the laanba blog

I need a time machine

Don't ask.  To explain to you how I got here would take too long to explain.  But this just shows how out of step I am with my peers.  This makes me almost happier than anything I could watch or listen to.  I love it.  I truly belong in another time period.

Moses Supposes from Singing in the Rain

That's Quite a Corner

Opening sentence of fundraiser sales pitch I got in my work email this evening:

I wanted to touch base with you now that fall is almost over and Earth Day is right around the corner. 

Isn't Earth Day in April?  April is right around the corner?  Awesome. Would anybody like my birthday wish list?  Apparently I can just go ahead and combine it with my Christmas list.

Stuck

I am weird for a music teacher.  I don't listen to music outside my job.  I don't listen to it in the car.  I don't listen to it in my home.  On my way to and from a broadway show I'll listen to the soundtrack and occasionally on a road trip I'll listen to an album to add some variety, but generally in the car I listen to podcasts and at home I listen to the television.

I haven't thought too much about the reasons why, but one pet theory I have is that songs get too easily stuck in my head.  I know songs get stuck in everyone's head, but when they are stuck in my head it is for days and days upon end and it is annoying.

I finally decided to look up songs stuck in my head on the internet and found this sentence from the How Stuff Works article:

[Researcher] says women, musicians and people who are neurotic, tired or stressed are most prone to earworm attacks.

Um, wow I am ALL of those things all the time.  So I guess that explains it.  Here is my current torture.

Flags

I use StatCounter to track visits to my blogs.  One of my favorite things is seeing the little flags of the countries of the different visitors.  The world at my doorstep!

Chant

I don't need someone else to be happy.
I don't need someone else to be happy.
I don't need someone else to be happy.
I don't need someone else to be happy.

Sometimes I have to say that to myself a lot to drown out the other voices in my head. Sometimes those other damn voices are really loud.

ABCs of Me

I normally don't do the  Facebook memes, but I thought this one wasn't too bad and would even be interesting for the blog.

A - Age: 36 (but only for 10 more days)
B - Bed size: Full
C - Chore you hate: Er... well I used to say cooking, but I'm not allowed to say that anymore. So, um.... washing the dishes.
D - Dog's name: No dog.  Only my kitty, Gypsy.
E - Essential start your day item: the morning news on ABC
F - Favorite color: Gray
G - Gold or Silver: Gold
H - Height: 5'0"
I - Instruments you play: Clarinet, Piano in the sense that I know what the keys are
J - Job title: Head Choir Director
K - Kid(s): 0
L - Living arrangements: Me and my cat
M - Mom's name: Diann
N - Nicknames: laanba
O - Overnight hospital stay other than birth: Nope
P - Pet Peeve: People who can't park their car between the lines.  Especially when they park ON the line.  Really how hard is this people?
Q - Quote from a movie: Does it have to be from a movie?  I'm going to cheat and pick my favorite quote from a TV show.  I'm more of a TV girl anyway.  "Big Damn Heroes, Sir."  
R - Right or left handed: Right
S - Siblings: None.  I'm an only child.  BUT I am starting to discover the other half of my family and apparently I have half brothers.  Stay tuned.
T - Time you wake up: 5:30 on the weekdays, sleep as late as I can on the weekends
U - Underwear: Yep
V - Vegetable you dislike: Okra
W - Ways you run late: The computer.  It is my crack.
X - X-rays you've had: teeth, chest
Y - Yummy food you make: You'll have to check back with me in a few months.  I'm just now teaching myself to cook.
Z - Zoo favorite: Elephants

Boo ba doo ba doop

So I don't end the night with a sad post, Banana Phone.
Really.

Face Your Manga

I saw these little avatars popping up in my contact's Flickr streams. It was uncanny how much the little graphic looked like the people. So I tried it out.

I don't think it looks anything like me probably starting with the fact she is skinny and I couldn't get the hair quite right.

Dream Hangover

I have a dream hangover. Every once in a long while I will have a dream with a mystery man, never someone I know, that is so real I have a dream hangover for a few hours after I wake up. I know the brain must be playing a part in activating nerve endings because every touch feels so real. These particular dreams are always so sensual. It is usually passing touches, the kind of thing that a couple may do in public so as not to have "get a room" shouted at them, but to make a connection. That constant need to touch, hold hands, fleeting glances, light brushes. Thinking back to my most intense relationship, touch was a very big part of it (he spoiled me for anyone else I think). And then there is always the moment where I start swimming to consciousness and no matter how much I fight it I can't stop. Then I'm awake and want nothing more but to go back to sleep to my dream man, but once I've come awake he never comes back and only exists in my fleeting memories.

Two by Two

I usually don't do these, but I'm feeling out of sorts today so here we go. I picked this meme up from Vivi.

Two names you go by:
1. Laurie
2. laanba - pretty much how you will find me all over the internet. I've mentioned this before, but in case you are new, laanba is the first two letters of my first, middle and last name. It is the only time I have ever been creative.

Two things you are wearing right now:
1. Blue jeans - because I had to get dressed to go get take out. Otherwise I'd still be in my pjs.
2. Glasses - I normally wear contacts, but not on days where I would still be in my pjs at four in the afternoon.

Two of your favorite things to do:
1. take pictures
2. surf the internet - I think I may have an addiction to this one.

Two things you want very badly at the moment:
1. My rebate check so I can buy a new camera lens
2. For this tired, achy, rundown feeling not to be what I think it might.

Two favorite pets you have had or have now?
1. Gypsy, of course, my current kitty. First one that was ever completely mine.
2. Teddy, an orange male cat from my childhood. He was the most amazing cat and sadly he just disappeared one day. I still think about him.

Two people who will fill this out:
1. Ha.
2. People don't read this blog, so not happening.

Two things you ate last night:
1. pizza
2. pizza. Had a party with the students and anytime you are around middle schoolers, the menu is pizza.

Two things you ate today:
1. Steak
2. Baked Potato - from the aforementioned takeout

Two people you last talked to:
1. Lisa, my co-worker
2. Chris, another co-worker

Two things you're doing tomorrow:
1. hoping that I wake up feeling better than I do today
2. IF I'm feeling better I will be going to the International Festival tomorrow

Two favorite holidays:
1. Thanksgiving
2. Memorial Day - marks the close of the school year, hooray!

Two favorite vacations:
1. Ireland - I went with my college women's choir and I absolutely loved it. I wish I could run away to Ireland.
2. New York City - Took an amazing trip by a company called Veiled Voyages. Gave them a price ($375 for this trip) and a list of interests and they booked airline and hotel to a surprise destination. Sadly this company doesn't operate anymore.

Two Favorite Drinks:
1. Coca-Cola
2. Hot Chai Latte from Onion Creek. Heaven

Birthday:
April 25th.