Tennis makes everything better.

No truer words have ever been spoken.

I came out of my quasi-hibernation yesterday, following what can only be described as a hideous day at the office and feeling as if I were in one of THE worst moods possible. One set of doubles (in which we were victorious, by the way!) and my mental, emotional and physical outlook had taken a 180-degree turn.

: )

I happened upon this mix CD I had made sometime in 2002. “The Lost Year,” I call it. (NOT the CD, the actual year.) The mix is titled “Eighties Mix, sorta,” and these are the songs:

1. The Horse (Cliff Nobles & Co.)
2. More Than a Feeling (Boston)
3. Under Pressure (Queen with David Bowie ... or vice-versa?)
4. I Promise You (When in Rome)
5. Only You (live version, Allison Moyet/Yaz)
6. Doot-Doot Song (Freuer)
7. No Reply at All (Genesis)
8. Melt with You (Modern English)
9. Point of No Return (Nu Shooz)
10. Joey (acoustic version, Concrete Blonde)
11. I’d Love You to Want Me (Lobo)
12. Here Comes the Sun (live version, George Harrison and Paul Simon)
13. Nobody’s Diary (extended version, Yaz)
14. Don’t Get Me Wrong (The Pretenders)
15. She Blinded Me with Science (Thomas Dolby)
16. Purple Rain (Prince and the Revolution)

I was ecstatic when I discovered this completely forgotten-about mix, tucked away in a “Best of the ’80s: Volume 7” CD that contains such gems as “Heaven” by the Eurogliders and “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?” by the Culture Club. Anyhoo, the mix is all I have been able to listen to this week ... though, admittedly, there are songs from the 1960s (“The Horse,” which is a song we used to jam to before parades) AND the 1970s (Boston and Lobo songs must be from that era).

And I still love “Melt with You,” despite Burger King’s attempt to ruin it.

There’s nothing you and Di won’t do ...

: )

Speaking of my pal Patti:

How rare and cool when someone who knows you, through and through, has no idea that you are in the midst of a really crappy day but somehow manages to brighten that day by sending you a photo of her kids, who are displaying the little metal case in which their Easter M&M’s arrived as part of a shot titled “Buns of Steel”?

(Sorry: No posting here. But trust me when I tell you, the photo is priceless. Even more so because she told me that her kids were just dying to send me the picture!)

: )

But, so as not to go without posting a photo or 2 today, I will include these shots from a couple of visitors that stop by my house, looking for food, every so often. Not sure of the breeds, but I always think of these 2 as The Odd Couple. And they always make me smile when they come trotting by.





I noticed the black doggie was lifting his right hind leg when he ran. Then, after they finished sniffing around the neighbor’s yard (top photo), they went bounding toward the front and then darted across North Main Street!

* Another mystery of the universe, solved! *

And this evening, another mystery: What’s for dinner??!