Here I go again

   I am back in Missouri now, so it's time for a brand new blog.  You can still go to myrtlemoments.blogspot.com if you need a sunrise or sunset or beach fix from when I lived in Myrtle Beach.  I'll be going back there again, real soon I hope, but not to live this time.  Only to visit.  And I'll be taking my special guy DMan with me this time.  The beach just wasn't as much fun without him!
     So this new blog is all about the craziness of life and trying to see the hootie side of things instead of the downer side.  DMan calls it making chicken salad out of chicken sh*t and he's mighty good at it, so I may have to enlist his help from time to time when I get into one of my black funk moods.  As Seal says in "Crazy":  No we're never gonna survive unless we get a little crazy.  You got that right, Seal.
   Here's some crazy from today:

• I'm hooked up to the machine donating plasma, my only income source right now (please let my memoir sell, soon!, so I can make some other money), and it's not going well.  A newbie stuck me and didn't get the needle in clean, so they keep having to move the needle around (not fun) and put my blood back in me to check the flow and I'm pumping my fist like crazy until my arm feels like it will fall plumb off.  So I'm a bit stressed by this time, can you tell?  Then this woman in the bed across from me gets on her cell phone and IN A PRACTICALLY SHOUTING VOICE starts telling someone about the most popular sex positions she heard about on some show.  And she's describing it in way more detail than any of us around her want to hear.  I'm not sure of her source, but I would guess from the look of her and the rest of her conversation that it was some tacky reality TV show.  In case you are wondering, she said the least popular is side-by-side, the most popular is woman-on-top, but she didn't know which way the woman was facing.  I was so glad to get unhooked from that dayum machine and get out of there!  I've come to expect unexpectedly overhearing this type of twisted conversation in Wal-Mart, but while I'm donating plasma?  Come on!
• For you all around Springfield, by now you've probably heard that Lonestar Steakhouse closed.  Now they have bulldozed the place down and the corner of Battlefield and Campbell looks positively naked!  What do you bet that a brand new building goes up there with a "roadhouse" type of restaurant (just like Lonestar was, only it was the original 20 years ago).  We sure don't have enough of those types of eating joints around Springfield, do we?! 
• What's up with gas prices?  Is every gas retailer owned by the same company now?  You cannot get a gas bargain no matter where you go in this town.  If one place goes up, they all go up before the end of that day.  What happened to those gas wars of the 70s when gas stations would try to undercut each other to bring in business?  Guess it went in the crapper with getting your windshield washed and oil checked.

  Oh well, have a great crazy day, Yall!  And please comment, I'd love to know what you're thinking and who is reading my blog.