Twelve...

Ok, this is going to be a shameless Taylor Swift post.  So those of you who are not a fan, might want to stop now...or better yet, go listen to the first eleven albums so you too can be a fan!

I can’t even tell you how excited I am for October.  I fucking love this woman. Everything about her is just fucking amazing.  She is what I think success looks like because she is successful in all she does.  She is successful as a songwriter, a pop icon, a daughter, a friend, a girlfriend.  She is this force for good in the world.  She is not a doormat but a fierce fighter for good.

And while I am excited for number 12 to drop in October, I can’t help thinking that 13 is going to be the most epic shit ever.  I mean come on!  13 reigns supreme in Taylor’s world so I can’t even fathom what she is gonna do with that one.

I love her playfulness.  I love how excited she is about who she is.  I love how she loves and shows up for the people in her life.  The Orange Monster was on social media saying how much he hated her and she was at home making sourdough for her parents.  If that doesn’t describe so accurately what is so right about her and what is so wrong about him.

And she made this album while she was on the Eras Tour!  What the actual fuck?  When does this woman sleep, rest, live a life other than to entertain, dazzle and delight us?  I am a hard charger, but I don’t know anyone that can do what she does, and still remain a person among people.

I just fucking love her.  I really do and I can’t wait for Life of a Showgirl to come out!  I have a whole new gym playlist.  She motivates me when I am at the gym...do you know that while she was on the Eras Tour, she would get on the treadmill and sing her entire set while she work out on the treadmill?  Most of us couldn’t stay on the treadmill for five songs, let along sing them and do 30!  

I am just glad there are people like her still winning in this world.  Lately, it has been hard to function in this world because I feel so disconnected from it all.  Social media isn’t social, everyone turns into a hater and it is awful.  So I spend less and less time on there.  Time out in public also kind of sucks, because I do not feel connected there and feel like our social fabric has eroded to the point of my own disinterest and results in a retreat into books and my home. And, of course, cats.

But when my social media feed is literally dripping with TF posts and reels and the like, I am instantly recharged about life and living.  She is a force for good in a world that seems to have lost the plot.  We are supposed to help each other, we are supposed to need each other, we are supposed to love each other and we are supposed to enjoy our lives.  And she is the best example of that I know (well, I don’t actually KNOW her, but I fucking wish I did).

Long Live Taylor Swift, forever may you reign!  And I am so fucking excited about number 12!