The Top Five

I LOVE my trainer! Not a human trainer, but my Kinetic trainer Mike surprised me with last Christmas. (Thank you again and again honey!!). A "trainer" is a device that you attach your bike too, allowing you to ride your bike indoors. Many athletes do not like to use them, preferring instead to go to spin classes, or braving the wintery/icy/stormy outdoor conditions. My Sister-in-laws brother, (THAT"S a mouthful!), Rob lives in Cedar Rapids Iowa. He's an accomplished cyclist, and rides outdoors despite the snow, ice, and bitter cold. I think he is completely nuts! I have a hard time getting out there if it's less then 70!!! But I simply LOVE my trainer....did I tell you that already? ;-) I can read, listen to music, watch tv, get up and go to the bathroom, or close my eyes and not worry about getting shmucked by cars or farming equipment.
What I love to do the most is watch a movie. I'll watch half if it's a shorter ride, or up to two for the longer rides. (Two is my limit indoors!) This week I watched, "High Fidelity", the 2000 movie with John Cusack. He was one of my favorite actors, but I guess he's been off the radar lately. (For those who were teenagers of the 80's....who DOESN"T think that the scene in "Say Anything" where he's holding the boom box over his head as it blares out Peter Gabriels "In Your Eyes" wasn't one of the BEST movie scenes EVER????) I forgot how much I loved "High Fidelity". It was the first movie the I saw Jack Black in....and in my opinion he almost steals the movie. His rendition of Marvin Gayes, "Let's Get it On" at the end of the movie is priceless!
One of the themes of the movie is the "Top Five". John Cusack's character decides which old girlfriends make up his "top five breakups" list. He feels this strong need to re-connect with these girls to try and find out why they broke up with him. This theme plays throughout the movie. Since his character owns a record store, music plays a major role. It's fascinating to learn what everyone's "top five" play lists are!
Ever since I watched the movie earlier in the week, (over the coarse of two dates with my "trainer"! ;-)), I've been thinking about my top 5 lists. Top 5 break-ups? Ummmm....I married my 3rd boyfriend, so that list is pretty short! Top 5 play list? That changes all the time, mostly depending on what I am doing. My latest top 5 workout songs are...1, 2, 3, and 4,anything by my newly found obsession, the band Incubus, top song is a tie between "Warning", and "Black Heart Intertia". A little strange, and as is typical for me, discovered them well after they became popular. Ironically, they seemed to have peaked around the time of this movie! Number 5 would be the Foo Fighters, "Times Like These". LOVE that song!
Top 5 moments of the week:
1. Rachel's safe arrival in Connecticut.
2. The day spent with Robyn as she helped me with 7th grade vision screening at school. We both agreed that this was the BEST 7th grade class in terms of behaviors and politeness. It went sooooo smooth, and Robyn was fantastic with those kids!
3. My little kindergarten student, who after he fell on his face at recess and had a gusher out of his nose, very sweetly looked up at me and said, "thank you" as I was cleaning up his face!! God, I love my job!! :-)
4. Finding out that, at least as far as the physicians at the HHT Center in St Louis are concerned, I am the "rarest of the rare" with having a spinal cord AVM, but that the fact that I'm not having any symptoms is very re-assuring!! More tests next week!!
5. My conversation with Rachel this morning. What perspective she has, she just amazes me.

What is your top 5 of the week? Day? Year? Lifetime?

Enjoy this day! :-D