Just Breathe

"Breathe (2 AM)"

2 AM and she calls me 'cause I'm still awake,
"Can you help me unravel my latest mistake?
I don't love him. Winter just wasn't my season."
Yeah we walk through the doors, so accusing their eyes
Like they have any right at all to criticize,
Hypocrites. You're all here for the very same reason

'Cause you can't jump the track, we're like cars on a cable
And life's like an hourglass, glued to the table
No one can find the rewind button, girl.
So cradle your head in your hands
And breathe... just breathe,
Oh breathe, just breathe

May he turn 21 on the base at Fort Bliss
"Just today" he said down to the flask in his fist,
"Ain't been sober, since maybe October of last year."
Here in town you can tell he's been down for a while,
But, my God, it's so beautiful when the boy smiles,
Wanna hold him. Maybe I'll just sing about it.

Cause you can't jump the track, we're like cars on a cable,
And life's like an hourglass, glued to the table.
No one can find the rewind button, boys,
So cradle your head in your hands,
And breathe... just breathe,
Oh breathe, just breathe

There's a light at each end of this tunnel,
You shout 'cause you're just as far in as you'll ever be out
And these mistakes you've made, you'll just make them again
If you only try turning around.

2 AM and I'm still awake, writing a song
If I get it all down on paper, it's no longer inside of me,
Threatening the life it belongs to
And I feel like I'm naked in front of the crowd
Cause these words are my diary, screaming out loud
And I know that you'll use them, however you want to

But you can't jump the track, we're like cars on a cable,
And life's like an hourglass, glued to the table
No one can find the rewind button now
Sing it if you understand.
and breathe, just breathe
woah breathe, just breathe,
Oh breathe, just breathe,
Oh breathe, just breathe.

(Lyrics by Anna Nalick)

Breathing's a good thing. Yes?
I just love the lyrics to that song, so there you go.
There's a lot to be happy about today for me! It's payday, for one. It's Wednesday, which is one day closer to Friday (I'm off on Fridays and Saturdays). My brother emailed me this news last night. Tori's releasing a career-spanning Boxed Set on September 5th. Remixes classics, rarities, B-sides.....and I might actually cry as I open it, I'll be so excited. haha (Kidding) I WILL be excited, though, because Tori Amos RULES! More than any other person that's ever been in entertainment, Tori is my girl. I just love her to death. Her music totally blows me away, always. And she's just a fabulous person. So a boxed set? Bring it on!!! Note to self: Start working overtime NOW, so you can buy.

In other Cool Things today, I found these 'Historical Figures' at Entertainment Earth. They made an action figure of Poe! Shakespeare! Austin! Dickens! I have to order Poe and Shakespeare. I just have to. Literary nerds unite! haha

Bean and I attempted to watch 'The Hills Have Eyes' last night. I had read where Quentin Tarantino liked this film. I need to send a note of concern to Quentin. From the opening scene, we knew this was going to be a clunker. I mean it was horrible! I felt so bad for Emilie de Ravin (Lost) and Anna Quindlen, that they even had their names attached to such a D-U-D. The effects were really, really fake, the gore was really overdone, when there was gore. But mainly, it was just boring. Not scary! Comical, when it tried to be scary. Run in the other direction on this one. Trust me.

The plot, if anyone cares to know, is that a family traveling in the Arizona desert takes the wrong road (fools!) and the 'Hill People,' who are victims of nuclear fallout, attack, kill, and eat the travelers. It was B-A-D. Terrible plot, if you think about it. Bean and I gave it an F squared (that's a F***ing F). We got cracked up at one scene, though. The travelers hit the tire traps the Hill People have set for them, and their truck goes crashing into a huge rock. As this happens, Bean swore she heard the father yell, "Mayday!" I said, "Did he yell that into the CB? Who was he yelling that to?" Turns out he wasn't yelling that, but we got a good laugh anyway. We decided it would be great if people would yell that out anytime they wanted, at random times. Like, I'm in my cube, and I have to make a sales call. I yell, "Mayday!" haha

And they're offering Unlimited Overtime here at work again. YAY! Yay, you say? You're GLAD to work overtime? I get paid by the hour, time and a half for OT. So yeah, I'm all about those paychecks. And the OT work is off the phones. It's painfully easy. I'm very blessed that I found this job. It totally rocks.

Reasons To Yell 'Mayday!'
1) You just had a jalapeno for lunch.
2) You tried to watch 'The Hills Have Eyes'
3) Your boss asks you to work overtime-on the phones
4) You're having sex for the first time
5) You just drank a huge bottle of red wine


Have a great day, All.