Wednesday, July 2, 2008 - Of All The Inane Posts I've Written, This One May Be the Worst
Most of my computer time these days is spent on my duties as Unofficial Coordinator of the Fifth Sorta-Bi-Annual Floatwad Family Reunion, a weeklong out-of-state event which is coming up in just a couple weeks. (Grandfather in heaven, forgive me for thusly corrupting the family name. I don't like to use real surnames on my blog.)
The result of this is that, despite all my wonderful ideas for posts, I don't have really have time to write them. So in leiu of a meaningful post, I give you this:
Today at the health food store, I was subjected to a most inhumane form of torture. It had nothing to do with the food I had to buy or the money I had to spend, and everything to do with the music that was playing on the sound system.
When I walked in, they were playing "Come Sail Away". Not a problem. (In fact, my 9-year-old was singing parts of that song last night as I helped her clean her room, compliments no doubt of Daddy, who delights in exposing the kids to classic and not-so-classic rock and roll even as I endeavor to shelter them from it.) No, that song was not the problem. Styx I can handle. It was what they were playing about 10 minutes later as I was crouching in Aisle 5 comparing prices on canned garbanzo beans.
Talk about nightmarishly idiotic cult songs from the junior high years. I had hoped to never have to hear this song again. But thirty-odd years later, there it was.
And here it still is, running through my brain. And now, because I am feeling mean and rotten and mischievious, I am going to make sure it runs through yours. My friend CelticMom was so very appreciative of my reference last week to the Tab Cola commercials and the ensuing residency of the lyrics in her brain for the day, that I am certain she and all the rest of you will appreciate this reference as well. Especially if you are female and somewhere in your early-to-mid 40's.
Yeah, my heart stood still
Yeah, her name was Jill
Yeah, I love her still
Da doo ron ron ron, da doo ron ron
(Oh my, it's Shau-wun Cass-a-deeee! Can anybody say, "Like, gag me with a spoon"?)
Da doo ron ron ron, da doo ron ron
Da doo ron ron ron, da doo ron ron...
Bwa-ha-ha-ha! You can't escape it! It will loop endlessly through your brain all the day long! Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!
You're very welcome.
Now send me chocolate, or my next post will contain Andy Gibb lyrics.
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Anyway, sadly enough, oh-my-gosh-Shawn-Cassidy is a step up from the current song rattling around in my (suspiciously empty) head. Yep, I could be found putting the sheets back on the bed last night to the tune of "Michael, Row the Boat Ashore" (where in the world THAT came from I'll never know).
Headed to the shower now where, unfortunately for my children, I do my best (LOL) singing.