Every Little Thing

Don't worry
About a thing
'Cause every little thing
Gonna be a'right.

I sing that song to Peyt when she's having a fit. I especially dig the line "This is my message to you-ooo-ooo"

I'm trying to channel a little more Bob Marley into my life. Especially into my parenting. Which is NOT to say that I'm going to cultivate dreadlocks and become a Rastafarian, but I am trying to...well, I'm trying to chill the fuck out.

Which sounds strange coming from me, I'm sure, because most of you really see a filtered and edited for content version of me. I'm not really as chill as I might come across--well, not lately anyhow. I don't know what's going on, except that the lack of energy is clearly because I am failing at diabetes.

(I seriously just found out about failblog, so I'm going to be saying "fail" about everything for the next decade or so. I'll also be thinking I'm hilarious and original, so there.)

Anyway, I've been a stress case lately. And I don't really deal well with stress. Not general stress anyway, although I rock on a deadline. So, I've been The Mom Who Yells and The Wife Who Nags and Bitches. Everyone is about sick and fucking tired of me, too.

If you're counting, that was f-bomb number two.

So I'm listening to my iPod right now, and I have to admit, I'm feeling a lot better. A WHOLE lot better. It's been a long time since I popped on Delilah, but last weekend at my Mom's, I spent an iTunes gift card I got from Nate's family for Christmas and got some great new tunes, so I was excited to listen to them (they're those tunes you dig, but you only manage to tune into them on the radio as they're ending). It seems that music influences my moods more than I knew. It's not even just one particular type of music, because my tastes are pretty eclectic. I think just music in general works for me.

Perhaps there's something to the concept that music soothes the savage beast after all. Indeed!

New additions to the playlist:

Hot 'N Cold -- Katy Perry
I Kissed a Girl -- Katy Perry
Feel That Fire -- Dierks Bentley
It Keeps Getting Better -- Christina Aguilera
Cinderella -- Firefall
Jesus Take the Wheel --Carrie Underwood
White Horse -- Taylor Swift
Love Story -- Taylor Swift
Boondocks -- Little Big Town
I'm Yours -- Jason Mraz
The Best -- Tina Turner
Bitch -- Meredith Brooks
Stupid Boy -- Keith Urban
Gives You Hell -- All American Rejects
Sweet Home Alabama -Lynyrd Skynyrd
Walking in Memphis - Marc Cohn
Home -- Marc Broussard