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I don't know how to do it but get your H to move up there too. Tell him you can both be pedestal buds. Why not?

Lou


Lou, What a sweet thought! Can you imagine what kind of marriage H and I would have today if we both worked more on pushing each other up the pedestal instead tearing each other down? Live and learn.

Today I have this song stuck in my head...it's Billy Joel's Scenes from an Italian Restaurant...please, someone out there know this song so I don't feel so middle-aged! Well, I didn't know what was getting to me about the song, so I searched the lyrics ( yes, we are having an nor'easter here and I am bored)...and this phrase stuck out at me:

"The best they could do is pick up the pieces"...and,

I recognized that's exactly how I feel right now!

While searching for the lyrics I stumbled upon a webiste where people post the words they believed made up the song, followed by the actual lyrics. This is one person's repsonse regarding the Billy Joel song:

The real lyrics were:
Brenda and Eddie were the popular steadies
and the king and the queen of the prom...
Well, they got an apartment with deep pile carpets
and a couple of paintings from Sears
A big waterbed that they bought with the bread
they had saved for a couple of years


But I misheard them as:
Brenda Rinetti were the popular steadies
and the king and the queen of the farm...
Well, they got an apartment with [mumble mumble]
and a couple of pennies from Sears
A big wad of bed that they bought with the bread
they had saved for a couple of years





The embarassing moment of revelation:
Later on in the song it says "Brenda, you know that you're much too lazy and Eddie could never afford to live that kind of life" and one day it suddenly occurred to me that he was talking about two people and wasn't saying "There we were waving Brenda Rinetti goodbye"! I had also thought they were buying a "big wad of bed" with actual loaves of bread they had saved for a couple of years. Increased vocabulary took care of the rest. ,)

I just thought that was funny. Okay, I have too much time on my hands and need to get back to work!