The Joys Of Parenthood

My sister got this text last Saturday night from my 21 year old niece:

"I'm at Shotgun Willies (Strip Club). Happy Easter Mom."

My sister texted back:

"Me too! Look behind you."

It seems my niece and three of her friends have always wondered what went on inside Shotgun Willies and decided to give it a visit. They took a cab and the driver teased them as the spent their time in his vehicle discussing whether or not the new Smurfs movie was going to be any good. Once they got inside Willies they were so obviously out of place that one of the women on the stage leaned down to them and said, "You girls are so endearingly awkward."

That statement makes me proud. My niece and her friends were raise by parents who taught them to be open and accepting of other people and I think those ladies up on the stage could tell that by the way that they behaved while they were there.  Today, these four girls are my heroes.

Monday Morning Coming Down

Friday's Child

Nancy Sinatra

Friday's child, hard luck is her brother
Friday's child, her sister's misery
Friday's child, her daddy, they call hard times
Friday's child, that's me

Friday's child, born a little ugly
Friday's child, good looks passed her by
Friday's child, makes something look like nothing
Friday's child, am I, yeah

(Guitar Solo)

Friday's child, never climbed no mountain
Friday's child, she ain't even gonna try
Friday's child, whom they'll forget to bury
Friday's child, am I

Thursday

Morphine

We used to meet every Thursday
Thursday, Thursday in the afternoon
For a couple a beers and a game of pool

We used to go to a motel
A motel, a motel across the street
And the name of the motel was the Wagon Wheel

One day she said, "C'mon C'mon"
She said why don't you come back to my house
She said my husband's out of town
You know he's gone till the end of the month

Well I was just so nervous, so nervous
You know I couldn't really quite relax
'Cause I was really never quite sure
When her husband was coming back

So it was one of the neighbors
One of the neighbors, one of the neigbors that saw my car
And they told her, yeah they told her
They think they know who you are

Well her husband is a violent man
A very violent and jealous man
Now I have to leave this town
I gotta go while I still can

We should have kept it every Thursday
Thursday, Thursday in the afternoon
For a couple of beers and a game of pool

We should have kept it every Thursday
Thursday, Thursday in the afternoon
For a couple of beers and a game of pool

She was pretty cool, too!

21 Years Today

Sorry/Grateful from Steven Soundheim's musical Company

Spoken: Harry, You ever sorry you got married?

You're always sorry, You're always grateful,
You're always wondering what might have been,
Then she walks in.

And still you're sorry, and still you're grateful,
And still you wonder, and still you doubt,
And she goes out.

Everything's different, nothing's changed
Only maybe slightly rearranged.

You're sorry-grateful, regretful happy.
Why look for answers when none occur?
You always are what you always were,
Which has nothing to do with, all to do with her.

You're always sorry, you're always grateful,
You hold her, thinking, "I'm not alone."
You're still alone.

You don't live for her, you do live with her,
You're scared she's starting to drift away,
And scared she'll stay.

Good things get better, bad get worse,
Wait, I think I meant that in reverse.

You're sorry-grateful, regretful happy
Why look for answers, when none occur?
You'll always be what you always were,
Which has nothing to do with, all to do with her.

Nothing to do with, all to do with her.

Ruby Tuesday

Rolling Stones

She would never say where she came from
Yesterday don't matter if it's gone
While the sun is bright or in the darkest night
No one knows, she comes and goes

Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday
Who could hang a name on you
When you change with every new day
Still I'm gonna miss you

Don't question why she needs to be so free
She'll tell you it's the only way to be
She just can't be chained to a life where nothing's gained
And nothing's lost, at such a cost

Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday
Who could hang a name on you
When you change with every new day
Still I'm gonna miss you

"There's no time to lose", I head her say
Catch your dreams before they slip away
Dying all the time, lose your dreams and you
Will lose your mind, ain't life unkind?

Goodbye, Ruby Tuesday
Who could hang a name on you
When you change with every new day
Still I'm gonna miss you

Come Monday

Jimmy Buffett

Headin' up to San Francisco
For the Labor Day week-end show
I've got my hush-puppies on
I guess I never was meant for glitter rock and roll
And honey I didn't know
That I'd be missin' you so

Come Monday, it'll be all right
Come Monday, I'll be holdin' you tight
I spent four lonely days in a brown L. A. haze
And I just want you back by my side

Yes, it's been quite a summer
Rent-a-cars and west-bound trains
And now you're off on vacation
Somethin' you tried to explain
And darlin', it's I love you so
That's the reason I just let you go

Come Monday, it'll be all right
Come Monday, I'll be holdin' you tight
I spent four lonely days in a brown L. A. haze
And I just want you back by my side

I can't help it honey
You're that much a part of me now
Remember that night in Montana
When we said there'd be no room for doubt

I hope you're enjoyin' the scen'ry
I know that it's pretty up there
We can go hikin' on Tuesday
With you I'd walk anywhere
California has worn me quite thin
I just can't wait to see you again

Come Monday, it'll be all right
Come Monday, I'll be holdin' you tight
I spent four lonely days in a brown L. A. haze
And I just want you back by my side

Spring, Spring, Spring, Eighteen Hours Later

Spring, Spring, Spring

Let's Look At The Numbers

According to Harper's Magazine:

-Last month's earthquake in Japan moved the island country eight feet to the east.
-The amount of energy released by the quake was equal to the amount of energy used by the United States each year.

-The Department of Defense spent 317 million dollars on military bands.

-Two out of every five US millionaires do not feel wealthy.
-But if each one of those "do not feel wealthy" millionaires had at least 7.5 million dollars, well, then, they say, they would probably feel wealthy.

-Twenty-two thousand man-made objects are circling the earth right now.

-Increase in US labor productivity since 1972 is 114%.
-Wages for those workers has dropped 6%.

-According to leaked diplomatic cables, the amount of oil Saudi Arabia has could be overestimated by 72%.

-In 2010 there were 10 confirmed Muslim terrorist plots against the United States.
-During that same time period there were 25 confirmed terrorist plots by non-Muslims.