dancing through life

This song has just come on my ipod as I sit in the library working away…for a change and it made me think…up until now I guess I could say I have pretty much ‘danced through life’ when if comes to school and uni work! Yeah at the time I didn’t really realise how easy I had it until this week. I have been sitting in the library pretty much all day trying to get my head around an essay question and work out where even to start going about putting together a respectable and substantial answer to it!

But then I think to myself, I love music! and at the end of the day I should look upon this assignment and all the assignments  have to do this year as an opportunity to learn and indulge in the beauty of music! How it is thought up and put together. Let’s face it, it is amazing! The complexity of different genres is immense! Let’s take Jazz for a little example! Take a minute to think about what you actually know about jazz music! Personally the first thing that springs to my mind is improvisation…but that is an incredibly naive view of it! It consists of many sub-genres and various styles, which in itself is fascinating! Maybe I should be writing about this in my 365 for today…but maybe I have other things to be thankful for!

But I guess as much as I have complained and moaned and all the rest of it this week, I do still think of it as a privilege to be able to study music in such depth…even if this is the first year I’m actually taking it seriously!

It is also becoming increasingly more difficult to get rid of my cold because now, 2 of my housemates have it! So the house is completely and utterly contaminated with germies!!

Aw well…I just needed a wee chance to write some stuff here…now its back to Ted Gioia and ‘The History of Jazz’

peace out!x

ps…I hope you watched the little video and enjoyed a little bt of wicked!

sleepless-ness

So the whole ear ache thing…turns out I have an ear infection! Boke!! And with most infections brings tiredness and acheyness which I have been experiencing all day resulting in sleeping most of the day away and now I am unable to sleep! Going from not being able to stay awake to not being able to fall asleep is annoying…it would have been so much more convenient if it have have happened at the right time of day…unable to stay awake at night, unable to sleep during the day! Anyway, where would the fun in life be if it happened the way we wanted it to!?

So…I’ve been lying on my bed for well hours and have now developed this very strange, very annoying eye twitch…a twitch like I’ve never really experience, yeah I get the odd lazy eye when I’m very tired, but never a twitch that has lasted a good hour or so! It’s very weird! But during this eye twitching experience…I’ve been thinking about how amazing the body actually is…that’s a lie I haven’t really but now I am thinking about it! Like do we even consciously think about our next breath?! Or every heart beat? or a sniff? I mean wow! The body does it all for us…God does it all for us! And whats more, how often do we take it for granted!? Personally…everyday of my life! I very rarely think about how i breathe, how my heart beats, how my body digests my food, supplies me with the right energy levels…like the list is endless!

Which leads me to just the general little things in life that I take for granted and go unnoticed…being able to get up in the morning, have a shower, eat breakfast, hop into my car and go wherever I need to go…again the list goes on…but these are things that, if remembered, could make my day so much more positive and so much more pleasant..and oh how the world would be a better place if I was more thankful for the little, unnoticed things in life!

So in the blogworld there is a thing going round called 365…basically the idea behind it is to set up a blog for exactly one year and faithfully (or as faithfully as possible) take time everyday to write about the details of your day that have been positive! The thing that have made you smile and in doing it makes us more thankful for the little (and large) blessings that God sends our way! Of course some days will be harder than others, but thats part of the challenge!So starting 21st September 2009…I will set up such a blog! Hopefully linking it to foreveringreensleeves…because I’ll likely not write in this as often…occasionally but not everyday! I am going into final year after all!

So that is what I’ve been thinking about! I’m looking forward to starting it actually…who knows if i’ll be able to stick it out but it will be something to think about every day! Things I am thankful to God for!

So, watch this space my little blog followers

much love and good night!

Lost and Found

Last Christmas I was sitting watching tv when I received a message from my friend saying there was some cartoon on with a penguin in it! I LOVE penguins and so switched it on and oh my gosh was it the best half hour of tv I watched ALL christmas! Such a simple little programme with such a beautiful message of friendship and kindness (between man and penguin )

So basically it was based on a book ‘Lost and Found’ by Oliver Jeffers, who studied at the University of Ulster, Jordanstown (I think!), about a little penguin who just wants a friend!

‘The penguin looked sad and the boy thought it must be lost…the penguin wasn’t lost, he was just lonely!’

If you ever see it on tv watch it because it really is such a heart warming little story! The book is also gorge…I have it…I actually have 2 copies of it!

ha…I’m so cool!!

enjoy!

PS…I also have just discovered you can change the colour of your font! I love wordpress!!!