I got BURNED!

Well, not really, but the store did.

My parents' business, which they've owned since 1990, burned to the ground on Sunday evening. Good thing my dad wasn't alive to see it. He would've freaked.

But my manager thinks maybe my dad was posthumously behind the whole thing in order to keep Evil Stepwitch from profiting from it. Good theory.

:-)

Poor Patrick Swayze

According to some news reports, Patrick Swayze has pancreatic cancer. Apparently it was first reported in the National Enquirer, so obviously people don't really take it seriously... but a few years ago, I remember seeing a N.E. cover in the supermarket about how Peter Jennings had "days left" because he was dying of cancer, and I was like, "No way." And then he died like a week later! Who even knew he was sick? The National Enquirer did!

Some reports say that Patrick Swayze has five weeks to live. Man. That might be true. That totally sucks. My mom died of pancreatic cancer, and it is THE worst cancer of all cancers, but it gets totally overshadowed by breast cancer or lung cancer or whatever other cancers have much higher survival rates. Which makes you wonder, how much does awareness matter?

Boo, pancreatic cancer! You suck. (Ridiculously, I also developed a total snobbery regarding other types of cancer after my mom died of this. But at least my mom died of a cancer where there was pretty much zero hope.)