RAMBLINGS VOL XI

11/1/11:  This morning, I heated up a leftover burger for breakfast and fried an egg to put on top.  In an inspirational flourish, I put a big load of ketchup on top.  I haven’t touched it yet, but I smell the ketchup right now.  Until this moment I never knew that you could smell ketchup.  The smell is unmistakable.

11/2/11:  My nocturnal dialysis session ended at about 4AM.  I caught the 36 bus home at about 4:55 AM.  I got home at 5:35 AM.  It is 8:16 AM, and I am WIDE AWAKE.  I think that my body is getting acclimated to the new schedule.  Whenever I do fall asleep, I know that I will sleep soundly, and have vivid dreams – probably in color!

I am amazed at how colorful the autumn leaves are this year!  But I’m pretty sure that they are the same old leaves every year.  So what’s different?  I am!  I spent Fall of ’09 in the hospital, and Fall of ’10 indisposed.  It’s nice to be healthy again.

My mind is still way ahead of my body.

Thanks to my new dialysis schedule, I love Saturdays even more!  I’ve had a full day to recover from my last session, and I have more than a full day until my next one!  I really do like the change.

Every now and again, our apartment catches a bunch of ladybugs.  It’s never just one; it’s always at least two.  I’ve seen them all over our place, but they really seem to like my bedroom, and they always seem to come in pairs.  Don’t know why.  Could it be the houseplants which are in the living room?

I want 10,000,000 views of my stuff; I figure by then the money will come naturally.  The next question – “how do I get to 10,000,000 views?” – is where the rubber meets the road.  I’m thinking comedy.  Or maybe a catchy slogan?  I would settle for 10,000,000 tee-shirts sold.  Or bumper stickers.  Or….

I purchased the Yahtzee game for my Kindle for 99 cents.  Didn’t Yahtzee used to be simple?

What is up with the ladybugs?  I thought it was just me, but a friend in New York State is experiencing the same thing.  I collected seven ladybug carcasses today.  I checked on the Internet, and there are two types of ladybugs, one local and one from Japan.  In late November they look for a spot to hibernate.  They tend to favor light-colored buildings and then look for cracks.  They’re good at finding the cracks, too!  Like I said, I collected seven of them in my bedroom today.

It’s Thursday evening.  I vacuumed up four more ladybugs today.  I’m getting ready for overnight dialysis.  The daily tedium is getting to me.  I need to find a way to shake things up without doing anything stupid.  In the meantime, I pray and maintain.

It is better to have a modest meal prepared with love than to feast with a bunch of haters – paraphrased from Proverbs 13:17

I’m looking up a recipe for tuna and green beans that I saw on Lidia Bastianich’s cooking show the other evening.  I typed in “lidia” on Google, and an entire page of results for Lidia instantly appeared.  THAT’S famous….

Is there a career out there that would pay me for learning new things every day?  That would be the perfect job for yours truly.  Of course, learning something new every day is its own reward.  But I digress….

I exercised today after an 11-day layoff.  Right now I am deliciously tired.  Two hours ago, I was really sorry that I had an 11-day layoff because I felt it in the gym, especially during push-ups.  There are a few reasons I took almost two weeks off, but the main reason is because I wanted to.  I will have to watch this very closely going forward, because there’s no way I’m going back to square one or, in my case, square zero.

I was flipping channels and hit “Gone With the Wind” on AMC.  I had never seen this movie so I was excited about it.  The acting was stilted and the colorization looked silly, but I was intent on watching it anyway – until some guy made a reference to “darkies”.  So much for that sh*t.

There was a new episode of Top Chef tonight.  I tried watching it three times back-to-back, and fell asleep before each ending.  I like when that happens.