Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is “earworm.” Talk about your latest earworm, or one that habitually haunts you. Enjoy!
I have to say, I appear to have suffered a whole load of earworms over the last few years, as the kids repeatedly listen to the same songs over and over… and over… but as I get older, I miss who they’re actually by and what the song title is. I’m that annoying one who says “You know the song…!” and then proceed to hum or sing it wrong.
However, I do have one that I am enjoying right now, as Lil Princess loves to watch the video, spotting the different famous faces in it.
Maroon 5’s Girls Like You ft. Cardi B
It’s a great song, and I don’t know all the words, so the chorus seems to play on repeat in my head when I least expect it.
So, it’s been a fraught, hectic week in Ritu-Land, with work, assessing children, getting ready for Christmas performances, and the like, then there is the home side duties too!
Throw in 3 nights of awful sleep because Lil Princess has been waking at ‘stupid’ o’clock.. (due to a bug which is now fully out and she is cuddled up on the sofa with a blanket), I am a pretty tired Ritu!
Already this morning, I have sent Lil Man to Football training, done the Grocery shopping, changed bedsheets, and now am sat down with a cup of tea finally! Still to come, lunch (which I should be making now) and then a visit to the In-Laws, picking up Lil Man’s friend on the way as he is coming over for a sleepover! The relaxation won’t start there.. they have a football match to get to by 9am so we need to do that drop pff, but also get them up and ready, and breakfasted too!
So, I needed a pick me up…
I don’t often share songs, but this particular one has become a bit of an earworm… I have it on a Christmas kids CD that we were playing at nursery, and my colleague loves it, so I listened more carefully, and now I can’t stop humming it or singing it… so this seasonal earworm, I had to share! I hope you enjoy it too!
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
Don’t want a doll, no dinky Tinker Toy
I want a hippopotamus to play with and enjoy
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
I don’t think Santa Claus will mind, do you?
He won’t have to use our dirty chimney flue
Just bring him through the front door,
that’s the easy thing to do
I can see me now on Christmas morning,
creeping down the stairs
Oh what joy and what surprise
when I open up my eyes
to see a hippo hero standing there
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
No crocodiles, no rhinoceroses
I only like hippopotamuses
And hippopotamuses like me too
Mom says the hippo would eat me up, but then
Teacher says a hippo is a vegeterian.
(Short Music Interlude)
There’s lots of room for him in our two-car garage
I’d feed him there and wash him there and give him his massage
I can see me now on Christmas morning,
creeping down the stairs
Oh what joy and what surprise
when I open up my eyes
to see a hippo hero standing there
I want a hippopotamus for Christmas
Only a hippopotamus will do
No crocodiles or rhinoceroseses
I only like hippopotamuseses
And hippopotamuses like me too!
But I Smile Anyway... 