Getting To Know You - Borrelia

Decided to have a little fun with our friend, Borrelia....or spent too much time in the heat and it's getting to me when I should really be in bed because it's almost 1am.......think I'll go with that last one.

Anyhoo!

Getting To Know You - Borrelia

Name: Borrelia Burgdorferi (Bb for short)

Age: hundreds? thousands of years old?

Height: sub-cellular...but it's not length that counts ;)

Eye color: I like eyes...they're yummy :)

Hair color: bald is best!

Hometown: Lyme, CT *waves "hi" to Uncle Willy*

Job: causing Lyme Disease, pitting people against each other (I get bonuses depending on the spiffy letters after the person's name), exposing flaws in medical systems, making people deathly ill and look like they've got some sort of psychiatric disease, destroying productivity, making people scared of Bambi (that one's kinda fun...hehe) doing a little side-line work supporting insurance companies and bankruptcy lawyers with people who've lost everything trying to get rid of me. *sigh* It's not the most glamorous job but someone's gotta do it!

Favorite car: the Deer Tick but will go for a ride in just about any blood-sucking bug

What do you do on weekends: hang with a few of my buds...usually Bart, Babs, Erlich and Herxheimer (though Herxy usually only shows up when the bar fight is almost over....he's such a drag)

Hate: those overly intellgent nerdy types who ask too many questions!

Love: those people who believe anything you tell them. They're so much fun!...that gives me a great idea for a prank!...think I'll get dressed in my Doctor's costume, tell people I don't exist and then accuse them of being nuts for standing there talking to me *snicker*

Favorite hangout: I'm pretty easy...I'll go anywhere...Heart (sweet little vip club), The Liver, The Brain (that's such a crazy place...you never know what's going to happen!), sometimes I get a little athletic and like to check out the muscles ;), sometimes I like a good joint and sometimes I just like to go cruising down the nerves and see what havoc I can wreak >:)

Ever fail a test: I kept trying to tell them that they're all trick questions no one could pass! Think they'd listen to me? Noooooooo

Been arrested: Lots of times but they either can't make the charges stick or they put me in the slammer for a month of rehab hoping it'll be the last they see of me....HA!

Ever wish you were someone else: Syphilis...I'm just as good as that guy and he gets all the attention! How fair is that?

What are your hopes for the future: I want to rule the world!

Fears: that people will start asking questions and make the "The Man" acknowledge my existence and put a hit out on me

Last words: I'm always around and looking for new people to party with....interested? >:)

Coffee and Distractions

I'm sitting here with a mug of coffee thinking about all the chaos of the past couple of months. The Lyme Garden went from being a wish for kids like my son to have someone to connect with that understands, to being an actual online entity ready to be filled with like-minded kids and their families; repeated attempts to make our home look less like some sort of ground-zero and more like...well...a home; potty training; end of the school year stuff and getting past my son's last health mini-crisis that over-stressed his already stressy liver (detoxing is so much fun!) and left him only able to do 1/2 days at school...no big loss though, it's the end of the year!  Yay! 

I look over at the kids in the other room. One's playing the Wii and carrying on a great conversation with the game characters, the other is watching the beat up old TV brought up from the basement so that they both have a screen to complain about. Or rather, she's watching when she's not racing up and down the hall, pestering her tired Daddy who just wants to spend his day off in his chair, standing in front of her brother to see just how much she can annoy him without getting in trouble, trashing her room, being the reason I haven't seen the cats in a couple of hours (it's amazing how well 3 indoor cats can just disappear....where do they go???), and trying to convince me to hand over the mouse so she can play some games. Life with kids is never dull!

So, what am I going to do next....what next?....what....next....... Well, I could make another attempt at finding the kitchen, work on that book I've been reading for the past 6 months (I'm sure my Mother-in-law would really like to have it back), try to remember what it was I was going to do when I sat down here and got distracted from my chores, spend a little time trying to get The Lyme Garden out to those who might benefit from it (any suggestions on free, ethical promotion would be nice...I'm broke but I'd like to keep TLG a nice, honest place).......I think I'll just sit back for a minute and enjoy my coffee.................. 

Coming dear! Put that thing that used to be a bowl in the sink and quit pestering your brother, please! Be right there after I hit the "submit" button! No, kitty does not want the bowl on her head, put it in the sink please! Don't you dare go near Grandma's book with that marker and don't leave the controller on the floor! Well, dear, that's what happens when you pester kitty, you'll live. Wait, who just stole my coffee???