Life With Louise

It's been a while - too busy enjoying being at home - but I thought it was about time to update you with something interesting, so I'm going to leave you with The Album Of The Year. It might not be the conventional sort of year compliation, but it's good none the less!

1. January Friend - Goo Goo Dolls
2. February Stars - Foo Fighters
3. Ants Marching - Dave Matthews Band
4. April Showers - Caedmon's Call
5. Come What May - Moulin Rouge OST
6. Juneau - Funeral For A Friend
7. July - Dashboard Confessional
8. August 30th - Delirious
9. Wake Me Up When September Ends - Green Day
10. October Swimmer - JJ72
11. November Rain - Guns and Roses
12. December in Monaco - The Citadels
13. Happy New Year - The Smiles

Have a good one!

Louise <><

Here I am at home, with Zoey, so she's going to have a bit of an influence on this one...

Well, it's wonderful to be home again, and yes, it is as I expected it to be. The tree is up, people are starting to come back from uni again, and my free time is quickly being filled with some random madness. One small change to the usual holiday experience is that I'm being driven around by Zo instead of driving her around. It's quite interesting, but I'll update you later if any exciting driving stories emerge.

The last week of uni was quite busy, with lots of things needing to be handed in, but it's all out of the way now, and I'm going to enjoy my holidays before I start to think about exams. I only have 3 in January 'cause I found out yesterday that I got exemption from the Computer Systems one, so that's extra cool, because I hadn't booked my flights back on time for it. I like to call it optimistic thinking!

We're heading over to Exodus tonight to hear Chris, and going to Dalriada's play tomorrow night. I'm quite looking forward to the general Christmas cheer and major hanging out-age. I wrapped my presents yesterday, so that made me feel more in the mood. I also wore a Santa hat through the airport on Wednesday and got random glances from a woman beside me who was trying to be discreet, but not succeeding.

One little thing before I finish... I was just thinking - if you book a seat on a plane for a cello, do you have to give it a surname. Like would my cello be booked under Cello Glenn? And would it need a passport?

Happy musings...

... turns out that Zoey wasn't really an influence, except telling me to change my 'causes' to 'becauses'. Isn't it wonderful when you have a talking, DRIVING, grammar checker?

So we raise up holy hands
To praise the holy one
Who was and is and is to come

I used to have a wee bit of an issue with the chorus of this song. Sometimes it's hard to think of yourself as having holy hands. A lot of worship for me involves focussing on God's holiness and standing in awe of His greatness compared to our relative insignificance and shortcomings, but then again the Bible tells us that we have been made right and that we are part of a royal priesthood and a holy nation, and that surely is truth. It wasn't so much the theology of the song that caused me to wonder, but rather the response of the people. Why do people often raise their hands immediately when the chorus of this song is sung. Is it just cause the songs tells them to? I don't mean it in any sort of judgemental way, I was generally curious about why people did this. In church on Sunday we sang the song, and with some thought, but mostly out of thankful response I raised my hands, and for me, it was all about proclaiming the truth and boldly saying 'Yes! I believe that my God has the power to make what is not clean, clean and holy' ... and we raised the roof.

1 Timothy 2:8
I want men everywhere to lift up holy hands in prayer...