There is something about driving in the middle of the night or very early in the morning. The radio is actually music, with no talking. I picture some DJ walking out at 1:00 AM and putting on a continuous track with the most random music possible, and then at 6:00 AM (maybe 7:00 AM on a Saturday morning) it goes back to normal when the morning crew comes in. There are a few instances where I remember random songs that stuck out:
1) Cake - Never There 2) Shawn Colvin - Sonny Came Home
I remember these from waking up in the middle of the night while riding in a car, probably to Florida. I had another instance this past Saturday while taking Alex and his brother to the airport. They had to be there at 8:30 so we left at 7:45 AM. That's not TOO early, but it is for Saturday which explains why this song came on:
It is a very catchy song to drive to on I-275 though!
I realized when I woked up today that it was Mother's Day, and this song popped in my head for some reason:
It's a good song, even if it is by the Spice Girls. I also realized my mother is MIA. I know she's somewhere between Puerto Rico and the United States. Maybe going through customs, or on an airplane. Her exact location cannot be located at this time. There are 3 flights between San Juan and Charlotte today according to USAirways.com but I have no clue which one she's on. So I will have to tell her Happy Mother's Day when I find her, or she finds me by phone.
I also picked the Pokemon of the week based on a motherly instinct. Cleffa, to me looks very wholesome, like Kathy Bates: warm and welcoming. Paul, correct me, but I think Pokemon "evolve" or something like that so I'm guessing Cleffa is in relation to Clefairy, but I have no clue which came first (the chicken or the egg) so for now Cleffa is a mama.
Also! Paul told me a really interesting story about how he used to HATE the Honda Civic and how retarded it looked. Yesterday though Paul got lost in the mall parking lot (Paul, lost, nooooo) and 3, yes 3, ATOMIC BLUE Honda Civic's helped him find his car. It was magical. So I decided my Civic will be named Christa, Christa Smith since it's a magical name (from Fern Gully). I'm just glad Paul had his epiphany NOW rather than later (I knew he'd come to his senses sooner or later).
Walter if fine now by the way, but I did read a wonderful story last night from "Things I Learned About My Dad (in therapy)". This is a collection of short stories written by dad's about fatherhood, edited by Heather Armstrong.
It goes: "When my son was four months old, he developed a bright red rash that started at the top of his head and began moving down his body like a flame on an oil-soaked rope. I rushed him to the doctor, who walked into the exam room and said "What's the problem?" I said, "My son has a rash!" He put on his glasses and said "Yep". Three hundred dollars".
That's how I feel. They never found out what was wrong with Walter, and wanted me to take him BACK to the vet Friday for a check up. Riiiiight. Pay more money for them to say they don't know what was wrong, but he seems fine now, and to take it easy. No thank you.
I hear this song a lot on the radio here. Now I just realized it's because she's Canadian and the 2 of the stations I listen to are in Canada. They give their bands credit. Except Nickelback, nobody wants to hear that excuse for a band. Alanis Morisette and Avril Lavigne are real Canadians.
This song makes me want to smash somthing. I heard them interview her on TV and she said "My music...is light, and just makes you feel sunny". Yuck. She and Sophie B. Hawkins need to have a sleep over and roll in each other's mushiness.
