I Gotta Feeling…
For many years, I ran without music. I’d listen to the birds or traffic or wind or construction or whatever there was to listen to and think deep thoughts or think about nothing or fantasize about all the beverages I would drink when it was over.
But in the last year, I’ve realized I’m tired.
I don’t always feel like doing this.
I would often prefer to walk. More than that, I would often prefer to walk directly home and skip this whole ’six miles every other day’ business.
That’s when I added an iPod.
At the gym, I always use the iPod. This is more because I’m anti-social in my own way and don’t want anybody bothering me in their mistaken assumption I’m there for the meat market pickup scene that doubles as a gym (don’t they all???). And also because the music they broadcast overhead sucks.
Remember the few year period that all the TVs in gyms were set to a radio frequency and you had to bring a mini transister if you wanted to listen to them? That was ridiculous.
But come to think of it, typing this now, I have no idea how to listen to the TVs at the gym anymore. That’s fine though, because TV – and listening to people talk – makes me go slow. What doesn’t make me go slow is music.
In fact, some music possesses the magical power to pump me up and make me run faster than I ever would with just the birds and the fire engine noise.
Lately, that one song is “I Gotta Feeling” by the Black Eyed Peas.
I love that song.
I love the upbeat, optimistic and yet brain dead lyrics.
I love the driving beat.
I love when they yell ‘Mazal Tov!”
Moreover, the song cheers me up and even makes me feel kind of happy, which is why I should probably go turn it on right now.
Because – in stark contrast to the lyrics (I gotta feeling that tonight’s gonna be a good night) – I just caught myself feeling like today was going to suck, and it’s only 9:30am.
Why is this, you ask?
Well, not because of the three-day weekend (Fourth of July) or gorgeous 90+ sunny weather or that I’m going on a girl’s trip with four other women starting late next week…but because I woke up and had the wind knocked out of my sails.
Simply put, I expected some help from the people who migrated the blog to the new server (and planted the seeds of the current layout problems as all the glitchy stuff that led to this started then and which I told them about at the time), but instead got a big fat bill for the migration back in April and a ‘these new fixes are going to cost you’ message and fed a growing fear that they don’t really understand Wordpress and are charging me a premium-priced hourly rate for their own on-the-job training.
More than anything, I got a sad feeling that this blog is such a problem-riddled money pit that maybe I wouldn’t be able to keep it going any more.
Bummer.
Now where’s my iPod?
Don’t know the song you wrote about.
Try carbon silicon “the news” Ex members of the Clash has a good rocking happy running beat.
Nothing like low blows on a friday morning. I’ll blow some wind your way. Head up Girl! Gails are coming!
Get that music pumping girly !!!
Ok, now….firstly I have to tell you a story. About a year ago now, somebody told me that you attract your fears, so you should really fear things like winning the lottery etc….yeah yeah like thats gonna happen. But only the other day somebody went a little deeper. Apparently if you believe all this stuff, its not actually your fears per se that you attract, more over the feelings or Energy you attract. Bit like the old money goes to money saying, whatever energy you put out, you attract more of. But positive thinking isn’t enough, its about positive feeling, positive energy. Right thats done with.
Now for ( hopefully ) a knight in shining armour ( no, not me unfortunately ). There is a guy I sort of know, ( another blogger ) and he used to be into everything wordpress. He has his own domain running wordpress. So I’m thinking give him a shout, tell him I sent you, and see if he can sort things out. He’s a good sort, and if he can help I’m sure he will. His mail should be neil@vodkaforbreakfast.com Tell him Mark from Planet-Maxx sent you, and hopefully he’ll remember me and give you a hand.
Good Luck !!!
Thank you so much on both counts: Reminding me to stop being gloomy and focusing on the negative and – most importantly – writing whiney blogs (winey blogs, fine. whiney blogs, bad.)
I feel better, and I am confident this will be fixed in the next 24 hours!!!
Thank you also for the name of a potential knight in shining armor, as well. With a site called vodka for breakfast, I’m already a fan. I’m giving the Canadians one more day to undo what they done (because this issue actually started the day they migrated me to the new server, it just wasn’t visible to the public)…and then I’m having vodka for breakfast.
Cheers!
Oh it is the Canadians! Maybe they found out and didn’t think it was funny for you to think their own born and bred Canadian comedians are not funny. But now I see the layout is back to normalcy.