happy music

Do you have happy music that you love? You know, those songs that you hear that you literally can't sit still for?

I have a few. Walking On Sunshine by Katrina and the Waves. BEST happy song ever!

Faith by George Michael. Uh huh...my head is swaying just thinking about it!

You Make My Dreams Come True by Hall and Oats. My fella likes Uptown Funk by Bruno Mars and Can't Stop the Feeling by Justin Timberlake. I love the video for JT song. 

Anyway, those are the ones that get me every single time. I know there must be more though, so I looked it up :-) I found a really great list of happy songs! Here are some of them;

* Bob Marley - Three Little Birds

* Lionel Richie - All Night Long

* Bobby McFerrin - Don't Worry Be Happy

* Ricky Martin - La Vida Loca'

* Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance With Somebody

* Bill Withers - Lovely Day

* ABBA - Dancing Queen

* Luke Bryan - One Margarita

* Earth, Wind & Fire - September

* The Turtles - Happy Together

* The Kinks - Come Dancing

* Chubby Checker - The Twist

* I Feel Good - James Brown

* The Monkeys - I'm a Believer

Here's a fun little article about happy songs;

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/634936/happiest-songs-according-to-science

Life

Do you remember when you were little and you thought the year 2000 was SOOOOO far away?! Maybe you were going to be 50 years old in 2000! Or 40!!! That's ancient when you're only 10. Now it's 2022. If you turned 50 in 2000, you're really old now. If you turned 40 in 2000, you're climbing that chart too. Now when you look back at 2000, it seems like it's so far away again. 

I remember when my mom turned 50. I was 31. 50 seemed old to me. But when I got to 50, psshhh. NOT old! I was still getting drunk at 50! hahahahaha Now? Nah. The recovery time is too long. 

Do you wish you had taken better care of yourself, when you look back on your life? You know, had better eating habits, took better care of your skin, exercised, saved your $$, had children, not had children, paid attention in school, waited longer to have sex or not waited 😊 All those youthful things.

Now you look around at all the things you've "collected" in your life and you think, who's gonna get all this stuff. I have things that are very important to me, sentimentally. Nobody else is going to care about that though. Ewwww. I'm still enjoying all my things (and will continue to) and it's not depressing me but it is weird to think about.

Some things about getting older really take me by surprise. Like, the 70's were 50 years ago?!?!?! The movie, ET, is 40 years old this year. Mick Jagger is 78. Seinfeld ended  24 years ago! The women on the reboot of Sex In the City are the same age now as the Golden Girls were! Holy wow! When someone says, "30 years ago" they mean the 90's. Ugh. We've had our flat screen TV for almost 17 years - but we really still appreciate how great HDTV is. Sirius XM has been on the air for 20 years? 

The other thing that happens when you get older is....death. More often than I'd like, I see an obit or find out that someone I went to high school with or some co-worker, has died. It always makes me think, am I that old?! Just recently I found out that my high school sweetheart died last year. That really made me sad. My 16 year old heart mourned him.

I don't mind about getting old(er). I don't care that I don't have the stamina I used to or that I'm not as strong as I used to be. I'm not one of those people who looks back and regrets things  but just recently I started thinking about the things I still want to do or learn or accomplish. I hope I have enough time!

Movies

What are you watching, on streaming platforms? You know, Netflix, Hulu, Paramount +, Disney, etc.

We get our TV from an antennae now so we stream almost everything we watch. I thought I might miss television. I don't. I have found some things that I like and some that I don't.

If you like quirky, dark humor, you should watch Ricky Gervais on Netflix - After Life. The British sense of humor is fun sometimes.

If you like delightfully quirky, you can also watch Picket Fences on Hulu. I loved this show when it was originally on. I'm so happy I can stream it now. 

Also, I never watched this when it was on but I'm watching it now on Prime Video, Eureka. Also delightfully quirky and original and mostly lighthearted. 

Have you watched Sweet Tooth, on Netflix? Other than being based on the outcome of a virus, (and I LOVE virus movies/shows) I'm really enjoying this story. Season 2 is coming late this year. I can't wait to see Big Man rescue all the hybrids!

Have you seen, Don't Look Up, on Netflix? Wow is it ever absurdly plausible! It has a little bit of a slow start but it's kind of got that dark, twisted thing going for it. It's about a planet killing comet hurtling toward Earth and no one cares. 

One of my favorite "looking" actors did a movie for Netflix called, Sweet Girl. It was a get even story, a little violent, but the end was a complete surprise. That alone made me love it. It's always a good movie for me if I don't see it coming.

I've heard there are a lot of great shows out there. Some of them I bailed on right away though. One for instance was Yellowstone. I watched the first 3 episodes and bailed. It didn't having any characters to root for. No redeeming qualities in anyone. They were all assholes. I need something good.  Same for a show called See, and Game of Thrones. I've been told I should stick it out for a few episodes. I don't know. I wanted to like the reboot of Lost In Space, but after a few episodes I discovered the only likeable character was Will Robinson and the robot. Not for me. 

Now, we're watching 1883 on Paramount +. It's depressing - their lives. If you like westerns, you'd love this one. I totally buy it, that life is being accurately portrayed. It's hard and it's depressing but I'm rooting for all of them. 

And just for fun, Ghosts on CBS. Pretty funny so far.

And if you just like nature shows, Disney's Welcome To Planet Earth, with Wil Smith is good.

There's A LOT out there to watch if you look around!!!

Happy New Year!

I was going to write, Pandemic Life 2022 but that pissed me off so I went with Happy New Year. It is a new year after all. So far, it's not shaping up to be any better than the last TWO. It's so absurd! My fella and I have both been vaccinated, twice AND had our flu shots and still couldn't hide from the 'sick.' At this point I think they should stop trying to get the unvaccinated, vaccinated. Just let everyone get it. Seriously. How are we ever going to achieve herd immunity otherwise. Where I work, we've had at least 40/50 people out sick, every day since before Christmas. One lady, had covid in the very beginning, got vaccinated when she could and got the booster when she could and has covid again! And the numbers their spewing? Honestly, they don't mean anything. How many tens of thousand of people, like me, didn't get tested because they already knew that's what they had?!!! There's no place to go to get tested where the line isn't 2 hours long, at a minimum. There are no home testing kits to be found anywhere. In less than 2 weeks time, we have family all over the country with covid now! Arizona, Utah, California. It's gonna happen eventually. You're going to get it. I'm convinced. sigh. So not only are we starting off the year with yet another flu variant, now we've got inflation and labor shortages to deal with as well. Sometimes it seems like the world is on the brink of great change.

Onward...can you believe it's 2022? 2021 seemed so long sometimes but other times I feel like it went by in just couple months. Humph. Did you have a good Christmas? Has your year started off well? We did some fun things over the Christmas break. We went out to Kokomo to see Seiberling mansion. It's over 10k square feet, built in 1889 by Monroe Seiberling. Really beautiful place. We love those old homes. All that woodwork is so impressive.

 

Then one day we went out to Huntington, Indiana to eat at a little diner called Nick's Kitchen. Founded in 1908, it is the birthplace of the pork tenderloin sandwich. A staple in the Midwest!! Everyone should eat in a 100 = year old establishment. It's fun. 

We also had our first piece of sugar cream pie. The state pie of Indiana. It was kind of like custard pie with sugar on top. Ick. And I like sugar! 

It was a lovely holiday break :-)