Watch out what you wish for....

You know, this whole Terri Schiavo thing says one thing to me...watch out what you wish for. Supposedly, Terri's condition was caused by a severe case of bulimia and a liquid diet that robbed her body of potassium. This caused her heart to stop briefly and cut off oxygen to her brain rendering her into a vegetative state.

How sickly ironic that a woman who was obsessed with rejecting food ends up dying as a result of being starved to death.

She told her body to remove food, banish food…purge… long enough until ultimately, that wish was fulfilled.

Thoughts are powerful.

Happy Spring!

Happy first day of Spring!! Bring on the Crocuses, the Tulips.... the Daffodils...and the flipflops!!

Birthday

Today is my dad's birthday. I'm really not sure how old he really is because he always says 'numbers don't mean anything' when I ask and I tease him by saying he's 32 or something. He sorta' has this health-food superman thing going because although many of his peers and siblings have illnesses or diabetes or are medicated for one thing or another, my dad is strong and very healthy. He never ceases to amaze the doctors during his checkups. He doesn't take anything ever--not even Tylenol for a headache and seems to always be up on the latest news in vitamins, foods and healthy living. He inspires me to do the same. He always says, 'every day in every way i'm getting better and better', even when he is well. I know it's a great attitude at work...he is always positive and I've never once heard him yell. Happy Birthday Dad, keep up the good work!

Have you noticed?

that it's still completely daylight at 5pm?
and the sun isn't really completely gone until 6pm?

Michael Jackson

I'm not sure if MJ is innocent or guilty, but I have some pretty hard evidence that he is starting to look more and more like a sleestack everyday.

Exhibit A:

March, Too

In like a angry wildebeast?
In like an cranky chihuahua with an attitude problem?
In like a pack of pesky piranhas?

...must have spring...**gasp**...can't mmmmake it....**cough**....need sunshine...**wheeeeze**

March

"In like a lion?!?"
How about: "In like a herd of starving wild elephants with PMS and their trunks tied together!!!".

Springtime Buzz

The truly wonderful thing about living in New England is the 'Springtime Buzz'. All it takes is a little sunshine and a mere 40 degrees to pull people out of their winter hiberation, filled with energy in anticipation of spring.

Sleestack, Snagglepuss and the SuperFriends

I haven't had television since 2001. This was a choice based on too much depressing 9/11 footage and creative ways to cut bills. I've never looked back. What I do miss is T.V from the 70's and 80's. Selected favorites:

Land of the Lost:
Who could resist the opening scene when the raft went spinning out of control [which was, no doubt, a model being flushed down some toilet] and what Cherrio-wielding 7 year old could not fall in love with the thickly-foreheaded Chaka. [what is that thing anyway?] To this day, I still get creeped out by Sleestacks. Show me a Sleestack or a Flying Monkey and my skin crawls right off my back.


Laff-A-Lympics
The Scoobie Doobies, the Yogi Yahooeys, and the Really Rottens competed in Olympic-style competitions in different countries. The contests were hosted by Snagglepuss and Mildew Wolf. This show hosted an all-star cast of Scooby Doo, Scooby Dumb, Shaggy, Speed Buggy, Dynomutt, Blue Falcon, Hong Kong Phooey, and Captain Caveman....not to mention Dasterdly Dan and Penelope Pitstop.

In case you miss the voice of Snagglepuss as much as I do:click here


The Super Friends
This was my all time favorite. Aquaman was the coolest. He would use radar to summon the other sea creatures to help him in his plight. I wasn't too big on Gleek the blue monkey--his character always seemed to drum up too many monkey jokes, but the Wondertwins, Jayna and Zan were super-cool. When the going got tough, Zan could turn himself into water [or some water by-product] and Jayna could turn herself into an animal. The parameters on this stretched really far. "Water" also meant Zan could turn himself into an ice bridge that Jayna, disguised as a centipede [technically not an animal, but this is what I mean] could walk over to safety. Zan could also turn himself into a puddle, which was really ridiculous, because there would be this purple puddle with eyes in it, or a bucket of water with a face.


Equally important: Josie and The Pussycats, any and all Bugs Bunny episodes and School House Rock. These will be saved for Part II.

Dr. Gas

I had this interesting adventure at the oral surgeons today. I realized what a strange ritual dental care really is. Here I am, in some random guy's house [home office] and I gleefully pay this man to scrape out part of my gums. He was a really nice guy...friendly...we talked about the weather and exchanged pleasantries, similar to a trip to the hair-cutter. It was all sweet and rosy until he brings out the novacaine needle. [doesn't anyone use laughing gas anymore?**]. I'm lying there trying to imagine anything but needles going into the side of my face. The procedure itself didn't really hurt but I could hear all of the scraping way too clearly because it was so deep inside of my head. That, coupled with the classical music piped in the room felt a little too Clockwork Orange-ish for my taste. I survived, and with ice cream [chocolate/vanilla swirl with rainbow sprinkles] for lunch, it wasn’t such a bad day afterall.

**The laughing gas reminded me of a funny story from childhood. I had to have been 8 or 9 years old and went to a local Greenwich doctor that I will call Dr. Gas. Dr. Gas [needless to say] had this affinity for laughing gas.[I have talked to several other people in town who had similar situations with this guy]. I went in for a tiny filling and for whatever reason, he decides to give me the Gas. Doctor Gas has another patient in the next room, so he has Crazy Nurse Lady standing over me with this gas mask on my face, holding it over my nose for what felt like half an hour. All I could see was the dentist light above my face getting more and more distorted as the room started to move. I felt GIDDY. Suddenly the phone rings and the nurse leaves the room, forgetting about me and the mask that is now strapped to my face. By the time she comes back in the room, I am high as a kite, slowing sliding out of the chair. It reminded me of the episode when Bugs Bunny meets that big Red Hairy Monster and everything starts going in slow-mo, including the Monster’s voice [come heeeeeeeeere bunnnneeeee raaaaaabbbbbit]. So to prevent my putty-like, spineless body from ending up in a puddle on the floor, Crazy Nurse Lady straps me into the chair, arms tied with the gas STILL on my face. By this time, I’m literally cracking up and laughing hysterically at both Dr. Gas and Crazy Nurse lady. I got my filling and a pack of Dentyne. [since someone already made a rude comment about Dentist-wierdness and me being strapped in a chair, please note that I was conscious and my mom was in the room [freaking out] so you can get those ideas right out of your head]

Speaking of Gas...there's some LI based Natural Gas company that has an ad slogan that goes 'I've got Gas!'. The phone number is even something like 1800-IVEGOTGAS. How much fun were those ad guys having?!!