Marching into March
2006-03-08, 11:44 a.m.

Dear Everybody,

Thank you, thank you from the bottom of my heart for the hugs, prayers, and thoughts for my mom. All of your comments have cheered me up and helped me not to brood. You all mean more to me than you�ll ever know. Anyhoo, her quarter-sized melanoma was removed completely, and despite cluckings from her doctor about how she �doesn�t know how lucky she was that her doctor sent her on when he did�, everything is all right, and I can breathe again.
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(Or, maybe not. It�s flu season.)

We spent a happy, fun-filled week reveling in the flu. I am now a full convert to the Holy Miracle of the Tamiflu. Thank you God, thank You, for on the 8th day You created Tamiflu, and saw it was good. And on the 9th day You created Puffs Plus with lotion, and we used three boxes. And You also granted us with 20-20 hindsight, so that next season we WILL get a flu shot, because Mom running a 101 temperature, yet setting the alarm to get up every couple of hours to check on and/or medicate Son who had a 104.4 temperature, did not make for a pleasant night. This is a nasty little bug that makes your body develop twice as many joints as one�s body typically has so there will be that much more to ache. A bit of advice: Should you get the flu, do not eat a stuffed cabbage Lean Cuisine, because it�s rather repulsive the second time around.

Of course, the flu hit us after we had a houseful of children for the weekend, and Son had spent some time at the Guru abode. We love our friends so much we just have to share everything with them, ya know? Three other families can now hate us until the end of time for our generosity.

I�ve been slooooooooowly going through some back posts and once again found a little musical meme gem a la Golfwidow. Far from embarassing, it�s been a call to downloading arms. I�ve also unearthed and listened to a few golden oldies, but minus the purchase. Admit it...you remember Charlene�s �Never Been To Me�. Come on, you know you can still sing along.

What Would Be on Your Embarrassing Mix Tape?
You know. The songs that you listened to when you were in high school.
The songs you cried to during breakups.
The songs you wished someone would sing to you.
The songs you dubbed from your existing cassettes, or taped off the radio (or by holding the cassette recorder up to the television speaker while MTV was on).
You know. The songs you liked so much you taped them twice, because Only Pussies Use the Rewind Button to Listen to the Song Again.

I�m not embarassed. I hold my head high and proudly sneak these onto my daughter�s iPod, which I reserve the right to hijack at will. Because I�m the mom, that�s why.

1. Elton John, Nobody Wins
2. ELO, Prologue/Twilight
3. Olivia Newton-John, Xanadu
4. Bonnie Tyler, Total Eclipse of the Heart
5. Chicago, Hard To Say I�m Sorry
6. Kansas, Fight Fire With Fire
7. Duran Duran, The Chauffer
8. Madness, It Must Be Love
9. Gary Numan, Cars
10. Thomas Dolby, She Blinded Me With Science
11. M, Pop Muzik
12. Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Jackie Blue
13. Meco, Werewolf (Loose In London)
14. Sue Saad, She�s A Looker (I was such an 8-track badass)
15. Billy Thorpe, 1991
16. Charlie Dore, Pilot of the Airwaves
17. Diesel, Sausalito Summernight
18. Chaka Khan, I Feel For You
19. Chicago, ,No Tell Lover
20. Doobie Brothers, What A Fool Believes
21. Earth, Wind, & Fire, After The Love Has Gone
22. Pointer Sisters, Fire
23. Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bad Moon Rising

The last song would also fall under the category of �you and your best friend continuously call the deejays of WDIX AM and drive them OUT of their GOURDS by requesting it 300,000,000 times. Daily. And then finally get a clue and scrape together enough money to buy the album.� If I were to delve a little farther back in childhood, I�d have to add �Muskrat Love� (Captain and Tenille), �Mandy� (Barry Manilow), and �Saturday Night� (Bay City Rollers) to the list, but that might be too much for you gentle readers to take. But if anybody should happen to have mp3's of Sue Saad, Billy Thorpe, or Charlie Dore, I would be forever grateful, because apparently Hubby somehow deleted the crucial bits that convert analog to digital and once enabled us to burn our albums to cd. My albums languish, unheard, and you can�t find those songs anywhere for download.

In honor of my birthday month, the Sci Fi Channel will begin airing the new Doctor Who series on March 17th. The Science Channel is showing one of my old favorites, Cosmos (I am such a geek.) Our daffodils are blooming; trees are budding; the air is filled with birdsong and the repeated failed launchings of a desperate cat. March is a fun month in which to have a birthday, even if my kids are making wisecracks about how ancient I will be. Move over, Methuselah, here I come.

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