Or, Benadryl has stolen from you my brilliance
Say, before we get into the actual post, did I just use the passive voice up there? Is that what it is? If so, I am seeing no reason to avoid it because how else are you going to write the melodrama?
(Heh, I think sentences about grammar are total comment bait. Sometimes I pretend not to understand the transitives to get people to talk to me on the bus.)
So today I saw this truck with a wooden bumper held on by some sort of cables. That’s about all I can say about that.
In other news, my next door neighbors are all home on vacation and it’s really annoying me, because my habit is to give the two little boys their music lessons midmorning and I don’t quite fancy any speculation on why I have “Go West” and “Eye of the Tiger” on repeat. Mind your business! Go to work! I don’t hang out next to your office all day!
Speaking of, yesterday I was puttering around in the kitchen listening to the iPod in my phone. Here’s where I confess I’m not fancy enough to have put my music in playlists so it’s anyone’s guess what’s going to play. So this song comes on:
And I realized I really like songs like that, where you’re totally relating to it and sort of sobbing along on the inside even though nothing of the sort ever happened to you. Sort of like “yeah, I could see that happening to me, and I would overcome; damn, I have a beautiful soul.”
Oh yeah, if I ever die, I want this at my funeral. I wrote it in my blog, so it is legally binding so don’t let my husband weasel out of it and play Bach or some crap like that.
Happy midweek everyone!
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I am so embarrassed to say this, but ohmygod, I love that song. But you won’t get me to admit that I cry a little every time I hear it.
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I’m about to cry because I see the date on that video is 1990. WTH?!
That truck is so… Creative.
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My neighbor is a piano teacher, one of the top of the line piano master teachers, I could never hear her practice or play but she could hear my playing and my kids playing. She came over one day and told me I was teaching the wrong rhythm to Fur Elise and brought me a tape of her playing it so my children could get it right.
It as a relief to sell the grand piano to pay medical bills, because then I got a computer piano with head phones. The kids all learned their music and practiced with head phones. What they were playing was always a delight at recital time, because I had not heard them practice it a 1000 times and my neighbor never came over again or commented. Doesn’t work so well when I sing….hmm
Keep on trucking
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I LOVE that truck! And the song. Damn, why did I listen to it at work? Sniff.
Good post.
Thank you, Tracy!
Tracy,
You are too much. Even when you do a “Seinfeld” post, you still manage to crack me up.
Where did you find my truck? I only have three more payments left on the darned thing…
George
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Hi Tracy, in Australia that isn’t a truck, just like when Crocodile Dundee went to the States what those hoods pulled on him wasn’t a knife
Also I’m not so sure that the straps are holding the bumper up so much as they are stopping the hood from flying up. I could be wrong, it has happened before on rare occasions. 
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Haha Tracy,
When I say the title “Wordless Wednesday” I thought, “Oh no, I’m going to miss Tracy’s words of wisdom”, but you didn’t let me down.
“The Dance” by Garth Brooks is still one of my favorites. How can we not like a story like that?
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@Vered, I am torn between thinking how great that they are repairing instead of ditching it for a new vehicle and wondering how toxic the fumes must be.
@Patricia, heh the little boys are just turned 3 and 1.5 so our “music lessons” are pretty much me putting on the videos to those songs and us singing and dancing along. We are really, really super good!
However, we live in a city neighborhood and the houses are very close together, so the neighbors might not agree. I am used to being the only people home during the weekdays.
We had one of those electric pianos, too! So handy and never needs tuning!
@Tumblemoose Ha! That’s the great thing about living in Midtown Memphis, if I’m ever stuck for a post, I can just walk outside for a block or two and come across something to take a picture of!
@Sire hey! I think you’re probably right. I’m not what you’d call “handy”. Now that I think of it, I just you wouldn’t just hand a bumper from the hood!
One day I have to visit Australia. I wonder if I could talk the Australian goverment into sponsoring me taking a tour, if I promised to blog it? I will ask them.
@Barbara I know! You know what would be awesome? A BWaB community picnic with a karaoke machine filled with good country and western songs. Many people will disagree with me, but I think C&W is the best for karaoke, followed by power ballads and then pop.
As a trained classical music professional, I often think that the joy of music is ripped right out of the hearts of children (and adults, for that matter) by always feeling like everything has to be “correct” for the music to be valid, for it to touch our hearts and minds. Kudos to you, Tracy, for your music lessons, for awakening in your children the joy of music!
Seeing that truck reminded me of all the oddball junkers I’ve owned, the Fiats with multi-colored body panels and the Studebakers with suicide doors. Now that I’ve got a car with nothing bashed up and all one paint color, I’m as proud of it at 15 years as I would be of a new one.
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Great songs! I love the Velvet Underground! And thank goodness for inspections and laws about what is ok with cars and what isn’t. A wooden bumper being something that wouldn’t be allowed. That isn’t your car, is it?
@Mike, I’m glad to hear you say that because often online you hear musical professionals become quite indignant and natter on and on about how pained they are to hear somebody sing off tune or play out of rhythm. Oh! What an insult to their artist’s soul!
I remember my mom and dad used to tease me a lot about my lack of music and dance skills – and then they wondered why I didn’t have any confidence!
I feel the same way about my house. I’ve lived in so many grotty places that it doesn’t bother me one little bit that my house is on the less posh side of the street and only has 1.5 baths and a pink & faux brick linoleum kitchen.
@Online Colleges. Ha! No, but it does have character, don’t you think. I didn’t think to look what county it was registered with, I’m wondering if maybe it’s an agricultural vehicle of some sort and has an exemption? The truckbed had some lawn equipment type stuff there, so perhaps it was just making a delivery from a farm.
Yea if it is a farm truck it can be whatever as long as it runs. I think it would need special plates though. Great car though and yes, lots of character!
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