So I just finished watching the 2 hour season finale of LOST, the greatest show EVER. ::SPOILER ALERT: if you have not watched the last episode, don't read this post!::

So..........WOW. Instead of recapping or explaining the extreme emotions my physiology was subjected to while this torturous 2 hours ran its course, I decided I'm going to list, off the top of my head, my Top 20 questions that still remain unanswered even after this episode. I am not going to list "What horrible things happen to the people left?" or "Should they go back?" or "What is Ben going to do?", etc.

So, in no particular order:

(1) What happened to Claire? Is she alive? Is she dead? Is she an apparition? What's an "apparition" in this show; a ghost? A dead person who has traveled through time and somehow is able to appear in the future alive after the person has died? Thank you, Lost, for introducing me to the hypnotically fascinating and eerily disconcerting realm of Theoretical Physics, by the way.

(2) What happened to everyone on the second raft, the one that was headed toward the freighter when it blew up?

(3) Who is Charlotte? She was apparently born on the island...why is she trying so hard to find it and who is she?

(4) Is Ben the bad guy or is Whidmore the bad guy? Maybe everyone is the bad guy. I give up. Everything's a car. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKgw3wqXo48)

(5) What is the smoke monster? Does it have to do with the electromagnetic anomolies or is it just some sort of species native to the island?

(6) Where did the island go? If it traveled to the past or future, one would assume that SOME version of the island would still be in the "today." (Again with the far-too-advanced-for-me theoretical physics.)

(7) Why is the island over a frozen core?

(8) What were all the heiroglyphics in the island's frozen core? They looked like cave drawings. Was it previously inhabited by a native tribe of some kind? Is it the same people who are the "Others" (not Dharma folks)?

(9) Does Penny know what her father is doing? Is she in on it? What exactly IS he doing?

(10) Why did the Others kidnap children? What kind of experiments ("tests," Walt said) do they run on them?

(11) Why do the Others seem to live forever, or at least never get any older, or at least at a much slower rate than we do? Richard is the same age he was when Locke was born...does it have to do with time travel? You would think the body would still age...

(12) What's up with the polar bears?

(13) Are there other Dharma Initiatives around the world? If not, how did Charlotte find a polar bear with the Dharma symbol in the middle of the desert?

(14) What is the time anomoly surrounding the island? It seems to be on a different time flow than the rest of the world...is it going faster? Slower? Is it simply a few minutes ahead or behind?

(15) What is the true nature of the experiments were going on in the rest of the Dharma stations? We never heard any more of that pile of notebooks that the "observers" had been writing about the original hatch station.

(16) What is the Dharma initiative and why did it fail? DID it fail? Does Whidmore own it and is mad because Ben destroyed it?

(17) What ever happened to Vincent? Is he going to be important? Or are we just supposed to forget about him?

(18) What is the deal with the black rock? Does anyone else remember this giant boat in the middle of the island? Did the island suddenly get "moved" right underneath it at somepoint and that's how it got "lost at sea"?

(19) What did Sawyer ask Kate to do that eventually costs her her relationship with Jack?

And finally, the question I have and always will ask myself as I end every episode staring at the screen letting my mind try to wrap around everything I just saw,

(20) What. The. Crap.

And by "insane" I don't mean she's let's-go-have-fun insane. Or even that's she's make-fun-of-the-way-I-dress insane. I mean she's certifiable.

I got an email from her, a mass forward. She wrote "and the majority of Americans are living in total denial to what is happening...Thought we could all use a heads up about what is planned and make the necessary preparations and precautions for this summer!" Most of her forwards are junk, but a few have been funny or even interesting - I found out about the proposed animal tracking plan that will greatly hinder the ability of small farms and ranches to do their jobs well (NAIS) - so I always skim to see what the contents hold.

Oh.

My.

Freaking.

Goodness.

What I uncovered on this poorly built and impossible to navigate website was a conspiracy theory of the highest degree. APPARENTLY, Congress has been holding secret meeting where the press is not allowed (wonder who's leaking the stories) telling about not only the impending doom of the American economy (in late 2008), but also the collapse of our government (in 2009), and the New World Order which will subsequently be established. The "elites" apparently plan to live forever on "new technology" while exterminating in death camps (which have already been forming all over the US without our knowledge) 80% of the world's population. The proof is a picture full of what appear to be plastic coffins. If you know anything about cases, which I have studied while trying to figure out how to most cheaply carry expensive photography equipment overseas, you recognize quickly that they are actually gun storage containers which retail for several hundred dollars a piece. (If I were a government trying to mass exterminate 4 billion people, I certainly would not spend trillions of dollars to bury them.)

So for all of you who are GREATLY CONCERNED, here, apparently, is what is going on:

"For the New World Order, a world government is just the beginning. Once in place they can engage their plan to exterminate 80% of all the world's population, while enabling the "elites" to live forever with the aid of advanced technology."

I just wanted to give everyone who is sane a heads up in case you start hearing about the imminent Civil War and the death camps that are going to start exterminating you soon. So make sure and get all your swimming done early, and I'll see you in camp this summer!!!!!

http://www.uaff.us/deathcamps.htm

I was not aware, in all my research, that breastfed babies are at risk for Vitamin D deficient rickets because Vitamin D is not passed through breast milk!

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that all breastfed babies get a Vitamin D supplement, in the form of a liquid dropper. The mother can get all the Vitamin D she wants; baby will only receive trace amounts. This is because the body normally creates Vitamin D from sunlight. However, due to recommendations against too much sunlight at a young age, infants are at risk for rickets and other complications of Vitamin D deficiency.

I am starting Ari on Vitamin D supplements. I did some research and my favorite is Just D from Sunlight Vitamins. Breast fed infants don't need supplements of other vitamins, minerals, or anything else, as it is supplied in plenty through breast milk. Just D is the only supplement I could find that did not contain extra supplements, sugars, or flavorings.

Just wanted to post this in case their were other well educated breast fed moms who, none the less, had never heard of this deficiency!

I have such a love-hate relationship with this show that consumes at least one hour a week of my life. I was going to write a blog about it, but then I found this. It's so perfect, I just decided to post the link. Pretend that I wrote it, if that makes you feel better. Because I meant every word.

http://chainsawcalligraphy.blogspot.com/2008/02/dear-lost-what-crap.html