Random Ramblings: All Belinda Edition!

Looking Forward: What a horrible rough week. One that I am so glad to see come to an end. Almost every thing has become a major disappointment. Last week I had such high hopes and this week saw all of them come crashing down. I guess I shouldn't complain but this is my blog and I'll complain if I want too! I am looking forward to next week already. It can't possibly get worse right?

*knocks on wood*

Committing: I have not blogged as much as I thought I would when I completed my 365 Challenge. It has been a lot more difficult than I have anticipated, I am easily distracted and have had issues coming up with ideas. Combine that with the bigger problem of being plain lazy and it is crystal clear why I am not blogging as much. So I am trying a new approach, I am going to try to blog every other day. If that happens to land on a Sunday, I can call an audible and blog if only I have something I can blog about. We'll see how this goes.

Listening: Belinda Carlisle's A Place on Earth. I bought this CD on eBay a few years ago. It is a set of her greatest hits along with a bonus disc of remixes. This CD is not available here in the States which is why I resorted to eBay and it was worth every penny.

Reading: A few days ago, I was stressing that I have not read a book yet this quarter. I finally broke open my copy of Belinda Carlisle's autobiography that I picked up months ago and dug in. And I can now check that goal off my checklist! Lips Unsealed was not was I was expecting. It was a very detailed look at her life and her battle with cocaine addiction. Now I knew that she partied while with the Go-Go's but I had no clue that she was coked up for many years after and that it was just recently that she finally conquered those demons. It was hard to read about someone you admire go through such hell. Aside from the drugs, it was a neat peek behind the scenes behind her music. Some things that I learned that I didn't know was that she didn't think she could sing. Beatle George Harrison also played on one of her songs because he loved her voice. When she was younger she snuck into a hotel to try to meet Freddie Mercury and those events led to her forming the Go-Go's. Quite interesting stuff and it makes me appreciate her music even more since she definitely came off very humble and human. Great stuff!

Plucking: My fingers are sore from playing the bass. I have been trying to learn some new songs by yup, you guessed it. Belinda Carlisle. Some songs have been easy to pick out but my favorite song, Summer Rain has been elusive.

Laughing: Sometimes the internet comes up with something that for some reason just gets me. I found this cat video at work the other day and I can't stop watching it. Both my dad and I must have watched this for ten minutes straight laughing our heads off. Oh man, my side hurts again.

From the Soap Box: Terrible Tuesdays

Day 250

Most people hate Mondays with a passion. I don't mind Mondays at all. I usually am pretty productive on Mondays. I am a little more refreshed from the weekend and the time usually goes by quickly.

And then Tuesday comes...

Ugh, Tuesday. My most hated day of the week. I have never liked Tuesdays at all. In the Greek world, Tuesday (the day of the week of the Fall of Constantinople) is considered an unlucky day.

No kidding.

Tuesdays are horrible, horrible days. Tuesdays to me are what Mondays are to most people. It is the day that goes by the longest, it is the days that insane people come out of the woodwork. It is the worst day of the week!

In both school and work days, Tuesdays dragged and dragged and dragged. Rarely would you have a Tuesday day off. It seems like you would rarely have Tuesdays off on a holiday.

Tuesdays officially became my most hated day while serving my LDS mission to New York. As soon as my plane landed in Queens, Tuesdays began to mock and spite me. If you look through my journal you will find that most of my Tuesdays became Jukedays. Jukes are when you would set up appointments to see people and you go over and they don't show up. My Tuesdays in the mission field were filled with Jukedays. The worst Tuesdays was when we dropped people or when they would drop us. What that means is you would have a nice relationship going with some people and suddenly, for no apparent reason, they were not your friends anymore and wanted nothing to do with you.

When I got home from my mission I was hoping that Tuesdays would just go away. The drops and jukes certainly did but they were replaced by idiots. In all my jobs since, Tuesdays were known for the days when I would have to deal with all the idiots of the world. All my arch-enemies would somehow get in touch with me to ruin my days. These Schmidthead's never called my on other days. They waited until a Tuesday would come and then ruin the rest of my day. You remember me blogging about that stupid trucker guy? The one that kept poking me until I about snapped his finger? I was working for Action trucks and we only worked those trucks one day a week. Can you guess what day that was? Yup. A stupid Tuesday.

Just so you know, I usually don't answer the phone on Tuesdays. Call me superstitious if you want. I don't have to worry about the burden of proof. I have years of it. Now you know why I hide under a rock and never answer the phone on a Tuesday. 

Ugh... Tuesday is right behind the corner.

Worst Post Ever!

Day 239

I had a terrible unfortunate thing happen to me yesterday that has really put a damper on me. I thought about blogging about it but I am just not in the mood to do it. I am not in the mood to do anything, in fact that is just what I am in the mood to do.

Nothing.

Nothing at all.

Nothing at all!

Yes, the Simpson are that much a part of my life. Only true fans will get the picture above.

 I can even hear Comic Book Guy's voice in the background saying "Worst Post Ever!"

He looks like how I feel.