-Sigh- Another Sick Day...

Ick, another sick day. I totally thought this could be one of those one-day things... guess not. Well, I have an extended spring break! Not the way I would've planned it, but hey, if it keeps me out of school... kidding.

While I get some time at home, I spend alot of that time on the computer (ick... it's not healthy to have my eyes glued on a big glowing screen for this long). But the good thing is, I've gotten a chance to look at some stuff. One thing I got to check out was this book called "The Orphaned Anythings: A Memoir of a Lesser Known" by Stephen Christian (lead singer of Anberlin and Anchor & Braille) :D! He has such a unique style of writing, of course it's just how the character is, but how the character is potrayed is beyond me. You really get inside this guy's head, and maybe I'm over-exaggerating, but I'm so tired of reading 3rd person books in school. They're still good books, but I like seeing the character's point of view, almost being the character. Maybe that's just me?

Anyway, my dad said I can order it, so I'm excited for that.

Other than that, I've been messing around with instruments in my house. I learned and memorized the chords of "Only Hope" by Switchfoot on the piano and have been practicing it like crazy!! I'm also messing around a bit with my sister's ukelele... but don't tell HER that!!

What I really want to learn is the guitar. But for some reason, everyone seems to want to, lately. It's almost like they want to learn guitar just because everyone else is, because it's a trend. Like recycling! People wear "Go Green" or "Recycle" all over there clothes or whatever, but then they litter (I'm guilty of this myself). It's lame. And it's not why I want to learn guitar. Then again, drums would be pretty tight to learn, to... all that trapped energy let out by gripping two sticks in your hand but letting go of yourself inside. Of course there's WAY more to it than that, but I think that's a huge part of drumming.

Instruments period are a gift from God. These crazy sounds that somehow bring pleasure within our spirits also bring pleasure to God? Music is one thing we are worthy enough to share with Him. (Singing is an instrument, too!! :D)


On another note: I was feeling really down the other night because of some family stuff, and I set my alarm to wake me up to "Daisy" by Switchfoot. As I was setting the alarm up, I thought, "This would be a good song to just play right now, look outside my window at the stars, and just be in God's presence and think." Then, "Daisy" starts playing- I didn't press play or anything. Hmm... ;)

And then, the next day I was SICK!! And the day after that, too!! :D <--- Sarcastic smile, btw.


Anyway, here are the lyrics to "Daisy":

Daisy, give yourself away/Lookup at the rain/The beautiful display/Of power and surrender/Giving us today/And she gives herself away/Rain, another rainy day/Comes up from the ocean/Give herself away/She comes down easy/On rich and debt the same/And she gives herself away/Let it go/Daisy, Let it go/Open up your fist/This fallen world/Doesn't hold your interest/It doesn't hold your soul/Daisy, let it go/Pain, give yourself a name/Call yourself contrition/Avarice of blame/Giving isn't easy/Neither is the rain/When she gives herself away/Daisy, why another day?/Why another sunrise/Who will take the blame/For all redemptive motion/And every rainy day/When he gives himself away/Let it go/Daisy, let it go/Open up your fist/This fallen world/It doesn't hold your interest/It doesn't hold your soul/Daisy, let it go

Then Jon Foreman yells let it go a bunch of times. :)

They also wrote a song called "Amy's Song". These songs that are adressed to specific names make it all more interesting, in my opinion. Imean, I know it's directed at "Amy" or "Daisy" or even "Stephen" (hehe... "Hey Stephen" by Taylor Swift XD) but somehow I relate to it, too. It's like Phillipians, Paul was specifying to the Phillipians, but we can use it's morals still everyday.

I'm starting to write songs specifying names, and they're actually some of my best yet. The bad thing is, because they say specific names, I can't show them to anybody!!

Maybe that's God telling me not to show them to anybody-- something just between me and Him. You know?

--Chrissy Z