9 Moons Ago

love you.
so much.

I DID have an idea for a nice entry last night..but, time just slipped away..then all hell broke loose. Storm..mother of all storms. Power outage from last night till after I left for work. Dead tired at work..no chance for radio…oh well..that’s not why I’m there..*big smile*. If only I could convince them I work BETTER listening to music!

Last night I listened to Buck Rodgers (sp?) ..so GREAT!!! I’d never heard that before..it had me cracking up and I hope they’ll play more!!! I also danced happily around my studio while doing last minute stuff for immigration..bah..I’ll be glad when it’s FINISHED! Cameron had told me that listening to yodeling on the radio is grounds for divorce…so I took my little clock radio in there..hee..he’d better watch it..I’m not apologizing and he might just get more of it if he’s not careful!!
Besides..he didn’t hear it…it was …well..I loved it…went right through me..some of those cowboys can really hit the perfect notes!

So..I don’t know if I’ll write anymore tonight..it depends. Cam has chided me for writing instead of sleeping…which, of course, is true..I’m needing sleep so badly…and going nutso because of it…and yeah..I don’t WANT to cut back on writing…so what needs to go? Hmmm….how about dinner and dishes?! Sandwiches tonight! Unless someone else wants to cook! ;-)

Also…I couldn’t sleep this morning because I had no alarm clock, and was afraid I might wake up late, so I woke up early enough to take a nice bath at dawn, and read my book a little.

Cool. Perhaps I’ll return after a nap…I’d like to, anyway…
Take care…oh, and..I got all those cool comments and will respond another day!!

Enough of the DOT DOT DOT…………..!!!

I am driving myself nuts now!! Hee…I think it’ll all be just great later..
HOLY CRAP!! They are playing “To Sir, With Love!!!!” *swoons* TOTALLY SWOONS….

Just a note, to let those of you hanging on my every word..he he..let you know I’ll be back later with more…

It’s just that I started to write about how good work has been, and why, and then remembered that I need to attend to a higher priority, just for tonight, before I’ll indulge in my writing and reading!
I’ve also decide to save that particular work post for another time, because I have something else on my mind for my longer essay, tonight.

So, for a “short” (BAH HAAA HAAAA!) entry right now, I’ll just say these things:

1) Spent a cold rainy day in a warm office full of warm people, listening to the rain on the roof.

2) I was offered the job of cleaning up the very large and light-filled stationery storage area today, if I wanted to; which meant that I was left to my own devices, with the radio (something I’d normally not be able to do for the whole day), organizing things in a secluded spot. (Before you say “Yeah..but I thought…” just think about how YOU find it, when cleaning up stuff that is not YOURS. Yeah. I thought so.)
The room has been a disaster area since they moved to a new office over a year ago. I just did one thing at a time and made great headway! Still have a few hours here and there..probably will be in there tomrrow, after lunch?

3) I was only pulled away from said task for a total of 1.5 hours today, and the boss left early, peeked in and told me to have fun! Ohhh boy, did I! It meant that I got to listen to stuff like Romeo and Juliet, and a bunch of lovely romantic oldies, gorgeous duets, and a song by the BELL boys..hee, some Celtic inspired stuff..just way too much to go through. I was HAPPY.

4) Cameron had actually been listening to the same station at home, and it was too funny, because he told me what I’d missed while I was helping to run a meeting at work. Mary Ford and Les Paul! A favorite. I’m gonna have to keep this station on all the time, I’m afraid. :-D You may think I’m nuts to rave about this stuff…but..really, I love it! We even listened to it on the drive home. And while doing dishes. I heard “Mr. Sandman”, “Moon River”.. and almost forgot some sweet yodeling..haa!

5) Soo..these songs reminded me of another favorite of mine, by Lulu, “To Sir, With Love”.
I first took notice to it when Clinton first was running for office, and Michael Stipe and Natalie Merchant sang it for him. I’d missed their performance when it was on T.V., but I taped it off the radio. Then I listened to the original..even better!! And I will have to play it sometime very soon!!
I’m really missing Bill Clinton, after hearing a funny sketch on the radio about him. Cam and I listened to it and we simultaneously cried out loudly “OH COME BACK!! COME BACK!! WE MISS YOU!!” He did a brilliant interview last year on a wonderful Australian interview show, “Enough Rope, with Andrew Denton”. (Who actually listens to his guests with respect..let’s them “hang-themselves”, so to speak, by letting them talk unhindered.)

6) I forgot what number six was gonna be….

- 10 minutes later -

Uh..um..now I know what no.6 was. (Maybe he’ll never notice that the steamed broccoli became “smoked broccoli” ..if I doctor it up a bit with cheese or something!) That’s what I get for trying to cook and write at the same time!….mmm ..tastes like ..burning…

I’ll be back lata, “Darling”!
Ames

Didn’t know what I wanted to write tonight, and then it hit me: Since I’ve begun the journey back to writing, and letter writing..
I thought about the first book I will read..really read..and finish… this year. (But not the only!!)
It shall be John O’Donohue’s “Anam Cara”.
A favorite of mine for several years. I got it when it first came out in paperback..about 1998.

Just a brief snippet from it’s prologue:

“The Celtic understanding of friendship finds its inspiration and culmination in the sublime notion of the anam cara. Anam is the Gaelic word for soul; cara is the word for friend. So anam cara means soul friend. The anam cara was a person to whom you could reveal the hidden intimacies of your life. The friendship was an act of recognition and belonging. When you had an anam cara, your friendship cut across all convention and category. You were joined in an ancient and eternal way with the friend of your soul….”

So, I suggest if you like the sound of that, you should check out this book. If not to buy at the store or online, at least look for it in a library .. to really sink into it. And I won’t link to it tonight, this 1st day of February, 2005, because I’m setting myself a reasonable bedtime. Yes, a lot later than most reasonable bedtimes..but early for an Amy.
I’ve been energised and feeling good, the job thing is going great.. so I’ll look after my health and keep that up too!

Anyway ..gonna go listen to the Eastern FM (98.1) ..while in the bath, before bed…lovely stuff…I’ve ditched the alternative stuff for now. Ahh..how much bliss can I stand?! I’m willing to find out. Heee..don’t mind me. I’m just smitten with my life and love! I wish you the same. I wish you love. And I send you mine!
xxxooo Amy