1. I couldn’t help, but wonder, as I took a walk, if anyone else would see this on the ground and immediately think “I should pick that up, because it would be excellent for staking vampires,” or if it was just me.
2. Darkness falls across the land / The midnight hour is close at hand / Creatures crawl in search of blood / To terrorize y’all’s neighbourhood / And whosoever shall be found / Without the soul for getting down / Must stand and face the hounds of hell / And rot inside a corpse’s shell. / The foulest stench is in the air / The funk of 40,000 years / And grizzy ghouls from every tomb / Are closing in to seal your doom / And though you fight to stay alive / Your body starts to shiver / For no mere mortal can resist / The evil of the thriller.
Once you realized what that was, you read it in Vincent Price’s voice, didn’t you?
3. I love music, and I love how most music is associated with a memory in my life.
When I hear “No One is to Blame” by Howard Jones or “In the Air Tonight” by Phil Collins, I am immediately at Michaela’s shore house and in 8th grade. Sitting on a boat, eating fudge sticks and drinking iced tea.
“Ghetto Bastard” by Naughty by Nature takes me right to college, in a frat rec room, where I watched many, many midwestern boys trying very hard to be ghetto while rapping it out. I still know all the words and love that song.
The flip side is that “I Got Friends in Low Places” by Garth Brooks brings me to the same frat rec room, and always seemed a much more appropriate song for those boys, and to this day, I cringe when I hear that one.
4. I think it’s weird that babies are born with excellent posture.
I mean, once they can sit up…not when they are new and all slumpy.
Tiny puts me to shame on a daily basis.
When we read or if we’re watching something or just sitting outside, watching the world, he sits so straight and I realize how slouched I am.
You’d think posture would be a learned behavior, but then you see him and you realize, “No…I’m just really, really stupid when it comes to sitting up straight.”
5. This e-card (with which I have already documented my love/hate relationship) tickled my fancy this week:
6. This picture reminded me of the time we went to a restaurant and the bathrooms were labeled “Espresso” and “Cappuccino.”
Huh?
7. Still decluttering.
High chair is gone and (not so) Tiny is sitting with us at the table in a booster seat.
The high chair was freecycled and the person who took it emailed and said it was perfect and was so grateful.
Love freecycle.
I’ve listed some other baby things, that we purchased, on eBay. (We only sell what we bought…if it was given to us, we pass along the love.)
Getting ready to take a hard look at my closet, next week, and see what can go.
Because, I’m sure there are things that can go.
I tend to wear the same things over and over and over.
My students can tell you.
8. I’m slowly realizing that if anyone were to peruse my Pinterest posts, they’d realize I have a serious addiction.
To showers and bookshelves.
Find me a stone shower with bookshelves installed.
Heaven!
9. I have to believe I’m not the only person who turns over the magazines in the bathrooms so the people on the cover aren’t watching me go.
10. Layla
There is just something about the original, fast, rock version of that song.
Such passion. Such desire. Such longing.
I’ve always loved it, but then after I read the Clapton biography, I loved it more.
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Those really are random thoughts! I too have songs that trigger certain life moments, sometimes it’s nice to return to a different time and place.
Comment by Sarah — July 12, 2012 @ 12:58 pm |
It so is! I just had one in the car, picking up the boys from recreation. “Oh What a Night” came on and I was in my high school car, windows down, rolling over the bridge to get us to the beach, with Kim, singing at the top of my lungs, inhaling that sea air. That one gets me every time. 🙂
Comment by abozza — July 12, 2012 @ 1:02 pm |