Songs to Stay On

Monday, 21 April 2014Monday, 21 April 2014 Starr2 Comments

I have 5 radio stations that I switch back and forth between when I drive. (Not including my 2 classical music stations.) Often, what makes me change the station is either an irritating commercial or a song that I can’t stand/am tired of. I’ll stay on a station if nothing else is better.

OR.
If one of these songs comes on. When one of these songs comes on, I immediately crank up the volume and sit back to enjoy. I will never switch off these songs:

“The Worst” – Jhené Aiko
“Body Party” – Ciara
“Lotus Flower Bomb” – Wale (I’m seeing Wale perform live in a few weeks!!)
“Party” – Beyoncé ft. J. Cole
“Marvin’s Room” – Drake

Also “Marvin’s Room (Can’t Do Better)” – JoJo
“Work Out” – J. Cole
“Don’t Stop the Music” – Rihanna
“SexyBack” – Justin Timberlake
“Toxic” – Britney Spears

NOTE: These are car radio picks. I would include other songs that I would never dream of switching away from, but they don’t really get airtime on the radio. Some of these songs don’t get much play anymore, but every now and then I’ll still hear them. A testament to their staying power, I think.

I will think of more later, but I think you guys may see that I have a preferred genre for songs that I stay on… (Although I definitely veered away from that towards the end of this list XD) I will definitely come back with more of these as I remember them.

What song do you NEVER switch away from and/or turn UP when you’re listening to the radio/Pandora/etc.?

Simple Pleasures (1?)

Sunday, 20 April 2014Sunday, 20 April 2014 StarrLeave a comment

I thought I’d introduce (yet another) category/series here. I am a really big fan of simple pleasures. Little things that sometimes make your day, and you feel their absence a lot. Often, I don’t appreciate my simple pleasures until they’re not there.

I may occasionally end up doing Friday Favorites editions that focus on simple pleasures, but we can worry about that later.

Here are a few simple pleasures that I’m appreciating of late:

Sitting on the top tier of the double decker train
When the bread part of a cream bun is sweet and moist
Russian folk and ballet music

(My Monday work jam)
Publishing a blog post
- With my own photos whoa
Savoring the piece of chocolate I’ve been saving all day
Gently nice-smelling soap
Favorite soap of the moment – Softsoap Lavender & chamomile
Fixing something that had been broken for a while
- Without putting in as much work as you thought would be required.
Tambourines at karaoke
Babies smiling at you
Unnecessarily cute food
These red bean buns are also little hedgehogs omg

Sorry that I haven’t posted all weekend. I wasn’t able to get to a computer on Friday OR yesterday. I am really bummed that I was going so strong with BEDA and was thwarted by unpreparedness. I’m going to try to catch up!

Tell me about some simple pleasures from your week?

Favorite Childhood Books (part 1)

Thursday, 17 April 2014Wednesday, 20 April 2016 StarrLeave a comment

I often find myself wondering if elementary school students today are reading the same books that I was reading back in the day. Even though new books get written, I like to think that some will be read by generations of children who want to read them to their own children someday.

Here are a few of my favorites books from early childhood, mostly pre-elementary to elementary school. I know I’ll have more to add to this soon:

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
The Art Lesson by Tomie DePaola
Tikki Tikki Tembo by Arlene Mosel
Good Night Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series by Betty MacDonald
Wayside School series by Louis Sachar
Max and Ruby series by Rosemary Wells

Honorable mention goes to The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg, because it was kind of a tradition for me to read it every holiday season although I don’t remember much about it. (You know that all I really took away from the movie was that stellar hot chocolate musical number.)

Another honorable mention is Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak, which I never really loved as a child, to be completely honest. But again, it was kind of a tradition for me to read it when I was young.

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