Good morning. This post is being written from my kitchen table on an absolutely rainy beautiful day in Salt Lake City. Everything is so green. (Except for the section of dead grass over the fence and on the hill. It could rain all it wanted on that piece of dry straw, but there is no hope for grass to be its natural color of golfers green. Oh well.) I was celebrating this rain fall in the title of this post. I know it has nothing to do with rain, but it is indeed lyrics from the song "Rain" by Mika. Thus proving my point that it has something to do with anything.
I went to the gym this morning. It was a pretty typical morning for the ol'Body Wise work out center. 9:00 A.M. is "old people who should not be seen in spandex doing aerobics in neon spandex listening to the Black Eyed Peas while breathing heavily day because there spandex is too tight" time. I do not participate in this lovely event (although I did have my spandex on) but watching it while I sweated on the elliptical trainer gives me up most motivation and delight. (I did almost come to a puking point when the instructor bent over to stretch giving me a view of old, sweaty, saggy, old people bottoms.) I guess the moral of this paragraph is: the gym is a great place for me to get my morning sweat on AND for old people to get dates, work out and wear their spandex from the 80's.
This is a big week for me. Today I am going to finnish painting the kitchen. We (being my mother and sister and I) painted it a nice Tuscan Sun Yellow. (My mother calls is "Baby Poop," my sister calls it "Pooh Bear," my father calls it "Squash" and my Grandmother calls it "Different.") I will also clean my room and the hallway. It's a big day. On wednesday I will go to the dentist so they can knock my front tooth out and glue a fake one in its place. On thursday, I have nose surgery. See I cannot breathe through my nose, at all. I can smell (that seems to be the question everyone wonders when I say I cannot breathe, so i saved you the time from asking.) My nose is too small (ecspecially my nostrals,) I am allergic to everything that grows, and these little things that line my nose (they start with a "T" but I am too lazy to find out the precise name) are all swollen clogging my breathing passages. So this doctor is going to get his tools out and drill me some bigger holes up my nose and play around in there until I can breath correctly. Doesnt that sound delightful? Its like we are paying some guy to pick my nose for me for 45 minutes while I am unconscious until my nose is clear and air flowable.
Now it has come to that time of the post where I do this Song Challenge thing. It used to be fun, but now it has become something kind of tedious and predictable. Take lasts posts for instance "A song you can play" and "a song you wish you could play" and then there is the "a song you like" "a song you don't like" and "a song you want at your wedding" "a song you want at your funeral." We are just going down the list opposites. Do you really think someone is going to go back on to this site to find out what song I wanted to be played at my funeral? I think not. Its been real, but it has become real boring. But I will finnish the challenge.
Day 28: A song that makes you feel Guilty (not to be confused with "a song that is your guilty pleasure")
"Tempted By the Fruit of Another" by Squeeze
Now I personally love this song and it doesn't make me feel guilty at all, but I am sure it makes someone else feel guilty and it makes me feel bad for those who do feel guilty. (I guess? haha.)
Happy Music Monday! I leave you with this fun song called "Whirrling" By: The Joy Formidable
This is Day 18: A song you wished you heard on the Radio.
Now to be quite honest, which i tend to be on this blog, I don't want to hear any of my favorite songs on the radio because then everyone will know them, hate them, and eventually Rebecca Black will do a cover on it. But I guess if I had to choose one song it would be:
This was a hard one. I took three quizzes that told me pathetic song choices that had nothing to do about anything except for Indians on crack. After a long listening party with my family, this one.
I apologize for the delay in postage. I have been partying more than i should and neglecting my avid readers. (don't tell me if you didn't even notice I was gone.)
Day eleven asks me to tell you a song from my favorite band.
Now it took me a good few seconds to think this through, but when truth comes to shove- the band FUN. just jumps up at me and screams greatness.
"All the Pretty Girls"
but then listening to this indie fun, i remembered going to the concert of Miniature Tigers with my sister and that makes me think of how I own every single one of their albums. So then i need to post a song from them too:
"Cannibal Queen"
and then when I think of going to concerts with my sister I think of the concert we stayed up for until two am and that my friends is true band commitment. My all time favorite band would have to Scissor Sisters. I love them. And I wish Jake Shears would turn straight for me.
"Something Like This"
Now I believe this post on good bands is complete. Thank you for listening.
Don't forget about those little doo dahs down below where you can comment, but also post on facebook, twitter, email, blog, google buzz, and google +1. Make use of that space my friends. Those buttons wont press themselves.
And then just for shits and giggles, I have to throw in a video (or two) from Michael Franti because I was at his concert on thursday night making it hard for me to stay up to date with this challenge. Therefore that is the reason I am posting this a day late. Oh well. Enjoy Franti :) because I did.
I have spent the day in the hospital waiting for my Father to undergo surgery to repair his broken toes. Good news is that it was successful and he left with two pins in his toe! Check out these X RAYS.
This is his toes before the surgery. Now you cannot tell that the pinky toe is swollen but you can see it is sliced at the bone. But the big toe, now that you can tell is separated.
Then they fixed it with nails.
The 30 Day Song Challenge: Day Number Nine: Something you can dance too!
Now I can dance to pretty much anything with a beat, but whenever this song comes on, I have to get up and shake it like a Polaroid picture.
Day Seven is a song that reminds you of a certain event.
Now let me paint you the picture. I do not remember how old I was at this moment but it was my cousin Kellie's wedding week. Danielle (my other cousin,) Gabrielle (my sister,) and I had just gone to lunch at the mall after getting pedicures. Danielle was driving, I was in the front seat, and she said "Have you girls heard of Mika?" This was back in the day before music became my life, but I had recently heard "Grace Kelly" by Mika, at my friend Lauren's dance performance. Anyways, she put on the song "Big Girls (You are Beautiful.)" We danced and sung along to it over and over again until I knew every single lyric. Every time I hear that song, or Mika in general, I think about how fun that car ride was and how one day the three of us will go to a Mika concert together. It is bound to happen.
(Photograph of the three of us at the wedding. From left to right: Me, Danielle, & Gabrielle)
So after that long introduction, I am proud to present "Big Girl" by the one and only fabulous Mika.
Happy Music Monday also! I started doing music mondays a while ago but then fell out of it. But today I have a special song for you. This is for you people who like a little electronic/dance mix.
Sugarhouse Coffee Company is about a seven minute drive from my house. I went there almost every single night during the summer before Junior year to hang out with Joe, Ryan, Patrick, Matt, Jake, Ian, and who ever else decided to join us. I would listen to this song over and over again on my way there and on my way back. I had just learned to drive and would feel so cool. Good memories at the old SugarHo.
New In Town: Little Boots
Also, for you who didn't notice, last night I installed a new little doo dah thing below each post. Now you can share a post on facebook, twitter, and whatever else those little icons connect too. Sharing made easy!
Good morning. Today I am writing this from my deck. I am sweaty and sticky and gross from the gym. I worked out to the entire album of Nicki Minaj. Anyways.. day three of this Song Challenge is:
A Song That Makes You Happy: "Touches You" by Mika
Now Mika is my all time favorite artist ever. No lie. I know all of his songs and have this dream of going to his concert. But this song is just a feel good, always makes you smile, always makes you dance around, always makes you sing the words out at the top of your lungs, kind of song.
"You Found Me" by The Fray. Actually, to be quite honest, I really do not like anything by the Fray. I agree- his voice is sexy, but their stuff is so whiney and it all sounds the same to me. I have nothing against those who like this.. but it is one of my least favorite groups/songs ever.
Being the technology social butterflies you all are, you have probably heard about the 30 Day Song Challenge on Facebook. I just discovered it a few nights ago and I want to be apart of the madness, but I find it cluttering to have all that random crap posted by you on your own profile. (Im too neat and organized for facebook and it's embarrassing.) I have decided to bring the 30 Day Song Challenge to my blog. This way I can share my love for music while writing complete paragraph analysis and not cluttering up my profile. Win. Win. Win. So here we go!
Day One: Your Favorite Song
One of my favorite songs is easily "Who will save your soul" by Jewel. I remember listening to this song driving to Bear Lake when I was little. Now I know every lyric and sing it at the top of my lungs all the time (mostly when no one else is home.)
