HERE'S TO YOU THURSDAY

Today is the day that I celebrate all of the amazingness that you contributed to blogland this week. Sadly, I have not kept up with all of the amazingness that you have poured into blogland this week. I have slept through most of it. I have poked my head in here and there, but I haven't read nearly enough to do a decent job out of a Thursday post. So, this will be a mishmash. Some dedications and some stuff for everyone. We are doing something VERY different. On that note... it is that day again. What day is that you ask? How can you have forgotten? Drum roll please. It is HERE'S TO YOU THURSDAY, of course! The very best day of the blogging week. It is the precursor to the best day of the work week.

Here is what is going down: this is a weekly event. The best (or worst) part is that I am not going to explain why I chose "whatever" footage for each of you. If, you watch your footage and are scratching your head at the end, well that means I didn't do a very good job. However, all is not lost. You can email me at rarichards68@gmail.com and ask me what I was thinking when I chose that particular piece of footage off of youtube and connected it to you. And then I will tell you. Then I will start sending up prayers that I haven't offended the crap out of whoever is on the receiving end of that email....lol. Because, honestly, I will tell you right now... I admire all of you enormously so I really hope that doesn't happen.

Also, this is not an exclusive venture by any means. I hope that you will take the time to watch ALL of the footage because I don't pick bad footage:-) I also hope that you might check out the blog of the person I dedicated the footage to because they are pretty darn awesome. If you haven't figured this out yet... I pick the footage based on something that you've written or something that I've gleaned from your personality. Think on that for a while... If you are having trouble watching the entire video (meaning it is being cut off on one side), click on it a couple of times and it will take you straight over to youtube. If you click on the four squares at the bottom corner of the video, it will enlarge it to fill your screen. The escape key will bring it back to normal size. The back arrow will bring you back to my page.

Now, let's get this PARTY STARTED!!!!

This one is for everyone:




This one is for Lira The Struggling Actress:




This one is for everyone:




This one is for FACING 50 WITH HUMOUR:




This one is for everyone:




This one is for Sharon at Musings of A Mercurial Woman:




This one is for everyone:




This one is for Shoes at Red Shoe's Chronicles:

C IS FOR COLD

Quite clearly, I am still a bundle of sickness. I know that I am always a heaping mass of migraine. However, I am still down with this cold. It is terrible. Back in the early 90s, when I lived in Savannah, my family doctor ran some bloodwork and told me that I tested positive for mono. She then asked me when I had mono. I told her that I had no idea, which gives you an idea of how sick I was as a kid. I had mono and didn't even know it! She just raised her brows a little and said that whenever I got an infection or cold, basically anything that knocked down my immune system, I shouldn't be surprised if I feel the mono symptoms again. Well, that explained a lot.... like why I always got thrown to the floor every time I got sick. It drove my then-boyfriend crazy. "Why is your sick so much worse than everyone else's sick?" he'd complain. Well, I finally had the answer.

Mono.

Honestly, with the migraines and my host of other problems, I haven't even thought about the mono in a long time. Well, I have been barely able to get out of bed the last few days. I suffer from Chronic Fatigue, too. That is exhausting all by itself. Throw some mono in on top of that and... who's that guy who slept for years at a time? That could be me.

Yesterday, I had my appt with the doctor that social security assigned me to go see. I have no idea how it went. I felt terrible. The dude really didn't seem to care. Of course, he wasn't supposed to care about my cold, but he came off as a very cold fish. He also didn't seem to have any compassion about my migraines or other problems. Of course, my stepdad says that he is instructed to be dispassionate about my condition. I don't know. I think that some people think that migraines are just another headache. Even doctors. Muscle and joint pain from fibromyalgia is kid stuff. People should just toughen up. In other words, I think that a lot of pain has to be experienced in order to be appreciated. Someone who has had a migraine relates completely differently to a migraine sufferer. Someone who has fibro relates differently. Anyone with chronic pain relates differently. If you have never experienced it, you are judging that which you do not know. I am humming along to the chorus of Beautiful again. And wanting to trade shoes with that doctor. I am sure he would have thought I was insane had I asked him his shoe size on the way out. Good thing that is only occurring to me now.

Thursday is not shaping up well for tomorrow at all. I have not been reading your posts. You know this, because I have not been commenting on your posts. Why? I have been sleeping. All of the time.

Rip Van Winkle.

That there is the dude I was trying to think of earlier. My mind is working on sloooooow. It doesn't have that many gears to begin with and none of them are oiled well. I keep stopping and starting. My eyes are at half mast and my pillow is calling my name. I was hoping to stay awake more than three hours, but it isn't looking likely. I have to go on facebook and send out some gifts or I have people on there who might start sending me mean messages. They want their stuff. Sick or no sick.

Now, that's COLD.

SAVE MAGIC TONIGHT

I decided to go ahead and do my Saturday post today. I am still sick, so you might actually benefit by reading a shorter than usual post. lol. Colds are just nasty. Unless they actually turn into an infection, there really is not much you can do. Soup, rest, water, over the counter medicine, blah blah blah. Mostly it is just letting the darn thing run its course. Or wait for it to turn into something bacterial that requires an antibiotic, so that you can actually get better. It is enough to make you crazy. In my case, crazier. I have my appt with the regular doctor that social security assigned me to see on Tuesday. I am fairly certain that I will still be sick as a dog. That will be lovely. Well, there is no point in worrying about what you cannot control.

Yesterday, I spent some time thinking about song for Inspirational song day and cruising around Youtube. I found a few things and saved them into my favorites. As I was contemplating this post, I thought about the jingle for Alka Seltzer. Right now, that is really about the only thing resonating with me, and that is not my over-the-counter brand of choice. I take Nyquil every six hours. Dayquil sucks. However, I like the song for Alka Seltzer. It made me realize that I miss jingles. They don't do jingles so much anymore for commercials. It is pretty much talking with music in the background. That is kind of sad. More commentary on how we are changing as a society.

Anyway, I didn't have a hard time coming up with my Inspirational To Me song at all. I have liked it for a long time. I had not watched the video until yesterday and I LOVED IT. I had to watch it a couple of times. I hope that you like it, too.



Sometimes, the answer is just showing up. You don't have to have any of the answers. Anyway, great song and great video.

When I decided to feature The Cars this week I had no idea what I would find on Youtube. I was surprised that so many of their songs were available. In fact, a lot of their songs from the late 70s are now on video and called Classics. I had their Greatest Hits on cassette tape and it was one of my favorites. When I went to college, it was about a seven hour drive home. That meant a lot of music shuffled in and out of my cassette deck. I loved that Greatest Hits tape by The Cars. The first track was JUST WHAT I NEEDED and was probably my favorite. In fact, I liked their earlier stuff best. However, for the sake of showcasing what was playing on MTV in the early 80s I should stick with what was actually playing then.

Before I started looking anything up, I did a mental review to see what I could remember. The song that came immediately to mind was the one where the lead singer was walking on the water in the pool. I couldn't think of the name of the song. This could be old age or my migraine issues... not sure which. I remember watching that video intently whenever it came on to figure out how they did that. I finally decided that there must have been panels of glass that he was standing on. I don't know with any degree of certainty how they actually did it, but that is what my teenage brain deduced. Turns out that the song is called MAGIC. So, the concept of a guy walking on water is actually pretty cool. I could continue to tell you about it or just let you watch it...




Also in keeping with their stuff that was playing about the same time period is this one. What I like about both of these videos is that they aren't concert vids. They understood what MTV was all about as a forum and used it. This makes me want to go digging through all of my old cassette tapes to find The Cars Greatest Hits. I have just been hit by nostalgia. Well, while I am thinking about that, we can watch this...



Well, I have thought about it. That is a lot of work. And I have youtube. I think I will just watch more Cars videos. It will be just what I needed.