Merry Christmas!

To everyone I won't see this year, which actually, is all of you - MERRY CHRISTMAS!  I MISS YOU!!

A little Christmas present to myself...

Music vs. Movies

I've always been a music lover.  Ever since I can remember.  I remember the very first cassette I ever bought with my own money.  Cinderella - Night Songs.  Oh yeah.  It rocked.  Still does.  Music has gotten me through all kinds of situations in life.  When I'm happy it makes me want to sing and dance along.  When I'm sad I feel like someone else knows exactly what I'm feeling and I'm not alone!  When I'm nostalgic a song can bring me right back to a certain memory.  I have been to more concerts and seen more bands than I could possibly keep track of.  I have an uncanny ability to remember song lyrics and remember the artist.  After 3 or 4 times of hearing a song I know at least 90% of the words.  I'm convinced that I can't remember really important things that I should know because my brain is filled to the brim with song lyrics.  Like the capital on Montana.  Or why the sky is blue.  Or who our current president is.  And the worst irony of all to me is that I'm a terrible singer!

For a long time, I let music slip out of my life.  Pretty much, only listening to it in the car (which isn't anywhere near enough for me).  But now, when I'm home, I almost ALWAYS have the radio on.  And because my local radio station, literally, plays the 10 latest pop hits on constant loop (and of course I am too lazy to constantly change the channel) I know all the words!  Music has brought me so much comfort lately.

When it comes to TV/movies, trust me, I watch just as much as anyone else.  But it just doesn't give me the same satisfaction.  I don't have the same capacity to remember movies or TV shows.  I have very bad short term memory as it is.  I know all the famous actors but cannot always remember the name of a movie.  If you ask me if I saw a certain movie I'll probably respond with "who was in that one?" or  "what was the storyline?"  There are definitely some classics that are burned into my brain.  Like, The Exorcist and Goonies and Forrest Gump.  But in general, I'd rather sit in a room all alone and listen to some music than watch a movie or TV.

So although I may be one of those people that develops Alzheimer's by the time they're 50 and I won't have a single memory of the last 20 years of my life, I will probably STILL know every single word to Piano Man.  So stop by and visit me in the old folks home.  I'll sing it for you.