We gave my much-younger sister and her friend (who we met that evening) a lift back to their town of residence after a family event on the weekend (it was a cousin’s post-topical-wedding reception, but that’s not really important). The friend sent me a very polite Facebook message the day after asking if she had perhaps left her cell phone in our car, and if so, could I mail it back to her. I looked. She had. Being a hip University student who I’m sure has…you know…friends and stuff, I asked in my reply whether she was suffering cell phone withdrawal yet. This is what she sent me.
I think she might be awesome.
So I sent her an envelope containing the phone and two surveillance photos with a request on the back of one of them to “take care of this” by mid July, payment to follow.
The pictures were supplied by Google, so I’m not sure who this woman is, but I hope she has good life insurance or some decent body armor.
Around these parts, things are becoming progressively more stable as my body adjusts to the lack of foreign chemicals (and it does, indeed, look like I’m actually free of the Luvox for good! Yippee!). I’m fighting the urge to push myself too crazy hard now that I’m “better.” …”Better” meaning pretty much right back where I was when they decided to pull me from work in the first place. 
I’m still not handling stress well, but for the moment I’ve gotten pretty good at avoiding all possible stresses in my life. So things are going okay.
In other news, that New York song “Empire State of Mind” with Alicia Keys and Jay-Z was playing on the radio on my way home today. I have no idea what most of the lyrics are, which isn’t unusual for me, but one line came through crystal clear and I don’t think I’ll now be able to hear it any other way. Tell me that at the one minute mark, she isn’t singing “concrete fills my red dream tomato.” I dares ya.
Empire State of Mind on YouTube
Tags: construction-material-filled produce, hip University students...who KILL!!!, misheard lyrics, pushing self too hard
I don’t want to be the one to burst your bubble, so I’m not going to tell you what she really says there.
There are a couple of Eagles songs where I can still hear the lyrics the way I first understood them, even years after I learned the right words, but I think I was happier when I didn’t know the right words.
You should totally be friends with that girl. Just make sure you always have an alibi.
I’m glad you’re feeling better. Don’t push – just relax and enjoy it.
No judging going on here, as I used to think Blondie was singing, “Call me… I’m alive.”
@Wombat – Come to think of it, what IS that lyric? “I’m alive” seems to work for me too.
Holy crap- That is hilarious!! You cracked me up! Be careful- her phone may blow up at any moment.
Um, I thought the line was “this is what your wet dreams are made of”
How messed up is that??
ok.
that story? totally awesome. now you just need to convince her to blog. or maybe not, bc then she’d be total competition and we’d have to contract her to kill herself even though it probably doesnt work like that.
i’ve actually never listened closely enough to the lyrics of “empire state” even though i think its a good song (esp the AK chorus). my issue with it is Jay-Z’s subtle diss to his REAL home state of New Jersey by writing a song of love for New York which i’m only mentioning bc if he HAD written that song and just changed the title to “garden state of mind” it would kind of be a drag bc i just titled my latest blog post as such which i ONLY MENTION bc the title of THIS blog post includes “empire state of mind” which immediately caused me to draw comparisons between you and me and i have now crowned us “blogland twins!” except we’re the fraternal kind (obvs) and now im kind of not sure why im still rambling but CLEARLY i need help and im glad you’re finally starting to feel better INNERNET HUGS!!!!
Yes, she is clearly awesome. Oh, and you’re awesome too. Glad you’re feeling better.
There is a Collective Soul song and one of the chorus lines is “Heaven let your light shine down”. One day, while working at Subway, the song came on and I started singing along except I sang “Never let your action down” which is what I thought the lyrics were. And my friend was like, “What?” and I’m like, “Never let your action down”. And she’s like, “What does that even mean?” and I was like, “I don’t know. I didn’t write the song. It’s probably like ‘stay positive’ or something”. And then she told me the real lyrics. In between hysteric bouts of laughter. So, there you go. I still think “never let your action down” is pretty good advice.