Night

Time for bed or at least off.



Feeling tired
By the fire
The long day is over

The wind is gone
Asleep at dawn
The embers burn on

With no reprise
The sun will rise
The long day is over

(Norah Jones, The Long Day is Over)

If anyone actually reads this, please don't tease me for digging Norah Jones. She's here and you're not. This is also a really cool song (and not one of her singles):

What am I to you
Tell me darling true
To me you are the sea
Vast as you can be
And deep the shade of blue

When you're feeling low
To whom else do you go
See I cry if you hurt
I'd give you my last shirt
Because I love you so

If my sky should fall
Would you even call
I've opened up my heart
I never want to part
I'm giving you the ball

When I look in your eyes
I can feel the butterflies
I will love you when you're blue
Tell me darlin true
What am I to you

Yah well if my sky should fall
Would you even call
I've opened up my heart
Never want to part
I'm giving you the ball

When I look in your eyes
I can feel the butterflies
Could you find a love in me
Could you carve me in a tree
Don't fill my heart with lies

I will you love when you're blue
Tell me darlin true
What am I to you

For Happy...

Boys are stupid..., originally uploaded by baglady.

Looking For My Corner

My grandmother loaned my mom, who loaned to me, "The Secret Life of Bees". I'm only half way through, but really enjoying it. This week I felt like I was looking for my corner:

The first week... was a consolation, a pure relief. The world will give you that once in a while, a brief timeout; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life.

ICE, ICE Baby

Make sure to add this before you forget:

In Case of Emergency Contact Cell Entry

Podcasting is Crazier Than Blogging

Sampling different podcasts. Found one on baking, Baking with the Bard.

Yoga travel, another interesting one.

Hypnotherapy podcast... can I trust it?

Save driving for adults... just talking to someone today about that! It's what your dad needs!

and my all time fav title: The Funeral X-Perience

Cool Stuff For Single Girls To Do

Looking for ways to fill my time - here are some serious candidates...

Gourds for Home Decor

Mystic Mushrooms - I'm such a nerd... that one looks pretty good. "How do mushrooms produce?"

Kansas and Eddie Money at Rincon - Dude, just dust in the wind.

Bobby McFerrin - I have known a lot of guys who loved to do McFerrin impersonations. It's kind of scary when you're driving with them because it involves lots of slapping yourself and dual hand moves... aside from just the sheer terror it already evokes!

Judy Collins - You have not fully appreciated Judy Collins until you have read Anthony Bourdain's passage about going through the endless Moroccan desert with only a Judy Collins tape to listen to. They used Bon Jovi to lure Noriego out. They are missing the boat and could seriously be crushing insurgents with some good ol' western folk music.

Sorry, Michael McDonald has been sold out. Even the description describes him as the "Former Steely Dan keyboardist and Doobie Brothers vocalist (it's his Mighty-Mouse-on-steroids soulful huskiness we remember from their songs)..."

Clearing My Schedule

I don't spend enough time blogging, so I've cleared my schedule tonight to really do some quality, or maybe quantity writing. I just finished another great Mma Ramotswe story by Alexander McCall Smith. Here is one of my favorite passages from the end of "The Full Cupboard of Life":

Life is perilous. At any time it could be too late. When you love another person, you must tell her, but you must also show her. You must do the thing that says to the world that you love that person. And this must never be put off, never.