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Saying that I “liked” a song and/or band means, that at a time in my life I enjoyed that band and/or song. The only reason why I wouldn’t like that particular song/band is because for some ungodly reason, someone has told convinced me the song is not as enjoyable anymore. Most likely because SOME PEOPLE or SOME RADIO STATIONS have played the song WAYYYYYYY too much.

So the purpose of this post would be for one reason.

EVERYBODY STOP LIKING fun. THEY ARE MY BAND. I FIRST LIKED THEM WHEN NOBODY EVER KNEW ABOUT THEM AND I INTRODUCED THEM TO MY FRIENDS! ME, NOT ANYONE ELSE. COULD THAT HAVE BEEN A MISTAKE AND THEM RUINING THE BAND FOR ME TOO, POSSIBLY. BUT NOW I WANT EVERYONE TO QUIT LIKING THEM BEFORE YOU RUIN THEM FOR ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!and no this is not a swing at anyone in particular. just everybody…………….. 

I know it had killed my family that i wasn’t spending time with them for this New Years, our annual tradition of going up to our lake house and waiting for our Sirius satellite radio to tell us that it had reached midnight, (because it is the only way we will ever truly know it’s midnight). But I have decided to make new traditions in my life for other things, why not for new years. 

So after hanging out with some of my very good and close friends I had noticed a much different way of celebrating the holidays. Just the feeling of being with other people on New Years made me feel different. 

Of course once the ball dropped, there was a mass of noise and excitement. Nearly every face in the room was lit up with joy for the new year. I can’t blame em, I am excited too. Unfortunately, although I was able to be my good friends I care for, I was unable to be with the one person I care for the most. I know I’m going to see her in 3 days, but I really miss Maggie. 

But I did notice how important music is to my friends, that I never would have guessed they took it. My good friend Larry and Kyle deliberately listened to their iPods before the ball dropped so they made sure that the last song of that year was not Lady Gaga’s New Years performance. I found that very outstanding. But of course, the person that gives so much more meaning to everything he sees, Paul took his music listening to a new level.

As we drove home, he explained what his normal tradition is for New Years. He decides a new song to summarize his year in general. He listened to the song he made for last year before the ball dropped, and played his new song after it had reached midnight. Very deep.
So he explained what his song was and why he chose it. I found it to be very beautiful and deep.

So with Paul’s “philosophy” in my head I had my normal conversation with myself, as I normally do when I drive, when it struck me. The song that was playing on Sirius became my song for the year. I have been playing it on repeat as writing this post and found, serenity, in the song.

So for everyone I spent New Years with, for those I hadn’t, from my family, to my old friends, to my new friends, to my wonderful girlfriend, to the dysfunctional family I call SIRA, I want to thank you for how stellar you had made my year. 

I love the Travel Channel and Food Networks. Whenever I have the chance I will watch these two channels. I especially love just learning about the different foods of the world, even though this is just a VERY very simple understanding to my Americana ways. The channel is very inspiring, whether its watching Iron Chef or No Reservations with Anthony Bourdain (my hero). I just feel very inspired by the cultures of the world and want to do things.

But with my certain predicament, at the moment I am watching the Travel Channel at midnight. The day is over and I cant do anything i am inspired to do, which is cook. I have all this pent up intuition and creativity to start cooking something, but I have no time and no initiative to go start getting my hands dirty cooking something I am most likely going to fail at.

I have always complained about the fact that food commercials, shows and channels should be unable to be aired after 8 o’clock, because it just makes everyone that has already eaten, hungry for the food they see on the tv.