Multiple choice questions

1. Which of the following possibly does not qualify for an insurance-covered flu shot, depending on the insurance company?

a) Pregnant women
b) Individuals under the age of 18
c) Individuals over the age of 50
d) Mothers in their thirties with several children who need to be fed and told to bathe and/or bathed and be provided with clean laundry and rushed through busy mornings so they don't miss the bus

2. Which of the following in my house has/have had a flu shot?

a) All individuals under the age of 18
b) The 50-year-old individual
c) The cat
d) The mother in her thirties with several children who need to be fed and told to bathe and/or bathed and be provided with clean laundry and rushed through busy mornings so they don't miss the bus

3. Who in my house has been sick since the end of December?

a) The cat
b) The 14-year-old
c) The fish
d) Everyone else

4. What is the average number of times each sick person has gotten sick WITHOUT more than a single day of feeling better in between?

a) 2
b) 1.5
c) 1.6
d) 3

5. Who, while still on antibiotics for the first illness, has now come down with what is quite possibly the flu?

a) The father
b) One of the kids
c) The cat
d) The mother in her thirties with several children who need to be fed and told to bathe and/or bathed and be provided with clean laundry and rushed through busy mornings so they don't miss the bus

6. Who has determined that priority one is NOT getting the mother better (that is priority TWO), but is rather to NOT get HIM sick?

I'm not even going to give you choices for this one; just take a wild guess.

Reality TV contestant

I was going to save this question for my MEGA MEGA MEGA PiF contest coming up soon, but I want to go ahead and ask. If you could be on a Reality TV show (of the competition variety), which one would it be?

I am DYING to be on The Mole. I want to be the actual mole, not just a contestant on the show. I'd be good at it. I have a trustworthy face. A lawyer once told me that I had the kind of face and personality she liked to put on the stand because people would believe whatever came out of my mouth. People just don't see me as underhanded. So I could totally do it.

Another show I'd like to try is "The Amazing Race." That just looks FUN. I'd need a partner, though. My husband couldn't handle the zip lining across the canyon of death type stuff. He's not a fan of heights and/or roller-coaster type thingies. I, on the other hand LOVE and ADORE roller-coaster type thingies. So who wants to partner up? Under our names, they could put "Blog buddies."

Inane rambling thoughts...

Religion fascinates me. And the terminology and practices do as well. Historical and theological reasons for those practices, whether something is tradition or dogma, the fact that so many know so little about whatever religion they practice - all of that fascinates me. I try to avoid discussion of religion in this forum (or anywhere for that matter) because it is a topic extremely personal to so many. HOWEVER, I've been thinking...

Isn't it funny that only a Catholic is ever considered "lapsed"? Even the definition of the word lapsed from the online Miriam-Webster dictionary uses "lapsed Catholic" as the example of the use of the word.

But the definition is not exclusive of other uses, so why have I never heard of a lapsed Lutheran? Or a lapsed Methodist? What about a lapsed Hindu? Lapsed Buddist? Muslim? Jew? Certainly I've never heard of a lapsed satanist. If someone doesn't believe in any sort of god whatsoever, and then he changes his mind, could he be called a lapsed atheist? If someone finally made a commitment one way or the other, would he be a lapsed agnostic?

And I've only ever heard of a Christian being "born again." When really that would be more fitting for a Hindu.

These are the things that go on in my head. Triggered by someone's simple use of "lapsed Catholic." Used to be, I would just think this stuff and go on about my day, but NOW I can subject you all to my inane rambling thoughts. And ask: What inane rambling thoughts do you have? And if you were a lapsed something, what would it be? I'm most definitely a lapsed worker-outer. And a lapsed healthy eater. I really need to fix that.