Why the big scare tactics?

I don't get this whole Swine Flu hype. It's the flu. My mom's doctor told her this morning that people die from the flu every year, and it's never made out to be this big a deal. They usually don't have catchy names. People get sick because they are either not washing their hands and sticking their fingers in their mouth, nose or eyes. They are having to care for someone else who has it, such as a school age child, or they work with people who don't know how to stay home when they are sick. I got the flu this year for the first time in ages because of being confined on the tour bus. It just passed around the entire bus. As far as I know, Robert is the only person who did not get sick. They make it sound like its the plague or something.
So if you get sick, do everyone a favor and stay home!
Mom and I went to see The Soloist today. Good movie. A little slow, but not too bad. The music put mom to sleep. **note to self: don't take nan to the symphony** Robert Downey Jr and Jamie Fox were really good. Not sure that they were Oscar worthy like I thought the trailers showed, but still good. Will have to wait and see more movies this year to make that call. Saw the trailer again for the new Sandra Bullock movie. Can't wait to see it. Looks really funny. I'm tired and can't remember the name of it. Ryan Reynolds is also in it...and Betty White! Can't get much better than seeing Betty White feel up Sandra Bullock!

OMG! Gotsta Love the Kittehs!

This is on lolcats today. So funny! I can't hear it because, you should know this by now, I don't have speakers at work. But to just see it is hilarious!


Except the kitteh being so close to the fan kinda freaks me out a little......

Late Tuesday

Hey RE and Dreama. Sorry I did not get back to you sooner. I gave plasma again today with Katie. What an ordeal. We got there later in the morning than last week and there was a lot of people there. We took our numbers and signed in. Poor Katie. I was number 665...which means Katie was number 666! I handed it to her and she looked at me with disgust and said "Thaaaaanks" HA! I got there first! Like I would volunteer to keep it. Then she pointed out to me that they were only calling number 627....oiy.....we waited for 2 hours. We won't be doing that again. She said that the next time she goes she will go earlier. Not sure when I will go again. I waited so long and I was getting all fidgety, and my jeans were kinda tight around my waist so I was getting uncomfortable. Katie had 2 magazines, and I blew through both of those. I was not comfortable with all those people in there this time, and the tight jeans. Last time there was hardly anyone there. This time it was packed, and some people reeked of stale old cigarettes, gross. And some were coughing, gross coughing with some body to it. I just wanted to bail. But we were already there. Our numbers were finally called and of course when they called Katie's 666 the room was all "Oh no! That's a bad number!" And laughter. I'm sure Katie wanted to curl up and die. I went into the room for the quick protein test, blood pressure and all the questions again about sexual partners and drugs. After she was done going through all of that, THEN she told me my blood pressure was too high and I needed to go back out to the waiting area for 15 minutes and they would take it again. Dang.....I had just been paroled from there. So back I went. For 15 minutes. I tried to relax but this woman kept laughing and yelling out "Mmmm Mmmm Fried Chicken!" among other things. She was very loud. I just wanted to get the hell out of there. So I sat there and tried to be calm. Took deep breaths(as deep as I could for fear of germs and tight jeans)and tuned her out. They called my name and the blood pressure was fine. Once the plasma draw started it was OK. It was the wait that was awful. If I could just walk in, sign my name, go back and donate and then get the heck out of Dodge everything would be fine. I'm sure I will go again with Katie. Not sure when though. She will only get paid $25 now. She said it's not worth only $25 to sit for 2 hours. She agrees that if we got there early enough that we did not have to wait that long it would be OK. It was just way to long today. I have not talked to her since I dropped her off, but after we went out to lunch and I took her home, I came home and went to bed. I just got up. I slept for 2-1/2 hours. I would have slept longer if the sound of Robert opening the garage door had not woke me up.
What a way to spend my day off. All for $40.....well that and the fact that the plasma goes to good use. Guess that makes up for the long morning.

Britain's Got Talent

I think I enjoy this show more than the American version!

Bryan just sent this to me in an email. I can't watch it until tonight. Actually I have watched it, I just can't hear it. No speakers at work. Let me know if it is any good!

Rick-A-Bowl-A-Thonappoloosa

I'm not going to upload the best shots of Rick here. You can see the others on Facebook.

Guitar Hero Rockin' Bowlers! Mara, Katie, Me, Roodi, Tim

Fred Bear and Captain Bowl-A-Thon aka:Hubby!

Holey Moley I have been busy. Just about all of it has been just for fun. The exception being the plasma donation on Wednesday. Not fun, not bad though either.

Friday night was the Rick Springfield show in Tacoma at the Emerald Queen Casino. We were in the 2nd row just left of center stage. Great seats. Met Sooz from the blogs, but only briefly. She was with friends and I was with the family heading to spend some time on the slots. It was good to meet her in person though regardless of the time we spent chatting. Hubby and I both enjoyed the show. Rick is a very energetic performer, and his fans obviously know the routine down pat. Sooz had told me that ladies will bring roses and he will smash them on his guitar. This happened several times. The last time he did this one of the roses flew off stage and hit me right in the face! I of course saved it. Rick also comes out in the crowd a couple times during the set too. At one point he came over, put his hand on Robert's shoulder and stood on his chair. I was so busy trying to get a photo that I didn't even reach out and touch him! But that's OK...the guy was soaking wet with sweat! Good show. We would see him again, just not sure that we would drive up to that venue again. I thought the sound was horrible. Robert didn't mind it. His mic seemed to cut out a lot, and during Jessie's Girl he broke his guitar strings and he got pissed and threw it because his roadie crew did not have a new one ready right away for him. It was kind of hilarious because he just ran around playing air guitar! But you could tell he was pissed. I'm sure someone got an earful after the show.

Yesterday was the Bowl-A-Thon for Junior Achievement. Well not THE BOT, but the Vancouver one. He already had the Salem one, and next Saturday there will be 2 Portland events. But yesterday was the one that we participated in. It was a blast! We had so much fun. Roodi and I were drinking at 10am. Not good, but made it a lot more fun! I'm paying for it today. Drinking and eating only one meal yesterday is making me feel queasy today. I need to eat something. I stayed in bed as long as I could, but now I just need something to eat. In fact I am going to go get a banana right now. Thought you might like to know that! All done. Banana consumed. Anyway.....BOT was so much fun. My grand total raised (thanks to one last donation from Beth!) was ............................

$660.25!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOHOO!! I rock!

Katie raised a lot more than I thought she had too. She had over $400 and Roodi had over $1800! I think our team total now is around $2980. If I had known we were so close to $3000 I would have kicked in some more money. Our team won the award for most money raised and Roodi won the award for most money raised by an individual. What is so fun about winning the team award is that we get to have our picture on the poster next year! It will be the team picture uploaded above. Good thing we are not in the BOT in Portland. The top team last year raised over $10,000. But a lot of those teams are from the main office and they have connections to serious money. I know that both Salem and Vancouver raised more than what was projected. Hopefully Portland will also be able to raise more than last year so that they can reach the final goal of $100,000 for all Fred Meyer events.

Robert was hilarious. I can not believe that he can do this. It amazes me that he has changed so much. He usually is pretty quiet at gatherings, does not like to be the center of attention. But when he is asked to do something for work, he does it. The other day...I need to get this picture from him....he wore a large brown yard debris bag and was greeting people at the office as they showed up for work to remind them that it was Brown Bag BINGO day. People at the office were suppose to pack a lunch and spend their lunch hour playing BINGO. I think the money from the sale of the cards went to their in-house employees helping employees charity. I can't get him to go out with friends, but they can get him to dress up in a brown paper bag and wear a bowling pin hat!

Annnnnd....we won't even talk about my bowling scores. Lets just say that I was consistent. I had the same score both games. I think one of Katie's games was higher than my combined score!