Very few songs are good enough to be re-released and STILL be JUST as powerful as they were the first time through..........the words have to be pretty powerful AND it takes someone phenomenal to match that first "classic" version.
Tonight - I give to you Foreigner's "I wanna know what love is" performed by Mariah Carey! Good Lord she is phenomenal......that girl can SING!!!! And I LOVE LOVE LOVE the piano in the beginning! Mmmmm - what a great wedding song ;-)
I'm also posting the lyrics after the video - READ them - good stuff!!!!
PS - after you listen to this - you might get the urge to get on YouTube and look up some old Foreigner. Wheeeew - I LOVE me some old school 80's rock/ballads!!! "I've been waiting for a girl like you"; "Hot Blooded"; "Jukebox Hero"; "Urgent" - check out those hair do's!!! LOL
Lyrics:
I gotta take a little time
A little time to think things over
I better read between the lines
In case I need it when I'm colder
In my life theres been heartache and pain
I dont know if I can face it again
Cant stop now, Ive traveled so far
To change this lonely life
I wanna know what love is
I want you to show me
I wanna feel what love is
I know you can show me
I'm gonna take a little time
A little time to look around me
I've got nowhere left to hide
It looks like love has finally found me
In my life there's been heartache and pain
I don't know if I can face it again
I can't stop now, I've traveled so far
To change this lonely life
I wanna know what love is
I want you to show me
I wanna feel what love is
I know you can show me
I wanna know what love is
I want you to show me
And I wanna feel, I want to feel what love is
And I know, I know you can show me
Well.... you will all be happy to know that "Suzy Sunshine" is BAAAACK today!!! ha ha haaaaaa
I love days when I feel like this!
Wednesday is my FAVORITE day!!!!!
In case no one has picked up on this about me yet, I am the most completely random person you will ever encounter!!
Wednesday for me is AB DAY at the gym! My favorite!!!! (Love David @GetTonedFitness!!) I am DETERMINED to have VISIBLE abs by Christmas! (my gift to myself this year!) Yes I realize that is winter and not summer, when most are working towards that beach body. But as much of a procrastinator as I am - I had to set a much closer goal for myself! YAY for Ab Day !!! :)
Wednesday is UFC and sushi day!!! My friend "G" comes over every Wednesday night with sushi and we watch the next episode of "Ultimate Fighter" (my most recent newfound love - ha ha) I spent a Saturday some time ago watching a marathon of old Ultimate Fighter episodes and immediately became addicted to the sport! LOVE IT! YAY for sushi and UFC!!! :)
Wednesday now also offers another of my newfound loves - CougarTown! This show is freaking hilarious and I can NOT get over the similarities between her house and my own! (my poor son!) If you have not watched this yet, and you need a good laugh - check it out! Tonight on ABC (I have attached a sneak peek of tonight's show!) YAY for CougarTown!!! :)
Take this next one with a grain of salt - but my son (teenager) is on vacation this week.......like gone from my house! I am soooo happy that he had the opportunity to go to the beach for fall break with a friend and happy that as tight as money is for us - I was able to provide the means for him to go! But MOSTLY I'm happy for the quiet at my house! ha ha & Not only is it his fall break - but mine also! So no school for me for the rest of this week OR next week! YAY for Fall Break and vacation!!! :)
And Bonus - the sun is out today - no more rain!!!!!!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE fall!!!! AND it's HUMP DAY!!! half way through the work week people! YAY for WEDNESDAYS!!!!!!!!
Maybe that's why we have days like I had yesterday - to appreciate so much more the days like today!! =)
Happy Wednesday
No song today - watch the clip from CougarTown instead and have a good laugh =)
Ok - am I the only one that does this?!?!?
Sometimes, when I have a bad day, when nothing seems to be going right - I tend to shut everyone out; proceed to playing sappy love songs and replay all the things in my life I have screwed up?!?! One bad morning and I'm spiraling the rest of the day? Hello - am I really the only one that does this to myself?!! Glutton for it in fact!!!!
Most of the time, I can snap myself out of some crappy incident and it's effect on me....I'm all "happy" and "lucky" and ya know "suzy sunshine" (i hate her today)
But then, there are days like today......when it just doesn't stop.
Don't wanna talk to anyone, don't wanna hang out with anyone, just want to retreat within myself and ponder all day on where I made a wrong turn and what needs to be fixed......
My therapy for this: I can not WAIT to get to the gym.......me, my iPod, music and the treadmill.... and no one trying to talk to me! *That's your warning David!* ha ha
I came across a question posed earlier today regarding the line that divides love from "in" love. Where is the difference?
Here is my opinion :)
what do you think?
I think love is an emotion that we are born with; it is something that humans are born to do. You love your mom, your dad, your family, your job, chocolate, baseball.... love can be a very intense emotion and it can be defined in so many different ways for so many different things. You love your husband & your children in a way that you would likely give up your life for them. But you love baseball & chocolate in a different way. Both however different, are described as love. Love is easy in some respects because it is such an intense emotion that comes natural in regards to most things in life. It is something that cannot be mistaken. True LOVE is something that can't be faked and it can't be ignored. "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud." 1 Corinthians 13:4
"In Love" is much more complicated I think - and quite difficult to find or experience. I think "in love" can ONLY be used to describe a relationship emotion. You are not "in love" with chocolate, but you definitely should be "in love" with your husband/wife/significant other. I think many times people think they are in love - but are not truly. I think it's possible in dating to love someone but not be IN LOVE with them. I also think it's much easier to love someone as a person than to actually fully find someone that you not only love as a person, but are also in love with and can compatibly spend the rest of your life togther! I can say from experience, I have dated someone that I truly truly love and value as a person, but unfortunately things didn't last because I was not "in love" with him.
The other hard part about the "in love" is I think people are confused easily by attraction and lust. (*Guilty as charged!!!) I think if you feel some kind of initial attraction for someone, we are prone to think we are falling "in love" with someone....when it's really just an attraction. Thus you have skipped the most critical step - loving them first! (which means KNOWING them and respecting them as a person that you are able to love and fall in love with)
I think - to have a true genuine rest of your life relationship and eventually marriage, you must love the person AND be "in love" with the person. And in that order. I don't think a marriage can survive without both of them. This is why I believe that friendship in the beginning is so important. I think you have to LOVE the person as a person before you can actually fully fall in love with anyone! That love is what holds you together through the rough times and that love is always what makes you able to forgive and forget when someone screws up. We are human and we all screw up - you must love someone to truly be able to forgive. At the same time, that passion that you find by being "in love" with someone is something that I don't feel like a relationship can survive without. The passion and the "in love" is what keeps that big smile on your face and keeps things fun and flirty and spontaneous and keeps things from getting old and boring! It keeps us happy and faithful! It's also the part that requires work........when the new wears off and real life sets in, it's the "in love" that you have to make a conscious effort to keep on fire. The love (if it's real) will always be there - but no part of forever "in love" will last unless you love enough to put in the time and work =)
Today - I'm sharing one of my favorite songs from one of my favorite movies!!!
Enjoy! and......
I wish you all love & to fall "in love" - in that order =)
My friend and I, over wine last night, (which is always amusing in itself) had a discussion about music. It's soooo weird and amazing how powerful it is. (I think I have mentioned that part before) Anyway - we were at her apartment last night and heard a neighbor blasting some Michael Jackson "Billy Jean" I STILL to this day can not hear that song without picturing myself in elementary school in PE doing some kind of random aerobic workout/dance crap! So funny that this has never moved on.......
Anyway we began naming songs and who or what they reminded of us........and today - I would like to dedicate a song to an old boyfriend.......my first true love (or so I thought - which is HILARIOUS to me now!) I still have a picture of us at homecoming together.....me and my BANANA CLIP!! ALSO HILARIOUS!!! who ever thought THAT was a good idea?!? LMAO
OK - anyway - to my first "i thought it was love" boyfriend ..........who is NOW in PRISON!!!!!!! Yes - that's right....burglary, breaking and entering, drugs, you name it......we broke up and it was all downhill from there....
Actually he dumped me for Mary Jane. and look where he is now. Wonder if he ever thinks about that decision.
So here's to you JG!
PS - can someone move this darn candycorn and peanuts off of my end table!!!!! ha ha Happy Fall!
I try really hard every day to get up and put on my smiley face to face the world, but some days are harder than others. Yesterday was mentally, emotionally and physically harder than I have had in a long time. Well, this entire week has been pretty draining overall, but yesterday might have just been the breaking point for me.
So - early this morning I started this post. It was full of whining and crying and moaning and groaning about how terrible my week has been and how HORRIBLE yesterday was most of all.
But then I remembered how much I hate whiners. They just annoy the crap out of me.
So - instead of going on and on about all the CRAP I've been through this week - I decided instead to make a list of all the things that I am THANKFUL for in my life!
When you have a really bad day - it's the best thing you can do for yourself. So many times we get overwhelmed and take the good things in life for granted! Today - I'm making myself take the time.
1. My son (he's my little lifesaver and has no idea.)
2. My and my son's good health (got my flu shot today too - yay me!) *bonus: no piggie flu in my house!*
3. My wonderful parents who are still around and ALWAYS there when I need them!
4. My 2 wonderful brothers and their respective wife & fiance.... all of which I love with all my heart!
5. The best friends that a girl could ever ask for...and lots of them.
6. My job (though I hate it some days, I'm lucky to still have one)
7. The opportunity and ability to still be going to school and still 33 years later, fighting to better myself
8. A roof over my head
9. A vehicle in good working order to get me where I need to go
10. My iPhone (ha ha ha haaaaaa - what can I say - I love it!)
11. My church and my pastor (a true man of God and who reminds me how to get back when I get lost.)
12. Those special people that you come across in life that unknowingly touch you and never even know it.
I could go on and on and on........but I'm already smiling and thanking God for all the good things in my life!
I hope this makes you smile and reminds you how lucky we all really are =)
HAPPY FRIDAY!!!!!!!!!!!
I was looking through some old pictures last night and realized that I haven't thought about, or worked on my bucket list in some time.......so today - I'm sharing a few things on my list, some complete and some still to come. I also ask for you to share with me. What's on your bucket list? You might have some things that I need to add to my list! ha ha
#1 - swim with dolphins! COMPLETE! These are the pictures I was reminising over last night. In September of 2006, after breaking off an engagement and my friend getting divorced, she and I and our respective sisters (well, the closest thing I have to a sister anyway, Denise, she's kinda adopted into my family, not by blood, but with love instead!) booked a cruise to the Caribbean! My choice of places to cruise was based on WHERE could I swim with the dolphins! (come on, I just cancelled a wedding - I deserved to WASTE an obscene amount of money on myself! ha ha) This ended up being the Bahamas! I mean really - could it have BEEN any more perfect! My friend and I jumped into the ocean with 2 dolphins who were actually used in the filming of the movie "Flipper". It was one of the most amazing things I have ever experienced!! We danced with them, kissed them, and then laid flat on our stomachs with a dolphin at each foot and they pushed us through the water! truly AMAZING!
#2 - skydive! COMPLETE! This was ALWAYS something I wanted to do. However, the older I got, the bigger of a chicken I became and this had kinda taken a backburner.......UNTIL - Lesia - a friend who I go to church with and have known most ALL my life shoots me a text one night asking if I would like to go skydiving! My response - "Sure - TEN years ago!" LOL She was persistent though and eventually I caved. I truly did want to experience this........so sign me up - right?!! *not to mention I am NEVER one to turn away from an adventure!!* So - within weeks of saying yes - we head off to E-town KY. Boy was I nervous when I arrived. Not to infer I'm a pill head or anything - but with me I took: Dramamine, meclizine (for motion sickness), phenergan AND valium! HEY - I wanted to be prepared! :) Anyway - I did take the dramamine because I do get a little wheezy on planes, but I took nothing else! Once I got there and signed my life away.... the rest was like a dream. We suited up and jumped on a plane that's capacity held me, my friend, our respective tandem jumpers and the pilot! That's it! We sat on the floor (NOT in seats) of this tin can and rose up to 10,000 feet! yup! NO FEAR~~ the view was amazing and the feeling - WOW - it was just overwhelming! Even writing about it now I get this unbelievable feeling through my body! So anyway - once you get up to height - you basically walk out on to the wing of the plane. Your tandem guy counts to 3 and off you go!!! Ironically - me - the "motion sick" girl - does a FLIP out of the plane! ha ah - hilarious! But my boy leveled us out and I got to watch my friend jump from behind us! At 6,000 feet, the tandem taps you and you pull your own rip cord! at that point, you slow down and you can think and breathe again! LOL Coming the rest of the way down, we did spiral corkscrews with the parachute! TRULY TRULY an experience of a lifetime!!
#3 - visit NYC! Yes Yes - I AM a Sex and the City JUNKIE - so this bucket list item has 2 parts! First - I wanna visit NYC with my 3 bestest friends! our very own little sex and the city group! I wanna go where Sex and the City was filmed, I wanna go see a play, I wanna walk through Central Park, I wanna go to some high society bar/club and see who I can see, I wanna take a cab, I wanna run into someone famous in a normal every day setting.........all with the "Sex and the City" girls at my side!!! Second part - (Lord only knows when this part could be possible) I wanna walk through Central Park with the love of my life! Hand in hand, in the crisp fall NY air, just loving life! AND I wanna go ice skating in the Park......in the winter, also hand in hand with my man! LOL (That's a whole lot of buckets in one bucket item! ha ha)
#4 - I want a ridiculously expensive pair of shoes! I'm a little bit of a clothing whore...ha ha I LOVE a good pair of jeans. At some point in my life - I don't know when - I came to a point where $180 is not so bad for a good pair of jeans! (i don't know how that happened) A guy I know once referred to himself as a $30,000 millionaire - I'm adopting that title! =) Anyway - my next love is shoes. I have various styles and colors etc. BUT I want one good self indulgent, "i paid WAY too much for these" pair of shoes. Manolo Blahnik, Jimmy Choo, Prada, whatever..........just one pair =)
(donations are gladly accepted!)
#5 - (this may sound totally stupid) - Marry a good man! Stupid or not - it is a goal and something I want in my life.........and I'll be darn if I'll settle for anything less than the great man I have waited 33 (so far) years for!! And the reason this makes the list is because the key is GOOD man ;-) No settling until I find the right one =)
#6 - I want to see the Grand Canyon - Been to Vegas, but didn't have time for sight seeing! I wanna go back!!!!
#7 - I want to go to Hollywood - And I want to take a picture under that darn Hollywood sign! ;-)
#8 - I want to take a gondola ride in Venice!!! (why are almost all of my things places I want to go? LOL)
Ok - this is enough to get started with anyway.......
Anyone have anything else on theirs?
Has anyone done any of mine??
My song of the day........... "DREAM BIG"
don't let anything stand in your way =)
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