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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
It's a fine life?
Hey, look at me! I'm entering the blogosphere. (Thanks Jo Sue!) I had no idea how stressful it could be. Right off the bat, I had to think of a title for the blog. A title? I didn't want to be too specific. Or too cute. I wanted it to include whatever topic I wanted to yammer on about.
So, Sunday, Nat and I were playing Scrabble while the musical "Oliver!" was on tv. One of the musical numbers sung by Nancy (the sweet and way too good for him) girlfriend of Bill Sykes (the scruffy and mean, bad guy) comes on. She sings as she's working the crowd at the pub "It's a Fine Life." So, half listening and trying to come up with a triple-word score---(it takes every neuron I have working at full power to beat Nat)---I thought that "It's a Fine Life" would be a great title and encompass everything I wanted.
After Jo Sue helped me get the blog set up, I came home and wondered what the rest of the words said. In my mind it was just "mm...mmmm...mmm....mmm...It's a Fine Life!....mmmm.....mmmm........mmm..mm...mmm...It's a Fine Life!
Thanks to today's technology I found the rest of the song.
The other lyrics: "If you don't mind having to go without things, it's a fine life!"
[Yeah. That makes sense. Life isn't about "things".]
The song continues, "If you don't mind taking it like it turns out, it's a fine life!"
[So far, so good. We don't always get to say how things turn out. But life can still be good.]
Then comes, "If you don't mind rats bringing the plague in, it's a fine life!"
[The plague? Really?]
Hmm...well....that could put a damper on things a bit....
I think I can change the title if I need to.
So, Sunday, Nat and I were playing Scrabble while the musical "Oliver!" was on tv. One of the musical numbers sung by Nancy (the sweet and way too good for him) girlfriend of Bill Sykes (the scruffy and mean, bad guy) comes on. She sings as she's working the crowd at the pub "It's a Fine Life." So, half listening and trying to come up with a triple-word score---(it takes every neuron I have working at full power to beat Nat)---I thought that "It's a Fine Life" would be a great title and encompass everything I wanted.
After Jo Sue helped me get the blog set up, I came home and wondered what the rest of the words said. In my mind it was just "mm...mmmm...mmm....mmm...It's a Fine Life!....mmmm.....mmmm........mmm..mm...mmm...It's a Fine Life!
Thanks to today's technology I found the rest of the song.
The other lyrics: "If you don't mind having to go without things, it's a fine life!"
[Yeah. That makes sense. Life isn't about "things".]
The song continues, "If you don't mind taking it like it turns out, it's a fine life!"
[So far, so good. We don't always get to say how things turn out. But life can still be good.]
Then comes, "If you don't mind rats bringing the plague in, it's a fine life!"
[The plague? Really?]
Hmm...well....that could put a damper on things a bit....
I think I can change the title if I need to.
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