Please Don't Stop The Music...

So, I've already failed at writing constantly for a week, yesterday was just one of those days where nothing got done much, work was surprisingly busy, when I got home, it was errands and a later than usual supper followed by a much needed nap.

Next thing I know, it's 9:30p.m. and Kari and I decided to go for a walk, so at least I did get something accomplished :-)

It's funny, not ha ha funny per se but, I'm trying to not doing this like a "Dear Diary" type thing but at the same time, it's hard to be spontaneous and witty and also not planned so, I'm hoping that insight inspires these fingers pretty soon.

I'll talk about music a lot which is a passion of mine, too bad I can't play instruments better, I'm emabarrased that my absolutely beautiful Fender is still in it's case for over a year, I'm hoping once I get some free time to pick it up again, I have several dozen songs that I'm working my way through, and some day I'll finish learning Travis's "Side," it's actually the song I saw where I thought I could learn to play that and when my parents asked what kind of guitar I wanted, I said Fender since that's what they play.

Kari and I went out to Mike's the other night for supper and it was an epic failure in comparison to what it was like when we went back in April/May during the home show. Anywys, we were sitting there and Plain White T's "Hey There Delilah" came on the radio which is admittedly one of my favorite songs ever! It came out the weekend around when Kari, Jolene (The J and the K) and I went to NYC for a scouting trip.

(Total sidebar but one of my favorite stories, Kari and I were in Cape Breton 2 weeks beforehand and she said she has to go to NYC in 2 weeks, did I want to go w/ her? I was in shock in the sense that we were just on a week long trip but had it been anyone else, I would've been caught off guard, this seemed like a perfectly normal conversation so I said sure. I remember calling my parents the next week and saying oh, by the way, I'm going to NYC in 2 weeks, my Mom laughed, and I said, no really...I think they're still jealous of the amount of time on the road I've been logging.)

Alright, back to the story, so we're driving back from New York (my 1st time there) and we're listening to Ryan Seacrest's AT4o and they're playing that song and Rihanna's Umbrella and they're still to this day songs I listen to when I want to think about what it's like to be in New York, I remember where we were on the highway and everything when they came on the radio.

Dick Clark once talked about music being the soundtrack of our lives, for every big moment, there's a song that you hear that takes you back to that time and place and you'll never forget where you were when you heard it for that 1st time.

I think about the playlist that's becoming my life I still think about that 1st slow dance from Jr. High (Gotta love the rock ballads, eh? If GNR's November Rain started playing, you made sure it was someone you liked b/c it was a long one) ~or~ maybe the music you were listening to when you lost your virginity, (candles, check, music, check, clean sheets, check :-P )

That song you listened to when you broke up w/ someone or that makes everyone get up and dance at the bars/party, or the many many mixed tapes and cds for various road trips, I think Kari makes some of the best mixed cd's out there!

So many songs, and so many memories, I wonder which ones people remember the most, I think I'm torn b/w Joe Cocker's "You are so beautiful" b/c it was the 1st song Kari and I ever danced to in my basment apartment in Fredericton ~or~ Josh Grobban's "When You Say You Love Me," b/c that was our wedding song.

Either way, I love that the list keeps growing...

Today's pic, one of my favorite from our wedding, we were praying (obviously) Kari and I were talking the other night how nothing is more moving or more powerful than a group of people praying together.