Confessions

Guilty pleasures...

We all have them. Things, part of your brain knows you shouldn't like, but you do. These things tend to make you laugh or plaster that stupid grin on your face. 

So what are your guilty pleasure songs? 

Songs you crank up in the car when you're alone?

Songs you jam out to like a damn fool? 

Songs that transform the nearest item into a microphone and force you to sing until your coughing?

What songs do you hate to love? 

Here are five from my list. 

Wiggle - Jason Derulo ft. Snoop Dogg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiP14ED28CA

Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rog8ou-ZepE

Kiss from a Rose - Seal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yivLt9cTaio

I Drive Myself Crazy - NSYNC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikI-4D_1s-c

Whiskey in the Jar - Metallica
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boanuwUMNNQ


Had to add another because Whiskey in the Jar is just awesome and doesn't deserve the title of Guilty Pleasure Song because no guilt here...

I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho) - Pitbull
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2tMV96xULk

"Wishing I was knee deep in the water somewhere
Got the blue sky breeze and it don't seem fair
Only worry in the world is the tide going to reach my chair
Sunrise there's a fire in the sky
Never been so happy
Never felt so high
And I think I might have found me my own kind of paradise"
--'Knee Deep' Zac Brown Band

I have never been an ocean girl. The sand and swimsuit thing was never for me. I was raised in a land where water came rarely unless it was flowing from the hose into a mud pit my parents dug in the backyard. Now I love water. I was a mud duck before I could walk but the beach...that was another thing all together. I never saw the ocean until I was in High School and the closest I ever was to the beach (other than a short vacation) was when I worked in Brazil for three months. I enjoyed looking at the ocean, the waves, sun and sand but I didn't like being on it.

Funny how things change....

Recently I moved to the beach for breathing issues and I think I am falling in love with the ocean. Sand don't bother me. I look good and feel confident in my swimwear and I don't care if anyone disagrees. The sun, the waves, the smell of salt air...I love it. The best part...I can breath. (Out of both nostrils at the same time! I didn't think that was normal....it is awesome).
Yesterday, I was lying on the beach, breathing and editing my novel. I got my book, my post-it notes, my pen and I was enjoying myself. I was at least 8 feet from the water. Not being a former beach girl...I still have stuff to learn...like about the tide. I was lost in my own world when I heard a guy run by. Most of the people run near the water so I was a decent distance from the runners. I looked up and haha. I was on my stomach facing the water so I got a great view of the approaching tide. Luckily the wave stopped about a foot and a half from me so I had time to get my stuff and move before the next pulse of water.

So now I understand. Thank you Zac Brown for preparing me for real life. Next time, I will be prepared and know whether or not the tide will reach my paperwork.

My sincerest gratitude to you and the guy who ran past me.