A few of my favorite things

I'm not talking about the full on life changing moments but just the average everyday things that bring on the warm fuzzies for this week

1. The sky right before a thunderstorm
2. Pre-dawn (this is especially true for those times if you've been up all night)
3. Really good pizza and cold beer
4. Discovering a new song that you don't just like but absolutely love (See Bruce Springsteen, Snow Patrol, Pearl Jam, and the Dixie Chicks new albums [I heart Rick Rubin])
5. Getting a call at 0500 asking if I want a cancel for my shift (I love my job, but I love my bed just a little bit more )
6. Feeling of being able to go back to bed after said call
7. Made for TV disaster mini-series - two words: "Atomic Train"
8. Breakfast - waffles score high
9. Shamelessly dorking out to a shameful song in the car (I refuse to be embarrassed for my love of bad 80s music and early 90s hip-hop songs)
10. Diet Coke and Rum
11. The fact I get to wear scrubs and trainers to work while my other friends have to wear grown up clothes
12. Swimming in any body of water
13. The smell of honeysuckle on a warm summer night
14. Shopping (with money - it helps)
15. Live music
16. Sitting outside on a hot summer day
17. The look of sheer joy on the dog's face when she goes on a ride
18. Getting all girly (the full on girly - even though I love the scrubs...)
19. Starbucks
20. The new season of Entourage

Again this is just a sampling of this week's warm fuzzies

Plus Happy Birthday Gretchen!!!!!!!
Kick some math class ass today :D


Warm fuzzies to all
C

Dogs and cats living together - mass hysteria

So the Hurricane season is here. I'm just a little shocked that last week this time I was at the Gulf Beaches outside of Tampa, FL walking along the ocean and this week a tropical storm is headed straight for the same area. Not only to I love the area (basically get to sit and drink rum drinks for a week), one of my dearest friends lives in the area with her wickedly cool husband and amazing 3 kids. I'm saying big time prayers for all of them this week.

As for me - back to work tomorrow. I don't know why but it always seems harder to go back to work after a vacation. Plus it promises to be a real busy week at that. I'm mentoring a student (I know - me a mentor), we're going live on some new equipment that is essential to learn, I'm working 4 twelve hours shifts in a row and I've got loads of family coming in towards the end of the week for my Grandparents 60th wedding anniversary. The latter stuff I can't wait for as I'm blessed with a freakishly cool family but just getting to Friday will be a challenge. Then I need to do some high speed retail therapy to get ready for the weekend. Come the weekend I shall drink many adult beverages.

I'm also really getting into the World Cup this time around (the sound you hear is many of my friends from high school jaws collectively dropping). Lord knows I sat through enough games to at least grasp the rudimentary concept. I have not settled on a favorite yet but I have to agree with Gretchen that David Beckham sounds like a girl when he talks thus ruining the overall ahmmm... package.

C

Uncertainty can be a guiding light

For my very first entry I thought I'd explain where this tag line came from. It comes from one of my most favorite of songs from U2 called "Zooropa"

"Zooropa"
What do you want
What do you want

Zooropa
Vorsprung durch Technik
Zooropa
Be all that you can be
Be a winner, eat to get thinner
Zooropa
A bluer kind of white
Zooropa
It could be yours tonight
We're mild and green and squeaky clean

What do you want
What do you want
Combien encore
What do you want
Que veux-tu faire
What do you want
Combien encore

Zooropa
Better by design
Zooropa
Fly the friendly skies
Through appliance of science we've got that ring of confidence

And I have no compass and I have no map
And I have no reasons, no resons to get back
And I have no religion and I don't know what's what
And I don't know the limit, the limit of what we got

Zooropa
Don't worry baby, it'll be alright
Zooropa
You've got the right shoes to get you through the night
Zooropa
It's cold outside but brightly lit
Zooropa
Skip the subway, let's go to the overground
Get your head out of the mud baby
Put flowers in the mud, baby, overground

No particular place names, no particular song
I've been hiding, what am I hiding from

Zooropa
Don't worry baby, it's gonna be alright
Zooropa
Uncertainty can be a guiding light
Zooropa
I hear voices, ridiculous voices
I'm in the slipstream
Zooropa
Let's go, let's go overground
Take your head out of the mud baby

She's gonna dream up the world she wants to live in
She's gonna dream out loud
Dream out loud
Dream out loud



I'm getting ready to go into the slipstream and everyone is invited for the ride

C