Livin' the Right Life

Music plays a huge role in my life. There is rarely a moment when I don't have at least one song stuck in my head. My mental iPod is usually on shuffle, switching all the choruses of my favorite songs back and forth. I find my motivation to work from music. I can find peace from music. I can find entertainment from music. I can also find parallels to my own life from music.

The Group Ride song for the last RPM release was a song called "Livin' the Right Life". Today was one of those days that I can sit back and review and think to myself, "I'm livin' the right life."

The day started early with a text from Karen to Nadean and me about when and where we were running this morning. If you live in Columbus, you know the weather was nasty all day. I don't think it has stopped misting all day long. But we threw comfort in the backseat and set out. As we made our approach the park, we were running in a live about 20 paces behind one another. I looked up and saw a biker approaching us. I felt kinda proud to have someone see my running friends and me on a friendly run. As the biker got closer I realized it was our friend Brian and then was just excited to see him. I squealed and waved like a little kid. At that moment I was completely overwhelmed by how lucky I am to have friends who share the same goals and aspirations and values as I do. I am so blessed to have friends who make me want to be harder, better, faster, stronger.

Presently, Granny and I are in different rooms. We are, however, watching the same movie. It's one of our favorites--The Parent Trap. Not the old, waaaay better, one but the one with Lindsay Lohan before she was a skank. Apparently, my "overgrown teeny bopper-ness" (to quote my dad) is genetic.

Before we discovered our favorite movie was on, Granny reminded me again how I am livin' the right life. I came in from church and she looked at me in my new Target dress and told me how good it looked on me. I believe she said the dress was made for me, to which I replied, "I love you, Granny." She said, "I love you, too, Hannah." She got me. There's something about hearing your name after those words that makes it real. She loves me. Yep, I'm livin' the right life.