Hump Day!

It's the middle of the week and we've got a long weekend coming up! Let me just say the next 2 days can't go by fast enough. Plus there's only a week until my first concert. Yay!

So to help get the week rolling towards the weekend...I'm bringing out the hunks!







MMMmmm, I just realized how pretty Simon looks. I think I'll be drooling for awhile.

Enough with the Da Vinci Code!

Hype is one way to destory something for me. There was a time when I thought I might crack the hard back copy of this novel. I was even tempted to see the movie awhile back, before everywhere I went screamed Da Vinci Code!

Now I just want to scream when I hear about it. I wouldn't spend my hard earned money on this now. It's been over exposed. I never saw The Passion Of Christ for this reason too.

I don't care if it's the best movie ever, (And from the reviews I've heard, it's not)I'll not sit through it.

I've heard enough. It's not even that I'm offended by the content. I'm Catholic, but I don't always see eye to eye with what the church has to say. The premise for this movie isn't anything new. There have been other books written on similar themes.

I'm just sick sick sick of hearing about this one.

Can we get some hype on the upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean film? I'd much rather look at Johnny Depp.

Nothing A Good 12 Hours Of Sleep Won't Cure

I never get any good sleep over the weekends anymore. My body demands that I'm out of bed by 8 o'clock at the latest. That's wrong on so many levels that I can't even begin to discuss it. At least 8 is better than 5:30 which is when Pickle Radio wakes me up during the work week. Yuck!

Sadly this lack of sleep is making cranky. Very cranky! I've been picking fights with everyone this past week. (And enjoying it) Not a good thing, and not usually like me.

I feel like that lyric from Arcadia's Election Day.

She's moody and grey...she's mean and she's restless.

I'm not sure if my sleeplessness during the week is a result of the many season finales that I got sucked into watching last week. Suffice to say, I don't think I was in bed earlier than 11:30 most nights last week.

Thankfully tonight is probably the only night I'll be staying up to watch something. The CSI Miami finale is on tonight and that will be the last 10 p.m. show I'll be watching for a long time. You can't make me watch reruns!

I need my sleep! Before they make an episode of one of those crime dramas about me!

New Discovery

I discovered a Justin Hayward song that didn't know about yesterday. Mind you, I didn't know about it through my own stupidity. A few years ago when I hunted down every last thing I could get my hands on, I thought I downloaded all of View From A Hill.

Oopsy!

I missed one song.

I reripped all of my Justin Hayward discs and yesterday for the first time, I listed to View. Suddenly I heard a song I wasn't familiar with. I was baffled, because I couldn't figure out where it had come from.

The song?

Sometimes Less Is More

I don't know why, but no matter what, Justin never fails to impress me. Most of my favorite bands have let me down a few times. Justin and the Moodies don't, at least when they get around to releasing new material. (In other aspects of their career, they let me down more than any other band)

Seriously, if you don't own this album



Click the album cover and buy it now!

I don't think Justin gets much better than this one.

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Here Comes The Sun

After about 6 gloomy days the sun has finally decided to peer through the clouds. Take goodness. I seriously was losing my mind from all the rain.

Now to motivate myself to do something productive today besides laundry and sitting in front of this computer.

I wish money weren't such an issue. There's stuff I'd like to do, but then I think of how much gas I'll use or the trips I want to take and I get depressed.

I'm sick of sitting around the house. I'm also sick of going to the same places. As much as I love Phipps, I'm in no mood to go there and I think that's on my agenda for tomorrow.

I never thought I'd see the day when I said that. I just don't want to go there. I want to do something different. Anything, really. Even the South Side doesn't hold any excitement for me right now.

It all requires money..and gas.

PAH!

The sun is out. It's gorgeous and I'm feeling sorry for myself. There's something wrong with this picture.

Top 5 On Friday - Week 72

From those music loving ladies at Music Memoirs

Top 5 album covers

1. Every Good Boy Deserves Favour - The Moody Blues



2. Revolver - The Beatles



3. Imperial Bedroom - Elvis Costello & The Attractions



4. Classic Blue - Justin Hayward



The cover makes it because....well...Damn, Justin has a pretty face.

5. I Say, I Say, I Say - Erasure

Thursday Thirteen

13 Songs That I Can't Live Without And You Shouldn't Either

1. Erasure - Tell It To Me

2. Justin Hayward - I'm Sorry (It's that lopsided lovin' thing again)

3. Manfred Mann - The Mighty Quinn

4. Traveling Wilburys - End Of The Line

5. Herman's Hermits - You Won't Be Leaving

6. The Moody Blues - Question (Alternate Version)
This is from the new reissues. Thanks to my friend Marilyn for sharing this with me.

7. Duran Duran - Electric Barbarella (Because it's just so damn fun!)

8. Diana Krall - Narrow Daylight (Have I mentioned how much I love this song)

9. Elvis Costello - Monkey To Man (Another song that's too fun to be missed)

10. Grey Eye Glances - Halfway Back (Every song by this band is not to be missed)

11. Danny Elfman - It Only Makes Me Laugh (Because this song is so damn true!)

12. Paul McCartney - Figure of Eight (Someone's got to love Paul in his time of need. This song is good reason to love him)

13. George Harrison - Fish On The Sand

I hope you enjoy these as much as I do. Let me know if you snag any of the tracks.

Hump Day!

It seems like the week is flying by. It's Wednesday already. Just 2 more days until the weekend. What a wonderful thing that is, except that I've got to make a jaunt to Pittsburgh on Sunday to Phipps and for the first time in ages, I don't really want to go. I'd much rather sit on my butt and veg.

But I'm not going to worry about Sunday yet...because it's Hump Day! And it's time for the Hotties to take center stage!

CSI - Miami

Ok, I admit. I love this show, and not because it's a hard edged crime drama or anything like that. The plots don't excite me. The characters aren't all that fabulous. Well maybe one or two of them are fabulous.

Like David Caruso's character Horatio Caine.



Maybe the theme of this picture can make an episode for next season! Hey, sometimes you have to interject some comedy into life.

Mind you I was thrilled when they killed off Horatio Caine's wife last night. OK, I was more than thrilled. Horatio just shouldn't be allowed to be married. He needs to have that pent up/need to get some sex kind of frustration going on in his life. Plus its no fun for me to go all fangirly over his character if he's got a wife, especially one of the CSI - Miami, airbrushed, perfect variety.

So I'll just be content to know that Horatio's wife is deader than spam...and I'll live with that until next week's season finale. (Hopefully they won't bring her back from the dead)

Random 10 - Week 55

From the music lovers @ Music Memoirs, the first of the 3 weekly memes.

10 songs that sum up your weekend...or were on your weekend playlist...and one picture that relates back. (oh, and if you feel like it, tell us why you picked the songs you did)

I stayed at home most of this weekend and when I did go out it was just to church and to Lorraine's in Speers for dinner. So everything on my list is from my winamp and my little Muvo.

Elvis Costello - Rocking Horse Road
Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Peace In Our Time
Duran Duran - Someone Else Not Me
Duran Duran - Hallucinating Elvis

(I was reripping CDs to the hard drive....as you can see I ripped Brutal Youth, Goodbye Cruel World, and Pop Trash)

John Lennon - Power To The People
John Lennon - Instant Karma
Paul McCartney - Tug Of War
Paul McCartney - Here Today

(I was also listening to Tug of War and Lennon Legend)

Herman's Hermits - If You're Thinkin' What I'm Thinkin'
Herman's Hermits - Marcel's

(Listened to There's A Kind Of Hush as well)

As for the picture...My brother, his wife, my mum, my nephew and I went back to McShane's.....I took my camera, of course...



I included that picture on my last photoblog post. To see a few other's go here. Have a look around. I post more photos there than Flickr, basically cos Flickr annoys the hell out of me.

Lost In The Stars

I got lost on You Tube for a bit and I discovered this video clip of Elvis Costello and the Brodsky Quartet.

The song is Lost In The Stars by Kurt Weill and it's really a gorgeous tune.

Clicky here to watch it.

EC was being a bit dramatic...and I think his lip syncing was off at times, but he really looked lovely which is all that matters anyway, right?

I Never Thought It Would Take So Long....

The continuing saga of the Zen Micro

I've reripped most of my Moody Blues CD collection to the hard drive as well as my Justin Hayward/John Lodge collection. Today I'm reripping Elvis Costello and Duran Duran.

I filled the Zen Micro with a few discs last night. I didn't realize how long it took to transfer files to the damn thing. It should have enough tunes on it to last me through my trip to Hershey in 3 weeks.

I figure that in doing this I'll go through the mp3s and decide what I really want to keep and what can go into the recycle bin. There are so many artists that I don't really listen to as much as others, but for some reason they reside on my hard drive.

I'm such a pack rat! I've said that countless times before, but it bears repeating. It would probably just be easier to buy a bigger hard drive so I could keep everything, but I'm hoping that next year I'll be able to buy a new Dell or something similar next year, so I don't want to sink any more money on this computer unless I absolutely have to.

I still don't have everything that I want on the Zen, but I'm not sure if I want to spend the next few hours transfering files. I have no patience. I want the damn files to move faster!

Oh and did I mention in the process of reripping my discs I've made a terrible mess of my bedroom and the computer room?

I have only one thing to say to that....ARGH!

I hope I can dig myself out of it by bedtime!

Me, An Audiophile?

I can't believe I've turned into one of those anal people that has to have an mp3 at a certain bitrate. I like 160 or higher, 192 kbps is my preference. I don't know why, but I do.

I cleared my Zen Micro of all it's tracks this morning and right now I'm still reripping CDs to my hard drive at higher bitrates. When I first got my computer 128 kpbs was high quality. Now. Pah!

I can't believe I'm actually doing this. I've gone through almost my entire Moody Blues collection. Last weekend, I reripped my Erasure collection. I'm working on Justin Hayward and John Lodge now. (Hmmmmm I wish I were working on them) I'm also finally going to have my Live At San Juan Capistrano CD on my hard drive. Squee!

While doing this I have realized that no matter how they annoy me they still made some of the most beautiful music of the last 40 years. Justin's voice is simply breathtaking. Andy Bell and Michael Crawford are probably the only two other men that have voices that take my breath away.

Doing this has also made me more depressed about the lack of shows in the US this year. For all I hate the fans with a passion that I can't begin to express, (Exceptions being the few fans that read this blog) for all that I'm pissed at them for trying to suck more money out of me for their stupid fanclub, I really hate not having a concert to go to this summer.

I suppose that shows how much their music has come to mean to me in the last 3 years. I'm more saddened by not having a show of theirs to attend than Elvis Costello or Duran Duran who I've really loved far longer.

I guess I would have to though..to spend an afternoon ripping CDs over again.

Oh and btw...for anyone that doesn't own a copy Justin Hayward's San Juan Capistrano CD is simply gorgeous. It's so nice to hear him singing songs that you wouldn't hear at Moodies shows, like Land Of Make Believe, which will leave breathless. (and in my case in tears...because I miss my Justiny Poo) And now I'll be able to listen to it in fairly high quality form.

~sigh~

Giving My Zen Micro Some Love

Ok, remember back in January when all I talked about was how much I wanted a Creative Zen Micro? Remember how much I wanted the damn thing?

I've only used it twice.

Why?

I paid 200 bucks for the darn thing and I'm scared to cart it around lest something evil befalls it.

Kinda pointless isn't it.

I was doing some cleaning tonight and I pulled it out of it's case in my drawer and started to use it.

The sound is so much better than the Muvo and I love my Muvo to pieces. I really wish I had the 1 GB Zen Nano. I think I'm going to reformat the Micro and change the tunes. Right now it's got 273 songs on it and most of it is the Moody Blues and Cliff Richard, not that that's a bad thing, but I'd like to have some other things on there. A girl can't live on Moodies alone.

Somehow I will ween myself into using this player. Really I will. But it's going to be a long hard process.

Top 5 On Friday - Week 71

From the music lovers @ Music Memoirs...

Top 5 song lyrics....(And tell us why you like them)

Love is always scarpering or cowering or fawning
You drink yourself insensitive and hate yourself in the morning Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Man Out Of Time

This lyric as always been one that sticks in my head for some reason. This is probably my favorite EC song as well. It inspired one of my stories/novels and has provided me with hours of bitching about getting that damn song stuck in my head.

Who's going down who's comin with me
Who wants to take a chance
On a piece of abstract reality Oingo Boingo - Elevator Man

The not so subtle innuendo of this song brings me so much joy.

Trouble loves me
Seeks and finds me
To charlatanize me
Which is only
As it should be Morrissey - Trouble Loves Me

This is the first song I played off the Maladjusted disc. I loved it instantly, simply because the lyrics are so damn true!

A wonderful day for passing my way.
Knock and my door and even the score
With your eyes. The Moody Blues - Lovely To See You

I can't tell you how many times these opening words have stuck in my head. It's such a pretty song. Typical Justin really.

Now you know how to be dumb
Are you ready to take your place in the modern museum of mistakes?
Don't you know how to be dumb?
Like a building thrown up overnight in one of those reverse earthquakes Elvis Costello - How To Be Dumb

I think I took my place in the modern museum of mistakes already. This song is full of great lyrics, but this is Elvis Costello we're talking about, he's one of the best songwriters out there.

Thursday Thirteen

Thirteen Songs I Could Do Without Hearing Ever Again

James Blunt - You're Beautiful : I'm not a fan of many of the newish folk type singers. This song is just annoying as is Mr. Blunt's voice. Yet they gave this man a Grammy? Why? Was it for Most Annoying Song ever?

John Mayer - Daughters: This song just baffles me with it's lameness. I actually think it's interchangable with the James Blunt song in styles.

Tim McGraw - Live Like You Were Dying: I don't need depressing songs in my life. They play this song every damn day on WSHH in Pittsburgh, the only station I get decent reception off at the office that plays semi-tolerable music. Sadly this song is not part of the semi-tolerable spectrum. It's part of the "Make me slash my wrists" spectrum though.

Lee Ann Womack - I Hope You Dance: Another inspirational song I could do without. At least this one isn't as depressing as the Tim McGraw, but still I could do without hearing it a zillion times daily.

Carly Simon - You're So Vain: The clouds in her coffee get on my nerves. And why can't she fess up to who she wrote the song about? If they already have a swelled head, maybe learning this song is about them will make it explode.

Sheryl Crow - The First Cut Is The Deepest: Sheryl should be arrested for what she did to this song.

Rod Stewart - Your Song: Why is he covering Elton John? Where is this song from and can we please make the radio station from hell stop with it. I love the original. I even like Rod, except when he's really murdering some great classic songs, but this is awful.

Shania Twain - I Feel Like A Woman: Erm...Shania, you are a woman! Now stop singing about it. Come to think about it, stop singing period.

Faith Hill - This Kiss: I have a gripe with country/pop. Not that it's bad. This song is cute the first 300 times, after that it's just another tired pop song.

The Violent Femmes - Blister In The Sun: One word, ARGH! This song still brings me trauma whenever I hear it. It has to do with Metropol playing it every Saturday during their 80's night. Someone "Hang The DJ!"

Duran Duran - All She Wants Is: This song, by one of my favorite bands, caused me much trauma as a child. No, I lie, the video caused me much trauma. Either way, every time I hear this song I cringe.

Madonna - Hung Up: Seriously Maddy, this song is enough to make me puke. You should hang up your career if you keep up with this kind of music. It takes cheesy to a new low, and this is coming from a person that likes cheesy.

James Taylor - Fire and Rain: This song has just been played to death for me. Now, don't get me wrong, James Taylor is fantastic. He's a wonderful songwriter, but when a song gets played into the ground...well that's about it for me. However, I do love the Christmas CD he did for Hallmark a few years back.




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Just Not In The Mood

The past few days have just weighed down on me, so much that I couldn't really do much of anything after work, besides my usual Curves workout. (Which is still boring the tears out of me)

In fact I think I've read more books in the last week than anything. My motivation is at an all time low. I don't want to write. I don't want listen to music. I've actually been watching TV. Blech. I've come to the conclusion that all tv shows are the same, depending on the genre. If you're a drama...you must either be a cop/lawyer show or a hospital show, comedies all are about some dysfunctional families, and anymore I find none of them funny.

Then yesterday my mum had an appointment with the doctor that checks her pacemaker. No good news there. Since her last visit she had 3 ventricle (sp) episodes, which aren't good at all.

That took every bit of extra energy out of my system and I don't know how to get it back. All I seem to be able to do is sit and think and that's no good, because the thinking just depresses me. I wish there was a way to shut off the thinking part of the brain for a little while.

I just want to go hide under a rock for awhile and wish some of this away.

Hump Day!!!

It's always a relief to get to hump day! 2 days done and 2 more to go to the weekend!

Now for the prettiness that helps me get through those last two days.

This Summer Just Isn't Going To Be Right

For the last 2 years I've had a Moody Blues concert to attend in either June or July. This is probably the first year in yonks that the guys haven't toured the US in the summer months and aside from one date at the end of July which is on the other side of the country, there's no plans for a US tour.

So much for celebrating their 40th Anniversary as a band with the people that line their pocketbooks. Mind you most of those people will travel to Europe to see them in the fall when they do their UK tour. I mean the band wouldn't be able to survive if the same 30 people weren't in the first few rows.

In fact, I'd hazard a guess that Justin Hayward would drop dead if the front row was full of different faces. (I guess I don't want that to happen...but still)

Things just aren't going to seem the same without a trip to Atlantic City to see the guys in a casino.

~sigh~

Random 10

From the music lovers at Music Memoirs

10 songs that sum up your weekend...or were on your weekend playlist...and one picture that relates back. (oh, and if you feel like it, tell us why you picked the songs you did)

This weekend was pretty much all about my muvo and my winamp. It was a very very boring weekend.

Justin Hayward - Way Of The World (This one was on my muvo playlist and it's always been one of my favorites)

Danny Elfman - Veruca Salt (My winamp played this at least 3 times this weekend! ARGH!)

Warren Zevon - Keep Me In Your Heart (This song is so beautiful and so depressing)

The Dresden Dolls - Shores of California (This band makes me giggle, a lot)

Herman's Hermits - Meet Me At The Corner Down At Joe's Cafe (Too cute!)

The Mamas and The Papas - California Dreamin' (I heard this one at Kings Restaurant yesterday)

Beth Waters - Spun Sugar

Harry Connick Jr - We Are In Love

Shane McGowan and the Nips - Gabrielle

Marillion - 100 Nights

All of these were random winamp songs. Like I said, it was a boring weekend. The picture is from McShane's.

Oogie and the Koosh Ball

My kitten has discovered a koosh ball I was given a few years back. He's made a total wreck of my computer room this weekend because of this discovery. As luck would have it, he's amused me while playing with the koosh, so he gets to live! Lucky kitty.

There's nothing funnier than seeing a little black and white kitten walking around with a koosh hanging out of his mouth, especially since the koosh is bigger than his little head.

He'll prance about with it, and then throw it up in the air and then run across the room to chase it. I only wish that the cuteness could have been captured on my camera, but the little bugger is much too fast.

He has kept me from going stark raving mad on this very boring Sunday. Heck, the whole weekend has been very boring.

Thank God for cats!

Weekend Randomness

~ I need to have a hamburger. Badly. All week I listen to the radio and hear commericals for King's Restaurant and Red Robin. I've been craving a "real" burger since Wednesday. I won't mind one of those new Wendy's Frescata sandwiches either.

~ Today has been designated as, buy flowers for the garden and cemetary day. If McShane's doesn't have any African Daisies I think I'll cry. Those were my favorites last year and they held up really well too. Oh and yes, I'll take pictures.

~ I've vowed to ignore chocolate for a few days. I'm not sure if I'll be able to do that, cos I still have part of a dark chocolate bunny from Easter. Have I mentioned that Gene & Boots makes the best dark chocolate? Seriously if any of you are ever in my area, you must consume some of this chocolate it's yummy!

~ There's so much new music out there and soon to be out there, my wallet can't handle it. Rachael Sage has a new CD. The Dresden Dolls have a new CD. Elvis Costello is going to have a new CD next month on the same day that Cheap Trick releases their new album, which is 2 days after my trip to Hershey! ARGH!

Top 5 On Friday - Week 70

From the music lovers @ Music Memoirs

Top 5 songs with/or about "space" and if you're feeling frisky 5 "spacey" albums.

David Bowie - Space Oddity

(This song is a given.)

The Moody Blues - Higher and Higher

Conjure One - Tears From The Moon

The Beloved - Outerspace Girl
(I have this one on CD but not on my harddrive)

Duran Duran - Astronaut

As for the albums

Duran Duran - Astronaut



David Bowie - Space Oddity



Jamiroquai - Return of the Space Cowboy



Aimee Mann - Lost In Space



The Lightening Seeds - Cloudcuckooland

Thursday Thirteen

13 Random Things

1. Mycheckfree.com is being discontinued on the first of July. I only pay 3 bills on that site, but lordy it's going to mess up my life when its gone, because one of the bills I pay there is paperless now. ARGH. I have to figure out if I can set it up on my bank's bill pay service. I'm so not happy about this.

2. The road crew that's working on the water lines is now in front of my house. This forces me to go to Curves after work, except when there's no parking by the darn place (like yesterday)and I had no money to plunk into the meters at the next lot. I wasn't risking a ticket to work out with a bunch of cranky middle aged women. No way!

3. The fat fairy keeps visiting me too and with her comes the candy fairy to make sure that she has a job to do. I'm not a very happy human right now. When I was at the psycho job in the fall, I ate more, went to Curves less and I weighed less. This makes no sense to me at all.

4. There hasn't been a decision made on the trip to Hershey yet on where we stay. I really like the idea of the Hilton Garden. Yes its 300 bucks for the one night, but that includes breakfasts for 2 out of 3 of us and 2 park admissions which are about 42 dollars per person. I think that alone makes that one a plus. I also love these hotels.

5. Def Leppard is touring with Journey and coming to Pittsburgh. Da Leps are the only hair band I have any love for. (I used to have love for Poison back in the day) They always put on a good show, but I'm not sitting through Journey, without Steve Perry, to see them. Plus this year tickets seem to be going on sale on Fridays. Funny...when I could buy tickets on a Friday morning, because I worked afternoons, tickets went on sale on Saturday mornings (when I worked). This year the reverse is true. Grrrr pfft!

6. Going to Atlantic City in Sept is going to feel so strange. Hell, it feels strange not having a Moody Blues concert to go to this summer. I feel oddly let down by all of this.

7. I'm trying to figure out why all my emails from my yahoo message groups go into my junk folder. Everyone else's come through to my email with no problem. I've tried everything and I can't get them to send mine straight through. I don't want to shut off the junk folder because it keeps me from getting about 20 or more spams a day.

8. It's just dawned on me that I haven't been to a movie since I saw Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at the Maxi Saver Theater last fall. What's worse, there isn't a movie I want to see until July when Pirates of the Caribbean 2 comes out. And yes, I do have a Johnny Depp fixation.

9. Sometimes a picture really says a thousand words. What those thousand words are remains to be seen.

Until now!



I think Help Me! Is the consensus on what Justin is saying in this picture. Or perhaps, get me away from all these scary men in yellow...they are almost as bad as my fans!

10. I've noticed that all bands have a large group of fans that must attend every damn show and whatnot. The level of obnoxiousness of these fans is different though. Thank god for that. Peter Noone's fans are much more tolerable than the freaks that stalk the Moody Blues around the world.

11. Quiznos keeps sending me coupons. I love Quiznos but damn it, even with a coupon they are expensive when compared to Subway. If I want to spend 5 bucks on a sandwich, I'll go to Panera Bread!

12. My kitten is really enjoying kicking litter out of his catbox and then playing hockey with it. I feel guilty vacuuming it up, because the little guy is scared to death of the damn sweeper!

13. I need a day off very soon. I have had a few half days since Christmas, but Memorial Day will be my first real day off. Rejoice and be glad, a 3 day weekend is coming up in less than 4 weeks!

Hump Day Hotties!

What would Wednesday be without them? A very dull day indeed is what I have to say.

Hersheypark = Evil

OK, the park itself is not evil, but finding a hotel around Hershey Park is. I was trying to find a package deal for the park, but so far the 2 I've found don't seem quite what we're going to need.

Days Inn has the room, 2 adult and 1 child admission and breakfast (doesn't say if its continental or what) for $299.00 I admit this is a good one, but the child we're going with is out of their junior price bracket so we would be paying for a ticket we wouldn't be using. There's also shuttle service to the park, not that we'd use that.

Hilton Garden Hershey has what I think is the best deal. The cost is the same as the Days Inn, but it only includes 2 adult admissions to the park. It also includes 2 full breakfasts and 2 backpacks. Erm? Backpacks? The nephew would probably like that.

Still, with that package good as it seems, one person still has to buy their park ticket which is about $42 bucks as well as breakfast.

The cheapest motel I found was about 9 miles away, which isn't too bad. It's a Hojo's and it's about $90 bucks for the whole night. I haven't decided where we're ultimately going to stay. The Hilton Garden is high on my list, because I've stayed at one of those hotels before and they are lovely as well as the packages they put together. It just sucks when you have 3 people traveling rather than 2.

Random 10 - Week 53

From the music lovers @ Music Memoirs

10 songs that sum up your weekend...or were on your weekend playlist...and one picture that relates back. (oh, and if you feel like it, tell us why you picked the songs you did)

I had a new playlist on my Muvo this weekend, plus I had some different mix CDs in my car as well making for an ecclectic mix of music. (Oh and not to mention the music I received from my LJ play from the m3p3 music swap)

Herman's Hermits - I Won't Be Leaving
Herman's Hermits - Saturday's Child (Yes that's the song that the Monkees did also)

I finally ripped A Kind Of Hush to my hard drive.

Elvis Costello - Man Out of Time
Elvis Costello - Playboy To A Man

Both of these were on the mix CD I listened to on the way to and from Pittsburgh

Cheap Trick - The Flame

I heard this one while walking down Carson Street yesterday

Fish - A Gentlemen's Excuse Me
Talk Talk - It's My Life
Goldfrapp - Forever
Genesis - Burning Rope
Marillion - Kayleigh

These were songs I received in the LJ music swap, the song by Fish (the lead singer from Marillion for a time) is stunning.

Now for the picture.



This is where I had dinner yesterday. Yum!