Life is a song, so sing it!

Today is a day of good weather, music with books and orange juice. (don't ask how i came up with orange juice, I am drinking it right now and enjoying it!)
Spring is on its way, just around the corner and everyone is getting excited about it. The sun is out, the weather is warm and flowers are blooming. A beautiful picture indeed! For someone who works in a school that requires you to be outside to get to one classroom to another, it is great to be able to walk outside to get where I need to be with out being too cold or too wet from rain. I can sit outside during my breaks and just soak up the sun which I missed so much during the winter! The kids at work love it because they can play outside, no one likes an indoor recess!! It is so great to see everyone in such good moods, makes me wish every day was like this. This has made me think about how weather can affect our moods so much. When its raining and cold, we all get grumpy and down in the dumps. But when the sun is shinning, its like a whole new day out there! Growing up in the cold Midwest, I have come to realize that as long as the sun is out, then its a good day. I never liked the snow, so even if the sun was out, as long as it was cold outside, it wasn't a good day for me. Some people like it though, the sun shinning on the snow and walking around bundled up in a million layers. Guess it all depends on the person. For me, as long as its warm and sunny, I am happy. Falls are great because the fall colors and around here in California, it is the perfect temperature. With all of these weather changes, it just makes me want to write to Mother Nature and tell her to take it a little bit easier on us, when shes in a bad mood, it affects us all.

Speaking of things that affect our moods, one things that affects my moods is music. I listen to music all the time, its a big part of my life, and what i listen to affects my mood or helps it in some way. There is music the music that I listen to that relaxes me, or if I am down in the dumps, and just want to sulk. Or there's the music that lifts you up and inspires you. Some of my favorite music to listen to is something that kind of adds a soundtrack to what I am reading. Since I go to Borders a lot, I hear their music all the time. For some reason, it seems to fit perfectly to what I am reading at that moment. Every time I read the book I am reading, no matter where I am, that "soundtrack" is playing in my mind. Or when I hear that music, even when I am not reading, the book then comes to my mind. Just recently, I finished reading an amazing book, Someone Knows My Name, as I am reading,the musical artist Sade comes on the cafe radio and it strikes as the soundtrack to the book. Maybe it takes a certain imagintive mind to place a "soundtrack" to a book, but I seem to have that ability a lot. But then I think that maybe that's how soundtracks to a movie are created. You take a scene, feel for the mood it brings, the story that's in it, then you place a song with it that matches it. It could be possible that finding a sountrack to a movie starts with matching a song or album to the book first. I think it would be a cool job to have, creating a sountrack for a movie or book.

Now just a few words on orange juice. It is very good and good for you! I don't think anyone could get sick of orange juice, it has that sweet and tangy taste and is always refreshing! Its like medicine that you could have every day! Whenever I feel like I am coming down with something, I skip the milk, soda, and alcoholic beverages and go right for the OJ. It's also a good subsitute for something to drink when you run out of things to drink. Nothing looks better than a nice big glass of OJ on a table next to a healthy meal. Plus, no one ever said breakfast for dinner is a bad thing, so OJ should be a main staple at dinner I think. But if you are going to give me orange juice, don't dress it all up and say its real OJ if its only 1% juice. I want to feel like I am drinking a whole orange tree, not some sugary lolly pop. It has to have a good percentage of real OJ in it(somewhere around 80%-100% is pretty good) to be good enough for my taste buds.
I am now going to go finish my tangy wonderful orange juice as I read a book that could become the next big blockbuster hit, or not.