Let's Play!

My day has consisted around play and conversations of play, so I figured that I'd bring you all into the loop.

I spent literally 4 hours playing with my nephew today.  Usually, he'd rather chill w/ Poppa and give me maybe 10 min. of his time, but today was the exception.  It was soooo much fun.

We started off playing cars, which is always a good time.  I like to smash cars together and it makes him laugh.  This lead to air travel with helicopters and airplanes.  These two things also crash quite well.  As you can tell, I'm a bit destructive.

From here, we chilled out by watching an episode of Thomas & Friends.  For the uninitiated, Thomas is a train and has many train friends.  My nephew is obsessed with Emily, a girl train.  He says that she is beau-ti-ful.  Slightly creepy to be into a machine, but hey, some people love their vibrators.

This led into chilling on my itouch, where he proceeded to try out all of the games and got upset about the game where you had to hit ducks that would pop out of the ground.  I had downloaded it just for him, thinking that he would dig it.  His favourite was AirTycoon and flipping through all the icons. An episode of Little Bear, more cars, having some food, climbing up the stairs to get his suss, and more itouch and it was time for me to go.

This evening, I conversed with my boo and we randomly started talking about our childhoods.  Where I revealed that much of it was spent role playing (house, being power rangers & other tv action stars, and pretending to be a professional athlete), singing along to records (anything from 50s/60s and soundtracks to grease, the best little whorehouse in texas), and playing with the sibs and neighbours.

His was spent building forts, hosting dance parties, and something too embarassing for me to share without his permission. :)

I have a job that allows me the opportunity to play on a daily basis.  I pursue fitness (sports, yoga, cardio, etc), which provide a fun release to the regular routine.  Finally, I involve myself in the arts, which is just another form of play to me.

Many kind folks have stated that for 27, I look much younger and that I haven't aged since my teens.  I attribute it to having fun.

What do you do for play?

2009: Most played songs on my ipod

It's the end of the year and there's a ton of top 10 lists going around on the internet.  I had the idea of checking in with my ipod's most played list of songs that I added in '09.  This means that the song could have been released at another time, but I didn't discover it until this year.  I tend to get obsessed with a new album and put them on repeat.  For this reason, I'll only take the top song from an album and move onto another.

Here's the top 5:

1) Don't Let Me Stop You by Kelly Clarkson - This is def. one of the better power rock pop songs off of Kelly's All I Ever Wanted album.  For someone's who been through way too many partners for one year and held onto a few past expiry, this was a good song for me. 

2) Touches You by Mika - Not added until September and yet it's #2 on my list.  Why?  Cuz it's soooo freakin' awesome.  Yes, it totally riffs on George Michaels, but who cares.  It's music.  In concert this last October, it was my favourite song and had the entire crowd dancing.

3) 4ever by Prince - So many people destroyed Prince's 3 album release (well 2 from him, one from his protege).  But like every other album released by an artist, there's a few great tracks on each album.  4ever is a story about waiting on a love, well forever. :)

All I Want To Do by Sugarland - This is a country song.  Which started my semi-renewed in country again.  It's an upbeat positive song about being in love sung with an awesome southern twang.

I Gotta Feeling by Black Eyed Peas - Unlike the rest of the list, I seriously can't stand this song now.  There was a time though, when it pulled me out of the blues and gave me faith that today would be a better day. 

There you have it, my ipod's top 5 played songs of 2009.  Judging by this, I was craving some good times and love this year.  What was your top played song of 2009?