Sue just brought me a mouse today for my breakfast... Do you have any idea how upset she gets if I don't pretend to eat the little sucker?! Thank God I've gotten pretty deft with my hands, so when I pick it up with the tissue, I can just hold the thing near my mouth and act like I'm eating it and then throw the whole mess into the garbage... What can I say, she worries about my eating habits, obviously she thinks I'm in need of protien... eeeeeeeeeewwww!

Hmmm, Marcus James sounds fine to me... I hung a few middle names on my kid and you ought to see heads whip around in the store when I call him by his full name! I had some people to honour.... And Markus is another spelling of the name, just not as commonly used is all.

What a darlin! Congratulations to your mother and the rest of the family! And what's wrong with the name Marcus? That's what I hung on my kid... Wait, she might not want to use it, considering what kind of a heathen my boy can be... Anyhoo, glad it all went well and he's a beautiful child, really he is!

I loved my male cat Magoo dearly. He was a present from my dad on June 18, 1988. Sadly, my Goochers died of old age a couple weeks ago and I've been feeling kind of lost without him... Within two days of his death, Dad passed on, so it's been kind of hard, but I do have a ray of sunshine in my fat cat, Sue. Actually, she is my daughter's cat, but I hand raised her because she was born feral. I still have the scars of the taming! Sue is a gentle, gracious little soul who rules the house with an iron paw covered in the softest of velvet. She tells me when it's time to get up, eat, and go to bed. She also tries to tell me when the child needs a bath or fresh diaper, but I have a handle on that pretty much. She, too, is missing Magoo because he was there the whole time while she was growing up. Sue is thirteen years old, by the way, and shows really no signs of age yet, aside from the tendancy to hog most of the blankets on a cold winter night... Anyhow, Sue was never taught to be a mouser, she just somehow knew to do it on her own. She did teach Magoo, though, and the two of them together made one heck of a great team! Once I got them over the putting the stupid thing in my slippers, it was a fine thing... Lately, though, she's been bringing me injured mice, so I can kill them. So, do you think she's trying to turn me into a mouser?? And she will not tolerate a dog nose up her butt, swats that stupid beagle each and every time! You'd think the dog would get the hint, but her brain seems to be a bit more dense than granite! Yes, I am owned by a lovely cat, and love it a lot. Dogs are owned by men, humans are owned by felines. Just ask my brother, he shares his life with about 25 of them!

*waves* Former Iowan! From Knoxville, originally. Bleh, sprint car races...

My oldest brother was 18 when I was born and I don't really know him at all, so make sure you're there to watch this young one grow up! I've been told that if you can catch little brothers early enough, you can train them not to be a pain in the butt, although I have no experiance in this because I am the youngest child of seven! Best wishes to your mum and all of you!

Mine! Mine! Mine! This is going to go up for a teen's bedroom! Having been one myself in the past, I think it's appropriate...

I'm kind of like Joy up there, but don't have a whole heck of a lot of time to do anything lately and right now, the spark of creation just isn't there. I have some of my older stuff up on MySpace and its open for the public to view, but to read the blogs and stuff you have to be on my friend list. I don't have the time or the umph to do anything new at the moment, mainly what I've been doing is just writing stupid posts and such. I even gave up cooking for now, which is something I dearly love to do. Just don't see much point, to be honest....

Is it a word that you remember easily, or a date or something like that? Maybe the kind of car you like the best? Other than offering those suggestions, I really don't know what to advise... Good luck!

I'm here on my butt in front of the computer trying to help my sister with all of the arrangements for my dad's ceremony Wednesday and wishing that I had a nice cold beer...

I still live in Illinois, the buttcrack of the United States of America... and it's BORING!

Update: I'm on my butt, in front of the laptop and spamming people with my phone as I spam the board here, too... Multi-spamming, gotta love it in the age of technology.....

Sitting on my butt in front of this laptop, having a coffee and spamming the board. That is where I am....
Whhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuup!?!?!?

Last I knew from living in the same place as you, Dark, there were about 99 counties, so that's quite a good many, too! And WOW! It does look like a good many. And yeah, still in my house sitting on my butt in front of this laptop, sending a friend of mine some spam texts.... Mac is gonna kill me when he gets the cell phone bill, but it's harmless and makes us laugh.

:off topi:

Still on my butt in front of the laptop making you peoples wonder if I'm nuts or not. Won't say if I am or if I am not, but I am having fun.... kinda... when I'm not bored.... I'm bored so I guess I'm not having much fun... Bleh...