I learned several very important things yester-evening at the Chemung County Fair:

#1: I may be hick, but I’m not that hick. 

#2: Middle aged women should not wear tube tops. Ever.  There are things that I can live forever without seeing, and that’s one of them.

#3:  I’m not a fan of cows.  I attribute this to several things in my life:

(a) My grandfather is missing two fingers that he lost in a farm accident, but until I was old enough to know better, he very seriously had me believing that a cow ate them.  I truly believed that if I got too close to a cow, it would eat me.

(b) I am lactose intolerant.  This means that since I was very young, when I had milk, I would throw up. 

Thus, I grew up believing that cows ate people and produced poison. 
There’s a large part of me that still believes this, particular after being nearly peed on last night by a large bovine.

#4: There is such a thing as a 900 pound hog, and I saw it last night

#5: Jo Dee Messina has never done a bad song. 

And to illustrate, here is the last song she sang last night(and my personal favorite):

 

Well you filled up my head,
With so many lies.
Twisted my heart
Til something snapped inside.
I’d like to give it one more try
But my give a damn’s busted.

You can crawl back home
Say you were wrong,
Stand out in the yard and
Cry all night long.
Go ahead and water my lawn.
My give a damn’s busted.

I really wanna care,
I wanna feel somethin’
Let me dig a little deeper…
No…
Sorry…
Nothin’

You can say you’ve got issues.
You can say you’re a victim.
It’s all your parents fault, I mean
After all you didn’t pick em
Maybe somebody else has got time to listen.
My give a damn’s busted.


Well your relatives said
It was all just a mistake
A product of the prozac
And your co-dependent ways
So … who’s your new enabler these days
My give a damn’s busted.

I really wanna care,
I wanna feel somethin’
Let me dig a little deeper…
Naw..

Still nothing.

It’s a desperate situation
No tellin’ what you’ll do

If I don’t forgive ya,
You say your life is through
Come on, give me something I can use

My give a damn is busted