Happy Songs of Childhood

This morning I woke up a bit "off".  Perhaps it was the fact that I went out with some friends till 2 AM on a Monday night (a stupid move, i know, but one which makes the accountants at the Sapporo company very happy).  Anyway, something inside me just seemed a bit "off".  I wasn't blue nor depressed yet I wasn't feeling fresh nor optimistic.  I was in some sort of phantom zone of blahh.  I felt like stale bread needing a bit of olive oil dipping sauce.  But what was that sauce?  I attempted to eat a semi-rotten plum thinking that the sugars might lighten my day.  No dice.  I decided to walk the stairs in my building instead of taking the elevator in hopes that the increase in heart rate may trigger a mild endorphin rush a take me to that happy place.  Didn't work.  I even dabbed Tiger Balm on my temples and under my nostriles thinking that a little bit of aromatherapy might do me some good.  Did it work?  NEIN!  All I got was a fiery Tiger burn in my left eye due to a rather stupid finger slip from my temple while attempting to apply this mysterious topical ointment and a flashback of my grandparents and their love for covering 1/3 of their bodies with Salonpas patches.  When all options to right my emotional status seemed bleak, I found what I was looking for on the internet... Rick Astley.  I don't think it was the actual, physical sight of the great 80's rock icon that put a smile on my face.  I think it was more the nostalgia factor, a flashback to a time when my hair was high and my outfits were of the pastel variety.  A time when proms were in darkened school cafeterias and boys and girls were not yet man or woman.  A time when a first kiss with your sweetheart was such a foreign feeling (and perhaps foreign smelling due to the food still stuck in their braces).  I could go on forever but I think we all have our emotional triggers into our past.  So, if you've had a long day and/or feeling a bit blue, I present to you the great Rick Astley singing "Never Gonna Give You Up".  Hopefully it'll give you a jubilant injection of glee and perhaps lift your spirits even if just a bit...