a way to make you smile

[chestnutcurls]

Here's a quick post before I retreat back into my cell- er, file room- for another day of moving file folders from drawer to drawer. Friday was an exhausting day. That night I went to a Riverkings game with Evan, and while there, my budding sinus problems came into full bloom. I was congested and moderately miserable all weekend, but still got things done. On Saturday I went to Kathryn (Ashley's fiancee)'s bridal shower at the church. Their wedding is in less than two weeks! That was pretty much my main social activity of the weekend. I spent most of the time resting and seeing my sister and Bun. Evan had to work all weekend again; his schedule has basically become one weekend on, one weekend off. He is not at all cool with working on Sundays, though, so he's going to talk to his manager. I am sad and irritated that they work him so hard and give him bad schedules, but it's not like he has other options. We just have to get used to hardly seeing each other, I guess. Soon he will start two extensive truck projects, and the little time we do have together will be gone. Life is sometimes annoying.

I finally finished The Ragamuffin Gospel and am now back to working on Desiring God. (I have started on most of my Christian books, but gave up on them fairly quickly.) There's a definite contrast in tone between the two books. TRG is very refreshing; I recommend it to everyone.

I love this Concert Festival Tycoon thing that Helen made up. I had to think for a while about mine.
You get 3 days: 5 bands on Friday, 10 bands on the other two days.

Friday: The fun, high energy bands.
Ingram Hill
Tonic
Tenacious D
Barenaked Ladies
Weezer

Saturday: Manic-Depressive Day... very happy and very tortured bands.
Lisa Loeb
Michelle Branch (I'm still mad at you, Michelle)
No Doubt
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Linkin Park
Evanescence
The Cranberries
Sarah McLachlan
R.E.M.
U2

Sunday: Good messages and earthy music.
Clay Aiken
Jars of Clay
Sarah Harmer
The Sundays
Nickel Creek
John Mayer
Derek Webb
Counting Crows
Train
Dave Matthews Band

On another musical note (ha, ha): One of Evan's truck friends went to high school with Josey Scott and still hangs out with him occasionally. When you call him, you hear, "Hi, this is Josey Scott of Saliva and you've reached Bobby's cell phone." How cool is that? :)

Comments

[anulyra.livejournal.com]

One of Evan's truck friends went to high school with Josey Scott and still hangs out with him occasionally. When you call him, you hear, "Hi, this is Josey Scott of Saliva and you've reached Bobby's cell phone."

Are you sure he's not pulling your leg? Jason's brother's cell phone has Sammy Hagar on it. He downloaded it from somewhere.

[chestnutcurls.livejournal.com]

That's funny! No, his message is real. :)

They should have a website with all sorts of downloadable phone messages from various artists.

[anulyra.livejournal.com]

I think there IS one. ;)

Hey, maybe this time of not seeing each other very much will move things to the next level. Hang in there girlie!

[krikketgirl.livejournal.com]

Sorry about Evan's schedule. I know it's hard to have no time together (I can completely remember how lonely I was a thousand miles away from my love). Hang in there!

I love the band idea. I am so going to steal it as soon as I can figure out my bands. My main problem is that most of my favorite groups are, well, from seventy years ago. : )

[banzai.livejournal.com]

I've read both of those books—love Manning and The Ragamuffin Gospel. Piper's writing style in Desiring God took some work for me to get into; it was a bit pop-Christian-suburban for my taste. That taste was what I had to work through and die to, however, because there were many nuggets of solid, valuable content when I plowed ahead. My pride would have kept me from getting to them.

[jazzypoet.livejournal.com]

Great bands! :-)

And The Ragamuffin Gospel is a super cool book. I'd like to read it again. :-)

Have you ever read The Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer? One of my favourites!

Take care :-)....*hugs*

[purple-reign.livejournal.com]

Michelle Branch (I'm still mad at you, Michelle)



Why the Michelle anger?

[chestnutcurls.livejournal.com]

She did a photo spread for Maxim in nothing but her underwear. Great move for someone who had previously had a nice, clean image. No women in music stick to their morals anymore. Mandy Moore is pretty much the only female pop artist I respect these days. :P