Monday, December 29, 2008

Christmas Shoes


6th day of Christmas:


I was forced to listen to that horrible Christmas Shoes song 30 times today and I even had to watch the movie.


THERE'S A MOVIE!!!!!!


I did not know that.


Offspring #6 wants to buy me some shoes. Should I be scared? Is he suggesting that I am going to meet Jesus tonight just like that horrible, horrible song? Who writes a song like this for Christmas? Merry Christmas. Someone's mother is dying and buying shoes for her corpse. Mmmmmm! I want some egg nog with that! Why is the little boy shopping alone? Why is the store keeper not asking, "Hey little boy, where the h_ _ _ are your parents? I'm calling CPS."
And have I mentioned that I haven't slept in like three days because of Offspring #13?
Do you think if I wrote a Christmas song about my coma and dismemberment of my legs, it would be a hit? Maybe I'm onto something ......

Saturday, December 27, 2008

Two Special Gifts

Two "gifts" I got for Christmas:

This shirt from my mother (the worst mother in the world)


My not so darling husband came back because he "missed" me (couldn't get a single date and wanted to see his latest offspring). Offspring #5 told him I had been crying a lot (presumably over him) and she told me we were going to watch the best of the Teletubbies all day together in my room for our 5th day of Christmas togther. In walks my husband. Offspring #5 smiled and ran away.
I'm currently undecided on which is worse - watching 10 straight hours of Teletubbies or the fact that my stretch mark counting serial impregnator is back.

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

The Fourth Day of Christmas

Typing one-handed:

Offspring #4
Me
Steep hill
Innertube
Barbed wire fence
Moguls
One day postpartum
No legs

A recipe for pure joy.

Thursday, December 18, 2008

The Thirteen Days of Christmas

Special time didn't work out as planned for Offspring #3. The stomach pain, the cramping was so horrible and I was sure someone had drugged me with Imodium again somehow. We were supposed to go to the zoo together (sounds innocent, but my offspring know how to turn anything into a nightmare), but I spent hours in the bathroom with him pounding on the door screaming, "MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!! IT'S MY TURN!!!!! WHEN ARE WE GOING TO THE ZOO?!!!! WHEN WHEN WHEN WHEN WHEN WHEN WHEN WHEN WHEN WHEN!!!!!!!! MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!!! YOU PROMISED!!! I WANT TO SEE THE HOWLER MONKEYS!!!! HURRY MOM!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!"

Times that by five hours. I begged my mother (the worst mother in the world) to drive me back to the hospital, but she didn't believe me. I sat on the toilet cramping horribly. Ohhhhhh, the cramping. I thought my last bout with constipation was horrible, but this was 10 times worse! I cried and strained, threw-up, cried some more, strained for probably a couple hours to have a bowel movement, but the only thing that moved was ........












MORE OFFSPRING!!!!!!!!!



OOOOOOOOOOOHHHH MYYYYYYYYYYYYYY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSH!!!!

A little memento from my not so darling husband to remember him by. I should've guessed with my mother (the worst mother in the world) telling me how fat I am much more often than usual. I haven't even named the other 12 yet! It's too hard. Offspring #5 says the baby has my legs. Hardy har har. Maybe this one will like me a little.

Monday, December 15, 2008

Offspring #2

I am still freezing from my outing with Offspring #2. He wanted to do something to raise money to buy me new legs. That sounded sweet until I realized he rented a dunk tank. I doubt I have to explain who the designated dunkee was.

What kind of sick person pays to dunk a woman with no legs? I'm accustomed to my offspring doing horrible things to me, but this caught me a little off guard. Thank goodness most of the would be dunkers had really bad aim. I think I went under maybe 50 times. It could've been much worse. But we made a lot of money because some people wanted lots of chances. 3% of the proceeds are going to my new leg charity. The rest is going to Offspring #2's video game fund.

It's really touching. I know.

Sunday, December 14, 2008

My Big Surprise

I'm not home even 5 minutes before three of my offspring pinned me to the floor and cut my hair off. They beamed proudly, "We wanted to celebrate the true meaning of Christmas by donating your hair to Locks of Love."

How generous and caring of them. It looks like a rat ate my hair off.

So let's do a recap here:

I have no legs, hands with waffle iron burn scars, and no hair. And to cover my hideous head, offspring #4 gave me one of those ugly hats with the neckflap. I feel like I'm all set to start dating as soon as the divorce is final. Does anyone have an attractive picture I could use for Internet dating? My mother (the worst mother in the world) is threatening to put a paper bag over my head like she did when I was born.

As I mentioned, my offspring are doing "The Twelve Days of Christmas" and I am required to spend special time with each of them, starting with #1. He took me ice skating. I got to sit there and watch. Someone brought their dog and it kept sniffing me where I would rather not be sniffed. My first instinct was to kick it and tell it to go away, but the missing legs thing interfered with that plan. So I tried to smack it and he tore my sleeve to shreds. Then he resumed his violating sniffing. Guess who it belonged to? My dumb nurse Tanya! She didn't seem to understand why the sniffing bothered me so much. She thought he was oh so hilarious and friendly.

Offspring #1 offered me a hug. I thought for once I was about to receive a genuine loving gesture, but it was just the easiest way for him to shove snow down the back of my shirt. He then bought me a hot dog, asked me what toppings I wanted (deli mustard and some onion), then he threw it and told me to go fetch. >:( Tanya's dumb dog ate it but at least he stopped sniffing my crotch momentarily. It was the most relaxing 30 seconds I had all day.

Special time is about to start with Offspring #2. I hope it doesn't involve eating because my stomachache is getting worse. No one believes me because of my fake melanoma Sharpie stunt.

Saturday, December 13, 2008

I Hate Tomorrow


I'm running out of tricks and I think my doctors have caught on. I tried drinking some more rancid egg nog my mother (the worst mother in the world) brought me. I vomited into one of those pointless kidney shaped vomit catchers (whatever they're called) that only hold enough vomit for Barbie and maybe a few of her friends (I wish I had friends).


I'm being sent home tomorrow.


Tomorrow! Tomorrow! I hate you, tomorrow! You're only a day away! And I've run out of fake illnesses and must go home to my family so they can try to kill me some more!


I do actually have a bad stomach ache that keeps coming and going, but no one believes me. I have a few more things to add to my Christmas list.


New legs

Shorts (no point wearing long pants with no legs)

Legs (which would create a necessity for pants)

Pants (only if I get the legs)

Mommy Dearest on DVD

Any edible foods (by edible, I mean you can actually chew it, swallow it, and keep it down)

A pill case with a lock on it

Gloves (to cover my unsightly waffle iron burns)

Pepto Bismol

Anything that will distract my 12 offspring from wanting to hurt me for fun


That's all I can think of for now. I have to attempt sleep now. It takes a couple hours to make that happen while my roommate is screaming non-stop. I'm told there is a big surprise waiting for me at home. That can't be good. If I could just contract a serious illness by tomorrow morning ......

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

My Playlist

Listed below are songs that make me cry. They make me cry for different reasons - some of them are just sad, others spark jealousy (like In the Backseat. It's about her mother dying.), others purely suck and draw tears from my eyes, another is so long I can't help but cry. But the song Mother, I feel that guy's pain. I feel like we identify with each other and I just want to meet him so we can hold each other and weep bitterly. I think there is a good chance we would actually fall in love and utilize caller ID, screening both our mothers' (the worst mothers in the world) phone calls as we feed each other chocolate covered strawberries and sip delicious sparkling beverages. I bet he would even bring me some non-dead flowers once in a while.

Will I ever find true love? Could a man so wonderful accept this legless woman with the waffle iron prints burned into her hands? Is there such a person who could take on my 12 offspring?

Dear Santa,

All I want for Christmas is the man of my dreams. Someone who won't impregnate me as many times as humanly possible. Someone who doesn't change jobs 30 times a year. Someone who can afford to move far far away and give me better vacations than my coma. Someone whose favorite passtime isn't counting my stretch marks. I would even settle on someone who can afford Caller ID.

I don't need jewelry. I don't need a big screen TV. Or a Tivo. I just want to be loved.

Sincerely,
Sarah Bird-Butts

Monday, December 8, 2008

The Dreaded Christmas Newsletter

Here it is. My mother (the worst mother in the world) could hardly wait to send out her Christmas newsletter (complete with my Will Smith-like allergic reaction face).

The Bird Family 2008 Christmas Newsletter

Dearest loved ones,


2008 has been another blessed year for me and my family. Of course, it hasn't been without its struggles, but the love we have for each other pulls us through. As I write this, my daughter Sarah sits in a hospital bed having lost her legs, but I have been by her side, bringing her the comforts of home and gifts to warm her spirits (like legwarmers and inedible turkey!). The children and I have such great plans for when she returns. It gives us such joy to see to her every need, administering her medication (the wrong medication!), giving her something to smile about, yet helping her maintain her independence (meaning leaving me stranded in my wheelchair instead of taking me to the doctor, letting the random pervert drive me instead).

In addition to caring for my beloved daughter, I am heavily involved in the community. I started a support group for older women to share our innermost feelings. We share a great bond with each other and come away each week feeling wonderfully uplifted (her group for people who hate their children! Who meet in a bar! And the only member is herself!).

My grandchildren are my pride and joy; full of creativity (yeah, they creatively ran over me), energy (the energy it took to throw me on the train tracks), and you can see the love they have for their mother in her time of need. It is my privilege to raise them during Sarah's absence, but we look forward to her return and we know our prayers will be answered. She will be returned to us just in time for Christmas and her children will get to do the twelve days of Christmas for her; one special day between Mommy and them for each child! I can hardly wait to see the look on her face (she means sheer terror).

May you have a Merry Christmas and a New Year filled with happiness and prosperity.

Julia Bird

P.S. Enclosed is a photo of Sarah during one of the many tragic experiences she has had to endure. Please keep her in your thoughts and prayers.

NOOOOOOOO!!!!!! 12 DAYS OF MY CHILDREN TORTURING ME!!!!! I miss my coma more than ever. See what I mean when I said she would come out smelling like a rose? Her newsletters are deceptively normal. But beneath her phoney, fluffy words lurk the most evil intentions.

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Bless My Dumb Nurse Tanya

Tanya accidentally gave me penicillin again which earned me some extra time in the hospital. Yes! Whatever plans my family had for my homecoming were utterly ruined. I almost died, but it was definitely worth it.

It itches so good.

Monday, December 1, 2008

Early Christmas Gifts

I swear I have the dumbest nurses ever. They are all oohing and ahhing over my mother (the worst mother in the world) and her generosity because of the wonderful early Christmas gifts she brought me. Sounds nice, doesn't it? Who doesn't want an early Christmas gift?

She bought me an ankle bracelet, leg warmers, socks, and some festive stockings that I was begging her for last year.

I HAVE NO LEGS!!!!!!!

Every time we're alone, she laughs at me and says she can't wait for me to come home. Doctor says that will be tomorrow. Not if I have anything to do with it!

Even Better

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Elf Will Smith

Send your own ElfYourself eCards


I'm tired of people sending me this thing so I added this disturbing picture of Will Smith's swollen face. Makes me feel better.

Sunday, November 30, 2008

Thanksgiving Torture

So much for my plans not to eat the horrible Thanksgiving food my mother (the worst mother in the world) cooks. She arranged with the hospital staff to substitute their mediocre food with her vomit inducing feast. The turkey was so dry, parts of it were hard enough to stab the inside of my mouth and it was impossible to swallow. She offered me some moist, disgusting canned jellied cranberry to counteract it and some homemade egg nog that made me violently ill. The mashed potatoes had no butter and what I guesstimate to be about a quarter cup of pepper (she knows how I hate pepper).

Meanwhile, she delievered my screaming roommate a Thanksgiving meal made by a chef. This was to make me look like an ingrate so my roommate would hate me, wondering how I could possibly complain about such a delicious meal. Hers smelled so edible! I don't even want to talk about the difference between the pies we were given. It's too painful for me. I would give my right leg for a decent piece of pie if it weren't gone already.

Next time some horrible thing happens to me like being thrown on the train tracks, I hope it will be far, far away where my wicked mother (the worst mother in the world) can't feed me, laugh at me when I'm swelling like Will Smith in Hitch, and taking pictures of me while I'm constipated on the toilet.

I want my fake legs before Christmas so I can run away to a better place. Like the city dump. Or a mortuary. Or a Rosie O'Donnell variety show. Even her singing is better than that hardened turkey jerky that made the roof of my mouth bleed.

My doctor is coming to talk to me in about 30 minutes to discuss my progress. My offspring are wringing their hands eagerly in anticipation of me possibly coming home. I'm a little nervous about them having had unsupervised reign of the house (like their grandma would ever actually watch them).

Thursday, November 27, 2008

Still Here

Thank goodness for small blessings. I have managed to successfully fake two major illnesses and am still in the hospital. I won't have to worry about my mother (the worst mother in the world) force feeding me candied yams tomorrow or that disgusting canned cranberry with the lines in it. I swear some people feel like it's not Thanksgiving when they don't have a canned shape gelatinous cranberry blob on the table.




I faked a huge melanoma with a Sharpie (had to draw it somewhere they hadn't seen yet) and a cardiac arrest. I grabbed my chest, screamed like my roommate, and pretended to go unconscious. If I could just stay here through Christmas and New Year's, it would be bliss!



My third problem I didn't have to fake. The doctor gave me Penicillin (totally allergic to it) and lots of it. Within minutes I looked like this:



The difference was, I didn't look as male, African American, or stinking rich. Also, I have two fewer legs than Will Smith. He looks like he's saying, "OH MY GOSH I'M GONNA THROW-UP! LOOK HOW UGLY I AM! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!! HIDE ME BEFORE JADA SERVES ME WITH DIVORCE PAPERS!!!!"

My mother (the worst mother in the world) took my picture in my swollen state and is using it for her Christmas card. I'm sure her newsletter will be the usual - a libelous biography of my life this year. She'll come out smelling like a rose as usual.

I'm off to plan my next crisis that will keep me here and away from that torture chamber I call my home.

Friday, November 14, 2008

My Lone Reader

I'm still in the hospital. I spent about an hour drumming my fingers until it got boring (when my roommate wasn't screaming, that is).

I figured I'd take the time to say hi to all one of my readers.


Hi.


My reader seems to want me to diagnose her because she calls herself Diagnose Rachel. First, a disclaimer. I am not a doctor. Now for some exciting guesses.


Having not even heard the symptoms, my educated guess is that she has meniere's disease, salmonella, and a nasty case of bacterial vaginosis. Now take two of these and call me in the morning.


That's Prozac. It works for pretty much everything, except for Worst Mother in the World Syndrome (my mother).
My roommate has overactive bladder and now that she's done hogging the bathroom, I'm going to call my nurse in hopes that someone will drag my legless body to the toilet. I should be getting some new legs soon, but I'm going to fake as many ailments as I can so I won't have to go home anytime soon. As much as I hate my roommate, she hasn't tried to kill me even once.

Monday, November 10, 2008

My Coma: The Best Vacation I've Had in Years

I woke up in the hospital a while ago. I'm a little fuzzy on the details ..... something about my mother (the worst mother in the world), offspring, and a freight train. Why does my coma have to be over?

I have a roommate. I hate her already because she thinks my mother (the worst mother in the world) is the greatest (she knows how to act normal when she wants to). She screams at the top of her lungs every time her IV machine makes a noise because apparently she thinks it's going to kill her. She had a hysterectomy. I want one of those for Christmas followed by a drug induced coma.

My nurse thinks I'm grumpy and keeps telling me THE dumbest knock knock jokes. She's really cheerful. I hate cheerful. Her name is Tanya. Tanya says, "Laughter is the best medicine!"

I'll show you the best medicine.


What the ..... ? Where are my legs? WHERE DID MY MANGLED LEGS GO?!?! Oh, Tanya, throw me a bone! You gotta warn people about these things! Like ... uhhhhh ... hi Mrs. Butts (Yes, that's my last name - shut-up!), you've been in an accident and your legs are gone. Offspring #9 thinks this is the best practical joke ever. He's giggling and high fiving his brother.
My mother (the worst mother in the world) says, "Look on the bright side. You lost about 100 pounds. How much do your arms weigh?"
Oh. My. Gosh. Can you get an insurance policy on arms? It's bad enough that my hand is still severely burned. Offspring #8 told me to hold out my hand and close my eyes because he wanted to give me a big surprise. He then shut my hand in the waffle iron and everyone cheered as they listened to the sound of my sizzling flesh. I cried and prayed for death.
I have to go. Tanya is trying to serve me a tray of garbage they have the nerve to call food.

Sunday, November 2, 2008

When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Lemonade


Just when I thought my mother (the worst mother in the world) couldn't be more evil, she proves me wrong. After a week long battle with diarrhea, she was being "helpful" and picked up a stool sample kit from the doctor and delivered it for me. The whole process is really gross. You have this mini shovel you have to use to collect various parts of your poo of differing consistency, color, etc. and put it in a few different solutions. I don't ever care to get this acquainted with my own waste, but it was medically necessary. Normally it's flush and "Let's pretend we never met. You're seriously gross."


So I'm waiting and waiting and waiting for the results and nothing. Mother said the doctor would give me the results in 5 days. I finally call the doctor's office and his response?

"What stool sample? I didn't get a stool sample. But yes, we could use a stool sample."


I had to do it again! So I did and I had to deliver it in my wheelchair because my mother (the worst mother in the world) wouldn't give me a ride! She had to drive to the opposite side of town for her weekly "Mothers Who Hate Their Children Club". She started the club and so far she's the only member. The meeting is in a bar.


Halfway to my appointment, the battery in my wheelchair died and I was stuck. I couldn't wheel myself manually because my hands are severely burned (that's a whole other story). It was drained from the last time my offspring played "Let's pretend Mom is a speedbump". Even more delightful, I was stuck in front of some pervert's house who told me in a very impolite way that he had always want to mate with a cripple.


Just then, this girl I know Kimberly drives past me, hitting an enormous puddle, drenching me all over. She stops to apologize. I tell her I need a ride. I share my ordeal with her and she has this silly grin on her face the whole time. Then she says, "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade!" Sayings like this and "When life gives your rotten bananas, make banana bread" really tick me off because you know what Kimberly? Sometimes life gives you crap and there aren't any recipes that call for that. But if there are, my mother (the worst mother in the world) would surely feed it to me.
Kimberly didn't give me a ride either. She was late for Jazzercise. The pervert was more than happy to oblige. He said my black and blue legs matched my eyes. I can't believe I got there alive. I stayed at the doctor's office for a long time and paid some kid 50 bucks to tell him I was dead.
The whole day pretty much sucked.

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

A Riddle

What has severe cramping, disfigured legs, and is sitting in its own waste thanks to its offspring giving it a plate full of Ex-lax laden brownies?

ME!

Today sucks.

Monday, October 27, 2008

Seriously Constipated

The doctors gave me some heavy duty painkillers for my massive leg injuries and I wondered why it didn't seem to be helping. I was so looking forward to being knocked out, tuning out my offspring, and not wanting to cut off the lower half of my body. After sitting on the toilet for 5 hours, I took a closer look at my medication.

IT'S IMMODIUM!


I've been taking like 8 of them a day! I think someone has been taking lessons from my mother (the worst mother in the world). She has been looking suspiciously relaxed, come to think of it.
Look at all the bills I got today! Look how upset I am. My nails look kind of nice, but my hair sucks and I'm buried in debt! And I still have a rotary phone! WHYYYYYYYYYY!!!!! Oh please, make this stop! I need a job! I need a husband! I need offspring who don't hate me! I need my mother (the worst mother in the world) to die already! I NEED TO POOOOOOO!!!!! I need legs that aren't worthless, bloody stumps!


Offspring #1 just offered to make me some special brownies. Do I want them? I don't think I do.

What should I be for Halloween? It needs to be something that can't walk and screams a lot.

Sunday, October 26, 2008

Duct Tape

I was afraid my offspring were going to bind and gag me. Don't I wish. Well, they did at first, but they took it off as soon as they were done using the duct tape to rip the hair out of my mangled legs. Offspring #2 said, "You can't expect to find us a replacement dad with those hairy legs."

Then offspring #1 opened my bedroom window in our 30 degree weather and I said, "I won't be finding you a replacement dad if I'm dead from hypothermia." Then he threw a bucket of cold water on me and ran away laughing. I wish I could walk again. I might be looking at amputation. Offspring #3 asked if they could keep my legs as a souvenier. I'm willing them to my mother (the worst mother in the world). Not my legs. My offspring. I guess I might as well will both of them to her. I'm also leaving her my crippling debt.

Offspring #5 just vomited all over me and took about 30 minutes identifying each and every object before he finally gave me some Q-tips to clean it up with.

I think this is pretty much the worst day of my life until tomorrow.

My Crippled Legs

Church was horrible today. Offspring #4, 5, and 6 dumped me out of my wheelchair in the foyer when no one was around and took turns running over my already pulverized legs. My mother (the worst mother in the world) paid them a dollar every time they did it.

Now they're asking me if we can go buy a Wii with their money. If I tell them no, I'm afraid of what they might do to me.


This is what they brought me for lunch:

How very sweet of them. Oh no. What are they doing with that roll of duct tape?

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Happy Freaking Anniversary

It's our 10th anniversary and my not so darling husband brings me some wilted roses (see right) and a card that says, "These flowers are shriveled and dead like our love. Let's celebrate this day by signing these divorce papers." I said, "I'll tell ya what they're shriveled like ....."

He wants the house in exchange for giving me full custoday of all 12 of our offspring. I think I missed something. How is that a good deal?


I forgot to mention, those darling offspring backed over me yesterday with our giant van and no I am not OK, so don't ask. Offspring #3 thought it would be a good joke to tell me the $500 cash I lost was underneath it. He's still bitter about that day we were out of cheese. I'm bitter about my legs being crushed into an unrecognizable pulp.


My mother (the worst mother in the world) called to gloat and told me, "This is what you get for reproducing." Maybe you're thinking she's wise, but did you know she replaced my birth control pills with baby aspirin like 12 times just to torture me? I have my eye on a few nursing homes, like this one.

I like how it almost looks like a prison.

Friday, October 24, 2008

Wrong Place at the Wrong Time

One of my offspring escaped the other night. In my attempt to not be the worst mother in the world (my mother), I ran after them. A helicopter circled overhead and a nearby road was blocked by the police, but I didn't think much of it as I frantically tried to retrieve offspring #7. All of a sudden I heard a voice bellow, "THERE HE IS! GET HIM!" Just then, I felt the most horrible stinging pain in both buttcheeks and went into a mini-convulsion.

Yes, I got tased in the behind.

The worst part about this? I am not a man!

After the police realized their blunder, they apologized and continued their search for the mass murderer in the area. I laid there cold, weeping, and in a puddle. Offspring #7 sat on me and laughed.

Then he ran away again.

My Birth, My Mother

I was born after 74 hours of violent back labor, leaving me with two black eyes, a broken nose, and my mother screaming, "WHAT IS THAT THING? SEND IT BACK!" The doctor said that would cost her double, so she declined.


During activities that required my face to be uncovered, she wore a blindfold. Otherwise I wore a paper bag on my head with a picture of a baby on it she wouldn't want to have been shoved back into her womb.

I almost come close to smiling when I think about how I'm going to bury the old bat in a paper bag with a picture of the mother I always wanted.



This is my brother. He was never good enough for her either.

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

The Hell That is My Life

I am seriously so not blessed. Every day, something horrible happens to me. Just watch. Today I lost my favorite scrunchie, my closet door fell and ripped my toenail off, and I fell down two flights of stairs. OWWWWWW!!!! Make that three flights of stairs! (I like to blog on the run.) The neighbors are laughing at me. I hate them so very, very much.

My life sucks and I want my toenail back. I'm going to have to paint my other toenails blood red to match.

Time to feed my whiney offspring. We're out of cheese. They told me I'm the worst mother on earth. No, that would be my mother. More on that later.