Tonight I watched Twilight that a coworker friend loaned me. What a fun movie! Definitely going to have to read those books :)

Coming to my senses a little bit. Next year is closer all the time and the big mid-April deadline is closer all the time! Ack!

I don't know why I am up so late when I've had trouble sleeping lately from feeling ill (yuck, everyone seems to be sick lately including me!). So, I'm going to sleep!!!

I was listening to a new CD yesterday (Adele - 19, it's fabulous, check it out), and one song really struck me as poignant. I later found out that the song was written by Bob Dylan & has been covered by other artists, and has been featured in a movie. At any rate, the words to me seem to be (for the most part) applicable not only to 'romantic' relationships, but to friendships and family relationships. The words resonate with me as far as the security that's found in unconditional love, which is something I've been thinking about lately. This one's for you.

"Make You Feel My Love"
When the rain
Is blowing in your face
And the whole world
Is on your case
I could offer you
A warm embrace
To make you feel my love

When the evening shadows
And the stars appear
And there is no one there
To dry your tears
I could hold you
For a million years
To make you feel my love

I know you
Haven't made
Your mind up yet
But I would never
Do you wrong
I've known it
From the moment
That we met
No doubt in my mind
Where you belong

I'd go hungry
I'd go black and blue
I'd go crawling
Down the avenue
No, there's nothing
That I wouldn't do
To make you feel my love

The storms are raging
On the rolling sea
And on the highway of regret
Though winds of change
Are throwing wild and free
You ain't seen nothing
Like me yet

I could make you happy
Make your dreams come true
Nothing that I wouldn't do
Go to the ends
Of the Earth for you
To make you feel my love

Well, I had a wonderful and blessed weekend. Krystal and the boys came to visit, and we had so much fun! John even surprised me by flying in (he and Krystal had been in cahoots!) :-) It was fantastic and fun. I am always so grateful to be surrounded by best friends.

On a completely random note-
So I heard this Coldplay song off a recent EP awhile back and I guess I thought it was about something totally different than what it was. I thought it was about the bombing of Nagasaki and the fact that it was the 2nd-choice target, because the primary target had 70% cloud cover. All of this was based on me not hearing the lyrics quite right. I thought, man, this is a sad song! Imagine my surprise when I looked up the lyrics and found, no, it's *actually* just about a rainy day. So below are the real lyrics, and underneath some lines, what I heard and my comments.

"Rainy Day"
Then there was rain
The sky wore a veil of gold and green
At night it was the bright of the moon with me
(I heard: At night it was the blight of Enola Gay - you see because the cloud cover messed them up. I thought I heard Enola Gay and so this is what set me up)
Time is just floating away

Then there was rain
The sound foundations are crumbling
(I heard: This town, foundations are crumbling - as opposed to the other town, that didn't get bombed)
Through the ground comes a bit of a-tumbling
(To the ground, come the buildings tumbling)
And time was just floating away
What could we say?
And we can listen

Oh rainy day, come 'round
Sometimes i just want it to slow down
(Ok, so thinking how a rainy day saved this one city, so we shouldn't all be down on the rain)
And we're separated now, i'm down
But i love it when you come over to the house
I love it when you come over to my house
(I admit, I couldn't figure out how this fit in)

Then there was rain
I spent the night with the Queen Of Spain
(I heard: Eyes bugging out of the Queen of Spain - she's shocked at this international tragedy)
My lonely little heart would have broke again
Times were vicious
Saying deeper the knife goes in I know you win
(The deeper that the knife goes in the more you win - the tragedy of the victories of war)
You win what with less than when you begin
Deeper than the knife goes in
oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh ohhhhh

...And it goes on to repeat...

Yeah, pretty ridiculous of me huh? :-p

A pretty great Wednesday night - tonight I get to see my sister, my bestest friend John, and a fun friend from college that I haven't seen since graduation! (How random it is that he has a long layover in DFW at the same time that I am here, etc.) Reunion city today ;) Not to mention I had a great productive day of work today observing procedures in the local hospital with a doc. Yay!

Heading to Tejas tomorrow for work... randomly last minute :-p But cool :)