Enjoy!

Today, a friend of mine shared the most awesome post on my Facebook. At first I wasn’t so sure about it because it was just a cover from another band, but I do like the band. The song towards the middle got better and better. 

Anthem Lights is a boy band and they do covers of different songs. I knew they were going to do a cover for “Let it Go” but I didn’t think it would have made any difference in what I thought would happen. My friend put this on my wall and told me I had to listen to the entire thing, I figured maybe the song just had the original singer in it. Well, I definitely don’t want to spoil because I want people to listen to it. However, I will mention at 2:30 in the song it got better extremely better. So much better that i would have that song play regularly throughout a day, so here I stand or am to let you listen to the one and only: Let it Go by Anthem Lights (clapping) 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOGPVS88HIY

 

Social Media?

Day 2 of friends and finding out yesterday that my boss also went to NY 

Well, not only do I now so badly wish I signed up for that missions trip, I now just wish I was NYC. Clearly, it’s the place to be. 

So here I am at work. Trying to work but there isn’t much here for me to do. I feel like I have to right now just do a little in order to actually say I have a purpose here for the next couple of days. I definitely don’t want to write to my boss and ask if there is anything they want me to do. I want to continue working here, I’m finally starting to fit in. 

Here’s a funny story, Friday we have a show on here where they speak about pretty much anything and have a gift to give away and normally there’s food. Yeah, we are all about the food here. I answer phones during this. Normally, there isn’t many people calling, which I am thankful for. But sometimes the people who are calling to actually be on the air has called and it just is weird cause I don’t know how to respond to them sometimes. 

Now the funny story, after the show was over with there wasn’t a lot going on. One of my co-worker’s, Kristen, was talking about the social media breakfast and how we needed a speaker and she wanted someone to come up and speak. Well, I’ve gone to it and it’s different than probably what I would have normally gone to because last time I got trapped into going, but the entire time I was there I was texting friends and checking my facebook. I know that sounds bad but the people that go are over 35 and yeah I learned a few things but not really what I would have wanted to get up at 6 in the morning to attend a 7-9 breakfast. Anyway, funny story, I stupidly decided to tell Kristen, “oh well maybe you should hire me because I’m young and I know what young adults are doing these days. I use Snapchat, Twitter, Facebook, Google+, I have my own blog.” She had a look on her face and I was totally joking and then she said “yeah, you’re right, you’re hired.” Well, that wiped my grin off my face because I think I went white after that. Seriously what am I supposed to talk about now? And I’m curious was she serious? Should I really start looking into it and studying up on different social media? I haven’t talked to her since and maybe because it’s break she won’t be in, so I’m going to start studying up on everything. She gave me the idea to video some of my friends and asking them how they use social media these days, which I’ll probably do because there’s no way I’m not going to somehow put my friends on the spot. Some I can’t video because they don’t have that option but believe me and yes I am talking to you, my friend, I will still be asking you this question and may just bring up a few stories. 

I seriously need to figure out what to talk about, how social media is really useful. How one may use it. What’s the purpose of using that specific version. 

Til then, I’ll believe there could be another blog post today. 

While you wait and you will Rise

You know what is tough? When you’re used to having the ability of texting a few friends that live in the same town as you and normally you probably wouldn’t text them as much but you’re realizing since they are gone on a missions trip, you won’t be able to text them as much. It kind of makes you realize that you really do have a lot and then when you get to the point of knowing that that one friend is gone for a week and sure they may text you a few times but you just want to talk to them. I actually thought that the three friends who went on a missions trip this week I wouldn’t miss as much, that it would be like any other week, but any other week, I could potentially if I wanted to or they did visit those people. Now they’re gone. It’s kind of like the real situation with all my friends. Quite a few of them don’t live close to me. Some do not even live in the same state. I would love to see a few of them now and maybe it would make things a lot better, but I guess I’ll just have to wait. Waiting is the issue these days. 

I’m not much of a patient person either. Of course the next song that pops up on my playlist is “While I’m Waiting” by John Waller. So that definitely has to be God telling me that I have to be patient to wait for what He wants me to do. 

Have I mentioned that I’m following God more than I ever have been? I’ve finally given up on the reading. I’m reading Revelations every night because maybe I’ll learn something new. Easter was this past weekend. What did I do? The lights. They put me in charge of doing lights during the service. Why though? There was a dance that needed lights involved and boy oh boy was I scared. When signing up to help out I didn’t realize they would put me in charge of one of the most important things. No, I thought for sure I would have been just setting up or helping with food or doing something that wasn’t so technical. But my church is finding out that I like technology. So before this weekend, I’ve been helping out with video production and I find that a lot of fun. I’m really just tag teaming with another person to learn more. I don’t mind nor will I stop helping her out. I want to keep doing this. Now they’ve added helping out with lights. I did it last weekend because the lady I asked if I could help out told the assistant pastor that I wanted to and he said lights. Lights are more complicated than you think. I had to actually wait for certain cues before I could change the lights. So he showed me and a friend, we watched the entire thing and then I did it the next day. Then he asked if I would be willing to do it on Maudy Thursday, well in case do you don’t know what that means it’s the day before Good Friday which it really was the Last Supper. At one point the lights had to be off, which communication was messed up there and I didn’t know that until people are running up the stairs yelling “Lights, Off!” The assistant Pastor told me the next day that it wasn’t my fault at all which was really good to know. The next day I also found out I was doing lights for a dance they were going to do. 

“I Will Rise” by Chris Tomlin I liked the song quite a bit but now it’s just a really good song to listen to even if I heard it several times this past weekend. That’s the song they danced to. It was great. I will say each time I practiced, I messed up somehow. But when the time came, it was the best I could have done. I was scared and very nervous but after I did that, I was so happy that I actually did a great job. There was no way I could have done any better than that. A lot of the people that knew I was doing the lights, said I did a good job. The dancers were amazing. I’m friends with both of them. This Easter I must say was really the first time I felt more a part of my church. I’m not a member yet, but when you’re Pastor looks at you and tells you, you did great. You can’t help but smile. 

My first message was a downer, but compared to how I ended. I realized that throughout that message I do have a few friends still around and I have family I can hang out with at least, plus I’m at work and I really should just be working instead of making a blog post.