If there is one thing that I love about Sundays, it is the music that comes along with that special day of the week. There is something about my "Sunday Music" that has the power to recharge me for the rest of the week ahead.
I am a firm believer in the power of music. I love the way that the lyrics of a song can connect to you in a way that not much else can.
I found this song at the end of an extremely...crummy day.
And well, let's just say that cry I did. However, I am glad that I found it. I needed that release. I needed to be able to cry about how awful of a day I had just experienced and how difficult things had suddenly become. I needed a moment to turn to my Father in Heaven in prayer and really open up to Him, asking why things had to be so difficult now.
And honestly, without this song I would have just stayed mad.
Do you ever have those movies that change the way you think about love? Now, I understand the the love you see in movies is not real life love. However, until I fall in love myself, I will keep believing in movie love and the power of happiness that it brings.
You've Got Mail has got to be one of my all time favorite love movies. Mostly because I feel like this is how all of us experience love in one way or another. We go through life not expecting to be swept off our feet. Then, like Kathleen experiences, a new friend that we meet changes the way that we see something. Joe helps her to be more confident in herself as a business owner. He helps her to see that she is so much more than the owner of a children's bookstore and that she doesn't have to take the attack on her store by Fox Books lying down. All without ever meeting.
Once Kathleen and Joe do meet, the love that develops is one that I feel is very realistic. They are friends first. I feel very strongly that if you are not friends first, then your love is going to be harder to maintain. You have to develop that love later, and it will be harder.
The ending of this movie makes me cry...every time. I am such a sap. Truly I am.
"I wanted it to be you. I wanted it to be you so badly."
AAAH!! it gives me butterflies and makes me smile just typing it.
So, so, so beautifully good. Has it seriously distorted my views and expectations on love? Most likely. Do I mind? Not so much.
I may be slightly addicted to SYTYCD. For those of you who are not fans of hashtags and acronyms and the last eight years, this is So You Think You Can Dance.
However, I am pretty selective in my SYTYCD viewing habits. I never watch auditions. I hate how many commercials there are and how you have to watch the awkward dancers as well as the good ones. If there is a good audition, they will show it again, so I am not worried. I also would much rather watch it once I have recorded it on my parents' DVR or on hulu as opposed to on tv...again, too many commercials (do you think we can start a letter writing campaign to fox about the horrid ratio on their station of commercial to tv viewing time?)
But I digress. What I was really here to tell you is that I have a secret love affair with SYTYCD. In fact, sometimes I watch that instead of doing my homework...and yes, tonight was one of those nights. sssssh, don't tell my teachers...
This is one of my favorite dances from season 8. I always LOVED watching Melanie dance, and this dance of hers happened I THINK on the top twenty episode, though if i am wrong, then you can let me know.
I was blown away. Literally blown away when I saw it the first time. It still touches me every time I watch it.
There is something so magical about dance. About letting your soul speak to the audience through your movement. This is hard to do when you are at a live performance, and I feel like it is even harder to catch if you are watching it on TV. So for me, when I watch this piece, I am blown away not only by the fact that it moves me deeply, but by the fact that it DOES move me deeply.
I firmly believe that we, as human beings, are here to be touched. To see the hand of God in all aspects of our life. And when I can feel my Heavenly Father reaching out to me through something I see on TV that isn't made by the church, it is another evidence that we are all brothers and sisters and that we all have the light of Christ within us.
And so, I bring you "Turn to Stone" danced by Melanie and Marko. Be touched.
Have you ever had one of those days that just...suck? Where you just hate the world and everyone in it, yourself included?
I like to think that those days don't come along very often. That generally we are a happy-go-lucky kind of people. That I am a happy-go-lucky kind of person.
However, I know for a fact that those bad days do happen. That I get down on myself and that I don't like the way that I look or that I feel or whatever. That I hate how I reacted to someone at work or that I forgot to do my reading for class.
That's when I turn to music. I feel like there are very few things that can instantly turn my day around, but there are certain songs that can. This song is quickly becoming one of those day-changing songs.
It started when I had to drive to my brother's fiance's bridal shower last Saturday. The weather was terrible, I was freaking out about sliding off the road, and then this song came on. I had never heard it before, and honestly, I fell in love!
Then, I heard it again earlier this week when I was getting ready for the day as I was listening to the radio. It was a great way to perk up my day and help me get excited about everything that I had to do.
Now, I listen to it over and over. It seriously makes me feel so GOOD about myself! I love it!!
I really hope that this Britt Nicole girl knows how awesome she is for making this song.
I know, guys, I know. It has been far too long since we have been on an adventure together.
But now we are embarking on a new one together. I am taking a Media Family something something class for my major here at the good old BYU (yeah, yeah, I'm still here, laugh it up as much as you want).
As part of that class, we are supposed to blog twice a week about something in the media that has influenced us in some way.
Soooo, that is what I will be doing here. I may also be blessing you with short anectdotes about my life. If you want my real life story, go here instead. That's where all the deep thinking happens.
Today, I want you to ponder...The Gilmore Girls. I will probably talk quite a lot about this show over the course of this adventure because of the monumental impact that it had on my life growing up.
This is one of my favorite moments from the show, hands down.
I have always loved the dynamic between Jess and Luke. And this, to me, is THE BEST moment between them. They struggle to communicate, they struggle to get along, and so, in desperation, Luke simply shoves Jess in a lake.
