Oh, my GAWD! I just noticed that Circe...I mean "I"...have a snake around my neck! And the pig in the lower left has a note attached to his side! What's with that?!? Oh, well. I still think it's a great representation of the real me. But enough about the picture. I'm doing this for the frustrated author in me. And the stand-up comic. And the menopausal woman who needs to vent...a LOT. (Much to my chagrin I've found that my misery can be a source of amusement for my friends. So be it. At least ONE of us will be laughing.) I ask only that the English teachers out there ignore my punctuation and grammar (for the life of me knowing when to use "who" or "whom" never stuck...sorry, Mrs. Neal) and just enjoy the ramblings. Trust me, they can be quite entertaining. Exaggerated at times (oh, alright, all the time), but entertaining. Some of them my close friends have already read, but I'm posting them here so everyone else can get a giggle out of them as well. That's what I'm all about: making people giggle. Or better yet, making you snort whatever liquid you happen to be drinking out of your nose. (Was that a split infinitive?) Now, that's what I really live for. So snort away.