posted December 14, 2009 07:19 AM            

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I did give you my cold through the interwebs. I was making out with your picture on my screen, and ...these things happen.

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It was that picture of me with the moustache wasn't it? I knew it would drive you wild.

posted December 17, 2009 03:00 PM            

Have a wonderful vaction, and a safe trip!

posted December 18, 2009 03:12 PM            

Interesting that the first one-on-one conversation I had with my mom was about how she thinks that I probably have ADD, and they didn't know how to deal with it back when I was growing up. She was saying how I notice everything, and we both recounted several examples of how this was true. I didn't have to pay attention in class in order to get the lessons. I'd hear it all. I always tested well. I think it was a bit of an apology on her part, because earlier this year I had a bit of a meltdown talking with my little sister about how my parents let me down educationally. My little sister was telling me that I've always been known to be smartest of us siblings as recounted by my parents, and my question was, "Why did they let me down so much then?" So it's interesting.

I do believe it's a blessing that ADD wasn't in vogue back then. I'm a bit leery of the drugs they're using to treat it. I've recently heard somewhere that the drugs actually create a problem in the brain, whereas the issue it treats isn't necessarily a problem. Surely there are worse things in life than the ability to notice more than the common man coupled with a bit of nervous energy.

posted December 18, 2009 05:09 PM            

They wanted him to continue taking it, because he just refused to focus on what they wanted him to learn. But my brother has a photographic memory and was also a musical prodigy. Sometimes with the creative genius, comes much hardship, as we all know.

Anyway, he refused to take it after awhile because he said, while he could now concentrate, and learn, he had no other thoughts. What he meant was he was cut off from his creative source.
Which is the exact reason why I have refused to take anti-depressants, which are highly recommended to people whom have chronic illness.
I'de rather be down about it now and then, and still FEEL. We are supposed to feel. Who wants a classroom full of Stepford Children. EWW. creepy.

posted December 19, 2009 10:28 AM            

How's la Memphis?
I hope you enjoy! I really do.

posted December 19, 2009 05:54 PM            

*You reminded me of that song by Marc Cohn, "Walkin in Mephis." I love that song!

Put on my blue suede shoes and I
boarded the plane
touched down in the land of the Delta blues
in the middle of the pouring rain
W.C. Handy watchin down over me
Yeah, I got a first class ticket,
but I'm as blue as a boy can be

I'm walkin in Memphis
walkin with my feet ten feet off of Beale
walkin in Memphis, but do you really feel the way I feel?

I saw the ghost of Elvis on Union Avenue
followed him up to the gates of Graceland
and then I watched him walk right through
now, security did not see me
they just hovered around his tomb
but there's a pretty little thing, waitin for the King, down in The Jungle Room!

chorus

They've got catfish on the table
they've got gospel in the air
Rev. Green be glad to see ya, when you haven't got a prayer
But boy you got a prayer in Memphis
Muriel plays piano, every friday in The Hollywood
and they brought me down to see her
and they asked me if I would
do a little number, and I sang with all my might
she said, "tell me are you a Christian child?"
and I said, "Ma'am I am tonight!"

chorus
repeat first two line.

NOW THAT IS A SONG, dang, that one gets me in the guts, have no idea why.

posted December 22, 2009 02:47 PM            

I like sweating my colds out at night. Just bundle yourself up, drink a lot of liquids and sweat like crazy.

Soak your feet in really hot water too. It helps.