Be Weird. Random Updates

Here it is, another Saturday.  A busy day for chores - washing linens, rinsing out the area rugs -- time for a little freshness indoors, since it can't be had by opening windows!  Still in the middle of our Extreme Heat alert.  It's been more than a week, temps over 110 8 days in a row, three days was over 115.  Yep, extreme!  Thankfully, our monsoons haven't started, so it's dry and not humid!  I'll take heat over humidity any day of the week!

I made it to the gym 4 days this week, I'm down 1.5 pounds.  I started off with my goal of 1.5 miles on the treadmill in 30 minutes.  Friday's time = 1.5 in 28 minutes.  I'm getting back in the groove, and it feels good.  My goal, of course, is to be back to my 15 minute mile.  It'll take a little work.  And each day I'm growing older, so that adds a little bit of the difficult back into it.

Have you ever put on your shoes, and felt a small piece of something - pebble, or something - and then just left if there?  I did yesterday, and I could feel this little thing sliding around in my shoe with every step.  But I still left it.  The little dig of discomfort served to remind me that something life isn't too comfortable, and yet it's ok for it to be that way!

My aunt continues to grow weaker as the cancer continues to gain a stronghold on her body.  She's in such good spirits, and jokes with me about her "journey to heaven".  She's picked out her clothes, her choices in scripture and songs -- she's one fantastic lady!  It reminds me that I need to be as positive and proactive as she's been.  I hope I have all her dignity when it's my turn.

My sister's doing well with her own treatments.  She just spent 2 days at the beach, and this weekend she's in Lake Tahoe, living the dream I guess :)   I'm just happy that she feels well enough to do the things she's wanting to do!

In the meantime, I sit and putter at my computer
with my little vignettes about family history
and the things I remember.  Always fun for me!

Yes.
I know.
I'm a weird one.
And I'm OK with that!

I Want You

This was totally random.... What are the odds?



I was driving home from work scanning through channels, tuned in heard Savage Garden's "I want You".

Me being me, I had to look it up when I got home and found myself surprised that it was released in 1997 in America; somehow, I was thinking it was a late 80's song.  Savage Garden is an Australian pop group, and I always liked their hits.   Of course, "Truly, Madly, Deeply" was the hit I liked the BEST!

Anytime I need to see your face, 

I just close my eyes 

And I am taken to a place where 

your crystal mind and 

Magenta feelings take up shelter 

in the base of my spine 

Sweet like a chic-a-cherry cola 

Ooh, I want you 

I don't know if I need you 

But, ooh, I'd die to find out 

My younger self came over me as I cranked the volume and belted it out right along with the band!  

But what was totally random was getting in the car the next morning, and this same song was on the radio!  Now, it's nearly 20 years later, and this wasn't a huge hit for them;  in 1997 it was #22 on the Top 100 Hits list.  It's not often played on the local "oldies" stations, so how random was it that it played -- and I heard it -- twice in a row?   You can hear it here on Vevo. 

I like little random-ness things like this!