^^Good luck!

Ebaying is addictive and my Dad is cracking me up. "Only 36 points until I get my turquoise star!" I swear we are going to start seeing things from our house suddenly disappear and reappear on Ebay.

They didn't say what bird it was, and if they did, I missed it. I didn't catch the whole thing, but yeah, the birds were small in size compared to him/her. They must be some dumb birds if she can't see that her own kids are missing. LOL. I think I would target them too if I knew she couldn't tell the difference between my kid and her kids. Yeah, he killed all of her kids for his own survival. That's low down.

I learned something new. I always thought parasites were worms and other things that lived off of other people. I hope I don't have anything living on/in me. And you would think our immune system would be able to get rid of that mess.

That sounds adorable. I REALLY want a Dane/lab mix but who knows when I'll have the space/funds for a dog like that. One day though...and I'm naming him Max. :)

i hope this becomes true for you. this year my parents went back to jamaica for the holidays so i spent it with my bf. i was a little bit sad and thankfully he was able to make it a little enjoyable. my big was gonna take pity on my and invite me to her fam...but it'd be a little weird imo.

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I don't know why, but you are making me laugh really hard right now. You are so paranoid.:) They're able to get by because they have a lot of ways of fooling our immune system. Like a tapeworm for example. You know, the really long worm that lives in your intestines. Well, actually before that happens, they first need to spend some time in an intermediate host, and it's usually an animal such as a pig. And you eat a lot of pork, PB. Do your "chitlins" ring a bell? Well, the pig swallows the eggs with its food, and parasites hatch once they get into the intestines. They use enzymes to dig a hole in the intestines and wriggle their way out. Once they reach a capillary, they ride the bloodstream through the body to a muscle or an organ. Once they get to that point, they settle down, and they start to grow into a marble like cyst. It's here, in these cysts where they wait for their final host (PB). And they can wait for PB, and anyone else in these things for years. If pigs were the only places where tapeworms spent their cyst years, we'd probably know nothing about how they survive the immune system. But sometimes, the eggs end up in people, like you, PB. Actually PB, you have to be careful, because a person with a full grown tapeworm living inside of him/her may get eggs on his hands and then make food for other people. The eggs proceed to act as if they're in a pig, they hatch, and the larvae go through the same steps of breaking out of the intestines and finding a home somewhere in the body, sometimes the eye or the brain. They make the cyst I was telling you about and depending on where they happen to settle, it could be harmless or fatal. If a tapeworm presses against blood vessels, it can kill off tissue, and if it causes inflamation in the brain, it can trigger epileptic seizures. If it fiinds a safe spot, it may go unnoticed for years. So, all of those "shitlins" that you eat..well...I'm sure you know the rest. You may have a 60 foot friend living with you, going to work with you, sleeping with you, etc.

And my mom is staring at me because I'm literally on my knees laughing so hard at you. Hilarious! Did I scare you? Hmm?:)

Haha, I have since then.

I took her to dinner, dipshit. What did you do for Christmas? Jack off?

How much is the bid up to?

If this isn't a joke, if you didn't scare him, you just scared the shit out of me. I eat my meat medium rare all the time. I take it they teach you this shit at the school you attend.

That is awesome. Good luck!

So far only 22.93, but I still have over 2 days to go. I was lucky that the person who put it up didn't realize how much money it was potentially worth and set the initial bid for only 5.

Yeah, I was going to mention that. I was thinking he would have started much higher for something with that much history behind it. Good luck, dude. I hope you get it.

Kinda. What I posted does happen, and can happen, but I was just posting it for him, because I know it freaks him out..

And yes, I've done my share of parasitology research, labs, and courses.

Great. My hair dryer blew a fuse and knocked out all the power in the back of the house. I feel like a blow dryer shouldn't be powerful enough to do that...

Haha. I have a curiosity question. I'll pm it to you. You don't have to go into details, just a simple yes or no.

Ugh, that used to happen to me all the time! When we did some remodeling we decided to split up the circuits, because it seemed there was too much stuff on just one. Maybe that's what happened to you?

I feel like saying that though I can't wait to get back, I'm only staying up late because I am still trying to savor the moments I have left here, and yes, I am going to miss my mom.:(