That Tag Thing From Years Ago ( and some songs to go along)

“Two am and she calls me because I am still awake” Breathe, Ann Nalick

I‘ve been having a distressfully busy final two weeks of spring semester, and I’ve been finding it hard to be human; you know wash my hair, sleep, smile at strangers. I guess this is the honesty thingy number one. I have tunnel vision when I am on a mission. This knowledge will hopefully placate the dears who tagged me six years ago…and I will proceed confidently knowing that I earned some forgiveness simply by voicing my rather lousy excuse.

#2 “I am hazard to myself” P!nk

I moved into a two storey apartment last summer, and I spent the first few weeks recovering from the most embarrassing falls down the stairs that occurred between 5:30am-and 6am on two separate mornings. I was on a quest to get coffee from the kitchen so that I could wake up. Now, raise your hands if you think I should move back in with daddy, just for safety!

#3“Walking stumbling, on these shadow feet” Shadow Feet, Brooke Fraser

I have absolutely no idea what I am doing most of the time. Life feels like a continual leap of faith, and I know most people fall for it, the confidence in my eyes and the occasional slouch that says ‘I don’t really care’. Truth is, life is very scary, and I care a lot. It is just too hard to walk around all day trembling, so instead I dance to the stupid lady gaga songs on repeat in the cafeteria, and I give the world my most self assured smile. p.s-poker face!!

#4“Our lives are made in these small hours, these little wonders” Little Wonders,Rob Thomas

I have a text messaging record that apparently rivals that of a spoiled teenager! My mother’s side of the story about this (I will tell you mine later) is that I texted( is this even really a word?) the buttons off my then very sturdy phone literally. A reason perhaps, for shipping me off to daddy? (Mom if you read this (and that chance is there because you do have eyes everywhere) you should be proud to know, that I don’t text while eating dinner, or taking a shower anymore. Progress!

#5“It’s our problem free, philosophy…” Lion King soundtrack/Hakuna Matata

One night last sem, I went out to the lake on campus with the entire student government bunch of us, two guitars, caramel truffles and peppermint Altoids, to sing all the lion king soundtracks with some Howie day thrown in into the night. Apparently the best college memories are the ones you make when you are doing something other than what you are supposed to be doing (read study for finals). The confession in this one is, I guess, that I am just like everybody else with the procrastinating.

#6 “You give me the sweetest taboo”-Sade, Sweetest Taboo

Last spring I climbed the forbidden tree!!! There is a huge oak at the pier on st. Simons that has been dubbed ‘lover’s oak’. They way its branches spread from the trunk left a huge bough on it if I can say it like that, so two people can sit in it. So , without any coaxing, but with a little help, I abandoned all my manners (as defined by the nuns who taught me in high school) ,went up the oak, and the merge of slight rebellion laced with mild adventure was gloriously charming!

#7 “somewhere in my youth or childhood, I must have done something good” Sound of Music Soundtrack/Something Good

Do you ever feel like your life is not your own? Like everything that’s happening is happening to someone else? It is not really all the big things (even though those stun me when they happen) it is mostly tiny everyday things. Like the green m&m’s I find on my pillow, and the sticky notes I find stuck on my wind shield under the wiper, it is the convenient parking spot when I am late. You know that feeling when you don’t have much money & the dude in the Starbucks drive through window says it is ‘free Frappucino Friday!’

#8 “You take me to this high, I feel like I can fly” Music, Vivian Green

I know that life would be close to unlivable if we didn’t have music. There are the songs that remind me to breathe when life is suffocating, the ones that hug me when I am sad, and the ones I take on long trips so I can dream, and think, and literally float through traffic! There is a song for everything, some more relevant than others, some good only for making fun of with my more critical friends, but still essential! I will not be offended if you don’t take your ear phones off to listen to me, because I completely understand that there are days when the only thing worth listening to is the song completing you. What’s the confession here? I am abandoning this post here to go listen to a very important play list!

#9 I don't think I actually finished this, or followed the rules, but are you surprised? You should not be.