Vanity Cards

If you don't know the comedic brilliance that is Chuck Lorre, well, I'm sure there is a charity somewhere for you.

From the latest Vanity Card at the end of "Two and a Half Men" :
"Jillian had a urinary tract infection... again.

That sentence appeared in my head a few days ago, just as you see it above. I have no idea what it means, other than the obvious, and I don't know anyone named Jillian. Regardless, I thought it'd be interesting to begin a vanity card with it and just see where it goes.

Jillian had a urinary tract infection... again. Her doctor liked to abbreviate the condition to UTI. She liked to abbreviate it to TMH - Too Much Humping. Regardless, the road back to vaginal happiness was always the same: cranberry juice and abstinence. Thankfully, her boyfriend, Dudley, was always very understanding. He'd just smile, hold her in his arms and say, "Well, babe, when one door closes, another one opens up." She'd always giggle and blush when he'd say that, but deep down she wished she had the courage to cover his mouth and nose with a chloroform-soaked rag, and then, while he was unconscious, snip off his testicles with the little scissors she uses to groom her schnauzer.

All of which explains why the next sentence popped into my head recently.

Nobody sang Bee Gees songs on karaoke night like Dudley."

.........

I want to go back to Indiana.

Enough said for now, I'll ruminate on this statement later.

Connecting with an old friend

After over two years of not talking to to him, I sent that email back on Oct 4th. I have to tell you that it was a very hard thing for me to do and I cried buckets in my wife's arms that night.

(random macho posturing for admitting that I cried)

A few days passed and I got a response back from him and it was one of confusion, hurt and pain. He asked some questions about why now and some other pointed ones, to which I'm proud to say I answered honestly and openly, even as hard as it was for me.

We met up for lunch and it was like we had just seen each other just a few weeks ago. We did a lot of catch up on family, life changes, the economy etc. The one thing we never did talk about was why we hadn't talked... strike that, why I had cut him out of my life.

See even now, I'm trying to minimize the fact that I was the one that cut him out. Yes, I did it because of something he said to me at the time, but I'll get into that in another post. I really just want to bask in the comfortable feeling that see him, sharing laughs and yes, even disagreeing about somethings brought back.

That being said, we parted on good terms and I did email him later about the fact that we never did bring up or discuss the reason for our estrangement. I'll paraphrase his response, but it breaks down to this:

Ya, we didn't talk about it. Maybe someday we will and maybe someday we won't. I'm just glad to have you back in my life.


True friendship can overcome stupid.

-O-boy