mommy hormones
November 05, 2007 at 7:09 p.m.
Why is it that since I became a mother, I cry at EVERYTHING?? Dude, every freaking commercial with a sappy theme gets me. I tear up, and then get irritated at myself for doing it, but I can't control myself.
Today at a friend's place, she had a CD on with a chick singing christian chick music. Now as a musician, I am against sappy stuff like that. I mean, shooting for the easy stuff. Gah - like that Christmas song about the kid who needed to buy those shoes for his mom but he didn't have the money and he wanted to SO MUCH because she was DYING. I mean SERIOUSLY. Instead of composing some decent music, you find the cheesiest lyrics, badly written but if you stick in someone dying and a little kid, who cares how bad the music is, you hit below the belt and you get a reaction every time.
I don't like to go for the easy reaction. I work to bring tears to the eyes of my audience. I don't need dying kids, just years and years of practice. The smallest motions of my fingers to pull just the right sound out of my violin. I WORK for it.
So as a serious musician, I get irritated when I hear cheesy music that goes for the easy emotion getter. Really, really annoyed. And I get even more annoyed when, like today, I hear this song about motherhood (easy!) with lyrics like "she's not a decorated diplomat...but she hold and loves their little hands." Oh MAN, the guitar work was so bad I could have played it, and her melodies were pathetic.
And I find myself freaking tearing up. And really mad, because I know the musician went for the easy shot and since my mommy hormones are insanely overactive, they are manipulating me. Jerkfaces!!
I hate me getting all teary. I found this blog about a family with quintuplets (by the way, scroll down to the second entry - BEST PICTURE EVER.)
Oh, speaking of awesome, check out Jared's entry on the famblog. As you read it, imagine hearing him laughing. He keeps rereading and giggling at himself. He's so funny when he's amused with himself:)
SO now I'm off to try and keep my emotions in check. Stupid mommy hormones.
SUPERCRACK..sniff.