More Randomness coming at ya! You may want to duck.

Yes, Indeedy.  Randomness.  That is today's theme.

1. As you know by now, I am a birth doula.  I have a client who has been due now for several days and normally, I am on "High Orange Alert" 2 weeks before and until the birth.  But for some reason my High Orange Alert slid off the radar on July 4th.  I slept late that morning and then stayed up really late, because that is what happens when you don't get out of bed!  Anyhoo, I was up really late and was just getting myself ready for bed when (you know what happens here, don't you?) I got the call.  Yep, labor had started and we were all going to meet up at the hospital.  So, I went to the birth at 2 a.m. and got home at 10 p.m. If you are like me you can see that that is darn close to 24 hours after having been awake for about 15 hours before that.  And if you are still more like me than you would care to think, you will know that I was like the walking dead by the end.  Not real perky is what I would say.

But the baby is here.  He is so wanted and loved by his parents and all the extended family.  I am really happy for them.  And if I tell you that I am truly blessed to get to do this work, you will probably say "We know.  We hear that crap from you all the time.  Give it a rest, already."  But it is true.  Sometimes I am ashamed to take money for doing such rewarding work.

Happy Birthday on July 5, little one!!  It was a blessing to be there and help your parents get you here.

2. Obits - I haven't posted anything about the obit reading lately.  One thing that has been really weird about reading all the local obituaries is that in the last couple of months we have had 3 deaths from right here in my neighborhood.  Not only in the neighborhood, but on the next street over, to be more specific. That's a little spooky.  Makes me want to get busy exercising and getting into better shape.  I think I would be much better off to start the second half of my life in the best shape I can get into, don't you?

There was another Ignatz the other day listed as a survivor on one of the obits.  Now, I have gone my whole life and never heard the given name of Ignatz, and in the last six months BAM!!  they are all over the obits.  The Ignatz' of the world are losing their kinfolk, is what I am saying.  Kind of strange.

3. Big Brother.  It is that time again.  The time when my t.v. set is tuned to Big Brother 3 times a week, and for 3 hours late at night every night for the Big Brother After Dark stuff on showtime.  It's Big Brother, people!!  The best crap out there!  It's a genius idea, just take random idiots and stick them in a house and watch what unfolds.  No paid actors, no scripting, just watch these idiots do what comes naturally.  As we have all seen over the years, they can start out being fake, trying out a different persona, but not for long.  It's too hard over the course of 3 months (give or take) to not be yourself.  There are no allowed distractions other than a chess set and a pool table.  No music.  No singing. No t.v. No books other than the occasional Bible. No magazines. No computer.  Nothing to do but think and deal with the other random idiots stuck in the house with you.  Oh!  And you know what?  The one thing that strikes me as hilarious is that there is no built-in ice maker in the fridge.  They have to fill up ice trays and you know what that leads to?  Arguments about who made ice last, who used the ice and didn't refill the trays, etc.  No dishwasher either.  And I am constantly amazed at how none of these morons can cook!  They can't cook.  Big Brother provides them with most of the raw ingredients, vegetables, fruit, meat, fish, etc.  And they come up with the easiest things possible because they don't know what to do.  Idiots.  I want to scream at the t.v. "You have NOTHING ELSE TO DO!!  Why not cook?  Why not experiment on how to put a few ingredients together?  Create a "family" type dinner?"  But no, you normally see 12 people in there each doing their own thing and being as wasteful as possible.  Not once in all these years, not once! have any of them considered chopping up the veggies and the leftover meat and making a pot of soup.  Soup is the easiest and frankly, one of the best things to do for a big group.

I guess that is what makes for good t.v. viewing, watching those maroons and feeling superior!  Set your dvrs for Thursday night to meet the new hamsters, I mean, houseguests.  And get ready for some fun!

4. The garden.  We have been having the best tomatoes lately!  Mr. Big Ed planted a bunch of different heirloom varities and we have been plucking tomatoes left and right.  Delicious, is what they are!!

5. I promised Gladys I would take some pics of my antique breakfast room set and I swear I will do that. I pulled something in my back last week and I couldn't stand up straight for several days.   You don't want to see any pics from that position, now do you?

Have a great week out there!  And let me hear from you.  It gets pretty depressing on days when I get no comments.  Cheer me up, folks!  Leave a message.

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