Newscoma

Here are some of my favorite quotes of the week from the blogosphere:

One person is allergic to everything in the onion family. You wouldn’t believe how much restaurants love chives and the near-tasteless parsley. Another person claims to be allergic to garlic but isn’t. And we can’t sit at a booth. Food gets sent back a lot. And as a relatively shy person, I often find the experiences painful.

Jonathan Hickman , where all I can say is I feel your pain

Of course, in the back of my brain I keep hearing my former boss at the auto repair shop telling me he wished he’d spent less time putting beans on the table and more time shelling the beans with the kids (or something like that, I wasn’t really paying attention to him when he was talking, as per usual)

Bad Bad Ivy on her life

~trying to focus on making peace with myself rather than being irritated with (almost) everyone else in the world. I really and truly don’t hate everyone, but I’ve found myself saying “I hate everyone!” way too often lately.

Shauna on Thankful Thursday

That should be obvious, but it appears that many of the folks who berate us for not supporting the troops appear to support the troops only on THE WAY TO Iraq and Afghanistan and while they are on the battlefront. Returning veterans, thankfully, are not faced with the taunts and curses of the anti-war crowd, but instead are faced with the neglect and indifference of the military bureaucracy, at least for those who come home needed long-term care. And, let me add, that finger-pointing is directed at both sides of the ‘political aisle’ for this one.

Hutchmo who is absolutely right

“If you have blood in your stool, that would be a bad thing.” Short and Fat 3/1/07

Yep, I have a job where I actually had to explain that to someone. Good times.

Short and Fat who makes me laugh

Have I ever told you guys how much I love this blogging thing?