It’s always a little weird around my house just before the annual trip to Park City. I know that I’ll be out of town for a roughly 10 days or so to spend time with family and I dislike having food left around the house. But today I needed to make a quick run to the store to grab a few things for the next couple of days because I’m out of breakfast goods.
A trip to Trader Joe’s is usually a quick trip. This time it unfortunately took a second trip. The checker somehow managed to not pack the butter I had purchased in the bag. Of course I didn’t check it. I’m betting most people don’t notice if all the food they purchase makes it into the bags they go home with. Then when you get home you notice it and realize you have to go back.
Anyone that has been privy to me cooking for them, or that I’ve dated, has discovered that I love butter. I can’t explain why other that I love the taste and it makes a great source of cooking material. It’s very versatile. I am really partial to real butter. Not margarine. Not standard butter. I mean real organic butter. There is a difference. Thus I really need to have the real thing when it comes to how I cook and eat. There’s no getting around it.
Now you can understand why I had to run back to the store to ask for the butter I had purchased. The thing I like about Trader Joe’s is that the people that work there have a good sense of humor. When I mentioned to the manager that something I had purchased did not make it to the bag and home, he mentioned that they had already eaten it and enjoyed it. I believe he may have been thinking about ice cream or deli meat or bacon or something. When I mentioned it was butter, he replied that it probably had melted before they got to it.
What this has to do with music is exactly ziltch. Though once I got all that over with I did spend time in the studio creating a new track that is sorta a cross of RnB and Pop for a cat that has cuts with some pretty major RnB peeps you’ve likely heard of. He wants to co-write and requested I come up with a track. We’ll see how it goes tomorrow. I’m looking forward to it.
And now for something completely different…
A song that is a bit of a trace down memory lane for me whilst growing up in New York City. There’s a certain air, a certain vibe that is Christmas in New York. Snow, Central Park, and Rockafellar Center are all part of that vibe and I think I wrapped it up pretty well in When Christmas Lights Up.
Enjoy your holiday time and may this song become a part of your cherished Christmas songs.