Sun....Capricorn
Moon...Hot, sexy Scorpio (glad my fiance's back from Las Vegas!)
Phase...last quarter (anybody else feeling lazy?)
Time...11:05am
Weather...50 and overcast in DC
Sound...some new country song.
Mood...a little nervous about telling fiance son accidentally fell off treadmill and his foot/shoe put a hole in the wall...can it wait 'til tomorrow? (That's o.k., fiance accidentally put a chip in our granite kitchen counter with bottle of brandy! (Um, can that be fixed or will he hafta' replace "HOLE" counter???
BirthdayBubbleGumShoutOuts To: Richard Moll (NightCourt)...Gwen Verden (dancer, broadway, "Sweet Charity")...Julia Louis Dreyfus. (PS LUCY'S BDAY IS MONDAY...shhhh.....)
QuoteDiva sez: "To me, faith is not worrying." -John Dewey (I just opened up my quote book and blindly pointed to that quote...so I won't worry about fiance's reaction to hole in wall....I think....gawd....!)

YOUR THREE MINUTES STARTS....NOW!

This weekend is a busy one and next week, like I said, a road trip to Tallahassee with a pit stop in Perry (maybe, just maybe, a trip to Biggie T-s place...no promises)

Man, that's all I got time for this go 'round! Everybody have a great weekend! And somebody....out west...send me a little freakin' snow!!!

Thanks for stopping by "A Road Less Traveled" and signing Michael's guestbook. I'm sure he's thrilled and surprised with the warm reaction! If you haven't had a chance, the blog is in the margin of my blog.

-pr-

PS) So excited, stepped on scale this morning, 139...haven't weighed that much since last Spring....come on Rubble, you can do it this time!
Anybody else out there trying to get back in shape this year!??

Sun....Capricorn
Moon...Libra
Phase...Last Quarter Phase (sometimes the best action is NO action!)
Time...5:21pm
Weather...41 degrees and overcast in DC
Mood...what can I say...I feel human again! Stiff back but not painful!
Sound...Don and Mike
BirthdayShoutOuts To: My grandma who would have been 108!! Alexander Hamilton, golfer, Ben Crenshaw and Naomi Judd.
In Memoriam: Yvonne DeCarlo, Lily Munster.
QuoteDiva sez: "All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin." -Lord Byron

MY SIX MINUTES STARTS...NOW! hmmm...

I have not been sick in the whole time I've known my fiance. That is a year and a half of barely a sniffle. I used to catch everything that came down the pike! So for me to be laid up with this back thing for the past three days and nights is the closest I've come to feeling as bad as I used to feel when I would catch horrible colds, flus and Strep.

I had long since forgotten how crappy one can feel, not only physically but after a time, it starts to sink into your psyche. After three days of my world revolving around my laptop, books, tv and radio and bless her heart my cat Chloe (who stayed by my side the whole time!)I've risen up like Frankenstein's Monster and have joined the world of the living again!

And I sweah' as God is mah' witness...ah shall lose that 25lbs, ah shall get in shape agin' and ah will never go hungr....oops...my inner Scarlet got away from me!

My fiance hit the 178 mark and he is finally feeling my pain! In 18 months he's gained 23 pounds but you know guys, they don't get as stressed about such stuff...but when we both go to our closet and we both wanna' cry like little girls,...no mas, no mas!

So we're going to buckle down and get back in shape! Were both 45 this year and this is the worst shape either of us have ever been in! No excuses...were taking back our health! We'll do it together!

WE SHALL OVERCOME!!!

Blogstream...you helped me get through three lousy days! You kept me amused, bemused, thinking and praying! You helped me take my mind off my pain at times! You put up with my medicated purple hazes and late nite lunacy!!

Now back to my USUAL bouts of clear headed insomnia and my daily posts and my occasional comments here and there.

Fiance comes back from the big CES show out in Las Vegas tomorrow...this weekend we sit down with oldest child and have that all important TOUGH LOVE pow wow...
(wish us luck

)and then Monday it's a road trip to visit mom in law in Tallahassee. Road trips, diet? Eesh, again, wish us luck

MY TIME IS UP!

-pr-

Sun...Capricorn
Moon...Libra (think "harmony")
Phase..slowly edging to it's new phase
Time...3:23pm
Weather...52 degrees and sunny in DC
Mood...Stiff, bored...stiff as a board!
Sound...Don and Mike (they are playing that hysterical byte from Saturday Nite Live..."My Dick in a Box!" LOLOLOL Go Justin!)

BubbleGumBlowin'BirthdayShoutOuts To: Revolutionary hero, Ethan Allen, Pat Benetar, Rod Stewart and George Foreman!
QuoteDiva sez: "Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die." -Pierre de Beaumarchais

MY SIX MINUTES STARTS NOW!...

Ever since doing the broad jump and landing on my ass when I was 11, I've had back problems. I was diagnosed with a lumbar sprain. Nothing horrible, nothing too debilitating but something pesky. From time to time in the past 33 years I've, from time to time had aches and pains. Decades of dance didn't help. But now that I'm not as active and yeh, go ahead and say if Rubble OUT OF FREAKING SHAPE, my back tends to stiffen up at a drop of a hat.

About three times in my life my back has "gone out".... it happened the day after fiance left for Las Vegas for a CES convention. (You guys would love it...show girls, new electronic gadgets, porn stars attending their awards banquet (yes they do!) and the newest gizmos etc....) Anyway, I woke up Monday and said...oh oh, I'm in a little trouble here! We live in a big house, my two younger kids are gone and my oldest (the one I've had trouble with see post of several days ago...) is around but not around if you know what I mean. So it's Chloe and me up here in the bed on the second floor. I'm ok. He's back early Friday morning but it got me to thinking...

Number one...RUBBLE you are pathetic, what are you letting happen? You are slowly losing your fitness. You've gotten soft and lazy! I used to weigh 120 18 months ago, now I weigh 142-144. I used to work 3 jobs, one of those jobs was working at a gym and thus I got a free membership and worked out 6 out of 7 days) and now, nada (the treadmill from time to time) and my back is saying NO MAS, NO MAS! Enough is enough.

This is ridiculous. I need to put getting back in shape, a top priority. I was a dancer for many years. I taught dance, I worked out. I know better. I know a strong back is a back that won't go out when I freaking SNEEZE with my head in the wrong ass direction!

Number two...There is a fellow blogger, her name is Matillda. "Bad Choices, Bad Luck" She is 51...has MS, living in a bldg in NY that has no elevators, her ex took her in and takes care of her and he has arthritis. She does the computer with voice activated programs that sometimes cooperate and sometimes don't. I got just a tiny taste of her life. She has the use of one arm. Her world is that apt. building. She is nearly a quadriplegic. Suddenly I felt her pain.

But in a day or two I will be fine. Matillda will not. I will be given a fresh chance to get off my ass and improve my life and by GOD I will. I will not waste another day. I feel like Jimmy Stewart in It's A Wonderful Life. I feel like Ebeneezer Scrooge! I have a shot at redemption. God gave me a healthy body. I need to honor it more.

Disease and problems like my back are simply manifestations of dis-ease and living unhealthfully. It's time to get my ass in gear.

To Matillda I say, I wish you had the same opportunity. If there is any consolation, you inspired me. You reminded me not to take my health for granted. I know, small consolation.

My Six Minutes Are Up!

-pr-

Sun...Capricorn
Moon...Libra (take a bubble bath, think before you decide.)
Phase...coming out of full.
Time...6 pm
Mood...relaxed.
Sound...The Don and Mike Show
Weather...43 degrees and overcast in DC
BubbleGumBlowin'ShoutOuts To: A.J. McClean, Joan Baez and the irrepressible, Dickie Nixon.

QuoteDiva Sez: "There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval." -George Santayana

My Six Minutes Starts....NOW!

My daughter and I were in a check out line the other day, at a local grocery store. The line was long so daughter grabbed a magazine. She chose an Oprah magazine. She looked at the cover and looked at me and said, "Why is Oprah ALWAYS on the cover?"

I took no time in responding. "Because she can!"

That was the short answer. But you and I know why she is on the cover each and every blessed month. She has a big ego. She feels entitled. I'm not saying it's good or bad, it just is. Would I do it if I had my own magazine. No. Would I secretly want to? YES!

The reason I wouldn't is because I wouldn't want somebody's kid in the check out line asking her mom, "Hey mom, why is Rubble on every cover of her own magazine." I know what the answer would be:

..."Because she's an egotistical woman who owns her own magazine...


...AND BECAUSE SHE CAN!"

Don't get me wrong, I SUBSCRIBE to her magazine! I enjoy it. I think she's a woman who has the ability to give back to the community and she is. She even has a school named after her in Africa.

All I ask is that once, just once, can we see someone ELSE on the cover? It seems like a small request.

Oh by the way Oprah, I have a dynamite headshot, circa '86 that I could loan ya', you feelin' me? -pr-

Sun...Capricorn
Moon...Virgo (clean your house, get organized!)
Phase...full moon fading
Time...2:09pm
Mood...lazy
Sound...Sports on Washington Post radio (boring, but I'm too lazy to
get up and change it.)
BubbleGumBlowin'ShoutOuts To: David Bowie, Elvis and Steven Hawkens.

QuoteDiva sez: "If you always live with those who are lame, you will yourself learn to limp."

The Timer Starts....NOW

Awhile back, I was watching tv. I saw an Ikea commercial. (Ikea is a big, worldwide store that sells furniture that for the most part, you put together yourself. It's great starter furniture, furniture for students and newlyweds who don't have a lot of dough-- so from time to time you are going to get what you pay for but in their defense, they do sell a lot of other cool things.) Fiance and I went to their store about 45 mins away several months ago and was able to outfit a couple of kids rooms and we picked up frames, vases, glasses, bed sheets etc.. No problem, it was fun and all that! But we bought new dressers for my son and daughter's rooms, got home and guess what...parts, important parts were missing, right out of the box. We were missing some drawers!

They sent us replacements. We open them up to find we are STILL missing pieces for one drawer. The whole thing was a pain in the ass. We are one step away from just going back out of our way, 45 mins. to the store and fixing it ourselves But fiance is very busy, he shouldn't have to fix the problem himself when it was their fault to begin with.

So we put the finishing touches on the one drawer of my daughter's dresser. Hooray. We'll have to wait on son's. We celebrate by cracking open a beer or two and we sit back and watch some tv.

Wouldn't you know...an IKEA commercial but this was a good one..it was meant to raise eyebrows. The last frame shows an attractive family enjoying their new Ikea couch. It shows a dad, another dad and a little Asian child. The NEW family of the 2000's. Good on YOU Ikea...showing you can be politically correct.

....just one question Ikea,...why can't you be CORRECT on our lousy order!?



I'm just sayin'

-pr-