It’s Allgood. Blogging and The Blog-O-Sphere! 2010 is here!

Hello Everybody!

       I’ve been away a bit…but thanks to lack of  love in my life and a haunting desire to ramble and share ‘kriss-crossed’ thoughts…I’m gratefully back (thank you Daily Sentinel and Duffy Hayes!)

Soooo… “Hello Spring time, Hello Sun…gonna jot down some sprackled thoughts and have a little fun….!”   Yippeee!

Okay here goes:

      Life is nothing but a big shopping Cart…You get out of it what you put in …Sooo, what’s in your Cart? Do you have coupons?

Here’s my Intensity vs. intimacy moment in Sobriety since we last talked:

     I thought I was in love.  It was a cascading, rushing feeling that swept over me like the excitement of hitting an open checkout line in Wal-Mart on a busy Saturday afternoon.  It happened over this past New Year’s Eve while I was in Atlanta reconnecting with some Great Friends who were seeing me sober for the first time in years.  The Girl? The Cousin of my best friend. A woman I have known briefly on and off for over 15 years.  She’s never been married, I’ve never been married…she’s funny and cute and it just happened…Really!...just like the movies. We looked at each other and kinda’ just ‘knew’.  That ‘knew’? We thought…and I thought …this is what everybody else calls ‘Love’. It felt like Christmas, My Birthday and St. Patty’s Day all rolled into one. Like riding a roller coaster for the first time or jumping out of a plane. Eating a really good Chocolate Mousse… or going to see Avatar and getting free popcorn with the 3-D Glasses! Fireworks and Pop rocks. Real Coke and Twinkies. Like the first rush of heroin to an addict…the feeling rolled over me like a tsunami over a small island. I was flooded with emotions warming me…disorienting me…and euphorically taking me all over the place.    And it just happened to be Valentines Day Weekend. She flew here…we had 4 wonderful Days to get to know each other. Took her hiking and of course the mountains did my romantic work for me…and ‘ta da!’ I thought I was in Love! But “no no Charlie Brown!” …Back up and turn around! Needless to say the attempt was there, the football got pulled ….and Cupid? He’s a nasty little man dressed up as a baby with poisoned arrows… Emotions do not have to stem from ‘evil’ sources to wreak havoc on your world. They just have to be distracting. Love is the ‘Snuggy’ that warms and binds you and twists and turns you when you fall asleep on the couch…and when you wake up? You find you’re in a ‘Straight Jacket!’  I repeat…I’m not Jaded…have been softly edged by the rough hands of time…Ta Da!

Random:

My Friend asking me “ Dave… would you change your religion for a woman or better yet for love?” 

I said “sure I would”…Religion is just rituals…as long as I’m doing what I need to do to talk to my ‘Big Guy’, and it doesn’t involve eating Prairie Dogs or dancing in the dessert at night around a bonfire wearing horns…or sacrificing small critters… or wearing sheep leggings. Plus…isn’t loving…giving and sharing?...That’s what I’ve heard anyway.  And who cares how you do it…as long as you do it. I have a feeling that God …might just have a few opinions about the freaky way people try and get his attention…or the things people do in his name ….which aren’t very God-Like. Just say’ in …Karma is the Big Guys way of straightening you & me out. And earthquakes …that’s just an unstable planet…

Really Random thoughts:

• If I had invented the Wonder-Bra I would have called it the ‘Abra-cada-Bra!’
• Listening to John Mayer’s new album (do we still say album?) Battle Studies. Love it.  I think he’s the Best Singer/Songwriter of our time.
• Easter is around the corner….I'll take a Cadbury Egg omlette with a Side of Reese’s Rabbits...thank you.  

But none of those weird little malted powdered chocolate eggs! Yuk! 

Commercial Madness:

Thank you Subway $5-Dollar Foot Long Commercial. You have just surpassed "Hanson's" 'Mmm Bop' as the most annoying jingle/Song of my lifetime. There Was Mambo # 5, The Jackson 5, The Fifth Dimension, Five for fighting, Maroon 5...all okay. But the $-5 Dollar foot long song?...You make me want to do a Van Gogh...Twice.

Sign of the apocalypse:

People here in Grand Junction stop in Roundabouts and cruise through stop signs…

Obvious Observation of the last month:

If people were as passionate about their personal health as they are about the Health Care Debate…I have a feeling it wouldn’t be that big of an issue.

      Okay I have tons more…but not enough room or time tonight. Thanks if you made it his far and so long if you didn’t…

Toodles for now. 2010 is here and I will be blogging 3 days a week…so check in when you feel the need …and leave a little ‘verbal dropping’ in the comment box if you feel so inclined. Good to see you…now go do something productive!

Dave Allgood