I’m home… finally! Well, not home as in just walked in the door but have been in town for a few hours and have been happily enjoying time with my family. It’s been a long day, and I contemplated putting off today’s blog until tomorrow. But, instead here I am stealing wireless from a neighbor in order to faithfully post. I left Flagstaff this morning around 10am and eventually pulled into my parent’s driveway just before 6:00 this evening. That means it took almost 8 hours to drive around 330 miles. On a non-holiday Friday it should take anywhere from 4.75 hours to 5.25 hours to get to Willcox, however today was 8 long hours of cruisin’ along at 78mph or sitting in traffic at 3mph. There really was no middle ground. Needless to say, driving alone was just a bit boring. For awhile, I texted Lauren and talked with my cousin Evan in hopes of keeping my sanity but spent most of the trip was spent jammin’ out to the ‘drive home’ mix I had created on my iPod earlier in the week.

Because I suffer from musical A.D.D., the criteria for this mix was simple. They had to be songs that rarely, if ever, get skipped because of their high level of musical awesomeness. I’m sure sharing this list might set me up for public ridicule, but I love and find an immense amount of joy in each of these songs. I’m sure I could champion the merits of each song listed here and beg you to love them as I do, but instead I think I’ll just share the songs that turned an 8-hour drive today into my own personal Laurel-inspired musical. In no particular order, here they are…

1. Rissi Palmer – Anybody Out There
2. Sufjan Stevens – For the Widows in Paradise, for the Fatherless in Ypsilanti
3. Kim Richey – I Know
4. Willie Nelson – You Remain
5. Colbie Cailat – Realize
6. Damien Rice – The Blower’s Daughter
7. The Format – The First Single (You Know Me)
8. Teitur – Poetry & Airplanes
9. Tony Rich Project – Like A Woman
10. Nicole Nordeman – I Am
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