Soundtrack of my Life #5

(I stole this idea from a friend's blog.  I'm going to do it the same way she did it, posting the video to the song.  Prepare to be enlightened.)

& for now I am only going out of order because I feel this singer has helped me much more than I will ever be able to express.

#5- Your favorite female singer:  Ani Difranco

School Night- "But then what kind of scale compares the weight of two beauties, the gravity of duties, or the ground speed of joy?"

Grey- "What kind of paradise am I looking for?  I'VE GOT EVERYTHING I WANT, AND STILL I WANT MORE."

 

1.  Your favorite song.
2.  A song that makes you cry.
3.  A song that makes you dance.
4.  Your favorite male singer.
5.  Your favorite female singer.
6.  Your favorite band.
7.  One band/singer you're ashamed to admit you like.
8.  One band/singer whose popularity you will never understand.
9.  A song that reminds you of an ex.
10.  A song that reminds you of your father.
11.  A song that reminds you of your mother.
12.  A song that makes you want to have sex.
13.  A song you sing in the shower.
14.  A song from the year you were born.
15.  A song you liked in high school.
16.  The first song in your mp3 folder.
17.  The last song in your mp3 folder.
18.  An instrumental song that you like.
19.  Your favorite love song.
20.  Your favorite break up song.
21.  A song that makes you want to break stuff.
22.  Your favorite song from a movie.
23.  Your favorite duet.
24.  Your favorite cover song.
25.  Your favorite song from 2010.
26.  Your favorite music video.
27.  One song in your mp3 folder you're pretty sure no one else has.
28.  One song that never needs to be played again.
29.  One song that gives you the creeps.
30.  A song you'd like played at your funeral.

My (travel) List

I had a conversation with one of my close friends the other day.  I was in a hurry, so I didn't leave her much time to offer me advice.  She later called me and told me to make a list of things that make me happy and that make me look forward to living my life.  Things I want to do, accomplish, etc. etc. etc.  So today I decided to make a list.  A list of places I want to travel.  Since Casey and I split, the one thing I have looked forward to more than ever from my single life is the chance to see the world.

For example, in July 2011 I will be doing this in Hawaii:

It is called Stairway to Heaven.  It is an illegal hike, but people still climb it all the time.  Just looking at this picture scares the bejesus out of me!  I think this trek will help me a lot mentally as well as physically, and I'm looking forward to the thrill and challenge.

I also want to try cliff diving in Hawaii.  But in order to do that, I must first learn to swim. Hahah! I think I can learn before July...

Another place I'm going (but not anywhere in the relatively near future):

Santorini, Greece.  Casey & I always talked about vacationing here for our honeymoon, but now I think this is a place I would like to go to alone or with Logan or with a good friend.  Exploring Greece and coming back to this room:

It gives me a serene feeling just looking at the above picture.  I want to be there.

And Italy.  There is so much in Italy I would love to see and do.

One of my good friends just got stationed in Rota, Spain.  I told her when I graduate in two years that I'm going to visit her in Spain as a reward to myself.

I have had an unnatural curiosity about Ireland since I was a little girl.  I think this curiosity has only been intensified by my love for the color green.  That's weird, but it's true.

Ever since I saw the movie Balto when I was a kid, I've wanted to see the Aurora Borealis.  That's so hilarious (about the movie)!  But it was the first time I had ever heard of the Aurora Borealis, and now I want to witness them for myself.  Absolutely mesmerizing.

Of course there is a lot more of the world I want to see.  Who doesn't?  But I put these pictures here, of these places, to give me a feeling of hope.  Hope and change.

I feel better already.

Number 1. Again.

This is my first blog.  I am completely computer illiterate and today somehow managed to delete my Google account, in turn deleting my Gmail, Blogger, and Youtube accounts.  Go me.  So here I am, starting all over again--for the third or fourth time now--writing my first blog.

I have to find this Blogger account that I followed a long time ago, before my previous Blogger account.  I swear when I do find this person, I am going to store the website name into my computer so I will never lose it again.  Her words are so powerful and ring so true!  But I only know the name of her blog, and not the URL.  I must find it.

Speaking of blog titles, when I think about it, a lot of my posts on my last blog were really depressing and annoying and repetitive (because they were depressing and annoying).  But that's why I chose the title "In Memoriam."  I need a place to store my memories.  Somewhere I could write about "that one time" or "this song reminds me of" without repeating the same story to 5 different friends and seeing the same "get over it" look on 5 different faces, or without repeating it so many times that I sink deeper into those memories, deeper into a place that I can no longer be.  But Lord Tennyson said it best:

I sometimes hold it half a sin
        To put in words the grief I feel:
        For words, like Nature, half reveal
    And half conceal the Soul within.

But, for the unquiet heart and brain,
        A use in measured language lies;
        The sad mechanic exercise,
    Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. 

-In Memoriam, Section V

Once again, welcome to my blog.