My Life - The CD

If I could make a CD of my life in song it would look something like this:

1. Everything - Alanis Morrissette (me)
   
2. Eagle When She Flies - Dolly Parton (me)
3. I'm A Bitch - Alanis Morissette (me)
4. All I Have To Do Is Dream - The Everly Brothers (one of the first songs I learned to sing)
5. Teddy Bear - Elvis Presley (another first)
6. Unchained Melody - The Righteous Brothers (another first)
   
7. Bird Dog- The Everly Brothers (one of the first songs I loved as a kid)
   
8. The End Of The World - Skeeter Davis (first song to make me cry)
9. Right Here Waiting - Richard Marx (loss of innocence, still cant listen to this song)
10. Strawberry Wine - Deana Carter (Summer 1989)
11. I'll Be Your Lover, Too - unknown singer, well I knew him (just for the way it makes me feel. voice in my ear is like hands on my body)
12. I'm Movin' On - Rascal Flatts (daily song to remind me that it's all good)
    
13. Lord, I Hope This Day Is Good - Lee Ann Womack (another daily song)
14. Beautiful - Christina Aguilera (another daily song)
15. Sweet Dreams - Air Supply (best friend and soul mate)
16. Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton (song local band did, loved to go and see them)
    
17. Sleeps Dark And Silent Gate - Jackson Browne (the best song ever)
    
18. Let 'Er Rip - Dixie Chicks (the way I feel about breakups)
19. Man To Man - Gary Allen (at least once in every girls life two men fight over her)
    
20. Baby, Baby, Baby, Baby... - R.Kelly (truly felt respected)
    
21. Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve (the rest of these are songs that just remind me of friends and having fun over the years)
    
22. Fire and Rain - James Taylor
23. 1 Down, 3 To Go - The Meatmen (nothing against the Beatles, love them)
24. Gettin' Jiggy Wit It - Will Smith
25. When You Say Nothing At All - Allison Krauss
26. Into The Mystic - Van Morrison
    
27. I've Got Dreams To Remember - Otis Redding
28. My Sacrifice - Creed
29. People Are People - Depeche Mode
30. Come To My Window - Melissa Etheridge
31. She Talks To Angels - The Black Crowes
32. Solid Sender - John Lee Hooker
33. Time In A Bottle - Jim Croce
34. Margaritaville - Jimmy Buffett
35. Give Me Three Steps - Lynyrd Skynyrd
    

Back Country Roads

If you like a simple quiet life there is nothing better than living on a back country road. This is a place where your neighbors, if your lucky, are family and friends. Where you know you are safe, not only are cars left unlocked-keys are left in them.

Growing up in such a place means you know everyone from birth to death, where as soon as you are on that road home the rest of the world disappears. It's quiet and peaceful, you can listen to the birds sing and even the wind blow. you can set on your front porch and watch the wildlife pass by IN your own front yard.

I grew up on a back country road, I sill live there. I love it there. I learned to cook the old fashion way there, a pinch, dash, smidgen, and always for an army. I learned to sew and quilt there, and there is nothing like watching a group of "little old ladies" setting around a quilting frame sewing every piece together, little touches of love in every stitch. Owning a hand mad quilt is like having a piece of history.

I learned to make apple butter (in giant kettles) and lye soap (which can take out ANY stain in clothes). Gardens were planted and veggies were shared, with still enough left to can for winter. Canning is fast becoming a lost art. Even those organic canned veggies in the store have nothing on the ones you pack in glass jars and pressure cook.

Every year we have a "heritage weekend" where visitors come from near and far to step back in time, enjoying homemade foods, good music, and handmade everything. On my country road you can expect to hear bluegrass and gospel music, enjoy pit beef BBQ, homemade pies and ice cream. You can even take home handmade quilts, paintings, jewelery, hard tack candy and homemade fudge. The best part is that you never leave feeling like you were a "visitor", you will leave feeling like you had just visited family.

Visit a back country road one day, if nothing else you can go home thinking "that was a hell of a ride."

More things you should never apologize for:

• being angry
• dancing in the rain
• drinking coffee all day long
• getting lost on back country roads
• wanting to fall in love
• wanting someone to fall in love with you
• breaking your own heart

random

Remember that the best relationship is one where your love for each other is greater than your need for each other.

Join me in fighting poverty!

Hi,

I've just signed the ONE Declaration committing myself to help fight the emergency of global AIDS and extreme poverty.

I'm asking you to make that commitment, too, by adding your voice.

I think your name belongs on that declaration, too. You can put it there by visiting:

http://www.one.org/declare/

ONE is a new effort by Americans to rally Americans - one by one. So far, over two million have signed the declaration in support of a historic pact for compassion and justice to help the poorest people of the world.

Together as ONE we can make a difference!

Thanks!

TURN IT UP & TUNE IT OUT

I love the I-Pod orMP3 Player. I so enjoy the fact that I can tune out the world for as long as I want or need to.

The ability to just get lost in a song and feel every range of the emotional spectrum is a Godsend. Being able to get lost in the emotions of the singer voice, the tempo of the song, the words; there is no better feeling. Being able to get that feeling no matter the song is even better.

I’m blessed that I grew up in a house where music was a given, as making music was what my mother did everyday. I mean she literally made it, she worked in a factory that produced 8-tracks, records and cassettes (does anyone remember these things?) for Capitol Records. So I had every artist on that label, and some from sister labels. My listening style never fit into a category, I could never say that I listened to one genre over another. I can also never say I liked one singer over another. I like the songs more than anything.

Thus the reason I love digital music. I can go online download any song that I want (so long as I can find it), add it to my little devise, put in my ear buds and tune out the world. TURN IT UP when it's good.

Could life get any better?

BTW- while I wrote this I was listening to the following:

Slow Dancing In A Burning Room by John Mayer

Sweet Baby James by James Taylor

Down To The River To Pray by Alison Krauss + Union Station

Comfort You by Van Morrison

Trouble Me by 10,000 Maniacs

House Of The Rising Sun by The Animals

Love You ‘Till The End by The Pogues

Lay It On Me by Kid Rock

Gravity by John Mayer

All GREAT songs in their own right, at least to me.

Yes I have a bit of loving for John Mayer songs right now.

ENFP (Extraversion (E) INtuition (N) Feeling (F) Perceiving (P))

I had a Myers-Briggs Type Indicator done at work and I am the following (sounds about right):

General: ENFPs are both "idea"-people and "people"-people, who see everyone and everything as part of an often bizarre cosmic whole. They want to both help (at least, their own definition of "help") and be liked and admired by other people, on both an individual and a humanitarian level. They are interested in new ideas on principle, but ultimately discard most of them for one reason or another.

Social/Personal Relationships: ENFPs have a great deal of zany charm, which can ingratiate them to the more stodgy types in spite of their unconventionality. They are outgoing, fun, and genuinely like people. As Soulmates they are warm, affectionate (lots of PDA), and disconcertingly spontaneous. However, attention span in relationships can be short; ENFPs are easily intrigued and distracted by new friends and acquaintances, forgetting about the older ones for long stretches at a time. Less mature ENFPs may need to feel they are the center of attention all the time, to reassure them that everyone thinks they're a wonderful and fascinating person.

ENFPs often have strong, if unconventional, convictions on various issues related to their Cosmic View. They usually try to use their social skills and contacts to persuade people gently of the rightness of these views; this sometimes results in their neglecting their nearest and dearest while flitting around trying to save the world.

Work Environment: ENFPs are pleasant, easygoing, and usually fun to work with. They come up with great ideas, and are a major asset in brainstorming sessions. Follow through tends to be a problem, however; they tend to get bored quickly, especially if a newer, more interesting project comes along. They also tend to be procrastinators, both about meeting hard deadlines and about performing any small, uninteresting tasks that they've been assigned. ENFPs are at their most useful when working in a group with a J or two to take up the slack.

ENFPs hate bureaucracy, both in principle and in practice; they will always make a point of launching one of their crusades against some aspect of it.

ENFPs are friendly folks. Most are really enjoyable people. Some of the most soft-hearted people are ENFPs.

ENFPs have what some call a 'silly switch.' They can be intellectual, serious, all business for a while, but whenever they get the chance, they flip that switch and become CAPTAIN WILDCHILD, the scourge of the swimming pool, ticklers par excellence. Sometimes they may even appear intoxicated when the 'switch' is flipped.

One study has shown that ENFPs are significantly over represented in psychodrama. Most have a natural propensity for role-playing and acting.

ENFPs like to tell funny stories, especially about their friends. This penchant may be why many are attracted to journalism. I kid one of my ENFP friends that if I want the sixth fleet to know something, I'll just tell him.

ENFPs are global learners. Close enough is satisfactory to the ENFP which may unnerve more precise thinking types, especially with such things as piano practice ("three quarter notes or four ... what's the difference?") Amazingly, some ENFPs are adept at exacting disciplines such as mathematics. Go figure.

Friends are what life is about to ENFPs, more so even than the other NFs. They hold up their end of the relationship, sometimes being taken advantage of by less caring individuals. ENFPs are energized by being around people. Some have real difficulty being alone, especially on a regular basis.

ENFPs sometimes can be blind sided by their secondary Feeling function. Hasty decisions based on deeply felt values may boil over with unpredictable results. More than one ENFP has abruptly quit a job in such a moment.

Text from http://www.metaphysicalzone.com/types/enfp.shtml

Things you should never apologize for:

• having a crush
• being happy
• crying over the guy you'll never have
• coloring for the fun of it
• showing your true colors
• being brutally honest
• dark humor
• enjoying the rain
• choosing one friend over another
• wishing some dreams would come true
• singing along to songs that move you
• knowing you are worth more than others think
• being kind to strangers
• saying hello to anyone you want
• buying a guy a drink in a bar
• flirting
• loving your body, just the way it is
• sweating the small stuff
• being lonely
• your taste in music
• crying for the hell of it
• being a bit OCD
  

this list will grow...

Walk With Me

I may not be your greatest passion,
But lower flames burn longer;
And I may not overwhelm your soul,
But a gentle strength is stronger.
I may not be the most beautiful,
But with time, all beauties fade;
And I may not be your sunshine,
But when you rest you choose the shade.
I may not fill your heart with laughter,
But there is joy in just a smile;
I could be everything you ever wanted;
Come walk with me awhile.
~Unknown

Something to think about....

I like to write, no matter what it is about. I also love quotes and pieces that touch my heart. I found this in an old journal, and have no idea where it came from. All I know is that I can't just toss it out with the rest of the past.

Time heals, they meet other people and their lives go on. On the other hand, for some of us the loss of a love can be almost overwhelming-an obsession, an intense, enduring, immobilizing pain.

Falling in love is not a rational process. It's not planned or reasoned.

Falling in love is an intense emotional and intuitive experience.

What you feel about someone is largely in response to that person.

The love that you feel for that person is learned on many levels. That fact-that the love you feel for that person is something you have learned to feel-is tremendously important.

If you learned to love, you can unlearn that love.

An emotion can only be controlled or destroyed by another emotion contrary there to, and with more power for controlling emotion.

I've never thought of it that way, and I'm not sure I totally agree with this. But...