I guess it has turned into a bit of a vacation, but I love blogging I don’t think I will ever stop for good to be honest. I can’t wait till there are Granny bloggers.

I’m still reading blogs I’m just reading them off of Twitter links or through Facebook, I have not been able to face my iGoogle page because I will have to deal with my feed. It is too overwhelming for me. I think I will have Adam sign in and mark everything as READ and start over. That is what I normally do when it becomes overwhelming but I do it myself, this is the most backed up I’ve ever let it get.

You know what totally sucks about not signing into your feed though? I have no idea what is going on. Twitter although fast, does not contain very many of the people that I talk to on a regular basis in real life and Facebook which does hold a lot of people I talk to on a very regular basis is set up in such a way that if you don’t sign in at the exact right moment you don’t find out till the 23^rd that a RAD ASS girlfriend had her baby on the 21^st. Ok, so the baby was a wee bit early but had I have been signed into my iGoogle page I’d have known, damn skippy, right when she popped.

I find that I’m constantly sending friendly HEY HOW IS IT GOING? emails to people only to go to their blogs AFTER and find out everything sucks. Great friend Corinna, seriously.

I added a nifty little ‘Books Read in 2008′ thingy to my sidebar. I like it; it encourages me to make my minimum reading quota for the year which I am three behind on at present.

I took my blog roll down, NOTHING PERSONAL!!! You are all still on my feed and then some [just because you weren’t linked doesn’t mean you aren’t on my feed] and I promise I will catch up on it. I meant it when I said I was taking it back old school, I have not once checked my stats the couple times I have posted, not even once, I have not been on Technorati even once and don’t plan to head back, I’m finding I don’t miss checking either. It was a compulsive urge I had to make a conscious effort to stop doing.

My allergies are so bad this year that they are keeping me even more in doors than they normally do re: we golf, but we have no money this year anyway so the allergies are coming in handy for truthful excuses as to why I can’t be places. But really I know I’ve had a headache since 1994 I can DEAL, sometimes I just don’t want to.

DEAR ALLERGY MEDICATION SPRAY MAKERS: if you are going to charge me forty + dollars for a bottle that hardly lasts a month can you maybe make it with a sprayer thing that works and doesn’t clog ALL THE TIME and refuse to pick up the last four sprays that’d be awesome I would really appreciate my moneys worth in nose bleeds please and thank you.

While indoors if I’m not reading I am spending a lot of time listening to Bobby Darin, I AM A FULL ON BOBBY DARIN ADDICT now to the point I can even tell the difference between him and Frank Sinatra. At this EXACT moment, Country House, Blur is playing though. That Bobby Darin song If a Man Answers makes me dance a jig that has me busting out the mashed pa-ta-to and everything in between.

I am starting to feel a lot better about my body, I’m eating more, have more energy, feel some motivation to get out and I have been! And I’ve been spoiling myself I got my hair cut and my eyelashes tinted. I used to get them tinted in high school and in my super early twenties but yet never got them tinted when we got married, who knows.

Last week things started to have a feeling of normalcy around here. FEELS like I’m back to my regular old depressed self. She’s cool, majority of the people I know can handle me in this state. It is no wonder that Tori Amos and her music always bring me so much solace during shit times, after I finish reading The Last Days of Socrates, Plato I am going to read Tori Amos Piece by Piece, Tori Amos and Ann Powers. I picked up a hard cover on blow out for five dollars. I can’t even tell you how happy finding hard cover books I want for five dollars in perfect shape makes me. And it is still an early enough printing that the book itself is still grooved like honeycomb.

I went out on Thursday for a friend’s birthday and I bowled! No photos though, Adam’s pictures thankfully did not turn out. Thank you very much to my Bowl for Big Brothers sponsors: readers and friends of Gus Greeper put me in second place behind Tod Maffin for most amount raised, you all helped me raise $296.00 respectfully and I greatly appreciate it!

We had to leave said birthday celebrations early because my energy level was beyond low and although dinner was awesome it wasn’t enough to keep me energized very long and also with all the great people to talk with I faded out pretty fast. At dinner it was OFFICIALLY decided that I am no longer allowed at any parties without a sippy cup because I am a Hand Talker Extraordinaire aka spilly drinker. This came about only after Kimli had already spilled a full glass of water onto Adam’s crotch [hehe that was so funny] and my cat like reflexes had caught at least four or five ‘almost spills’ from my flailing talker hands, hence past parties came up where really I haven’t necessarily spilt anything, but I did almost break or did break my toe, so we came to a general consensus. I want an extremely childish one with a neck strap on it etc. It will debut at Netchick’s House Warming. Hopefully I will have gained some weight back by then and not hate cameras.

My therapist mentioned on Friday that he didn’t think I was any smaller than I had been back in 2003 when I started to see him, I was a serious wreck back then, so I had to explain to him that yes he was right it was simply the lack of muscle mass that was making it so obvious because in 2003 I was still in stellar shape.

I have taken my nerd-dum to new heights and am now sporting FLARE on my purse. This is a very out of the box thing for me to do so we will see how long it lasts. I do enjoy the extra feelings of nerdiness it gives me though.

Last week was also a killer week for mail and I’m going to show it off!

Jennie Roth sent me these seriously kick ass slippers. I’m going to hang them above my makeshift monkey making area, these mailed before I had my not so fun break down and therefore arrived just in time to help cheer me up! Thanks again Jennie me lovez them.

I normally do not post any of my correspondence because there are many many people I have met online not to mention my ‘in person’ friends - I LOVE TO SEND AND RECEIVE MAIL - I send mail to and they send me mail. This card was too cute not to post to my flickr because it made my day and made me laugh laugh laugh and then laugh some more.

And I was also in complete shock when the post woman left a package at my door which I opened to find this fantastic painting of myself to myself from the seriously awesome Tiana aka Sassy Red Head, the original photo is here.

My friends and their thoughtfulness never ever cease to amaze me. Thanks again so much!

Last week was a seriously huge week for Adam and me. We were both completely absorbed in ourselves, I a bit too much.

We had the absolute pleasure of selling our very first Sock Monkey to Phaedra, the ‘official’ site where they will be available is not finished yet, just email us through the contact page if you want details on obtaining one. We have now sold two monkeys.

Phaedra’s Monkey who she has named Bobby has already been out on the town ripping it up. Here he is hanging out with Marc Emery. Oh, I know one of OUR Monkeys is hanging with Mr. Emery, CRAZY!!!. ROCK ON BOBBY!! The Monkeys we make for people never cease to make us proud.

Photo © Phaedra on Flickr

Looks like Bobby will be joining us bowling as well, and the Bollwitt’s [R and J] have a Monkey and we have the original Dr. Vegas so who knows what sort of monkey business will take place. Naked bowling as per Keira’s comment and Monkeys? I’d say sponsor us or I mean me. [Please]

My Parents also dropped the HUGE news on us that they are moving to Asia, Bali to be exact. Everything is happening extremely fast right now. They put their house on the market last week and it is sold already. Adam and I are currently in negotiations with them over what we can have, buy, lease, and/or ship of theirs. Right now we are very concentrated on the Yamaha piano that I played growing up and some other stuff. It’ll be interesting I don’t think we can fit the piano in here Adam says we can and he wants it really really bad. I think our land lord is going to kill us but oh well we only like her 50% of the time anyway.

The kicker the hugest news of all is that my parents are I kid you not, flying us out once a year. Did I mention they were moving to Bali? They are having a house built for retirement and of course once the insanity of knowing we get to go to BALI ONCE A YEAR wears off [if it does] I wonder what phases I’m going to go through with this? I’ve already mentioned to my shrink that I feel like I am losing my ‘Northern Roots’. He said that is normal but it is just starting to bother me. There was a big deciding factor in their decision to go so far away that did consider us, but I’m choosing to keep it private at this time.

That news combined with the sock monkeys starting to sell has us both really excited and really busy. The possibilities feel endless right now.

I have never been a fan of Memes or tagging people to do them or being tagged but I have a hard time resisting the book and music ones.

Jerk with a camera [JWC] never tagged me but it is the irresistible music-ness of it that locked me in. For the Meme I am to list my top five favourite musical artists and then list my top five favourite songs from each one. Mentioned just recently in this post keeping the same top five list of anything for more than a few hours, days, weeks if I’m lucky is hard for me. If I was ever faced with a REAL LIFE TOP FIVE DECISION BIG BROTHER SAYS YOU MUST CHOOSE. I’d be fooked.

The first four in NO particular order are SET IN STONE. The songs not so much but I’ll do my best to pick my favs or most listened to. The fifth artist I am finding near impossible to decide on.

NEKO CASE

Runnin’ Out of Fools [Blacklisted, 2002]
Margaret vs. Pauline [Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, 2006]
Favorite [The Tigers Have Spoken, 2004]
We’ve Never Met [Furnace Room Lullaby, 2000]
Set Out Running [Furnace Room Lullaby, 2000]

Tool

The Pot [10,000 Days, 2006]
Eulogy [Aenima, 1996]
Parabola [Lateralus 2001]
Aenima [Aenima, 1996]
Intolerance [Undertow, 1993]

Tori Amos

Putting The Damage On [Boys for Pele, 1996]
Glory of the 80’s [To Venus and Back, 1999]
Taxi Ride [Scarlet’s Walk, 2002]
Cruel [From The Choirgirl Hotel, 1998]
Crucify [Little Earthquakes, 1991]

John Denver

Matthew
Rockey Mountain High
Annie’s Song
Take Me Home Country Roads
Some Days Are Diamonds (some days are stones)

This last one is SO HARD FOR ME I think I am going to keep with the trend of Artists I have seen live and pick:

The Dixie Chicks

Not Ready to Make Nice [Taking The Long Way, 2006]
Everybody Knows [Taking The Long Way, 2006]
Cowboy Take Me Away [Fly, 1999]
Travelin’ Soldier [Home, 2002]
Hello Mr. Heartache [Fly, 1999]

Last night Adam and I were treated by the Bollwitts, Rebecca and John were supposed to attend the Tori Amos concert at The Orpheum but due to Rebecca’s lovely sister celebrating her dirty thirty birthday they were unable to attend.

Happy Birthday Jenny!

Somehow the tickets ended up in our hands and excitement on my part does not even cut it. I hardly had time to let it sink in that we were going and we were out the door. Once, back in 1997 I had tickets to one of her concerts here and ended up going up North to see my parents instead; they had just moved to Prince George that must have had something to do with why I didn’t go and didn’t even sell the tickets, it is one of those memories that I hated because I just never thought I’d get to see her. [as known my headaches make me very picky with my concert choices]

Did I have a headache last night? YES. Did I care? NO. Do I have an after concert headache today? YES. Do I care? NO.

For years I have had to listen to other people’s stories of Tori and her piano bench and regurgitate it in many music conversations whilst admitting I had never really seen her live. That was hadn’t seen her live until last night.

I’d actually never been to a concert with a costume change. Adam said Paula Abdul changed outfits after every two songs. He saw her with Color Me Badd, it was his first concert he went with both his sisters, the Spellbound tour.

Don’t be jealous.

Tori puts on a performance that is so much more than you envision, so much more than you expect even though expectation on anything is silly. I could have sat there and listened to her piano playing alone, the fantastic lyrics and distinct and angelic voice is a bonus, throw in her stage performance, watching her play a piano and a keyboard at the same time, and you’ve got a concert to remember. It was worth the wait, thanks again, Mr. and Mrs. Bollwitt.

I know there are better photos on my phone but I have no idea how to get them off and emailing them to myself is not working. I think I need a memory card or something I am so technology illiterate I almost feel not nerdy enough and it hurts sometimes.

Because my back was out over the weekend and I wasn’t blogging there were two things of note that I did not get to make mention of, Rebecca aka Miss604 celebrated her four year blogging anniversary and changed her blog design and it looks all new and fresh. Congratulations Rebecca, I look forward to many more years of not only your blogging but continuing to get to know yourself and John, it has been a pleasure thus far.

On Sunday, Blogger Buddy and girlfriend Keira whom I met through Rebecca, celebrated a birthday and she is a pretty rad girl that Keira-Anne so I thought I’d mention it and wish her a Happy Belated Birthday!

Yesterday a trade was also completed, an over the border trade with an American, named Jennie Roth, I met her at Johnny America’s birthday party, although we weren’t able to stay long that night and it sucked because cool new people like Jennie were there. We exchanged a toque for a sock monkey pillow, because she saw it and thought of me, YES that is right a SOCK MONKEY PILLOW, check it, some people are so thoughtful it kills me.

Ps. Miss604 is having a Blogiversary Contest:

BLOG/POST about Miss604.com and you could WIN: TWO tickets to see the Vancouver Giants in action and TWO full-day passes (including rental) for Mount Seymour this season.

More details at Miss604.com. Having won her last contest I am staying out of this one but maybe I will see if Adam wants to enter.

When I was a kid and we lived in Smithers we only had two TV channels and so somehow I talked my parents into getting me a Nintendo. Until I moved out to Vancouver at nineteen I hadn’t upgraded, I only ever owned Mario one and three and I had Duck Hunt. Duck Hunt ruled that gun was so kickass. My girlfriend, Rhonda, who lived in Kitimat at the time had upgraded her Nintendo so I would play hers. It is rather surprising how much we got to see each other when I was still in Smithers, it is considerably further from Terrace where we ended up moving. Terrace and Kitimat are around 65km apart so once I was sixteen and had my license, until Rhonda graduated and moved away for college we saw one another almost every weekend or the memories are so good it feels that way.

If memory serves I bought a Playstation when I was twenty-one. I always LOVED Oddworld and had both games. Then in 2002 [at twenty-five] with my Christmas bonus I bought a PS2. I really had no choice. At the time I was friends with a group of four plus guys hanging out in a ‘guy’ apartment doing nothing but drinking, smoking pot and kicking the shit out of each other on Virtua Fighter [for example] and I was the only girl gamer so it was hold your own or get the fuck out and I of course held my own and decided it was high time I upgraded my own gaming hardware. It was a good investment anyway because this also gave me a DVD player.

*free tip for the single ladies*

Even if you hate gaming buy a PS2 they are ridiculously cheap now because the PS3 and new Xbox whatever is out and it will get you a man. Guys would go mental when they would see I had a playstation before I met Adam but also including Adam. I used to constantly joke that I had to hide the thing, it was almost as bad as guys trying to get in my pants. Guys like girls who have gaming systems. Accept it.

And so one day I’m talking to my buddy on IM and he is dating this rad girl and he says, he says AND SHE EVEN HAS AN XBOX. HA! I responded with: That is PROOF guys would have TOTALLY said that about me. I know they did I didn’t really need the proof but it is more cool that through meeting my buddies girlfriend I have now gained a new gaming girlfriend as well which brings me up to THREE girlfriends that game. Rhonda, Iris Eggwhites and Spockette.

Guitar Hero Three - Legends of Rock did NOT come out last Sunday as scheduled and has been pushed back to THIS Sunday. Ok, I seriously thought Adam was going to cry when it didn’t come out last weekend. If it is not in our hands THIS SUNDAY I can see some major flipping out happening. BUT wait didn’t you say THIS was Guitar Hero Three? When my friends ask me that I explain it in these terms: You know how after Sarah McLachlan released Fumbling Towards Ecstasy she started to release albums like Rarities, B-Sides & Other Shit Stuff in between pretty much every full length album release, almost like she is insecure and afraid her listeners won’t be there after her breaks which pisses me off because I will always love her and still bought all those in between albums, that is what Guitar Hero is doing. The Encore 80’s game is SHIT. If I was not ADDICTED to the point of needing an intervention to GH 1 and 2 because I am so close to finishing Expert level on both games we’d have gone back to Tiger Woods PGA 2007 till GH 3 came out.

So, with all that said, Rhonda gets here in a few hours, she normally brings games for the PS2, [she owns more than one gaming system] we’ll be going to Walmart as I have been letting EVERYTHING run out because Rhonda is a Walmart addict and I don’t know we just go to Walmart and we make crafts - must be the years and years in Scouts or some shit but we ALWAYS do crafts. Anyone new here can check out other visits with Rhonda here, here and here and this post has us as teens so we look SUPER hot.

Lately I have been feeling like I am falling in love with Adam all over again or that I love him even more if that is even possible or something like that and I have been all floating on a cloud like and we’ve been having so much fun lately and laughing more than we already laugh which is enough to keep our stomaches in shape and we had a couple of days where we didn’t really see much of each other I was out with Spockette and then he was out with Pat and Adam normally works Saturdays and I thought hey this is cool I miss him a lot and even though having this Friday night to myself rules and all because I don’t have to endure him taking the piss out of whatever crap show I’m awwwwwwing over I missed him and he hadn’t really gone anywhere.

When I got home from my night out I stayed up late and watched Shopgirl which really wasn’t that bad once you get over the fact you really are supposed to buy that Claire Danes and Steve Martin are ‘doing it’. I was really cold when I got into bed and when I snuggled up next to Adam I noticed how warm he was and was afraid I would wake him up because I was like an ice box getting into the bed but I rested my freezing hand on his chest and pulled my chest up to his back and discovered something I had never noticed before, that my head fit perfectly between the top of his neck and his shoulder blade and there was room for me to tuck in my other arm. I am NOT a cuddly person. I laid there thinking he’d never know I had made this valiant attempt at being not only affectionate but cuddly affectionate whilst figuring I’d have to roll over soon, there was no way I could fall asleep like this and what if Adam rolled over on me and I woke up with my neck and back out and then I was pissed off at my attempt to be affectionate and would have been all WHY DID I BOTHER! But then I woke up and it was morning.

We were watching The Lost Boys again on the weekend, the movie has been coming up a lot lately with the second one being filmed here and the fact that none of the original cast are in it and I can’t even see what it will be about except the obvious, vampires, and I think it is lame they are making a new one and the soundtrack from the original is one of my very favorite soundtracks ever [I sense a Corinna’s favorite soundtracks post coming!] and one of the things that rules about Adam is that I KNOW it must be annoying but he lets me sing all the songs while we are watching the movie and I do air guitar and I rock out and basically bring new direction they obviously didn’t think of to each scene. The Lost Boys soundtrack to me is like listening to a John Denver’s Greatest Hits album I know every single word even though I haven’t owned the soundtrack in years because I lent it out and GUESS WHAT…… I never got it back. [Don’t even ask why I still lend things]. So, this hip gyrating, Tim Capello .gif busting out ‘I Still Believe’ from one of our favourite scenes goes out to you babe.

I can’t really write a post like this without mentioning THREE THINGS.

1. Here is a link to the AWESOME post on how Adam and I met.
2. My parents celebrated their 38th wedding anniversary on September 9th they have only been married 37 years longer than Adam and I. WATCH OUT GUYS WE ARE CATCHING UP!!!!
3. The Funky Bee and her husband also celebrated their first year wedding anniversary on the 9th and it appears that they have had just as fantastic of a start to their marriage as we have.

Last night I had a brief yet sweet meet up with my BFF from the last half of my grade 12 year in high school. She and her sister went to the Justin Timberlake concert and needed a place to crash. With hind sight I now realize I should have gotten a ticket had I only know because they were RIGHT next to the stage like within get your ass kicked distance if you reach out to far for him tickets that she had extras of and I knew she was selling when she first got them. BUT I am very picky as you know with the shows I see due to my headaches so what can I say? At least I got to see an old friend, she got here around 2:15am I got out of bed and hung out for a bit went back to bed and then got up nice and early and put some FutureSex/LoveSounds on as wake up call music to get them up and out for the ferry. Was seriously awesome to see her even if it was only for a short time.

Despite the nasty headache I’ve had since August 24th I have gotten out a bit more lately as once it sets in for the long haul there isn’t much I can do until it breaks. Yesterday was the first day it didn’t bother me enough to have to take something but then today I had to first because it was bothering me and second I am going to see Holly McNarland tonight at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre.

I started listening to Holly McNarland in 1996 shortly after her EP Sour Pie was released. I was working at Future Shop Music on Broadway and Hemlock at the time and it was a music store only version of Future Shop that is gone now but at the time was known for carrying independent artists. I know they were one of the first stores if not the first to carry Nickelback’s [yes I shudder just having to write that WORD let alone THINK of them] first album Curb also released in 1996 and some of Gob’s earlier releases dating back to 1994 when the original drummer known as “Wolfmam Pat”, a close friend of Adam’s and also a friend of mine was still in the band. Basically the store was pretty hard core into supporting local and Canadian talent in general.

I have seen Holly live twice that I can remember even though I can’t remember the first venue, but I am sure it was with Spockette one of the people I will be joining to see her tonight, I saw her a second time downtown in A&B Sound and due to connections stood behind the stage, met her, had a CD signed that has now been lost but I won’t go there because I just get mad. I vaguely remember a third time. So tonight will either be the third or fourth time.

I expect tonight to be a great show! I am grabbing R and J and we are headed to meet Spockette where we will then gather with others and enjoy some long time no sing in Vancouver McNarland. I probably won’t review it because I write terrible reviews but do check her out!

Also thanks very very very much to John who built me a contact page today! Feel free to contact me or Adam, do it up!

HOLY I can’t believe it is Tuesday already, where does the time go? I have been pretty giddy since last Friday somehow I got the one line from Barry Manilow’s song Looks Like We Made It stuck in my head and that line would be the ”looks like we made it” part, the rest of the song doesn’t really work lyric wise, but that line mixed in with some humming and stabs at other lines without looking up the lyrics have been ever present to the point I dedicated that song to Adam on Sunday on Facebook for everyone to see because I know Adam hates Manilow and is probably about ready to duct tape my vocal chords. I found a video for the song on YouTube and it had all the karaoke lyrics running across it as well so I serenaded him whilst playing the air guitar. You want romance? I think that about covers it.

The only shitty thing about the whole weekend was that on Friday at around 3pm-ish I started to feel really nauseous and had to go lay down and I only had two hours until my shrink session and just felt ILL so I canceled, I will likely have to pay a cool $170.00 for that but I had no idea what was happening, and then I started to get the stabbing pains in behind my eyes and my head started to pound and I really couldn’t move and I was like DUH how could you NOT have realized that was a migraine coming on, I waited until it had subsided enough that I could maneuver myself off of the couch and into the kitchen to get something for it. Much to my relief it was under control pretty quickly but it was too late for my session. I called Dr. B back and explained what happened he knows about my headaches but still canceling two hours before? I think he will charge me for the missed session, granted he never said anything about it and normally he does so I guess I will find out if and when he hands me an invoice this Friday.

So basically we hung out with David and Iris Eggwhites and we had some Guitar Hero battles and we went bowling on Saturday night and spent Sunday how we spend most days, laughing and enjoying each others company. Just now we are in year two of marriage and almost heading into year five together. It sure does not feel like we’ve been together that long but we have. And I didn’t bust out any wedding photos because they are all on flickr and our favourite one is on Facebook we see them all the time if you want to see them you know where they are I’m just bored with them right now.

ps. This is my most favourite Guitar Hero shot ever. And it is only fitting that I was playing the 80s Encore edition when this was taken. What am I doing wearing that headband for real? Well, I’m retraining my hair growth pattern of course. It is sweet I don’t leave the house in it but I do wear it into bed because I am sexy to the max.

My girlfriend Jenn is really into music, I’d safely say our tastes vary greatly and have similarities, on occasion she will post adorable conversations with her daughters regarding music. The one I have linked to is a quick discussion where one of her daughters asks her the music that is playing, Jenn responds that it is ABBA and her daughter then said that she had thought it was Cyndi Lauper. Priceless and SO AWESOME. But reminds me that I spend a lot of time reflecting on the music of my youth and what I cringe at, what I enjoyed then and enjoy now and stuff that I hated as a kid and now love. Music as anyone who knows me is a major part of my being, I may not have listened to overly good music till I got older but I worked in music stores for years as a teenager and young adult before I headed into college. Or shit bloody travel college whatever. In some ways the music my parents listened to was better than mine and in some it was worse, and of course my parents never liked any of mine or much of mine I should say I have turned them sort of on some artists, I try anyway.

I remember being a kid, real young, still in Ontario and jumping on my bed to Sesame Street records, for as long as I can remember I was never without music with the exception of when I was grounded of course. I got my first walkman the year that Madonna’s True Blue was released and remember my parents having some sort of conversation in regards to whether the tape was appropriate they hadn’t realized what Pappa Don’t Preach was about until they bought it but it was dropped, and even though they never liked a lot of my music they never ever tried to sensor what I listened to, so I obviously got very lucky that whatever conversation they had probably ended in something like she is going to hear it anyway so we may as well just let her walk around the house, plugs in her ears, screeching about being a pregnant mess. Man they must have loved that phase.

I’ve mentioned before that when it comes down to it I am a Northern girl. I grew up camping and shitting off the side of cliffs and we lived out of our canoe on our excursions and portaged everywhere, I think I was put in a canoe shortly after I fit in a life jacket. That is one thing my parents still have from my past and man is it tiny. Getting to these remote locations required a lot of driving. I listened to Tiffany and Debbie Gibson in my walkman over and over at this point in time as well as Madonna and Janet Jackson. My parents were always asking me to turn down my walkman, I’m sure we’ve all rolled our heads back at that parental request at one point in time.

I had a good number of tapes but my parents also had a tape player in the car and so sometimes I would not be able to listen to my music with theirs on. Although there was always music on at home, when in the car there was no escaping what they would listen to aka the music I grew up on. I emailed my dad the other day to make sure we were on the same page with the music my parents listened to and that I was therefore brought up on.

In no particular order:

Barry Manilow - I still listen to him and Adam makes MAJOR fun of me.

John Denver - I LOVE JOHN DENVER. Between my parents and I we own everything he has ever done. I cried the day he died. Also saw him live. We also had John Denver and the Muppets, Rocky Mountain Holiday. I miss that tape still today. But do now own the DVD so all is good.

Anne Murray - Canadian so I don’t ‘hate’ her, but do I like her? No.

The Mamas and the Papas - Don’t listen to anymore and don’t really remember them being played. *HUGE CONFESSION* I owned Wilson Phillips CDs.

CCR - Loved then love now. I remember when my Dad and I were driving to the dump one day a few years ago when I was home for a visit and he decided to test out the truck speakers to CCR being that you know he can’t have that sort of fun with my mom that is like daughter and dad stuff. So we blasted CCR as loud as the speakers would let us and acted like sixteen year old kids with brand new ’systems’ in our vehicles, good times I am sure we looked awesome rocking out.

ABBA - Mixed feelings.

Peter, Paul and Mary - Also saw live, don’t listen to them now but remember enjoying their music.

Gordon Lightfoot - HATED as a kid INSTANT walkman placement on ears whenever my parents would play him and I was convinced they would only play him to make me mad. ‘Three chord Gord’ HAHA. Well, I love the Lightfoot now, LOVE him listen to him on a regular basis. Saw him play with John Denver.

The Eagles - Indifferent.

Elton John - I always thought it was cool my parents liked Elton John because he is part of their generation and mine.

Rod Stewart - I’ll let you guys guess on this one.

Bob Seger - Some of the best drinking music around.

The Beach Boys - oh The Beach Boys, LOVE THEM and love that Big Love opens with God only knows. *HUGE CONFESSION # 2* I owned Wilson Phillips CDs.

Jim Croce - He’s cool.

Air Supply - Can’t win them all. And no I do not listen to them anymore but when their songs come on the radio I still know all the words to the songs. BONUS.

The Bee Gees - I still listen to them. My favourite song by them is Nights on Broadway.

The Rolling Stones - I think even just with the above descriptions this one goes with out saying. YAY BABY PAINT IT BLACK! WOO HOOOOOOOOO

The Beatles - Between my Mom and her sister they have Elvis and the Beatles covered in their youth they saw them. Of course I still love the Beatles I’m human.

Olivia Newton-John - Was my father’s biggest ‘celebrity’ crush I ever remember him having but it was cool my mom had it bad for Travolta. I used to dance around to her stuff on a regular basis. I don’t listen to her anymore but still get physical from time to time.

Elvis Presley - Old Elvis I love, fat fucked up Elvis, not so much. Still listen to a good lot of his music.

Linda Ronstadt - Canadian and good, is on many of my play lists. I wish my parents had have listened to Joni Mitchell as well but I found her on my own.

Bonnie Raitt - Adam and I had one of her songs on our wedding cd.

Neil Diamond - HATED as a kid, can’t get enough of those sequins now though. He makes me want to meet a Kentucky woman.

Roy Orbison - I don’t even know what to say here, Roy has just never done it for me in any way. Shit cept for Pretty Woman, I forgot about that one.

So as you can see I wasn’t tortured, there wasn’t a huge amount of depth, but I did think of probably five to ten artists that were left off the list, Tom Jones for one who I mention because I could have seen him when I was in Vegas in 1998 and STILL regret not.

This is something about my childhood I revel in. My memories of music in relation to my parents are all good and always bring back fantastic memories.