I read a blog about a woman with two special needs children yesterday. One of her daughters is deaf, and the other one has cerebral palsy. She commented that in order to move on with her life, her and her husband decided to pretend as though their children had no special needs, and in this way they are able to cope much better with the day to day struggles.
Luckily for me, Fitz-G's deafness is not as big of a hurdle to her enjoying a happy and relatively obstacle free life since dogs can't talk or be talked to except for simple commands that are just as easily communicated with hand gestures. So, really, her not barking very often and being able to walk around the entire block with out being bothered by another dog are kind of benefits, at least in my opinion. However, there are some things that are frustrating. Like, when she licks every single person who ever wakes up next to me until they are literally jumping out of bed to escape her. She's into morning action, what can I say? I'm the same way.
That's one way to tell if someone really likes you: if they put up with a face wash from your dog (who, as all dogs do, licks her own butt), and then they are still up for hot morning sex. Hmmmm. I'm still trying to locate a guy who fits that description.
My mom was telling me about (bear with me, I wasn't really listening very carefully because I was in the middle of texting my ex about my car keys) Gods in the Indian culture last night. In particular, the God Ganesh(a)? The Elephant God I believe. People pray to him (her?) to remove obstacles.
If I believed in God, or Gods, I doubt if I would pray for obstacles to be removed. Obstacles are kind of entertaining (insert quote here about how humans constantly need conflict.) What they really need is a God who can throw in some laundry, give a good mani pedi, or do hair and makeup, now that would save me some time.
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