Friday Thoughts-part 3

I have a new music love interest.

Tangent: An update on my favorite band. The Killers have almost beat out The Beatles. The reason being that The Beatles have more songs out than The Killers, inherently tallying the number of songs that I like of said artists in their favor. So until the future release of some more Killers happiness, Beatles stand: End Tangent


He's got class, he's got sass. He plays the piano and writes his own songs. You may know him best for his song "Rock and Roll" and I just randomly discovered him down the line compared to many, many others. His name is Eric Hutchinson. His fan's are called Hutchheads? But I discovered him for a different reason. On an undisclosed website, I was directed to his page on Youtube and fell in love with his newest project, namely, making up songs based on suggestions from fans. Not only are the songs not stupid, but rather catchy!

Since this is supposed to be mainly a thought digression, I will simply feature one of these videos/songs. It's called "The BCS SUX". It applies to my football team! Who would write a song about the BCS, I mean, seriously!? So cool. While I am not personally informed on how the BCS works, I have heard many a oh-so-fanatical guys in my ward complain about the BCS. I can see some truth in Mr. Hutchinson's song. Every year I seem to get the privilege of decorating the USC Rose Parade float. While I'm sure they are an excellent team, it fills me with chagrin since I'm more of a Bruin's girl. But as I stated before, it's quite the catchy tune! I hope it to be purchasable in the near future.

Well, I hope you take this opportunity to discover Mr. Hutchinson if you haven't already. I hope his music fills you with such inexplicable joy as it does for me.

Hallelujah!

I LOVE soundtracks! The one from 'Shrek 2' happens to be one of my favorite, though the first is a good one too. That being said, one of my favorite songs off of this album is 'hallelujah' by rufus wainwright. I finally found a rendition that I can listen to over and over again! Just wanted to share it with you -> http://www.youtube.com/user/hermanoproctor#p/a/u/0/MUTaz7J5emk

Plus it's my personal goal to up the amount of 'views' for this video as many times as I can cause it's such a gorgeous rendition, but I think I have to make a youtube account to do that? That would be troublesome.

Friday Thoughts-Part 2

Skiing

How amazing is it to go 30 mph down a hill with no form of technology save 4 sticks? It's amazing. I love it cause I do believe it is the closest I will ever come to flying!

Of course I'm always trying to get better. Three weeks ago I went to Brighton and did just that. I pushed myself harder, I went faster than ever before, and I even did a jump of 1 foot off a little ramp. Very praiseworthy if I do say so myself.

However I have a goal this season and that is to go enough times so that I can no longer count how many times I've gone on my fingers. I've gone 8 times, so I think I can commit to going two more times this season, no? Otherwise I'll just revise my goal to be 10 times before this year is up and pray that it dumps snow next winter...which I already do anyways!

The real question is, do I want to buy my own set of ski's? How do I decide!?!? Well, that's simple economics my friends. Until I go enough times in order to make buying ski's an efficient choice, I should continue to rent. To rent it costs me $12 and to buy ski's it's around $700. So methinks once I start going 60 times a season, I'll buy my own set of ski's. :D

Friday Thoughts- part 1

I'm going on a mission

Not really.

I just randomly think about it from time to time. It's dangerous grounds, let me tell you. For a moment you teeter on the edge of deciding to do it before you remember that you won't be doing it. I always begin to think about it when I realize, come this June, I'll be the ONLY one in my family NOT to have taken out their endowments. Although you probably shouldn't be competitive about such things...I HATE that my little brother beat me to it! AH!

That aside, I also always wonder where in the world would I go? I base where I would have gone on my sister. I figure they treat all sister missionaries the same in that if a sister missionary studied Spanish for 3ish years before the mish, they'll send her somewhere Spanish speaking. As such I'll go somewhere where they speak French for sure!

Last year I was in a ward where every member seemed to think I'd gone on a mission. We'd be doing the standard getting to know you questions (major, what you want to do with your life, your favorite version of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, etc.) and missions would come up. I LOVE the look on a face when they'd find out I hadn't. But I decided in order to avoid that situation that I would start telling people I did serve a mission. Canada, South Montreal, French Speaking. Best year and a half of my life.

But then again...people often get sent to the last place they want to go. God has a sense of humor if you're wondering why that happens. If THAT's the case...I think I'll end up in a Spanish speaking mission...in the States. I have no desire to learn Spanish and going on a mission where I'd have to might be more than I could bare. Then again it might teach me to abnormally love Spanish, which wouldn't be too horrible I imagine. Then I could understand that one Killer's song in its entirety.