You'd think as many times as I've tried it, I would have learned by now that my car-door remote is not some magical skeleton key. It does not open anything but the car doors. Not the front door, not the computer room door, not even the car trunk. Just the doors, Joy. Just the car doors.
I came into work today, and there was a promo shirt sitting on my chair. Size medium. I was all, "Woohoo! Someone thought I was a medium! But no way that's going to fit."
Then my boss called and said that we were all supposed to wear these shirts today (though I have yet to see anyone else wearing one, so now I'm wondering whether he's yanking my chain). So I figured, what the hell, try it on. It fits! Well, not exactly...it doesn't quite stretch around my "birthin'" hips, but from the waist up it fits fine. Tuck it in, and it actually looks presentable. Medium!
I've spent a lot of time this morning looking for a Blues Traveler Christmas song, even though I already own it. I don't want THAT song exactly, but another song that's on a different year's version of the same Christmas CD. Trouble is, I don't remember the name of the song or the group who sang it, and I don't remember the name of the CD series either...just that they put one out every year and proceeds go to some charity, and the one year I own has the Blues Traveler Christmas song on it.
I listened to a sample of the song I'm looking for when I was looking for another song a few months ago, and liked it a lot, but didn't download it because it was the day before payday and I was flat broke. Now I wish I had just sucked it up and spent the dollar, because this search is driving me crazy.
I thought the group was the Waitresses, but the only Christmas song of theirs I can find is that Christmas Wrappings song, which is good, but wasn't the one I was looking for. It's sort of acoustic, folksy, you know--sounds like every other song I own. So, if anyone knows what song I'm thinking of here, drop a comment. ;)
Incidentally, this whole process is pretty much how I find all my music. "Ooh, I want that song that I heard at that bar back in 1996, but I don't know the name of it, or the artist, I just know it has such-and-so lyrics and the guy has this cool gravelly, 10,000-cigarettes voice".
I spent over 5 years googling "by the way, I need an orange juice can" every couple of months before I found that it was "By The Way", by Joe Scruggs (not available on iTunes, alas. But you can buy the CD here). God bless the Internet.
UPDATE: Since at least one person has arrived here on a search for those lyrics (and I'm the #1 hit on google), I've changed the text above. It used to link to an MP3 that I've since deleted, because I don't want to get sued or whatever. But if you follow the link to Amazon, you can buy the CD there.
Speaking of music, you know what annoys me? The fact that iTunes will let me connect the iPod and put songs from iTunes on it, but won't let me copy songs from the iPod to playlists on the computer. What's the point of that exactly? I mean, I can still browse the iPod like a USB drive and find the song I want, copy it to the computer, and then import it to iTunes. Not only that, but why make the file structure on the iPod so damned cryptic, and hide the music folders besides? It's all my music, Apple. I'm just transferring it from work to home and vice versa. Why make me go through all that searching and copying nonsense, when it would be so much nicer just to drag and drop from one playlist to another?
I had one of those "I am such a spoiled American" moments last night. I went to the grocery store because I was making a fruit salad for the company Thanksgiving lunch today, and they didn't have any fresh peaches in the produce section (my fruit salad is berries, kiwi, peaches, and grapes. Very pretty). I started to get a little irritated, and then I thought about it--it's November. Are peaches in season anywhere this time of year? And yet, I get so used to having every kind of produce available to me whenever I want it that I get all bent out of shape when I have to buy frozen peaches in the winter. Yeesh.
Oh, and I've finally figured out what my challenge is going to be. I'm calling it "The 14 Challenge", in which I make it to a solid size 14 in 14 days, starting today. How will I do that? Details to follow in my next post.
UPDATE: Okay, the CD series is A Very Special Christmas, and I own volume 3. They don't put it out every year, it appears. However, the CD I thought the Mystery Song was on, Volume 2, does not contain the mystery song. So I don't know where the hell I heard it. But now I think the lyrics might have had something to do with a donkey, for some reason. Sigh.
Figure this one out, I'll buy you something from your wishlist. Seriously.
UPDATE 2: I think it was Rudy, by the Be Good Tanyas. Either that or Breath of Heaven by Amy Grant, which talks about Mary traveling, conjuring up a (false) donkey lyric memory. But I'm pretty sure it was the Be Good Tanyas, since I was looking for another one of their songs a while back...if you sort by album name, Rudy is at the top of that list. And if I followed the link for the entire A Winter's Night album, iTunes probably suggested others that would include the Very Special Christmas CDs. It's also very possible that I mixed up the Barenaked Ladies song on the Winter's Night CD with the Blues Traveler song I have, which got me thinking about the Very Special CDs. Whatever....song downloaded and case closed!
(Unless I'm wrong, of course.)
Posted by Joy at November 19, 2004 11:03 AMTo the person who found the song, "By the way, I need an orange juice can"....please tell me who is the author, and on what cassette or CD it can be found. thanks
Posted by: Lou Ann on February 9, 2005 03:45 PM