this was the women's leader and she got severe cramps and had to quit the race. I sat with her for over an hour. I almost had to call an ambulance. I wrapped her in blankets and got her water and a tissue. she peed her pants.
It was a cold and wet weekend. I usually look forward to the marathon. I watched for Kat from here but never did see her. This poor little girl from Kenya had to quit the race because of cramps. My keyboard isn't working very well. I have letters sticking and it is tough typing. I gardened and planted. Gourds, Hollyhocks, Sweet Peas, dill, lettuce, cosmos, and morning glories.
Gully is having a tough time. We are spending many hours just holding him and keeping him at ease.
I cooked dinner tonight. It was good. I made Hummus and flat bread.
I am buying this painting. I have loved it for twenty years and will have it in my home once again. I am surprised they are willing to sell it to me after all these years. My friend Tuesday Cohen painted it.
We're here, just preoccupied with our little old guy. Hope you are all well.
I have been missing Los Angeles lately. I have been missing "my" Los Angeles, not what it would be if I went back. I'm missing what I had when I was there. I miss my home, my friends, my job.
I miss favorite restaurants and thrift stores.
I miss so many things. Smells. Sounds. Temperatures.
I love Nashville. I just was listening to music this morning and BAM!!!!!!!
California Dreaming
Going to California
Californication
These songs all played important parts in my views of LA and also my desire to go there and also leave. As a kid California Dreaming was all I needed to hear to get the "wander lust". I'm a bit nomadic and hate spending too much time in one place. A Rolling Stone of sorts and perhaps my moss is showing.
Late teen years and Led Zeppelin and Going to California brings back another whole set of memories leading up to the cross country challenge.
I was fairly young and had just gotten out of a rehab in Connecticut. I lived with three older gay guys and met a young man who really loved California. He took me there on vacation and we moved out a few weeks later. My relationship with him didn't work out but my relationship with California did. I loved it. I met lots of famous people and even more rich people and it didn't matter what I had or what I was I just fit in. I led a relatively quiet life with lots of activity. I spent many evenings chasing around the mean streets of Hollywood and West Hollywood.
At some point the strangeness of it all became overwhelming and I was crying for my mommy. I just wanted to go home. I wanted things to be more familiar for longer periods of time. Less transient. I met Kevin and settled down. I think that in LA, if you are like me, you can't settle down. You have to keep going or it gets tired fast. And it did.
Then you hear The Chilli Peppers sing Californication and you get a resentment to a city you love and and become jaded at the shallowness of much of what you see and the emptiness that surrounds you. I just love the gritty streets though. I'm still a rolling stone but I'm totally coated with moss and rolling lumpily along. I miss the anonymity of a large city. Nashville isn't tiny. It's like the 23rd largest city but when you live in potentially the future largest city everything seems small in comparison.
So I was just thinking about my old haunts and my old buds and thinking how much fun it would be to wake up and be back in my faster life with daily excitement and interest around every corner. No drudgery. No time for drudgery. I guess age and time heal things but when you are sailing into midlife it is sometimes comforting to look back where you came from. Look back but don't stare. Otherwise the future won't stand a chance.
I love the fact that I lived there as a nobody. If I had tried to be "a somebody" I am guessing I would be on my downward spiral into being a has-been by now. That wouldn't bode well for future happiness.
I'm okay, just missing my youth? Shit, I wasn't even that young there. I'm actually glad I left when I did. It was just funny hearing those three songs in less than a half hour. I noticed a pattern. I'm sharp as a tack,lol.
First the good news. We will be getting a Trader Joe's in a few months. It will replace one of our Whole Foods Markets. I miss having a Trader Joe's. It will be well worth the trip across town.
I won an Ipod shuffle as a door prize to our annual State of the Medical Center Address this evening.
There is a commercial with me in it next to a medical information monitor in several hundred locations thoughout the facility. I was walking by one with my assistant and she started laughing. She said "Look at that ass-hole they have on the commercial". I looked and saw myself looking very stupid,lol! I'm not sure if I matched the medical condition they were describing or if the money I raise supports the treatment of it. I'll ask somebody. I hate having my picture taken. I hate it even more when I have to walk by a video of myself several hundred times a day. I cannot avoid them all day long. Perhaps a little vandalism ?
Did Jack in the Box have an accident or did Marketing lose their collective minds.
I work with Sharon here on our Life Flight Helicopter program.
When they were announcing door prize winners I kept hoping my boss would win the huge aerobic exercise ball and have to sit with it in his lap all the way through the meeting. Alas, some girl who will benefit much more was the winner. Could it have been rigged? My boss and I have fun at company things because I get really out of hand and he likes to unwind a bit himself. He's worked here for 40 years.
Some chick just won "Make me a Supermodel" and Kevin said "This woman winning bodes well for Hillary". Dipshit,lol.
Oh, the Medical Center is in good shape. We all knew that anyway.
Somebody must have wanted a few glasses of wine or has a brother-in-law that is a caterer.
I'll spare you the link to the Webcast unless it shows me high fiving everybody as I ran down the aisle for my Ipod. I believe they may edit that out. It seemed like all the department heads won door prizes.
