New Music

One of my greatest joys is discovering new songs and artists that feed my inner muse. It's almost a sickness. I start out on Pandora (if you haven't discovered pandora yet, you need to. Type in an artist you like and it will play artists that have a similar style and sound. LOVE it!) Once I find an artist I like there, I go to iTunes and listen to clips from an album. If the album passes inspection, I head over to Ruckus to download it so I can listen to the entire song. Then, if I REALLY like it, I go back to iTunes and download it to my ipod. See, its a sickness.

So in an effort to give myself something to write about other than work or the cat, I've decided to start posting about the new music I've discovered that week. Take a listen and let me know what you think! (aka Leave comments please!)

This week I'm being haunted by the song Samson by Regina Spektor. It's a beautifully haunting song--the type that you're afraid to stop listening to in case the melody falls out of your head. While I was looking online for the lyrics, I found an amusing chat about "what the words mean." Some people were certain it was about Sampson and Delilah, while others were certain it was Regina writing about her desire to find a man who would trust her enough to let her cut his hair. HA! I thinks its a beautifully redone version of the Sampson and Delilah story--not biblical, but still a VERY beautiful song. Hope you like it!

(I'm working on getting a music player on our blog. I'll get there someday. =0)

Wow...we're lame.

Our last blog post was in October. I really do have things going on, but so much of them revolve around work and the cat that I feel really lame always posting about them. Kind of like I'm a workaholic cat lady....which I'm not........yet. So to give you an update:

Work is going well for both of us. I'm getting my kids ready for their Christmas Concert in 2 weeks. We are overly prepared. You know its bad when after telling the class that you're working on Christmas music they say "Do we have to?" and you think "Yeah, do we have to?" But it should be one great concert, so if you're in the Twin Falls area on December 17th, come on down!

Sadly, Christmas rehearsal overload has affected my holiday spirit and there is NOTHING suggesting holiday cheer up in our apartment. No, not true. I did buy a let it snow window cling, that's up. And I did put up the nativity (complete with hippos) and our little miniature Christmas tree...which Maybe promptly took down 5 minutes later.

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving break. We spent the holiday in Boise and it was just a fun, relaxing vacation. Kurt brought the Wii with us, so the boys spent the whole time playing video games. I watched them play and savored the fact that there were no students around! I love my kids, but by Thanksgiving break I was tired of looking at them! Christmas will be spent in Idaho Falls with the 'rents, sister and bro-in-law. I'm very much looking forward to having my two favorite women under one roof again! Yippee!!

Kurt's birthday was on the 30th. Yep, he's the big 2-3 now. He made quite the birthday haul--power drill and bits, Wii Play, Lego Batman and Castlemania. Lots of big boy toys...=0)

So all in all, we've had a very fun and full couple of weeks. Now bring on the Christmas festivites!