taking a vacation

Sep 14, 2004 14:13

I'll explain at the end...

There is a ton of snow outside. I just got done working. I am at Rob's. He is happy to see me because I staying over for the night. It is New Year's Eve and I brought over my bear that he got me for christmas. He shows everyone and we exclaim how cute it is. We get something to drink and go upstairs. We start listening to Norah Jones. She was new, I had never heard of her before until I fell in love with her song in Maid in Manhattan. We had bought the CD earlier that week. We lay around listening to it. We were so happy, and I realized for the first time that I loved him. It is midnight, we celebrate. We fall asleep listening to the calm music in the warm house.

I sit in the corner of my room at my desk. The leaves have changed color and it's cooled down so much we don't need to turn the fan on. I wrap myself up in my big blue blanket and start doing homework. I was having a horrible week. I put in my Shania Twain CD and listen to it while typing a paper. I talk to Leah online and decide to go to dinner with them in an hour. It smells of fall spice in our room. I had just gone out to the greenhouse to buy some apples, and a pumpkin with Rob. I realize it has gotten too cold to wear flip flops. I can hear the loud girls down the hall. I turn my music up...

I wait impatiently as the bus comes around the corner. I get on, sit in my usual seat, you know, the back right one. I take off my mittens, scarf and hat. I set down my breakfast on the seat next to me and take out my walkman. I put in my Norah Jones CD (the second one that is), turn it on and relax for my 27 minute ride. I see the girls I usually get on the bus with, one wearing her sorority jacket and the other wearing a mint green coat. We go to the next stop, pick up to guys that are friends that usually sit a couple of seats ahead of me. We pass by all the greenhouses that are closed for the winter and pick up an elderly woman closer to town. We arrive at our destination about 5 or six songs later, sometimes I turn off the walkman, sometimes I don't take it off until I get to class. I walk to lunch after class, and put my walkman on. Since Rob and I had broken up I am eating by myself. I turn up the music to drain out the noise in Devos and work on maht homework.

I just got back from being at home for the weekend for my birthday. My brother burned me a copy of The Darkness CD. I put it in and start listening to it. It is late around 10 pm. Emily is sitting on her bed doing homework. We start singing to the songs loud because the lyrics are crazy. Her boyfriend Ben comes over. We listen to the music some more. They start dancing, I smile, it's cute cause I love them both. We're hanging around in our pajamas and talking away about how funny our day was. We wait for our favorite part of the song and scream "GUITAR!" and start to laugh when Ben looks at us in confusion.

I slide my death cab CD in my cd player and start listening to it. It is cold out, the snow just melted and I put on some comfy fleece pants and a jecket. I grab my rollerblades and meet up with my friends at work. We spend the night goofing off and rollerblading in the parking lot. I am just learning. We turn the music up real loud so we can hear it across the parking lot. You can see our breath. I get back in the car and drive home, I listen to the CD some more, feeling good about being single for the first time in a long time. I get home to an empty house and a cheerful dog.

I have so many memories with each of the CDs I listen to. When I listen to them, it takes me back to a memory or time. When I hear the music, I feel like I am in that time again, I can almost taste it, I was such a different person in each time too. Sometimes when I get lonely or stressed out I put in a couple of CDs, close my eyes and take a vacation back to these times.
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