1) CBBC homework - CBBC friends, don't forget to send me a photo of your book if you want it included in next week's post. I don't have very many, so it would be nice to get some more. Deadline for sending it in is Sunday by noon central. dominique100 @ hotmail dot com
2) Workity work - I am just going to show you my work calendar for this week.
Just to give you a comparison, here's what the previous week looked like. Still busy, but at least I had time to eat lunch and I left at 11 on Friday.
3) Weekend! My weekend "off" - in the sense that I am not traveling - includes plans to attend a fundraiser tomorrow night, test drive more cars (maybe buy one?), and go to Costco. We also need to make sweet potatoes and chicken for Hannah, give Hannah a bath, and put up Halloween decor. It would be nice if I could catch up on grading at some point, too.
4) Songs that I repeat when they come on Spotify:
"Am I Okay?" by Megan Moroney - When you find that right fit, the world does seem to align better.
"Blood Money" by Jon Bon Jovi - I have no real justification for loving this song. It's from the Young Guns Two soundtrack (JBJ's first solo album) and I sing along to every song on the album, but this one is not-so-secretly my favorite.
"Yankee Sailor" by Great Big Sea - I love GBS. I have the studio version of this song on Spotify, but I really like a live version. If this song isn't your jam (SO SAD), maybe listen to "Have a Cuppa Tea" instead?
"Always the Last to Know" by Del Amitri - I might be the last living huge Del Amitri fan. This live version gives me feeeeeeelings.
"Another Saturday Night" by Sam Cooke - Look, if you're not excited by the line "Instead of being my deliverance, she had a strange resemblance to a cat named Frankenstein," maybe you shouldn't go on a road trip with me.
"Riding with Private Malone" by David Ball - I mean, this is '90s country at its best.
"Small Town Saturday Night" by Hal Ketchum - Speaking of '90s country, is this the best country song from the '90s? My favorite line: Lucy, you know the world must be flat / 'Cause when people leave town, they never come back. When I was in college, this line was in my email signature. I was cool.
5) Songs that are on my Spotify playlist despite the fact that they make me cry:
"Elephant" by Jason Isbell - The line "There's one thing that's real clear to me: No one dies with dignity" does it every time. (There's an unnecessary f-bomb in this song, so it's explicit if you care about that.)
"The House That Built Me" by Tanya Tucker - I don't actually like the Miranda Lambert version of this song very much, but the "But once the kids were grown/It was just too much for me" in the Tucker version makes me want to crawl out of my skin. The line is "Daddy gave life to Mama's dream" in Lambert's version.
"Long December" by the Counting Crows - Right now I'm clinging to the "Maybe this year will be better than the last" line.
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What song do you always listen to more than once? Do you have songs that make you cry?
Hey, we are weekend twinsies! I too have Bathing A Pet and Going To Costco and Putting Up Halloween Decor on my weekend bingo list.
ReplyDeleteLOVE that Halloween Ketchum song and the Tanya Tucker as well. Tanya is one of the greats. (I mean, so is Hal, obvs.)
Your work schedule looks bonker balls, Engie. Any ease-up in the near future???
(This is Suzanne.)
Tanya Tucker really is one of the greats. I listen to so many of her songs and I KNOW she's sort of redneck white trash, but I don't care. Her voice is perfect for the songs she sings.
DeleteI think next week is crazy again and then it looks to ease up. One can only hope!
Great Big Sea is on my upbeat Playlist and the kids Playlist for the car. Who can be down with Up and Run Run Away blasting through the speakers? And Lukey's Boat, and Mari-Mac....
ReplyDeleteMy sad playlist has I Am not Okay ( Jelly Roll), Home ( Phillip Phillips), and Iris ( googoo dolls). Also All Souls Night( Loreena mckennit) which elevates me or makes me cry depending in my mood. And pink pony club makes me cry,for completely weird reasons.
We went to a GBS concert in Minneapolis back in the day and the drunk people all yelled "Merry - MAC! Merry - MAC!" over and over again and they never played it and somehow that amused me more than anyone will ever know.
DeleteI have a different Jelly Roll song on my playlist. LOL. Basic white girl music, right?
All work and no play makes Engie...just saying. I wish I lived closer so that I could help or make you a dinner or bring you coffee/tea or something. I hope things lighten up soon and that you don't fall into a pit of despair or headaches. Hang in there.
ReplyDeleteI have one bigass playlist that I keep adding to capriciously. The family has YouTube Music, so we share a lot of stuff as well. Sometimes I listen to The Beatles for nostalgia, and that can make me a little sad. Sometimes I listen to Genesis and remember the early days of when Rick and I were dating and we used to go to a club and see a Genesis cover band perform and we'd drink terrible 3.2 beer. (We also went to see Genesis live a few times, back when concert tickets weren't a million dollars.)
I might have to write a blog post about the bands I've seen live, just to make sure everyone knows how absolutely old I am. Sigh.
My Earworms playlist is what I mostly listen to. I have a SOAR playlist that is for our freshman orientation and it's filled with fun, upbeat songs. Somehow I rarely listen to that one outside of freshman orientation, although I'm always looking for songs to add to it.
DeleteI'd love for everyone to write a list of bands they've seen! What a fun way to learn about people.
I am horrified by your work schedule. Wish I could do some of it for you. I was busy for about 4 hour yesterday, then I came downstairs and made chili. I had my work phone in case something came up, but nothing came up.
ReplyDeleteI will send you pictures, though they are boring, I think it’s the same as yours. (Not that yours is boring, I just mean redundant.)
I get ‘The Sofa’ by Wolf Alice stuck in my head for days and even think of the lyrics when I wake up in the middle of the night, which is not ideal. I love the song, but really brain? Because of mbmom11’s comment, I now have Pink Pony Club in my brain, which is a fun change of pace. The song that makes me cry is ‘Bigger than the Whole Sky’, by Taylor Swift. It seriously chokes me up just to type the name of the song. It’s my song for Mulder, though anyone going through grief who needs a good cry could definitely use it.
Isn't it funny what songs work for you? There's a trend in music right now for women to sing in a whiny, breathy way and that doesn't work for me at all. I tried to listen to all three of those songs you posted about and just gave up. LOL. But the Del Amitri guy sings and I'm ALL IN? LOL.
DeleteI listen to songs over and over and over again until I get tired of them and never want to listen to them ever again. It is just how I do things!
ReplyDeleteI just sent you my CBBC picture. Which reminds me I haven't started reading the "homework" for this week. Oops.
I rarely get sick of songs, it turns out. I suspect I have listened to "Blood Money" hundreds of times in my life. But I do try to move on to new songs sometimes
DeleteOh, I hadn't listened to Long December in ages! These days (years), I get something in my head and want to listen to it over and over. Sometimes it's an album (the latest Imagine Dragons for months now), sometimes it's just a random song.
ReplyDeleteMy biggest sad song is rather cliche, but Everybody Hurts by REM. Back in the 90s, my cousin died in an accident, and for a long time I was just So Angry and Sad. I worked at Barnes & Noble, but in the back room, so I could listen to my own music, and I hit repeat on that a lot. Luckily no one ever pushed me on it (no one else was back there all the time, they came and went). It still feels poignant to listen to.
Remember when we had jobs where we could listen to music all the time? Man, to have a job with little responsibility again!
DeleteEep! Your werk calendar is just a bit full. Why does werk have to be so werky like that?
ReplyDeleteMy werk calendar is full too, but it's all training sessions to pass on my work to other people. 10 more work days and 2 hours to go. I can't shake the feeling that my replacement is going to quit before my last day, since I get the impression that she's not impressed by our shoddy work procedures, but that's my work's problem and not mine.
It is NOT your problem. You're doing what you have to do! Train and get out of there. Woot woot!
DeleteOof, I hope work gets more manageable. I have a fairly light babysitting schedule right now - but twins start in Feb and I dread the busy crazed times that lay ahead.
ReplyDeleteI love the Counting Crows and the Another Saturday Night one is the only other song here that I'm familiar with (I'm not into country music) and I'm dying at you admitting that if you can't do the Frankenstein line you can't road trip together. Bah ha ha.
The Counting Crows have really grown on me in recent years. I'm not sure I was a fan until there was a 60 Songs That Explain The '90s podcast episode on Long December. Now I'm all in.
DeleteWow your calendar is awful! I hate it when mine gets like that. The days go fast but it’s so stressful to go from one thing to the next with no breaks. I hope things quiet down soon!
ReplyDeleteI basically only listen to Taylor Swift and Brandi Carlile. And then I listen to the songs I like over and over and over. And the ones without explicit lyrics get played over and over for my kids. I am so very basic.
I’d like to hope that next year will be better than this year.
Yeah, my work calendar is nuts for the next couple of weeks. Hopefully it will slow down after that, but I don't know if it will. We're doing a software transition and it's not going well.
DeleteWow! Just two artists, huh? I don't know if I could do that. (Although maybe if the artists were Garth Brooks and Bon Jovi I could make it work.)
That is a full calendar. Wow. I thought I had a lot of meetings but you basically live in meetings.
ReplyDeleteI do the audiobook for the book club so not able to send a photo. I would prefer reading it but I can't find a copy.
My work is pretty crazy right now. It's just one student meeting after another.
DeleteYou can still send a photo of the audiobook! I did!
Maybe "The Safety Dance" if I'm in a certain mood?
ReplyDeleteI'm sure Del Amitri is thrilled that you continue to support him. The only song I know is "Roll To Me," which may be true of most of us not-hardcore fans. I may have to take a deeper dive.
I will never tire of The Black Crowes!
ReplyDeleteYou had me giggling with: "Workity Work". I mean, I know it's not funny to be overwhelmed, but still. Hopefully things will slow down soon! You're a busy bee!
I really love that Megan Moroney song too; it's great. One of the songwriters that is a huge supporter of our charity, Kristan Bush, was just with us in August. He was sharing a story with my husband about producing Megan's last album (and that song in particular) He said she is such a great artist and person, which is lovely to hear. (he didn't say the same about T. Swift 🤣)
Looks like some busy weeks. I hate when there are days where I don't have time to have lunch. I am hoping you get some time to rest.
ReplyDeleteYour work calendar makes me sweaty, ack. I get antsy when I have more than 2 hours of meetings in a day, lol, but I just got assigned a new project that will mean more meetings added to my plate and I am NOT looking forward to that.
ReplyDeleteI am basically just listening to Taylor Swift's newest album on repeat. It's definitely not going to be one of my favorites, but I need something fun right now and it's meeting my needs.