Weather is unpredictable. It's nearing the end of April and we were issued a winter storm warning today. Only in Wisconsin...
Had it not been for the snow, I would have been enjoying the sweet sweet songs of Colin Meloy tonight in Madison, but with the conditions as they were, we decided it best to stay in town and forgo our 3rd Decemberists concert. I miss going to concerts, though. We used to go to a few every year, but last year was a bit disappointing in the number of concerts we went to. I should add that to my list this year: see more bands. I don't even care if they are big, popular bands; I enjoy just seeing musicians perform, even if I'd never heard of them. I love the creation and expression of songwriting and performing, and it makes me wish I'd had any real talent for either. Since I don't, I get to live vicariously through those who have the talent and drive to pursue it. I just wish I knew more of them!
Speaking of songwriting, I had a friend once ask me if I ever wrote songs. I replied that I never had, but that I did write poetry from time to time and he told me it was the same thing. I guess I'd always considered songwriting a form a poetry, but I never really thought that all poetry could be considered songwriting. I still don't think that I agree, but I could see how some people are just inclined to write poetry that can always be lyrical and adaptable to song. If all poetry is songwriting, though, I would love for someone to come up with a greatest hits album of Emily Dickinson. I nominate Hello Saferide for this job; she just might be quirky and wonderful enough to make it work. As a side note, Emily Dickinson is on poets.org. Can you guess the URL for her? www.poets.org/edick/ I'm either tired or getting unfunkified, but either way, that totally made me giggle. And I needed a giggle.
Life did get back to a level of almost sanity for me today, which was a welcome change. Yesterday was just rubbish, and parts of today were rubbish, too. I think it ended up being a good thing that I was a shut in tonight instead of going out and being social; it helped me to forget the world and focus on Karen-y stuff, which I really don't make time for as often as I should. One of the things I'm focusing on right now is removing the negative things from my life (well, the ones that are removable, anyway). It'll be hard to let go and give up some things, but it's for the greater good of me and my well being, so I think it'll be worth it in the end. Hopefully.
Well, it's getting late and I have been sleeping like ass full of ass lately, so I'm going to attempt to sleep at a reasonable hour tonight. If it works, I may just get up early to do some yoga and make myself some nummy breakfast. The only problem is that thinking it at night, it sounds like an amazing and totally doable idea! But, once morning rolls around, I decide that I was delirious the night before and that no rational person would ever think that getting up to do yoga at 6am was a good idea.
Silly Karen. What were you thinking?
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