Posted by: Alex
I said I wouldn’t complain, but what the hell, it’s not like I’m going to devote the whole post to it. This 30-in-30 challenge is hard. When I started blogging I really thought I’d have all this cool stuff to say. Turns out I don’t.
I’m not going to broadcast my every thought on this blog (maybe I would have where it an anonymous blog) so that cuts out a lot of potentially amusing stuff. I don’t want an on-line diary (today I went to the shops and bought a box of Oatees, a frozen dinner and a box of Easter eggs …) and because I have put my name to my blog, I can’t blog indiscriminately about work colleagues or family. If any of these people were to find my blog they’d quickly realize I was talking about them / their aunt / their friend. I need to be happy to take full responsibility for what I write here, so I’m not going to exploit anyone else’s life or say nasty things about other people. A long story short, my blog idea pool is a bit shallow at the moment. I expect if I keep this up I will get better at generating ideas but in the meantime BlackMakros gave me a suggestion to use stumbleupon to help me find some ideas.
My third click today took me here:
http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/member/birthdayno1.php
I entered my birth day / month / year thinking that it’s unlikely that I’d even know the song or artist that was number one more than 28 years ago. I picked the UK link to honor my British heritage and what do you know? It brought up The Boomtown Rats – I don’t like Mondays. I love that song! It was soooo me in high school, a morbid teenager who hated Mondays something hectic. Still don’t like them much, but I’m less morbid these days. I love Fridays. I have a little song & dance I do on Friday mornings when I get in to the office, but I dropped the “kill-me-it’s-Monday” vibe a few years back. Still, I think the song rocks, and I’m so glad it’s my birthday song.
Hunny got Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen – not bad either.
I tried a couple of more recent dates – 1 Jan 2000, our wedding day in 2005, my last birthday – but nothing good came up.
The irony is, because of leap years I’ll be waiting until August 14 2017 before I actually have a birthday on a Monday again, but that’s cool. Monday birthdays suck.
If you are bored go check out the site & let me know what your song is …