Day 16 - A song you used to love but now hate

We only had VH1 and top-40 radio in our town.
I was young.
Shut up.

Interesting to see Olbermann and Patrick together again, though.

http://youtu.be/Ln6WQqRDrCo

ZZzzzz... Hm? Wha? Was I in the middle of something?

It's past 3 AM. I'm awake. Life's been a little busy recently and perhaps I'll utilize this space to discuss that at a later time, but for now I'm a liiiittle behind on the song challenge thingie. Picking things back up....

Day 15 - a song that describes you

It was tough for me to find a really fitting song for this one. While it may not be a direct description of me, I think Jenny Lewis and co. have captured my mindset at several points in my life with this song.

To say I’ve been through a uniquely shitty set of personal, one-time events would be a fair statement. I’ve been hit by a car, seen everything that belonged to me consumed in a fire, spent cumulative months in the hospital. When I was deep in the throes of the ankle/brain double whammy, a psychologist at WSU told me, flatly and without prompting, “you should be depressed.”

The lyrics here capture the evolution of that mindset from the oh-woe-is-me valleys to one of determination and a return to confidence. There’s always been that epiphanic moment when I look up from the emotional mire and remind myself that it always gets better. It takes a lot of effort to get into the proper mindset when you’ve drifted from it for so long, but there really is something to be said about the power of positive thinking.