Just the right music...

...at just the right time! the Lord of the Rings soundtrack always comes through for me at just the proper moment when I need just the right music to listen to at just the right time. You may be thinking to yourself "what a nerd", to that I answer 'see the post two below this one titled "I'm a nerd."'

Howard Shore is such an amazing composer...(he composed the LOTR soundtrack if you didn't know, hence why I'm referencing him). His work on the LOTR soundtrack is just incredible because it really takes you back to a medieval time period feel. If I had a time machine, the first place I would travel would be to the medieval period. I am enamored with castles, kings, queens, knights, the whole thing!

Back to my music now....ahhhhhhhhh

Pet Peeves

Yep! I've found it! My biggest pet peeve. When people are yawning and they are determined to try, I repeat, TRY, to keep talking while yawning! The babble just comes out as high pitched, muffled, annoyance! All it takes is 3-6 seconds to finish the brain-refreshing, oxygen infused yawn...why ruin it with unrecognizable words?! UH!

...ok, I'm better now...

I'm a nerd.

Yes my friends, it is winter once again, quite possibly my favorite time of year. Odd, you may think, however there is something special to me about the weather outside being chilly, and sometimes down right bitterly cold. But after the kids have been put to bed, the dishes are washed, dried, and put away, toys that have infiltrated the family room are stowed away in their proper places, it is at that time I like to curl up beneath a cozy blanket to the hum of the dryer gently tumbling laundry and the aroma of candles elating my olfactory senses and read a book or sketch in my sketch book.

I believe it was around last year at this time that I posted on my blog about reading J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit". And it was about this time last year that I ceased reading "The Hobbit". For it was about this time my wife and I decided that it was probably in our family's best interest to move back to Florida. Little did we know that over the next 11 months from that point, we would go through the most difficult time our marriage has ever faced. We came out battered and bruised and we're still trying to claw our way out of a pit. But with our faith in God, we know He is in control. I could easily get off on a tangent here, so I will save that for another post.

So, as I was saying, "The Hobbit", I plan to pick this book back up and start reading it again as soon as I can catch up on my freelance work. Once I finish "The Hobbit", my plan is to move on to "The Silmarillion". That is yet another work of J.R.R. Tolkien's talking more deeply about the world of "The Hobbit" and "Lord of the Rings".

Yes, I'm a big nerd and I know it...but proud of it!

What's the rush?!

As I sat in a meeting at work today, I was gazing out the window, as I often do, and the office window faces out to the convergence of two major highways in Nashville. I am completely amazed to see a constant stream of cars traveling to and fro, never a break in traffic. Is there ever a moment when there wouldn't be a car traveling eastbound or westbound, it seems as though not. Where is everyone going? What is the rush? Why all the driving? Deadlines, meetings, not enough time, tick tock, tick tock, rush here, rush there, hurry hurry hurry! Our society has become so accustomed to a fast paced life, it's rare you see anyone stop and smell the roses anymore. What happened to horse drawn carriages; strolling through the park holding hands with the one you love; laying on a blanket gazing up at the stars with an innocent sense of wonderment...I miss those days...