The news hit me hard as I started to think about the times we’ve spent together, the good times, the bad times and all the times in between, when we were younger, in the days of peace and love, the rock n roll days, the days of protest, free love and along with the burning of bras, there was a burning desire to prove to the world we knew how to fix it, fix all the issues with just two words; peace and love. It was a time when everyone over the age of 25 was the adversary, the enemy, unless proven otherwise. It was the sixties and I was considered a hippy to most of the older generation, as my hair dangled down which encouraged their thinking.

I never considered myself a hippy, because I didn’t believe in all they believed in and I considered myself a leader and not a follower. So I was a non conformist even to the hippies. I was never into drugs nor was I into living in a commune which I felt down graded one self and cultivated disease, both venereal and other nasty infections, I had no intention of having contact with.

I found another bunch of books that need to be read and I have picked the one that is next as soon as I finish up the one now that is almost done, bummer.  A few dozen remaining pages of “The Collected Short Stories of Louis L’Amour”  The Frontier Stories, Volume Two.  I hate coming to the end of any book, it depresses me.  I get so interested in everything that I hate to see it come to an end.

Anyway my next book is going to be “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” by Harriet Beecher Stowe - what a classic.  I can’t believe that I had never read it before, but I am glad that I will have the chance now, I’m sure it will be very interesting and educational in many ways.

I’m glad that I am having the opportunity to read again, it has opened my mind to so many things and it has made me want to learn so many things that I never expected to give a happy crap before.

Too bad that youth is wasted in the young!

I ran across the show “Hell’s Kitchen” a few months ago and really enjoyed it.  I really like Gordon Ramsey - the chef that scares the crap out of people.  He tells it as it is and has a truckers mouth that he cannot contain and comes across as a real *@#+”.  He has several t.v. shows that are running right now, most of them I enjoy, Hubby can watch one or two and that is about all that he can take.

Hell’s Kitchen is a reality show that has contestants competing for the grand prize of their own restaurant to run.  The teams compete every week and of course once a week some body gets sent home, it can get real emotional if you get into the people like I tend to do.

Anyway, a rerun has started to come on of another series of Hell’s Kitchen listed as being taped in 2007, and then I just saw a few commercials today saying that the local FOX Channel is picking up a brand new Hell’s Kitchen to start sometime in April.  I am looking forward to watching that one.  I even have learned a few kitchen and cooking tips from watching Gordon Ramsey for the last 5 months or so.  Even women needs a chef in her life somehow, somewhere, don’t you agree?

My sister really got into watching a t.v. chef from New Orleans, back in the 80’s, he was an older little man, but she somehow got a kick out of watching him, I watched a few times, but he didn’t trip my trigger at the least, so I moved on.  I wonder if he is still around and if so, if my sister still watches him.  I’ll have to ask her next time we chat.  The things that we remember!

Since I don’t get but a few hours of sleep each night during the week, I am glad that I didn’t have to work this weekend so that I could play catch up.  I think that I actually got caught up.  I barely got out of the bed yesterday, had to at least fix the family something for dinner (I called the pizza delivery guy) and went back to bed and slept some more.  I didn’t even get up this a.m. to fix hubby his coffee thermos or our youngest her hot coco for her thermos, but guess what - they survived!

Would have slept all day today but my conscience wouldn’t allow it, but I did stay in the bed until noon at least.

Since I got up I did get some stuff done around the house and went out and picked up a few things from the grocery store, did a load or two of laundry, you know the basics that are always there, always waiting, never ending.

Thought I would spend some time on the computer but I am starting to yawn, maybe I will be able to catch a few zzzzzz’s before tomorrow comes and hits me on the head telling me that it is MONDAY.

Goodnight.

Hubby was feeling very ill this week, somehow he contacted a stomach virus and made him 100% bedridden for three days, three long days.  I was pretty much kept right by his side and everything has fallen behind.

Anyway, he is feeling better, so much better that he took our youngest to the flea market early this a.m. and I got to sleep in for a few hours, which felt so good, I wish I could just crawl back into it for the whole day, but I have to play catch up.  So I’m doing laundry, cleaning the bathrooms, and catching up on some bill paying, while having the house to myself.  The phone didn’t even ring to wake me up, that in it’s self is a miracal.  The phone is a major issue in this household, I wish I could just yank it out of the wall, I hate it.  The only time I don’t have a problem with the phone is between the hours of 2:00pm and 8:00pm and of course no one calls at those times.  But that is when I am not busy with something else up to my elbows and I’m not trying to sleep, unless I’m sick.  I do sleep later than most, but I do work at night and that makes a difference in your sleep routin.

I hear the dryer buzzing - time to do another load of dirty clothes and bed sheets. Later!