What are your top favorite songs you listen to?
I've been noticing things on facebook. You can see when people are starting a new relationship, and they start posting all of these music videos or songs or whatever about how happy they are. The same goes for people breaking up. I bet "Need You Now" by Lady Antebellum is the top song posted. I've seen it so many times! Some people post it on their profile with the whole thought, that they hope so and so actually sees it, or there's the sending it in a personal message. I've actually been the recipient of those, and each time have been touched by it. I'm more the post and hope someone sees sort of thing. Then, a lot of the time, I just love a song and post it, and then after a few hours, it hits me that someone might read into it, and I worry about that.
Well, I've been playing around on Spotify. I have some favorites that have been long-time favorites, then there are new ones. I love the power of music! It can calm you, it can trigger deep memories that are fun or sad or dear to you. It's funny how some songs I relate to someone, and they would have no idea that that song relates to them, but all these memories flood into my mind about them. I love how some people leave an imprint on your life, it may have been just a short time of you knowing them, but they've impacted you.
I love how music can re-energize you! I remember driving to work in Park City, which I absolutely hated that job, turning up Kelly Clarkson's second CD, and playing it really loud, REALLY! It totally made things better. Dealing with my crazy boss at SFD, Miranda Lambert's Kerosene, was my ringtone for her. Music is funny!
So, my top five songs right now are (in no particular order :)):
1. Gentle Savior- Daniel Beck
2. Over It- Katharine McPhee
3. Sure Be Cool if You Did- Blake Shelton
4. Phonebooth (edited version)- Maroon 5
5. Wanted You More- Lady Antebellum and One of Those Nights- Tim McGraw
Smile and enjoy your music!
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Last Sunday was the 4th Annual MidSingles Christmas Music Devotional: "God Loved Us So He Sent His Son." It was amazing! I'm so grateful for all those that participated and helped and put it together. One of my friend's, that was pretty much in charge, mom said that this was the best one she'd been to, and she'd been to them all. This was my second one to participate in. The choir was amazing, really. I was nervous the whole time for how it would come off, but they were great!
It had been a huge weight on my shoulders, and on Saturday, I finally felt that weight lift, knowing that I'd done all I possibly could, and that had to be enough. The Saturday before, I let weaknesses of mine show that some had never seen, and didn't know what to do about me. Thinking about breaking down and crying in front of so many is somewhat embarrassing, but at the same time hilarious! Nothing was working, and people weren't there, and by the end of the rehearsal I was a disaster. Thank heavens for my friend, Tiffany, stepping in and taking care of organizing people to help decorate. Poor Gary and Vaughn looked at me like they'd never seen anything like that, and didn't know what to do. I had asked for people to bring trees and lights and garlands, if they had any available, and some guy came up to me afterwards and told me that that was not going to work, and asked me if I'd ever done anything like that and actually had it work. I knew people would come through, and I had done it before, and it worked! The guy apologized a few days later.
The program was amazing! There were many talented soloists, duets, ensembles, both vocalists and instrumentalists. I was thrilled to be able to accompany one of the choir songs, and not have to accompany more than that. I loved getting to sing! I was able to sing in one of the ensembles, and it was accompanied by a strings ensemble and piano. It was so cool!
I'd been spending so much time, getting the decorations made for these trees, and other things for that, plus a house I'm working on, it took a while for me to get Christmas up in our house. It's up and I love it, other than the guy cut the bottom of the tree really crooked, so we have the leaning tree of Layton in our house. When I say leaning, I'm not even kidding. I turned it so it's leaning more towards the wall now, but it's WAY slanted! Having the Christmas spirit has been a little more difficult this year than past years with the stress of activities and performances that have been happening, Mom's been way sick for almost 2 months, but last night she seemed much better, and my mood has put a damper on things. I'm trying to be better, though.
So, you know when you're in an uncomfortable situation, there are those automatic reactions to fight or fly. Well, flying is my way to cope. I have to escape. A couple months ago, I had gone to a fireside/devotional, and saw someone that I care a lot about with someone, and my reaction was, "oh my heck.... I have to get out of here." I sat there and kept telling myself I'm a grown up, I can handle things and be mature about the whole situation. Well, that talk lasted about a verse and a half of the opening song, I'm not even kidding, I was out of there! Well, it's been a couple months, and you'd think I would be fine by now. So, I was up singing in the ensemble at the devotional when this other someone walked in and went and sat next to the original someone. It took all I had to stay where I was. Holy cow! What's the deal?! The rest of the devotional went on, and I kept focused on the performers (apparently so focused that it looked like I was checking one of them out, but really I was watching the piano keys not anything else :)), and didn't escape. I was so proud of myself. Isn't that ridiculous!? Thank heavens for family that was there to distract me afterwards, and responsibilities that got me back to being able to be me. We had the fastest clean up of the Bountiful Regional Center, ever! I was thrilled so I didn't have to do it by myself yesterday.
Last night we had our annual Church side Christmas FHE. It used to be that we'd get together and eat dinner and sing carols. Now that Grandma isn't with us anymore, and Darlene lives in Mesquite during the winter, it has changed. It was fun, though!
Last week two of Collin's kids had little programs for their tumbling and dancing. Ev is an amazing little tumbler! Ady is amazing on the bar at tumbling, and then quite the little dancer. She had a mirror off stage, but right by her, that she was totally hamming it up, loving watching herself. So funny!
I'm soon to be released from serving in the stake young women, which is heart breaking to me! I've loved young womens. Two weeks ago, I left an Evening of Excellence, and walked out saying, "This is why I love young womens!" Wednesday night, Mom got a call asking if she'd be okay with me being released to serve in my ward. She said no, because of all of my other responsibilities, but here I am the new primary secretary. Hopefully, I'll be able to feel comfortable in this position being able to serve with kids soon.
It had been a huge weight on my shoulders, and on Saturday, I finally felt that weight lift, knowing that I'd done all I possibly could, and that had to be enough. The Saturday before, I let weaknesses of mine show that some had never seen, and didn't know what to do about me. Thinking about breaking down and crying in front of so many is somewhat embarrassing, but at the same time hilarious! Nothing was working, and people weren't there, and by the end of the rehearsal I was a disaster. Thank heavens for my friend, Tiffany, stepping in and taking care of organizing people to help decorate. Poor Gary and Vaughn looked at me like they'd never seen anything like that, and didn't know what to do. I had asked for people to bring trees and lights and garlands, if they had any available, and some guy came up to me afterwards and told me that that was not going to work, and asked me if I'd ever done anything like that and actually had it work. I knew people would come through, and I had done it before, and it worked! The guy apologized a few days later.
 |
| Here are the decorations! Now imagine the stage filled with people. It turned out really well, and people were amazing to be there and we got it done so quickly! (My camera has a short in it, so none of the other pics turned out well)
|
I'd been spending so much time, getting the decorations made for these trees, and other things for that, plus a house I'm working on, it took a while for me to get Christmas up in our house. It's up and I love it, other than the guy cut the bottom of the tree really crooked, so we have the leaning tree of Layton in our house. When I say leaning, I'm not even kidding. I turned it so it's leaning more towards the wall now, but it's WAY slanted! Having the Christmas spirit has been a little more difficult this year than past years with the stress of activities and performances that have been happening, Mom's been way sick for almost 2 months, but last night she seemed much better, and my mood has put a damper on things. I'm trying to be better, though.
So, you know when you're in an uncomfortable situation, there are those automatic reactions to fight or fly. Well, flying is my way to cope. I have to escape. A couple months ago, I had gone to a fireside/devotional, and saw someone that I care a lot about with someone, and my reaction was, "oh my heck.... I have to get out of here." I sat there and kept telling myself I'm a grown up, I can handle things and be mature about the whole situation. Well, that talk lasted about a verse and a half of the opening song, I'm not even kidding, I was out of there! Well, it's been a couple months, and you'd think I would be fine by now. So, I was up singing in the ensemble at the devotional when this other someone walked in and went and sat next to the original someone. It took all I had to stay where I was. Holy cow! What's the deal?! The rest of the devotional went on, and I kept focused on the performers (apparently so focused that it looked like I was checking one of them out, but really I was watching the piano keys not anything else :)), and didn't escape. I was so proud of myself. Isn't that ridiculous!? Thank heavens for family that was there to distract me afterwards, and responsibilities that got me back to being able to be me. We had the fastest clean up of the Bountiful Regional Center, ever! I was thrilled so I didn't have to do it by myself yesterday.
Last night we had our annual Church side Christmas FHE. It used to be that we'd get together and eat dinner and sing carols. Now that Grandma isn't with us anymore, and Darlene lives in Mesquite during the winter, it has changed. It was fun, though!
Last week two of Collin's kids had little programs for their tumbling and dancing. Ev is an amazing little tumbler! Ady is amazing on the bar at tumbling, and then quite the little dancer. She had a mirror off stage, but right by her, that she was totally hamming it up, loving watching herself. So funny!
I'm soon to be released from serving in the stake young women, which is heart breaking to me! I've loved young womens. Two weeks ago, I left an Evening of Excellence, and walked out saying, "This is why I love young womens!" Wednesday night, Mom got a call asking if she'd be okay with me being released to serve in my ward. She said no, because of all of my other responsibilities, but here I am the new primary secretary. Hopefully, I'll be able to feel comfortable in this position being able to serve with kids soon.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Comings and goings...
It's been a long time, again! Life is so insanely crazy at times, and then on the off chance I have an evening without anything to do, I sit here going "What's up with me? I should be doing something!"
The holidays have come and gone, they went by quickly.
The mid-singles combined choir did an amazing Christmas fireside! I am so grateful to be a part of it! A friend of mine ran it, and he did an amazing job! I had no idea how big it was going to be, having it be the first one I've been a part of; but it was huge. There are so many amazingly talented people out there. The Spirit was so strong through all of the songs and the talks, it just worked out perfectly. I got to decorate the stage, and that was really fun! People were amazing at loaning me their trees, garlands and white lights. I even got a tree out of someone's (Vickie :)) front room. It was a great experience!
I've been working out really hard since September 1st. It's been a huge challenge! The first week I thought I was going to die, LITERALLY!It was the worst experience, EVER! My thoughts at the end of that week, were that if I felt anything like that on Monday, I'd be done; however, the second week got better, and I've stuck to it! I have 10 1/2 weeks left that's paid for with my trainer, and hopefully, at the end of that, I'll be able to do it on my own and maintain. The hardest part was changing from how I ate, which wasn't very much, but the wrong kinds of foods, to eating wheat and vegetables. I've always hated vegetables, other than zucchini. I'm still not a big fan, but I now eat more than zucchini- broccoli and mushrooms have become favorites!
At a fireside in October, I was sitting there, by myself, listening to the program, and had this impression that I was going to be "called" to lead this mid-singles group. I, immediately, was like, NO WAY! I so didn't want to. I feel unqualified to do it. However, it wasn't very many weeks until I was asked to lead them. I officially began leading it two weeks ago, and still feel inadequate. I'm amazed at how the way my mind has changed from being a participant, to having people's names pop into my head, and need to know how they're doing or what I can do to help them. I'm pretty reserved, so it's getting me out of my comfort zone. Sometimes, I let myself fall back into that area. Like last night, I was totally fine, and then all of a sudden I had this overwhelming feeling of not fitting into this. "Not fitting in," as in the sense of how an 8th grade girl feels, isn't what I mean. I'd rather stick out in the crowd than be like everyone else. It was just a weird experience, but that feeling doesn't happen as much as it used to, so hopefully, it won't happen anymore.
Young Women's is keeping me busy, with ward conferences, New Beginnings and an upcoming Especially by Youth (instead of EFY). We have some amazing kids that are going to teach workshops, hence the "by."
I just HAVE to say life is good and great things are happening!
The holidays have come and gone, they went by quickly.
The mid-singles combined choir did an amazing Christmas fireside! I am so grateful to be a part of it! A friend of mine ran it, and he did an amazing job! I had no idea how big it was going to be, having it be the first one I've been a part of; but it was huge. There are so many amazingly talented people out there. The Spirit was so strong through all of the songs and the talks, it just worked out perfectly. I got to decorate the stage, and that was really fun! People were amazing at loaning me their trees, garlands and white lights. I even got a tree out of someone's (Vickie :)) front room. It was a great experience!
I've been working out really hard since September 1st. It's been a huge challenge! The first week I thought I was going to die, LITERALLY!It was the worst experience, EVER! My thoughts at the end of that week, were that if I felt anything like that on Monday, I'd be done; however, the second week got better, and I've stuck to it! I have 10 1/2 weeks left that's paid for with my trainer, and hopefully, at the end of that, I'll be able to do it on my own and maintain. The hardest part was changing from how I ate, which wasn't very much, but the wrong kinds of foods, to eating wheat and vegetables. I've always hated vegetables, other than zucchini. I'm still not a big fan, but I now eat more than zucchini- broccoli and mushrooms have become favorites!
At a fireside in October, I was sitting there, by myself, listening to the program, and had this impression that I was going to be "called" to lead this mid-singles group. I, immediately, was like, NO WAY! I so didn't want to. I feel unqualified to do it. However, it wasn't very many weeks until I was asked to lead them. I officially began leading it two weeks ago, and still feel inadequate. I'm amazed at how the way my mind has changed from being a participant, to having people's names pop into my head, and need to know how they're doing or what I can do to help them. I'm pretty reserved, so it's getting me out of my comfort zone. Sometimes, I let myself fall back into that area. Like last night, I was totally fine, and then all of a sudden I had this overwhelming feeling of not fitting into this. "Not fitting in," as in the sense of how an 8th grade girl feels, isn't what I mean. I'd rather stick out in the crowd than be like everyone else. It was just a weird experience, but that feeling doesn't happen as much as it used to, so hopefully, it won't happen anymore.
Young Women's is keeping me busy, with ward conferences, New Beginnings and an upcoming Especially by Youth (instead of EFY). We have some amazing kids that are going to teach workshops, hence the "by."
I just HAVE to say life is good and great things are happening!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)