Tuesday’s treadmill tracks…. and more

I love my iPod. Love. Love. LOVE. I know I’ve said this before, but it’s worth repeating. I love my iPod like it’s my child. My short, squat, shiny, teal-colored child who gets lost in my purse and sings kickbutt songs in my ears, making my workouts freakin’ joyous, okay?

*le sigh*

When I’m on my walks, I put my iPod on shuffle. I like surprises. I like not knowing which song might pop up next. Right now there are over 800 songs on there, so there’s really no way to guess what I’ll be hearing. Here’s what my iPod served up for me during my 7 mile walk yesterday. (Just clicky the linky to catch each song on Youtube if that’s your thing.)


1. “Rock and Roll Music” – Mental As Anything

2. “Cool” – Gwen Stefani

3. “Hungry Town” – Big Pig

4. “Suddenly Mary” – The Posies (Sorry, I could only find a cruddy live version of the song on YouTube. *sniff*)

5. “Female Of The Species” – Space

6. “Eleanor” – Low Millions

7. “Can’t Buy Me Love” – The Beatles

8. “Where The Streets Have No Name (Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You)” – Pet Shop Boys

9. “Never Enough” – The Cure

10. “Out There” – Disney’s The Hunchback Of Notre Dame

11. “Way Back Into Love” – Hugh Grant and Haley Bennett (from the Music and Lyrics soundtrack)

12. “Accio Hagrid” – Harry and the Potters (Again, sorry for the sub-par live version link!)

13. “Statue” – Low Millions



14. “Summer Of Love” (Summer Party Remix) – The B-52’s

15. “Eight Days A Week” – The Beatles

16. “Hella Good” – No Doubt

17. “Being Boring” – Pet Shop Boys



18. “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” – Queen

19. “No Spill Blood” – Oingo Boingo

20. “Heartbreak On Vinyl” – Blake Lewis



21. “Get Down” – The Squirrels (Sorry, no link for this one. Booooooo.)

22. “Whataya Want From Me?” – Adam Lambert

23. “Ex-Girlfriend” – No Doubt



24. “Beds Are Burning” – Midnight Oil

25. “Bohemian Rhapsody” – Queen

26. “Tell Me When Did Things Go So Wrong?” – The Smithereens (Jeeeeez. Couldn’t find a link for this gem either. Whattheheck, Youtube????)

27. “Flood” – Jars Of Clay

28. “Fresh” – Kool & The Gang

29. “Angel In The Snow” – A-ha

30. “Barbarella” – The Bongos

31. “Channel Z” – The B-52’s

32. “Hollaback Girl” – Gwen Stefani

33. “Black Horse & The Cherry Tree” – KT Tunstall

34. “Dressed In Black” – Depeche Mode

35. “Wild Wild Life” – Talking Heads

36. “Friday I’ll Be Over You” – Allison Iraheta

37. “Something’s Always Wrong” – Toad The Wet Sprocket

38. “Let’s Just Fall In Love Again” – Jason Castro


Ohhhhh, iPod, how I love thee!

Anyway….


Here’s the latest update on my Project 365:


Day 28 (2012-01-28) ~ My hubba hubba hubby, Scope, tried to write my name with a flashlight in the dark! Awwwwwwwwwwwwww. :-)




Day 29 (2012-01-29) ~ I was playing around with oil pastels, a macro lens and Picnik's gooify editing tool. I think I kind of like the way it turned out!




Day 30 (2012-01-30) ~ And, well, I guess I figured it was time for a self portrait.




Upon further inspection, it may also be time for a haircut.

© Coracabana

On second thought, I’m pretty sure Jesus has WAY too much class for that

Monday morning I went for a walk along a big, busy city street. It was just me; four lanes of pissed off, backed up, honking traffic; and—ohhh—roughly 2 million Hispanic used car dealerships. No big whoop, I typically walk along this particular street daily. By now I know the road well and feel perfectly comfortable on it, and—excluding the day a man came running up to me, crying his face off, and asked me for money because he got in a fight with his “girlfriend’s boyfriend” (????)—it rarely flings surprises in my path.

But Monday? Yeeeaaahhhh, not so much.

It started out normally. I had my iPod on and I was zipping down the street, lost in my daydreams as usual.



I was really getting into it.



I started walking faster.



And faster.



And faster.



And faster.



And then suddenly….



Something HUGE and inexplicably papery (?) fell out of the sky and landed with a SMACK right in my path, just a mere yard or two in front of me.



It looked like a spit wad; THE WORLD’S BIGGEST SPIT WAD!



A mammoth ball of wadded up, shiny paper the size of small car and had come falling from the sky and nearly hit me. I swear I’m not making this up. Had I been shaking my groove thing just a second or two faster…. well…. I shudder to think what would have happened.



Naturally, there was only one conclusion to be made: Jesus must be REALLY peeved with me.



I looked up into the sky expecting to see Jesus riding on a cloud and taking another aim at me with his big straw, but instead I saw this….



There were two idiots up on a big billboard, getting ready to put up a new ad. They had removed the old ad, wadded it up into a ball the size of a buffalo and then just—wheee!—tossed it down to the sidewalk below.

Without.

Even.

Bothering.

To.

Check.

If.

The.

Sidewalk.

Was.

Clear.

First.

!!!!

(Like I said, IDIOTS.)

What kind of wanna-be-sued halfwits just ball up a big ol’ billboard advertisement and throw it down to the sidewalk below without looking for pedestrians first?! Huh? Someone could have been seriously hurt! I mean, what if that had hit somebody—like a pregnant woman?!




Or a 90 year old man?!




Or a preschooler?




Or, heaven forbid, a puppy?!?!




I just can’t comprehend something so negligent. I live on a third floor condo and I TRIPLE CHECK that the sidewalk is clear below before even daring to shake off my feather duster over our balcony. So, how someone can throw a damn BILLBOARD to the ground without so much as a “heads up!” first just makes no sense to me.




I don’t know how long I stood there staring up at Idiot 1 and Idiot 2, wanting to yell something scaldingly scolding to them about their blatant carelessness and craptitude.



It was awhile.

But in the end, I walked away without saying anything at all. Not even a measly, “hey, watch it.” I dunno, I guess I just figured it wouldn’t have mattered anyway. Anyone stupid enough to throw something the size of a baby elephant down onto a sidewalk without looking below first isn’t going to have any sort of epiphany brought on by anything I had to say, I’m quite sure.

And as I turned and walked away, “Bohemian Rhapsody” ended and my iPod shuffled its songs and decided to play this next….



Touche, iPod. Touche indeed.

© Coracabana