I found the Italian version and I'm trying so hard not to laugh as my husband will ask what I am doing and if I try to explain it to him he will think I've lost it. I found the lyrics too and I'm going to try to translate. Ahhh I love Italian. That's it, I'm making a 5 year plan sort of resolution that I will re-learn Italian and take a trip to Italy the next time we go to Ireland!
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2011-02-09
Channeling Richard Simmons
I made a truley awesome discovery the other day in that my first ever ipod (the pink mini) still powers on and still has my music on it, some of the best stuff from the early 20s era of my life. I've been copying the music onto the iphone and making different play lists for every run. Tonight's run included the song Gloria by Laura Branigan which oddly enough has always been quite motivating to me (go ahead and laugh while I speed by you calling GLORIAAAAAAAAA).
It came on during a 5 minute run in tonight's training (week 4 of the couch to 5K) and it was just what I needed to get through the long run. It brought up all of these weird memories that I have associated with the song. First, I was almost named Gloria....can you even imagine??? Luckily my grandmother intervened and told my mom no way on that one. Then, I remembered back to my adolescence when I was also trying to lose weight - I'm pretty much a lifelong fatty - and I bought myself Richard Simmons Sweating to the Oldies which featured an aerobic routine to that song. I used to try to wake up at 5 AM before school to do the video. I took Italian in college and in one of the advanced level courses we learned that the original song was written by some Italian dude and it's about doing it on a white leather sofa or something. We had to sing it in Italian in the class.....sometimes I wonder about professors. The English version lyrics always get me going, they pretty much sum up my early 20s/dating life so maybe my mom should have stuck with Gloria!
Gloria, you're always on the run now
Running after somebody, you gotta get him somehow
I think you've got to slow down before you start to go bad
I think you're headed for a breakdown, so be careful not to show it
You really don't remember, was it something that he said?
Are the voices in your head calling, Gloria?
Gloria, don't you think you're fallin'?
If everybody wants you, why isn't anybody callin'?
You don't have to answer
Leave them hangin' on the line, oh-oh-oh, calling Gloria
Gloria (Gloria), I think they got your number (Gloria)
I think they got the alias (Gloria) that you've been living under (Gloria)
But you really don't remember, was it something that they said?
Are the voices in your head calling, Gloria?
A-ha-ha, a-ha-ha, Gloria, how's it gonna roll down?
Will you meet him on the main line, or will you catch him on the rebound?
Will you marry for the money, take a lover in the afternoon?
Feel your innocence slipping away, don't believe it's comin' back soon
It came on during a 5 minute run in tonight's training (week 4 of the couch to 5K) and it was just what I needed to get through the long run. It brought up all of these weird memories that I have associated with the song. First, I was almost named Gloria....can you even imagine??? Luckily my grandmother intervened and told my mom no way on that one. Then, I remembered back to my adolescence when I was also trying to lose weight - I'm pretty much a lifelong fatty - and I bought myself Richard Simmons Sweating to the Oldies which featured an aerobic routine to that song. I used to try to wake up at 5 AM before school to do the video. I took Italian in college and in one of the advanced level courses we learned that the original song was written by some Italian dude and it's about doing it on a white leather sofa or something. We had to sing it in Italian in the class.....sometimes I wonder about professors. The English version lyrics always get me going, they pretty much sum up my early 20s/dating life so maybe my mom should have stuck with Gloria!
Gloria, you're always on the run now
Running after somebody, you gotta get him somehow
I think you've got to slow down before you start to go bad
I think you're headed for a breakdown, so be careful not to show it
You really don't remember, was it something that he said?
Are the voices in your head calling, Gloria?
Gloria, don't you think you're fallin'?
If everybody wants you, why isn't anybody callin'?
You don't have to answer
Leave them hangin' on the line, oh-oh-oh, calling Gloria
Gloria (Gloria), I think they got your number (Gloria)
I think they got the alias (Gloria) that you've been living under (Gloria)
But you really don't remember, was it something that they said?
Are the voices in your head calling, Gloria?
A-ha-ha, a-ha-ha, Gloria, how's it gonna roll down?
Will you meet him on the main line, or will you catch him on the rebound?
Will you marry for the money, take a lover in the afternoon?
Feel your innocence slipping away, don't believe it's comin' back soon
2011-02-04
Movie Night With Tony
Tony and I hit up the library on Monday night in anticipation of this week's snow and he picked out a few movies for us to watch. This kid is definitely channeling his inner Celtic lately because he picked out the movie "The Water Horse" which is some tale about the Loch Ness monster. I'm a sucker for any movie with scenery of the UK so I thought sure why not. The scenery looked familiar so I had to look up where it was filmed in IMDB and it was mostly Scotland and the area of Scotland where some filming took place is in the Argyll and Bute region. Some of you may (not) remember that that is the area where my Scottish friend that I met outside a bar in downtown Boston on a drunken night circa the year 2002 was from. I totally forgot about that dude! I wonder what he is up to and if he still has the same email address and if he's ever traveled back to the States.
*Of course I've already tried googling him....you remember who this is right??? Too bad his name is quite plain and if I remember correctly he wasn't much for the computers anyways so no FB profile to be found.
*Of course I've already tried googling him....you remember who this is right??? Too bad his name is quite plain and if I remember correctly he wasn't much for the computers anyways so no FB profile to be found.
TGIF....TBIGTSS
That's Too Bad It's Going To Snow Saturday in case you didn't figure that one out!
The break from the snow last week was nice but this week we were slammed with not one but two storms.
We were lucky that the one storm that was predicted to be a monster sort of fizzled out but dang there is alot of snow out there. There is something about snow days that make me want to bake and eat carbs so I didn't have the best WW week. I was down 2.8 lbs (for a total of 15.4 since mid-Nov) last week so I am not expecting a huge loss this week.
The break from the snow last week was nice but this week we were slammed with not one but two storms.
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| This photo sums up what 5.5 snow days in less than 4 weeks feels like: |
We were lucky that the one storm that was predicted to be a monster sort of fizzled out but dang there is alot of snow out there. There is something about snow days that make me want to bake and eat carbs so I didn't have the best WW week. I was down 2.8 lbs (for a total of 15.4 since mid-Nov) last week so I am not expecting a huge loss this week.
2011-02-03
mom guilt
Sometimes it feels like the Today show is spying on my life. I swear at least once a week they have some segment that relates to my life (either that or their demographics happen to contain lots of moms with new babies). Now before people get all Judgey McJudgester here let me set the record straight - YES I do watch TV while I am home with the babe. There ain't much else you can do while in the middle of a nursing session so YES the Today show and I have become very good friends these past few months. Tell me what you would do if you spent a majority of your day sitting down with your breast in someone's mouth??? I suppose I could be a "super mommy" and read him some Shakespeare while he eats but umm yeah, I'll save that for the super mommies and enjoy my little bit of quiet time and guilty pleasure TV.
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