Fiona Apple's - The Idler Wheel

With the end of the year comes end of the year lists. I thought of making a top ten, but I'll start with one.Here is my most unexpected love of this year:

Fiona Apple's - The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do.

This album possibly had the longest most obnoxious title ever, but inside are depths of rhythems and lyrics I have pondered and will continue to ponder.

Unexpected love, possibly unwanted love. For me, this album was not an instant friend. I turned it off, barely made it through the first music video I watched from it, and was put off by its unique flavour. However, it kept showing up! A review here, a comment in a newspaper article there, a reference on some media source. These kept pushing me back into this album, and now I truly enjoy it each time I listen to it.

This may not be for everyone; but maybe, if you are "cultured" or as persistent as I was, you will come to love this album as well, even though it might qualify in some categories of "weird."

 I hope ya'll in internet lands are having a great winter season :)

Oatmeal-like love

I started eating oatmeal for breakfast when I was a teenager.  I still have oatmeal for breakfast every day.  Well maybe not every day, but the rare day that I don't have oatmeal, part of me is always a little bit disappointed. I like it so much that I even started bringing it for lunch at school and work.

You know that feeling in the morning when your alarm is going off, and you're thinking of hitting snooze for the fourth time?  The thing that motivates me to throw back the covers and heave my heavy body from bed is usually the thought of getting to eat oatmeal. Every morning I wake up excited about breakfast, even though I’ve been having the same thing for nearly eight years.

Oatmeal is a simple food; it’s not pretentious; it’s an everyday food. It can be made with many combinations of flavours. It will come with you anywhere.  It is good any time of day. It’s filling and wholesome. It warms you to the bones. It can't be hurried.  It takes a long time to eat, long enough to read.

I want to have friends (and if I'm lucky a spouse) that I love like oatmeal. I want to have people in my life that I get excited to get out of bed, because I get to have another day with them. I want friends that won’t get sick of me, nor I of them, even though we’ve been together for a long time. I want to have people that will come along with me on trips, big or small, mundane or exciting.  I want people that warm my bones and nourish my soul, and I for them.  I want friends that have time enough to sit down and read together. 

Thank you if you are already an oatmeal-like-loved friend in my life. You make my every day better.