Category Archives: Missions

September 5th: Shutting down

September 5, 2010 in Missions by michael

I’m back home, and sort of shutting down. Don’t have a choice really.  I don’t have anything left in the tank, though I’m certainly not as miserable as I was a week ago.    I was going to go to bed VERY early tonight, but I postponed sack time a bit so I could receive [...]

September 4th: Don’t Stop

September 5, 2010 in Missions by michael

Today John Batdorf and I did a concert in the San Diego area.  This was the singles’ conference I’ve been writing about and worrying about since the big P (pneumonia) rocked my world.  The show went better than I ever dreamed it could have given my physical condition just 4 days ago, but the star [...]

September 3rd: White

September 5, 2010 in Missions by michael

I’m insane, but hopeful.  Or, should I say, hopefully it’s just BEING insane that has me sitting here at the back of a plane headed for California to perform tomorrow at a Singles Conference that was booked months ago.  Don’t feel spectacular, but I’m not coughing, dripping, wheezing or spitting up that delightful avocado green [...]

September 2nd: Anti Biotics

September 5, 2010 in Missions by michael

I’m on a Z pack for my pneumonia.  Apparently if I take these industrial strength pills for five days in a row, then wait five days and do it again, I’ll be healed.  Wondering why on earth anyone with pneumonia would WANT to be healed.  I mean, I’m looking at this from a M2B:) perspective [...]

September 1st: No wonder extra strength cold remedies didn’t help

September 5, 2010 in Missions by michael

Don’t you just hate it when your doctor says that you have pneumonia AND sinusitis? And to make matters worse you’re on a mission to be happy and, to be frank, I’ve never had either pneumonia OR sinusitis on my list of “happy” additions to my life.
But there is an upside to my condition that [...]

August 24th-31st: Angels in my house

August 31, 2010 in Missions by michael

The final days of August have been hectic, and I’ve been scrambling to keep up.  It’s been tougher than usual because the bug I’ve been fighting is the Rocky of sick bugs:  He WON’T GIVE UP!!!  Just when I think I’ve beaten him down he rallies  and hits me with cough spasms to the chest, [...]

August 23rd: Old Women Laughing

August 23, 2010 in Missions by michael

The door from the garage to the entry has been moved over about five inches to make room for the chair lift that’s coming next week.  My mother-in-law arrived this afternoon for what we hope will be an extended stay.  Both our mothers are under one roof and tonight they sat together and laughed at [...]

August 17th-August 22nd: In and Out

August 23, 2010 in Missions by michael

This week I didn’t write daily blogs about my Mission To Be Happy because I was “in and out” all week long.  By that I mean I wasn’t exactly coherent that much of the week…just enough to fill some obligations and then it was back in the sack with remedies galore.  The few M2B:) moments [...]

August 16th: Woozy

August 17, 2010 in Missions by michael

Today I am woozy.  This bug is a tough little guy.  Kept me in bed til 2pm.  I tried coughing him out, but he’s still there.   All the therapies I’m taking may be helping, but I don’t see much improvement.  It’s sort of like the claim of the stimulus package…things aren’t better but OH, IT [...]

August 15th: I fought the bug and the bug won

August 16, 2010 in Missions by michael

I am sick.  In bed all day long, sick as a dog (though I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a really sick dog.  If I did, and the dog could speak, I believe the dog would say, “I’m sick as a songwriter”)   During my moments of waking, and between coughs and sneezes, I’ve found myself [...]