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Yesterday I stayed home from work. Sheer exhaustion prevented me from the ability to get out of bed. In doing so, I have come to the firm conclusion that I would make a great stay at home wife. You could come home after a long day at work, I would be wearing my outfit-du-jour, have food prepared for you, and listen to you about what assholes the guys in your office are while I rub your feet. I would only need to you to additionally deal with the mail and I in turn will hire the maids and will ensure that your appetite is always satisfied. Don’t worry, you don’t need to decide right now… just think about it…

While sitting at home yesterday I got ready to write my weekly fiction class paper. I swore to myself that I would at least start it this last weekend… then birthdays and football abounded… and well… there I was yesterday afternoon, hovered over my laptop scrambling through my brain for something to type. I decided music would be the motivation I needed to get started. I just read the only book by Steven King I have ever had in my hands, “On Writing”. Brilliant book. In it he talks about how he blares music while writing… if it motivates Stevie, then why not me. I opened up my “Top 25 Most Played” in my iTunes and plugged in my headphones.

My iTunes apparently was turned on for a significant amount of time and without my knowledge, on repeat. Now amongst Left Hand Smoke, Death Cab for Cutie, Chemical Brothers, Wyclef Jean, The Shins, Kanye West, Old 97’s and The Cure… my number one most played song is one that I never had knowingly listened to… played 175 times is “Pour Some Sugar on Me” by Def Leppard. Fuckin sweet. To give you an idea as to how long it will take me to get that song off of rotation, my next most played song is “I Will Follow You into the Dark” by Death Cab… played a mere 27 times. Awesome.

So I must get back to, yet again, writing my paper the day it is due… hair band music lurking at any moment waiting to jump out of the speakers and ruin my writing Mo-Jo… Onion will probably love it.

If anyone knows how to remove songs from my “most played” list, please share.