Songs for the Memories

I know you’re taught as a kid never to talk to strangers, but there’s this site where that is all you do. It’s called Omegle and basically you chat to a random stranger and when you get bored you can disconnect from the chat and talk to a new person.

After talking to people from Finland, the Netherlands, Turkey, China, India and some American perv, I finally found someone worth talking to. She was from New Zealand which I instantly related to as that is where I am born. Although she was sixteen and smoked pot, she actually had some interesting things to say.

Stranger: well there we go. When you’re in love everything changes. you can never stop thinking about this person, you want to be with them all the time, you feel like they will protect you in ever single way and you feel like nothing can go wrong. He is the main thing you care about

Now, I’d never met this person before in my life but I felt like I could relate to what she said. There is one thing I noticed wrong about this statement straight away. Plenty of things can go wrong when you’re in love, but I guess when you’re in love you feel as if nothing can go wrong.

Considering love isn’t really definable and I didn’t want to attempt to define it here, I thought this was pretty accurate. I may only be sixteen and I’m not looking for love but one day I want to find someone that I can never stop thinking about.

Today my co worker Fi and I were attempting to educate our manager Sonia on the merits of Harry Potter. She told us she has this problem where she’ll read the first page of a book and by the end of the page she’s already forgotten what the page she just read was about.

Fi was telling her that there are people out there who’ve never been into reading before reading Harry Potter and now love reading. I thought this was quite interesting. Imagine being JKR and knowing that because of you hundreds of thousands of people out there now love reading and probably would have never realised if they hadn’t picked up her book.

I can’t speak for these people because I loved reading long before reading Harry Potter and still love it long after. Somehow I don’t think we’ll be able to get Sonia to pick up Philosopher’s Stone but it won’t be for a lack of trying. I’m taking Harry, a History in for Fi on Monday.

She actually recommended quite a lot of good books to me like the House of Night series which Becca recommended in the last HR and Tomorrow When the War Began which I last read in year seven. Who knows, maybe I’ll like it now that I don’t have to do a diorama on it.

I’m currently STILL reading Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist and I’m quite eager to finish it because next on the list is the Key to Rondo by Emily Rodda. I LOVED Deltora Quest so hopefully this book is just as good. I also have to pick up The Host from the library which Andy basically summed up in one word (ew) but I’m only reading it for perspective. That’s why I read Twilight, so I’d have read it and be able to share my opinions on it accurately. (In this case, negative ones).

I think I might hole up in my room tomorrow and read because I’ve been really lazy with the book challenge lately. I know working full time makes it a bit difficult but still, I need to catch up. It is really sad when I think that two years ago I’d read up to five books in a day.

I’m yawning. This is not a good sign. I wanted to read my book tonight too because I didn’t last night... great. I probably shouldn’t have spent so long procrastinating on Omegle.

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Okay, I think I needed that rest. I’ve been feverishly reading Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist so I can get to the next book which I’ve recently decided is not going to be the Key to Rondo but a book about horses called Beyond the Horizon. I love reading books about horses. I don’t know why. I used to do horse riding.

On to more important things, like memories. Do you have songs that remind you of certain things or memories in your life? Like, songs you can’t hear without thinking of something that happened in relation to the song, or some place you were when you first heard it or the person you were with? Reading Nick and Norah’s made me think of this idea which is pretty freaking cool.

I created my own playlist of songs I could think of with memories attached to them. You can do it too if you want coz it is pretty fun. I can’t remember the names of all the people who sing them so I’ll just write them where I remember them:

Suga Suga Baby Bash
Nasty Girl
Hit ‘Em Up Style
Smooth Criminal
Forever Young Youth Group
Strawberry Kisses Nikki Webster
Murder on the Dancefloor Sophie Ellis Bextor
Uptown Girl Westlife
Toxic Britney Spears
She Will Be Loved Maroon 5
Khe San Cold Chisel
Kids MGMT
The Ketchup Song
Everything I’m Not The Veronicas
All Seats Taken Bec Cartwright
Mistake Stephanie McIntosh
Complicated Avril Lavigne
Roses OutKast
Don’t Phunk With My Heart Black Eyed Peas
Let’s Get Retarded Black Eyed Peas
My Humps Black Eyed Peas
London Bridge Fergie
Push Up
Leave (Get Out) JoJo
Fuck You Right Back
You Can’t Always Get What You Want
Slice of Heaven
Lonely No More Rob Thomas

I’ll be adding more to this list when I think of them but for now I’ll leave you with a quote from Nick and Norah’s that I liked.

“But I guess you don’t see the planets when you’re staring at the sun. You just get blinded.”

Word to your bookshelf,

Kassi

Days I’ve Worked Full Time: 39
Books I’ve Read in 2009: 40
Days Till I Leave for Azkatraz: 67
Days Till I Meet John Green: 19
Word of the day: reminisce