Seriously rambling ramblings!

Not serious, as in "Oh here is the formula for fixing global warming". Seriously rambling as in all over the flipping map, rambling!

I have several points I want to make so let me number them and see if I can stay on track.

1. DWTS - what the hell were they thinking?  Isn't the title Dancing with the STARS?  Because I read the list of the new cast and I thought they had changed it to Dancing with the NOBODY, LOSER HASBEENS AND WANNABES.  Ol' Carol Brady is the only one you could remotely call a star.

2. What has happened with people and phone etiquette?  People call you and are rude.  I call people and they are rude.  No one seems to want to be polite anymore.  What's up with that?

3. My savings account has been eaten alive by vet bills this past month.  The schnauzer Maxwell Banks II is still at the hospital convalescing after his second surgery in 2 days so those bills are still mounting. Methinks it will be a very lean and very homemade and creative Christmas this year spent admiring our healthy pets rather than store-bought gifts!

4. My friend Ula told me yesterday that someone she knows told her that the reason so much bad shit is happening is because Mars is in retrograde.  Some astrological stuff that was way over Ula's head and mine as well.  (Good Lord, will you look at that?  I was thinking astrological shit, and my fingers typed stuff and censored me.  I wonder how that happens?)  So, anyhoo, whatever is going on with Mars, I wish it would please and very kindly stop.  First my little cat Fergus Jackson MacPhee almost dies.  Then I had a HUGE upset with my vet's office.  Maxwell Banks II in for 2 surgeries.  My sweet and precious little Rachel Pie left important keys at my house so I had to UPS them to her.  And not 2 hours later she calls to tell me she lost her flipping wallet.  wtf?  I immediately passed the phone to her father, the infamous Mr. Big Ed who has similarly lost wallets, atm cards, etc.  Rachel Pie's response to me was this "It happens to everyone". Really?  I am gonna have to disagree on that one, Little Bitty Pie Person.

Mars, get yourself out of retrograde already!  Enough is enough.

5. My grandma has been in the hospital for 5 weeks and was just moved Thursday to an assisted-living facility to do dialysis for 2 months as an in-patient.  Supposedly if her kidneys respond well to this course she can then go home and just go for dialysis on an out-patient basis.  I probably should have listed this at the top of number 4 with Mars and his retrograding.  But every day I talk to her on the phone and afterwards I say "Poor Grandma".  I feel so bad for her.  No one should spend their 92nd birthday plus 5 more weeks in a stupid hospital.  That's 1/12 of her 93rd year started out not even being in her own home.  I am planning a trip out there really soon to visit and see what I can do for her.

6. Speaking of trips; I know I just returned from 2 separate trips but I am headed out again today. My sister, let's call her Bertha is driving over here and then we are driving together over to our aunt's home to spend a few days with even more relatives visiting from California.  So I will be gone for a couple of days.  Right now I should be folding clothes and such before I leave but no, I thought I better type this to you instead!

7. Tomorrow is September.  Wrap your brain around that little thought for moment, won't you?  Is it just me or does it seem like the previous 8 months have flown by in the blink of an eye?  Have I done all the things I set out to do this year?  Not even close.

8. A little more on the t.v. updates:
    Survivor is coming soon!!!  Yea!  I am soooooo tired of the BB cast and I am so ready for this to be over.
    Top Shot, the show that was on the History Channel hosted by Colby Donaldson (of Survivor fame) is coming back for a second season!!  Woot!
    Brian Cranston won another Emmy, 3 in a row, for playing Walter the meth dude on Breaking Bad. That is a fabulous show.  Make sure you watch the new season when it comes back.
    That new show "The Big C" starring Laura Linney is really good.  I love the quirky characters. And it is set in Minneapolis/St. Paul which is really fun.

Ok, I am all done rambling now.  See you in a couple of days!!