My Meem

ANND CLOSED! answers are in bold.

So since everyone else seems to have done a meem, I thought it’d be fun to do one too. I have obviously cut out the spoken word tracks, and the instrumentals. I also did not include those tracks that have the title in the first line. Otherwise this is totally legit and the order that songs came up on my shuffle. For those that are a little more obscure, I added a few more words, to help out. So, we’ll see how many people read my blog based on how many people respond with answers.

What is a Meem? See below.

Step 1: Put your iPod player on random.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 30 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Let everyone guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Bold the songs when someone guesses correctly. (Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!)

1. I won’t leave you out of my will, but I will leave you out of my mind. (You Are my Joy, Reindeer Selection)
   
2. Haul out the holly, put up the tree before my spirit falls again.
3. Pop, six, squish, uh-uh, Cicero, Lipschitz.
4. Sha-la-la-la-la-la-yeah, I was down at the New Amsterdam, Staring at this Yellow Haired Girl
5. Oh the Shark has pretty teeth dear, and he shows them pearly white
6. I, I wish you could swim, like the dolphins, like dolphins can swim
7. I hear the clock, its 6 am, I feel so far from where I’ve been. (You were Meant for Me, Jewel)
8. Somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me, I ain’t the sharpest tool in the shed
9. I need a sign, to let me know you’re here, all of these lines are being crossed over the atmosphere
10. Heading up to San Francisco, for the Labor Day weekend show
11. I don’t mind confiding that I make stupid mistakes, been mislead and misguided, and I’m easily led astray (Stumbling In, Great Big Sea)
12. I love you from the heart of my bottom, I love you from the bottom of my sole (adolescent song of mindless devotion, the Lucksmiths)
13. Please allow me to introduce myself, I’m a man of wealth and taste
14. Love can be a many splendored thing, can’t deny the joy it brings (The Trouble with Love, Kelly Clarkson)
15. I’ve heard it said, that people come into our lives for a reason, bringing something we must learn (For Good, Wicked)
    
16. Was it the pull of the moon now baby, that led you to my door? (If I Fall, the Dixie Chicks)
    
17. Gotta change my answering machine, now that I’m alone, because right now it says that we can’t come to the phone (So sick of Love Songs, Neo)
    
18. Nassau’s gone funky, Nassau’s gone Soul
19. Did you see the sky? I think it means that we’ve been lost (Follow you Down, the Gin Blossoms)
    
20. There is a tale that the Island people tell, don’t know if it is true, but I love it so well
21. When you see a deer you see bambi, and I see antlers up on the wall (I'm Still a Guy, Brad Paisley)
22. When I was a little-bitty boy, just up off the floor, we used to go out to Grandma’s house, every month end or so
23. I’d rather have a bottle in front of me, I’d rather watch 10 hours of TV (Food, Sex, and Ewe, NOFX)
24. Wish I had what I needed, to be on my own, cuz I feel so defeated, and I’m feeling alone (Let That be Enough, Switchfoot)
25. Dig. The chills that you spill up my back keep me filled with satisfaction (Groove is in the Heart, Deelite)
26. I see trees of green, red roses too
27. I’ve given you everything, all that joy can bring, this I swear
28. There you see her, sitting there across the way, she don’t got a lot to say, but there’s something about her.
29. I never love nobody fully, always one foot on the ground (Fidelity, Regina Spektor)
30. Where have all the good men gone? And where are all the gods? (I Need a Hero, Jennifer Saunders)
    

Good luck guessing!

Don't Forget Your Movement Clothes

yeah, new apartment. with a roommate. I havent updated my blog because theres just so much and then i get overwhelmed and cant break it down into blog sized nuggets. but here are some highlights.

-moving day was to be the day of tropical storm Hannah. See dad's blog for those details. Moving day got pushed up a day. so nice and relaxing.

-new place is... OK. building not as clean as i would like, but I dont have to live in the hallway, so i'm trying not to worry about that part.

-saw my first ever honest to god live cockroach. hopefully my last (but i doubt it)

-got cabinets sprayed for bugs AFTER stuff was already put away, so entire kitchen worth of stuff moved to living/dining room. Dining room table covered with mugs and dishes and the like. Couch similarly covered.

-about 6 boxes left to unpack. But after work i never feel like it. so they are still there. in the middle of my bedroom floor. I work around them.

-in the process of delegating boxes and bags for recycling. No recycling system at the complex, but parents generously allow some to be brought home and adopted into their recycling piles.

-Cable and internet both finally hooked up. big muddle with that. they were supposed to install both with no charge. first guy came to install cable, said internet wasnt on his sheet, so i'd have to call again and get another guy to come do internet. Called. Internet guy couldnt come for 3 more weeks. and was charged internet installation fee. Dad says sardonically that they really saw me coming. I didnt really want to make a fuss, but will make a big fuss if I am charged separate monthly rates as opposed to the combined lower rate i was promised initially. So now have both cable and internet.

-having misgivings about the change on such a massive scale, but my anxiety seems to have calmed down to the point where i can fathom staying for a weekend. have been slinking away to my parents for the weekends, like the cowardess that i am. will probably have to wean myself slowly, going for smaller and smaller pieces of the weekend.

theres probably (certainly) a lot more that i've left out, but i think that gives you a pretty good snapshot of how things went/are going. basically i was a big ball of stress and i am only now coming down off of it. But with time, im sure it'll all be fine.

Day Labor

For some, Labor Day is a fun three day weekend full of merriment and joviality. Not so for me, at least not this year. Since I am moving in 4 days, there was (and still is) a lot to do. First on the list was to go through all the crap that I have yet to unpack from school. Half of that was either thrown away or put in the box to be donated. Then on to my bedroom in which I have been hording stuff for 15 years. There were 3 trash bags filled before we gave up, and there are still pockets of resistance spilling from my closet and bookshelves.

Then I had to make sure that I could get to my office from my new apartment, and of course, back from my office. My TomTom had me quite worried and vexed at the same time, as it has developed a habit of not knowing where I am and attempting to direct me from a totally different road. About 20 minutes of fiddling with it and making sure it knew that I did NOT want it to figure out the route, I wanted it to direct me along a route of my choosing. Through the city, not too bad on labor day at 1pm. We’ll see what happens during rush hour on a daily basis. Plus, the nerve wracking lanes that take you into Anacostia with very little warning.

Trying to find people to help me move has also been quite stressful. I think I’ve cobbled together enough people to work in shifts to make the day somewhat bearable, but god only knows how stressed I’ll be on the day. My stomach has not been my friend, as its response to stress of any kind is to tangle into a knot and call attention to itself at most inopportune moments.

Anyone who can offer any helpful advice* please do so. Otherwise, stay out of my way until my life comes back down to a simmer.

*and I mean actually helpful. Not things I ‘should’ be doing that I am clearly an idiot for not thinking of. That is the sort of help that I could definitely do without.