Jan 1 - Things that enter by way of silence.

I was raised in a family of TV watchers. Regardless of whether or not anyone was watching anything specific, it seems to me that the TV was always on. Even during times when the whole family was gone, the TV was left on with the excuse of warding off criminals, and later, comforting family pets. Still to this day in my own home, I find the voices from the TV a comforting presence in an otherwise empty apartment.

These days, the voices are usually muppet voices. Jim Henson's genius seems to be the only thing that will cause my tornado of a 1 year old to pause long enough in her destructive path for me to perhaps re-fold and item of laundry or re-hide my eyeliner that is now all over my daughter's face.

Thank heaven for the muppets. Thank you, Jim, up there in heaven, for the muppets.

If there is no option of TV or music to fill a silence, I will sing to fill the silence. My go-to songs to sing are as follows:

Superstar by The Carpenters
Someone Like You from the musical Jekyll and Hyde (a song I know only half of and a musical I've never seen, but it somehow makes the list)
Stay by Lisa Loeb

Of course if Chelsea is in the room I'll replace any appropriate two-syllable word with her name, which makes her smile at her loon of a mother.

"Don't you remember I told you I loved you Chelsea... ba nuh na nuh nuh nuh na nuh"