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Groovy Baby. Yeah.

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Here it is, the first of the month again already. Don’t shoot the messenger, I’m getting old, too. I’ll start worrying the day I decide it’s time to start getting regular perms and switch to Pert haircare products. Then again, it will be a breath of fresh air to see the look on my children’s faces the first time they have to change one of mommy’s “big stinkers.”

September’s “Stop, Drop, and Rock” song is……. FOOTLOOSE by Kenny Loggins.

First off; Kenny Loggins?? Really? I have been madly in love with this song since dancing right out of my cloth diapers to it (yes, my mother was a bit off her rocker) and had no idea it was Kenny Loggins. Second; It’s a damn good thing that God created Google. Seriously. Third; Go Kenny. You rock, dude.

So, in all honesty, I had no idea what this month’s song was going to be. I’ve been struggling with it since about the 2nd of last month. I knew, and then I didn’t. And then I did again, and then I didn’t. The fluctuation based primarily on the fact that every time I found a song I could so totally get down to, I heard it about 100 times over again in the same damn day. Stupid radio. You killed the video star.

And then, it happened. The greatest “light bulb moment” I’ve ever experienced. Well, aside from the first night I had Hunter and was laying in bed staring at him like; “Oh crap. Oh crap. I am totally responsible for this human being. Double crap. He’s so screwed.”  This afternoon, I was browsing around stalking reading some of my favorite bloggers, and Heather from Dooce had posted this totally swingin’ video on yesterday’s post. After snapping myself out of the seriously too-legit-to-quit “shopping cart” and “sprinkler” moves that were tearin’ up my dance living room floor, it hit me… Dude, that’s it! That’s totally it!

So, my peeps. Crank it up and let loose…. Footloose.

Ah Movin’ and Ah Shakin’

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This months “stop, drop, and shake it” song is…. (insert drum roll here).

“Empire State of Mind” by Jayz and Alicia Keys

It appears that I may have a small obsession with songs that have absolutely nothing to do with me or where I live. Maybe I should write a song about Idaho that I can feature next month. Naah.

Something about this song makes me wanna wave to the sky and move my body from side to side. Tapping my foot, of course. I want to put on my cutest pink cocktail dress and hooker heels and walk down the street with a pink, sparkly leash attached to a fluffy dog that could literally fit in the Starbucks cup that I’d be holding. I’d smile and wave to everyone that I pass, knowing that they dream of being as fucking awesome as I am. This song would be playing in my head over and over again and I’d be bobbing with my steps to the beat perfectly. The whole thing would be in slow motion, so my hair would be flapping in the wind just so, and I have time to flash my perfect smile to every stranger that passes. Ahhh.

Okay ladies… turn it up, turn it loose, and shake it down. You heard me. I want to see boom boxes on shoulders, the whole bit. Do they even make “boom boxes” anymore?? Good god I feel old. Remember… car, airport, living room. I don’t give a damn where you are. You hear this song… stop, drop, and shake!

I want to be a California girl

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I strongly believe in rocking out. Whenever, wherever and however. In the car, in the store, at the library… you get it. The stress relief is phenominal. Also the confidence it builds would surprise you. I say surprise because you wouldn’t imagine “the sprinkler” or the “shopping cart” can actually make you feel GOOD about yourself, but I’ll damned if it doesn’t.

On my way home this afternoon, while “getting down” in my car (or heavily convulsing if you ask those passing me on the road) I had an idea. A wonderful one. I will be starting a new segment to my blog. Starting… now. On the first of every month, I will be releasing my official “feel good” song (clever name to come later…). By feel good song, I mean the one that I hear and simply can’t stop my head from bobbing side to side. One that I listen to and suddenly, in my mind pops up a big stage with lights and a dance floor and every person there is a perfect dancer, and they are all circled around me (the best dancer of the bunch) because they only dream of being as cool as I am.

With this song, I urge you to turn it up when you hear it in the car and make a damn fool of yourself. Blast it on the radio at home and dance around like a chicken with it’s head AND big toe cut off (do chickens have big toes?) Better than Prozac, seriously.

Sooo… my feel good song for July? California Girlz by Katy Perry. Now, I realize that I’m not a California girl, but damn, I wish I was one when I’m listening to this song!! Oh, and the video is a bit confusing… not sure what in the hell the Candyland theme has to do with anything. Oh well, the song gets my body shaking in ways that I don’t even think my husband thought was possible. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m about to create a dance floor in my living room.