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13-JUL-2004

13th July 2004 - creeping cancer

Everything
Everything gives you cancer
Everything
Everything gives you cancer
There's no cure, there's no answer
Everything gives you cancer

I’ve had a ‘bellyful’ today of people telling me what I can and can’t do ‘for my own good’. I’m sick to the back teeth of doing things that are ‘for my own good’ and have decided to rebel. I’m going to do exactly as I please for the foreseeable future and to hell with the consequences. I’m going to run with the hounds of hell and enjoy myself. I’m going to think of no-one other than myself and I’m going to forget what can hurt me or what can lead to ill-health and do ‘em anyway..

Sometimes it’s all you can do to build back some equilibrium in this crazy, mixed-up world. So, if I want to use my mobile phone (that I’m not supposed to use) then I will. If I want to have a few glasses of wine while eating a chip butty and puffing on my 40th fag of the day, I will. If I want to lie in the sun, with no protection at all then I will.

Sorry guys, it’s been one of those days today…..if Jude and Jeanne hadn’t already done ‘the finger’ yesterday, then it might have appeared here tonight!!!

So, pass me that bottle opener and get that deep fat fryer on, I’m going to have a good evening……….

(Oh and Mum, no, I haven’t started to smoke, it’s a staged shot again……..)




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linda h 14-Jul-2004 22:08
I love coffee and red wine and butter.....but not usually in the same glass! Does that make it OK then...?
Gayle P. Clement14-Jul-2004 02:47
If this would just make up their mind! Alchohol's bad for you, a glass of wine each day is good. Hormones prevent heart attacks, hormones cause heart attacks. Sun's bad for you, you need sunshine each day... Shoot, I'm ranting. Sorry. Thanks for the relief.
jude13-Jul-2004 21:48
Good for you Linda.. and I agree totally. I work so hard to do whatever it is that's "best" ... but it's never enough. I want to LIVE ... of course i dont want a big ass so I'll watch it there..LMAO.
So i'll continue to drink a little wine at night... to indulge in chocolate once a year ... to add a carbohydrate to my meal on every 3rd sunday. OMG I'm brainwashed!
Gary Blanchette13-Jul-2004 19:54
The way I look at it, by the time a person is old enough to come to understand the cause and affect, the damage is irreparable anyway...
Dennis Steinauer13-Jul-2004 19:44
I live ten miles from the National Institutes of Health, and I have it on best authority (i.e., not from anyone in the Bush White House) that the following are now true:

- Coffee (plain ol' and expresso) won't hurt you -- hey, how could a good cup of coffee hurt anyone?

- Shaving your legs (or whatever), with or without the Gillette stuff won't hurt you unless you're using a straight razor -- or are letting some guy do it for you.

- Wine (red or white) -- and beer, won't hurt you -- they're good for you, for God's sake! (Sake's ok, too.)

- Cell phones can't hurt you (i.e., fry your brain), nor will driving with a cell phone (assuming someone else is using it.)

- Hair spray won't hurt you, unless you drink it. But, you're drinking wine anyway.

- Tampons won't hurt you -- unless you give the package to some guy thinking he's getting a cigarette (and he lights it). (Sorry about that one, from the thumbnail, that blue packet looked like, ... well, sometimes I a little slow on the uptake. Besides, who markets cigarettes in a tampon purse. You Brits are strange sometimes.

- Bad humor, canoodeling (unless with girlfriend's boyfriend, whitewater rafting, and sky diving can't hurt you either, but the NIH guys would not confirm that.

So, you can tell most of your Cassandra friends to f--- off (quaint Nebraska expression). Now, all I'd worry about are those butty chips (whatever the hell those are!), the sigs you don't smoke anyway, and whatever you do with that deep fryer. I'd say, See you when you're sixty five, but, well, let's just say my gum drop addition will probably have done me in.

Sorry for wasting so many bits.

dds
Herb 13-Jul-2004 19:35
I guess you don't want to die healthy ;-))))
Guest 13-Jul-2004 19:34
You only live once...go for it!
Larry Ahern13-Jul-2004 19:26
I have always felt all babies should be stamped "Caution life leads to death" and that will just about cover it ... and I like babies.
Stu13-Jul-2004 19:23
You know what they say... life has a 100% mortality rate ;-) Even the healthy succumb in the end....
Guest 13-Jul-2004 19:17
"Everything gives you cancer.
There's no cure, there's no answer.
Everything gives you cancer."
~Joe Jackson (Great tune.)

Be sure to add a nice long primal scream to the mix Linda.
Guest 13-Jul-2004 19:08
Here's to rebelling!
Ray :)13-Jul-2004 19:04
You forgot to mention those harmful rays from this sceen I look at for hours each day...
Guest 13-Jul-2004 18:59
Sign me up for a glass of wine, a cell phone chat and something deep fried!! LOL!!

(I'll keep the sunblock though!! Sorry, my job depends on it!)
David Mingay13-Jul-2004 18:57
hmmmm. Can I have extra butter in my coffee today??