It’s Friday. It’s raining. I like it.

Starr was invited to go to a conference at UC Berkeley with her boss for the weekend. Oh, not her hair salon boss, but her other boss, for her other job! Which I haven’t mentioned. In addition to being a Customer Care Specialist (receptionist) at the hair salon, she is also a professor’s assistant at the college she attends.

This professor also happens to be Skye’s mom!

So, Professor Mom, Skye and Starr are all going to California today. Starr has been looking forward to this trip as a serious break from the wall-to-wall pressures she is facing currently in her life. She deserves it.

My problem is that she didn’t ask my permission. She didn’t consult with me. She paid for her own ticket. She just told me when and where. It’s official, I am being phased out. Becoming redundant. If it wasn’t for laundry, I wouldn’t be needed at all.

Here are a few songs from The Shins which take me back a couple years to when Starr was a Junior in high school…and I was still needed. Yeah, I know, some of these songs are a bit more recent, but The Shins will always take me back to that time, that boy, that drama.

I am in a world of pain, so I thought that I would post a couple “soothing” songs to go along with my headache today, but I found these instead:

“So Says I” – The Shins

“Fearful” – Beat Radio

“Like a Lily” – Out of Clouds

“All This Time” – Heartless Bastards

All afternoon, I have had an earworm, a frustrating portion of a song stuck in my head. I keep hearing it over and over. The song is one from a Christian Music commercial and what I am hearing is “My (our?) God is an Awesome God!”, just that part, again and again. I think that even if it was a song that I absolutely loved…enough would be enough. Really. So, in hopes of reprogramming my mind a bit tonight, here are a few mp3s and a “video” to listen to:

“Sonic Boom” – Andy Partridge

“Reflecting Light” – Sam Phillips

“Phantom Limb” – The Shins

“To Go Home” – M. Ward