but please give me a car and month vacation for a road trip.
I'm really burned out and I don't know that a few days in San Diego is going to fix that. I hit a wall of stress and anxiety about a week ago and have been trying to carve out some peace for myself since then. The moments of peace have brought me closer to recognizing that I've felt this way before.
I'm tired. I'm not content. I'm rootless. I feel stuck where I am.
Also, if the Road Trip Fairy is reading this and takes requests: Can I please have this one?
I woke up this morning with an overwhelming desire to listen to Patti Smith's Hey Joe. While I was listening, I read a message from my friend J. who was telling me that my last post sent her looking for her B&S so she could listen to Judy and Her Dream of Horses.
It's Horse Day!
While my sister and I were listening to JahDoH, I asked her if she had a girl in her grade that was obsessed with horses. In my grade it Karen G. and I think there is at least one in every grade school class. Karen G. had horse folders, horse shaped erasers, horse pencil cases. She doodled horses and if My Little Pony had been made back then I'm sure she would have owned them all. On the playground, Karen G. always wanted to play horses, a game that involved galloping around and making whinny noises. That's all I remember about Karen G. until, on the first day of 6th grade, she arrived with her unibrow plucked into two, shapely arches.
In honor of Horse Day, I'm not going to gallop to work (although I better get up and go to work soon!)but I'm going to listen to an old favorite instead. I'll listen to the Old and In the Way version on the walk to the bus.
I was talking about that scene (okay, the snakeskin boots)a few weeks ago.
My sister just left after a long weekend visit to Chicago. We spent a lot of time talking and drinking cocktails (the official cocktail from this visit was a ginger-lime Rickey) and listening to music. At one point, I put some Belle & Sebastian on and D. asked what we were listening to. I could not remember what year If You're Feeling Sinister came out so I looked it up and read the following Wikipedia description:
They are one of the best-known Scottish bands and are one of the most celebrated groups of the 1990s.
That got me thinking, how well known are other Scottish bands? What bands can I name off the top of my head? All I could come up with were: Arab Strap Donovan Nazareth Big Country Bay City Rollers Cocteau Twins
I was able to come up with a few more when I put my mind to the task a bit harder: Jesus and Mary Chain The Vaselines The Blue Nile Simple Minds Proclaimers
I seem stuck in the 90s and I suppose that is good for me, I'm usually stuck in the 70s and 80s.
