(Admit it--you're probably singing it now too. And perhaps, like me, throwing in the occasional "na na na" when you forget or don't know the words to part of a phrase . . . )
Just like the song, I feel like something's changing, something new and exciting is happening in life. Ostensibly, not much has changed for me. I live in the same place, I have the same job I've held for the past seven years, and I am singing in the same choir I sang with last year. But somewhere between the de-cluttering of school and home and a 2600 mile trek across the United States this summer, a sense of excitement started to build. Though things may look the same from the outside, I think some little imperceptible . . . thing (for lack of a more precise term) has shifted inside of me, and suddenly, everything that was old and boring and dull last year seems reinvigorated as I rev up for this year. Although I always feel some nerves as I approach the beginning of a new school year, this year feels different. I'm excited in a way I haven't been in a long, long time. I hate to label it, but I think I feel giddy?
Yes, giddy. Like a little school girl. Full of glee (though not the popular show on Fox), and bursting at the seams like I might explode with positive energy like Rainbow Brite* at the end of her sensational 1985 movie. (It was my personal favorite as a kindergartner--what can I say? Hurrah for the Betamax!) I don't think I'll be riding rainbows anywhere anytime soon, but I wouldn't rule it out either. Something's coming, and since I haven't the foggiest idea what it could be, rainbows could be in the future. (Truth be told, though, I think I'd much rather take a ride in a hot air balloon than on a rainbow, but we'll see what the future holds . . . )
So buckle up! It could be a crazy year! Something's coming . . .
(And in case you're still na na-ing your way through "Something's Coming," here's a little help from the movie; bad dubbing aside, this YouTube clip has helpful sing-along words printed on the screen.)
*For the record, I am 99.9% certain Rainbow Brite doesn't literally explode at the end of her movie--it's more a rainbow fest of sorts as she restores warmth and color to the world, which had been in an extended and particularly dreary winter because the evil princess on some planet stole the planet of diamond, and all the light from the world has to go through that planet or it doesn't disperse or something like that, and that's why it was really cold on earth . . . Yeah. The movie is pretty much one long run-on sentence too. (But my inner 5-year-old will always think it's pretty spectacular.)
