Ingrid Michaelson

This Saturday night I find myself more grateful than ever to meet the relief of another week over and done with. This week was really hard and stressful and frustrating for me for some reason. I was very emotional (which I NEVER am, about ANYTHING), and I still can't understand where it all came from. But at the end of it all, I am glad to have just made it out alive, as well as learning a couple of good things, from a couple of unexpected sources.
I'm not much in a creative writing or talking kind of mood tonight, and so I will share a little with you about someone elses creativity that has inspired me this week.
Ingrid Michaelson is a singer that my sister really started to like when she was learning how to play the piano. Now my whole family listens to her, as I'm sure many of you do too, because she is just so fantastic. Her songs are so catchy and she has this remarkable ability to somehow write songs that just hit everything I'm feeling right on the head. Everything I need to hear (as far as quick and easy pick me ups are concerned) are contained in these catchy little tunes. Here are a couple of songs worth hearing, with a couple of messages worth listening to.

Keep Breathing:

"I want to change the world, instead I sleep.

I want to believe in more than you and me

But all that I know is I'm breathing. All I can do is keep breathing."

Be OK:

"I just want to be ok, be ok, be ok. I just wanna be ok today...

I just want to know today, know today, know today. Know that maybe I will be ok!"

Breakable:

"And we are so fragile...and we are just

breakable breakable breakable girls and boys."

This one is my personal favourite. It's such a happy little song and it's something I over look way too much. I'm not much of a touchy feely type of girl and sometimes I lose track of just how important it is to have those people in your life who just love love love you! (and just as importantly: who YOU love love love) Think about who they are, who do you just love to love?

Everybody:

"We have fallen down again tonight, In this world it's hard to get it right.
Trying to make your heart fit like a glove, what it needs is love love love.
Everybody, everybody wants to love. Everybody, everybody wants to be loved."

What's your inspiration for a crummy day, or week, or month? Any recommendations for real good (wholesome and lega) pick me ups?