Just a Few Small Happy Moments

1. One of the couples at dancing fairly recently had twins, and have brought them with them the last two weeks. I spent some time playing with, i.e. cooing at, them on Monday. They're incredibly adorable.

2. Last night I went grocery shopping and when I returned with both toilet paper and milk, I got sung to/at: marching-band style, by redlily with aschill "conducting".

Just a Few Small Happy Moments

1. One of the couples at dancing fairly recently had twins, and have brought them with them the last two weeks. I spent some time playing with, i.e. cooing at, them on Monday. They're incredibly adorable.

2. Last night I went grocery shopping and when I returned with both toilet paper and milk, I got sung to/at: marching-band style, by redlily with aschill "conducting".

Music Stuck In My Head

For the last few days, I've had a song I know vaguely from dancing stuck in my head. This is pretty par for the course- there's almost always some piece of music running through my head. The song is a little obnoxious: it's aimed at kids, and is mostly a choir of kids singing the Hebrew Alphabet with this catchy tune (it Is, or at least Was, nice to have a change from the usual aleph-bet song, at least). But it's starting to get on my nerves. And anyways, it feels a little silly to walk around singing the Hebrew alphabet.

On the other hand, one of the reasons the song sticks in my head so strongly is a really sweet memory of watching a good friend (then 15) and a then 9ish year old friend of his dancing the thing. Just a very cute memory: Steve was in one of those gangy 15 year old stages but Very, very cheerful and friendly, and the little kid was very small for his age and really felt like Steve was his hero/role-model in many ways, and the whole thing was quite charming. Hard to believe said "little kid" is now 13 or 14.

Music Stuck In My Head

For the last few days, I've had a song I know vaguely from dancing stuck in my head. This is pretty par for the course- there's almost always some piece of music running through my head. The song is a little obnoxious: it's aimed at kids, and is mostly a choir of kids singing the Hebrew Alphabet with this catchy tune (it Is, or at least Was, nice to have a change from the usual aleph-bet song, at least). But it's starting to get on my nerves. And anyways, it feels a little silly to walk around singing the Hebrew alphabet.

On the other hand, one of the reasons the song sticks in my head so strongly is a really sweet memory of watching a good friend (then 15) and a then 9ish year old friend of his dancing the thing. Just a very cute memory: Steve was in one of those gangy 15 year old stages but Very, very cheerful and friendly, and the little kid was very small for his age and really felt like Steve was his hero/role-model in many ways, and the whole thing was quite charming. Hard to believe said "little kid" is now 13 or 14.