I feel the earth move!

I don't know why I didn't name today's first post this title. I can't say I felt the earth move this morning, but I did hear the medicine cabinet rattle & then the bedroom window. I figured out pretty quickly what was happening, but unfortunately I didn't go back to bed & call in sick to work, which I will the next time I feel or hear an earthquake, because today was a pretty weird day (though I guess they all are these days, if you really look at them closely) & if I had it to do over I would have called in sick.

Well, maybe I wouldn't have called in sick. I might've just called in a personal day. God knows I have had one coming.

I'm loafing tonight. Might loaf all day tomorrow, too. To connect my work and my YouTube habits (I say that with a smirk. I really only get online about every other day anymore & I might look at YouTube once a week.) I had a patient with a lineman tattooed on his arm yesterday. So all day I sang "Wichita Lineman."



So today I sang that same line..."I know I need a small vacation!" But I can't take a vacation from everything. At work it's one set of problems. And I shouldn't say there are a lot of problems...it's more that I feel like every day I am where the crisis will happen. At home it's another set of problems. There the crises are not usually critical, but they're long & drawn out & they produce longing, & drawing out.

I am tired. Maybe I should just go to bed.

But at night I'm a junk food junkie

Do you remember this song? It's about a guy who's all into the health food hippie thing by day (not that the two are inevitably linked) & eats Twinkies & Big Macs at night. It bears looking up, if you don't remember it. I'm posting this from the BlackBerry & I can't link from it, but when I get a chance I'll put a link on this post.

I am not a total junk food junkie, but I'm reading "The Omnivore's Dilemma" & let me tell you, it will make you really aware of all the things you don't want to know about the food you eat.

Now this is not the first time I've tried to eat more naturally. For awhile I drank raw milk, I've made bread from freshly ground wheat, & I've tried to steer my family toward "free range" chicken, but none of these things stuck. The unpasteurized milk scared my husband & kids, the bread took too much time, & the chicken tasted "too gamey" to Randy. I am disgusted by the whole industrial food process, but I had a hard time convincing Randy to buy local when the cost was so much more than generics at Wal-mart. It was especially hard in the pre-Vanderbilt days when we never knew when the check would be in the bank & bringing high-dollar food to work only made that problem worse. After all, if you can afford boutique food, you can afford to wait an extra day or two to get paid, right?

Anyway, I am trying to figure out some new ways to make whole foods work into a totally complicated schedule that I really don't want to change. I don't know that it's impossible to do this. It might even be less complicated, if I can figure it out. I will blog more about this later.

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Poor, poor pitiful me

Reasons I don't blog much anymore:

My husband has been in the hospital.

My grandfather is still in the hospital.

I joined the Music City Community Chorus.

My mom's been pretty sick. But she is hanging in there & feeling a tad better.

My dad had a birthday.

My daughter got in trouble at school.

Tomorrow I'm going to a wedding, two hours away. Then I'm going to the reception an hour from there.

But first I am going to take Rachel to a lay speaker's conference, work out, & maybe shop a while.

In addition I've worked 35 hours so far this week. So far being a key point here. I have at least 2 to 3 more hours to go.

I have cooked breakfast, washed clothes & dishes, & driven about 1000 miles. Well, 500 anyway. Maybe I should've called this entry "500 miles" instead of what I did. But I called it what I did because I deserve a little self pity right now. I have had a hard week. I don't deserve to have a hard Friday at work. I deserve a day on the hammock.


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More You Tube for everyone!

Randy & I are working on singing a couple of songs at our church's homecoming in May. One of the songs we want to do is "Less of Me" by Glen Campbell. When I picked out the song I had only heard it done by the Oak Ridge Boys, but after we started listening to Glen's version, I decided I wanted to hear more of his music again. Coincidentally, a lady who works around the corner from me was playing his greatest hits one morning shortly after this. When I went to Owensboro I found a CD in a used record store but it was awful; it was all his hits recorded in the mid 1970's with him ad-libbing. So, I took it back & traded it in for a double-CD set of Anne Murray.

Anyway...the other day I read in the paper about someone watching YouTube videos of Glen Campbell with Bobbie Gentry, & I knew I had to make time to do the same. So here you go. If you like Glen, or if you just think you might find him interesting, you really ought to search for all his videos on YouTube. Yes, in the 70's he was the Rhinestone Cowboy & he was involved with Tanya Tucker. But don't listen to him because of that. Listen to him because the man could sing, and play guitar, and write great songs. And he wasn't hard to watch back then either. (I don't like watching him later when he had the beard & all that stuff. I like facial hair all right, but he didn't really need it. The sideburns were plenty.) He picked great songs by other people too. He is still performing although I think these days he is slowing down a little. But heck, he ought to be able to slow down if he wants to.

Here are my favorites of the ones I saw tonight:



I had to post that one.

And then there's this one. I grew up being a big Beach Boys fan, too, & Glen was a Beach Boy for a short period of time. Sometime in that period, Brian Wilson wrote this song which Mike Love chose not to record. I don't know why it wasn't a hit for Glen (& it may have been, but it wasn't what got him a TV show of his own). It is amazing. Brian even says "Awesome" during this...describing Glen's vocals. Well, watch it for yourself.

Promises, promises

Well, in my last blog entry, I said "tomorrow" I had other things to write. Then I didn't write for, oh, a month, I guess? Anyway, I know that's no way to keep readers interested. I don't do a really good job of that anyway!

Life has been crazy busy, as usual. Mostly, life has been good, although Derek has been really sick. I, too, have had some sickness, in the form of strep. Before that my blood sugar was all crazy & my body rebelled. Fortunately, this morning I woke up feeling like myself again.

So, since my last entry, I have had a lot to write about. I made another one of those road trips to Kentucky by myself. I drove to Owensboro in the snow on March 7. I went to the Give God Glory concerts. This was two nights of some of the biggest names in Southern Gospel. It was fun, especially that Friday night concert - Gold City, the Perrys, the Hoppers, & more. I almost didn't make that because of the snow!

On Saturday night, most of the former Crabb Family (originally from O'boro) was there. My favorites that night were the Isaacs. Their style is mostly bluegrass.

I also went to Moonlite - my favorite restaurant in the world. I shopped, worked out, & went to music stores. I enjoyed the trip, but I hated being by myself the whole time. I did not feel unsafe (well, except on that snowy ride up there) but I guess I just got put off balance by the looks of my friends & co-workers who knew I was traveling alone.

I went to Victory Church that Sunday. I enjoyed that, too, though I suspect that wasn't one of the usual services there because so many people stayed home because of the snow. By that time the main roads were clear, but many of the back roads were still slick. At any rate, I thought Pastor Kris did a great job & his wife is an awesome singer.

Not long before my trip, I got an interesting email from a lady in Nashville who told me about finding someone I mentioned in a previous entry. Now, I still haven't written to them, but I have an email


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