Simple surprises

What an exciting day today was! My inner nerd that is not so hidden, as many of you my dear friends can attest to, was doing twirls and somersaults. Today my boss-man gave me the latest edition of the Steel Design Manual. I was so excited to get this (mainly because it was completely unexpected) that as he handed it to me, I hugged tightly to my chest and swayed back and forth with it. I opened its hard cover and it creaked so beautiful. I'm sure you know that sweet sound. What music to my ears! I then fanned through the pages and let the new paper smell envelop me. I have such a strong desire to dive into this book like Scrooge McDuck does into his money vault. Okay, I know you're all eye rolling so to reward you for perusing the above sentences here is a small reward in the form of musical bliss. Happy Wednesday amigos!

Musical uplift

Yesterday was just one of those days. The whole day I was trudging around with an emotional slump. I couldn't understand where the low mood originated from. I was just inexplicably down. I tried to dig deep and figure out what important negative event spurred this emotion. I wanted to pinpoint it, tackle it and move on. But all I kept coming up with were a bunch of minute and unimportant occurrences that seemed to have fused together and tricked me into thinking of them as one big and important issue. As I was shuffling my feet home after too long of a work day, this song came on my phone shuffle. Ah, music. What a gift! What a difference it suddenly makes. The lyrics weren't particularly fitting, but the tune was just right to kick my butt out of my funk. I regained the skip in my step and the goofy smile I sport when good music is spilling into my ears.

Then when I walked into my building lobby, I saw one of my neighbors eying the "free" pile someone had put out. This neighbor of mine is probably the world's oldest man with the largest humpback I have ever seen. He walks always tilted slightly to the left and his mouth is fixed in a permanent smirk. As I was passing him, he turned around to me and said, "It's like Christmas!" He then laughed and waddled off.

So, Merry Christmas in May friends!

And before I wrap up...in case you wanted a song that is both lyrically and rhythmically appropriate in lifting a sour mood, go here.