I think I'm on to something here...

I have no idea where this one's gonna go, but I do know that there are a lot of things going through my head right now and I need to get something, anything, out.  It's Sunday night already, and my one day off is coming to a quick close.  I swear, I think the work week should be the other way around...five days off, two on.  Weekends always go by so fast, and when you work an extra Saturday, well, you seem to have no weekend at all.

I went into today determined to get stuff done.  My house has been a mess lately, laundry needed to get done, and the yard work, oh the yard work that I never seem to get to was on the agenda for my short Sunday, but like every other day in my life, nothing went as planned.  Though I didn't get anything done, actually enjoyed most of how I spent the day,

It started off with an impromptu invite to a brunch this morning and immediately afterwards a friend stopped for what eventually turned into an all day visit.  And so, my laundry sits undone, the vaccuuming and dusting is still in a desperate state and forget about the yard work, much less grocery shopping.  Ugh!!!

All this does is cause me stress over the fact that I've either got to do these things after work in the very little time I have during the weeknights (chuckles to self!) or put it off till next weekend, which I'm sure by then there will be things added to the list, as well as other distractions from doing them. Plus I've got school planning I need to do now, but I'm sort of rebelling against that at the moment to write this post.

The friend with whom I hung out with all day was an old neighborhood pal of mine named Frank. Frank had only recently come back into my life after years of living out of state, and he's one of those friends I never seem to have time to see.  So even though spending a lot of time with him took away time from doing me doing chores, I enjoyed myself,..chores are no fun anyway!

During our conversation, Frank responded to one of my grumblings about the stuff I had to get done by reminding me that I shouldn't worry about them and I should just enjoy the moment.  Gee, why didn't I think of that?  It's exactly what he was doing...enjoying his Sunday with an awesome friend (lol), and so was I.  So why is it that I couldn't then, or even now, hours later, still feel stressed over this pile of stuff at home and at work that I simply can't expect myself to get to entirely?  

Hmmm...I think I'm on to something here...      

Song of the Day - Dumb For You - Hoodie Alen

I'd never heard of indie hip hop artist Hoodie Allen until a couple of weeks ago when I discovered him on...you guessed it, Spotify.  I found this song in the "New Releases" category and quickly put it in a folder for a possible future download.  I kinda sorta liked it, but I didn't love it at first or even second listen to download it right away.  Sometimes a song's gotta sink in for you to get it, and this one definitely did.  The tune is very rhythmic and catchy and it gets regular airplay in my iTunes "Current" folder.  I wouldn't necessarily cull it a hip hop song, but more in the category of pop.  Check it out, you might find that you like it, too...

   

Song of the Day - Birthday - Katy Perry

So make a wish 

I'll make it like your birthday everyday 

I'll be your gift 

Give you something good to celebrate

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In the latest of Song of the Day posts for me in like forever, I share with you Katy Perry's awesome Birthday song and video.  I chose this one because this particular week has been full of birthdays on my Facebook feed, seemingly more so than any other week of the year.  So here's a big happy birthday to Donna and Lori, Louis and Maye, Terry and Tom, Dan, Kristian, Jennie, Ken and anyone else out there who might be celebrating a birthday!  Enjoy!

Flashback Friday Song of the Day - Stay (I Missed You) - Lisa Loeb

You say I only hear what I want to. 

You say I talk so all the time, so. 

And I thought what I felt was simple, 

and I thought that I don't belong, 

and now that I am leaving, 

now I know that I did something wrong 

'cause I missed you. 

Yeah, I missed you.

Here's a song I had totally forgotten about until I heard it yesterday.  It's hard to believe that this song came out twenty years ago, but sure enough this #1 tune off of the soundtrack to the film Reality Bites was released in April of 1994.  It's the kind of song that you can't help but sing along to, and surprisingly after this long I still remember all of the words.  Check out Lisa Loeb's Stay and then go out and have a great day...