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Lalah’s Blog: Road Trip…No Regrets

May ‘04
Don’t Tell Me by Avril Lavigne
Don’t Leave Me by Blink-182
Every Little Thing by Hawk Nelson
Accidentally In Love by Counting Crows
Barrel of a Gun by Guster

June ‘04
Who Knows by Avril Lavigne
Shiver by Coldplay
Letter Read by Rachael Yamagata
In This Diary by The Ataris

July ‘04
Walkie Talkie Man by Steriogram
California by Hawk Nelson [Free Download]
Girl on LSD by Tom Petty
Low Income (Its Friday!) by Wyclef Jean
Barbie Girl [German] by Rammstein
Spider-Man Theme by Michael Bublé

September ‘04
Punk Rock 101 by Bowling for Soup
Always On My Mind by Phantom Planet
Take Me by Hawk Nelson
Vertigo by U2
Who I Am Hates Who I’ve Been by Relient K
German Test Drive by Spymob
Pittsburgh by Huntingtons
What’s My Age Again by Blink-182
One Year, Six Months by Yellowcard
1985 by Bowling for Soup
Ode to a Butterfly by Nickel Creek

October ‘04
Be My Escape by Relient K
Age Six Racer by Dashboard Confessional
High Of 75 by Relient K
October Nights by Yellowcard

November ‘04
Life Of A Salesman by Yellowcard
Are You Gonna Be My Girl by Jet
A Praise Chorus [Live] by Jimmy Eat World
First Date by Blink-182
My Alien by Simple Plan

December ‘04
I Celebrate The Day by Relient K
Christmas Day by MxPx
Green Christmas by Barenaked Ladies
Sleigh Ride by Johnny Mathis

February ‘05
Again I Go Unnoticed by Dashboard Confessional
Somewhere Only We Know by Keane
We’re Going To Be Friends by The White Stripes

March ‘05
Such Great Heights by The Postal Service [Free Download]
Quit Your Life by MxPx
The Wonderful Cross by Joel Engle
Curbside Prophet [Live] by Jason Mraz

April ‘05
Life After Death & Taxes (Failure II) by Relient K
Beautiful Soul by Jesse McCartney
Save the Last Dance for Me by Michael Bublé

Alright times are a changing. It’s taking me longer to post an update, I’m commenting on a month and a half old news article and kids are no longer looking for Lucky Charms at the end of the rainbow. According to a survey of 500 Welsh kids (we’re not talking about grape juice here people) 22% of them wanted to find an iPod at “the end of the rainbow”.

Don’t get me wrong I love my iPod (maybe too much, but that’s between me and my counselor). But kids in this century are sure getting expensive tastes. In the same survey adults said that they were hoping to find bikes, roller-skates and candy at the end of their childhood rainbows. Sweets and pets were still top ten responses for kids and adults, thank goodness for tradition. There’s nothing quite like feeding your slobbery dog a bag of Pop Rocks. But we found that dog digging through the neighbor’s trash and those Pop Rocks we like a jar of alabaster. I did have a bike growing up but I swear my bike didn’t start at $250 and come in 5 fruity colors.

Let me tell you, back in my day we were lucky to just have a rainbow. Much less a rainbow with iPods littering the backside. When we did find a rainbow we were happy if we found more than dirt. We loved those rocks, they made great toys. Pets? Footballs? Those were rocks to us. I sure wish poor Jimmy would just learn to catch. “Black-and-Blue-Jim”, that’s what we used to call him.

It is that time again. The time where we meet only minimal comments, for two weeks I’m dedicated to one thing, watching Olympics.

Pretty much everything else has been neglected, in a vain attempt to watch as much of the 70+ hours of daily coverage possible here in the United States. Yes I have to work and we don’t have cable but I am trying to squeeze in all the Olympics I can. I wouldn’t dream of trying to watch TV at work, unless I have to stay late or if the Olympics are on.

It really got out of control in 2000, because Asbury sends so many students to work at the Olympics, you want to watch more Olympics because you know people who are there working at it. I mean we went all out to watch Olympics. We had daily TV schedules printed out posted on the wall. We would eat dinner faster, stop doing homework, and pretty much not leave the dorm.

After actually working at the Winter Olympics in 2002 its like I have some sort of connection to the games. (I still have picture from that trip up on my Spring ‘02 Album.) This year, again knowing about a dozen people working in Athens it gives me a little added interest. A
couple of those have started their own blogs to document their trip.

Asbury’s Blog
Joel Foster News
Stephen M. James at the Olympics
Scott & Kate’s Big Fat Greek
Adventure

And don’t you worry, I wrote this blog while sitting on the couch watching Michael Phelps win his second gold. I wasn’t about to miss some just to write my first entry in a month.

I saw the movie Big Fish this weekend. A very good movie, “fantastic” in that the stories in it are so over the top. (If you haven’t seen it yet, go read someone else’s blog cause I might ruin it for you.) The father is always telling people, he’s son in particular, about all these life adventures that can’t possibly be true because the stories are just so over the top. I kind of thought about my own dad and how good he is at telling stories. I have always loved sitting at a table late at night surrounded by his siblings and in-laws as they reflect of some of the great things that have happened since last time they talked or reflecting on adventures from when they were younger. I know my father better though sitting in on these story times. I know more about my aunts, uncles and grandparents as well. Unfortunately, theses stories would have no occasion to be simply told to me. Adults know kids probably don’t care about getting carded when trying to buy diapers. It is such a treat to hear about the lives of those who have came before you. This really all goes back to my blog a couple weeks ago on what Ecclesiastes says is really important in life. It is all about our relationships, especially our relationship with Christ, that’s why communication is so important. Whether it be through stories or prayer it is so good to get to know people. More than just how their day was and what their job is.

Its a shame when the memory of people is lost. How many of us don’t even know the name of our great grandparents or where our great-great-great-grandparents came from. Recently I and some other relative were able to sit down and video tape a conversation with my grandparents about their lives. About their brothers, sisters, parents and how they met. My grandpop was shocked when I asked basic questions that he might have thought were common knowledge. We don’t know what those who came before us had to deal with in their lives. I have a copy of Band of Brothers on my desk right now, an incredible miniseries about World War II. Being from the generation I am, I knew almost nothing about how much of a strain on life that war on the world. I am so glad I did not have to live through it. I am so much more appreciative about what our grandparents did now that I have seen it. I have heard almost nothing about my granddad’s own time in the army.