The 13 yr old came home from New Song 3 weeks ago playing this song NON-STOP. He also made it the ringtone on his phone. If you knew my 13 yr old, this is HUGE. He plays it at least once a day and has gotten several of his friends hooked on it as well.
It didn’t hurt that Mandisa was one of his favorites from IDOL 2 years ago!
Check it out!
And you can listen to more great music over at Amy’s Signs, Miracles and Wonders.
Today is my mom’s birthday-and we are all out of town, celebrating her day-my popaw’s day (except he died earlier this year). I think we are all really getting out of town to not think about him not being around…but, honestly it isn’t going to help.
Oh yeah…My mom’s birthday.
In honor of her big day…I thought I would post some stuff that has happened on her birhday!
(I hope she doesn’t mind I am giving away her age here)
Check out all the cool things that happened on any day of the year @ BrainyHistory.
Here is to cake and ice cream with my mom!
“See” you all in 3 days!
One of my favorite movies back then…and honestly, I think I would still die laughing.
If you liked FBDO back in the day or are even a recent fan…enjoy this video!
I sound like a mad scientist!
{insert mad laughter here}
I just announced THIS blog on my old blog and hopefully I can cut down on the places I am checking and updating and all of that gravy.
I still have the soccer blog-I don’t think the stuff I post over there would transition well, but anything is possible…a soccer saturday maybe {heh}.
Soon I will be adding in my craftiness. I am really looking forward to being able to redirect some of my creative energy on personal ventures instead of it being all sucked up by work projects.
Hey, they are super fun and I love them-but I also love my papercrafts and clay!
So, if you are visiting from molymer clay…please give me a shout!
(that means comment please)
Hopefully this won’t be a repeating series, but I know myself…so, I am thinking of numbering them!
The original is listed here.
I just got an email from a guy that works for the company that hosts and designs my companies website. He just wanted to let me know that LinkedIn has sent another round of invites to all my (former) friends and business associates. He mentioned I may be getting one or two more emails from all my thrilled (former) friends and business associates.
Really. How freakin’ obnoxious can you be LinkedIn?
At the Sunday Scriblings blog, the question(s) or prompt this week are the following:
How did you meet your significant other, your best friend, your dog, your nemesis? On the flip side of that, are there any people in your life you have lost touch with who you wonder about?
This is actually a very timely post because my significant other and I started communicating via email about this time 3 years ago! But the question was how did we meet! Ah….grab a chair, this could take a bit.
Seriously though-Sunny and I met online.
:::listens to the collective gasps::::
Playing a Video Game
:::more gasps::::
We were both members of a group of people who got together online and played Guild Wars. After a few weeks people started dropping off to do other things, but Sunny and I were really into it. (I still play occassionally) Then one night he asked me out-in game! I said sure because I knew he lived like 15 hours away and it would be a LONG time before I would have to deal with that. I was pretty content being a divorced mama.
Little did I know that soon after that-soon after we started emailing and comparing life plans, philosophies and goals-he asked me to come to Iowa to attend a wedding of a friend of his. WOW. MMMM-ok, that is a bit serious!
We actually ended up having a great weekend-then 2 years later (that same month) we got married in the same state (Iowa).
The picture at the right is Sunny at our wedding rehearsal. Isn’t he a cutie!
You can never go wrong with Bono and U2. This band defined a generation-mine.
In listening to this song, I realized that evey way back in 1991 Bono was laying the ground work for the One campaign and later Red.
For a very long time the issue of Aids and global poverty have been heavy on my heart and these are just two campaigns that I am happy and proud to support. Ok. didn’t mean to get on an ethical soap box…so…just enjoy the video!
-go visit and say hey@ Sign, Miracles and Wonders
I just dug this up on youtube. How many of these artists can you still name? How many are still livin’?
Wow. I used to love Steve Perry from Journey and I am more than a little amazed that there is still a fan club out there for the man.
Yeah the song rocks too!
Just think, this was when you could still (vaguely) tell the difference between Michael and LaToya.
Yup. I date myself.
Tears cannot restore her —
therefore I weep.
In a New Hampshire cemetery.
I have mixed feelings about an obituary that ran in a California paper this past week. If you haven’t seen Dolores Aguilar’s Obit… go read it. I will wait. Heck, read the comments, very interesting in their own right. An’ it’s true! (I snope’d it ya’ll)
I am a bit torn-
Girl on the left (my free spirit-emotional side) is cheerin’ the family on for having the ovaries (and nad’s-depending on yer gender) to actually publish such an announcement. She is hopin’ that such a declaration will give this family some peace-that is sounds like, they so desperately need.
Girl on the right (my b*tch in a business suit-the non emotional “facts only” side) thinks that this is a disgrace. Apparently their mama didn’t raise them right if they are goin’ around talkin’ about this stuff in public-in the local paper no less. “well, that is California-and obviously NOT the south!”
Then there is me-the author of this blog, The girl in the middle. She feels sad for Dolores and all her kids. Not knowing the whole story really doesn’t matter. No body’s mama is perfect (just ask my 13 yr old)-we have all done something to put our kids in therapy for years. We have all had something done to us. I know someone who still is bitter because his mama sold his Star Wars collection rather than pay to move it back over seas-25 years ago when they were still “new”. (Ok granted, those puppies are now worth the price to move them over seas every week for the next 30 years…but that is beside the point). And then other people who’s parents abandoned them-moved away-left them to be raised by (possibly) Dolores sister (on the evil scale)-yet they turned out fine-and can even tell amazing stories about the experience.
I can’t really say life is what you make it, because so many things are beyond our control…but maybe life IS what your attitude makes of it? That mooshes in a ton of different factors-like your faith or lack of it.
I know that no matter the real story behind Dolores and her kids that the survivors need ALL of our prayers and compassion that they can work to make the rest of their days brighter.
What do you think?
