the soundtrack of my life

pandora played this for me this weekend.

.spring night
.windows open
.back roads.
.twisting and .turning


how does it know?
..perfection

hootie's wagon wheels

heard this a few weeks ago, forgot how much i had .Loved it

.Darius was singing

of course, it's not his. .. but still had to roll all the windows down and rock it.

once again _ driving down the streets of nj's main streets something doesn't mesh.

but heck, i could care less.

.here are both versions

She would have smiled .Big

I have five or six drafted posts rolling around in my head.

Among the millions .. .thousands..  ok FINE .  hundreds of things I do during the day,
I find that I am "writing" while I'm driving or in the shower.
When it comes to actually publishing though, many times it never comes to fruition until weeks later. 

i need to get a handle on this somehow.

nonetheless, long story short. 

short story long ___
let me get to the point

"lessons from the day"
"happiness"
"day to day"

these are three tags that often come up for my posts. ..

today when I watched this video of my dad and i from a few weeks ago, i was thinking how my mom would definitely be tagging it similarly.
"things that made me smile"

my dad and i had an impromptu photo.shoot out in the front yard of all the flowers my mom had planted years and years ago.
my favorites of course, you will recognize from a few posts back.

the best part, of course, is my dad laughing.
these are the best moments, hearing him like that.

she is indeed smiling.
i can feel it.

"i do" advice from a college crush

it's strange seeing him more than ten years later. 
especially when in my mind, he had become a pastor. 
the quiet reserved one  .. . who i had college crushed on. 
[read the 2010 post where i had introduced you to him]

now he's a marriage counselor and all up on the tv channels. 



all great advice. 
.could have helped this single 35 year old gal a couple of times

crossing state lines

there are times when i think i don't belong in new jersey

.like when i listen to these songs and can't turn the dial in my car LOUD enough.. .

other times i know my nj attitude is too enormous to fit permanently within the borders of any other state.

I'm not the biggest fan of any of Florida Georgia Line's videos _ although I am of their music.. . 

I would suggest listening and minimizing the window.