Tears and Hilly Michaels

Please God tell me that other families have totally hellish evenings for no fucking apparent reason.  PLEASE! 

I left work early to go to the funeral home and pick up the death certificates for Judi.  Can't say that put me in a good mood.  Then I came home and for whatever reason things just deteriorated from there.  Tears, yelling, general grumpiness from the entire family.  Then I started going through Judi's paperwork and read her will.  No surprises but it still brought me to tears.

oh man.

However the day wasn't totally lost I guess. Hilly Michaels emailed me today.  How cool is that?  He said he was sorry my letter to his fan club was sent back marked 'return to sender' some 20+ years ago and sent me a charming email.  AND he has a new album coming out.  Hilly Fucking Michaels.  How cool is THAT?

So I looked at Ernie as we sat slumped and staring at one another and said, "I think we need to listen to some Hilly Michaels."  I started playing the video below and Owen gasped and looked up at us with big eyes.  "I LOVE this song Mom....  Can you put this on my oPod?"  (They have  little mp3 players that their uncle Dennis gave them and I call them the oPod and the lPod.  It kind of irritates them but they've gotten used to it and it amuses me probably more than it should.) 

And I gotta tell you....the fact that Owen immediately got it---just GOT it....well...it just HELPED.

So we played Shake It and Dance  and he loved that too.  Then I played Hilly's new song and liked it as well.  So thank you Hilly....I think you saved the evening..... 

Can't wait for the new record......