Life is… Okay

To quote the late, great Rodney Dangerfield, “I tell ya, I’m okay now but last week I was in rough shape, rough shape…” [You have to imagine me straightening my tie just then.]
First, I’m sick and I lost my voice due to congestion. I’m getting better. My voice is still bad and I hack up things during the morning shower that you could use as mortar to build a castle.
Jason, our middle child, contracted salmonella poisoning from Peter Pan peanut butter and was taking all sorts of antibiotics. The doctors were treating him like he had salmonella. To positively confirm it, we would have had to given a stool sample and I’m not making an eight-year-old with the dia-rears poop in a cup. I tossed out two half eaten jars of the 2111 code peanut butter (one crunchy, one creamy).
The day after being diagnosed with the gut ache, our oldest son, Alex, ate something that gave him the hives and he had to go to the emergency room for shots. (He recovered quickly.)
Amy had a touch of something. Thank God Lauren stayed healthy. But it was just like a one-two-one-two-onetwoone punch that I couldn’t get away from.

There is good news to go with this… and some insignificant, childish news too. C’mon would it be an RMF Blog without it?
My dad has made the move to California (not that that is good news but it is newsworthy). He’s teaching kids how to fly in a giant video game simulator for Boeing. I often wonder how many of his former students are over in Iraq. He is doing the same thing he did in Altus but at a different Air Force base. But he is living near a lot of his siblings, which I think will be good for him. We had a visit last week (just as everyone was getting sick). This was the first visit I could remember where both of us talked about Mom without shedding any tears. After a year and two months, I think that is a sign that the healing process is finally starting to work. God, I hate Cancer. Is there a single more vile word in the English language?

Works sucks but it is paying the bills for now. On the other hand, the new comic book assignment is great. I haven’t had this much fun in a long time. [More on that next blog.]

Marvel Civil War just came to its epic conclusion. If you are lurking about on Amazon.com and the trade paperback becomes available, I would definitely pick that up whether you are a comic fan or not.
Skip the Nicolas Cage movie Ghost Rider. Visually it was stunning but I think a twelve-year-old wrote the script. But I did see a new trailer for Spider-Man 3 which looks awesome! Can’t wait.

Lost keeps getting stranger and they aren’t answering questions fast enough for me so Prison Break is now the best show on TV in my humble opinion. Buy Season 1 on DVD and watch it straight through. You won’t regret it.

I still can’t find a Marvel Legends black suit “Julia Carpenter” Spider-Woman variant from the M.O.D.O.K. series and I keep getting outbid on eBay. Stupid Marvel Legends and my hopeless addiction. I swear this addiction is my cocaine…

So that’s about it. Digest all that information. More soon…