you just never know...

a few weeks ago a friend told me that Mercury was in Retrograde, and the stars were all out of whack for her for the next month or so. for me, who does not believe in all that hocus pocus celestial stuff, i was like okay, hope the stars realign. but after a few weeks i started to really see what she was talking about. it wasn't just her stars that weren't aligned, it was everyone! i still may not believe in the whole astrology thing, but something has been seriously wrong lately.

it started a little over a month ago with the news of an old friend finding out he had cancer, and then another friend explained the whole mercury thing, and then another friend thought she lost someone, and then it happened to me...last wednesday my dad went in for a visit with the cardiologist (he had been having problems for a while and not telling anyone tsk tsk Dad) who told him they wanted to go in and check things out. so, on friday he went in for what was suppose to be a routine cardiac cath, but ended spending the entire weekend in ICU waiting for his now scheduled triple by-pass on monday morning. and now it's monday and my dad is out of surgery (which ended up being a quadruple by-pass) and "resting". i like how they say it's resting when you still have a giant ass tube stuck down your throat and an incision the size of my forearm on your chest, but my mom says he's "looking good". i guess what i'm saying is that you never know what's going to happen, with or without a planet being in retrograde, so hug your babies tight and call your momma....