Arby's and Cloning

Eating lunch upstairs at the 5th floor snackbar is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you’re going to get, but rest assured you will feel like shit after consumption. It’s a bit like high school except you’re more socially responsible and aware, which makes for some painful moments and awkward conversations. Not only due to the crappy yet pricey food offered, but also who you sit with. Sometimes it's who catches you up there which makes you feel like you HAVE to sit w/them. Eeeeesh...

So today I found myself at the Arby’s. Oh yes, I did. I turned up my nose at the Subway across the street, and trucked into the Arby’s drive-thru. In my defense I will say that they make very good turkey & swiss sandwiches on honey wheat bread. No really, the truly do. And I would like to say that I partook of one…ha ha! Of course I did, and it was a mighty tasty sandwich too! The part that threw me off was that you can’t order chips! It’s curly fries or nuthin! That packs a WHOLE mess of fat and caloried onto your conscience decision NOT to eat crappy for lunch and have a somewhat healthy sandwhich. What are those corporate bozos thinking? Cater to "meat and potatoes" kind of folks or don't, but don't get me there for your sandwich only to leave me hanging with my options of curly fries or a fried cherry turnover (sensing a theme here?)

As my mind wanders from the fact that my lunch so so incongruent, I began to think: Would you clone your most beloved pet? For me there would be no other reason than I cannot imagine my life without her. That may sound really little-girl-stoopid, but she developed Addison’s Disease about 10 months ago, and though the research I’ve done states they can live a relatively normal life with therapy, it just makes me wonder. I feel guilty for thinking this, but I’m hoping that by the time she’s ready to pass I’ll have either an S.O. or a kid (she’s only 4, so I’ve got about 7 years on it), so it won’t hurt so much. Awful, I know…. But that dog is just so freakin’ important to me! Last night I woke up (I wake up a lot at night, but then I usually just fall back asleep), and instinctively started to pet my dog and rub her little tummy. I LOVE THAT! What if I couldn’t do that anymore?

When she was sick, and before she was diagnosed, I was a basket case. She wouldn’t eat or drink, her little nose was so dry, and I was hand feeding her little ice chips and water bottle caps full of water. Just one little teaspoon of water at a time, and I would feel so grateful when she’d drink it. I felt like a mom b/c I just kept starling myself awake and watching her little chest rise and fall, just to make sure she was still with me. After she got her first treatment, and she went to her little food bowl and started munching away on her food, I started to cry. (Uh, nobody actually knows about that, so please do not remind me if you see me) It took like a week for me to stop getting all wet –eyed when she’d eat or drink anything. Even now when her little nose is dry I’ll get a bit neurotic and give her some people food, just to make sure that she’s willing to eat it. But could I clone her, or is that disrespectful of the sanctity of life? I don’t think I’d want to be cloned...

Now I'm back at work and I've made up my mind on the matter: I need to stick to more time w/Rootie and less time at Arby's.