Another post about childhood

I've had some funny flashbacks of childhood recently. The other day, it was a song that pops into my head from time to time but whose title and artist have always eluded me, due to my lack of sleuthing. This is usually the trigger song. Every time I hear that I wonder why I feel like I'm about to start my first day of school, then I realise it's because it reminds me of some song from the seventies. I am not sure what triggered the memory this time because I haven't heard the trigger song in a long time (and I'm not going to listen to it now, not even with that easily clickable link there. Too obnoxious.)

I can only ever remember two lines from the seventies song, so on Sunday, taking a break from thesis writing (which, yes, I'm still doing, at my work office on weekends and early mornings now. Will this end? Ever?) I punched the lines into the search engine:
Over and over again
What do I do?

and it came up right away. Here it is, complete with pasted-together video! It was #1 in October of 1980, which is right about the time that we moved here. A song like this would never be #1 today. Something about that sound... but isn't it great? And I love visuals from the late seventies and early eighties because the weather is always sunny and people have soft, fluffy hair and wear a lot of brown, which is exactly as I remember that time.

And today, I was eating a banana, which is not all that unusual but maybe it was because I am also wearing a yellow cardigan that I thought of a book or a poster that I had as a kid which grouped bunches of foods and other objects from nature by colour. For yellow, there was a banana, and I am sure Bert and Ernie were involved somehow, but the rest is fuzzy.

At the moment

1.
Don't know much about history... I really am fuzzy for most of it, so I bought this book and took Friday evening off (no housework, no thesis edits) to read it. It has been far too long since I last started a book. This one is great and I love it. I recommend it highly.

2.
B and I are looking for a new place to live. He would like a condo, but condos here generally cost more than houses, at least in the neighbourhoods we'd like to live in, and the nice ones have outrageous fees. I like the density of most condos but they are all geared to that hip, young, professional demographic - which is totally us! Unfortunately, there is a limit to my appetite for stainless steel appliances. We'd both like to live in a co-op but they are rare. I wrote a list entitled 'My Ideal House' which has built-in flexibility regarding form of housing tenure.

3.
I have been trying to watch more TV. I'm fussy about TV. I like it to be interesting but not too interesting. Excessive plot twists will do to a show what excessive condiments will do to food. Not necessary. Right now, I'm into this. I look forward to it, but I'm not changing my desktop picture or anything.

4.
We have a plot at the community garden again. It is bigger than last year's, and closer to the road, so we will have to be very strategic about our choice of crops. No bright red tomatoes screaming, Steal me! I'm thinking, cabbage.

5.
This week's breakfast music was this album. Man. It is good. The whole thing.