Friends & Brethren, I am at a loss.
The Missus apparently passed away a few hours ago. After the horrendous caterwauling she engaged in with the last five pregnancies, I had a veterinarian friend prescribe Valium for my dogs as they became quite agitated from the noise.
Well, it seems the Missus found the prescription and mistook it for breath mints, consuming the entire bottle, some thirty pills, and washed it down with a quarter bottle of fifty year old single malt. Cleaning staff found her in a pool of vomit, and she stopped breathing just after the paramedics arrived. They informed me the brain damage was too much for even a woman whose mental capacity is orders of magnitude less than that of a man to recover from even were they able to revive her.
I'll be having her body flown down to her hometown of Humble, Texas in the morning. The boys will be packed off to military academy after the funeral, save for little Stonewall who they say is too young. As none of my Asian staff is fit to raise a True Christian™ boy, I'll need to hire a nanny or au pair for the little tyke. Are there any states in China with blond or red haired, light eyed Asians, by any chance?
But the real question is, how long am I to mourn before replacing her? Numbers 20:29 tells us that all of Israel wept for Aaron for thirty days, but the Missus was no Arron. So, ten days to be safe?
Needless to say, I am an emotional train wreck right now. That scotch is all but irreplaceable.
The Missus apparently passed away a few hours ago. After the horrendous caterwauling she engaged in with the last five pregnancies, I had a veterinarian friend prescribe Valium for my dogs as they became quite agitated from the noise.
Well, it seems the Missus found the prescription and mistook it for breath mints, consuming the entire bottle, some thirty pills, and washed it down with a quarter bottle of fifty year old single malt. Cleaning staff found her in a pool of vomit, and she stopped breathing just after the paramedics arrived. They informed me the brain damage was too much for even a woman whose mental capacity is orders of magnitude less than that of a man to recover from even were they able to revive her.
I'll be having her body flown down to her hometown of Humble, Texas in the morning. The boys will be packed off to military academy after the funeral, save for little Stonewall who they say is too young. As none of my Asian staff is fit to raise a True Christian™ boy, I'll need to hire a nanny or au pair for the little tyke. Are there any states in China with blond or red haired, light eyed Asians, by any chance?
But the real question is, how long am I to mourn before replacing her? Numbers 20:29 tells us that all of Israel wept for Aaron for thirty days, but the Missus was no Arron. So, ten days to be safe?
Needless to say, I am an emotional train wreck right now. That scotch is all but irreplaceable.
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