your recent trials and tribulations. Nothing too philosophical about that, but I hope your husband is feeling better soon.
September 14, 2009 at 7:16 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
meganstuke (Megan Stuke) says...
EVAN WILLIAMS!!!!!!! MY BOURBON OF CHOICE! It's cheap, brown, and I can afford plenty of it!
(everyone makes fun of me, but I drink my Evan with pride, anyhow.)
September 14, 2009 at 7:20 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
mitzibel (Misty Nuckolls) says...
Megan, we may very well have been separated at birth.
Cutny--I didn't even know about that! Hell, I didn't know about the KU sports board--my kindly editor fixed that for me.
MyName--As the disclaimers state, all fault lies not with the site, but with the relevant users. And said users may only be relevant on a distant world far beyond my puny imagination's reckoning.
September 14, 2009 at 8:46 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )