Your Drum: BLOGGING BOOMER CARNIVAL #43-BI-POLAR BOOMER SYNDROME CAUSED BY GLOBAL WARMING?

The Polar ice caps are melting and eveybody knows we're in a period of Global Warming. Across the land Baby Boomers are suffering from Bi-Polar Boomer Syndrome.

Leonard Cohen "Everybody Knows" 1988

You will notice in the posts of this weeks Blogging Boomer Carnival #43 (that's odd) the sudden shift of point of view, the way opinion on issues are polarized, a retreat to the past or a 180 degree turn in ones professional or romantic life.

Bi-Polar Boomer Syndrome has cast its shadow upon the land.

Do I spend or do I save?

Boomie at The Wastrel Show - Time to double check your wallet and monitor your spending habits. The recession has begun. Link

John at So Baby Boomer - Gift buying for grown-ups during the upcoming holiday season can be a daunting task. Check out SoBabyBoomer's gift giving tips. Link

My girlfriend has serious wardrobe problems. She had developed Bi-Polar Boomer Disorder.

It's exciting to get back into some serious fall clothes. But no sooner have you tucked away your summer wardrobe, when the weather takes a crazy turn from cool to sweltering. What the heck do you wear when it's hot as summer one day and nippy as Fall the next? Visit JJ and Deb at Fabulous after 40 to find out! Link

But over at Wesley's Life Two I found out I didn't have a girlfriend

Have you ever had an instant, magical, mutual connection on a first date where you both express mutual attraction, and then as quickly as it starts it fizzles? It happens and LifeTwo’s midlife dating expert contributes the “Faux Vacation Fling.” Link

Or had she become a Cougar? Which Cougar? The one at Linda's Boomers Making A Difference - Age has nothing to do with getting the most out of life... She is smart, sexy, confident, beautiful and financially independent. The Real Cougar can be married, single, divorced - it's not about the band on her finger - it's about her attitude. Link

or the Cougar at yourdrum - My Bi-Polar Meshugge blog - Older women, younger men Braving "robbing the cradle" jokes, almost one-third of women between ages 40 and 69 are dating younger men (defined as 10 or more years younger). Link

What's the difference she decided to remain single, retire and charged over to Ann's Contemporary Retirement to fill out a survey - This is an appeal to all the single women out there. I've started work on my next book - Retirement and the Single Woman. Would you take a moment to drop me a line at Link

What do I do now? Wendy over at Gen Plus said - Getting that itchy feeling? Time to get a new job? - Every year, just around this time, I get the urge to "Go West." One year, about 12 years ago, I heeded that advice and left my home in Montreal and headed to Los Angeles. Link

So did Jim

"The west is the best
The west is the best
Get here, and well do the rest

The blue bus is callin us
The blue bus is callin us
Driver, where you taken us?

The Doors "The End"

But should I go? Rhea at the Boomer Chronicles said no. Become a shaker. Cool. A Shaker. What's a Shaker? Link

No Rhea couldn't mean that - Rhea must mean you should "Shake Rattle and Roll"

Big Joe Turner "Shake Rattle and Roll

These Boomers had completly lost their mind due to Global Warming.

Could I find a cure for Bi-Polar Boomer Condition?

Yes, Ron at I Remember JFK had a cure. "Life in Anneville, Kentucky, located in the backwoods of the backwoods, was not easy in 1915, the year David Akeman was born. His family were farmers who barely scraped by. Entertainment had to be provided by the local folks themselves. Thus arose bluegrass music, which was prolific n the rural areas of Tennessee and Kentucky." Link

David Ackerman had joined a Medicine Show which sold some good 'ole snake oil.

That would do it.

I'd get in my SUV. Get my Cougar back. We'd drink some snake oil and the polar ice caps would stop melting and Bi-Polar Boomer Syndrome would be a memory.