Wide open spaces

Charlie Faye and I are trekking in my little orange car to make our
way to Salt Lake City by Saturday. It's a lot of miles. But the
conversation is stimulating, and the view is gorgeous, as you can see!

This is a photo Charlie captured after I forced her to take a picture.
Am I a mean, bossy driver? Maybe. I just wanted to share New Mexico
with y'all...

roach motel. seriously.

I am trying to be a big girl about this. But I am definitely sleeping in my car. When I reached behind my pillow, um, I felt something. Then in a Maria-like Sound of Music inspired move, I jumped out of bed and threw back the covers...

and a roach ran out. Yes, really. There were other creepy crawlies in there too. :-(

I wanted to cry a little bit. But I did not. I closed my suitcase, made sure my toothbrush was zipped away, brought my personal pillow out to the car, folded the seats appropriately, and made myself a little bed. Yes, I did.

Sorry if I'm having a bit of a pity party. I'm okay. But I'm tired. And I keep feeling phantom bugs crawling on me. Tomorrow will be a better day. At least my guitar is in air conditioning.

15 songs. I just said I wasn't gonna do this.

I just got off the phone this morning and said I wasn't going to do any of these danged Facebook survey things because I don't have the time for them. Not only that, I said I wasn't going to do THIS one specifically. And then I got tagged on it a couple of times, and I got curious what would come up for me...and I did it.

Dang it. I'm such a SUCKER. Ah well...so here goes. It's called "Get in the Mix."

I'm not going to tell you to do it and tag me or tag "x" number of people or anything. But here's what the instructions were, and I followed them. If you want to do it too, feel free. There's a part of me that doesn't believe people are really interested in what I'm listening to, but oh well... it's lunch break time anyway.

So you'll notice, I put way more than the first 15 songs on here. Like maybe double that. Because I was so curious...ugh. I know, I know, I just became one of those annoying people who not only sends on the forward survey, I can't even stick to the rules. Blech. I annoy myself.

Whatev.

(1) Turn on your MP3 player/iTunes/etc.
(2) Go to SHUFFLE songs mode.
(3) Write down the first 15 songs that come up--song title and artist --NO editing/cheating, please.
(4) Choose some people to be tagged. It is generally considered to be in good taste to tag the person who tagged you.

If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about your musical tastes, or at least a random sampling thereof. (To do this, go to "NOTES" under tabs on your profile page, paste these instructions in the body of the note, enter your 15 Shuffle Songs, Click 'Preview' below to tag 25 people (in the right hand corner of the app) then click Publish, the little blue box at the bottom of your screen).

So here are mine...

Song Title / Artist

1. Broken Things / Julie Miller
2. Agua De Beber / Antonio Carlos Jobim
3. That's Life / Frank Sinatra
4. Cocaine Blues / Woody Guthrie
5. Si Si No No / Machito & His Afro Cuban Orchestra
6. Blanket / Gurf Morlix
7. Solsbury Hill / Peter Gabriel
8. Record Lady / Lyle Lovett
9. Hide the Bone / Prince
10. Shine on You Crazy Diamond / Pink Floyd
11. If You Don't Take the Medicine / Randy Weeks
12. Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 30 E Maj. Op. 109, 3rd Mvmt / Maurizio Pollini
13. Here in the Real World / Alan Jackson
14. Just Another Lover / BettySoo (oh my gosh, weird. Why am I in the playlist??)
15. Stravinsky Rite of Spring, Scene III / London Philharmonic w/ Bernard Haitink
16. Nuevas Senoritas / The Indigo Girls
17. Ain't No More Cane / Lyle Lovett
18. Anybody Seen my Baby? / The Rolling Stones
19. Can't Lose Them All / Kim Richey
20. Kamera / Wilco
21. Skinny Legs / Lyle Lovett
22. Shattered / The Rolling Stones
23. Lonesome Whistle / BettySoo (weird. I'm on here again.)
24. Not What I Had in Mind / Kelly Willis
25. Pot of Gold / Robby Hecht
26. If it be Your Will / Leonard Cohen
27. I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby / Alison Krauss
28. These Blues / Jimmy LaFave
29. More of a Man / Andy Gullahorn
30. 300 M.P.H. Torrential Outpour Blues / The White Stripes

lalalalalaaaaa... lots of fun music. Why don't I listen to more of this more often? Oh yeah, I'm WORKING.