A Miracle Happened Today

Guess. What. Happened. Today?! The boys took out the garbage! I was so excited and kinda cold as they also opened the window above the sink. But I'll take chilly over smelly any day.  

I finally got groceries this afternoon (and by groceries I mean eggs, wheat bread, and cookies) and they were playing the song "Still The One" by Shania Twain in the store so of course I was singing along with it. There was another young woman in there too, and I could see she was softly mouthing the words as well and it made me feel a little bit more normal regarding my singing habits in public.  When I got back to the apartment I made myself two eggs sunny-side-up, two pieces of toast (one jelly, one butter), and had two cookies.  Quite tasty.  

I was able to watch an episode of House yesterday on my computer, which started me off on a fun adventure for the day, mind you it was all within the compounds of my cozy room. The episode was called "Painless" I think, it's not the most recent but I have no TV and sometimes I can't watch it online because it will take 3 hours to load. Anyhoo, at the end some song was playing and it was really pretty and I made it my mission to find it. I do this a lot with TV shows: I hear like 30 seconds of the song, decide I want to hear more and possibly purchase it, listen intently to try and pick up at least a 4 word phrase, and then Google it. Unfortunately I heard the phrase incorrectly, so Google-ing took me longer, but it turns out it was a song called "I Still Care for You," by Ray LaMontagne, WHO coincidentally is playing in Cork on Saturday! The reason I know this is that I have seen advertisements around town, and I think someone was either selling or looking for tickets on a post board on campus. SO I then went to YouTube, the best source for free music, and listened to some of his stuff and like it a lot. THEN I Googled to see if any more tickets were available for the concert Saturday, which, to my sadness, were all sold out.  That's kinda where I stopped, the only further thing I can do is to see if anyone is indeed selling tickets on campus and purchase then ASAP.  Either way, I found it interesting that the world was somehow connected in such a way as to have me watch that certain episode, hear that certain song, find it to be LaMontagne, and remember he was playing in Cork, where I am currently living. 

I really want the visit to the Spires, the other apartment complex I might be moving to, to go well on Tuesday. I know I shouldn't be driven by jealousy, but when I hear of people going out with the flatmates or at least just having someone there to talk with every once in a while or at the very least just having someone LIVING in the same apartment I feel like "why shouldn't I have that too?" And people have been very nice saying I can come up to their apartment any time, but I should be able to say the same thing, right? Like have people over? I am really crossing my fingers on this one. 

OH! Haha yesterday someone in the complex was practicing an instrument - I like an oboe or a saxophone - somewhere near my apartment. (They also just started playing now- How weird?!) but they were trying to play the beginning part to "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" and not doing very well. I laughed to myself.  I would be too embarrassed to practice an instrument in a building like this, even if I were a pro, because really everyone can hear you. You have to admit, that is kinda weird, right?! Wow, I wish I could record them playing right now: They just hit a note that sounded like a horse was stuck in some mud and calling to get out.  

I wish them luck with all their musical aspirations, because they sure need it.  (Mean, sorry.)