I wrote this today

3-18-09

I don’t always get choked up when a celebrity dies. Sure, I will sometimes be shocked, or sad. But the unconfirmed reports this morning concerning Natasha Richardson are so upsetting, I actually shed a few tears. She, by all accounts is just a lovely woman. She has been married to Liam Neeson since 1994, and have you ever seen a happier couple?

Her acting family have been favorites of mine. Her mom, the beautiful Vanessa Redgrave, and her sister Joley Richardson, have always been ones to watch. She comes from a legacy of directors, producers and actors. But even without them, she herself is a fantastic actress.

A skiing accident? Come on celebrities, stop getting on the skis! Just like we tell you to make sure to stay hydrated and to rest, lest you end up in the hospital for exhaustion and dehydration, you need to stay off of skis. Did Sonny Bono teach you nothing?

She was fine, which is what is scary. She joked about the injuries, and an hour later, she was being rushed to the hospital. The conflicting reports this morning that she is brain dead are so very upsetting. She is so young. She has two young kids. It just doesn’t seem fair for something so horrible to happen to someone so nice.

It is true, this sort of thing happens to people every day. Some person is going to go skiing today and is going to crash into a tree. They are going to die. Their family will miss them, and it will be a sad horrible day for them. There won’t be any reports in the NY Post about it. The TMZ crew won’t show pictures of their mom arriving at the hospital. It will go unnoticed by the masses, but it will mean everything to their loved ones. As cornball as this sounds, I now feel like I should have a moment of silence every day for those people. Just a simple thought of well wishes to their families and hope that the person who has died went peacefully. I suppose this sounds a bit like prayer. Hmm..interesting.

Ok, back to our regularly scheduled programming.

I am tired. Crazy tired. I have been congested the last couple days, and Ken said it sounded like I was doing the apnea thing 2 nights ago. So last night, I took some Benedryl to help. It did help the congestion, that is for sure, but I still am unable to get comfortable lately. Plus, I think I am still groggy from the meds. I have never really had allergies in the past, so this is kind of new to me. I feel like I don’t have enough oxygen in my system. I feel run down and weak. It isn’t fun. I will probably take more Benedryl in a bit if only to get decongested. I would go home, but I would prefer to not waste time off. Especially since I am gone on Monday. But if I do feel bad enough, I will bail. We will see.

Seriously, I think I just fell asleep at my desk.

I think I like Julia Roberts, but I don’t like some of the things she says. She said in the EW last week that her biggest accomplishment was that she made a movie while having 3 kids under 3. F her on that. She acts like she is the only one who every worked while having kids, and really, even though I am sure her job isn’t easy, I bed raising the kids is easier when you have access to tons of folks who can help you. There are women who don’t even have a husband who work two jobs to raise their kids. It isn’t a huge accomplishment to do something people do every day. Then again, perhaps that is all she is capable of and she was just being realistic in her expectations of herself.

I need Vivarin. I am drinking some soda, hoping the caffeine kicks in. It may be making me feel worse, now that I think about it.

Ok, I didn’t watch the American Idol performances last night, and they are bagging on Adam, one of my favorites this morning. They finally just played the version of Ring of Fire he did, and am I bad, I actually liked the version. It doesn’t sound nearly as bad as they are making it out to be. I will get to see the clips tonight. My man Danny seems to still be doing well. It is always gratifying when I pick someone from the beginning and they do well. I picked him and Adam, actually, and they have them pegged as one and two at the end, which would make me all kinds of happy. Then it wouldn’t matter who won.

Tough it out, tough it out!

I have not decided if I am going to try to go to my folk’s tonight or not. I didn’t go last night since they were going to be gone. I may just wait until Friday.

Yesterday we just played outside in the afternoon. I was able to sit on my ass most of the time. Bobby fell at one point, scrapping up his hand. So I put a band aid on, per his request. Maybe 15 minutes later, he tells me his foot is all red. Turned out, he also scraped his toe, which had some blood. So I put a band aid on that and on his leg where there was more scratches. He was so happy to have all the band aids.

I am worried about Dax. He broke out in this crazy rash on his arm and has been scratching it constantly for about a week and a half. It looks like it was just a standard grass irritation, and it just keeps looking worse since he keeps scratching it. We put Neosporin on it to help it to heal. But it is hard to keep him in long sleeves when it is nice out. The kid sweats like crazy. I wonder if he is allergic to something.

Maybe if I just slam through my aging, it will wake me up enough to make it. Here I go.

I have this sudden desire to go to Venice to just walk around. I wonder where that came from.

Crap, I don’t think I set up Reaper. Then again, it is one of those show I really enjoyed, and we are already behind on it. Plus, if I get all into it again, you know they will just cancel it. I truly can’t watch any new shows lately. I worry I will like them and then the powers that be will just axe it. I just set up Better Off Ted for tonight, and I kind of hope I hate it. Well, the people on the show would like that, since I tend to hate the shows that end up being picked up. I am always amazed when I get it right. House? Love the heck out of the show, and it does well. I am really worried about Lie to Me. They moved it to before AI, which doesn’t bode well for our heroes.

I love Wednesday calls with Ken. It cracks me up when I can wish him good luck with the bumblies and I can tell him to enjoy his evil sushi.

I am so tired, I swear, I think I am seeing things. Like some kind of hallucinations from sleep deprivation.

There are now reports that they are pulling her off of life support. I have this hope that this is all bullshit and that she will pull through and end up having this People magazine exclusive in a few weeks when she is all better. Can we say lame on my part?

And now Darth Vader is sick????

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/03/18/darth.vader.cancer/index.html

My kids will be devastated. They like him best.

The Galleria sent me another free $10 gift card. YAY! I need to go pick it up, which I guess isn’t good until Friday. Very exciting. They had not sent these since Christmas time. I am shocked they still are, but I guess if it stimulated the economy of the mall, it is so worth it. I may need to go to the Payless shoes there and get Bobby new shoes. His are falling apart. This will allow us then to get his shoes for cheap!

So I watched a lot of this documentary that K&B talked about on the show yesterday. It is about these women who are in love with inanimate objects. This one woman even married the Eiffel Tower! BBC does some fun documentaries. Of course, there is the sad part about the one woman and the speculation as to why she referred to the following objects as her lovers. A bow from her archery, bridges, fences (she not only caressed and kissed this one fence she came across, she sat on it, and let’s just say she was enjoying the fence more than she should have), the Berlin Wall (she actually tried to argue with the curator of the museum there that because she had been in foster care as a child that she could completely get the feelings of everyone effected by the wall. I was pretty sure had there been no camera, the curator would have killed her), and of course, the tower itself. She actually married this thing! And then she went to visit so she could, sigh, consummate the marriage. It was especially amusing when she had stratlled this chunk of the tower, and was being “intimate” with it while these people walked past her thinking she was cuckoo for Coco Puffs. If you take away the sad, it was very funny, and actually interesting. The two women they profiled were both articulate and at least the one (Mrs. Wall, as she apparently took the Berlin Wall’s last name) was moderately attractive. Other chick was scary, since you didn’t know if she was man or woman. She had a love affair with an amusement park ride (She made out with it, and smeared grease from it all over herself, saying how when she made love to it at home that she would say, “I want your fluids”) and a church banister. The former pastor at the church had kicked her out because of her love for the pipe organ (Insert bad pun here) named Bruce (she said this was his name). According to her, though, he hasn’t been the same since he went digital. OMG. But the new pastor was a lovely man who was so accepting of her strange passions and I was pretty impressed with him. Of course, this was on camera, so for all we know afterwards he was burning her at the stake.

It was interesting, that is for sure. I may need to check out some more BBC stuff. I guess the site this came from has a bunch of other documentaries. I think BBC did the one on the broad breast feeding her 8 year old, so they do some good work. The best part is that the narrator doesn’t sound in the least bit disgusted, disturbed, amused or anything about this. She had this wonderful monotone Britishy accent thing going for her and was soft spoken, yet you felt like she made it ok for a woman to grind on a church banister. Seriously, the internet is wonderful.

I am freezing, but I don’t want to turn on my heater. I think it will make me even more sleepy!

Do people still get belly button piercings?

We have to go to Target tonight. I need conditioner. My hair will not last tomorrow without it. I also need to get, not tonight but at some point, bubble bath. The boys have decided bubble baths rule. The dish soap is not really the best bubble stuff. It is good, but I think there is better, so we should pick something up. I have not been to a Babies R Us in ages, which still seems odd. I guess I don’t have babies anymore.

Falling asleep again.