Have you ever met any celebrities? The Righteous Brothers have always been my favorite celebrities. I was friends with the head of security at Harrah’s back in the 80’s, when I worked in Reno and I was fortunate to be invited to go along to meet them and see the charity event. I do believe they are the only celebrities that I have ever shaken hands with and it was one of the highlights of my existence at the time.
I was amazed at how calm I was and was quite pleased that I didn’t act all goofy and gushy because after all they were my favorites. It didn’t matter that I hadn’t thought to take a camera to get a picture with my hero’s it was enough for me to just meet them. I’ve been to many different concerts over the years, but never cared enough about any of the performers to actually want to shake hands with them.
I always regret that I never actually got to see Elvis in person or concert though because I’m sure it would have been phenomenal, but he was never my hero like the Righteous Brothers. For all you Elvis fans I know I’m strange, but to each their own. Over the years I can’t tell you how many Righteous Brothers records and cassettes that I have worn out and I still have a few to go.
I felt really bad about Bobby Hatfield’s death in 03, but Bill Medley was always my favorite or rather his voice. Have you ever meet an idol from your youth? I have met different politicians, but I certainly don’t consider them in the same way and I have never idolized any of them. I can’t say that I ever fantasized about Bill Medley, but all of their music played during memorable parts of my life and I fantasize about that, the music and memories.
Some days I feel like a nut, some days I don’t. I know it’s “Sometimes I feel like a nut, etcetera, but I sometimes choose to use what I want and don’t really care what the exact phrase is. Lately I don’t feel like a nut at anytime even though I may act like one to other people and may perhaps say silly things that they can laugh at because it kind of relieves tension. I apologise that I make people uncomfortable at times.
People really don’t know what to say to other people that are going through a crisis and actually there is nothing you can really say to alleviate someone else’s pain except to be supportive and be there for them in their darkest hours and I really appreciate everyone that has been there for me in mine. “I am now saying a prayer for all of us.” We as humans have a hard time understanding unless we have experienced something similar.
I have never been really good at chit chat unless I was working with the public and then it’s easy because it’s like you are putting on a show and your tips depend on it if you work in the restaurant business or the beauty business you need to listen and just insert a word here and there to let people know you understand. We as humans are always just looking for someone to listen, but so few do because everyone has problems.
Actually Bartenders should be paid a fortune. I can’t tell you how many times I have just listened to someones problems pretty much like a psychiatrist. They ask for advice on what they should do in many different circumstances, but usually they know and just want confirmation. I don’t advocate alcohol as a substitute even though many of us use it, we are only human and look for answers any where we can find them.
I hate to admit this, but I am not a huge water drinker. It’s recommended to drink at least 8-12 eight ounce glasses a day and I never manage to get my quota even though I do get water from food also and other liquids. It’s reported that a healthy adult kidney can process at least 15 liters a day, that’s a lot of processing.
I learned the hard way that you should never drink a lot of water at one time you should spread it out through out the day. I was feeling bad a few years ago and Bill told me I was getting dehydrated and that I should drink as much water as possible so what did I do? I stood at the sink and downed so many glasses of water that I actually felt like I was going to burst.
I never knew that drinking water could make you sick, but it can kill you if you drink too much too quickly, it’s called water intoxication and it can cause hyponatremia which is an imbalance of the salts in the blood or electrolytes that can occur when an excessive amount of water accumulates in the body at a higher rate than it can be excreted this can have a dire effect.
I never knew any of this until I made myself deathly ill and I swelled up like a balloon, it was horrible, but I did learn later how lucky I was because it can cause brain damage, as well as death, oh wait now I know what’s wrong with my brain sometimes. Our bodies need at least 3 quarts of fluid a day give or take depending on circumstances, but not all at once.
I also add some sea salt to my water now so I don’t run the risk of ever overdosing on water again and causing the electrolytes to become diluted. If you want to find out more simply do a search I should probably read more about it myself, but I don’t ever plan to overload my body with all that water at one time ever again, sometimes even too much of a good thing can hurt you.
Bill and I have been discussing people and how some seem to have more bad luck than others. My sister has always had trouble in her life and it seems to have extended to her kids. I know bad things happen to everyone at some time or another, but I mean the kind where horrible things happen constantly, always something.
That brings me back to the lady I mentioned in another post that fell on her 18 month old grandchild in a freak accident and he died. Numerous other things have also happened to this lady like being raped several times and her son being in prison twice. The son was the Father of the little boy and he even brought him over for us to meet.
The poor lady must be having such a horrible time and I feel so sorry for her. That is certainly not something I would be able to deal with and just this past weekend the same young man, the Father of the baby took a trip with his buddy to Philly on their bikes for some event and tragedy struck again for this poor kid.
On their way home they got separated and a young lady in a car stopped and told the friend that he was down the road standing by his bike. At any rate they didn’t find the young man until 8 hours later and he was 30 yards up in the woods with a broken neck and a severed spine, the young man will never walk again and this is on top of losing his baby a couple years ago.
His bike was fine and from all accounts they didn’t find much outer damage to his body and the young man doesn’t remember what happened. They are now considering the possibility that the young lady in the car may have hit him and was scared and stopped to tell this other biker encase he was seriously hurt.
None of this makes sense to me and I find all the situations that this lady is going through and has been through weird and freaky. How in the world does so much bad happen over and over to the same people? I still can’t believe all of the things that have happened to her and her son, I only mentioned a few things because you would never believe all the other stuff.
They say God will never put more on you than you can bear, but these situations are a bit much. I asked my son when he was in the hospital if he thought there was something worse than having cancer and he didn’t hesitate for a moment to let me know that he wouldn’t want to live if he was paralyzed. Now for myself I wouldn’t either, but with him he could at least watch his son grow.
I sometimes don’t understand anything.
