What I’ll be listening to tomorrow…
There are some things you just have to say yes to.
Water when you’re thirsty,
Food when you’re hungry,
and Josh Turner.
Those eyes, that voice. Man it’s really too bad he’s married. I’m super excited about his new CD Haywire that comes out tomorrow. I really like “Why Don’t We Just Dance” so I’m hoping the rest of the CD is just as good. It’s hard to tell in 30 second intervals. I will even forgive that he has a live version of “Long Black Train” (I really just don’t dig that one).
It’s been a while since I’ve been excited about a CD coming out and I’ve got an iTunes gift card burning a hole in my computer screen, so…
Is 86 days, give or take, too early to start a countdown?
Before Tuesday, the youngest baby I had ever held was 10 days old and that was almost 9 years ago and he spit up on me. Monday C,MFFW had a baby boy so I went to the hospital Tuesday to meet him. He was absolutely adorable and now has the honor of being the youngest baby I’ve ever held, at a little over 1 day old.
He didn’t wake up, cry, scream, spit up or anything when I held him, so that was nice. I’m so happy for C, her husband, and new little J,MFFWRABB (that’s my friend from work’s really adorable baby boy for those trying to make sense of it) but after only 4 days at the office without her I know it’s going to be a long three months…
Wow, that took me a while…
So I mentioned my Mad Men calendar a couple posts back. It’s been hanging in my office for a few weeks now. I thought it was a little weird that the first picture was one of Betty.
I just now got it.
Yeah, I’m a little disappointed in myself as well…
Pride & Prejudice & Zombies
We are reading this for book club. I find it highly amusing so far. We meet twice a month, but only read one book a month so we always have a mid book discussion. This book probably had the most diverse split with people either really liking it or really hating it. I don’t know how you could hate something so ridiculous and not just find it really funny, but that’s not really my point.
One unpleasant side effect of the book though, is that now twice I have had dreams about zombies. I don’t like this at all. Last night I also watched Vampire Diaries, so my dream last night included vampires and zombies. For anyone who watches this show and has read this book, they managed to line up perfectly disgusting last night. On the show, someone pulled out someone else’s heart to kill them – blgh. Then about an hour later I was reading and came to the part of the book where Elizabeth pulls out a ninja’s heart and takes a bite out of it. Double blgh. As you can guess, my dream then involved some heart removals as well. Honestly it’s amazing I got any sleep at all.
Thursday Morning Thought
The dentist is the only appointment I actually schedule in advance. I don’t know why, but for some reason when they ask me to schedule my next appointment, I actually let them pick a date and time 6 months out. They give me a tooth sticker that I promptly stick on my calendar at work because this is also the appointment I’m most likely to forget about. Once a year this works. The other time, I have to put the sticker somewhere until I get the next year’s calendar. Well I just got a Mad Men calendar for my office (which I’m pretty excited about by the way) and I keep forgetting to grab my sticker from its hiding place at home so I can stick it on my March page. This keeps bugging me more than I’d like to admit.
Music Nonsense
Once again Pandora has foiled me. This happens more often than I would like (and by that I mean it’s happened three times now). Pandora plays a song. I like it. I go to find it on iTunes and nothing, zilch. Then I start searching other sites and maybe just maybe I’ll finally find an option to buy it (sometimes I don’t at all), but alas I have to buy the entire album. I’ve gotten use to the idea of being able to buy one song at a time, so if it’s not an artist where I know I’ll like the entire album, then I get a little annoyed that this is my only option.
I’m still trying to decide if I want to spend the $14 on the entire CD – which by the way is a whole other issue because years of $9.99 albums on iTunes has also made me prejudice against higher prices. I barely remember the days that I’d shell out my hard-earned money on CD’s at $13-$15 a pop.
In the process of searching I also decided to try out a web site my friend suggested LaLa. It didn’t have what I wanted either. It was ok, but as much as it kills me to say it, I like Pandora better because it just creates the stations for you. Also, I don’t like the whole you get this many listening credits but if you want more for free you have to invite others to join idea. Much like apps on Facebook, I don’t like having to invite people to anything like that. Granted I haven’t played around much with the site, so we will see…
Remind me of this post…
if I ever tell you I want bangs.
Blondie turned 30 last week. To celebrate she had an alter ego party. At first I was digging the wig with bangs and all. I was even thinking, hmmm, maybe I should get bangs. But a few hours later and I was all like, man, these bangs are driving me nuts. I guess it’s a good thing I had a test run…
And then I knocked that top hat over so fast…
I had a really weird dream last night. I was playing a trivia game with a couple friends and my sister. Only it was an interactive game and you had life-size game pieces that you walked with on a huge game board. I think you just got to move whenever you got a question right and you got to keep going until you missed one. The game pieces were alive and they could help you with your questions.
All the game pieces were pieces from Monopoly and I had the top hat. He was absolutely no help and could not answer any of the questions so I was going to change to the car. The top hat got completely unreasonable about the change and started a fight with me and kept trying to trap me inside. It was really weird, but eventually I wore him out with my amazing fighting abilities and switched game pieces. It didn’t matter though, my friend won and the game was over shortly after.
I woke up a few minutes more into the dream and it was about 3:30 and I decided that this was just another reason to not like Monopoly, which is by far my least favorite game ever (well up until this dream anyways).
Christmas Toys
My sister got me the Roger von Oech’s X-Ball for Christmas. It’s a set of 30 magnetic x’s that fit together into a ball and also a combination of shapes. It’s pretty fun to mess around with. In fact I just got done playing with it for about an hour. If you want something to distract you, it’ll do the trick.
Here it is as a ball:
And here is one of my own creations. I like to think it looks like a fish:
My sister also gave me another little wind up toy for my office. We played with them for a while but then I moved on to my Flip Camera and lost interest. Later on Christmas day my Grandpa, brother, sister and I went over to my aunt and uncles house to see them, my two cousins, their spouses and children (keep all these people in mind) I was just minding my own business playing my little ponies with my cousin’s two-year old when the following exchange occurred:
Sis: Man, you’re having more fun playing with her toys than with the ones I got you.
Me: That’s because you got me adult toys.
(room erupts in laughter)
Me: Well that didn’t really come out right.
Yeah, sometimes you just can’t recover from something like that. I didn’t even try.
