Photoessay #833 - It's all coming back to me now!

Remember that overwrought Celine Dion song? Pretty steamy and intense. But, putting all that drama aside, it speaks to me in middle age. I'm working at my daily life, with all of the every day challenges, something's eluding me, I can't figure it out.

Then, suddenly, with a crash and boom...like in the song

There were moments of gold
And there were flashes of light

and...

I can barely recall
But it's all coming back to me!

YES, IT'S ALL COMING BACK TO ME NOW!!!

Belt it out!

I'm wandering around Hwy 99 looking for the Girl Scout Cookie warehouse. Wait, wait, It's all coming back to me now! Forget the address, it's on the other side of the highway a half block in. Of course!

Or a work project unceremoniously brought to an unfinished halt months ago for reasons unknown. All of the sudden, hot hot hot. I poke around at old emails and forgotten test data sets. How did this work? What WERE we doing? Wait, wait, yes, it's all coming back to me now!! I sing it out.

Or I'm looking blankly at an unhappy dad at Parent Group. "Are you a new person?", I offer. "No, um we've been coming for two months, you did our orientation and I sat in your group last week"

Aaack, give me a hint, that short term memory. "Our son's the one who was in prison"

Yes, yes, forgive and forget! It's all coming back coming back to me now!

It's my theme song....

Ilana suggested I write about this.

Picture which somehow has something to do with this song and activity, not sure why except the pigeon and all those people are all coming back into my head. Used without permission from Matt Saunders.

On the practical, 'we can get painful unpleasant things done if our back is to the wall' department....we have just committed to buy a new (to us) car. 2000 Sienna van with only 47K miles. Clincher was sun roof and does seat 7. Also rode very smooth. Yesterday I had a realization, you know that old van of ours with the questionable transmission, beat to whatever 1998 Caravans with 137K, 4 kids, many soccer teams, groups of napping softball girls in cleats, teenage drivers and shaggy dogs end up looking like. That's not a tow-away, it's a TRADE-IN! What a concept. The lot owner thought we could 3500 for it, well, that's a stretch, but maybe we could get 2K maybe. Saves towing costs which has been how our other cars end up.

That's the pic. Not much newer than our current van but much much lower mileage.