I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)

Do you ever have a day where you are just down.

Last week I got sick and had to go to urgent care.

Then my phone was ran over:

Then I had to take my cat to the vet as she hurt her eye. I have to put ointment in it twice a day, ugh, you know what that’s like.

And then my car’s blinkers stopped working.

It’s like I worked so hard all last month and I hoped to do something fun with that extra cash and now it is all spent.

So I was feeling down.

But I didn’t want to stay in the dumps, so I turned to something that can always make me smile:

I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) by The Proclaimers

You’ve probably heard of this song from either Benny & Joon (the film featured in the music video) or from Ted and Marshall’s road trip in How I Met Your Mother.

The song was written in 1988 by the Scottish brothers Craig and Charlie Reid. It did well but then went on to superstardom once it premiered in Benny & Joon in 1993. In fact the money from that song has outdone anything else they have written.

Wow

There is something about the music of this song, the repetition of the lyrics, and of course the romantic nature of the words that makes it so fun. You want to sing along (and I dare you to try not to. You just can’t.) Everything about it makes me super happy, no matter what.

Once I hear it I just can’t stop listening to it.

It is such a sweet song, full of emotion and love. I mean not only does he talk about the every day things he would do because of his love, but that he is willing to walk 1000 miles for the person he cares about. That’s like walking from San Francisco to Cheyenne Wyoming (that would be 396 hours or 16.5 days ). Or since they are Scottish: from Glasgow to Nice, France (362 hours, 15.08 days). Well, wherever you are, that’s love.

When I wake up, well I know I’m gonna be,
I’m gonna be the man who wakes up next you
When I go out, yeah I know I’m gonna be
I’m gonna be the man who goes along with you
If I get drunk, well I know I’m gonna be
I’m gonna be the man who gets drunk next to you
And if I haver up, yeah I know I’m gonna be
I’m gonna be the man who’s havering to you

But I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
Just to be the man who walks a thousand miles
To fall down at your door

When I’m working, yes I know I’m gonna be
I’m gonna be the man who’s working hard for you
And when the money, comes in for the work I do
I’ll pass almost every penny on to you
When I come home (when I come home) well I know I’m gonna be
I’m gonna be the man who comes back home to you
And if I grow-old (when I grow-old) well I know I’m gonna be
I’m gonna be the man who’s growing old with you

But I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
Just to be the man who walks a thousand miles
To fall down at your door

Da da da (da da da)
Da da da (da da da)

Da da da dun diddle un diddle un diddle uh da

Da da da (da da da)
Da da da (da da da)

Da da da dun diddle un diddle un diddle uh da

When I’m lonely, well I know I’m gonna be
I’m gonna be the man who’s lonely without you
And when I’m dreaming, well I know I’m gonna dream
I’m gonna dream about the time when I’m with you
When I go out (when I go out) well I know I’m gonna be
I’m gonna be the man who goes along with you
And when I come home (when I come home) yes I know I’m gonna be
I’m gonna be the man who comes back home with you
I’m gonna be the man who’s coming home with you

But I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
Just to be the man who walks a thousand miles
To fall down at your door

Da da da (da da da)
Da da da (da da da)

Da da da dun diddle un diddle un diddle uh da

Da da da (da da da)
Da da da (da da da)

Da da da dun diddle un diddle un diddle uh da

Da da da (da da da)
Da da da (da da da)

Da da da dun diddle un diddle un diddle uh da

Da da da (da da da)
Da da da (da da da)

Da da da dun diddle un diddle un diddle uh da

And I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
Just to be the man who walked a thousand miles
To fall down at your door

For more of my favorite songs, go to Dancing With Myself

For more on Tiffanie Debartolo, go to Serious Girl and Love

 

GISHWHESing Away

So GISHWHES is over.

It was hard this time. First of all, the friend I always do it with was out of the country.

So I had to try and find others to pinch in with me. That meant I wasn’t able to do as much as I would have liked.

I also got sick

And my phone broke: which made it so I couldn’t do the things I needed to, I couldn’t contact anyone, and I had to redo an item.

And then when I tried to upload a video, youtube wouldn’t process it.

Argh!

But now it is over.

I had a lot of fun with it. I put E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial in Jello. (Which was really hard, heavy, and took ALL DAY! 😦

Sorry E.T, you are going nowhere!

I painted seven rocks with encouraging words on them and left them in areas that are in need of hope. They looked really cool! My favorite, of course, was this one:

I turned a grocery cart into a spaceship and helped an “alien” collect specimens.

I also dressed up as a Ghostbuster and took care of a pesky ghost at my local library.

That’s how I roll

Made a child’s idea of happiness come true.

Broke a rule

Made my own Scavenger Hunt list

Created cars out of boxes and did human nascar. This was fun, I made a Herbie, the Love Bug:

The 1966 Batmobile (Adam West TV show):

The 1967 Impala from Supernatural:

The Ecto-1

Lighting McQueen

And much more! It was a lot of fun and I’m glad this one is done with, but sad the whole thing is over. Apparently this was the last GISHWHES  they are ever going to do.

Well, now things can settle down and go back to normal. Or at least I hope so.

 For more on GISHWHES, go to Tired With a Capital T

Here’s to Another Year

So I’m sure you all have been wondering where I have been. Vacation?

Kidnapped?

Saving the world?

I’ve actually been sick.

Yeah, not fun. But now I am well and back in business.

So today marks a very special day here at Jane Austen Runs My Life. It is our four-year anniversary.

And with the fourth year, it is fruit or flowers. Now you all know how I typically feel about getting flowers:

Yes, usually I don’t like them as a gift.

I mean they are just so fleeting. I’d rather have something that will be sticking around long term.

But in this case I’ll make an exception.

In fact let’s get a little creative.

So thank you all for a fun four years of Jane Austen, along with a bunch of other fun and interesting things. What will this next year bring?

Who Knows!

For more anniversary celebrations, go to Oh, Moses, Moses: Happy 60th Anniversary to The Ten Commandments

For more on my anniversaries, goto Year of the Anniversaries

Avengers Assemble

So I’m sure some of you are wondering what happened to the fandom posts? Why have I stopped doing them?

Well, I wanted to do a post on how great I think Cecilia Gray is. She not only liked my review of her book Fall For You (Jane Austen Academy #1). After that I stopped as I was feeling kind of under the weather.

I was feeling tired all the time, but that grew into a headache and sore throat. But then on Thursday morning I couldn’t hear out of my right ear.

That’s it, I need to go to the doctors. I wanted to put it off as I hate doctors, but figured I’d better go and get it looked at.

I know it takes forever!! So I had to wait, and wait and wait and wait and wait…….

Finally the nurse saw me and it turned out that I had an ear infection and a fever of 100.3. It was funny as after the nurse took my temperature, she asked me if I knew I had been running around with that high a fever.

When I was younger I used to get fevers of 103 & 104. 100.3 is nothing.

So the doctor finally saw me and gave me a prescription and sent me on my way. I had been waiting forever, but the actual time of the doctors was like 10 minutes. How is that fair?

And then you have to wait an hour for the pharmacy. Yuck.

So there was one big problem with being sick. I had tickets to see the Avengers: Age of Ultron, the midnight showing.

Oh yeah!

But you know what? Being sick wasn’t going to stop me, yep I was going to see that movie even though I had a fever and could hear out of only one ear!

That’s because I’m a true geek and hardcore fan.

When I got to the theater, I was the only one in my party. You see, since I’ve moved back home I don’t really see people my age. There was one guy I befriended, but he wanted to move on to dating, and I wasn’t really interested in him. So there was no one else I knew who’d be down for a midnight showing.

When I went to turn in my receipt from buying the ticket online, they guy asked me all shocked like-“only one?”. I felt sooooo embarrassed.

So embarressed

Like Josie in Never Been Kissed when she wants to go on the ferris wheel. It made me feel like a loser.

But that was short lived as I’m okay being alone.

And I was really excited to see the movie.

So now you are probably wondering what I thought of it. There were some things I had a problem with (one particular death of which I won’t say but thought was stupid to have!!!!), but on the whole I loved it and am seeing it again tonight.

I actually am reserving the rest of my thoughts for a later post. As Tony Stark and Bruce Banner create not one but two creatures, you can argue that this is a horror film, mad scientists creating monsters. So I will be bringing back the Avengers: Age of Ultron in October, during Horrorfest IV.

For more Avengers, go to Fanning All Over the Place

For more things I’m a fan of, go to Back to the Fandoms

For more of my everyday life, go to A Spot of Trouble

Perfectly Imperfect

 

I agree. Nothing perfect is beautiful, it is those that are unusual and different that hold real beauty.

Beauty can be fake, but flaws are real. And those are what truly make up who we are.

Perfect is boring and I’m glad I don’t have any of that around.

Yep.

For more on Jane Austen, go to An Assembly Such As This

For more of my favorite quotes, go to Where We’re Going, We Don’t Need Roads