Bucking the System

My sweet blog friend Joann over at Laundry Hurts my Feelings is following yet another really good blogger  thegirlnextdoorgrowsup and they are doing Feel Good Friday. And as much as I would love join in the fun, my contrary side wants to buck the system and rant and kvetch and bitch about something.  Anything.  Just for the fun of ranting.

So I am going to do some more stream of consciousness blogging and we shall we whether it is more ranting or more good stuff, won't we?

~~Right now I am so thrilled with my gorgeous 24 inch iMac that I don't know what to do with myself.  Recently I talked about my niece who tragically lost everything in a house fire except her new husband and her 2 dogs.  And of course that got my brain rolling on to what would I try to save if I were in such a situation.  And how on earth am I going to get 3 dogs and 4 cats herded out of the house to safety (the kids are now technically adults and on their own, I am afraid).  I would be hard-pressed to leave my iMac.  That's what I was getting to.  I don't just use it for email, reading the news, facebook, but now that I am feeling a little more confident with the iPhoto and iTunes I am having lots of fun with it.

Here's something my kids will tell you that drives them nuts about me.  I get a song stuck in my head and I will listen to it in my car on repeat.  Just that one song.  On repeat. For weeks.  Weeks.  Weeks on end.  And guess what?  I can now do that on my iMac too!

Last week is was "Man on the Silver Mountain" to honor Ronnie Dio. R.I.P.

~~I don't know about the rest of you, but I visit certain sites on a regular basis.  Not necessarily on the same day each week, but whenever.  And the two that bring me the most joy and always bring me to tears are Where the Hell is Matt and The Free Hug Guy  And I love the music on both sites.  Matt is getting ready to head out again and do more dancing around the world, so I will probably get obsessive to check it and see if he is heading here.

~~Last week my son and I went to a town hall meeting that was being held at one of the local universities.  It was a panel of experts on drug addiction and all were locals except for Jeff Van Vonderen from the show Intervention.  Anyway, it was a really good and informative meeting.  The last half was opened up for Q&A and there were so many brave people who got up to share their pain, heart aches, triumphs, and loss.

~~My uncle is in the hospital right now.  He was taken in with chest pain and had a million tests run on his heart.  He has to take medication and reduce stress in his life and lose weight.  I hope they gave him specific instructions on how to do the last two.  Because if he already knew how to reduce the stress and the weight, don't you think he would have done so?  This is the kind of advice that pisses me right off.  "Lose weight".  Seriously?  How?  Which of the 20 gazillion weight loss systems is the right one for me?  "Reduce your stress"  Really?  Cause I was just rocking along here in life assuming that high stress was how it is.  That kind of non-informative advice irritates the beejeebers right out of me.  How do I reduce stress?  Is meditation right for me?  Is yoga?  Is going to the gun shooting range?  How do I know?  Give me a list. Give me some guidance.  I am not a total Goober, but a little shepherding to the right stuff might me in order here.

~~You know how people used to ask who your heroes were?  People you admired, wanted to emulate? I had a list of 4.
1. Groucho Marx

2. Howard Hughes

3. Frank Zappa

4. Rod Serling

So I was thinking about this and the only thing I can come up with that these disparate people had in common was a fierce independence and a need to flaunt the rules.  "Make the reality you want" seems to  be a recurring theme with them.

It is kind of sad that I didn't have any women on there.  And the first woman that popped in my head when I typed that was Mae West.  Now, there is a pistol of femininity right there!

~~I have been cleaning out drawers, closets, and all the accompanying detritus.  If I didn't have family coming to spend the weekend with us I would spend more time and be brutal about getting rid of more and figuring out why I have so much crap.  And why I have felt the need to box it up and haul it around the globe with me through 10 moves in 4 countries, 8 cities and 14 years.

I have already decided that I am not taking any doula clients after my two June clients deliver.  Just till the end of August.  Sept. 1st I will get back to business.  But that will give me some time this summer to really focus on clearing things.

Enjoy the long weekend.  I hope you all get to spend it with someone you love.  If they can't be with you, give them a call just to say how much you love them.

Thank you for coming here and spending a few minutes with me.  I appreciate your comments so much.