Its getting dangerously close to spring break, which means my brain is completely and utterly checked out. Yikes, its true though. This is probably going to sound super lame but I'm excited for spring break. You might be saying, "Wait. You're a college student. Of course you're excited for spring break. You obviously have plans to go tanning on a beach somewhere surrounded by gorgeous male specimens...Right?" Haha oh you! Of course I'm not doing any of that! No I'm excited for two reasons. One I get to see some family, which is always joyous and two because I have the whole weeks blog posts planned out. Yup. I never plan ahead but since day one I knew what I'd write about for spring break. So get excited! It ought to be pretty awesome!
Enough with spring break plans, because it is only Wednesday and I still have to function for the next couple of days. Woo. It shouldn't be too bad...But before I start rambling on about whatever trivial papers or tests I might have I should probably talk about what today is. Did you forget? It's Ash Wednesday! I have personally never gone to an Ash Wednesday service so I'm kind of excited to go. This might be the first year that I actively participate in Lent but by that I don't mean, "I'm going to give up chocolate, you know because I want to lose three pounds." No. That is not what Lent is about, it is not about depriving yourself of something for your own benefit. Lent is giving up something to bring you closer to Christ and hopefully bring you closer to God. Is Facebook a temptation in your life? Give it up and replace it with bible time. Are you an avid abuser of the word 'Retarded' or 'Gay'? Give it up and find non-hurtful words to replace them with so you're not hurting your brother and sisters of Christ. For me, I'm embarrassed to just come out and say it but basically I have been obsessively thinking about something a lot when I should be focused on Christ. So my goal is to well obviously stop thinking about it over more important things like I don't know the man who died on the cross for my sins? And I will focus myself on what is really important. Christ.
Sorry for my ramblings but something to think about today.
Memory #37
I just heard recently that the original Maria Von Trapp passed away, well actually I'm not sure who exactly died from the Von Trapp family because all of the articles are a little eccentrically worded...BUT! It made me think about two things. One my mom and I used to love watching Sound of Music together all of the time, its a classic. The other thought is a tad strange so bear with me. When I was a sophomore or junior in high school Sambo got the latest edition of Rock Band. For those of you are not familiar with this concept. It is basically a video game where in order to beat the game you have to learn how to play their versions of instruments and play whatever song well enough to pass the level. My brother was obsessed with this game and acquired all of the instruments, including a microphone so up to three players could play at a time. He had drums, a guitar and a microphone so naturally my mom and I wanted in.
So first Sam (Very patiently) taught us how to use everything. He claimed the guitar, my mom claimed the drums and I guess I was the singer. Next, you had to create your character and Sam (Once again) very patiently let us fulfill our girly rock star dreams and make a perfect character. Then obviously you have to come up with a perfect band name. So my mom almost immediately exclaimed, "The Von Crapp Family!" and it was settled. We got really into the whole band thing and played A LOT. My dad would come home for work and we would all be upstairs living that rock star life. I just remember a lot of laughs until my stomach hurt and of course a lot of angst, since we could never get past this one Pearl Jam song. My mom was definitely a 'cool' mom.
Love Always,
Erin
P.S.
Whenever I hear a song that was on Rock Band I think of my mom every single time.
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