regina spektor is totally making my burfday with her album "begin to hope". i started the day listening to "on the radio" and can't stop listening to it.
enjoy!
It feels a little worse
Than when we drove our hearse
Right through that screaming crowd
While laughing up a storm
Until we were just bone
Until it got so warm
That none of us could sleep
And all the styrofoam
Began to melt away
We tried to find some words
To aid in the decay
But none of them were home
Inside their catacomb
A million ancient bees
Began to sting our knees
While we were on our knees
Praying that disease
Would leave the ones we love
And never come again
On the radio
We heard November Rain
That solo's really long
But it's a pretty song
We listened to it twice
'Cause the DJ was asleep
This is how it works
You're young until you're not
You love until you don't
You try until you can't
You laugh until you cry
You cry until you laugh
And everyone must breathe
Until their dying breath
No, this is how it works
You peer inside yourself
You take the things you like
And try to love the things you took
And then you take that love you made
And stick it into some
Someone else's heart
Pumping someone else's blood
And walking arm in arm
You hope it don't get harmed
But even if it does
You'll just do it all again
And on the radio
You hear November Rain
That solo's awful long
But it's a good refrain
You listen to it twice
'Cause the DJ is asleep
On the radio
(oh oh oh)
On the radio
On the radio - uh oh
On the radio - uh oh
On the radio - uh oh
On the radio
a few days before the lunar new year, i picked up some korean sausage called soondae. whenever i eat this i get all nostalgic, wishing i could go back to the days when my family lived in seoul, korea.
i always remember going to the market and seeing rows and rows of sausage links strung across wires where vendors served every korean food imaginable. it was such a strange sight back then but after some time it was "normal" food to me. now when i smell or eat soondae, it always reminds me of going to the market in seoul when i was a kid.
maybe i should have used this for the qotd's weird food combos--we usually eat it in egg drop soup or rice cake soup called thuk-gook. doesn't matter what the combo it is, really, since the sausage looks weird to most people anyway. you can see why in the larger photo. but i'm used to it and it's absolutely delicious.
soondae - korean pork sausage, filled with sweet rice and sweet potato vermicelli noodles with a side mixture of salt and chili pepper flakes (kochukaru).
Who was your first celebrity crush?
Submitted by Glory.
i refuse to believe it but according to my parents, i had a crush on telly savalas. apparently i was a huge kojak fan back in the late 70's, early 80's. what on earth was i thinking? i was maybe 4 or 5 years old! from what i understand, i was in love with him. i'd go up to the television when kojak was on, point at telly, and tell my parents, "he's my boyfriend". that's what they say.
as for me, i know the guy(s) i fell for had hair...tom cruise in "legend", adrian pasdar in "top gun" and "solarbabies", jason patric in "the lost boys".
Show us how your work week begins.
work doesn't begin without my morning coffee.
Show us a picture of where you used to be.
on vacation, visiting a friend a few years ago in pensacola, florida.
this morning i was convinced the rain would last all day so i didn't even bother checking the weather channel. next thing i know, i'm watching the sky turn a brilliant blue with white clouds sparkling across the sky. it turned out to be a jewel of a day.
i took poa-poa out for a trip to petco, where she decided to take a nice little dump for the whole store to see. of course i wasn't happy about it but what the heck, the sun was still shining so i couldn't complain.
then i stopped by einstein bagels for a sandwich but forgot to order coffee. i was bummed, but when i walked out the door and the sun was still shining, i left my disappointment right at the door.
on the drive back to the apartment i started thinking about life, and dating, and whether it was time to put myself out there, again.
i pulled up to a red light and as if i needed some kind of sign, i see this guy jogging, getting closer, and closer...i couldn't stop staring him. we even made eye contact before he crossed the street. i laughed at myself as i sat there thinking, "ang, you suck. you should have jogged to the store!"
i couldn't take my eyes off of him and his tattoos, his muscular frame, his hazel eyes and...his smile. when our eyes met i was giddy, but when i saw that he was smiling and our eyes had stayed locked...oh, my, lord. i wanted to pull over and tell him that he totally made my day. who am i kidding, i SO wanted to tell him i thought he was HOT. but i was stuck on red, and he was jogging.
at that moment, i couldn't have been more thankful for the sunny weather. when i got home, i was cheesing from ear to ear but when i saw my sandwich, reality set in--it was on the wrong freakin' bagel, with a peculiar smell to top it off. but it was too late to complain. the sun was still shining and all i could think about was the cute jogger guy who smiled at me.
thank you sunny weather, thank you petco, and thank you einstein bagels. thank you for bringing a smile to my face.
i never should have opened my mouth about the "beautiful weather" we were having last week. an hour after yesterday's post, the weather took a turn and my sunny day went to gray. looks like it's going to be the same today. i woke up to the sound of rain trickling down my window, and the crowing of a sparrow who thinks he's a rooster. i went out to look for him and found a blue morning instead.
sunday blues
it's after 10am and rooster sparrow hasn't stopped chirping. that reminds me, i have an audio snippet from yesterday. it's cute, but not so cute when i heard him go off at something to six this morning.
and wouldn't you know, he must have heard me talking about him. i don't hear him anymore.
we've had beautiful weather this week, and as much as i've been told by my doctor that i shouldn't stay out in the sun for too long, i did it anyway. when i heard we were in for 70 degree weather, i made it a point to take time for myself to get out and feel the sun. i put on my favorite sneakers and walked around the neighborhood. i'll walk for days if i had my way.
so here it is, saturday morning, the sun's out and the
birds are chirping like crazy. guess it's their way of telling me it's going to be another one of those days. but today i'll try going for
a bike ride instead. it's been a while.
