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Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
— Dr. Seuss

Here, at long last (I’m sure), are the answers to last week’s first line Musical Meme:

1. I will follow (I Will Follow, U2)

2. This is what you do (You Make Me Wanna, Usher)

3. Steve walks warily down the street (Another One Bites the Dust, Queen)

4. Naked lovers feel the blood beneath their veins (They Stood Up for Love, Live)

5. Cuantas veces he pensada ya (El Mundo Que Soñe, Laura Pausini)

6. What’s the matter, Mary Jane, you had a hard day (Mary Jane, Alanis Morrisette)

7. No, I would not sleep in this bed of lies (Bed of Lies, Matchbox Twenty)

8. Somewhere deep inside (Better Be Home Soon, Crowded House)

9. I think it’s time we give it up (Lies, Glen Hansard, from the soundtrack to Once)

10. In my mind I’m goin’ to Carolina (Carolina In My Mind, James Taylor)

11. How dare you say that my behavior is unacceptable (Harder to Breathe, Maroon 5)

12. Well, I’m a steamroller, baby (Steamroller, James Taylor)

13. She says it’s cold outside and she hands me a raincoat (3AM, Matchbox Twenty)

14. I can’t fight this feeling any longer (I Can’t Fight This Feeling, REO Speedwagon)

15. Seven-thirty-seven comin’ out of the sky (Travelin’ Band, John Fogerty/Creedence Clearwater Revival)

16. I hear a wind (Roam, B-52s – the version on my iPod was of my college a cappella group)

17. I don’t know what, what I’m gonna do (Crazy, K-Ci and JoJo)

18. So tired of broken hearts (Cherish, Madonna)

19. I laid a red rose (I Saw the Light, Wynonna)

20. He left me cryin’ late one Sunday night outside of Boulder (Stand Beside Me, JoDee Messina)

21. You take Sally and I’ll take Sue (Cocaine, Jackson Browne)

22. We met as soul mates (Goodnight Saigon, Billy Joel)

23. I’m laying it on the line to show you (On the Line, the On the Line All-Stars, from the soundtrack to – you guessed it – On the Line)

24. I heard the door slam and I just couldn’t tell (What Kind of Gone, Chris Cagle)

25. One man come in the name of love (Pride (In the Name of Love), U2)

Thanks to those of you who played!

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
— Doug Larson

I guess when I turned 32 this past Tuesday, I officially became old, because I was driving past the skate park yesterday, and my first thought wasn’t, “Look how much fun they’re having!”, it was “Look how dangerous that is.  And why aren’t any of them wearing helmets?”

Oy.

Reverend Steenwyck: Their heads weren’t found severed.  Their heads were not found at all.
Ichabod Crane: The heads are gone?
Rev. Steenwyck: Taken.  Taken by the Headless Horseman.  Taken back to hell.
— from Sleepy Hollow

Dear Person Who Found My Blog By Searching “baby born without head”:

Go. Away.

Love,
Mel

Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much – the wheel, New York, wars, and so on – while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time.  But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man for precisely the same reason.
— Douglas Adams

This made my day:  Teens Rescue Dolphins Trapped in Ice.  It’s no secret how much I love dolphins, and this story brought tears to my eyes, though I was smiling so big by the end.

Disclaimer: the link is to Towleroad, “A Site with Homosexual Tendencies” (their words, not mine).  There’s nothing offensive at that particular link, in my opinion, but I wanted to let you know, just in case.

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.
— James Bryce

1. Paying 75 cents at a used book store or Goodwill for a book you’ve been dying to read.

2. Snowflakes catching in your hair.

3. Good birthday presents.  (Tuesday was my birthday, and David’s gift is tickets to see the Braves . . . in Atlanta!  Best birthday present ever!)

What are you happy about or thankful for today?