Category: music
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the year ahead
This year is off to a great start. I feel really inspired and happy so far. I’m eagerly awaiting the stsaff applications to open for the camp I want to work at, lacrosse practice starts this week, and I feel energized. That’s rare for me this time of year, as I’m usually down and sad…
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Taylor Swift, Swifties, and their enemies
I have to start with this…I have casually listened to T-Swift for years. I was behind the times in more recent years, but I never really found myself annoyed with her or with any really negative opinion of her. I remember the Kanye mess in 2009 and my older two were really annoyed by her…
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Odds and Ends
It’s been a nutty couple of weeks but it seems to be settling down now. Boy #3 is done with cross country, Girl is done with soccer and just has lacrosse now, and Boy #2 got his first choice college visit out of the way. Boy #1 seems to be struggling a bit at college,…
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Daily Prompt 7/5/23
I like all music, with the exception of older, super twangy country music. It’s just not my jam. I don’t judge anyone who loves it and I suppose there are exceptions. I don’t consider Dolly Parton or Kenny Rogers super twangy but others might. I really enjoy rock, classic rock, 80s, 90s, disco, alternative, some…
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Unpopular Opinion
I saw Dear Evan Hansen last Saturday. I knew it won a bunch of Tony Awards. I knew it was well loved and very popular. And I did not like it. I loved parts of it, I must admit. There were some great songs. The acting was really good but the characters weren’t as developed…
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Boy #1
Things are starting to fall into place for him. He found out today that he has been accepted into a pre-mortuary sciences program about three or so hours from where we live. What a huge relief. Not that I didn’t believe in him and not that I didn’t think he could do it. But it…
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Weekend Roundup
It’s Sunday already. I’m trying to make the most of that dang day that takes away an hour and makes you feel like you are nuts. The cats are getting to eat right when they think they should eat and technically I slept in, since there was that extra hour added on. Friday night was…