in a haze

There is so little time for me to rest these days, I'm walking in a haze. Everything blends together like a water-colour painting. I hope my usual vibrancy returns soon.

I had a great de-stressing night, Friday night. I karaoke'd and sang a combination of upbeat songs and depressing songs intermingled. My favourite depressing song is Everybody Hurts by REM. We even sang Losing my Religion and tried to dance like Michael Stipes, but to no avail. Our impersonations of M. Stipes arm flailing and feet movement were poor. We all looked and felt very silly. I also sang Zombie by The Cranberries, and S thought my imitation of Dolores O'Riordan was bang-on with my pseudo Irish accent. I wasn't really trying to add an Irish accent while singing, I guess, it's just that I like that song so much that I find it easy to sing.

While I've sang a few of these songs at another karaoke session, I didn't mind at all. I have my favourites, but I'm always willing to sing other songs, songs that other people select, and new songs that I've never tried to sing before.

In any case, that was my one night of de-stressing, and then it was back to my haze.

I'm feeling content, right now, though. I had an interesting conversation last night at dinner re: mothers and family, and I visited my favourite neighbourhood dog, Hero.