6:27 AM PST - Feb. 09, 2004
i'm listening to the new Five for Fighting CD. i rarely listen to men singers, but John Ondrasik writes awesome songs.17 months
my boy is almost 17 months and he's struggling through a bad cold right now and the house is evilly cold in the mornings because when we decided to live on one income blankets are far cheaper than a $200/month gas bill. and besides, i remember freezing my ass off when i grew up in Illinois and it was only 45 degrees in our house and we wore two pairs of socks and a scarf. and i think and count the ways i could talk to my son and explain all these things but i know he's too young to understand why i get up at 3:30 to practice piano as if i were trying to absorb the keys back into my fingers, and that i tell him i was so good once and how i cry when i play sometimes because it's as if i wrote the music myself and lived through the window that these composers looked through, the lady they fell in love with, how in their own nerdiness dreamed through the apricot blossom of how they might give their love only to learn that in that day and now, it was the Backstreet Boys that got all the girls.
