The Answers

***Written yesterday immediately before losing my internet connection and having the computer spaz out about it***

Well, well, well… Looks like Jim schooled y’all on that one. LOL… Then again, why does it surprise me that he knows so much of what I know? I guess it’s just unusual for anyone to share so many of my tastes. Anyway, here are the answers you’ve been waiting for with baited breath and all that.

1. "She’s the kind of girl you want so much it makes you sorry. Still you don’t regret a single day."  Girl – The Beatles

2. "Suppose I kept on singing love songs just to break my own fall." Fidelity – Regina Spektor

3. "In all its misery it will always be what I love and hated." Jaded – Aerosmith

4. "But when you talk about destruction, don’t you know that you can count me out."  Revolution – The Beatles

5. "I turned my collar to the cold and damp when my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light." The Sounds of Silence – Simon & Garfunkel

6. "The wind is low, the birds will sing that you are part of everything." Dear Prudence – The Beatles

7. "He’s as blind as he can be, just sees what he wants to see." Nowhere Man – The Beatles

8. "There is a wound inside me and it’s bleeding like a flood." Am I the Only One – Dixie Chicks

9. "I lived in stories but inside I kept a mystery." Extraordinary – Mandy Moore

10. "Well we can’t salute ya, can’t find a flag. If that don’t suite ya, that’s a drag." School’s Out – Alice Cooper

11. "I’ll take a patch of New Mexico and I’ll call it mine." Requiem – David Ford

12. "I play Russian Roulette everyday, a man’s sport, with a bullet called Life." Sugar – System of a Down

13. "You and me burning matches, lifting latches, on our way back home." Two of Us – The Beatles

14. "I catch people starin’, looking funny at me, when I step to the window and I toss a TV." Six Foot Town – Big & Rich

15. "Don’t blame us if we ever doubt ya. You know we couldn’t live without ya."  Tessie – Dropkick Murphys

16. "Tell me now how do I feel?"  New Order – Blue Monday

17. "It’s breaking my heart  you’re leaving."  Wild World – Cat Stevens (Jim only got it half right)

18. "Maybe I’m hard-headed or a little bit old-fashioned, but I always had a hard time fitting in." Normal – Katrina Elam

19. "Shaking up boxes of letters, mementos in my old brown sweater." Red Wagon – Elwood

20. "She stuck a note on the screen door – Sorry, but I got to go."  Suds in the Bucket – Sara Evans (again, only half right)

21. "Dead I am the sky, watching angels cry while they slowly turn, conquering the worm."  Dragula – Rob Zombie

22. "It’s time I had some time alone." It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) – REM

23. "Dani the girl is singing songs to me beneath the marquee of her soul."  By The Way – Red Hot Chili Peppers

24. "I’ll pretend that I’m kissing the lips I am missing." All My Loving – The Beatles

25. "Old Miss Lucy’s dead and gone, left me here to weep and moan." Flower – Moby

 

How varied are my musical tastes? LOL… And here’s something not many people know about me: I find music like Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson to be extremely sexy. I mean, I like the gentler, rhythmic, bass-heavy stuff (haven’t I always gone for drummers and bassists?), but there’s something about the darkness and agression of it that revs my engine, so to speak.

Alan is still in whiney-butt mode, dealing as he is today with his first day at work since the 3 hours he spent there on Thursday morning.  But he felt well enough to go to Waterbury for dinner last night, not to mention to give his younger brother Zach a good stern talking to. Boy failed three classes! I mean, how many could he have possibly even been taking? 5? At any rate, maybe he’ll wise up a bit this semester.

It’s also my turn to go into whiney-butt mode.  Alan’s upper respiratory infection seems to have swooped down upon me. I started with a tickle in my throat last night making me cough and sputter and woke up with the cough and a bit of congestion around my sinuses. Or rather, more than I usually do, because I almost always wake up a bit congested. It’s a side effect of lamotrigine.  Anyway, I noticed after I got back from doing the laundry that I could feel every brush of my jeans against my slightly stubbly legs and knew that I had a fever.  I can tell almost without a thermometer when I’m feverish and to what extent because my skin becomes ultra-sensitive.  It’s not a quality without it’s uses. Not even 101, but no need to tempt fate.  I’ve got Robitussin liqui-gels for the day time, and night time cough and cold for bed, plus I’ve enlisted Alan to come back with some Sambucol (it’s homeopathic) to help with the fever and achiness without resorting to Tylenol, which interacts unpleasantly with my normal bedtime meds.

So lucky lucky me, riding out this wave of illness, despite all my attempts to avoid getting sick at all. Hopefully it’s just a cold. Other than the occasional cough, a bit of sinus pressure and some lightheadedness from the fever, I feel okay. Nothing to worry about anyway.  Unlike some people, who shall remain nameless, but with whom I’ve shared germs for the last 5 years, my illness has not prevented me from having a productive day.  I got the laundry done and put up a flyer for the center on their community board. I went up to the center and picked up the forms to get me certified as a head teacher by the state, and I finished a really excellent book.  It’s my third in 4 days. LOL… So for anyone who enjoys YA fiction as I do, let me recommend Graceling by Kristin Cashore, The Possibilities of Sainthood by Donna Freitas, and Madapple by Christina Meldrum, which was so enchanting and so well written that I can’t imagine that it will long remain an exclusively young adult novel.

Anyone else notice that today’s the 26th? I’ll be 26 in exactly one month. My golden birthday. Finally. We late-in-month babies have to wait an awfully long time.

~Liz