I always say that sometimes, my mind is like a jukebox with ADD. Ok, I should modernize that. An IPOD with ADD. There are constantly songs that are going through my head and they seem to change on a whim. I will see, hear, read or somebody will say something and a whole new song pops into my head. I decided today to keep track of the songs that go through my head. I wrote as many of them down as I could. I came up with 30. And its a wide range of songs. These are all songs that popped into my head at work only and some of them I sang in my head, out loud or even hummed. Now, keep in mind, most of these weren’t songs that I heard on the radio this morning. And, these are mostly in order. As pathetic as it might seem, a lot of these songs are songs that pop into my head just about every day.

1.Kiss by Prince. Last week, I saw it in somebody’s away message. Its been with me ever since.
2. I Would Do Anything For Love, but I won’t do that by Meatloaf. Doing anything for love was a topic on a radio talk show I heard this morning. They played a brief clip of the song.
3.Paradise By The Dashboard Lights by Meatloaf. Once I mentioned the other Meatloaf song to people at work, this one popped into my head.
4. Move Along by The All American Rejects. Person I spoke to on the phone said move along and boom, the song was in my head for a few seconds.
5. Hail To The Cheif. This is a song I hum a lot when I’m walking around at work. I have no idea why, except that I usually make up lyrics in my head about Bush that go something like “Hail to the Chief he is a complete moron and we wish he would leave.”
6. Super Bowl Shuffle. Somebody asked me about this year’s Bears and the 85 Bears and I said that one difference is that song was possibly the gayest moment in Chicago sports.
7.Blue Monday by New Order/Orgy. Sometimes, play the drums with my fingers on the desk. I always play this song.
8.The Last Worthless Evening by Don Henley. I have absolutely no idea why this song popped into my head. Not a bad song, but what the fuck?
9. Ms Jackson by Outkast. I saw a lady’s last name was Jackson and this song came with it………….at least, in my head.
10. Jesus of Suburbia by Green Day. American Idiot is in my car cd player. I didn’t listen to it at all today, but every now and then, it comes on the MINDPOD (sounds like a scary invention for the future, doesn’t it?)
11. Oh Sherry by Steve Perry. Ok, this song just fucking sucks. And worse yet was how it came to me. Somebody called in by the name of Sara and for some reason, the first song that pops into my head is this pile of shit. As if that was bad enough, you can guess what’s next.
12. Sara by Starship.See, it gets even worse. I mean, this is so bad, it makes me consider suicide, which is a far better fate than having these 2 in your head.
13. Stupify by Disturbed. After those 2 previous songs, I said I was stupified that I would sing those.
14. Will It Float? theme song. This is a song that is on Letterman when he plays Will It Float.Remember last week when I told you my supervisor wrote that I was buoyant? Well, somebody added “Flam” above the word Buoyant. I looked up and saw this and the song came into my head. FYI: I’m not flamboyant at all, but it was funny as hell anyway.
15. Brick by Ben Folds Five.Don’t quite remember why, but I saw something that reminded me of this song. Not a bad song, but its too damn depressing.
16. How Much Is That Doggie In The Window? by somebody. Ok, this one is pretty crazy. There is a department newsletter that came out and there was an interview with a co worker. But, before the questions, there is a little verse from the Mr Roger’s song about neigbors. For some reason, when ever I see this, since I don’t remember the Mr Rogers song, I sing this song. I know. Kinda fucked up, aint it?
17. Crazy by Ghnarls Barkley. Guy at work mentioned how Ghnarls Barkley had made a remake of Gone Daddy Gone by the Violent Femmes. Crazy pops into my head.
18. Gone Daddy Gone by the Violent Femmes. See above.
19. Wannabe by (shutters) The Damn Fucking Suck Ass Spice Girls. Same guy at work said he is going to start throwing out bands to get me to sing songs. First one he throws out is Depeche Mode, so I instantly start singing this shit awful song by the Spice Girls.
20. Beds Are Burning by Midnight Oil. Right after Spice Girls, this great song pops into my head. For some reason, even though I know its not Depeche Mode, I seem to associate it with them. The ironic part is that a Depeche Mode song never comes into my head.
21. When You Close Your Eyes by Night Ranger. This one, like so many throughout the day has no rhyme or reason. Its frustrating.
22. Ridin Dirty by Chamillionaire . When I go to lunch I walk to the mall. For some reason, when I cross the street, this song pops into my head and then leaves as quickly as it comes.
23. My Humps by Black Eyed Peas. This one floats in and out of my head throughout each day. Not the song you want to be singing at work, yet, I do.
24. Laid by James. I only know one lyric to this song: “She only cums when shes on top” Again, I shouldn’t sing this at work. So, I usually just censor myself.
25. Kiss Off by the Violent Femmes. Once one Femmes song comes, another follows it, sometimes, it can take a couple of hours. In this case, it was like 3 hours later.
26. Stacey’s Mom by Fountains of Wayne. Talked to somebody named Stacey. ‘Nuff said.
27. The Last Time by the Rolling Stones. Somebody told me that it was the last time he would do overtime, instantly this song came into my head.
28. Theme from Get Smart. Sometimes when I’m walking down the aisles at work, I get to the end of the aisle, stop, look one way and than look the other way, ala Maxwell Smart in the opening credits to Get Smart. I do realize how lame this is, but its ok, because I love this show.
29. Theme from Three’s Company. Every now and then, this one pops into my head for no sane or reasonable reason. This was one of those times.
30. Some Kind Of Wonderful by Grand Funk Railroad. I have always liked this song, but have never been a huge fan of it. Yet, in another thing that lacks any logic, all of a sudden, its in my head.

See, what I mean. And this is only part of the day. I didn’t even get into while I was at home or anywhere else. 

PERFECT!!!!! Thank you, Denver! Dave called me midway through the game to say that if Denver won, he would have a perfect week too.  Well, they  won!!! But, I found myself a  tad bit disappointed. See, I have Baltimore’s defense in one of my fantasy football leagues, and I was down by 20 points going into tonight. Had they not given up that last touchdown, I just might have won. As it stands, I’m probably going to lose. Still, I can’t be anymore excited. A perfect week, thats a big deal. Its almost like a hole in one in golf. Ok, maybe its not that big, but its still cool.

Sorry Heather, but what can I say. I’m excited and never had a perfect week before.

Today, something very rare happened: I was late for work. Now, I know to most of you, that might not seem like such a big deal, but those of you that know me know that I  HATE  being late.  Turns out, due to last nights storms, there was a stop light that was out on Weber Road. This backed traffic up for  what seemed to be for-fucking-ever. The result was me being 10 minutes late for work. My boss was ok with it, because a lot of people were late due to various storm related reasons. Still she knows how crazy I am about being on time, so this gave her and others reason  make fun of me throughout the day about it. This was the first time I was late since my training class 2 years ago. Somebody pointed out to me that  if I had a cell phone, I could have called.

Which brings me to my next topic. This has given me another reason to get a cell phone.This and many other reasons. Now, I just have to decide on a plan and a company. I mean, do I want to be taking pictures with my phone? Do I want a video phone, you know, just in case the need for video phone porn should arise? Am I going to be text messaging a lot? Please feel free to offer me any suggestions, as I don’t know the first damn thing about cell phones. Also, please don’t let me become one of those “cell phone people”, you know, the kind.

Now, who should be my first call with my cell phone? I want to do something huge. Here is a general idea of who I could call:

1. Oprah. Why not? I mean, it doesn’t get any bigger than Oprah, am I right?

2. Sears. Why not just continue with those fuckers?

3. The President. Actually, that’s probably a bad idea. Plus, since he is listening to people’s calls, he would know its me.

4. My mother. Now, I would really have something if I managed this, wouldn’t I?

5. Somebody that I had a fallling out with, like Jt or Cara. What a way to say “fuck you” than by calling out of the blue with a brand new cell phone.

6. Perhaps a preemptive call to Scooty before he calls me. This might make the most sense since he will probably give me a complete lecture on cell phones anyways.

7. Somebody without a cell phone. This one might be kinda hard, since everybody already has one. Ok, just about everybody. Still, it would be great to call somebody and say “you loser, I have a cell phone and you are probably answering this call on your rotary phone! Get with the times, fucker!”

Today was all about water and floating. As part of a week long thing at work, all the supervisors had to come up with one word to describe their employees. My word  my supervisor  used to describe me? Buoyant.  I found this funny and ironic, since I can’t swim and therefore, would sink. Now, I know  it can be used to describe somebody that is lighthearted, but I still found it funny. The whole day after that, I had the “Will it Float” song stuck in my head. Will it Float is a game Letterman does in which they stick something in the water to see if it will float. He always says its based on the popular English version, “Is it Buoyant?.” I then got home from work and  I guess I shouldn’t  have been surprised, but Mark’s basement flooded. Again. So, as you might expect, I was summoned over there to help him with it. On my way over there, I  heard  “Float On” by Modest Mouse. This made me laugh. Or at least giggle a little.

When I got there, it was Mark, Ron (his father in law), Rusty, John and Courtney and her husband Scott. They were downstairs using dry wet vacs to suck up the water. Soon, pizza arrived and since John and I had already had dinner, we continued downstairs while everybody else ate. The reason why it flooded was because the power went out, leaving his sump pump (spelling please) with no power to do its job. This time, this was the most it had ever been flooded, they said it was about 3 inches. All I know is that if there was a way to murder a basement, Mark would have done that a long time ago. I feel bad for Mark, but we all agreed that we won’t let Mark put carpeting in downstairs again. In all honesty, I wasn’t down there for all that long, only about an hour and a half. Still, this is getting so annoying to have to do this every couple of months. That being said, I would rather be me than Mark. This has to be driving him crazy and really pissing him off. I don’t even know what to say to him anymore. He wants to move, but can’t afford that right now, especially with twins on the way.

Is it just me or are the Bears the quite possibly best team in football? They are definitely the best team in the  NFC after  man handling the Seahawks, who were the undisputed best team in the NFC coming into tonight. I don’t want to get too excited, but  I have to say, I like the Bears chances to get to the Super Bowl. The rest of their schedule  should be a breeze, in fact, I see only a couple of tough games left for them.