Doing shots!

Yep...today was the day...
A shot for Yellow Fever
A shot for Polio
A shot for Hepatitis A and
a Typhoid shot...just to round things out...

Two shots in each arm!
I will have to say tho...I thoroughly enjoyed visiting with all of the WONDERFUL people from Saddleback Memorial Hospital who came to staff the clinic!

Special treat! This is Suzie...her daughter, Hillary, and Allison were in the show choirs at El Toro High School together! Suzie and I were chaperons on their road trips, worked the shows and were on the School Board together too.
I was so happy to see her. I said, "Suzie! It's been so long-we should celebrate.
How about we do a shot?!"

Oh yeah...I received my prescription for Malaria pills today too!
Kenya believe it?!

Jacaranda

I always look forward to seeing the Jacaranda trees in full bloom throughout the city every year. When these gorgeous, full, purple trees are blooming, you can almost set your clock. It means Summer is on its way, the school year is almost over, graduations are coming up...another year has passed.
I have a picture of myself in my cap and gown under the Jacaranda trees at Cal State Fullerton. Love that shot.
The fact that these trees bloom every year--right on time--is kind of comforting really.
It's a reminder of the routine--simple--cycles of life.
That no matter all the changes and chaos and craziness that goes on...
thankfully, much of life is still so very predictable.

Coming to NY in October!!

Gotta gotta GOTTA see this...

Favorite Candy EVER!

Today I picked up a piece of a red wrapper off the ground and it triggered a memory of a candy bar I used to love when I was young! LOOK! (Seems like it's YELLING at you, huh?)

Not sure if it's even still around...but it was dark chocolate covered nougat and (from what I remember) it is spectacular!

Today is Tuesday

I am all mixed up on my days.
I was off on Saturday, which I never am. I worked Sunday, but was off yesterday and now I am off today too. I looked at my calendar this morning and said--out loud-- "OK, today is Tuesday...."

Which sent my mind to a song. It's a song from The Mickey Mouse Club...and I have not thought of it for YEARS. But this morning, when I said, "Today is Tuesday..." it flowed out of my mouth like I had sung it every Tuesday of my entire life.

"Today is Tuesday, you know what that means...
we're gonna have a special guest
So, get out the broom, sweep the place clean
and dust off the mat so the WELCOME can be seen.
Roll out the carpet, strike up the band
and give out with a HIP HOORAY (Hip Hooray!!)
Wiggle your ears, like good Mouseketeers,
we're gonna present our guest today...
Cause Tuesday is guest star day."

Yep, I'm a dork.

And I don't know what day it is.

But I always have a song to sing...

Hit me with your best shot!

I have OFTEN mentioned that I can beat anyone at Name That Tune. It is a RARE moment that I can't tell you the name of a song and who sings it and I can usually come up with a tid bit of information that you might have never known about the song. Yeah, it's more than most people want to know for sure. But it really is one of my gifts. (Addiction? Compulsion?)

If I can't figure out who sings it--I go crazy til I find out. Sometimes I hear a song at the market and I'll ask the checker who's singing. If he doesn't know the answer (or if he thinks I am a freak) I immediately head home to Google it. I rest only once I know who sings it and WHERE I know the song from. This doesn't happen very often tho, because I am pretty much the QUEEN of naming tunes.
But yesterday--I got to spend the day with the NAME THAT TUNE KING! It was breath taking...beautiful...absolutely brilliant! As we drove around, I scanned through my iPod mixing up songs and playing incredibly random selections--Neil Sedaka and Neil Diamond, Annie Lennox and Andy Gibb, Paul Simon, Paul Anka, Billy Joel, Billy Idol, Boston. I was trying hard to stump him--Boz Scaggs! A-ha! Hazy Fantazie! Roy Orbison!
He got every freeking one. Everything! Most on just a few notes. (We let a few play through so we could sing along. Most fun? Singing every word to "I Just Want to be Your Everything")
Seriously--we laughed the whole time and I was just totally blown away! I was SO impressed. I have NEVER known anyone who knew music better than me.
I handed over my crown.
At one point he told me about this time he heard a song and how he went crazy until he figured out who sang it and where he knew it from.
Hmmm...yep. I understand that.
I guess that makes two of us.

They've killed Kenny!

I am not sure which I am more reluctant to admit...that I had never seen an episode of South Park until the last few weeks OR that now--I freaking love the show.
Earlier this month, a friend of mine brought over a recorded VHS tape of concert he had taped...and on the end of the video were a couple of the South Park episodes--so we just kept watching.
And I could not stop laughing and wondering, "Where in the HECK did they come up with this stuff?" It's unbelievable!
Now, you gotta know that the show was a HUGE favorite of Zac and his friends. I used to hear them laughing hysterically from the TV room every time they watched the show. I remember just walking in on a few minutes of the show from time to time and just thinking it was crude and gross.
It IS indeed crude and gross...but it is absolutely BRILLIANT as well. The writing is creative and original and amazingly clever...SO entertaining!
I watched a few more episodes this morning and laughed OUT LOUD--constantly!
I just added the remaining seasons to my Netflix queue.
I can't wait.