PhDLadybug tagged me to list five songs that describe how I'm feeling, including one Christmas song. This has taken some thinking, because I'm such a jumble of emotions right now: relieved that there isn't someone currently masquerading as Chris out there, looking forward to my birthday, dreading homework, feeling homey and like doing a bunch of baking.* With some of the usual, deep-down troubled feelings.
1. For a Christmas song, I'm torn between "O Come, O Come Emmanuel," with that incredible longing that's in it, and Boney M's "Mary's Boy Child," mostly because Boney M Christmas music makes me feel like busily preparing for Christmas (because my brother and I usually listen to that record while decorating the tree).
2. Describing my procrastination - "Je ne veux pas travailler," Pink Martini. (And it shall get stuck in Meg's head...now.)
3. "Feels Like Home," Chantal Kreviazuk, especially because Chris was just home all morning and it was so nice and homey.
4. "This Year," Chantal Kreviazuk (I know.) Because it's so optimistic about the approaching year. And I'm actually feeling optimistic right now.
5. "Take My Life," by mnw (Monday Night Worship). (Chorus: "And I can't wait to be free/ of this life of mindless sin/ that compromises me./ I know, some day I will be...") Again, more longing. This time, with frustration with my human nature, ability to waste so much time, and entire lack of faith that I should entirely fall apart at the first hint of something bad possibly happening. You know, the usual.
No one will ever ask me to describe how I'm feeling again.
Oh, I'm supposed to tag two people: I think I'll tag May-B, because she answers these sorts of things so well, and because it's funny to ask her to describe her feelings in terms of Christmas music. (Of the sisters, LynnieC=Christmas, and May-B=Halloween. I'm not sure if Ky gets super into any holidays, actually.) And I think I'll tag Anastasia, because I'd be really interested to hear what music she'd come up with.
* Baking update: I did the cookies yesterday, and they turned out fantastically, and I'm doing banana bread today. Banana bread was Chris's choice, and I'll tell you how it turns out. Although now I'm tempted to try Wolfa's 18-hour no-knead bread, which sounds awesome.
4 comments:
If you do the bread, a couple of tips:
(a) Add slightly less water than the recipe says, then add more if it's too dry. If it's too wet, you are screwed.
(b) Unless you have a house that is heated to the same temperature all the time, make it in the evening so that it will be warmest closest to the end of the rising time. Mine was really warm for the first two hours and went all bubbly and risen too fast. Then the house cooled down over night and by this morning when I was ready to bake it, it had shrunk and died.
(c) When wrapping it with a towel, use a towel you don't mind having to throw away if it comes to that. Mine got covered with sticky bread dough that I can't get off it.
Or maybe you will just be more competent than me.
Thanks for the tips, Styley. It'll probably be a few days until I get a chance to make the bread, because I think I'm going to make my birthday cake after I'm done with the banana bread. Actually, I think I'll do that on the weekend, because I think Chris would be less likely to screw up the bread than I would, and I think he'd have fun making it.
I can't believe no one else has said it yet: Happy Birthday!!!!
I love me a Mary!
I hope you have an awesome day. In honour of your birthday, I'm going to write my Environmental Sociology final. Whee!
Happy B-day Mary! Love you!!
Also, I finished my assignment, so you can check it out and regret you tagged me yesterday. I was in a mood.
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