Why Would I Want To Look At Your Blog?

I asked my niece who was visiting for three days if she'd like to see my blog. She said: Why would I want to look/read your blog? I actually just wanted her to make sure it was working. Well since this is a Yankee blog, here's the latest Yankee news. The poster picture on the wall fell down just now on top of our New York Yankee Night Light. I see it as an omen. Maybe Alex Rodriguez's drug injecting cousin should be allowed back at Spring Training. The picture falling on the Yankee Night Light gave me that vision. Next it will be the Virgin Mary. I'm sure she's a Yankee fan.

Drug Free For Life?Different Strokes For Differen t Folks.

So I had my head examined. The MRI shows that I had ministrokes all over my brain. Still I am drug free-no prescriptions just an aspirin a day and don't drive for six months. My carotid artery test had not come back yet. But I'm to see the heart doctor on March 10th. I have 220 cholesterol. But no prescriptions. I have low B12 but no prescriptions.

So Major League baseball may not be drug free but I am even after ministrokes. So it's different strokes for different folks. That's for sure. So I remain the only baby boomer living not taking a prescription or ten.

Also I made the Business page of Florida Today today about my 4931 Squires Drive house with pool for sale on the 7th fairway of the Sherwood Golf Course. It's reduced $100,000 from last year and still not selling at $179,000. So I've had my 15 minutes of fame.

My husband, the Yankee fan cries over a replay on MLB of the 1960's World Series, gets all involved in selling a Flip Stick-his 19th unsuccessful business venture,and ignores my ministrokes and business page real estate news during the worst financial crisis in US history.

So it's different strokes for different folks. Which of course brings us back to baseball. Got ******-asteriks?

Hall of Fame

Baseball records have been inconsistent ever since the baseball season was extended. The same is true in this steroid era. Furthermore if there was no testing during the first 100 years of baseball how do we know what substances were being abused or performance enhancers were being used then? The ESPN Steroid witch hunt is nearing its final inning. Next come the Barry Bonds Salem Steroids Trial.

No Comment

This is my first blog. No one writes comments even after I went unconscious and fell in the pool. It was almost the demise of a lifelong Yankee fan. Still no comment. The MRI of my brain still has not come back so I don't know if they found anything. I have felt great during ALL THE TESTS(DOESN'T EVERY HYPOCHONDRIAC?). But sure enough yesterday at 4:00 I could barely drive across town especially on little tiny bridges and at 55mph. So I rested and called hubby for help(whose $800 motorcycle with $2000 in repairs wouldn't make it across town without a stop for a can of oil.) His motorcycle and I recovered and made it shakily back home. First I went to the Space Coast Quilt Show at Brevard Community College. It was excellent . I met my Art Teacher who asked me how I was. I said : It's not worth discussing. But I could barely converse with her. After a candy, I seemed to cheer up and enjoyed the show. The quilts were colorful, creative and very skillful productions. I made the Titusville Quilt showing The Cape Canaveral National Seashore and a rocket blasting off from the Kennedy Space Center as the wallpaper on my phone.
So my next project is a Yankee Go Home Crazy Quilt.

Futbol

Yankee Stadium was already a scandalous extravagance. But when Cramer on CNBC is predicting the banks will fail soon, it is no time for complacency. The Bronx has had 10% + unemployment for decades. Bronxites like soccer(futbol). Turn Yankee Stadium (old or new) into a soccer stadium. The Mafia loves soccer. They'll support it. Futbol has been very, very good to me! FIFA, WORLD CUP, $$$$. We are a Nation of Immigrants and the new immigrants(legal or illegal) love soccer (futbol). So GOAL! Score one for the Bronx!

Yutes

Youth is no excuse Alex Rodriguez and Michael Phelps. Prisons are full of foolish yutes. To Congress: I say stay out of baseball this year and concentrate on the economy stupid!
Reappraise all recent housing purchases, reduce the principal and charge 4% interest before there is 10% unemployment and the banks fail. Obama's plan is too little too late. HE said it was a crisis 20 times yesterday in McCain's foreclosure capital of the USA. A big crisis needs big help.
Reappraise and reduce the principal. Where was McCain when Arizona was being destroyed by speculators? Where was Obama? Do any of these people have a business background? Who is watching the store?
Maybe their excuse is just like Alex and Michael, except they are old(ancient) and foolish. Maybe the Leona Helmsley Wing at the federal prison for white color crime would curb some of this financial foolishness.

Tee Shirts HangingOnTheCountryClubTownhouseBalcony

SIXTH GREEN

I came home after my neurology , MRI,EEG,Holt Monitor, blood tests to find that my charming husband who bought me nothing for Valentine's Day had hung Yankee tee shirts and a laarge Yankee banner off our balcony looking over the country club's 6th hole. The tee shirts said Mattingly and Jeter. The banner commemorated all the Yankee World Series, Hubby was welcoming in the baseball season. He had already hung 25 hats on thumbtacks in the garage last week. It's the worst real estate market in history. I'm trying to sell this country club townhouse just to break even. I hit he roof, removed the tee shirts on hangers and there is a God up there because when I returned from the divorce lawyer later, the Yankee Banner had blown down. I told that Yankee to Go Home in his van a.s.a.p.. He didn't yet. He's playing golf.
So first it was A-ROD not to mention the upsetting new Yankee Stadium next to the perfectly good,beautiful old Yankee Stadium,and now Yankee tee shirts on my country club townhouse balcony to ruin Spring Training and probably the whole season.
Got balls?

Beisbol

Beisbol has been very,very good to me. So love is like baseball. All that matters is whether you score.
I'm still the only baby boomer not on prescription drugs. I have EKGs,MRIs,and blood tests next week to determine why I feel like I'm going to black out when I drive. I did black out and fall in the pool. But Dr. Samir says it's in my mind and don't do alternate nostril Yoga breathing. DON'T DO THAT : I SAID DOCTOR, MR MD. CAN YOU TELL ME WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME. HE SAID YOU NEED LOVE ,LOVE ,LOVE AND GAVE ME A BOTTLE OF LOVE POTION #9. Finally a prescription.

Yankee Valentine

ALLIGATORS ALL AROUND-NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE-TITUSVILLE,FLORIDA

THE SIXTH GREEN-LA CITA CC-TITUSVILLE,FLORIDA

THE LAUNCH PAD-KENNEDY SPACE CENTER=TITUSVILLE,FLORIDA

CANAVERAL NATIONAL SEASHORE-TITUSVILLE,FLORIDA

Valentine Day Greetings from a NY Yankee living in Gator Land. I hear my blog is too negative,erratic and not erotic enough. So here's a positive day in the SWAMP:

I put the top down on my white Miata convertible and headed for the Canaveral National Seashore in Titusville. It was 85 degrees out as I drove past the Space Shuttle on Launch Pad B at the Kennedy Space Center. It will blast off from here on February 23,2009. I took a peaceful walk on the 25 mile long unspoiled beach and discovered a large sea turtle carcass and shell. I later drove back to Titusville through the Merritt Island Wildlife Refuge stopping to see several large alligators on the roadside slong the way. When I arrived at the Max Brewer Causeway, A team of Sea World Animal Rescuers were about to release a female dolphin who had gotten lost far from the ocean in an inland fresh water lake near Sanford. The eight Sea World workers carried the dolphin on a tarp out tao the deeper water in the Indian River and set her free. They took a boat out to follow her and make sure she was swimming well. Then I headed to my townhouse on the LA CITA CC 6th green and had homemade pizza made by my Greek God husband Chef Bill. All of this was possible because they cancelled my Friday the Thirteenth MRI. So I've just seen doctor # 3 and have not received any prescriptions. The nose and ear doctor told me :Don't do that=Yoga alternate nostril breathing. So the diagnosis is :Don't hold your breath. So HAPPY V DAY! All you need is love. The best things in life are free!!

Happy Valentine's Day from a New York Yankee living in the heart of Gator Nation!

Got Wonder?

I was happy to see Chelsea Lately criticizing the chutzpah of the Jonas Brothers grooving with Stevie Wonder on the Grammys. Then at the end when Stevie was singing his peace,love and brotherhood song, he was prempted by airline advertisements and credits. But Stevie is a wonder and keeps on truckin' as the soulful Jonas Bros would say.

Re Yankees: Hawaii's Senator Inoue says World Chaos will ensue if the super power US economy fails. He says vote for government $ to bolster the US economy. I called my astronaut Senator Nelson who didn't vote for the one in the Fall and was on the fence about the current SAVE THE WORLD Obama plan to say two words: GREAT DEPRESSION!

So who really cares about baseball and steroids? Why did Congress spend days on it when the US economy was going down the tubes. They don't mind regulating baseball but not Wall Street. Got Brains? Got Balls? Baseballs that is. I say Stevie Wonder for President. He's the only one who can keep this world at PEACE. He and that blind cleric in New Jersey!!! Got Osama? We've got Obama!

Falling Into The Pool-Got Drugs?

I did alternate nostril breathing (Yoga) one hour after going to the neurologist who only took my pulse not my blood pressure and one day after getting a temporary cap on my top right tooth (that's been hurting for ten years) at the dentist, blacked out and fell fully clothed into the pool. Luckily it was shallow. I got out of the pool and called the neurologist who wouldn't speak to me (but through her secretary told me to go to the Emergency Ward at Jest Perished Hospital in Titusville, Florida. I called my husband for a ride but he was having an EKG at Jest Perished in Port St. John. So I took an aspirin,bathed, washed and dried my Pool Water soaked clothes, and later got dressed. That was 3:00. My husband didn't arrive until 6:30. We did not go to the hospital. We went home. I was fine.
I am the only Baby Boomer I know not taking medicine. I've been to the doctor in Florida,Massachusetts and Vermont for this fainting problem. I get tested and don't qualify for any medicine. So I'm not holding my breath waiting for medicine for my dizziness(YES I'M A BLONDE BOMBSHELL) . Maybe Alex Rodriguez or the 130 other Major league baseball players who tested positive drugs can get me something. I usually only feel faint when driving. I never faint but I feel a blackout coming. Yesterday kerplunk into the pool was the first time I ever went unconcious. So Alex-got any extra Plavix, Lipitor, antihistamines, statins,thyroid pills, diabetes medication etc. that you don't need? I can't get any help from the doctors. And these are the good doctors who will see new patients. Most doctors will see no one new in Cape Cod or Florida. I'm going to the ear doctor tomorrow. I felt dizzyish after blowing my nose today. an antihistamine fixed me up. Got Drug?

Spring Training

In light of the release of supposedly secret drug testing results to the public, the union should close down Spring Training and the baseball season until every American especially sanctimonious politicians in Congress are given public drug testing. Let The PROZAC NATION be tested.

If you test athletes for performance enhancing drugs,then test all Americans including Congress and the President. Why isn't drug testing a prerequisite for public office like it is for athletes? Why is it okay for the President to have cocktail parties to push his legislation but athletes must be drug tested? Alex Rodriguez and Barry Bonds for president and VP. Marion Jones for Secretary of State. How can what Michael Vick did to some pit bulls be any worse than human torture at Guantanomo?

A New York Yankee living in the South's biggest fear was realized on the 11pm news last night. The Ku Klux Klan is putting business cards(flyers) on peoples' cars in Titusville,Florida to recruit members. I'm not surprised after reading the Anti-New Yorker rants in the HomeTown News,the birthday celebration for Colonel Titus,the Confederate traitor that the town was named after,Dixie on the Florida flag until recently,Confederates shooting off cannons on a float in the Titusville Christmas Parade(not to mention drug dealers shooting someone in "Crack"(not Cracker) Central a few blocks away), and a young man parading a large Confederate flag from the back of his red truck on Martin Luther King Day at the Publix on Knox McCrae Rd. in Titusville. Now they want a Confederacy license plate.
I cringed when I saw the Confederate flag in my town the day before the inauguration of our first black president(literally an African-American). So I say again what I've said since I moved here: Stop giving voice to prejudice in the HOMETOWN NEWS and on the Web pages of Florida Today(Edit those papers and web sites), stop celebrating Confederate insurrectionists,and call them what they were- Terrorists. Yes it's my town too. I pay $5000 a year in taxes to prove it.

National Pastime

At the SuperBowl, John Madden declared that football is the national pastime. This from a man who is afraid to fly but not to watch 300 pound men crush each other. Football shows America HAS fear just like the former Raiders' coach. In BASEBALL THERE'S THREE STRIKES AT A BALL NOT SOMEONE'S HEAD. ROOT FOR THE HOME TEAM. KEEP BASEBALL. FORGET FOOTBALL AS THE SPORT OF THE AMERICAN PSYCHE OR IS THAT PSYCHOPATH? THE REST OF THE WORLD EMBRACES SOCCER(FUTBOL). FEAR NOT JOHN MADDEN,WE ALL FLY BUT WE DON'T SMACK OTHERS IN THE HEAD EVERY SUNDAY OR ADVOCATE THAT OTHERS DO. THE SUPER BOWL WAS GREAT BUT I'M SURE THE ANCIENT ROMANS FELT THE SAME WAY ABOUT THE CHRISTIANS VS THE LIONS. GOT A HAIL MARY?

Where's Gator?

I took an air boat ride out of Everglades City. Sure enough the captain was from Yarmouth, Massachusetts. He made it clear that he did not like New Yorkers. When he found out I was from New York I was okay because I was from upstate-actually Westchester the nearest suburb to NYC. We saw one alligator who I think they paid to sit on the side of the waterway as we zoomed by with the New York hater Red Sox fan captain at the helm of the airboat. Go Yankees-it's a subversive activity in some parts of the world.

Rodger Dodger

Joe Torre sold out the Yankee locker room secrets. What do you expect from a man from Brooklyn working for the Dodgers? Say it ain't so,Joe. What happens in Brooklyn stays in Brooklyn-not the Dodgers.