MY LIFE IS SO BORING BUSY I HAVE NO TIME TO WRITE.
That’s the excuse I’m giving myself for having nothing to say.
I hate politics. Just vote for the liar who’s ass you like best.
Every time a political ad comes on TV it reminds me of an old Saturday Night Live show. Dan Ackroyd was the Jimmy Carter-like president who was just elected. During his inaugural address he tells the nation that, due to becoming privy to information he was NOT privy to before becoming president, he will no longer be able to keep ANY of his campaign promises. ROFLMAO!
Privy. What an odd word. That’s an outhouse, right? I need my OED for some background info here. I love to find out the origin of odd words or phrases that we use all the time but never really think about. For instance: “In cahoots with” Back during the old days, criminals lived in shacks down by the river. They were called cahutes(French) or kajuits(Dutch). When crimes were commited, the POPO knew that all they had to do was go down to the river and the culprit would most likely be there. They were “in cahoots” with all the other criminals! I love this stuff! *sigh* I’m such a nerd. A word nerd. Dang!
WTF is up with the Austrian dude who kept his daughter and his incestous offspring (some of them at least) captive in the freaking basement for 24 years? TWENTY-FOUR YEARS!!!!!!!! And, not to make disparaging remarks about the intellect of the mother here, but how the hell did she miss that???? I mean, the guy was taking food to them daily! She and the “children” were forbidden from going near the area where the door was located. Huh? I mean, just how smart do you have to be to figure out something is wrong? Here he is telling her that the daughter ran away. Okay, not so suspicious there. But sometime later, she “drops off” three of her kids. No contact with mom, only dad. No bells yet? How old were the children when he brought them out of the basement? Why didn’t they ever say, “Hey grandma, can I go downstairs and say hi to Mom?” That is a perfect case of someone being deliberately obtuse!
Obtuse. Another favorite word of mine. Look it up, Muttonhead. I’m not doing ALL the work for you!
So, my neurologist ran away and didn’t tell me. I get my meds through one of those online thingies. I was up for a refill, which required my neuro to re-authorize my scripts. No biggie, we do this all the time. NOT! The online meds thingie sends me a message saying that they cannot renew my scripts. I have to contact my Dr. Okay, a little strange, but I’m about due for a visit anyway. I call up and get no answer. No answer, no answering machine, no answering service, no nothing. For days on end. I have no idea what’s up, but I’m not really stressing too much because I never liked the jerk anyway.
So I talk to some other doctors, trying to get a few referrals so I can find a new neuro. One of them tells me that my neuro has moved to the mountains. No shit?, I say. Yep, she says. He sent a letter to all of his current patients telling them that he was leaving and to come get their records. I never got my letter! *insert sad face here* This is the point where I start to feel a little ……..um…….well, left out. I mean, just because I’m not at his office once a month, that doesn’t make me chopped liver! I really never liked that guy.
I’m now on a quest for a new neurologist. *sigh* I hate this medical crap more than I can tell you. I can’t remember things well enough to be coherent when it comes time to give a timeline/symtom list. Luckily, MDH comes with me most of the time. I can’t remember because I have scar tissue in the memory centers of my brain. Whatever that means.
It’s fascinating to listen to MDH tell about it, though. I have no idea about alot of the things he tells them. I am apparently very different from what I used to be like. I don’t remember who I used to be, so it’s like listening to a story where part of the time I was the main character and part of the time my understudy took the stage for me. She had a lot of fun times! They sound fun, anyway. It makes me sad that she got to do that stuff and I didn’t.
I get all emotional about it because I wonder how people see me now, compared to how they used to see me. I don’t feel any different. But I must be really different, because I used to have lots of friends and now I don’t have any. I guess people get tired of seeing that blank look on my face every time they talk about something we did and I don’t have any idea what they mean. I understand that because it frets me something terrible when it happens. I feel like a partial amnesiac. I remember just enough to know that I don’t really remember much. I had a whole other life that I have totally forgotten.
The cool part is that at one time I was a pretty cool old broad. I wish I had had a video camera on me at all times. Then I could see me doing all that stuff and maybe I would remember it then. I wonder how sad it makes MDH, having to keep the memories alone. That frets me too.
This is why I hate the medical stuff. Because I am confronted with the stranger I used to be whenever I have to go. It gets me all emo. I used to tell people that I lost the eighties. They thought it was a joke. It wasn’t. I don’t remember the music, the television, the movies, the major events in the news. They are gone.
Most of the time I can sit up here on the hill and be whoever it is that I am now and not think about whatever it was that I lost. But I think that mostly I sit here and don’t think at all. Most of the time I run just beneath the surface and I’m not really all that aware of what’s going on around me. I try to be, but it’s hard to do because I have no idea what I’m missing. I don’t know what I’ve forgotten that I’m supposed to be remembering. Whenever I go into town, people that are complete strangers to me always wave, stop and talk, and I have no idea who they are. I smile and nod my head and I have no idea who the hell they are or where they know me from. It’s creepy in the extreme.
Sometimes I think that I should go out and make new friends that didn’t know me before. Then I remember that I don’t know who knows me and who doesn’t. Makes it kind of hard to do.
Anyways, that might explain why sometimes I’m HERE and sometimes I just have nothing to say.
Anyone else out there have something like this going on? How do/did you handle it?
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