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[John G.]

Five!

[John G.]

Now, I need to get writing.

[Laura]

I am so so sorry to hear about your darling daughter's dental woes. I was very lucky to have had an excellent dentist my whole childhood. He just retired a few years ago and left us in good hands by choosing a young partner for his practice a couple of years before he left. Even though DR Sandra had a rough time recovering from her wisdom teeth extraction, it was not due to the dentist's work -- it was just DR Sandra.

I've been pretty lucky, too.  My wisdom teeth extraction (I only had three wisdom teeth) went quite smoothly.

I had your other one, George. I was one of the lucky ones to have five.

[TCB]

I'm trying the week with no coffee.
Maybe that will help my 2:00 in the afternoon slump.

Off to work.

Mega vibes everyone.

 

No, instead you will get your slump at 11 in the A.M.

[ChasSmith]

I had the usual four wisdom teeth, and only had to have the two left ones removed because one was slightly impacted in the gum and it would get infected now and then.  I had the best damned dentist EVER for those extractions, right in the Golden Triangle of the Hills of Beverly.  Dr. Charles Yoon on Roxbury.  Bless his soul, that was in 1981, and he was so careful and the thing went so smoothly and recovery was such a piece of cake, that I probably celebrated with lots of pieces of cake over the following week.

[vixmom]

Dental Vibes for BKs DD

[Cillaliz]

I had 4 impacted wisdom teeth, it was hell having them removed.....although my dentist did give me some amazing pain pills and since it was either Christmas or spring break in college, I took them and laid in bed and let my mother pamper me

[Cillaliz]

Wednesday I go back to the dentist after my crown came off for the second time.  Last time it came out the dentist felt so bad she told me that if it happened again, she will start over and get a new crown made and put it in free of charge. When I called about it, the receptionist read the notes in my file and confirmed that was the case.  It doesn't hurt....well at least not now (it may once the work starts)  so I don't mind waiting. 

[TCB]

I enjoyed both of the articles you posted yesterday, Cilla! 

[Cillaliz]

Although I call this vacation, it's really intended to be a summer work week, as in work around the house, have the tree guys come, get the car serviced, maybe do some painting etc.   If I tell people that's why I'm taking it off, they start telling me that isn't really a vacation.  Well, for me it is.  I get my mind off of work and when I go back to work, many of the big jobs are done.

[Cillaliz]

Tonight I mowed the yard and trimmed the bushes by the front door.  I didn't get to have work week last summer because I had my car accident on the first day I was taking off.  So, the bushes didn't get trimmed last year and lots of other stuff didn't get done.  I can't tell you how good it feels to start getting this stuff done

[George]

Although I call this vacation, it's really intended to be a summer work week, as in work around the house, have the tree guys come, get the car serviced, maybe do some painting etc.   If I tell people that's why I'm taking it off, they start telling me that isn't really a vacation.  Well, for me it is.  I get my mind off of work and when I go back to work, many of the big jobs are done.

A person's got to do what a person's got to do.  Enjoy the time away from your day job, Cilla.

[Cillaliz]

I enjoyed both of the articles you posted yesterday, Cilla! 

Thanks TCB.   There is a fund raiser dinner at a local church for Sharon tomorrow night.  Looking forward to going to that

[Cillaliz]

Although I call this vacation, it's really intended to be a summer work week, as in work around the house, have the tree guys come, get the car serviced, maybe do some painting etc.   If I tell people that's why I'm taking it off, they start telling me that isn't really a vacation.  Well, for me it is.  I get my mind off of work and when I go back to work, many of the big jobs are done.

A person's got to do what a person's got to do.  Enjoy the time away from your day job, Cilla.

Thanks George.  It really does feel great to get these things done.  I see those bushes every time I go by the house and they were totally out of control.  They are better, still need to sculpt them a bit, but they are looking a lot better

[George]

Well, I gotta get outta here and go home.

I'll be back.

[Cillaliz]

I am taking time this week to reconnect with a few friends I just don't ever see.  That started with talking to Sharon last Friday for 2 1/2 hours and will continue with dinner with a friend and going to coffee with another. 

[Cillaliz]

Dental vibes for the DD of BK.  Hope all the work brings relief.  I hate mouth pain

[Cillaliz]

Not that anyone likes mouth pain

[Cillaliz]

Yikes am I ever rambling

[Cillaliz]

Tomorrow my only planned activity is dinner at 6:00 at the benefit.  So I'm planning to sleep in.  It's going to be hot with a chance of storms, so I may work on the spare room and scrub the last two walls to prep them for paint.  That's another job I planned to do last summer but had to post pone when I couldn't use my left arm to scrub.  Will be very happy to get that done

[Laura]

Somehow, Cillaliz, I think you'd have to have four impacted wisdom teeth removed and heavy-duty pain pills to get you to sit still on a vacation.

[TCB]

T.O.D.


They Don't Give Medals (to Yesterday's Heroes)
I'll Take You Dreaming

[Cillaliz]

Somehow, Cillaliz, I think you'd have to have four impacted wisdom teeth removed and heavy-duty pain pills to get you to sit still on a vacation.

LOL!!!  I've never been good at just sitting.  I can sit and read, or sit and watch a movie, but I can't just sunbathe or just sit.  Although after work, I do like to just sit and watch tv. 

[Cillaliz]

Overheard today :" It's an abomination before God. You HAVE to do jazz hands"

[Cillaliz]

I have no idea what they were talking about (other than jazz hands).  It totally cracked me up

[TCB]

What if they gave a weekend and nobody came?

What if they gave a weekend that never ended?

They have, it is called retirement!

[TCB]

And two Sondheim songs that aren't Yiddish.

Arabic?

[TCB]

Here's the story I told (by heart yet) after I finished Ya Got Trouble.  Keep in mind that in every single Kritzerland show I have said the same line - "For those who haven't been with us before, I always have to explain that I am elderly and must read from the paper" - referring to my clipboard and notes that I read.  So, I finished Ya Got Trouble and said:

Now, I know there are some of you out there thinking, 'He just said he's elderly and must read from the paper and yet he just did one of the wordiest songs ever written for a musical - how did he do that?' Well, I'll tell you how and I'll try to keep it short, but that won't be happening.  Back in June of 1962 I was fourteen (at that point I looked at someone in the front row and said "don't do the math"), and the movie version of The Music Man was about to open at the Paramount Theater in Hollywood on a Wednesday, which is when movies used to open back then.  So, several days before that I began to badger my mother about going to see it on that Wednesday.  Now, those of you who know me know that when I badger it's best to just give me what I want - my mother had learned that early on - so she said that after my father got home and we had dinner that we'd go see it.

Those of you who know me also know that I have no patience so when Wednesday rolled around I got up early, took a bus to Hollywood and saw the first show at noon.  I fell in love with the movie, so much so that I stayed for the next show, which you could do in those days.  Then I took the bus home.  My father got home, we had dinner, and off we went to the Paramount Theater in Hollywood because I'd neglected to mention that I'd already seen it twice.  Anyway, I loved it even more the third time.  Next day I bought the soundtrack LP and played it over and over again and within a day I knew all the songs by heart, including Ya Got Trouble. 

In those days, we had a family dinner at our house every two weeks, with aunts and uncles and cousins and my grandparents, Dave and Gussie Gross.  After dinner, everyone would gather in the living room and I'd do The Bruce Kimmel Hour, which was sort of my young Jew version of The Ed Sullivan Show with me doing all the acts.  I performed Ya Got Trouble and everyone was properly impressed that I did it by heart, and my grandfather gave me his highest praise when he said, 'What is it, fish?' 

A year later I did it for a talent assembly in high school, but since then I've never done the number again.  I've seen the movie a lot and seen the show on stage a few times but I haven't looked at the script and haven't seen the sheet music.  When I decided to do this show I thought to myself, 'Who am I going to assign this song to?  They'll kill me, it's so wordy and so much to learn.'  One day I was out jogging and I thought, 'I wonder how much of this I actually remember?' and as I was jogging I began doing it - and did the whole thing just about letter perfect.  And that's what I think they call muscle memory.  I think my brain has incredible muscle memory, which is more than I can say for my actual muscles, which suffer from both short and long term memory loss.

Great story, BK!

[TCB]

The smoke also make our noses uncomfortable.  Just what everyone wants to know

Is your nose running?

[TCB]

The smoke also make our noses uncomfortable.  Just what everyone wants to know

Is your nose running?

Then you better try and catch it!