IHOP Girl: Mu, mu, music Monday!

Monday, March 08, 2010

Mu, mu, music Monday!

Hows your Monday going? It's gorgeous here, and I'm enjoying hanging out before I leave for physical therapy. I thought we needed some great "roll your windows down" music, and because I'm a wonderful daughter I even got the version with lyrics for the parental guidances!!

Hopefully later today or tomorrow I'll have another puppy picture to post - The breeder will be out of the country till the 26th; with her friend staying with the puppies, so I don't know when the next batch of pictures will be after tonight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pZ437FddH8&feature=related

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: Great song!!!!
SFL is frustrated because though he is just brimming with some comments about it (the visual lyrics were great!), when he tries to comment, his computer is only showing numbers for every letter typed....I think that is hysterical ;-) Must be because he's pressed the "oddest" button a zillion times and the computer is now sensitized to that mode of operation. He keeps my smiling!!!!
WOT; 5:02 PM
shrunken_frontal_lobe said...: yes, problem solved. do not push, or allow roaming cats to push, the Num Lock key on the PowerBook or else you will communicate in a language of numbers, not binary like some of you would like. and not hexadecimal like some others of you might prefer. no, this would be random number jibberish, similar to a type of language commonly used by females, only with numbers instead of letters. ha!

now WOT thinks i should not state that today's music is schlock, because that would infer less power and meaning to the word due to overuse or more accurately misuse. WOT is not an expert in the use of schlock and should leave the application of the word to it's creator, me, and let me apply it however and whenever i deem appropriate.

actually today's selection, while kindly including words for the listening impaired, is a subclass of schlock known to technicians in the field as quasi-schlock. quasi-schlock shares many characteristics in common with ordinary schlock however does not possess many of the most harmful and permanently damaging aspects to schlock. it is not carcinogenic, mutagenic, nor does it cause numbness to the cognitive centers of the brain. although it may be a somatic inhibitor in rats and adolescent human subjects. it does however contain several barely pubescent males in need of clothing and hair styling pointers from a schlocktherapist or schlockiatrist.

hew!

ps-you should have seen WOT's expression when i said i was going to call this schlock. it was quite amusing...; 5:26 PM
Clair Bannerman (alias) said...: Haha, yeah. WOT is so right that you over use the word...I think you should be required to pick the Music Monday song next time! I am glad however that it was only partially trash ;p; 7:36 AM
shrunken_frontal_lobe said...: it's not nice to stick one's tongue out at yer elders.

i suggest you select "five long years" version done by eric clapton.

then the following monday by "bring the noize" by anthrax,

and then "times like these" by the foo fighters.

then you should have gotten the drift and can select reasonable music yersef after dat.

hew!; 4:32 PM

Movie Night In...I love a good movie!

Mega Mind
Taking Chance (Will make you cry like a baby)
Charlotte Grey (A bit of a different take on Nazi Germany)
Series - Merlin (I LOVE BBC)
Robin Hood (Okay, a love Russell Crowe, you'll have to understand that about me...)
Kingdom of Heaven (Chuck full of acting power with an epic tale)
Miss Potter (Such a great film! Story of the creator of Peter Rabbit)
How to Train your Dragon (Possibly my favorite animated movie ever...I'm like a little kid, I watch it over and over)
Buck (Sundance winner, Biography of Horse Trainer, heart touching)
Lost in Austin (Modern day spin on Pride and Prej.)

Life as a nurse...

Great words by Reb Jeff: Vayishlach: Facing Death

"Rachel died. She was buried on the road to Ephrat — now called Bethlehem. Jacob set up a pillar above her grave. It is the pillar at Rachel’s grave to this day."–Genesis 35:19-20

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vidui http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_(Judaism), and preparing the notifications to the community, feel like little fragments of the sacred. I have been entrusted with the care and tending of the most powerful, complex and difficult emotions that a person can experience in life. I have been made, in some small part, a guardian of the memory of a departed soul — a life that touches upon many other lives.After dropping off my older daughter at her high school this morning, I made a stop at Treasure Coast Hospice http://www.tchospice.org/, a remarkable organization that sets a very high standard for the loving and respectful care of the dying. There, I visited a lovely man whom I have seen a few times in his hospice room. I sat by his bedside and listened to him (in full possession of his faculties) as he told me about his worries about his family, the support of his wife after he is gone, and the future of his children and grandchildren. I was deeply moved by the way he put any concern for himself — even while facing death — in a distant backseat to his concerns for his family. When my own time comes, I can only hope to have his awareness of the way that one life can touch so many others.Also at hospice, I visited a woman I have known for the past two years — a dear soul who is a former Jewish religious school director. I sat with her, too, singing psalms to her as I listened to her heavy and labored breathing. I have no medical training, but I have come to know the sound of a person who is close to death. The body begins to fight for each breath as it slowly looses it grasp on life. As I held her hand and sang, I realized that being a rabbi is no protection against becoming one of the people caught in the web of connection. I, too, am changed by the loss of a life that has touched mine.Later in the day, I met with a couple from our congregation. She had just learned that her brother died yesterday in a car crash. Coming to terms with the loss is made more difficult for her by the fact that she and her brother had not seen each other or spoken in five years. Sometimes, people think it is easier to mourn the death of someone who has moved out of your life. In my experience, though, it's harder. Grief is magnified by wounded love and regret. I have no magic words to say to ease the pain of mourning. All I can do is listen, become a vessel in which people place their stories, and offer compassion.Actually, there is one more thing I can do. I can have faith that "all I can do" is all that I need to do. It is enough.In this week's Torah portion (Vayishlach) Jacob watched Rachel, the love of his life, die in childbirth. He was overcome by grief. Jacob had worked for his cruel uncle Laban for fourteen years to earn the right to marry Rachel. Now she was gone. Because she died while they were traveling, Jacob had to bury her by the side of the road. He built a pillar of stones on the spot to mark the place as sacred.This is what we all do, in one way or another, when death enters our lives. We grieve and our hearts break. We wish that we could continue to walk along the path of life with our loved ones forever, but the dead cannot fully join us. We have to leave something behind in order to resume our own journey. So, what do we do? We mark the moment as sacred. We erect monuments — both in cemeteries and in our hearts. The stones we place on top of stones remind us that a life may end, but its sanctity is forever.The Torah says that the monument Jacob built for his beloved continues to stand until this day. A life that touches the lives of others never ceases to send living reverberations throughout the web that binds us all.