Just keep singing

I've gotten a bit more sleep so maybe this post won't be as out there as the previous one, by now there probably isn't anyone left to read these! I was listening semi-watching a video of a song this morning that just had the lyrics on the screen and it got me to thinking of the many times I've sworn I was singing the right lyrics to only find I was way off. I find it a bit amusing when my wrong lyrics make more sense than the correct ones. Of course, a lot of the times once I find out the correct word(s) and hear the song again I can hear what was really being said all along and sometimes I wonder how in the world I heard what I originally thought I heard. Speaking, or writing in this case, of singing I wonder if I'm the only one that will be listening to a song and will restart it if I mess it up while singing. I will replay it however many times I have to just so I can sing the words correctly, maybe it's a music version of OCD. Sometimes I don't even have to mess up though to restart and start singing along again and again. So whether I'm singing the lyrics the way the songwriter actually wrote them or inadvertently create a new line I'll just keep singing.

It's just a minor case of vacaton-itis

A week or so ago I put on Facebook something along the lines of, you should never underestimate the power of being nice to someone because you never know how a simple hello can make some ones day. What people may not have known is that day was just kind of a blah day for me, one of those days you just ain't feeling it, and I was riding around and stopped to get me something to eat. Granted, I know it's nothing out of the norm for people to make small talk and all that. Anyway, I was paying for my stuff and the person asked, 'How is your day going so far?' It was such a simple question and the person had probably asked everyone they had seen so far that day but something about them asking it  with a smile just made me feel a little better. It's like those moments if you're waiting in the doctor's office or just going through a store and a stranger will smile at you. I guess part of it is knowing there is kindness and good still out there and people do care.

Now for a couple of other things that don't really go with previous statement but I don't want to make other posts for them. A couple of nights ago I was on my way back home kind of late and about half way home I started getting to that point where you feel like you are not getting anywhere even though the speedometer is showing your trekking along. I should also mention I was getting slap happy at this point because I was getting tired. So I had the window down, music up...and I don't know why people can't be around when this happens so they could see I can talk a lot, not to mention can't carry a tune if my life depended on it. After a few minutes of all that though I got bored and was riding along in silence when suddenly I thought letting out a 'Whoo!' would help. Wonder if anyone else ever just has an urge to go 'Whoo!' If not you should try it sometime :) I'm not sure what the point of all that was except maybe don't take it all to serious and everyone in awhile just let out a holler, it's amazing how much better it can make you feel.

If you're still reading this, I'm shocked and I guess I'll go ahead and write my last little random thing. Where I live no matter where your going to drive to eventually you're going to pass a field with cows in it Nothing special about that but my odd sense of humor has always found cows funny because they seem like they are in such deep thought. This past Sunday morning I was driving along and in a particular field there was two cows standing  beside each other with their heads down really close like they was in deep conversation. For some unknown reason it cracked me up and my first thought was they look like they are gossiping and trying to act like they are eating. I bet they are having a conversation something along the lines of
'Quick Betty act like you're eating too because you will not believe who I saw coming out of the back field early this morning trying to sneak back without being seen'
'Oh, Sue, you better not be telling me it's who I think it is.'
'Betty you know it is, I just knew you couldn't trust her.'

I guess you just had to be there but I cracked myself up. Don't judge me, I have to do something to keep my five seconds of attention spans while I'm driving!!  Vacation-itis has definitely set in because I took time to write all of that just to not have to work as much.
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Laughter is the best medicine

Have you ever just gotten to the point in life you just decided you might as well laugh about whatever you may be going through and after you do suddenly you realize you actually feel a little better? Or perhaps you and a friend have an inside joke that makes you have that hardy laugh that makes you cry or even snort (snaughling as I saw on a picture yesterday on Facebook). Those are the best laughs, perhaps because they can be so rare. I've always loved listening to stand up comedians and a bit fascinated that you can get paid and make a job out of that. You get to tell stories and make people laugh, it just doesn't get much better than that.  It's always ironic that most of the time when you try to be funny it falls short but when you just say or do something and not shooting for a laugh you can make someone laugh. The way people laugh is another thing. I know a couple of people that we have different types of humor but when I hear them laugh I can't help but laugh. You know it's funny when you have the loud laugh and having to smack someone while you're laughing. I love those laughs where you have to bend over, stomping your foot and all. There's a blooper from The Carol Burnett Show where Tim Conway is telling the elephant story (if you haven't seen it, search it on YouTube, it's Tim Conway at his best) At the end of it Lyle Waggoner cracks up so much he falls from sitting on the arm of the couch to the floor and all of them are laughing so much. Those kinds of laughs are great! We're all different and deal with things different but no matter what we have laughter in common and we need to use that more. They say if you can't beat 'em join 'em, but I say if you can't beat something or it's getting to stressful find something funny either in the actual situation or something in life that you love and find funny and laugh. I saw a quote one time that said something along the lines of you can either laugh or cry about something but I prefer to laugh because it's easier to clean up afterwards. So here's hoping you always remember to see the funny in life because God knows there's to much worry and stress in the world.

Tick-Tock

I think the calender is wrong and today is really Monday because it feels more like it then Tuesday. Thankfully yesterday didn't feel like Monday since it went by really fast and for once I got a lot done, I'm not sure I could handle two days in a row that felt like Monday. It already feels like it could be a really long week. Of course, I guess one day I'll learn that constantly looking at the calender won't make the days go by faster, just like looking at my watch every five seconds doesn't make the time pass by quickly. It's odd how some days I see that already a week has past in this month and think this year is flying by then at other times it feels like I've hit this hidden wall in time and it's in slow motion. Maybe it seems to be dragging by because I have a lot of stuff to do this month and next that I'm really excited and looking forward to. Maybe God is just having a boring day and messing with how fast, or slow in my case, time is going by. I would definitely do it if I had that ability!

Now for my really random thought, I was getting ready to change my Pandora station cause it was playing a song I just wasn't in the mood to hear and I got a glimpse of the cover art from the album the song was on and there are no words for it really. Have you ever seen a cover for an album/CD that was like that? Those that really have no rhyme or reason for the picture that you can't help but stare at even though you don't want to. I guess that's the point but at least some of them are really cool or at the very least a nice picture of the artist. Whereas, there are a select few that all you can do is have a quizzical look on your face while trying to figure out where they was going with that.

Conscience for sale

You ever see little kids running around and seemingly never tiring and you think, or even ask them, can I buy some of your energy? I think that about myself, obviously not about buying energy, I'm still in the market for that, but I would like to sell a bit of my conscience. I know a few people that could use a little more of a conscience that's for sure. I don't want to have so little of a conscience my moral compass is in danger of being nonexistent or that I just have no compassion for people. I don't know but sometimes I feel like I have to much compassion and go to far out of my way to help people. I've lost count of all the times that I've only heard from people when they needed something and I'm not so naive that I don't know they aren't using me but still yet my conscience kicks in and I have to help them to a certain degree even if it isn't exactly what they originally asked for. I've also had people only ask me to go places with them after they had asked anyone and everyone else and couldn't find anyone else to go. I used to wonder what was up with me but the older I get the more I don't care. There have been times that my conscience actually cooperated and let me just tell people what needed to be said. I must say that I do love it when people think that they are fooling with their lies and have pulled one over on you and got what they wanted when all along I know I'll never get paid back or I just flat out saw right through the lies. It's like that episode of The Golden Girls when Rose gives Dorothy her debit card cause Dorothy said she needed it to pay for something (don't remember what) but she was lying and was really going to get money to go gambling with. Then she feels bad and tells Rose the truth and Rose tells her that she knew but she just hoped that Dorothy would do the right thing. That analogy just proves that there is a lesson to learn for every thing in life from an episode of The Golden Girls! Anyway, I wouldn't change how much I want to help people and again I'm thankful to have a conscience but I do wish the part that makes me feel guilty for things that I shouldn't feel guilty about not doing or doing a certain way would tone it down a little bit. I guess it's a good thing and eventually I'll figure out why I'm like that and until then I'll do what I do and continue to let people think they have me fooled. In the end I like to think I'll still be in the right and the person I want to be and where I want to be in life.