The 2 things have been on the news this week, thankfully not much about Tiger...but it’s been about Ricky Martin coming out of the closet and Erikah Badu’s video.

The first one was not a surprise to anyone, right? we all knew...I mean come on!
This whole Badu thing has got local TV and Radio in an uproar, I don’t know if the rest of the country thinks it’s as scandalous.

My humble opinion is that it is crass, disrespectful and very wrong. Art...it was all in the name of Art and meant to get people talking about something(what??).
Let’s forget about the fact that a President of this country was shot and killed on that very spot, let’s just pretend it was someone’s relative and an average Joe, wouldn’t his family be appalled and hurt? wouldn’t most people have a problem with someone laying naked on the X that marks their murder?

WTH is wrong with people who think that was O.K?
This is not about politics, race or anything else. It was done to get publicity and make money.

I wonder if any thought was given to the family, which has suffered more tragic losses than any single family in the spotlight. Would Miss Badu like to explain her “ART” to the President’s only surviving child? his grandchildren?
It’s just shameful, and it makes me angry..and quote the words of “old” people when I was a kid “What is this world coming to?”

R-E-S-P-E-C-T where has it gone?

I had to be at the Doctor’s office at the butt crack of dawn today, what possessed me to schedule that? I somehow got showered and semi-ready in half an hour and was only 3 minutes late...I hate being late.

It all went well, or at least the results of all the poking and prodding were good. I had a blood test, EKG and urine test, that’s a lot to go through at 7:30 A.M.
My blood test was good, my A1C level is down 2 whole points(go me!) the EKG was perfect. He’d like to see my A1C drop one more point when I go back in June, and if so we will monitor it for another 3 months and if it’s still at that number he will start scaling back on my medicine, I know I can do this...and I’m pretty stoked at all the results.

I had to undress from the waist up for the EKG and then slip on a paper half gown, I’ve never seen those before and always have gotten a full gown that goes almost to the floor on my short ass, this was more like a vest and sexy as hell of course:

...I didn’t mind so much because the damned thing fit! not only fit but it was very loose on me...Woo-Hoo!!!

Small victories, those are sometimes the sweetest and come at the weirdest times, even while wearing a paper half shirt.
I’ll take that.

What do you value most in other people?
HONESTY!!

If you could only see black and white except for one color, what color would you choose to see?
Pink, of course.

You have a 10 minute speech to give at a high school, what is it about?
They know it all at that age right???
I would tell them to work hard, an education is something no one can ever take away from them.

Manic Monday

I haven’t done one of these in a while:

1. How many hours’ sleep do you need in order to be at your best, and what’s the minimum you can get on a regular basis and still be functional?
I require a lot of sleep, about 10 hours is best for me but it rarely happens

2. What’s your favorite sleeping position?
On my right side, curled up with my right hand under my pillow.

3. What was the cause of your most recent difficulty sleeping?
JR snoring...

4. When you can’t seem to drift off to sleep right away, what are some things you do to bring about sleep?
A lot of things, but almost nothing works once I can’t sleep.

5. When did you last doze off at an inappropriate time or in an inappropriate place?
I’m always falling asleep, but I guess taking a 10 minute nap in my office would be considered “inappropriate”.

A few weeks ago I lost a dear friend.
Jasmine was a beautiful 23 year old, she always had a smile on her face and no one ever heard her complain about her illness.
Lupus took away so much from Jasmine, and it finally took her from all of us who love her.

Jasmine has a little daughter who is my grandson’s age, she was her mother’s best friend and I can’t begin to measure the pain they are experiencing.
At the office we call her “Jazzy”...she volunteered here for over a year, unless she was in the hospital she would be here every week. 
Every once in a while she would get quiet and go sit somewhere by herself, I’d ask her “You’re hurting Jazzy?” and she’d say “Yes, today’s not a good day”...unless we asked her we had no idea she was in pain.
She was my buddy.

Her mom called the office and told us Jasmine was in the hospital and it didn’t look good for her, I refused to believe that, she always came out of it, she always got better.
I wasn’t able to go to the hospital that night, but I wrote her a little note and sent it with my co-worker.
When she got to the hospital she was not able to see her, and 10 minutes later she was gone.
I got the phone call and my heart broke, I could not catch my breath and JR held me tight as I sobbed...23 years old, my friend, our beautiful little Jazzy.

I cried until I finally fell asleep, and kept waking up all night and as soon as I did, I would think about her and realize she was gone.
The next morning as I got ready for work I was hoping it was a mistake, and we’d get a phone call or something saying she was O.K.

As I drove to work I prayed for strength and comfort for her family, especially her mother. I prayed for strength for all of us at work, how would we get through the day? I kept hearing her voice and her laughter in my head and I prayed that I would never forget that, that I’d be able to remember it anytime I thought of her.
I wiped my eyes and was able to see the road more clearly, as I did that I saw the sky and it brought a smile to my face...I took a picture with my phone and sent it to my co-worker as “Jazzy’s sky”.

I wish the picture was better, it doesn’t do justice to what I saw that morning, it reminded me that she was all well now, no more pain...after all those years suffering she is at peace.”

I’m back at work now, wishing I was still on vacation. Where did the time go? it doesn’t feel like I had enough time.

About half of my to do list is still not done, we did get the house ready for the new flooring which will hopefully be in by this weekend.
I am convinced that I need to block the DYI channel, I need to stop getting ideas in my head about how handy I am...and how easy projects look on TV because I am SO not handy, and NOTHING is as easy as it seems!
I’m quite weak and not mechanically inclined at all, so you can just imagine how well I held up pulling carpet and demo’ing tile floors.

Thankfully JR is awesome and can practically do anything, I just got out of his way and did some yard work.
Yeah, the yard...it no lookey so good no more...I got a little carried away and pulled up EVERYTHING. Every flowerbed is now naked...we are now that house on our street, you know the one everyone shakes their head at...JR has contacted someone to help with the landscaping.

I think it’s cheaper and easier on my husband if I just stay my ass at work or go shopping;)
Next vacation we need to just leave town.

Something else I did during my time off was watch crap on TV, somehow I got sucked in by Jerseylicious....Holy Aqua Net Batman!!!! A train wreck but fun, you know how that goes.
I got caught up on Celebrity Rehabalso, that little bimbo Kari Ann is a boil on the butt of humanity, I can’t stand to even look at her...she needs her ass whipped into shape, boot camp or something, maybe Dr. Phil can smack her around some!

O.K I’m off to do some work I guess...I sure hate to mess up my clean office though.

It’s been a while again, I thought about logging in here and posting so many times, I just couldn’t think of what to say.

Today is my first day of vacation and I’ve gotten a lot done, it feels good to be away from work and get mindless tasks done. I cleaned out drawers, did laundry, cooked dinner, cleaned the kitchen, and de-junked our bedroom and closet.
After today JR will be on vacation too and we’ve got a lot to do, mostly around the house and a short get-away.

I’m hoping this week off will help me a lot, I’ve been fighting my old friend depression...I lost a dear friend 3 weeks ago and I can’t seem to get a grip, but I’m working on it and at times I feel better but ten I crash again.

JR and I are going out with another couple tomorrow night for St. Patrick’s Day, I’m really looking forward to it and it should be fun...I need fun.