Airports are like Relationships

I hate going to one just like I hate getting involved in a relationship. Everyday is just an emotional roller coaster that either brings you depression or overwhelming joy. They're both overly expensive but unfortunately sometimes necessary. There's always a variety of food choices. The airport has the power to save or ruin a relationship. The power to bring people together or send them apart. My relationship with the airport has become rather unfriendly. It has brought regret, like some relationships do for many. And yet at the end of the day reaching your destination is like a relationship that you wish would last forever in the sense that nothing/no one else can make you smile and laugh in quite the same way. I Love/Hate Airports/Relationships.

I'm gonna make you a mixtape

Last night on my way home while listening to the radio I kept switching between stations to find something good to listen to. While switching I came across two generations of love songs, one from the 80s and another from this year. It got me to thinking. What ever happened to the mixtape? Why did it ever die? I mean what's more romantic, funny, or cheesy than getting a tape of love music that you actually enjoy. It's so much easier than coming up with something original these days that's going to swoon your girl or boy since it's pretty much all been said before. Obviously technology has evolved so much to make the actual casset (so out of date that not even chrome's spell check would help me) tape obsolete. We could move onto the CD if we really wanted to and as for me I really want to. That's why I've decided to blog 4 songs from 4 decades that I would put on my mixCD/Playlist whatever the hell you want to call it.

1980s: Faithfully - Journey
Best love song of the 80s and possibly the greatest love song ever written although many on the internet would probably disagree (I don't care go write your own blog). The only thing with this song is you can't use it unless you're in the relationship with the person and they're not going to run off if you tell them you love them. Besides what girl doesn't like voice of Steve Perry? He's been giving broners since Journey was formed.

1990s Iris - Goo Goo Dolls
Any Goo Goo Dolls song will work here since they helped make the mid 90s a great time for music. I had a hard time choosing one from the 90s since it's my favorite genre of music but it came down to this one. It's rare to find a girl our age that doesn't like this song. The fact that it came from City of Angels just makes it that much more of a love song. If you get it stuck in your chica's head she won't forget you.

2000s Kiss Me Thru the Phone - Soulja Boy ft. Sammie
This decade was hard to chose from just because of the way music changed. Hip Hop and Rap started to take over as the music of choice. You know I could have went with Candy Shop by 50 Cent or Goodies by Cierra but those may have been a little too suggestive for what I'm trying to do. Instead I went with Kiss Me Through the Phone a more recent song for all of those long distance lovers. I'm not saying that this is the best song in the decade but for what a mixtape tries to accomplish, it works.

Since our current decade is not even two years old I decided to go with the song that got me started on this whole mixtape blog.

2010s Roll Up - Wiz Khalifa
It says everything that a guy needs to tell his girl just in a way more ghetto way. For all the white people he's telling a girl that he's always there for her. Don't worry I understand him since I'm Blurple.

In the end when you make your mixtape obviously you want it to appeal to whoever it is you're going after. Who knows none of these songs may even apply to the one you're trying to swoon or impress with your taste in music. You should probably get to know their music choice (might be important if you want a relationship with them).

My sorta kinda not really ex-family

Means more to me than I realized. I forgot how much they made me laugh, how witty each one of them is. I forgot how cheesy but entertaining their stories are. I didn't expect a small birthday for my "other mom" to impact me the way it did -- after all I've been away and mostly out of contact with them for almost 9 months now. But when you spend almost 2 years with a group of people they make an impact on your life that's bigger than I could have imagined. Just being in their presence made me remember so many things that I had done with them. It filled me with so much joy but at the same time waves of depression. Happy that I get to see the people that I had friendship with but sad at the same time that our relationship had changed so much and at the same time not at all.

When the party was over both my "other mom" and might as well call him "other dad" both told me how much it meant to them that I was there. And as I got my hug and my handshake I couldn't help but fight back tears because I miss how things were so much. I miss my "other family". A lot.