Music Monday---New Moon on Monday

With both the family van and my husband's car needing sudden, unexpected, and expensive repairs this past week, along with the automatic garage door going on the fritz, as well, we have been left feeling a bit overwhelmed and wondering what is going to break next that we can ill afford to have fixed. When it rains, it pours, I suppose. Life goes on.

Speaking of rain, it was pouring buckets this morning. With the other vehicles in the shop, and with my husband and older son both at work, it was up to me and the mighty Metro I drive to get young son and his upright bass to his music lesson this morning. I bet you think that an upright bass would not fit into a little Geo Metro like mine.


You are wrong.

So how did we fit both my 15 year old son and his upright bass into a Geo Metro? Well, we put both the back seat and the front passenger seat down, gently lifted and maneuvered the instrument in through the hatch door in the back (my son did that part), then my son carefully slid in on top of the folded down seat next to the bass in the back from the side door, and it ended up looking like this. The black in front of my son is the bass inside of its case.


I took this photo from the driver's seat. It was a little cramped--yes. HA HA! But we did it. Fortunately, it is only a five minute drive to the school where my son's lesson was to take place.

I took this next photo through the windshield of my car at the school while I waited to pick him up after his lesson was over.


He has an audition tomorrow with the Toledo Youth Symphony so he has been practicing a lot to try and get his solo piece as polished as he can. He has already been accepted into the symphony, but this audition will help the director determine seating for the orchestra and also decide who he wants to do solos for performances in the upcoming year.

In spite of our "list of things that need to be repaired" woes, there are still reasons to dance this morning. For one, the van will be repaired and available to us again by tomorrow when my son and his bass will need transportation for the hour long trip to Toledo. That is a good thing. A five minute trip with both my son and his bass in the back of my Metro is one thing. An hour long trip would be quite another.

The rain we are getting this morning is another good thing. It is cooling things off. Temperatures have been in the 90's here the last few days, so the rain brings some relief from the heat. My morning glories have been looking a little withered the last couple of days, so this rain will freshen them up again.

I am also thankful that my son has this opportunity to be in the youth symphony. He is really excited about it and is looking forward to working with the director and other teens in the program.

So in spite of whatever rain falls in our lives, it's good to still take time to dance.

I have no clue what this video is supposed to be about and the lyrics are a puzzle to me, as well, but the music is good to dance to. :-)

This is a dance mix of Duran Duran's "New Moon on Monday" for today's Music Monday pick.

New Moon On Monday
(lyrics)
Shake up the picture the lizard mixture with your dance on the eventide
You got me coming up with answers all of which I deny
I've said it again but could I please rephrase it
Maybe I can catch a ride I couldn't really put it much plainer but I'll wait till you decide
Send me your warning siren as if I could ever hide

Last time la luna I light my torch and wave it for the new moon on Monday
And a firedance through the night I stayed the cold day with a lonely satellite
New moon on Monday and a firedance through the night
I stayed the cold day with a lonely satellite

Breaking away with the beast of both worlds a smile that you can't disguise
But every minute I keep finding clues that you leave behind
Save me from these reminders as if I forget tonight

This time la luna I light my torch and wave it for the new moon on Monday
And a firedance through the night I stayed the cold day with a lonely satellite
New moon on Monday and a firedance through the night
I stayed the cold day with a lonely satellite

I light my torch and wave it for the new moon on Monday
And a firedance through the night
I stayed the cold day with a lonely satellite
New moon on Monday and a firedance through the night
I stayed the cold day with a lonely satellite
New moon on Monday and a firedance through the night (firedance through the night)
I stayed the cold day with (I light my torch and wave it for the) a lonely satellite
New moon on Monday and a firedance through the night (firedance through the night)
I stayed the cold day with a (I light my torch and wave it for the)
New moon on Monday and a firedance through the night (firedance through the night)
I stayed the cold day with a (I light my torch and wave it for the)lonely satellite

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