Archive for the 'Oddly Appropriate Lyrics' Category

It’s 2008?

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

And a happy New Year to you all. The picture shown here is a picture of our newly certified drinkable water. Yes, after over a year of not being able to drink the well water coming out of our own tap, we can finally hydrate without paying for it. It’s a good feeling.
Our Christmas and [...]

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That was the river, this is the sea

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

Me, I’m still screwing around with my Portastudio…
- Roddy Frame
Last night, for the first time in months, maybe even years, I recorded myself improvising on the keyboard.
A lifetime ago, I left college to “follow my muse.” (Well, there were other reasons, too, but let’s stick with the poetic sounding one for now…) It [...]

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An experiment in forced optimism

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

Carla’s counselor sent her home from her session last night with some homework, which she shared with me.
Notice and record anything that goes right throughout the day.
With all the stuff going on in our lives lately (which reminds me, I’m still working on a “house is falling down around us” post - with illustrations! [...]

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The Waiting

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

We were having lunch at Applebee’s last week when I heard Tom Petty singing that “the waiting is the hardest part.”
“Hey,” I said to Carla, “I think he’s singing to us!”
We’d been through the heartbreak of learning we might not be able to adopt from China anymore. We’d experienced the bizarre elation when there seemed [...]

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A Paul Simon Lyric That Is Completely Unrelated to Current Events In My Life

Thursday, June 22nd, 2006

It’s a dead end job, and you gets tired of sittin’
And it’s like a nicotine habit
you’re always thinking about quittin’
I think about quittin’ every day of the week
When I look out my window it’s brown and it’s bleak
Outta here
How am I gonna get outta here?
I’m thinking outta here
When am I gonna get outta here?
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