Playing Your Play Lists

I’ve just been turned on to Finetune (www.finetune.com).  This site allows you to create play lists.  Which generally include at least 45 tunes.  I’ve just created my third (3rd) playlist and I’m loving it.  Here’s my list of Artists.  Santana, Phil Collins, Fleetwood mac, Boston, Kansas, Miles Davis, Paul McCarthy, David Bowie, Elton John, Michael Jackson, Neil Diamond, Normand Greenbaum, Simon & Garfunkel, Styx, The Lovin’ Spoonfuls, Mamas & the Papas, Monkeys, and War.  Not necessarily in that order.  I’m really dating myself.  But I have to say, in my time, we had some of the best artists of the last century.  What a time to grow-up in this country.  What lucky kids we were!

Cheer up, sleepy Jean, oh what can it mean

To a daydream believer and a homecoming queen?
Today, Dad being home and out of the hospital we were all back to our regular schedules.  Dad slept in of course.  I ran a few errands.  And asked Dad if he was up to going to the Senior Center.  He said no.  So, he stayed home all day. 

You once thought of me as a white knight on his steed
Later in the after noon I asked him if he’d like to go grocery shopping with me.  I thought it would be good exercise for someone who’d been in bed in the hospital for five days.  Dad could hang on to the shopping cart for support, and get a little walking exercise.  We picked up dinner (makings for Homemade Chicken Soup and some very special oatmeal, cherry, coconut cookies I picked up the recipe off another blog (echoword.wordpress.com) The recipe turned out great!). 

Now you know how happy I can be
Dad was really exhausted by the grocery trip.  He barely made it home.  I was really concerned and started looking for somewhere he could sit down and rest at the grocery store.  We made it home with all the groceries in due time.  Dad went to his room to lie down and rest for a while. 

Oh, and our good time starts and ends With a dollar one to spend
Dad didn’t emerge again until dinner was ready.  When he showed up for dinner, he seemed rested and ready to take on the world.  The homemade chicken soup for dinner was fabulous!  We all enjoyed it immensely.  We enjoyed the cookies as well.  Kudos to Kimberly @ echowood.wordpress.com Blog! 

But how much baby do we really need?
Our next family concern was our family member in Houston (DB) who happens to be in hurricane Ike’s path.  Dad listened to the news, connected the dots and was alarmed that our DB may be in danger’s path.  of course the rest of the family had already discussed concerns and what we could do to help.  Mostly we were impressed that Dad remembered what he did about our DB in spite of concerns with Alzheimer’s disease. 

Oh I could hide ‘neath the wings of the bluebird as she sings
We have noted on occasion that when it concerns something that Dad really cares about, he can remember bits and pieces of it.  During moments of clarity, he is able to pull it all together and make sense of it.  As I’ve mentioned before, family is really important to Dad. 

 

Many Thanks to the Monkeys for the use of their lyrics “Day dream Believer”