Of Music and Lyrics

Guess what?! I finally (acidentally) found a website that does secular to christian comparisons!!!!!!! Woo Hoo!!! Isn't that awesome??? I don't know about all genres but Curt and I looked over the top 40 and the punk/metal/hardcore sections and they seem to be quite accurate, although the latter category was somewhat outdated. Most of them give you more than one choice of christian music to compare it to, so you're bound to find something that's still out there. I bet you're just itchin to know the website, huh? Here's a link:http://youthfire.com/media/compare/. Curt was having me search a song tonight. It took me 45 minutes to track it down, but I finally found it. Its a miracle, too, because the only thing he could tell me was that it was a female singer, and it was a secular song that they sometimes play on our christian station. Wow. Not much to go by there! He didn't even know any of the lyrics. He thought it sounded like she was singing "I pooped, I pooped my bed" but he said he knew that couldn't be right. So the next logical thing he thought was that the words were "I said, that's what I said", and I was like, "Well, that's too broad for me. I can't possibly search based on that. I need a subject of the song or I need to know the genre or who she sounds like, or at the very LEAST what she looks like!" LOL!! So, we narrowed it down to the fact that she sounds like Fergie. Good, we're getting somewhere. Then, he said she reminded him of the IPod Nano commercial. So, we googled that commercial and found out that the person who sang that commercial was a lady named "Feist". I guess she's from Canada. Well, I checked her out and he decided to pick (at random) one of her songs called My Moon My Man. And that was the one he was looking for! If you go to Rhapsody or whatever and listen to that song, its at the very end just after the instrumental part. And the correct lyrics are "My Moon The moom my man" repeated over and over. Whats truly hilarious about it is that the words "I pooped, I pooped my bed" fit! So now Curt wants someone to do a parody of the song but have it be about someone from a nursing home! Curt thinks Greg (aka Johnny Johnson) would do a great job at it! (In order to get this joke, you really HAVE to listen to the song...)

Is it April already?

Today, it was 63 as was yesterday! It has been sooo hard to concentrate on school!! We wanted to play outside, but considering last Sunday night we got 9 inches or so of snow and now its melted, it has been much too wet and muddy to play. :( We have had 2 good snowfalls since Nov and our family is ready for it to be spring. We decided that today. We wouldn't mind if it stayed in the range of 50's to mid-60's during the day and 40's for comfortable sleeping at night. Ahhh. I know. I will have to face the reality of more snow before it can truly be spring, but this was a nice reprieve from the usual January weather. Its been nice and intoxicating having the windows open the last few days. They are calling for a high of only 45 tomorrow with rain, which is a far cry from the sunny 60's, but still very warm for January.

School has been going well. We are getting into a routine, which seems to be more of this: we do what we want, when we want. :) Which is so nice and fun and different. We like it this way. Tomorrow, we are going to try to do math last at Felecia's request because its quite a challenge for her. I have my doubts that it will work that way, I'm thinking she is usually burned out by late afternoon and she won't want to stay focused, but hopefully I'm wrong. My idea was to always do math first and get it out of the way. However, doing it first also has sometimes set the tone for her to have a bad attitude throughout the day, so maybe doing the easier more fun stuff first will make a difference. Today, she got to sleep in till 9:30. The last few nights the kids have been chit-chatting and staying awake till 11-11:30! Tonight is crack-down time. (It's 10 to 9 right now and we'll see what happens -- I currently have 3 very wide-awake kids). In part, its my fault for being lax on them over Christmas break with their bedtimes. I like it for a while when they stay up because this means they will sleep in late, and I LOVE to sleep in. Now, I also like to start school by 9 so we can be done around 3 or 4, which means we all basically have to get up by 8 to have eaten and gotten really awake to start at 9. I wanted her to sleep till she woke up today, and that was 9:30. So she got 10 hours of sleep. This made a big difference in her attitude today. Plus, Curt had an extra day off this week so she was able to hang out with daddy and then do some art with him before starting core courses for the day. Consequently, we didn't start till 1:00 today but we finished by 5:30 so not a bad day overall.

I recently found out that we are able to do up to 12 supplemental hours each week and count towards required hours for school. That's neat! We are constantly in search of free internet educational games. Yesterday, we watched a recorded episode of "Survivorman". It was the one where he was on Baffin Island, The Arctic, Canada. I took notes based on what she and I thought was interesting/noteworthy. We learned a lot and that was a nice supplement to science and history. (In history, we have been learning the continents, oceans, directions, poles, etc.) Before we started the show, I explained to her about seasons and the position of the earth and our relativity to the sun during seasons, and also where Les (aka "survivorman") was and what season it was where he was at. (I had already seen that episode as Curt and I are avid watchers of the show.) It was really interesting to stop every now and then to take notes and answer her questions and then to come up with our own conclusion afterward. I had my doubts as to her interest and how long she would last, but she really enjoyed it as well.