December 10, 2004
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The Daily News
1 I went to the Independence High School Winter Concert last night to watch the immortal Ken Ponticelli direct a TON of great musicians. All his performers were top rate, from the Symphony Orchestra, Symphonic Strings, to the absolutely stunning Wind Ensemble. What an awesome performance! Proud uh ya, Ponch! It was definitely good times.
2 Afterwards, we went to Joe's, of course! Now, on my NEW health diet, I ordered the grilled salmon and vegetables. At JOE'S! No carbs, no wine, no anything resembling fun. But you can't go to Joe's and not have fun! Just sitting in that place for a few hours, I could write a book. Our dinner got delayed, so they brought a plate of appetizers (for free, naturally!), and I munched down some fresh baked sourdough, gratuitously dipped in olive oil, parmesan, and maybe a dollop of balsimic vinegar.
3 We talked and talked and talked.
4 I've been a little bit loony lately, so I have been chatting with great friends. When your health is suddenly suspect, you begin appreciating everything and everyone around you. You want just to bond with virtually everyone, and to love everyone.
5 I'm starting to see all of that. I guess I always did, but man! Until you start having all this sort of thing, you just seem to take everyone around you for granted.
6 How bad we are, sometimes, at this living thing.
7 Laughing with my dear friend at Joe's was a step in the right direction.
8 Dipping sourdough in olive oil wasn't, really. Or was it?
9 I'm thoroughly convinced that a lovely time with a GREAT friend can counter a whole bunch of dietary and health regulations. If the bread causes me to go over, so be it. I'm betting it would take a good bit more than a piece of bread to put a guy like me down.
10 Ha! Remember that great Elton John song called I'm Still Standing?
Doncha know that I'm still standing better than I ever did,
lookin' like a true survivor
feelin' like a little kid...
11 I always loved Sir Elton's little tribute to the Beatles in that song, when the chorus would ring out, "I'm Still Standing, yeah, yeah, yeah!"
12 Fun. I LOVE having a cool song running through my head all day. I've mentioned that in here before, the whole concept of music that plays in your head all day when you are going about your normal business. It's a GREAT psycho HAHA! to the goofy world you see on a daily basis. That person who is a pain-in-the-ass in your life comes up and starts their usual stuff, and you have like the Rolling Stones' Brown Sugar screaming through the echoing stereo in your head, and they just keep a-chattering away, and you are having this MONSTER concert blaring all through you.
13 Wanna thank my GREAT friend MISS GOLLY for sending me the straight dope on how to knit yesterday. You are, and always will be, a doll, dudette! It made my day, I swear. I almost went out and bought some yarn, but as you know, I could spin a good yarn and save money.
14 <drum. cymbal.>
15 Okay, that...
16 Well, I'm just biding time 'til I have to go back into the battleground that is my Daily Life at YB, so I advise that you put your head into a good song, or better still, a good CD, and enjoy being YOU today. Before you know it, day will be done, and you will have won.
17 Peace, yo.
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