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Sentimental Lady...

Isn't it fascinating how certain songs just stick in your head, freezing a time, a place, and a feeling?  And isn't it even more fascinating how the music you often have the greatest sentimentality for are those from your childhood and early teen years - not your young adult sow-your-wild-oats years as one would guess?


At least that's the case for me.  I love the eclectic mixes I've come up with on Pandora.com.  I have a "Rickie Lee Jones" radio station that plays new stuff like "Flood" and "Feist" and "Rilo Kiley" but it also plays (of course) Rickie Lee Jones, and Joni Mitchell and yes, Bob Welch's "Sentimental Lady" which I believe became a hit in 1977 during the holiday season when I was in Jr. High.  I love that song.  It reminds me of the holidays, and a dance, and the lights down low with little twinkle lights and a Christmas tree in the corner, and a moment in time when I first realized a boy I liked very very much liked me too (boy it took a long time to land him - and then he would go on to break my heart many times all through high school).  But this song reminds me of happy romantic anticipation and it always makes me smile when I hear it.  Also, I had a brand new pair of chocolate brown velvet pants for that dance.  With the way they're mixing the 70's and the 80's these days isn't it about time for velvet jeans to come back in style?  I had a couple of lovely pairs, including a fabulous dove grey pair from "Gloria Vanderbilt."  Oh how Anderson Cooper must have cringed over his Mom showing up in her own t.v. commercials, but I loved her.  Of course we wore our pants so tight back then that I had to lay down on my bed to zip them up.    

Wow, I just realized that it's 30 years ago for the Bob Welch song!  I'm not sure I even want to think about how old the song "Come On Get Happy" from the Partridge Family is that played when I first put on the station tonight.  Oh well, time flies when you're having fun.     

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Creating Space

Yesterday walking to T's car we passed a garage sale and I was the lucky buyer of a wooden bookcase for only $2!  Such a deal for a book crazy person like myself who really needs to organize her tiny apartment.  I am mired in magazines and papers that need to be gone through, thrown out, rearranged, etc.  It is driving T a bit crazy and he has a point.  I get a bit overwhelmed when I try to dig in and start working on it, but I'm trying to move forward with a new mindset that I have plenty of space for everything and everything will have a place.  I'm trying not to make it a huge job to organize my apartment because I have the tendency to make everything a big work project.

Pandora.com is playing some lovely songs on my "Rickie Lee Jones" channel this afternoon.  It's a very ecletic mix and today I heard both one of my favorite Alison Krauss' songs of "My Ain True Love" from "Cold Mountain" and "Get Happy" from the "Partridge Family" plus some great K.T. Tunstall and Corinne Bailey Rae.

The need to create space in my life is a big theme right now.  I tend to cram it full full full, full of ideas for projects, full of article ideas to pitch to try and get in national magazines, full of my day job, and other possible jobs to help fill the gaps still lacking in income.  It comes from that delightful old protestant work ethic feeling that if I'm not working I'm lazy.  And having been so slow for so many years with the migraines and fatigue the minute I feel better I think I have to start making up for lost time.

But I'm trying to be open to the fact that no time has been lost and if I take the time to organize my apartment that's just fine - no matter how long it takes and how many baby steps it takes to get there.

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