i listen to songs on repeat.
for days.
sometimes weeks.
why?
two reasons.
1. i obsess easily. and once i'm hooked, i'm hooked for a while. this applies to songs. if i like you, i will listen to you. a lot.
2. to learn the lyrics. and sometime i need excessive help in this area.
in a few cases, it has taken me years to discover the true lyrics. but that's okay. if it weren't for repeat, i wouldn't know that my favorite artists were singing:
1. slammin' SCREEN door. NOT slammin' GREEN door.
2. i wanna show all my haters love. NOT i wanna show all that my hair is long.
3. the first date, man i didn't kiss her and i should have. NOT the first eight men didn't kiss her and they should have.
4. whatever happened to amelia earhart. NOT whatever happened to come give me a bear hug.
5. my feet in the water. NOT i pee in the water.
please. do not judge. you know you've sung the wrong lyrics from time to time, too. and if you haven't, well then wow. just...wow.
Monday, May 30, 2011
Friday, May 27, 2011
so patriotic.
i was a junior in high school when i learned it.
i was standing in a stall in the girl's locker room changing my clothes (after showering at the school because that's what cross country runners do after practice ends at 6:30 and you have class at 7).
i started singing.
for some reason, the national anthem was my current theme song. okay, so it wasn't really a theme song, more just a random song that had a way of popping into my head more than any other song (hence the title of this post--so patriotic. yep, that's me. anyways...).
so i was singing.
and then my best friend asked me why i kept randomly breaking out in the star-spangled banner.
i was confused.
i was not singing the star-spangled banner.
i was singing the national anthem! gosh.
so i, in all my stupidity, asked: "if this is the star-spangled banner, then what is the national anthem?"
dead.
silence.
then laughter.
then the reply: "um. the star-spangled banner and the national anthem are definitely the same song. fool." (okay so she probably didn't say fool because she's nicer than that, but i'm sure she was thinking it.)
fool is right. i felt stupid--as i probably should have. i was a junior in high school, after all. i probably should have known these things. but seriously, why does a song need two names? who did that?
but now i know. and now i'm more patriotic than ever.
thank you, best friend, for leading me to my most patriotic ways and teaching me something i should have known long ago.
what would i do without you?
p.s. happy memorial day weekend!
i was standing in a stall in the girl's locker room changing my clothes (after showering at the school because that's what cross country runners do after practice ends at 6:30 and you have class at 7).
i started singing.
for some reason, the national anthem was my current theme song. okay, so it wasn't really a theme song, more just a random song that had a way of popping into my head more than any other song (hence the title of this post--so patriotic. yep, that's me. anyways...).
so i was singing.
and then my best friend asked me why i kept randomly breaking out in the star-spangled banner.
i was confused.
i was not singing the star-spangled banner.
i was singing the national anthem! gosh.
so i, in all my stupidity, asked: "if this is the star-spangled banner, then what is the national anthem?"
dead.
silence.
then laughter.
then the reply: "um. the star-spangled banner and the national anthem are definitely the same song. fool." (okay so she probably didn't say fool because she's nicer than that, but i'm sure she was thinking it.)
fool is right. i felt stupid--as i probably should have. i was a junior in high school, after all. i probably should have known these things. but seriously, why does a song need two names? who did that?
but now i know. and now i'm more patriotic than ever.
thank you, best friend, for leading me to my most patriotic ways and teaching me something i should have known long ago.
what would i do without you?
p.s. happy memorial day weekend!
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
thank you elle woods.
so i went running this morning.
and after i went running, i decided to make a blog.
spontaneous, i know.
i knew i couldn't just do a normal blog where i sign on whenever i feel like it and express my innermost feelings or random thoughts with the cyber world. why? 1. because i don't have innermost feelings. and 2. my random thoughts are way to random for the cyber world to handle. it would get way out of hand, trust me. i have this tendency to ramble about nothing. it's a talent, actually. comes in pretty handy when nobody else feels like talking. but i feel like my ramblings wouldn't be as appreciated if there wasn't at least some semblance of structure to them.
so i had to be creative.
this is where the endorphins really came in handy.
i was pumped. i was happy. and i was ready for a brilliant idea to come to my mind. thankfully, it did (atleast i think it's brilliant. if you don't...well then find another blog to read i guess): i will use my blog to publicly thank all the peopleplacesand/orthings that have taught me things. i mean, you learn something new everyday so there are lots of peopleplacesand/orthings to thank, right? right.
so here goes.
my first shout out goes to elle woods.
she taught me that endorphins make you happy.
and happy people just don't kill their husbands...they just don't.
**one should note that happy people also sometimes take up blogging. hey, it happens. so thank you elle woods. and thank you endorphins.
let's just hope this blogging stint doesn't end when the endorphins wear off...
and after i went running, i decided to make a blog.
spontaneous, i know.
i knew i couldn't just do a normal blog where i sign on whenever i feel like it and express my innermost feelings or random thoughts with the cyber world. why? 1. because i don't have innermost feelings. and 2. my random thoughts are way to random for the cyber world to handle. it would get way out of hand, trust me. i have this tendency to ramble about nothing. it's a talent, actually. comes in pretty handy when nobody else feels like talking. but i feel like my ramblings wouldn't be as appreciated if there wasn't at least some semblance of structure to them.
so i had to be creative.
this is where the endorphins really came in handy.
i was pumped. i was happy. and i was ready for a brilliant idea to come to my mind. thankfully, it did (atleast i think it's brilliant. if you don't...well then find another blog to read i guess): i will use my blog to publicly thank all the peopleplacesand/orthings that have taught me things. i mean, you learn something new everyday so there are lots of peopleplacesand/orthings to thank, right? right.
so here goes.
my first shout out goes to elle woods.
she taught me that endorphins make you happy.
and happy people just don't kill their husbands...they just don't.
**one should note that happy people also sometimes take up blogging. hey, it happens. so thank you elle woods. and thank you endorphins.
let's just hope this blogging stint doesn't end when the endorphins wear off...
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