30 Days of Me: Day 1: My Favorite Song

First off, thanks to Rachel over at The Life and Times of a Military Spouse for posting the 30 Days of Me topics. Since I'm just getting into the groove of blogging and actually want to keep it up, having a list of stuff to talk about is going to be really helpful!

So let's get started! Day 1: My Favorite Song

Man, I have a TON of favorite songs. Right now, it's Tedashii's "Make War," but that's probably just because it's what's currently playing on my iPod. Our pastor played the video for this song at church back in December or January. It kind of shocked me; what sounds like gangster rap is NOT what I expect to hear at church, but that's what we love about Valley Bible! I love the message Tedashii is sending in this song! Instead of just whining about how much we sin and don't deserve salvation, he encourages us to get up and DO something about it! Instead of allowing ourselves to get caught up in sinful thoughts and behaviors, we can make war "against lust/against pride/against me/until I die." I don't think he means physical death; I think he means we can die to ourselves and be reborn in Christ's salvation.

I also love just about anything Ricky Berger sings. My friend Kat and I were at a coffee shop in Sacramento a couple years ago pretending to study when we got caught up in a concert Ricky was giving, and I've loved her music ever since! "If," "Silly Boy, Goodnight," and "Shmaltz" are a few of my favorite songs of hers. Ricky's voice is absolutely beautiful and I love that she writes everything herself. If she ever decides to perform in Bakersfield, I will be there for sure!

I cannot, of course, leave off mine and HubbyButt's wedding song. "All Along" by Remedy Drive. Yes, it's a Christian song, but it also captures what HubbyButt and I both felt when we reunited. We had met in high school and both of us recalls having a crush on the other and that time, but we were both too timid to do anything about it (which is probably a good thing!). HubbyButt graduated in 2002, two years before me, and we lost contact. I found him on Facebook around Christmas 2008, and we just totally connected. What we had been looking for had been in front of us all along. The day we got married, we found Air1 on the radio in the limo after the ceremony, and they were playing our song. We both knew at that moment that, even though we got married very quickly, it was the right thing for us.

Our First Anniversary!

It's so hard to believe how quickly this last year has gone by! At the same time, though, it's amazing to think it's only been a year since we said "I do." I mean, we're 2/3 of the way to having a baby, we've moved into a house (as HubbyButt says, "It doesn't matter that we're still renting, a house is a house."), and it really seems like we've been together forever.

I was looking at our wedding pictures, feeling all sentimental, and I decided that my favorite is this one. The look on HubbyButt's face is just so cute!

So how did we spend our anniversary? Not the way we thought we would! I had requested the day off over a month ago, but HubbyButt forgot, and he probably would have been scheduled anyway, so we didn't get to go back to Lawry's The Prime Rib in Las Vegas like we wanted to (that's where we went for lunch after the ceremony last year, and it's a tradition we would have liked to keep up, but oh well). Instead, we just spent the day together, doing nothing special at all. I skipped out on my third trimester blood tests for the second time this week (I am NOT looking forward to the glucola!) and we just went shopping. We ended up going on a wild goose chase looking for the right cat food because Target stopped carrying what the little beasts are used to, then came home and watched the last 35 minutes of the USA/Ghana soccer game (a DIRTY 35 minutes on Ghana's part, I might add!), and took a nap. After our nap, our day together was over, as HubbyButt is working late tonight. Our day was perfect, in it's way. I just love spending time with HubbyButt and getting to have a nice days with him!