tiggerprr’s scratching post

Seriously.

Anyone who knew me in the 1980s should know that I am a MONSTER Def Leppard Fan. I have wanted in Joe Elliott’s pants since before I would have known what to do once I got there. Joe, if you’re out there…believe me, I know now.

Last week as I was watching Dance with the Stars, I had a WTF moment when they announced that Def Leppard would be singing on the show. Mind you, I love DWTS…and I love Def Leppard…but really, never the two should have met. So I do some checking and sure enough, Def Leppard has a new album er, CD, out today. So ok, any publicity is good publicity they say.

But it gets worse…

I tune in tonight, to have Def Leppard not only be on the show, and yes, it’s still nice to drool over Joe…but…

THEY FREAKING LIP SYNCED “Pour Some Sugar on Me”. This can mean only one thing…

I am old.

I still love Joe.

All I can say is…

They better not effing tell any of them that they don’t sound contemporary enough. I mean really!? Neil Diamond? WTF

That is all….

I had a sleep study done a few weeks ago. I can’t remember if I said anything about it before, and frankly, I am too lazy to go back and check if I did. LOL I, of course, slept like a baby, except the 200 times they woke me up because I removed one of the bajillion wires they had hooked up to me.

It turns out, that I awaken 41 times an hour during the few REM sleep cycles I actually make it to. I have sleep apnea…just like my hubby who gasps and snores through the night. I always thought it was just him snoring that was keeping me up. I was wrong…it is his snoring that keeps me up once MY sleep apnea awakens me one time too many.

So tonight…I get to go to another sleep study, so they can fit me with a horrid CPAP machine. Hubby already tried one of these and gave it the boot because he couldn’t sleep with it on. Or so he says. }:-)> My doctor says that perhaps my machine will help to drown him out. LOL Seriously though, nothing says romance like your spouse with a HAZMAT mask on her face connected to a machine that makes her sound like Darth Vader. Nope, nope, nope. Or since I am channeling Darth, perhaps that should be “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!”

I sure hope I can get used to it if it will help me sleep. On a side note, the doctor put me back on Ambien CR which completely hoses my short term memory. It’s fun though, just so long as I don’t drive or as my Dr. says, “wake up in the middle of the night and make myself a snack without remembering it”. That hasn’t happened yet. At least, not that I can remember. hehe

OK this isn’t a big post, yet…I’ll come back and post again after the show…but my daughters and I were all…ECSTATIC (!!!!) to see the dancers from So You Think You Can Dance on the show! It’s like the best of both worlds! Yay!

My hardened heart…has cried a few times already….

Clicky the picture if you want to learn more, or even better donate what you can. If everyone gave a buck…what a difference it could make. It’s very easy to think that we maybe should help those at home in the US first, I am not exempt from those feelings myself. But you cannoy deny the help that’s needed globally and after all, we are one humanity, eh?

Good lord, it took me from when I got home this evening until just now to get all the photos organized, uploaded and captioned! I hope you enjoy them. I found that due to early onset Alzheimer’s, I have forgotten what some of the pictures were…Sorry.

Click “The Waving Girl” to see all of our trip photos in full size!

If you ever get the chance to visit Savannah, you should go!