Thank you, Mr. Rogers.

So I had a tooth out on Thursday, in prep for the bone-building pills. I also found out why you have to have dental work done before you start the shots. You will not heal as well or at all if you are already getting the meds in the shot. My doctor neglected to explain this to me. The dentist who did the work is an MD, DMD, and FACS as well as a tooth-puller. 🙂 Last time I had dental work, just getting the Novocaine was excruciatingly painful, barely felt it this time. Who your dentist/doctor is really matters, it seems. The whole tooth out thing took two seconds. I swear. I was stunned. I had pain meds that afternoon, and have been pain free ever since with no meds. I think I lucked out getting sent to this guy.

I came across this on Tumblr today:

It occurred to me that it must be extremely stressful, as well as eating you from the inside, to live with so much hate, and to have to be constantly on guard against black rabbits marrying white rabbits and other such horrific happenings. I am so glad my mother raised me to not be prejudiced.

If your pizza looked anything like this:

Instead of that dry, practically sauceless, practically cheeseless bread I got last time, I might consider ordering from you again. Until then, ciao.

This was on The Backlot, from Newsweek, originally.
“There is a simple solution for Christians and other religious sects who feel oppressed by gay marriage: If they want to refuse to provide services for a gay wedding—or for gays at all—let them. Except first, they have to take a quiz about their religion and then deny services to every sinner identified in their Holy Scriptures—otherwise, they are using faith as a front for bigotry. Don’t want to bake a cake for a gay wedding? Then no cakes for second marriages of divorced women (Matthew 5:32); or for weddings where people get drunk (1 Peter 4:3); or banquets where the hosts failed to invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind (Luke 14:13); or for women who prayed at a religious ceremony without their heads covered (1 Corinthians 11:6). In other words, these bakers have to close their businesses since, by their own scriptures, everyone is a sinner. Or they can admit their hypocrisy—which the Bible says repeatedly is a huge sin.”

I found this here:
upworthy

It is kind of hard to understand what they are saying, and the closed captioning sucks, but you don’t really need the words.  I’d class this under my ‘good stuff’ Tumblr tag, because compassion. It made me want to cry, though.

If you saw my previous Long Winter post, here’s a picture from today. The trees have been blooming just a few days, and I hope you can see the leaves already appearing, as opposed to it being almost two weeks of bloom in 2010. This is the most extreme behaviour in the fifteen years I’ve lived here. You can see the leaves on the top of the right-hand tree.

Here’s what it looked like in 2010, before the assholes butchered the trees last year. The town has really fallen down on keeping things going well in the past few years. They only plow some parts of the sidewalks on some streets, and none at all on others. They have always plowed the sidewalks well until about five years ago. It’s very disappointing to see them just let things go, and to allow highway department employees who haven’t a clue what they are doing to butcher trees. Yes, I am still angry about it. Jerks.

The trees across the street are blooming. It’s May 2. Here they are in 2010. April 8th.

And here they are April 21, 2010. Leaves are popping out.

This:
“The suggestion that opposition to same-sex marriage has been silenced due to bullying rings untrue. Instead, the opposition wants to speak without having to encounter a response. That isn’t free speech. Free speech is not speech without consequence or response. Free speech does not provide a platform from which others must only listen.”

is from here:

http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/26/opinions/holbrook-marriage-equality/index.html

Just read that the six policemen have been charged with murder. It’s about time this shit was taken seriously by TPTB. It makes me so sad to have to accept that this is my country today. Police are meant to look after us, help keep us safe, not use their positions to persecute, and apparently, murder us. It is an accident of birth that I am white. It does not make me superior to anyone else on the planet. In a just world, it would only mean that I am more prone to sunburn, not that it gives me license to persecute those who do not look like me, believe what I believe, eat what I eat, whatever. Someone just Tumblr’d that hamburg thing where the wrapper was different but the burger inside was exactly the same, to make the point. Get the point, people. Please. Get the point.

Proud