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.)
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.
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.
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.