summertime thought bubbles

It's summer. I'm loving it and typically I am not a summer person. I'm an autumn person (like everyone) and even more recently a spring person (because rain is my best friend). It's hot for a few days and then hot and rainy for a few days and then we have some thunder. I like thunder. Some of my friends do not. That's cool, we can be different.

Sometimes I wish it was like when I was in school and I had summers off. Wouldn't that be nice? And I'm not even talking about the part where you get to call your friends everyday and walk to the Stop & Shop to rip Roswell photos out of magazines. I basically mean I'd still like to wake up early and enjoy the morning and just not have to go anywhere once the morning begins. I want to stay in pajamas, read books and magazines, sip coffee and then iced tea when it transitions into the afternoon. Is that too much to ask?

Especially when it's hot at night and you can't bear to have the covers on. You sleep in a sheet with the air conditioner on high and then have an excuse to bundle up in the comforter even though it's sweltering outside. I like my comforter, regardless of the season. It's a tender thing, that comforter.

Sometimes I wish I had a boat. Not that I'm swimsuit ready ever, (that's a whole other story) but if I could live in a bathing suit and not worry about snickers or skin cancer I would, though I'm sure the skin cancer boat may have sailed (been there, done that) and the snickers are probably in my head because who really gives a shit what I look like in a swimsuit, right?

It's still thundering outside. Anyone else have the uncontrollable urge to listen to some Garth Brooks? The Thunder Rolls...? Just me?

Okay.

it's friday, friday

We are taking it back to the 90's. The country 90's. Or, the Garth 90's, which is more accurate. Someone uploaded a bazillion videos of Garth's super early and awkward performances recently on youtube (trust me, I know they're new because when I tried to find the performance from the 1991 Academy of Country Music Awards I used to have recorded on VHS as a child it was nowhere to be found and it still isn't) and I had a field day posting all of these.

This is the closest performance I could find to the aforementioned performance. It's roughly the same concept. Cheesy and awful and kind of uncomfortable to watch but oh it's Garth so who cares.


And then this gem of his first television performance on AM Oklahoma.


I remember watching his performance of Shameless where he always held a rose.


His ever-so-controversial The Thunder Rolls song. Gah.


HOLY CRAP I FOUND IT HOLY CRAP. You know how I know? Reba introducing him. I used to have her monologue memorized.

And not even kidding you, the girl with the blonde feathered hair and bangs? I so wanted to be her.


I die.

Let's also take a moment to appreciate Reba's fringe.


Also, please make note of a few things.

1. His colorful shirts
2. His piercing expressions
3. He is polite and tips his hat

I will probably watch that last performance nineteen more times.

Thank you for coming on this journey with me.



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the garth brooks hashtag

I did that Instagram meme that went around a bit ago: Five things about yourself that no one knows, or something. Well one of my "confessions" was that sometimes when I'm bored like every day, I search the Garth Brooks hashtag (#garthbrooks) and get jealous of people that meet him at track meets and at Chili's. Sometimes I save my finds. Why? I don't now. I guess that should be the confession. I save photos from the Garth Brooks hashtag on Instagram.