Word To Your… *ahem* Mother
I adore my son - that’s plainly obvious. I’ve even been accused of putting him on a pedestal. Can you blame me? He seriously rocks.
But, know who else rocks? My silent-but-deadly daughter…
While the men in the house prefer Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Black Sabbath, etc. The girls prefer whatever suits their whim at the moment. That might very well include Bowling For Soup, Soul Coughing, Avril Lavigne, Nickelback, Frank Sinatra, Harry Connick Jr., Amy Grant, The Carpenters, Bing Crosby, Rick Springfield, Frankie Valli… you get the point.
So, after Kate mentioned to me that she liked Rick Springfield (women my age and older are beginning to swoon at the very sound of the name, I know) specifically, Jesse’s Girl - I just knew that she would appreciate the music that I listened to at her age!
Including, but not limited to:
Don’t Forget Me When I’m Gone - Glass Tiger
Take On Me - Aha
Footloose - Kenny Loggins
Let’s Hear It For The Boy - Daniece Williams (Footloose Soundtrack)
I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight - Glass Tiger
Breakout - Swing Out Sister
Don’t Wanna Fall In Love - Jane Child
Catch Me I’m Falling - Pretty Poison
Head Over Heels - Tears For Fears
Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Tears For Fears
Policy of Truth - Depeche Mode
Waiting For A Star To Fall - Boy Meets Girl
Guess what? She does! And, they are all on her iPod right now!
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May 10, 2007 @ 5:08 am
Working from home is much more difficult than working in an office, if you have a work ethic. Because, honestly, your work day never stops. You can always do more work. When you leave an office at 5 or 6 or 7 or later, your work is done.
The only way I can do things during the weekday (lunch, my weekly shave, occasional movie, etc.) is to know that I’m going to have to work until midnight or later that day. And since I don’t have kids, I can do that, but it’s certainly not fair for you to have to plan on working at 9 or 10 at night when you’ve got three little devils dependent on you for love, attention and food.
May 10, 2007 @ 5:38 am
That was the most frustrating thing about working for myself. Everyone assumed that meant “oh, so then, you can go do XYZ with me right now then?”
And while I do agree with the idea of wag the dog, blah blah blah blah - I don’t think anyone who HASN’T worked from home - or for themselves - is in a position to advise on that.
And also? I love you. Lots. M’kay?
May 10, 2007 @ 6:40 am
Wait a minute… you don’t have time to take showers anymore?
Nasty.
May 10, 2007 @ 8:50 am
Avi Exactly. You are exactly right - they are devils. All three of them.
Miss B
You SO rock! :mrgreen:
Joe I said barely, Joe. :razz: I shower daily… just for you.
May 10, 2007 @ 10:40 am
Oh, sweet. I wonder what else I can get you to do just for me.
Stand on one foot!
May 10, 2007 @ 10:48 am
Boooooooooooooooooooring!
You are no fun at all!! :twisted: Avi could take a few lessons from you on hiding perverted tendencies. :mrgreen:
May 10, 2007 @ 11:00 am
Yes, I could come up with a few things for you to do just for me!
May 10, 2007 @ 11:07 am
I bet you could. Unfortunately, I don’t swing that way or that way and I don’t like vinyl, pleather, or leather for that matter.
At least not in that way. :twisted:
May 10, 2007 @ 5:23 pm
Ultimately, I could never work from home. I am just too undiciplined.
May 10, 2007 @ 10:28 pm
I’m not boring. I was just testing you. If you won’t even stand on one foot, why should I believe you’ll do that octopus thing?
June 29, 2007 @ 5:05 am
ooooh, a-ha! Oh, how I loved the lead singer, Morten :sex014: My 5 year old happily bops around the house to old 80’s faves!!!
June 29, 2007 @ 5:59 am
:rock: Rock on Sister! :rock:
Rick Springfield…saw him in Vegas about 5 years ago….he was out in the audience just a mere table away….I almost passed out. :ohgreatone:
June 29, 2007 @ 6:44 am
i want an ipod :sex014: And your daughters music selection…and does she have the WHOLE footloose soundtrack on it, or just the one song?
June 29, 2007 @ 6:59 am
I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight was Cutting Crew, not Glass Tiger.
It would be really nice if I could use my brain for worthwhile things, like plotting world domination, rather than obscure 80’s pop trivia.
June 29, 2007 @ 7:16 am
Oh ah!! the memories!
June 29, 2007 @ 8:10 am
Good choices!
I was in an 80s kind of mood last night too… I listened to LOTS of Duran Duran, George Michael (before he started whipping it out in public), INXS, Eurythmics.
June 29, 2007 @ 8:13 am
Silent but deadly?
June 29, 2007 @ 8:29 am
Sam :cheesy:
DeeJay That’s pretty cool! I think the guy his hotter now than he was in the 80’s
BluePaintRed She has Footloose and Let’s Hear It For The Boy. I had the cassette soundtrack when I was in 5th or 6th grade and I wore that thing out!
y not i Now that I think of it, that does sound right. But the song came up when I downloaded it as being by Glass Tiger so I just went with it. LOL
kat Almost makes you want to go dig out your stretch pants and really wide belts, doesn’t it?
Tense Teacher Kate has WHAM! on her Ipod too! It’s so funny there is a radio station here and one night a week they play all 80’s music and sometimes they do funky remixes - so Kate’s been listening to all of this stuff lately it’s sooooo funny!
Avi Yep. She’s the quiet one who will rip your nuts off without warning and then go off and cry about how you hurt her feelings. LOL :whosnext:
June 29, 2007 @ 8:31 am
Or she’s a really smelly fart.
June 29, 2007 @ 8:38 am
No, that’s the other kid.
June 29, 2007 @ 9:02 am
Wow…you took me on a flashback!! I think I need to go tease my hair now. (BTW…I love all of those songs too :) )
June 29, 2007 @ 9:52 am
No head banger I, but I was around when Ten Years After cut its first album.
That list contains three “guilty pleasures” of mine. But I’m not tellin…
June 29, 2007 @ 10:12 am
My daughter also loves the music from when I was a kid. And she loves showtunes. One of my best nights was when she and I had to run errands, and we sang the soundtrack to Chicago - and she new it word for word. :love:
June 29, 2007 @ 10:41 am
Why didn’t you mention the fact that she is thin and cute and has perky boobs? :eyebrow:
June 29, 2007 @ 3:06 pm
Jane Child! I haven’t thought of her in years. She’s the essence of one-hit wonder. She had one single, which rocketed to #1, then she dropped off the face of the Earth.
June 29, 2007 @ 3:43 pm
:omg:
I like a lot of those songs too :)
June 29, 2007 @ 5:50 pm
I practically wore that Footloose soundtrack out back in the day.
June 29, 2007 @ 8:54 pm
I work with a some staff that are early 20’s and they had never heard of half of these bands, so I made it my task to educate them. I had song of the day where I would get on youtube and pick a song and make them listen.
A-ha and Adam Ant were prominent.
Rick Springfield is touring here next month - squee!!
June 29, 2007 @ 10:26 pm
I literally just copy and pasted that list into an email for myself to buy on itunes. Nice……
June 30, 2007 @ 9:19 am
omg, that is the scariest list of songs I’ve ever seen. I don’t do 80s! Crazy Me I’m Falling? lmfao!
June 30, 2007 @ 12:51 pm
Alrightie! Sounds like that girl is gonna be as cool as her Mom… just don’t tell her, LOL
June 30, 2007 @ 6:01 pm
Glass Tiger! I thought they were a purely Canadian thing.
(I actually saw them in concert in, like, 1990.)