I'll take the new Eminem CD and a side of fries...

http://www.local6.com/news/5710517/detail.html

It may be sad, but I absolutely love this song...

She put him out,
Like the burning end of a midnight cigarette.
She broke his heart.
He spent his whole life trying to forget.

We watched him drink his pain away
A little at a time.
But he never could get drunk enough
To get her off his mind.
Until the night...

He put the bottle to his head and pulled the trigger
He finally drank away her memory.
Life is short
But this time it was bigger
Than the strength he had to get up off his knees.
We found him with his face down in the pillow.
With a note that says I’ll love her till I die.
And when we buried him beneath the willow
The angels sang a whiskey lullaby.

The rumors flew
But nobody knew how much she blamed herself.
For years and years
She tried to hide the whisky on her breath.
She finally drank her pain away
A little at a time.
But she never could get drunk enough
To get him off her mind
Until the night...

She put the bottle to her head and pulled the trigger.
And finally drank away his memory.
Life is short but this time it was bigger
Than the strength she had to get up off her knees.
We found her with her face down in the pillow.
Clinging to his picture for dear life.
We laid her next to him beneath the willow.
While the angels sang a whisky lullaby.

Happy Holidays! May this be the beginning of a wonderful year for us all!

Since yesterday was Shabbos (the Sabbath), I taped the Cowboys/Carolina game and watched it last night. Needless to say, I'm glad I didn't find out the score until after I watched, although there were a couple of time I wanted to turn it off. For more, please read my Cowboys Report Card.

In honor of Chanukah, here's a cartoon that made me laugh:

From the "consider the source" file...

Hussein: White House 'No. 1 liar in the world'

What does it mean that the Democrats and Saddam Hussein agree with each other? Are Pelosi and Reid passing notes to the defense team? Also, who does he think is number two? The Pope?

What's next? 'Israel kills Christian babies and uses their blood for matzah'?

Sorry dude. Call us back when you get some credibility.

Israeli Democracy In Action

Ha'aretz reports on a speech in Lebanon by Azmi Bishara an Arab politician:

Bishara, addressing an Arab audience in Lebanon late last week, asserted that Arabs were the original residents of the land and urged Israelis to leave and "take their democracy" with them. "Israel is the 20th century's greatest robbery, carried out in broad daylight. I will never recognize Zionism even if all Arabs do. I will never concede Palestine. The battle is still long," Bishara stated at a Lebanese book fair in Beirut.

Bishara's comments warmly received by his audience. "Return Palestine to us and take your democracy with you. We Arabs are not interested in it," he concluded.

While this kind of nonsense is nothing new, it should be noted that Bishara political position is as a member of the Knesset, Israel's parliament.

And we think the Democrats are traitors!

What is the Peace (of crap) Mom thinking?

20 points for the best caption! Give it your best shot.

For those unaware of why I was hospitalized, it was due to a bout of colitis. It doesn't appear to be chronic and was caused by Cellcept (one of my immunosuppresent medicines). I'd been on that drug for about 3 years, but I must have caught a small virus that mixed with it caused my illness.

Normally, colitis is treated on an outpatient basis. But due to my immune issues, I had to be hospitalized. I was put on a clear liquid diet and had to have a colonoscopy. Unfortunately, the stuff I took to clean me out make me even more sick.

Finally, after being there for 9 days on this diet, they let me eat normal food (as normal as it gets in the hospital). Once I was able to eat it and keep it in, I would be allowed to go home. Unfortunately, the morning I was to leave, I woke up my left arm was very swollen and extremely sore. So, the doctor kept me an additional day and scheduled me to have a sonogram.

Because of the overwhelming pain I was feeling, They gave me a lot of Vicodin and - just before the sonogram - an injection of Morphine. Even with the drugs, the procedure was excrutiating. But it was a lot easier to go through. Anyway, the diagnosis was that I had a blood clot in my arm. The doctor felt that since I stopped taking aspirin (it messes up my stomach without food) and also because I was somewhat dehydrated, the clot formed.

To make matters even worse, the Cellcept I was taking also minimized the pain I feel from my arthritis. Now that I'm no longer taking it, I have the additional pain associated with that. However, since I needed to go back to work (teaching), I have to go through the day without any pain relief.

But at night, I can "dope up".

In all honesty, the colitis is gone and my arm is improving daily. It does appear that I may have either developed another clot in my right hand or my arthritis has really gotten worse. Regardless, both my left arm and right hand is swollen and both ankles are as well.

But at least I got my health!

By the way, I just posted my latest Dallas Cowboys Report Card on ShayneBlog Sports. If your interested in that stuff, take a look and let me know what you think.

I finally got home last night. But due to a small - but exceptionally painful - blood clot in my arm, I'm unable to write very much. I can't do much of anything actually because of the pain (I'm typing with one hand) and the heavy doses of Vicodin (wwweeeeeeeeeeeeee).

On Tuesday, I started writing about why I was in the hospital, but it's not finished yet. When my arm feels better (doc says it'll take a few more days), I'll finish it and post it.

Also, I want to thank those of you who called and/or wrote (and everyone else who was concerned). It really meant a great deal to me.