Saturday, March 12, 2011

Selective, very on Saturday

Date:                                                  Saturday, March 12th, 2011
Word of the Day:                               prolix(pro\LIKS); extending to a great length; unnecessarily long; wordy; tending to speak or write at great length
Weight:                                              two hundred and twenty-four (224) pounds
Goal:                                                  lose one hundred (100) pounds in one (1) year duration
Pounds to lose:                                  ninety-two (92) pounds
Waist Size:                                        forty-three (43)  hypo inches
Days until Royal Wedding:              forty-eight (48) small days
Rowing Duration:                             sixty-one (61) minutes, five (5) seconds

Here it is the weekend, and all is not well in the world, those poor people in Japan, first the tsunami and now they have to deal with the nuclear disaster, for goodness sake, how much more can a nation face?

Last night Zac and I watched, again, on the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) the search for the boys that would play the part of Billy in the musical Billy Elliot.  I tell you, those boys work so hard, they rehearse for about two (2) years before they even get near the stage, that is quite a committment to give for boys of that age, I mean, boy's interests change on an hourly basis!

It is so snowy and cold out, I do not think I will venture too far away from my home, except maybe to walk our precious Winter, the cold temperature is reminding me of the great blizzard of 1988, do you remember it?

The great blizzard of 1988 was one of the most severe blizzards in United Sates (U.S.) history.  Snowfalls of about forty (40) to fifty (50) inches (one hundred and two (102) to one hundred and twenty-seven (127) centimetres,) fell in parts of New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, and Conneticut, and snowdrifts exceeded fifty (50) feet of (fifteen (15) metres,) in some places.   Railroads were shut down and people were confined to their houses for up to a week.  More than four hundred (400) people died from the storm, and the ensuing cold, including two hundred (200) in New York City alone.  And I think I've got it bad, clearly, all of us are better off than people facing this situation.


I think I preferred Rhoda when she was in Minneapolis with Mary, when Rhoda moved to New York City, she was always saying that she learned something.  Also, Brenda, Rhoda's sister, was a blatant attempt to recreate a Rhoda-like character from the Mary Tyler Moore show, and it didn't work.  But, I did enjoy the fact that they had more episodes that had Rhoda's mother in them, I am/was a big Nancy Walker fan.

Anyway, I am going to let you go now, so you can get on wtih the business of living.
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Eat sensibly and try to get some exercise.  Take care now.


Topics coming soon:

Art
Politics
Gable and Lombard
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