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Subject: Thank God for Buddy Holly

Posted by: sadwings
Date: May 14 17

This is about everything rock and roll from the 50's to the present, but that's only the beginning. Any poets out there? I have a couple of poems to share before too long. Misunderstood song lyrics are always a lot of fun. Favorite album cover art? Any wild or interesting concert experiences? Prefer Motown to rock? Jazz? Blues? You can share all of these things and much more here. Come one come all to the midnight ball! Let's do this!

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Blackdresss

So sorry. It was Post 980. My God, I wouldn't want to be accused of lying. I missed a few hundred posts. Hey, it happens. But I've fixed it. It really did make sense that it was so many pages back, but only a few posts later. Now, it makes a world of sense, if only to me.

Fixed. Finished. Finis.

Reply #981. Mar 11 18, 1:47 PM

sadwings

I have no idea what you are apologizing about, Jo. I can't see where you said anything questionable at all.

You know, I lived with excruciating pain every single day for about 25 years after my accident. Nerve damage from my spinal injury is my personal diagnosis just simply from deductive reasoning. The only thing that any doctors around here have been able to do is take x-rays and shrug their shoulders. It is a sharp, stabbing pain in my right hip that just comes and goes as it pleases. Kind of feels like someone driving an ice pick deep into my hip socket and twisting around on it. It was all I could do to keep from screaming sometimes. Anyway, it was never there before my accident but was immediately afterward. Not really very hard to figure out. I am 100% convinced that there is no medical condition that exists that doctors in Oklahoma know less about than spinal injuries. There is just no possible way.

Anyway, I wound up going to a veteran's hospital in Tennessee a couple of years ago, and while I was there I thought I would go ahead and see if something could be done about my pain. For 25 years I never pressed the issue to any doctor to get me some kind of relief because I knew that it would have to be seriously powerful before it would even have any affect on me whatsoever, and I had just assumed for 25 years that it would have to be something narcotic, and there was no way I was going to take narcotics every day for the rest of my life. I had absolutely no idea that non-narcotic pain medication even existed. Never heard of it before in my life, so the thought never crossed my mind. I don't know why I have such a resistancy to narcotic pain meds, but it is absolutely unbelievable. The dose of OxyContin that it would take for me to just begin to feel okay with the world is right about the same dose that would kill most people dead.

Anyway, they put me on this stuff called Gabapentin and it changed my whole life. It doesn't take all the pain away completely but probably cuts it by 75 or 80%. Nobody ever mentioned a single word about it to me for 25 years - until I wound up being treated in another state. Sometimes I still have some pretty bad days where it seems like this stuff is just not working at all, but it's nowhere near what I was living with before.

Reply #982. Mar 11 18, 2:24 PM

UmberWunFayun

There's lots of different kinds of pain, and I think both you and Elle have had more than your fair share. Way more.
When my pain is bad, (physical or otherwise), I yell at the Viking. I do this because he is the person I love most in the world and I trust him to stick around to hear my inevitable apologies when my pain has passed. I know he will forgive me, however mean I was, because he knows I have to yell at someone.
That doesn't mean that my words haven't hurt him, just that he is big enough to understand and move on. He knows it means I trust him, and my trust is a very rare and precious thing.
So when you find yourselves fighting, remember it means you are friends who expect your apologies to be accepted once the pain has passed.

"Real friendship isn't about being together in the same place all the time. Real friendship is when you're far apart and nothing changes."

Reply #983. Mar 11 18, 3:24 PM

sadwings

I totally agree with every word you said, Jo. The only difference is, I'm not the one who is all full of bitterness and resentment. Never was from the very beginning. It's all really very plain to see. There will come a time really not very far away at all when I will just simply not say another word about it to anyone at all. There's really nothing more for me to say.

Reply #984. Mar 11 18, 3:47 PM

UmberWunFayun

Shirley takes Gabapentin, but then, there's not much she doesn't have to take.
I make do with the bare minimum I can get away with and still walk, partly because my condition is only going to keep getting worse and I don't want to reach a point where there's no way left to increase my dose, but mostly because I'm very stubborn. Way too stubborn for my own good. The docs give me tramadol but I rarely take it.
I took the pup out today to do some training, just a little bit of simple leash work, and now I can barely stand up.
Silver lining - the Viking ordered takeout so I didn't have to cook dinner, so y'know, it's not all bad :-)

Reply #985. Mar 11 18, 4:11 PM

mpkitty

I have no opinion on who is right or who is wrong. The only opinion I have is that this is a very fine blog, and everyone on it are members of a special family. All families squabble, but they all love each other, so soon (hopefully) the squabble is forgotten. At least that is how it has been in my experience.

"Blessing on thee little man [and woman], barefoot boy with cheeks of tan..."

Reply #986. Mar 11 18, 5:33 PM

mpkitty

Oops, I forgot to give credit for the quote to John Greenleaf Whittier, in "The Barefoot Boy", sorry, John.

Reply #987. Mar 11 18, 6:05 PM

terraorca

Steph,

You are wise beyond your years.

Reply #988. Mar 11 18, 6:13 PM

mpkitty

Thank you. Mark. From you, a true compliment!

Reply #989. Mar 11 18, 6:20 PM

sadwings

You don't have to worry about me forgetting about it, Stephanie, that's for sure. Clowning around and having laughs and good times with people is the way I roll, and any kind of negative elements at all only serve to get in the way of that. The only thing I do with negative elements when they come around me is slap them nose first in the dirt and move on about my business. Don't like things getting in the way of my fun.

What it all means is that I don't hold grudges, don't have anything to prove, and I definitely don't repeat the same things over and over to people. I say what needs to be said and I move on. I'm certainly not a perfect person - nobody is - but for someone trying to correct me when I'm clearly not the one who needs to be corrected is a bad mistake, and when I am wrong about anything at all, I will be the first person to admit it. I may not know every trivia question in the world, but I have always been a very logical person and I have always found that it's very hard to go wrong with anything at all in life when you just simply apply a little good old-fashioned down-to-earth logic.

Reply #990. Mar 11 18, 6:23 PM

terraorca

I was the one that was wrong, okay, let's move on, friends?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWTqj5lvkFs

Reply #991. Mar 11 18, 9:13 PM

UmberWunFayun

Yeah, we don't like it when mommy and daddy fight :-(

Reply #992. Mar 12 18, 12:54 AM

sadwings

Been wanting and trying to do that very thing right from the very beginning, Mark. Stephanie made the comment that squabbles are hopefully soon forgotten and all I did was simply respond to that. A response that needed to be made so people aren't going around with the wrong idea about where I stand. I have even dropped a couple of hints that I'm going to just start flat out ignoring people completely if they don't let it go. Move on with that, my friend.

Reply #993. Mar 12 18, 1:01 AM

UmberWunFayun

Just played that link, it was great, they looked like they were having so much fun in stage! It led into a Joni Mitchell clip so I let it play, and as I was singing along, loving it, the Viking walked in and said, "What's that?"
"Big Yellow Taxi" I say, turning the screen so he can see.
"Who's that?" He says.
What?!?!?!? I know he's a little bit younger than me, but how is it possible that anyone hasn't heard of Joni Mitchell?!?!
What are they teaching in our schools these days? Forget trig, forget geography, forget science, there are Trivia quizzes to teach you all that ;-) We need to educate the world about music!

Reply #994. Mar 12 18, 1:40 AM

UmberWunFayun

*cue Kev, Man Of A Thousand Lyrics, with some appropriate songwords.....:-)

Reply #995. Mar 12 18, 1:42 AM

sadwings

Indeed, the world could use a little education in music, but it would be tough to know where to even begin. I wonder what it sounded like when it very first began? I suppose it probably would have been some kind of drum.

Can't think of any more of my goofy song lyrics right now. Think I'm about all tapped out on the ones that are safe for me to share. Well, except for my version of Dancin' in the Moonlight by King Crimson, and that got deleted from another thread the last time I tried to share that one. Remember that song? A player had made the comment that my version "just might be better than the original" right before my lyrics and said comment were both deleted.

I was going to offer to drop it in your mailbox but I'm thinking that it's actually on this blog. I'll go find it and come back and let you know, and maybe you could check it out before it gets deleted.

Reply #996. Mar 12 18, 2:20 AM

sadwings

Okay, Jo, it's on page 9, post #168. Been probably close to 40 years since I wrote that, and everyone I have ever shared it with thought it was hilarious until recently.

Reply #997. Mar 12 18, 2:31 AM

UmberWunFayun

Haha, your version sounds like a night at The Fort! (The Hell's Angels clubhouse)

I remember being at a big anniversary party, sitting at a table outside chatting with Shirley, when a fight broke out right next to us. Two guys ended up rolling around on the ground punching away at each other, and as they rolled under our table, we both just lifted our feet up out of the way and carried on talking without even looking down. We're so cool ;-)

Five minutes later the two guys were hugging and clapping each other on the back.

Reply #998. Mar 12 18, 2:41 AM

sadwings

Hee hee! Those silly little drunken, criminally insane renegade outlaw bikers! I've seen a few bar fights in my time but never been involved in any. Never been in a genuine biker clubhouse before, either. That would be the coolest! :-)

It's funny, I lived in a town in Arkansas called Fort Smith that everyone would call "The Fort". That's where Judge Parker's hanging gallows are at, among other wild west related stuff. What do you and the Viking think about movies that are about the American wild west of the 1800s? Do you guys like stuff like that? I have always loved westerns and found them quite fascinating.

Reply #999. Mar 12 18, 3:09 AM

sadwings

Yippee! Yahoo! Post #1000 on my silly little Buddy blog! Time for me to celebrate by getting a few dishes done and then coming back to do a few games with a nice cup of coffee. :-)

Reply #1000. Mar 12 18, 3:12 AM

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