“ARE YOU WALKING AROUND TO A DISNEY SOUNDTRACK?” – my family
and close friends know I like to live in a “Bubble.” By that, I mean that I have my own little
world comprised of family and close friends, rowing (and more rowing), no
outside news except for the Sentinel and other local papers, and the accompaniment
of a Disney soundtrack.
I like to
think I have created a happiness bubble.
To do so, I have given up a lot of things that create an Unhappiness
Bubble. For starters, I have not watched
television news or read a major newspaper reporting on national news since
sometime after 9/11 (yes, I am 13 years news-free). Many people find this fact somewhere between
violative of the Social Covenant and
downright revolutionary. “How can you
live like that?” Big Coach asked me
recently, “when you were a Journalism major at NYU?” That’s simple. Most of the ((CENSORED)) out there is not
journalism. Here’s what “The News” seems
like to me, now that I have been living a near-Amish lifestyle as far as media
content is concerned: There has been a brutal (FILL IN THE BLANK)
in (FILL IN A LOCATION), stay tuned for video proof of the same so you can get
sick to your stomach.
I do care
about local news. Orange County wants to
close the Newburgh DMV: that’s important
news to me and I will blog about it.
“Don’t you need to know this stuff
for work?” my oldest son (who has to
read the New York Times as part of his freshman high school year at Don Bosco
Prep) asked incredulously. No, as a
matter of fact, I do not. I learned a
smidgen (not much, truth be told) about being a lawyer in law school, and the
rest of it I learned in the last 24 years of practicing law and being a business
owner.
I have a really limited amount of
time to do what I need to do; and as I get older I find I have a limited amount
of space in my brain, and I would like to save it for stuff that matters. Like which side of the Courtroom the
Plaintiff’s attorney belongs on; the fact that Michael doesn’t like applesauce
in his lunchbox and Christian doesn’t like mayo on his sandwiches; where my
husband keeps his tuxedo cumberbun; which side Orion prefers to get his belly
rubs on; the seat order for my Student Ambassadors Quad; how to remember what
direction to point the oarlock when I’m rowing with my Rowing BFF; where Big
Coach hides his Cherry Coke; and the 8,000 different passwords that Life
Nowadays requires us to be able to recall (Sorry I haven’t been on Pinterest
for over a year but I can’t remember my password and I just don’t have the
energy to set a new one).
I’d say the
Memory Banks are plenty full right now and I don’t want to overload the
circuits. To help me power down, I like
to keep my mind focused on what’s really important -- that’s right, Disney
World. Disney music puts me in a good
mood, what can I say. I used to have all
of the Disney songs on CD, then on an iPod, now I keep the Pandora Disney
station on. All the time. When I’m getting ready in the morning. In my car driving to Don Bosco football games
or to Regattas. And when I am walking
around, the Pandora Disney station is playing songs from Little Mermaid, Jungle
Book, or Frozen, while it is sitting in my giant tote bag from – of course –
Disney World.
I was
walking into the lobby of my office building at 275 North recently, and someone
stopped me –
“Excuse me but – is that a Disney soundtrack coming out of
your bag?”
Why, yes, I answered, it most
certainly is.
“That’s a great idea,” she said. “We should all walk around with a Disney
soundtrack, the world would be a happier place.”
Exactly! As my grandmother always used to say, the
formula for happiness isn’t difficult:
Love your fellow man, mind your beeswax, honor God every day, and sing a
happy tune. In my case, that would be a
whole bunch of Disney tunes. Have a
great day, everyone and, as always, Remember to Count Your Blessings! <3
Mrs. Lo www.LoBiondoPage.Blogspot.com (Here we are goofing off during our last trip to Disney World, December 2013)
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