the blog of carolynpepsi

Feeling out-of-sorts. So to where does one turn at a time like this? If you're like me and familiar with this song - bestowed on us by the good graces of Monty Python - you might give it a listen. It's a little ditty called The Galaxy Song. It really helps me to put my life in perspective. Click on the link and - if you have all of the necessary programs and add-ons and plug-ins and whatnot - you'll be able to hear it. I have included the lyrics below.

Penny, this one is for you.

http://www.mwscomp.com/sounds/mp3/galaxy.mp3

| Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown,
| And things seem hard or tough,
| And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft,
| And you feel that you've had quite enough,

| Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
| And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
| That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
| A sun that is the source of all our power.
| The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
| Are moving at a million miles a day
| In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
| Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.

| Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
| It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
| It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
| But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
| We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
| We go 'round every two hundred million years,
| And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
| In this amazing and expanding universe.

| The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
| In all of the directions it can whizz
| As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
| Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
| So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
| How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
| And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
| 'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.

Also, other things that help:



Yummmmmmmy.

Or spending a few hours on PhotoShop making your brother-in-law further resemble Waldo from Where's Waldo? fame.