As I was tossing and turning last night in and out of sleep because my daughter Hayley came to my side of the bed at 3 am so she climbed in with me and went back to sleep on my arm forcing me to sleep on my back which I really can't do, I kept singing this new order song in my head that I heard on the radio this past weekend, which I think was a mistake because they were doing an 80's retro weekend and this song is actually from 1993. Anyway I kept singing these lines:
"I was upset you see
Almost all the time
You used to be a stranger
Now you are mine"
I liked New Order back in the day and hearing the song again I realized I should go back and listen to some of that old stuff. Another song they played over the 80's retro weekend was The Call 'Let the Day begin" and ever since then I find myself singing this out loud:
"Here's to you my little love
With blessings from above
Now let the day begin
Let the day begin
The day START"
When I sing the Call song I think of my daughter and I think I have to use that for one of her scrapbook pages. When I sing the New Order song I think of my husband. It's true for most couples I guess that they meet as strangers and then become something more. I met my husband a year or so after that song came out. As I was taking a shower I was still singing it in my head as my daughter played in the shower spray (yes she likes to watch me shower, I think because it's opportunity to get wet.), and I was thinking from meeting at a grad student crab feast to this beautiful little girl, wow! How amazing!" We've been together almost 13 years, married for almost 6; our anniversary is this August. We've had our ups and downs like most I guess. Usually I'm doing something stupid or he is doing something annoying. But he still can surprise me with little things. When we first dating he had gotten me an ice scraper out of the blue because he noticed that I didn't have one. I know it seems silly to think that is romantic, but is was the fact that he was out at some auto store doing an errand and he thought of me and that I couldn't scrape ice off my car if I had to and he got me the ice scraper. It's sweet. Today I was on the metro going into work for maybe a minute, he had just dropped me off, and he called me on my cell phone. I answered a little worried wondering what had happened that he needed to call me so quickly after we had just seen each other.
"I just wanted to tell that I have done a complete 180" he said.
"On what babe?" I asked still concerned.
"I really do like that Delilah song now"
All week he had complained about how that 'Hey there Delilah" song by the plain whites T's was a nothing song and he didn't like it all. I happened to like the song.
"Anyway" he continued" "I just wanted to tell you that"
After all these years of knowing each other he still calls to tell me stuff like that. Pretty sweet huh? Maybe I can forgive him for not doing a thing with the house this past weekend when I took Hayley to see my parents. I mean geez he had all weekend! What did he do? Well he didn't fold any laundry I can tell you that!
"I was upset you see
Almost all the time
You used to be a stranger
Now you are mine"
"Oh it's what you do to me…"
Okay yeah he's still pretty sweet.
