Walking the Wall

…yesterday you told me ’bout the blue, blue sky…

My daughter and I share a few things in common, love of reading and love of writing being two significant things. However, I get the most day to day enjoyment out of our shared love of music. She loves my iPod nearly as much as I do. She once went to a youth activity where they played “sing a few lines of an 80s song” and she knew every one, many more than the hosts themselves–I take great pride in that particular accomplishment that I have sent her out into the world with. She knows all the words to all the songs in Wicked and is particularly dazzling in the song “Popular,” although our tour de force is our rousing duet of “Defying Gravity”. Not stuck in the 80s or musicals (although it’s also worth mentioning that she knows all the worlds to all the songs of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Musical), we also share a pretty similar taste in modern music with some exceptions.

My favorite times are when every once in awhile when we aren’t really doing anything, nothing much on tv, the iPod is connected up to the stereo–and we just start randomly picking music and singing together with my husband occasionally joining but mostly just sitting by and grinning. When these nights of singing occur, there are several standbys that must be sung at some point–the two mentioned in the above paragraph for sure, certainly “500 miles” by The Proclaimers, whatever is on my “Current Favorites” playlist on my iPod (see my sidebar), “Katie” by James Marsters (who played Spike on the Buffy and Angel series), and many more. One other that most certainly must be sung is “Lemon Tree” by Fool’s Garden–we are pros at this song. I saw a lemon at the store today and spent the rest of my grocery shopping humming “I’m turning my head, up and down, turning turning turning turning turning around–and all that I can see, is just a yellow lemon tree…”
Life is wonderful, and so is my daughter.