A plus to my weight gain, an ugh, and a playlist

And a partridge in a pear tree.  No seriously, I didn’t know what to name today’s post, so why not call it like it is?

First, the plus to my weight gain.  Yes, there IS a plus to the fact that over the last year, I’ve regained 63 pounds!! ACK!!  Seeing it in print like that is really scary.  But it’s out there.  We all know I’ve been struggling for a long time…and when you’ve been struggling for a long time and the weight keeps creeping up…well, it keeps creeping up.

So what in the world could be a good thing about this?  Remember my patulous eustachian tube (link is to info on Wikipedia)?  Some of you may remember me complaining (a/k/a bitching) about it and how it was driving me up a wall and how nothing can really be done for it?  Well, I have further proof that weight gain and loss affects this condition.  At my highest weight, I used to suffer from it maybe a couple of times a year – usually after exertion (not to say that I only exerted myself a couple of times a year – which actually might not be that hard to believe – but it really only happened a few times a year).  As my weight decreased, it gradually got worse and worse until it was almost every. freaking. day.

Well, you guessed it.  It now hardly ever bothers me again.  Once in while out of the blue, and then sometimes on extra intense exertion.  It might not sound like much, but I’ll tell you, it’s been pure heaven.  Too bad all of the other benefits to weight loss outweigh this massive disadvantage.   Argh.  If you have never experienced this condition, I can tell you it is pure hell.

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Okay, enough about that.  Onto my “ugh.”  So I stopped to get gas after work tonight.  Just like I’ve done  a million times before.  This time, a car pulls up at the pump on the next aisle and a guy gets out.  No big deal…minding my own business.  But, as he gets out, he starts singing, belting out a country tune at the top of his lungs.  So I’m thinking, hey, he’s not bad.  Until….wait for it…he sings a line about me in my purple shirt and holding onto a certain part of his private genitalia.  UGH.  Just when I start to have faith in people again (mostly thanks to you all), someone has to come along that just, well, SUCKS.  I ignored him, of course.  I’m sure he was drinking.  God, I hope he was drinking.

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Now, to my playlist.  One thing that I love about my blackberry is the memo feature.  I have lost track of the number of memos I’ve got in this thing.  It’s particularly fantastic for those moments when you hear a song lyric you like and want to look up later, a movie you hear about that you want to see, etc.  So for the past several months, I’ve been keeping track of songs I want to download, etc.  This is the latest batch that I’ve been listening to in the car and at work (I guess you could say I seem to be in a “mood”):

• “Hold On” – Wilson Phillips (’nuff said – warning:  beware the horrible fashion sense in the video link!)
• “Lie to Me” – Shane Mack (heard this song on a movie I love called “Shelter” – I like the lyrics and it’s pretty good if you can forget that the person singing is a guy) 
• “More Than This” – Shane Mack (this was also in “Shelter” – I love the lyric “at least I loved enough to hurt” )
• “Shattered: Turn the Car Around” – O.A.R. (I love the lyric “how many times can I break ’til I shatter”)
• “This Time” – Jonathan Rhys Meyers (from “August Rush”)
• “Inside of Me” – Jamie Coon
• “Love Remains the Same” – Gavin Rossdale
• “My Immortal” – Evanescence (I’ve heard this a gazillion times already, just love it)
• “When Will I” – Candi Staton (I’m not really religious, but I think this song has lyrics that we can all relate to.  May be my new anthem).

It’s okay, you can laugh.  I guess I’m just in a “mellow” mood. 

So any songs on here you like, hate, haven’t heard before?

Any ugh moments in your life recently? (I sincerely hope not!)