twiggy's "Pretty good year"

because it couldn't get any worse....
"Pretty Good Year" and all you optimists: fuck you.

Tears on the sleeve of a man
Don't wanna be a boy today
Heard the eternal footman
Bought himself a bike to race
And Greg he writes letters
And burns his CDs
They say you were something in those formative years
Hold onto nothing
As fast as you can
Well still pretty good year

Maybe a bright sandy beach
Is going to bring you back
May not so now you're off
You're gonna see America
Well let me tell you something about america
Pretty good year
Some things are melting now
Well what's it gonna take
Till my baby's alright

And Greg he writes letters with his birthday pen
Sometimes he's aware that they're drawing him in
Lucy was pretty
Your best friend agreed
Still Pretty good year

the lost days and top 6 for 2006

R.I.P. Gerald Ford and James Brown

"The High Heat"

She wants to die
Like people do
Shower clicking
Summer was sickening
In that room

High in the heat
A white-hot beehive
Well she was doomed

She has a wing
To offer the sky
She couldn't stop sinking
She thought she wasn�t thinking
She wanted to die

She wants to live
Like people do
She feels like giving
It all away
All to you

found on: The Wilco Book/ words: Jeff Tweedy

I'm not planning on killing myself. Don't f-ing freak.
These are just the words to a song I especially like from my one and only real present received this year. THE WILCO BOOK (2004) complete with cd with 12 songs not included on other records.

With that said, on to the post:

I am a terribly unlucky person. My sister says I have edgy energy, which leads to me stirring up unwanted problems in the universe. She also says that bad karma comes back faster with me...almost instantaneously, in fact. This is apparently a good thing, as it means I won't have bad karma festering inside giving me cancer later down the road. (ironically, I am currently listening to New Dimentions...The God Theory...)

I just think I have bad luck.

Besides the obvious troubles in the love department, I will run down the most recent events this year in the exciting life and times of C.

Christmas Eve
While driving to my parents, a rock flew out of no where, shattering my windshield.

December 19
My life insurance policy and YMCA membership both cancelled on my birthday.

Thanksgiving weekend
Dr. Sarah, music teacher at Univeristy Elementary School took her life. 3 previous students also died of suicide or drug overdoses over the weekend.

Friday, 5p.m. July something
While house/pet-sitting for my sister, I managed to lock myself out of her house (with special old-style locks) in only a bikini bathing suit. No phone, no shoes....

June, 2006
My ex and I decided to put our cat Reuben down. My neighbor, Glenn, died a day later. Wow.

May 19, 2006
Divorce was final.

March 2006
While waiting at a stoplight, a woman talking on her cell phone crashed into the back of my car, shattered the back windshield and bent the back frame. My daughter was in the car.

There was a computer crash in there somwhere (I lost everything on the hard drive)but I think it was December, 2005.

OK. So, 2007 HAS to be better than this, right?

Now, my top 6 albums of 2006: (do you like that? 6 for 2006?)

The Flaming Lips At War With Mystics
Beck The Information
M Ward Post War
The Decemberists The Crane Wife
The Long Winters Putting the Days to Bed
Neko Case Fox Confessor Brings the Flood

2007--what do you have in store for me?