H.H.S.C.

Thanks M and D for gifting us the Hilton Head Time Share - yeah, I know, we "paid" for it, but it was still an awesome gift. We needed it this year. After our week in Hilton Head, I did a week of work in Tampa, FL. I'm back for two days and leave again for Baltimore, MD - my first ever trip to the Head Quarters of the Social Security Administration. As it turns out, I'm in my quaint little SSA cubicle but one day over a four week period. Feels a bit like I'm back in Corporate America; but I'm also feeling up for the challenge, unlike when I was actually being fed by the corporate breast...(thanks for the analogy Shawn Mullins:)

I have no idea how much I'll be able to post over the next two weeks, so no promises. "We'll see" is about all I can commit to, bitch!

Thanks for reading and things will be different come May. just an FYI, Maddie, Kitty Cat, turns 19 in May - she was born in 1988 - Unbelievable!

Oh, and happy b-day to Mom tomorrow - congrats on making it to FRA - full retirement age!!!!

You can tell me...

Okay, why did it take until this week for one of you (should be) committed readers to tell me that the link to my new blog was not working? It's fixed now, so feel free to click on the link over to the right (the one that says: "One Good Line - my new blog!") to enjoy the second best blog generated out of this household.

xoxo

Boston Synchronicity

Photo courtesy of Boston's official web site


A few weeks ago, an old friend of mine sent me one of those fun e-mails that asked me to answer a lot of questions about her and then she would do the same for me. It included things like: "tell me about the first time you met me, what do you remember?”, and "what do you think my favorite beverage is?"

One of the questions asked what I thought my friend’s favorite music was. Since I don’t know what kind of music she likes now that we are in 2007, and since I was trying to be funny, I answered with "anything by the band 'Boston'". After all, that’s the music I know she liked back when I first met her in the early 1980’s.

Here's the thing though, the band Boston had not even crossed my mind in months, possibly years. Or at least not since the last time I went home to Michigan where Boston is played on the radio almost as much as Billy Joel, Anita Baker and Stevie Wonder.

So, I found it to be quite synchronicitous that the lead singer for Boston, Brad Delp, committed suicide just one day after I completed this questionnaire for my friend.

But wait, it gets even spookier.

Two days after Brad Delp’s death, we went to help take calls for upcoming concerts at one of our local Atlanta venues. Our good friend, MAD, coordinates this twice per year and we were honored to be asked to come back and help out. There were about a dozen shows for which we were taking orders and would you believe that one of the shows in the series was Boston (with REO Speedwagon as the opening act)? At the time we were taking ticket orders, the show was still to go on. But I see now the summer shows have been cancelled according to the band’s website. I didn't sell any tickets to the show but I did take a change order from someone who had purchased tickets and then realized that Brad was no longer with us. Had I not known about Brad's death, I might have even begged for tickets since I would have been able to see REOSpeedwagon, the first band I ever saw in concert. Just FYI, my second ever concert was Diana Ross at Cobo Hall in Detroit. If you EVER get a chance to see her in concert, or even see her on Inside the Actor's Studio, take that chance - she is SO worth it.

But the three olives in the already dirty martini, not to be confused with the icing on the cake: the television show I suggested you all watch (in my last blog entry), October Road, opened their series premiere with a Boston classic: "Don’t Look Back".

What do you think of the show by the way?

Oh, and would you believe that Billy Joel's "The Stranger" is playing on our DISH radio as I hit the "publish" button on this blog entry?