Dizzy

Along the Little River Trail - GSMNP

December 3, 2010

Well, well, well, Blog friends of mine............Determined December has turned into Dizzy December.  For those of you old (don't shoot me!!) enough to remember Tommy Roe's 1969 hit song, "Dizzy,"   and the rest of you whom I'm sure can appreciate some Wednesday morning humor, here's what I mean:

Dizzy, I'm so dizzy my head is spinning
Like a whirlpool it never ends
And it's You FOOD makin' it spin
You're making me dizzy

First time that I saw You FOOD, I knew that I just had to make You mine
But it's so hard to talk to IGNORE YOU with PEOPLE BRINGING MORE IN  all the time
I want You for my sweet pet, AND YOU KEEP CRYING "DON'T LEAVE ME YET!"
I'm going round in circles all the time

I finally got to talk to You and I told You just exactly how I felt
Then I held You close to me and kissed You and my heart began to melt
FOOD You've got control on me,cuz I'm so dizzy I can't see
I need to call a doctor for some help

Dizzy, I'm so dizzy my head is spinning
Like a whirlpool it never ends
And it's You FOOD makin' it spin
You're making me dizzy
my head is spinning
Like a whirlpool it never ends
And it's You m FOOD making it spin
You're making me dizzy
you're making me dizzy

I woke up at 4 a.m. this morning with this song spinning around in my head. The dizziness started Sunday evening (at a Christmas party, of course!) when I looked around at the spread being served and realized that this was just the beginning.  There's no need to spell out all the gory details - my circumstances are no different than most of yours.  Mine is only complicated by the fact that my husband is the much loved head of a small department of a close knit community college.  What do college age girls, who have little money to spend on gifts, or the mother's of college age boys do for their Choral Director at Christmas?  Why of course, they make goodies!   Lots of them and large boxes of them.  Mr. B informed me last night that he had two boxes of chocolates, three plates of cookies and a cake in his office.  And their concert, where most of this stuff magically appears, isn't even until Thursday night.  Believe me, there will be more - MUCH MORE!  He knows better than to bring it home, but classes end on Friday and sharing amongst the students will stop!  They are gifts to him and I can't expect him to NOT bring it home!   Oh my, this is making me DIZZY!  BTW, don't spend your valuable time giving me suggestions of what to do with all the goodies.  Believe me, I've experienced 12 years of this - there is nothing you can suggest that I haven't already thought of or done!  And like I said and each of you well know, that's only the tip of the iceberg that ALL of us are facing.  Are any of you dizzy?

At one point on a very depressing Monday afternoon, I came very close to saying I'd just forget it and with the rest of America, start over on January 1.  But there was that little matter of Friday's post and Determined December.   I don't WANT to forget it!  I don't want to start over on January 1.   I am strong, I am invincible, I am WOMAN!   See, I'm so DIZZY, I don't even know which song I'm singing. 

But I do know without a shadow of a doubt, which one I'm ending with.   And it's this one:

I am woman, hear me roar
In numbers too big to ignore
And I know too much to go back an' pretend
'cause I've heard it all before
And I've been down there on the floor
No one's ever gonna keep me down again

You can bend but never break me
'cause it only serves to make me
More determined to achieve my final goal
And I come back even stronger
Not a novice any longer
'cause you've deepened the conviction in my soul

I am woman watch me grow
See me standing toe to toe
As I spread my lovin' arms across the land
But I'm still an embryo
With a long long way to go
Until I make my brother understand

Oh yes I am wise
But it's wisdom born of pain
Yes, I've paid the price
But look how much I gained (LOST)
If I have to I can face anything
I AM STRONG, I AM INVINCIBLE, I AM WOMAN

Talk to me friends!  How are you today?  Are you Dizzy or Determined?