Crystal Was Robbed!

Okay, it's over and I give in....Crystal Bowersox lost to Lee DeWyze last night on A/I. I suspected something like this would happen. Never did say Lee wasn't good, but NOBODY was as good as Crystal and she'll come to the top in the long run as a talented, beautiful and interesting singer with a long, successful career. Same may happen to Lee, but he will eventually fade into the background as Crystal makes her sustained way to the top over the long haul.

Am in the middle of an quiet uproar here and have to make my way thru a maze of furniture, drawers, books, etc. Jack has been ill with an inner ear problem, Joseph with his back bothering him a great deal and me not knowing how to solve all this mess by myself. It will eventually settle down, but at the moment, it's driving me NUTS. I had been making good progress for the first three days of this week, but am now at a standstill. Presently struggling not to lose the energy in these doldrums.

Time to pay bills....rob a bank....stick up a fast food franchise....what???

The garden in front shows signs of producing some cukes and tomatoes, so that's good news. The weather has cooperated and now if I can find a team to help, we can complete the protecting of the decks with waterproof stain. Have decided to use something brown/taupe to match the other porch parts of this wreck of a home, and maybe it will look like someone cares.

Today the enormity of it all feels like it's catching up to me. But I slog on in an effort to wake up one day with the Rocky Mountains in sight.

BRIGHT SPOT: Got the most WONDERFUL message from Magnificent Max yesterday: "Hi, GeeGee, It's me, Max. Just wanted you to know that I got two RBI's and made a home run at baseball today!" Spoke with his mom and she told me he had been VERY discouraged b/c he wasn't doing as well as the others on his team. Her advice was to remind him that he was three weeks behind b/c of his operation, and he should try hard, concentrate, and be patient with himself....whereupon he stepped up to the plate and knocked one out of the park! This child is phenomenal if in no other way than his kindness and sweetness and smarts for someone of less than nine years. He has a terrific swing with that bat and when it all comes together, I hope he'll become even more excited about "America's game."

Does anyone else realize just how much of a realist and straight-forward reporter Rachael Maddow is??? I have followed her for a few years now, realizing her agenda is admittedly skewed to the Left, but always delighted with her sense of humor and her ability to get to the core of matters with sound, strong research. The recent take on the "deja vu" of the BP oil spill (compared with a similar spill in '79) is a singular best example of her talents. She is an intelligent, caring reporter with impressive educational background. I admire someone who can be so good at what she does, and look forward to listening to her each night to get a clear overview of what's happened during the day.

Back to the awaiting projectS ... maybe I'll just crawl back in bed and try to ignore what needs doing ... probably not productive, but it fits my mood ... I WILL NOT GIVE IN or will I?????

Amusing or at least mildly humorous aside: Yesterday was a regular doc's visit for the usual blood draw and to see how I'm coming along. After a concentrated conversation about all the damned (MAKE THAT DAMNED) meds I've tried to get the cholesterol (bad) levels down to what appear to be acceptable, she declared that if I'm not willing to try any more (after ten, what's left???), there's not much point in determining what my levels are anyway. Okay, I told her I wasn't interested in finding a cure that's turned out to be worse than the disease....a disease that is defined by someone else's numbers, btw. I don't have diabetes, haven't had heart trouble and still don't, don't have high blood pressure and none of the other tags that make high cholesterol a siren call for something like Crestor.....well, WHY TAKE ANYTHING, for heaven's sake???? My lineage is long-lived and nobody took THEIR numbers while they ate what they wanted and lived well into their nineties....and statistics show that women over 60 with high cholesterol levels live longer with fewer heart attacks than women with LOW cholesterol levels in that age bracket. No medical docs in general want to acknowledge those statistics. BUT after having spent days, even years, in muscle weakness and pain (and STILL am not back to the normal levels I sustained before taking a statin), I won't take another one, PERIOD. Even now it appears that the ads for these things are acknowledging that a statin is important if one has already had a heart problem. But I fervently hope that the idea of putting statins in the drinking water has finally been dropped....what a horror that would have been. High cholesterol numbers have more to do with inflammatory problems than they do with the numbers themselves.

Okay, off the soap box and on to soaping in the shower to try to get the energy level back. Ciao.