or take a road trip with your significant other with a cold Pepsi, a cold Coke, and a bought on the road snack.....

Yeah bitchez, I'm twirling my damn hair. Wot ya gonna do, eh?

and I was just thinking when I took the last issue out of the mailbox....yeah, Princess Kate is beautiful, but HOW many covers does she deserve? her horrid 3 month morning sickness FINALLY ended. " she slogged her way through a second battle of hyperemesis gravidarum.." translation: severe morning sickness. I did it 3 times, without a nanny and royal staff, and twice while holding down full time very blue collar jobs. I never required bed rest or I.V. therapy. you just do it. was I on the cover of People? no. I am not pretty enough or famous enough or interesting enough to be on the cover of anything. do I feel bad for her? yeah. I know it sucks. I didn't lay on the floor of a palace bathroom. I laid on the cement hallway in a 'vertically integrated swine whatever the new name for factory farm is' or the visitors bathroom at the nursing home where I worked or on the bathroom floor at home because it was cooler on the floor and then I'd get up and go. does this make me a better person than a princess? of course not. she has put it out there that not all mommies are glowing and beautiful and the picture of health. some of us look like hell....dark circles under our vacant, dead eyes, hair lackluster, skin grayish. a pinched look to our face. saltines at the ready. no long car rides. no shopping trips. just doing the absolute necessities. A-B-S-O-L-U-T-E.

were my kids worth it? definitely. would I do it all again? in a heartbeat. will I bitch about it until I die (and even after, if anyone ever stumbles onto my blog?) it's what I do.

Royals 3-Giants 2 bottom of the 7th, game three World Series.

cousin Jerry is a Giants fan. cousin Shawn is a Royals fan. My grandpa Vermal was SUCH a Royals fan. I have never been to a game. Katie, Ian, Koren, & Cody have. It's on my to-do list. I hope they win! how awesome would that be? all us Axsom girls had matching Royals t shirts when we were kids. and Grandpa always had RC in the fridge....and they usually had Royals players pictures on them! They went to the World Series in 1985...the year Koren was born.

I'm feeling like a cool mom....there are 4 legal age boys in my basement playing beer pong....they set up a table with card tables and an old closet door...I was quite proud of their ingenuity!...

came SO close to plowing a huge deer taking kate to fb game...I was just zoned out.

Rachel had an emergency c section today...Solomon Slyvia Lee has arrived! so...Rachel made it to her well deserved maternity leave. I am so happy for her! But feel a bit guilty that I didn't get her baby gifts to her before baby came...will have to figure out where she lives and take them to her when they get home. I am all alone in the dark watching Ghost Stalkers. Tony wanted next weekend off, so I switched him last minute. I am SOOOO freakin' tired. I need a couple of days off!

baby Ian goes trick-or-treatin'...

I love American Horror Story! last year they gave us The Axman, who was real (or urban legend real) and this year:

Edward Mordake

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For the American Horror Story: Freak Show episode, see Edward Mordrake.

Edward Mordrake was the name given to an apocryphal 19th-century heir to an unspecified English peerage who was said to have suffered from a form of Diprosopus. According to sources, he had, on the back of his head, an extra face which could neither eat nor speak out loud, although it was described as being able to laugh and cry. Edward reportedly begged doctors to have his "Demon face" removed, claiming that it whispered to him at night, but no doctor would attempt it. He committed suicide when he was 23 years old. [1]

The story has been disputed in the past and was likely at least enriched with fictional elements.[2] The description of Edward Mordrake's condition is somewhat similar to those of Chang Tzu Ping[3] and Pasqual Pinon. Both Mordrake and Pinon are featured as the "2 Very Special Cases" on a list of "10 People With Extra Limbs or Digits" in 1976 edition of The Book of Lists.[4]

The 1896 text Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine mentions a version of the story,[1] and Mordrake has been featured in many texts, plays, and songs.[5]

This is the story as told in Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine:[1]

"One of the weirdest as well as most melancholy stories of human deformity is that of Edward Mordrake, said to have been heir to one of the noblest peerages in England. He never claimed the title, however, and committed suicide in his twenty-third year. He lived in complete seclusion, refusing the visits even of the members of his own family. He was a young man of fine attainments, a profound scholar, and a musician of rare ability. His figure was remarkable for its grace, and his face — that is to say, his natural face — was that of an Antinous. But upon the back of his head was another face, that of a beautiful girl, 'lovely as a dream, hideous as a devil'. The female face was a mere mask, 'occupying only a small portion of the posterior part of the skull, yet exhibiting every sign of intelligence, of a malignant sort, however'. It would be been seen to smile and sneer while Mordrake was weeping. The eyes would follow the movements of the spectator, and the lips 'would gibber without ceasing'. No voice was audible, but Mordrake avers that he was kept from his rest at night by the hateful whispers of his 'devil twin', as he called it, 'which never sleeps, but talks to me forever of such things as they only speak of in Hell. No imagination can conceive the dreadful temptations it sets before me. For some unforgiven wickedness of my forefathers I am knit to this fiend — for a fiend it surely is. I beg and beseech you to crush it out of human semblance, even if I die for it.' Such were the words of the hapless Mordrake to Manvers and Treadwell, his physicians. In spite of careful watching, he managed to procure poison, whereof he died, leaving a letter requesting that the 'demon face' might be destroyed before his burial, 'lest it continues its dreadful whisperings in my grave.' At his own request he was interred in a waste place, without stone or legend to mark his grave."

In popular culture[edit]

Tom Waits wrote a song about Mordrake titled "Poor Edward" for his album Alice (2002).[6]

A US thriller film named Edward Mordrake, and based on the story, is scheduled for a 24 October 2014 release.[7]

Two episodes of the FX anthology series American Horror Story: Freak Show have the titles "Edward Mordrake, Pt. 1" and "Edward Mordrake, Pt. 2",[8] the first of which aired on October 22, 2014. Wes Bentley is portraying Mordrake in the series.

See also: Diprosopus; Craniopagus parasiticus; Polycephaly.

Kate had a rough day.

she is panicked that she'll be the only 16 year old without a car. she is memorizing her FFA speech, has to record her Veteran speech, will have to get the FBLA speech together. she is dealing with geometry, a boyfriend, and dance practice. she gets overwhelmed. happens to the best of us. she stresses out. she is a perfectionist. she is very hard on herself. all I could do when she got home was give her a hug and make her supper.