I think Murmur is becoming my new favorite R.E.M. album. Although I’m quite fond of Eponymous as well. And of course I’ll never forget my first love, Out of Time. Oh, and their new album, Around The Sun, is pretty outstanding. I guess I love them all (except for that Monster album. I like to believe that it doesn’t exist or that some posers released it and were only pretending to be R.E.M., maliciously intending to discredit their talent.)YES, I am an R.E.M. fanatic. It’s okay. I’m in a support group.
I love when you find what you weren’t looking for… March 30, 2005
Sweet. Last week I watched Judging Amy and I heard a song playing in one of the scenes that I just loved. I didn’t know what it was or who it was and I didn’t know how to find it. So I just accepted that I may never hear it again, but then…
I felt like listening to Beck today on Comcast Rhapsody and saw that he had a new album released today. Can you believe that the very first song was that same song I heard last week? And damn, I just want to play outside because the weather is so nice but I can settle for dancing to Beck in my office with the window open. Go ahead, picture it… ;^)
This is good poetry. March 29, 2005
OtR Selected Writings of Linford
“Some Things The Trappist Monk Said In His Talk”
We’re immortal
We’re hungry for the eternal love of God
We don’t take this life too seriously
There is more to come
I can’t substitute things for God
Fame, money, power, human love
She’s divine, angelic
The hell she is
We don’t understand suffering
And we shouldn’t probe too deeply
We link our suffering to Christ’s
We know it has something to do with salvation
That’s how Christ accomplished what he did
Through suffering
We know there is something deep there, mysterious
We shouldn’t speak of suffering as if we have it all figured out
We say we live for God with candor
For without us God doesn’t exist
We give witness to his existence
We were created in his image
We accept the fact that we’re not perfect
And the people we came from are not perfect
But they gave us the gift of life
There is no greater gift
And if they gave us the Faith
Well that’s something
Once God has his mark on us
He pursues us always
God envisioned one Church
We’re so divided and fractured
We go to foreign countries as missionaries
There are so many different voices clamoring
Go back to where you came from
Talk amongst yourselves
Come back
After you’ve gotten your story straight
I know I’m not perfect
But if you give me a little grace
Maybe I’ll do better
I have some idea of what life is about
Oh, sweet, glorious day!! March 29, 2005
My Over the Rhine CD came in the mail yesterday. The new one, Drunkard’s Prayer. It wasn’t released until today but I got to listen to it last night 
It is just delicious.
Entrancing.
Beautiful.
Captivating.
Just divine.
Wonderful. What a sweet surprise. I’m not entirely speechless but I am finding it hard to form complete sentences.
God loves me.
Cuz Tweetlebug did it March 24, 2005
1. YOUR MOVIE STAR NAME (grandparent’s first name + favorite snack):
Marion Frito
2. YOUR FASHION DESIGNER NAME: (first word you see on your left + favorite restaurant):
Font Tuba
3. YOUR SOCIALITE NAME: (silliest childhood nickname + first town where you partied):
Windy Athens
4. YOUR “FLY GIRL/GUY” NAME: (first initial + first three letters of your last name):
M-Ric
5. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite animal + name of high school):
Bunny Hartford
6. YOUR BARFLY NAME: (last snack food you ate + your favorite drink):
Tortilla Harp
7. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name + street where you first lived):
Rae Turwill
8. YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (favorite candy + favorite musicians last name):
Nerds Stipe (okay that one is really dumb)
9. YOUR OPPOSITE SEX NAME: (name of [opposite sex] significant other/friend + your cell phone company):
Mike Nextel (that was even dumber)
10. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: ( first 3 letters of your last name+ last 3 letters of mothers middle name then first 3 letters of your pets name + first 3 letters of the town you live in):
Ricynn Pellan
Springy spring spring March 22, 2005
I don’t know how anyone could expect me to get any work done today. It’s just so beautiful. And smell good-ish. Everything is waking up. I’m jamming to Swamp Ophelia and remembering the good ole days of driving to Holland and back in my daddy’s Taurus.
I went to FedEx today and forgot to seal the envelope and the guy asked if I wanted him to seal it for me. He said he would do it at no charge. On Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays they have to charge for that because of some protection law. Yeah. And I almost bought it. But I told him that I didn’t even know what day of the week it was, so he could have told me that my shoes changed color right then and there and I would have looked down to check. Something about the spring that steals the sense right out of me.
Get crazy with the Cheez Whiz…
Hubby’s got a new job March 21, 2005
Mike started his new job today. It’s very weird for him because he doesn’t leave jobs often. He was at Annie Rae for almost 4 years and it was hard to leave. But now he’s working with me! Of course he is in sales and will be out travelling most of the time so we won’t have a chance to get too tired of each other. This is a great opportunity for him and I am very excited. Yay.
They are confused March 18, 2005
The birds. They are sitting on the cable, saying to me through my window, “What’s with all the snow? We thought it was springtime in Michigan.”
And I say to them, “Silly birds, don’t you know that it’s never really springtime in Michigan? There is just that short week between winter and summer.”
And they say, “Screw Michigan… we’re going to California…” and they fly away.
Melinda Mae March 18, 2005
I knew it! My mom named me after a Shel Silverstein poem. Melinda Mae, Melinda Rae… see?
“Have you heard of tiny Melinda Mae,
Who ate a monstrous whale?
She thought she could,
She said she would,
So she started right in at the tail.
And everyone said, ‘You’re much too small,’
But that didn’t bother Melinda at all.
She took little bites and she chewed very slow,
Just like a good girl should…
…And in eighty-nine years she ate that whale
Because she said she would!”
