Today's song is "The Lightning Strike" by Snow Patrol
The instrumentals on this song are stand alone and the words just add to the mood it creates.
Guilty pleasures.....we all have them whether we want to admit to them or not
Lately I've been experiencing one of mine as I find it helps center me and gives me some inspiration and more than a few topics to blog about.
What is this guilty pleasure you ask?
One Tree Hill
Now before you laugh at my for enjoying a show built around the drama and angst of a group of high school students from mythical Tree Hill, North Carolina take a moment and think back about your own high school experience. Mine wasn't anywhere near as dramatic as that posed on the show but there are some similar experiences that bring back memories both good and bad.
One think I like about OTH is that they didn't try and prolong the show by keeping the characters in high school longer than was necessary but allowed them to grow up, move on with life, and face new challenges and opportunities.
I'm just finishing up season 8 with one more to go and I see quite a bit of similarity between Nathan Scott and myself in terms of how we view fatherhood and being there for our children all the while battling the demons of how we were raised by our respective fathers.
OTH is but one of my guilty pleasures and given how life has gone for me lately I think I'll be revisiting some of them over the next little while as I cope with things and try and stay on an even keel.
These guilty pleasures might include but are not limited too.....
- Hoosiers, the movie that is with Gene Hackman and not the state of Indiana
- Dairy Queen soft swirl cone, but not dipped, oh no, never dipped
- Sitting on my deck with my iPod, a cold drink, and a book by Dick Francis
- The driving range so I can let some frustration out through the timely application of my driver
- A walk through Ikea, not to buy anything but just to check things out
- Letting Moki off her leash in the park and running around like the crazy puppy she is
Those are but a few of mine and now I ask that you consider some of your own and possibility partake of one or two this coming weekend.
M
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