{"id":1184,"date":"2006-09-27T11:43:28","date_gmt":"2006-09-27T18:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=1184"},"modified":"2006-09-27T11:43:28","modified_gmt":"2006-09-27T18:43:28","slug":"tender-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/?p=1184","title":{"rendered":"tender moments."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/94\/252633650_91ff4f0cbc.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last weekend Dan (my ex &#8212; who had all the kids that weekend) came over and asked us if we wanted to to go to San Fran. with him and seeing that we were doing that &#8216;humming and hawing&#8217; thing we do so well everytime someone comes over and we can&#8217;t figure out what to do to entertain them, we decided to follow him.\u00a0 Old &#038; Broken Fonz in tow.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, i&#8217;m coming clean here. The medication SUCKS. I don&#8217;t want to do anything anymore. I don&#8217;t even have the desire to go out and take pictures, BUT the house is staying clean because something in the pill makes me cringe at the sight of a pile of papers.<br \/>\nI handed Kathy the camera and let her take pictures.\u00a0\u00a0 She got a lot of great ones, but then she started to complain that it was too heavy and gave it back to me.\u00a0 I seriously took maybe 20 pictures all weekend.<br \/>\nI have this thing, I think I can fix people.\u00a0 I think I JUST MIGHT have all the answers.\u00a0 I want to make everything better for everyone else.<br \/>\nI am the human crash test dummy. I have been there, done that, got the t-shirt.\u00a0 I figure since I have already hit the airbag and flown through the windshield that there is NO reason why you should have to. Just listen to me and I will fix you. I will take your broken hand I will fix it with my own.<br \/>\nYes, I might be THAT vain.<\/p>\n<p>My sister caught this moment on camera.\u00a0 Me telling my mother who has beaten 5 children into great adults, killed two ex husbands and probably ran over at least a dozen pedestrians to give me her gentle hand so I can fix it.\u00a0 I put her cold hand in my own and I rubbed it softly.\u00a0 &#8220;Better.&#8221;\u00a0 &#8220;No.&#8221; I would rub some more and keep asking. She finally said, &#8220;Yes.&#8221; and I think it was so I would let her go whimper under the bench in pain.<\/p>\n<p>As we were downloading the pictures and I was &#8216;awwwing&#8217; over the shot Kathy had gotten, I noticed the other people in the picture.<br \/>\nHELLO, is she wearing GREEN TIGHTS and PUMPS?<\/p>\n<p>Now don&#8217;t judge me.\u00a0 I&#8217;m the person that would be ambushed in the mall for a &#8216;What the hell were you thinking when you dressed yourself this morning?&#8217; show.\u00a0 I am the reason the word &#8220;Fugly&#8221; exisists.\u00a0 Someone walked into my closet and said, &#8220;WHOA, where did you get all this Fu*** Ugly Sh**?&#8221;<br \/>\nI am the reason those reality shows do so well, because I can&#8217;t dress myself, but HELLO?? GREEN TIGHTS AND PUMPS?<\/p>\n<p>My broken mom left me a pair of pants she doesn&#8217;t like because they have no pockets and I think a shirt that my sister picked out for her.<br \/>\nWhen my friend Nancy saw me she summed it up pretty well, &#8216;it&#8217;s as if your mother and sister had a child and this is the result.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>I am my mother and sister&#8217;s daughter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend Dan (my ex &#8212; who had all the kids that weekend) came over and asked us if we wanted to to go to San Fran. with him and seeing that we were doing that &#8216;humming and hawing&#8217; thing we do so well everytime someone comes over and we can&#8217;t figure out what to do to entertain them, we decided to follow him.\u00a0 Old &#038; Broken Fonz in tow. Okay, i&#8217;m coming clean here. The medication SUCKS. I don&#8217;t want to do anything anymore. I don&#8217;t even have the desire to go out and take pictures, BUT the house is staying clean because something in the pill makes me cringe at the sight of a pile of papers. I handed Kathy the camera and let her take pictures.\u00a0\u00a0 She got a lot of great ones, but then she started to complain that it was too heavy and gave it back to me.\u00a0 I seriously took maybe 20 pictures all weekend. I have this thing, I think I can fix people.\u00a0 I think I JUST MIGHT have all the answers.\u00a0 I want to make everything better for everyone else. I am the human crash test dummy. I have been there, done that, got the t-shirt.\u00a0 I figure since I have already hit the airbag and flown through the windshield that there is NO reason why you should have to. Just listen to me and I will fix you. I will take your broken hand I will fix it with my own. Yes, I might be THAT vain. My sister caught this moment on camera.\u00a0 Me telling my mother who has beaten 5 children into great adults, killed two ex husbands and probably ran over at least a dozen pedestrians to give me her gentle hand so I can fix it.\u00a0 I put her cold hand in my own and I rubbed it softly.\u00a0 &#8220;Better.&#8221;\u00a0 &#8220;No.&#8221; I would rub some more and keep asking. She finally said, &#8220;Yes.&#8221; and I think it was so I would let her go whimper under the bench in pain. As we were downloading the pictures and I was &#8216;awwwing&#8217; over the shot Kathy had gotten, I noticed the other people in the picture. HELLO, is she wearing GREEN TIGHTS and PUMPS? Now don&#8217;t judge me.\u00a0 I&#8217;m the person that would be ambushed in the mall for a &#8216;What the hell were you thinking when you dressed yourself this morning?&#8217; show.\u00a0 I am the reason the word &#8220;Fugly&#8221; exisists.\u00a0 Someone walked into my closet and said, &#8220;WHOA, where did you get all this Fu*** Ugly Sh**?&#8221; I am the reason those reality shows do so well, because I can&#8217;t dress myself, but HELLO?? GREEN TIGHTS AND PUMPS? My broken mom left me a pair of pants she doesn&#8217;t like because they have no pockets and I think a shirt that my sister picked out for her. When my friend Nancy saw me she summed it up pretty well, &#8216;it&#8217;s as if your mother and sister had a child and this is the result.&#8217; I am my mother and sister&#8217;s daughter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomandodd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}