a day off with coldplay

i forgot how much i love ColdPlay. not just love them, but like love love love them. and here is how i remembered.

i took the day off today. i had to. work is awful. i mean really really awful. yesterday someone actually IM'd me to say this:

This is not a complaint but a comment from a concrned resident of the first floor. After compensation my primary source of job satisfaction is a readily accessable source or frozen water granuales for my beverages.

about the broken ice machine. not only about the ice machine, but about 1 of 3 ice machines on the first floor and 1 of 4 ice machines in the entire building. ice. and this wasn't the only thing he had to say. he went on from here. but i won't torture you with his diatribe. 

anyways, i took the day off. and while i had the day off i decided to do something i have been meaning to do but haven't had the energy or time. my friend Cassidy is running the SF marathon. i know, she is insane. but i love her and i admire her BIG TIME for doing this. and i wish i could afford to be home that weekend to stand on a corner and hold a huge sign that said "Don't Stop People are Watching!!!" but i can't. so instead, i am pulling quotes and words and music together to send to her fantabulous girlfriend to pull together for a big inspiration book of some sort. (i swear, if Cassidy reads this i am in so much trouble because i think it's all a big surprise.) 

in the midst of all of this, i had to get onto itunes and pull some names of songs that i love. the instruction said to pull stuff that would remind Cassidy of a time that we had together. unfortunately that would just be all of one artist's music, so i opted for songs that inspire me. and then i thought about songs that get me going, that pull me out of a funk, that make me smile, that make me love my life and that is where i found coldplay again. 

it's not like i lost them. i mean, you don't really lose music that sings to your soul. but i sort of forgot about them. and then today, as i was playing around the 14.6 days of music i have in my itunes (no i have not finished downloading my cds yet!), there they were. seeing the old X&Y album reminded me that i needed to find that one song that makes me cry, makes me laugh, makes me want to dance for hours. so i dove into itunes and found it. 

"every teardrop is a waterfall"

thanks hjc and cass for the nudge to remember what inspires me.