Nothing says “Life Bites Back At Absent Mother” more than having my daughter getting sick this week, nay, at the very hour of our reunion in the city on Sunday. With all the Swine Flu flyers plastered up over the public toilets in the city, I admit I got a little paranoid, but no fear, it’s just been a chest cold.
So being housebound for several days has been all kinds of teeth-gnashy fun.
Really!
You don’t think so?!
You think I’m using excess punctuation in order to exaggerate our hermitdom?
Well, you might be right – although by 5pm each day I was going slightly bonkers. Then I remembered this interview I read in the paper once of this hotshot interior designer who was explaining his ‘transition time’ from his working hours to his personal hours (he worked from home). What he did, without fail, was put on Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells late in the afternoon, listen to it in it’s entirety, and then Presto! he was relaxed.
Willing to give it a shot, I did the same thing. And let me just say that as the sun is sinking, and the kids are verging on “Zombie Strength” levels of rampaging, and the weird thoughts I couldn’t help having about The Exorcist, after about ten minutes I shut the thing off.
Later I remembered he never said he listened to Tubular Bells at all. No, it was the soundtrack to Blade Runner (Vangelis). Which makes more sense – if only a little.
So much for me trying to be zen through music. I might have to go back to Enya or Enigma or something, but that could be dicey as all New Age / Instrumental music makes Adam VERY VERY ANGRY!!
{Insert picture of The Hulk ripping off his clothes.}
Oh well.
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I understand you perfectly!! We’ve been housebound because of rain. And cold. It’s JUNE. June in Kentucky is supposed to be warm. Anyway. yeah, I like Tubular Bells, but I get the whole Exorcist creepiness too. And I never saw the movie. (I was in 6th grade when we came out and my friend saw it and described it to my in nauseating detail. There was no need.) I find that the Moody Blues can heal all ills. I have no idea why that is.
yeah, i too find tubular bells to be way too creepy to be relaxing, enya…was on high rotation while my mother was dying so it makes me cry, am quite fond of certain baroque classics but I find the cd that actually keeps the peace is Old McDonald had A Farm.
I had to laugh at your musical mix-up. I did wonder how Tubular Bells was going to help you feel more relaxed.
Van Morrison works for me or Crowded House. I’ve been playing a Best of Sting album recently and that is great too. I love classical music as well.
A friend who was a school teacher used to come home from school and spend half an hour sitting in front of his fishtank watching it like a television before he would talk to anyone. He had a great tropical aquarium with some really interesting fish in it.
Hope you have a better week. Being house bound is definitely not fun.