Kentucky has more than banjos!

When I hear the word Kentucky I think:

Horse races, backwoods, basketball, bourbon, mountain music, mountain-top removal, big deer, black bears, and my ex-husband.  I have not talked much about him here.....except to say he is an incredibly wonderful man that I am lucky to know and remain friends with to this day.  His step-father unexpectedly passed last week, so we exchanged some emails....one of which included this video............

We are both biologists........and this video makes me proud of the work he is helping to accomplish there in KY.

Blogs, like life, are sometimes difficult…..

I have gone back and forth, back and forth……

I have been keeping up with 3 blogs, but none very well……….let alone a Google reader in the 1000’s.  Therefore, I have just deleted one of my other blogs and made the 3rd static………..ok, so?

So, that means that some of the topics that better fit over there will be coming up here (but in much less volume)….so wedding drama, family scraps, etc.  Will be brought up occasionally here.  Why?  Because this is my main blog and that is what I want to do.  Keeping up with multiple blogs is too cumbersome for me.  For those of you (like 6 people:) who followed over to my wedding blog…..sorry for that.  You will have to hope for glimpses here. 

For those of you I know in “real” life……KEEP YOUR TRAP SHUT ABOUT ANYTHING YOU READ ON HERE to ANYONE (aka Basil) but MWAH.  If I could go back, there is a part of me that really wishes I had gone anonymous like Jane and subWOW. 

There have been some negative repercussions from being myself here………..resulting in yuckiness.  In fact, I have considered starting over, but I hesitate.  I like my blog.  I love my bloggy friends.  I do not want to start over.  However, having people you know read your blog is sometimes like having a peeping tom….albeit a peeping tom you provide with stadium seating and popcorn….a peeping tom you run into at the grocery………..but still.  Weird.  Uncomfortable.  It is worst when people think they “know me/Basil” through this electronic medium and act on that in real life………….say it with me, ACKWARD.

So, Catch-up/Recaps:

1.) Wedding in 7 weeks.                                  

A musical variety show in a saloon with an eco-groovy theme.  A fingerprint tree “guestbook”, a Polaroid photo booth, 5 musical acts (all friends), a  purple bolero, cupcakes with a small cake served on a 1982 World’s fair Tray, recycled topographic map garland, and Pyrex graduated beaker and cylinder centerpieces.

   

 

Do you know me better now?  I bet you do, just a little. 

My family falls in 2 camps: 1)  Why didn’t you elope?  2)  Why are you getting married in a ‘Saloon’?  Just imagine……………………..

2.) Probable move to Maryland/DC in 3 months.

From beautiful mountains, best friends, job, home, comfort……to crowds and DC traffic and an 8-fold increase in annual taxes. blah.  Why do people want to live there?  Why do they want to put up with the traffic and crime and cost?  There must be reasons I do not understand.  We would be going for Basil’s career, which I believe in whole-heartedly.  I will make the best of it.

3.)  Major Crippling Injury.

My knee is doing ok.  Thank you for all your comments and concerns.  It will take time.

4.)  Job Change.

Wrapping up one and starting another.  Yuck…..but I have a job for the next 2 years (contract), so I will not complain.

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Stress does things to you.  It makes you emotionally thin and crinkly, like rice paper.  It leaves you raw and easy to provoke.  I shut down and read.  I cocoon, usually with a glass of red wine and a good sci-fi-mystery.  I feel incapable of movement, of progress, of energizing.  It is not change, per say, that hampers me.  It is the vortex of multiple major decisions that weighs on my psyche.  Basil handles this stuff worse than I do……….yet, he has been the one to wrap an arm over my shoulder and say exactly the right words (right after I told him what those were:).

Have you ever had 3 or 4 MAJOR life changes/decisions at the same time?  How did you cope?

Screams, blood, and ice-cream

I did NOT go to bed last night at 7:30 pm.

I do NOT have a toothpick leg because my leg muscles are atrophying from all the swelling and my kneecap started to fuse in place.

I did NOT laughed/screamed at the top of my lungs as the physical therapist “loosened” the scar tissue.

I did NOT eat vanilla ice-cream with chocolate syrup for dinner.

I did NOT wear the same skirt for 6 days in a row.

I did NOT whimper when the physical therapist pushed so hard on my knee that an incision burst open and bled on him.

I did NOT lean over Basil in the middle of the night and smell his neck because I missed him.

I did NOT discuss my constipation with BOTH of my bosses (Hello, painkillers.).

I did NOT brush Jebbie’s front teeth with my toothbrush yesterday.

I did NOT manage to ride a stationary bike and do a squat in therapy this morning………....ok…………...that one I will admit.

Coffee Party: No more Them and Us?

So, let me get this straight………you want to stop the cut-throat football game between Democrats and Republicans….and all just get along?  Really?  Hmmmmmmm…..

I wouldn't say we're aligned with the Democrats or Republicans or any party. In fact, think most of us feel that kind of that two-party system is an incredibly outdated system. It encourages people to think of politics as a kind of game, like a football game, in which there are two sides, and it's a zero sum situation. If one person wins, the other person loses. That's really not a healthy way to conduct collective decision making. That's not a democracy. Democracy should start with the sense that we're a community, we share common goals and values, and that there's such a thing as a common good that we're all working towards. And the two-party system really doesn't encourage that way of thinking about it. It is about winning and losing, and we're really tired of it. 

Annabel Park

 

Well, Annabel, you have my vote.  I think that sentiment makes too much sense for many Politicians, though.

One limp at a time.

While Basil is off with the guys, skiing in Park City, Utah (with my camera).....I am home recovering!  Madre has been an incredible help....along with the pain pills.  Overall.....I am doing well, AND I got to drive an electric chair in Walmart!  Awesomeness. 

Picture taken with my phone...I put on the socks just for you;)