I just got the best compliment--"You laugh a lot, I think it's a sign that you're right with God."
Sarah, you're the best. Thanks.
Well you may never be or have a husband you may never have or hold a child
You will learn to lose everything we are temporary arrangements
"No Pressure Over Cappucino"
Alanis Morisette
I have spent too much time today searching the web for Amy Grant's unreleased cd "Simple Things." So far I've been able to find a preview sample of the title track and also two advance copy cd's on ebay. At the moment they're selling for thirty-some dollars, and that's too much for me. So if any of you downloading gurus out there can find the new music for me, I would be really really grateful.
I guess the Amy obsession hit when I was 15 and "Unguarded" came out. I know, I know. It was the 80's and that leopard print jacket was something else. I saw that tour 3 times, but hey, it went on for about 3 years! In the late 80's I went to college and proceeded to plaster photographs and posters of Christian music's leading lady all over the wall. I'm sure my roommate didn't appreciate it--he mostly listened to Boston. My musical tastes expanded during my college years--I know that my fourth roommate was probably sick of Sinnead O'Connor belting out "Nothing Compares 2 U" on my brand new cd player by the end of my sophomore year. Especially since I never had anyone to compare "nothing" to.
I am not ashamed of my continuing liking for Amy. She continues to mature as a songwriter. Yeah, she could use a vocal coach, especially live on stage, but her voice and lyrics continue to touch my heart. Maybe that means I'm shallow, maybe that means my heart is easily touchable. Even though it's an older song, "Cry A River" was really appropriate for me last summer. The song is all about love showing up at the wrong time and what might have been and how you just go on despite the circumstances. Despite awkward social situations. Despite the fact that things aren't going to work out the way you might want them to, since you have and have made commitments to other people. "Some things you live with, and you never let it show, like the day I watched you leave." You just have to sit on the shores of love and watch it go.
Her honesty and commitment to walk through life as honestly and faithfully as she can touch me and teach me.
Might as well be Monday if it's Friday
but it's Friday without you
Every day is lonely but it's
only on the weekends I crash through
Saturdays and Sunday's aren't holidays
when they are coding blue
The 'Bama Bachelors Bed & Breakfast currently has no vacancy.
Ben is here looking for a job and serving as best man in Cameron's wedding, which is today. (Congratulations Cameron! Please tell me--why did you choose a Thursday?) Ben just called to see if they could move the Civic to get to the water hose so they can wash Cameron's Celica--but the spare keys are locked in the Civic. Good luck guys!
And Jim is here on his break from medical school. He's been in Miami and brought us oranges!
Well, I guess there is still a place to lay several more heads, as the foldout couch in the kitchen is not yet occupied. It's pretty comfortable. Call your friendly innkeeper for reservations. Coffee is served at 7:30 am and throughout the day, thanks to Greyfriar's. Dinner's at 6:30 pm. Maybe. The 'cool drinks' fridge is in the pantry. And oh yeah, you have to be male or be a female relative of the residents.
Yep, it is summer. Air conditioners are blasting us, making us cool people. Some of my flowers are struggling in the heat, but that's what I get for transplanting them to a sunnier location. However, the basil is doing great!
I'm looking for a part-time job waiting tables (got to put a new roof on the house ASAP), getting geared up for the annual family vacation in Charleston, SC, and reading.
Tomorrow's meeting with my boss is cancelled, so I'm spending some afternoon time reading the first four chapters of Calvin's Institutes for our household study group tonight. And I'm wondering, "Is it harder for us to be convinced of our sin because we are enculturated by Christianity? (Flannery O'Connor would say that the South is haunted by Christ.) Why does an empty image of righteousness so easily satisfy us?"
At the moment I've been put on hold by the kind folks at Macaroni Grill. Oh, right. They're not hiring at the moment, it'll probably be another week and a half. Yep. Uh huh. Lovely.