Easy like Sunday mooorrrnnning…..
Fans of the SpongeBob unite! Don’t care what you think….the square is funny! Made it thru Saturday. Did not exercise, but, was gone all day doing stuff with boyfriend. Things like home-fix-it-project purchases, oil changes, groceries, library activities, getting gas (for the car), bird seed replacement, garage cleaning, going to the bank….that’s right. It is exciting out here in the Midwest. Nice day. Nice night. I stayed home while boyfriend went out with friends to cheer up other friend after sad personal loss. (Our thoughts and prayers go out to him and his family).
Did some laundry and dishes (well, not really dishes; 2 plates that had 1 very lean hamburger patty and some brown rice on them–we licked them clean and I just put them back in the cabinet). Done. So, then my night is free to think of today’s playlist. Have to work out, twice, but can’t. So will have to combine workouts. An hour, plus. Hmmm….Sunday….days of the week music? Don’t know if I can find enough–we’ll see. That’s my first idea.
Second idea: I am going to my sissy’s (she’s a boo-tishin’) (hair do-er…ya’ know…) and I need the whole job done on my head. I have sort of darker blonde hair with strands of grey, so color is required. The winter is brutal. Cold so harsh it makes your hair turn white! In order to get the “California Blonde Look” we all decided looks the best, apparently, on me, (says the mom, the kids, the boyfriend, people I used to work with…) it means one layer after another of beautiful fake sunshine. A highlight here and there. A cut, a blow, and a style I will never be able to repeat, and I’m done. Slap on some fresh make-up and present the new and improved head for examination. So, point is, I’m thinking…hair…blonde…brunette…California style…and so on.
I’m going to hold a Sunday Song list for a lazy moment and instead bring you the “Gee, Your Hair Smells Terrific” List:
1. Hair / Treat Williams & Cast (Movie Soundtrack)
2. Sister Golden Hair / America
3. San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair) / Scott McKenzie
4. Suicide Blonde / INXS
5. The Boys Of Summer / Don Henley
6. Delta Dawn / Helen Reddy
7. Wonderful Tonight / Eric Clapton
8. Are You Gonna Be My Girl / Jet
9. Jolene / Dolly Parton
10. She Talks To Angels / The Black Crowes
11. Bette Davis Eyes / Kim Carnes
12. Stupid Girls / Pink
13. California Girls / David Lee Roth
14. Witchy Woman / The Eagles
15. Sister Honey / Stevie Nicks
And now for a little weekend music…
I know, how predictable. It’s Saturday. Day 4 of our Extreme Fat Smashing experience. Don’t have to exercise. You CAN, but you don’t HAVE to. Still have to follow the food regimen though. If we can make it thru this weekend without a McDonalds Meltdown or a giant Pizza Pig Party, we should be home free. I was gonna go with the time/pointless endeavor music list out of sheer laziness, but then I heard some Loverboy music on the radio and voila’…it’s a rockin’ Saturday night! Or day. Whatever. The EFS makes me tired. And if you can’t eat and you can’t enjoy the other thing you can do on Saturday night with no kids home because you have a certain female condition wrecking all the fun….you just go to bed. Save your energy for Sunday when you get to eat another crumb and go run for half the day. So with total predictability, dance it quick and hit the sack, here is the “Saturday Weekend Party” list:
1. Working For The Weekend / Loverboy
2. Party Like A Rockstar / Shop Boyz
3. Saturday Night / Ta-Gana
4. Get The Party Started / Pink
5. Come Dancing / The Kinks
6. Saturday Night / Bay City Rollers
7. Party Doll / Buddy Knox with The Rhythm Orchids
8. Saturday Night Special / Lynyrd Skynyrd
9. Garden Party / Ricky Nelson
10. Saturday Night’s Alright (For Fighting) / Kid Rock & Nickelback or Elton if you’re more into that.
11. Dead Man’s Party / Oingo Boingo
12. Dancing With Myself / Billy Idol
13. Rock And Roll All Nite / Kiss
14. Little Red Corvette / Prince
EFS Day #3 Start Running and Don’t Stop (the music…)(list). HaHa.
For at least an hour! Starving and running…it’s a bad movie line, and yet I did it. Listening to my long playlist for when I have to be occupied for some time. Which made me think…time. Today can be all about time. Long, unending, stretches of time, running in place, staring at the back of some guys head while he’s talking on the phone and riding the exercycle machine. Time? Pointless endeavors? (Word of the Day #1!) Good ideas for a new list. Then I remembered it’s spring! Just turned this morning—lots of songs about spring right? Time and pointlessness can wait 2 more days. Spring forward and enjoy the “Balmy Days Ahead” list:
1. I Can See Clearly Now / Jimmy Cliff
2. Blue Sky / The Allman Brothers Band
3. Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head / B J Thomas
4. Good Morning Starshine / Beverly D’Angelo (Hair Soundtrack)
5. Flower / Moby
6. Fresh Feeling / Eels
7. Rain King / Counting Crows
8. Flowers / Cross Canadian Ragweed
9. You Are My Sunshine / Stine J
10. Brown Eyed Girl / Everclear
11. Feels Like Rain / Buddy Guy
12. The Flesh Failures (Let The Sunshine In) / Various Cast Artists (Hair Soundtrack)
13. Beautiful Night / Burden Brothers
14. No Surrender / Bruce Springsteen
Extreme Fat Smashers Day #2: The Hungry Music List
Seriously. Hungry. Not as bad as I thought but still. I missed my snack last night so I could go to bed earlier so I could get up earlier and do my FIRST workout of the day before I did anything else. Double workouts are fun! So here is a list of music I can listen to later, (and you can too!), while I’m running for my SECOND workout and thinking about all the food I can never eat! Mix it up like a chocolate shake–yum yum, I serve you the “Bon Appetit” List:
1. Hungry Like The Wolf / Duran Duran
2. Cherry Pie / Warrant
3. Bread and Butter / Devo
4. French Fried Potatoes And Ketchup / Amos Milburn
5. Mashed Potato Time / Dee Dee Sharp
6. My Boy Lollipop / Millie Small
7. You’re My Dish / Fats Waller
8. Fishin’ Blues / Taj Mahal
9. Hungry Heart / Bruce Springsteen
10. Candy / Love Arcade
11. Peel Me A Grape / Ramsey Lewis & Nancy Wilson
12. Cherry Bomb / Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
13. Strawberry Wine / Pat Benatar
14. Coconut / Harry Nilsson
15. Hunger Strike / Temple Of The Dog
16. Peppermint Twist / Joey Dee & The Starliters
17. Chocolate Cake / Crowded House
18. Chicken Fried / Zac Brown Band
19. Gimme A Pigfoot / Bessie Smith
20. Chop Suey / System Of A Down
New Extreme Fat Smashers! Look here for a new music list!
And by new, I mean today. It’s our first day (me and boyfriend) on Extreme Fat Smash, the diet by Ian K. Smith. We normally live by BFL rules, (Body-For-Life) but we seem to have stalled out a bit. EFS is a 3-week jumpstart and it’s streamlined for carefully regimented food and ALOT of exercise. Thus, the new list—which is actually the old list. As promised, Friday the 13th music on Wednesday the 18th. This is what I used to run 3.6 miles today. Did it outside as opposed to the gym. We live in Chicago and it’s nice weather RIGHT NOW. Who knows for tomorrow. No records are being broken here. Just a nice steady pace. I like to set the list on shuffle. So in no particular order, the “Friday the 18th” List:
1. All We Are / Warlock
2. These Streets / Paolo Nutini
3. Walk Over Me / Dirtie Blonde
4. Super Soaked / Be Your Own Pet
5. My Same / Adele
6. Paper Planes / M.I.A.
7. Poor Nostalgic Me / Long Distance Call
8. I Want You To Know / Riddlin’ Kids
9. That Kind Of Day / Sarah Buxton
10. Man Of Constant Sorrow / Osaka Popstar & The American Legions Of Punk
11. Never Had Nobody Like You (Feat. Zooey Deschanel) / M. Ward
12. Everytime (Feat. Del the Funky Homosapien & Adrian Hartley) / Mike Relm
13. Take Off Your Sunglasses / Ezra Furman & The Harpoons
14. Desolation Row (From “Watchmen”) / My Chemical Romance
15. Head On / Pixies
16. People Who Died / The Jim Carroll Band
17. Goodbye / Save Ferris
18. Elias / Dispatch
just shy of pretty 