Rainbow Eating, Butterfly Pooping Ponys

"Wherever you go, there you are:" --- Buckaroo Bonzai
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There is a character in the movie Horton Hears a Who, that tells Horton about a little world she has, on a flower she picked. In this world, she says: "Every one's a pony, and they eat rainbows and poop butterflies." My Daughter loves this line.

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My world is exactly like that. Except completely different. Instead of rainbow eating, butterfly pooping ponys, Mine is filled with good and evil, right and wrong, meanness and kindness, joy and sorrow, friendship and loneliness. There are all kinds of shades of grey between the extremes, but in this world, I love my kids, and I can say that line about the butterfly pooping ponys, and my daughter laughs.

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Its back to Miami today, In this special world, there is tons of excitement, things to do, and stuff that is even more bizarre then the rainbow eating, butterfly pooping, pony world that so amuses my eldest. In fact, I just read about a South Florida couple that got in a little spat, so the wife tried to run over her husband with the family van. Before she did so, She strapped her child into the baby seat, Kind of odd? She put her kid in the car while she tried to kill her husband with it? and that she had the presence of mind to put the kid in a safety seat in the middle of what was no doubt a pretty intense rage? If I could have had a ticket to watch that, or a chance to see a Rainbow eating, butterfly pooping pony, I think As TO might say, I am "getting the popcorn ready" and watching the crazy lady.

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Today is filled with another 5.5 hours of messing with my lower back. I'm just really glad its such an exciting drive with all kinds of scenery and its not filled with pretty much the same view the whole way down this long ass peninsula. In the Flintstones cartoon, if Barney did something Fred didn't like, Fred might chase Mr. Rubble, and if they were in someones house when this chase was going on, The background would consist of this one couch underneath a window. As Fred was running, that background scene would pass by at least 15 times. I always thought they must of had a really weird layout in their home, but it turns out, they just lived in Florida.

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I enjoy living in Miami, I just miss living in Gainesville more. I like being single again, I just miss the married life more. Life's a bitch and then you die. In between though, you live as much as you can, and that's part of what I am trying to do when I come up and see my kids. They tell me how odd it is to live in Gainesville and stay in a hotel in the same city. I tell them how odd it is to live without them being around.

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There is a rhythm to everything, and I am trying to figure out what my life's rhythm is. Part of the going away is the thought of coming back. Part of the loneliness is the joy in seeing my friends and family on these weekends, even if I do suck at Softball lately.