Pink Ribbon

So, I've been wondering about Social Media and how to manage your life on it. It's so weird. TMI, TLI? I don't know.

So, I decided to just share my stuff, the stuff going on because it makes sense to and because I care about my friends and family and I think they would care. I hate being the person who is the last to know...

Three weeks ago I was diagnosed with breast cancer, the good kind, IDC with no lymph node involvement, stage 1. If you Google it you will see that this form of cancer is highly-treatable and with good prognosis.

So I'm very optimistic about it.

I had a lumpectomy this week and I'll be getting radiation treatments for a couple of weeks, starting in about a month.

SO, I'm now status-post lumpectomy, some minor pain and discomfort, but mostly fine!

Geez, would you tell everybody like this? I have NO idea!

I'm Surprised These Things are Anywhere on our Radar

Jeff Goldblum, What the heck.
Why is this guy still on our radar? I've never cared for the guy at all. I haven't liked him since The Big Chill, one of my favorite movies, and now he's ironically popular again. ugh.

Anyway, I started thinking about the other popular things that I absolutely have no affection for. My negativity is pretty strong in this post, so be prepared. Here's my list, things I'm rather annoyed with and just can't keep quiet about tonight. Maybe it's PMS.
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WHY are these things THINGS?
Why don't we have the courage to just show them the door?

• Jeff Goldblum - Why is THIS man still acting?
• ABBA - just why?
• Justin Bieber
• Donald Trump
• Billionaires - why are these people admired at all?
• Some over used female baby names - I won't list them here, but there are some names that I just can't stand.
• Duck face - WHY?
• Carrie Fisher
• Patriotism - such a bullshit thing.
• Hashtags
• Alexis Bledel
• FOX news
• Expen$ive coffee
• New Years Eve - such an invented thing
• James Corden
• Marvel movies, super hero movies - Just. Stop. Now.
• Ryan Gosling - what's with this overrated actor?
• Mountain man beards - I am SO over them
• BTS
• Super expensive, trendy tennis shoes -  time to stop supporting this kind of crap
• Cruises
• The Mona Lisa - there are waaaay better works of art
• All things woo: crystals and whatnot
• Dabbing - 🙄
• Forest Gump
• Dirty Dancing, Patrick Swayze
• Facebook challenges 
• Lumberjack beards
• Catholicism
• Social media celebs
• Funny black t-shirts
• Diamonds
• Howie Mandel
• Disney
• Valentines Day
• Those angry cat memes
• Comments about pizza and pineapple
• Dumbing down anything
• Adam Sandler
• Wine
• Bow ties -  so overused
• The word Awesome
• Fame, caring about what celebs think
• Virginity
• Cigarettes

Anyway, just my little list of negativity. What would you add?

Eleven Love Songs I Never Want to Hear Again!

I was listening to the radio today and the DJ announced that, next, she would read the top some number of songs that some magazine, maybe Rolling Stone, had listed as the Worse Romantic Songs of All Time. Quite a list for Valentine's Day. Well, I got out of the car moments later, but I kept wondering what songs were in that list. So, I decided to make my own list.

Romantic songs are notoriously nauseating or obnoxious. I'm sure you have a few songs on your Never Again List. If so, please add them in the comments section. 

Keeping in mind that my songs are OLD, like 70s and early 80s.
Here's My List:

1.   ANYTHING by Chicago
2.   ANYTHING by Celine Dion, but especially My Heart Will Go On and On
3.   Fire and Rain by James Taylor
4.   The Pina Colada Song: Escape by Rupert Holmes
5.   I'll Make Love to You by Boyz II Men
6.   As Long as You Love Me by the Backstreet Boys
7.   She's Like the Wind by Patrick Swayze
8.   Making Love Out of Nothing Now by Air Supply, in fact, everything by Air Supply
9.   Muskrat Love by The Captain and Tenille
10.   I Wanna Know What Love Is by Foreigner
11.   All By Myself  by Eric Carmen, of course

GOOD GRIEF THESE ARE TERRIBLE!
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What songs did I miss?
What would you add?

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Grief and Eddie

Tonight I'm grieving Eddie Vedder.
Not because he died, he's still here!
I'm grieving him because I just discovered him!

I wasn't into Grunge in the 90s; I'm not really into it now. But I do remember just ignoring so much of the new music coming out because I was just too busy to pay it any mind. I was in graduate school in the 90s, then getting married, then mother to a newborn. I really didn't have any extra attention to pay. Besides, I was still rocking out to the 70s tunes.  🤣
Not really. I wasn't listening to much music at all. I mean, all I had was the radio and CD player...so when I think of music at that time, all I actually remember playing alot of was a favorite Kenny Loggins CD.

In the past couple of years I've also been exploring different movie genre', book genre', authors, art, all kind of interesting cultural experiences. I feel like the world is a smorgasbord and it's music time.

Anyway, so the other night I was just messing around on youtube listening to a variety of music. Lately I'm enjoying exploring other genres of music that I have never given time to. I guess I'm a bit bored with my own favorites. Though how one can be bored of Kenny and Luther after only thirty years of nonstop listening, I don't know.

So I was messing around and I kept thinking to myself, DANG, my memory stinks. Who is that one band that I keep meaning to give a listen to?  For several days in a row I tried to remember but just could not. Luckily, my son reminded me, it was Pearl Jam. I was listening to our local rock station KSHE a week or so ago when a song came on that had me quickly Shazamming the thing. It was Black by Pearl Jam.

Yeah. That one.
The lyrics, Man!

So, anyway, long story short, I pulled up some Pearl Jam last night and got lost in their songs, and, eventually, in everything by Eddie Vedder. Dude, I love him.

YES, he's hawt.
But he's SO COOL and so interesting and so real. I love his voice and his lyrics and his career. I listened to several songs he sang with other big singers and just...fangirled.

Then I started feeling super sorry for myself for not being mad for the guy for the last, what, thirty years? 🤣  I'm so late to the game!!! So, now, I'll be giving him his due. I plan on listening to everything: concerts, covers, interviews, covers, everything! And, certainly, looking at every possible image of this gorgeous dude. Fergoodnesssake! I didn't know!!!!!

So, if you've been awake these past few decades, I'm jealous. I've been missing so much great stuff...I wonder what else is out there???

Any suggestions? Send me your playlist! But, Girl, make it as amazing as EV!

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