Somehow I made it through work tonight, but it wasn't pretty. Not only from the nasty cold, but I am just exhausted, my left foot still has that bleeding crack (though it has started to heal a bit) which still hurts, and my whole body just aches. I am so glad that I now have a three day weekend for the New Year holiday!
I have no plans for that holiday other than resting and spending time with my family. Well, and cooking and eating good food, and doing the normal housework. If I feel a lot better perhaps going to the book store to redeem my gift card...but at this point, that seems like a long shot. If only I could not feel so tired and so completely down...
Tonight when I let Max out for his bedtime pee, I heard a pack of coyotes off in the distance. It's been awhile since a pack has come through our neighborhood. I hurried Max back in, as I have heard coyotes will sometimes attack dogs, and Max would certainly be a very vulnerable target due to his advanced age. Their singing is certainly beautiful, though.
I got a lot of CD's in the mail today. I must have missed a response card to the jazz club, because I got a CD from them. It is by a group I have never heard of called Down to the Bone and is called Spread Love Like Wildfire. Though, of course, being ignorant of this ensemble, I might have those names reversed. 
From Amazon I got three classical CD's. I have been slowly edging into modern classical music and these are all 20'th or 21'st century pieces ~ two symphonies and an orchestral suite by a local composer on William Bolcom by the Louisville Orchestra ~ and a couple of Naxos recordings ~ William Bolcom Songs and Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony.
So between my new tunes and the massive but completely delightful novel I am currently reading (Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell) I should have plenty of quiet things to occupy myself while I try to rest and beat this cold off.
Well, it's off for a hot soothing shower, more foot scraping and creaming for the bleeding cracks, and some herbal tea. Hopefully I can get a good night's sleep tonight. If so, hopefully my outlook on life will be a lot more cheerful tomorrow!
Led Zeppelin's Fool in the Rain:
(jones/page/plant)
Well there’s a light in your eye that keeps shining
Like a star that can’t wait for the night
I hate to think I’ve been blinded baby
Why can’t I see you tonight?
And the warmth of your smile starts a-burnin’
And the thrill of your touch gives me fright
And I’m shaking so much, really yearning
Why don’t you show up, make it all right?
Yeah, it’s all right.
And if you promised you’d love so completely
And you said you would always be true
You swore that you would never leave me, baby:
What ever happened to you?
And you thought it was only in movies
As you wish all your dreams would come true
It ain’t the first time believe me, baby
I’m standin here feeling blue
Yeah I’m blue
Now I will stand in the rain on the corner
I’ll watch the people go shuffling downtown
Another ten minutes no longer
And then I’m turning around
The clock on the wall’s moving slower
My heart it sinks to the ground
And the storm that I thought would blow over
Clouds the light of the love that I found
Now my body is starting to quiver
And the palms of my hands getting wet
I’ve got no reason to doubt you baby,
It’s all a terrible mess
I’ll run in the rain till I’m breathless
When I’m breathless I’ll run till I drop, hey
The thoughts of a fool’s kind of careless
I’m just a fool waiting on the wrong block, oh yeah
Light of the love that I found...
U2's Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
You're dangerous 'cause you're honest
You're dangerous, you don't know what you want
Well you left my heart empty as a vacant lot
For any spirit to haunt
Hey hey sha la la
Hey hey
You're an accident waiting to happen
You're a piece of glass left in a beach
Well, you tell me things I know you're not supposed to
Then you leave me just out of reach
Hey hey sha la la
Hey hey sha la la
Who's gonna ride your wild horses?
Who's gonna drown in your blue sea?
Who's gonna ride your wild horses?
Who's gonna fall at the foot of thee?
Well you stole it 'cause I needed the cash
And you killed it 'cause I wanted revenge
Well you lied to me 'cause I asked you to
Baby, can we still be friends?
Hey hey sha la la
Hey hey sha la la
Who's gonna ride your wild horses?
Who's gonna drown in your blue sea?
Who's gonna ride your wild horses?
Who's gonna fall at the foot of thee?
Oh, the deeper I spin
Oh, the hunter will sin for your ivory skin
Took a drive in the dirty rain
To a place where the wind calls your name
Under the trees the river laughing at you and me
Hallelujah, heavens white rose
The doors you open
I just can't close
Don't turn around, don't turn around again
Don't turn around, your gypsy heart
Don't turn around, don't turn around again
Don't turn around, and don't look back
Come on now love, don't you look back!
Who's gonna ride your wild horses?
Who's gonna drown in your blue sea?
Who's gonna taste your salt water kisses?
Who's gonna take the place of me?
Who's gonna ride your wild horses?
Who's gonna tame the heart of thee?
Who's Bargain
I'd gladly lose me to find you
I'd gladly give up all I had
To find you I'd suffer anything and be glad
I'd pay any price just to get you
I'd work all my life and I will
To win you I'd stand naked, stoned and stabbed
I'd call that a bargain
The best I ever had
The best I ever had
I'd gladly lose me to find you
I'd gladly give up all I got
To catch you I'm gonna run and never stop
I'd pay any price just to win you
Surrender my good life for bad
To find you I'm gonna drown an unsung man
I'd call that a bargain
The best I ever had
The best I ever had
I sit looking 'round
I look at my face in the the mirror
I know I'm worth nothing without you
In life one and one don't make two
One and one make one
And I'm looking for that free ride to me
I'm looking for you
I'd gladly lose me to find you
I'd gladly give up all I got
To catch you I'm gonna run and never stop
I'd pay any price just to win you
Surrender my good life for bad
To find you I'm gonna drown an unsung man
I'd call that a bargain
The best I ever had
The best I ever had
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