Why is there no danger music?

My cousin had as her status on Facebook that she agrees-life would be better if there were only danger music. I'm thinking - what an excellent concept...Imagine if you weregoing to step into an empty elevator shaft, and just before you did..WHAM- you hear the theme to the TV Show EMERGENCY!! Your own personal"Spidey sense" kicks in - and you don't fall into the shaft! Man, avoided a bullet there!



Or, you're walking down the street, about to go into the subway...WHAM! you hear the fight music from Star Trek....Don't go there!!!

Wouldn't that be handy when you meet the dark-eyed stranger that wants you to have coffee with him? Maybe you would hear that Wah, Wah,Wah,Wah, that tells you he's a total loser, and not worth your time...Or, Maybe you hear Bolero in the background, indicating hot sex is a sure thing!

Maybe you send out music of your own, Space Oddity if you're an astronaut, or the Sabre Dance if you live in Buffalo....Maybe the Theme from the Good, TheBad, and The Ugly, if you're out with two of your friends....

Maybe I'm sending out music right now: (I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts;, Why doon't wedo it in the road? or perhaps "Killer Queen?)

Or maybe you're receiving my music: (Dead Skunk in the middle of the Road; Send in the clowns: WhatKind of Fool Am I?)

What ever, maybe my cousin's on to something, we should be listening more, and speaking less.

MaryO

The Flu

One thing that seems to be a constant this winter is the flu...Everyone seems to have had it at least once this January, just after the thaw. This is a particularly nasty one, one I have named the "Praying to die Flu" That's just what I have been doing the past four days, coughing, peeing, swearing and praying to die. Another thing us woman of certain age have to deal with....the peeing.

The proper name for it is stress incontinence, or "peeing when you cough"...Sounds harmless, doesn't it? After all, who coughs as a matter of course? Nobody! But, who coughs when they have the praying to die flu? I DO!!!!

I have more laundry, more pain, more showers and baths, which cause more colds and fevers, and it's bloody embarrasing when you have to run to the toilet every time you feel a cough coming on. Even worse when you DON'T feel a cough coming on...

No 18-year-old ever has to deal with this, unless she recently pushed a10 pound baby out of her vagina, but MOST WOACA (women of a certain age) probably do... Seems unfair, we push the baby out of our crotch, we cause our boobs to sag, and then we get to sprinkle everywhere we go.

Just another reason why I hate the praying to die flu.

I have to leave you now, I feel a really bad coughing fit coming on, and then I have to pray to die again.

Hello!

Hello to all you bloggers out there...I thought it was time to have some insight from someone who mostly feels around 25, and certainly not 53.... It's an interesting time of life, between old enough to know better and just plain old, but feeling still young enough to do it...Does that make sense?



On the one hand, my life feels as old as I am, certainly my body does at times...but on the other hand, I still can dream ofbeing swept away, either by some handsome knight, or maybe my emotions...



I know where I was when John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, John Lennon, Anwar Sadat, Indira Ghandi and Lord Louis Mountbatten were killed. I still remember people being freaked out about Elvis dying, but then I can also hear a song like "Paralyzer" and picture being the one in the darker place...that just knocks someone socks off, either with my obvious sexy qualities, or just my fabulously searing eyes....

Anyhow, I am married, with one offspring, and wouldlove to hear from anyone who thinks that this time of our lives is interesting....

Talk to you again!