I work on the second floor of my building, and on most occasions I take the stairs to and from my office rather than the elevators. There are a few exceptions to this however. If I'm carrying coffee, I take the elevator. The stairwell doors are heavy and strongly spring loaded- I've smacked myself with them enough times to know that trying to deal with them with my hands full of breakfast and hot coffee is just a bad idea. If I'm wearing my new boots, with the high-and-still-somewhat-wobbly heels, I'll take the stairs up but not down because I'm afraid of falling on my face.

The last few days I've been dealing with a knee sore enough that it's kept me from the gym (hate!) and given that I want it to recover so I can start going to the gym again, I've given myself a break from taking the stairs.

Yesterday I got into the elevator with a group of three people that seemed to work in the same office, and they were talking about Anna Nicole Smith. The conversation went like this:

Person 1 (African American man, early to mid 40s): Yeah, they say if she hadn't overdosed she probably would have died anyway from a blood infection.
Person 2 (African American woman, maybe in her mid 30s): Yeah. It's sad. But you know what, I always used to get her mixed up with Pamela Anderson.
Person 3 (caucasian woman, late 50s): I don't know who that is.
P1: Pamela Anderson?
P3: Yes, who is she?
P2: You know, she was married to... Kid Rock.

That last line was said just after I exited the elevator, before the door closed. Before she said Kid Rock I was expecting her to say Tommy Lee, since that marriage/relationship was a lot longer. I said to myself "She probably doesn't know who Kid Rock is either."

About an hour later, I was still not really awake and so I headed down to the cafe in the building to get a cup of coffee. Being on the second floor, a lot of people will try to get off of the elevator before they realize that it is not the lobby, and have sort of an "Huh? OH." reaction, and step back again. Now, working on the second floor, I routinely only push one of two buttons, the L, or the 2. I have no need of any other buttons. Occasionally (more often than I care to admit actually) I will hit the L button even though I'm already in the lobby, or I'll hit the 2 button when I'm already on the second floor. This causes the doors to close and then immediately reopen while I stand inside looking stupid.

But yesterday, I got on the elevator in search of a nice big cup of coffee. I get in, I push the button, and the elevator starts to move. The doors open, and I step out. Faced with a beige wall and a darkish elevator lobby. I say "Huh? OH." and step back into the elevator, because the third floor is completely not helpful to me, in any way shape or form. There is no coffee for me there, there is no work for me to do there. Somehow, I had gotten on the elevator and pushed the 3 (which is right above L) and not noticed that yes, the elevator was moving, but it was going *up*. I stepped back in, pressed L, and finally made my way to the coffee.

Ganked from Kat and from Caryn. We all love this meme. Eventually there will be real content here again, if I can ever get it out of my head and into text. So for now, play along!

The Rules:
1. Put your music player of choice on shuffle.
2. Post the first line of lyrics for the first 15 songs.
3. Readers try to identify the song.
4. NO CHEATING. (aka: no using Google to find the answers!)

**I added second lines to the songs not yet guessed, though frankly, there is one down there that I'm shocked hasn't been guessed yet...**

1) I know a couple, she sits in a rocking chair, working puzzles, he watches TV upstairs

2) Last time I saw her it was turning colder
What She's Doing Now - Garth Brooks, guessed by Caryn

3) Way down in Texas, those cowgirls get restless, as they wait for their cowboy to love them for life

4) Behind my eyes I keep my truth from you. No one enters this secret place
One More Time - Queensryche. Brad got this one.

5) I wanted you to know, I love the way you laugh
Broken - Seether (featuring Amy Lee). Kat got this one too.

6) Tom, get your plane right on time, I know your part'll go fine

7) You wanna know, where we go from here
If I Were You - Collin Raye. Caryn got this one too.

8) Sometimes it's hard, you don't want to look over your shoulder, 'cause you don't want to remember where you've been

9) Am I more than you bargained for yet, I've been dying to tell you anything you want to hear
Sugar We're Goin Down - Fall Out Boy. Brad got this one too, and it's a good thing, since he introduced me to this song.

10) Farewell today, travel on now, be on your way

11) Excuse the mess, I didn't see you from behind, I caught a glimpse, but the reflection's only mine
Better Version - Shinedown. Another band Brad introduced me to. He got this one too.

12) I heard there was a secret chord
Hallelujah - Rufus Wainwright. Kat guessed Leonard Cohen, but as she pointed out, a lot of people have done this song.

13) A long, long, time ago, I can still remember
American Pie - Don McLean. Kat got this one, and thankfully agrees with me about that *other* version of this song.

14) If I had to live my life without you near me
Nothing's Gonna Change My Love for You - Glenn Madieros. Kat guessed it.

15) Remember when the days were long
End of the Innocence - Don Henley. Kat gets the honors.

This time change thing is going to kill me. It's so early this year, I'm having trouble wrapping my brain around it. There were times yesterday that it felt like I'd lost the entire day, not just an hour. I'm sure it doesn't help that my watch battery died on Saturday, so I couldn't just look at my watch to see what time it was, but instead depended on a variety of clocks, some of which had been changed and some which hadn't.

At one point I was sitting in Zachary's with Keegan, thinking it was noon, when it was in fact, 1pm. "Wait, huh? Dang. The game is at 5. We're gonna get home at 3:30 and I'm just gonna have to turn around and leave again..."

Then sitting at Nicky's after the game- "Has that clock been changed or is it really almost 10? That can't be right..." It really was almost 10, which in real time was only almost 9, but for whatever reason felt like midnight- we were all yawning and Nicky's niece was actually dozing on the couch.

Waking up this morning I panicked that I hadn't changed my clock, because it's 7 which is actually 6 and it should still be dark outside... Quick check of my cell phone told me no, it's really the time you think it is.

And did the weather fairy sort of go "Daylight savings time already? I better kick it into high gear!"? Because it's gone from cold and gray in the mornings to sunny and beautiful, and last night when I went to bed, it was so warm in my room I had to open a window (my bedroom faces West and gets all the afternoon sun).

It's going to be an interesting week...