the opposite of accapella

If you hate music from the '70s,
especially instrumentals,
you're going to hate the juke box today.
I was reading this gal's blog and she had tacked up on her
own juke box song #1 over there, along with a snide
remark about the song. I love that song.
I have the most bizarre, eclectic, random taste, I know.
From The Haven of Rest Quartet to this.
So anyway, I had to race right out and get that song
on my own juke box.
Along with a couple of other smaltz-y
instrumentals from the days of
dancing on roller skates and polyester clothing.

But this mellow, groovy music is a nice soundtrack
to the lovely day I have been having. Even when you
are in the middle of a stink,
you can have a smile on your face.
Today has just been a great day, a great break for me,
and everything has just been so nice.
It just feels the way that song #2 sounds.

Again, if you hate this music, you are so out of luck.
I know you can turn it off, but it's still there.
Just know that.

Baby J is in his sound proof booth right now, also known as
his bedroom. I don't know what is up with that room.
It's like the black hole of sound. You cannot hear anything
from that room. I can stand in the hall with my ear
pressed to his door and you could run a jack hammer
in the middle of his room and I wouldn't hear it.
But I just went and checked on him and he's just laying
in there like the sweet potato that he is, looking around,
playing with his hands and feet, rolling from side to side,
wondering if his mother is ever going to come get him.
But he's all content and happy, so I'm letting him
practice being that way. I have been so enchanted with
him lately. The child is just overflowing cuteness
---at least I think that's what keeps spewing out of him.

So anyway, I hope your Thursday has been as lovely
as mine. Quiet morning at home. School and bathroom
cleaning got done. I went to lunch with my mom today
and left Lloyd Dobbler home with all four kids.
My mom and I even ran over to the next
Tiny Town over to J.C. Penney's (yeah, we just have
a Walmart because our Tiny Town is so tiny, but at least
the next one over has an old mall with an old Penney's in it)
and I used that $10 thing I got in the mail from them.
Do you get those $10 things they occasionally send out?
Love those. So I got a little plaid shirt for $3.
We had a ballgame in the afternoon
and then after that we all went out to my parents
to grill hamburgers for supper.
It was just a nice time. A nice day.
I was SO TIRED when I crawled into bed. Much more tired
than made sense for the activity level of the day, but I don't
even try to figure that out anymore.
It was still that good kind of tired.

If these instrumental songs really get on your nerves,
I could dub my voice in with some original lyrics.
What do you say?