Mid-afternoon tales.

I'm sitting in front of the computer, completely bored out of my mind. Argh! Somebody get me out of this funk! I had intended to bring reading paraphernalia to work, but had changed my mind, thinking that it was going to be incredibly busy today. Well, I thought wrong! There is nothing to do here, except occasionally answering the phones (which is surprisingly sparse today) and I am without reading material. Ugh.

I turned in considerably early last night, fell asleep listening to Raul Midon on Jay Leno. People, you must check this man out. I've heard great things about him from Jeremy and April as they have seen him live at one of Jason Mraz's concerts, and I got to see him do his thing last night. Incredible style of guitar playing, and incredible voice to boot. I may just stop by Best Buy tonight after work and purchase his CD.

Speaking of CDs, Jason Mraz's sophomore CD is out. I've mixed feelings about the CD. I'm incredibly excited to have another JM CD in my collection, as this man is brilliant, but this new CD is more power-pop and less jazzy than the his debut CD, Waiting for My Rocket to Come. The jury's still out on this new CD. I'll probably love it, eventually. I'm just going to have to give it a few more listens. I do have an early favourite however, and that is Geek In The Pink. Can't get enough of the song.

I woke up this morning to the cast of the movie RENT, singing Seasons of Love on The Today Show. Ha! I can't wait to see the movie. It's coming out in November. Adam Pascal (Roger) cut his hair and he looks really, REALLY good. He and Anthony Rapp (Mark) sang What You Own. That's it! I was done! Rosario Dawson (Mimi) and the rest of the females in the cast had me in stitches as they were acting like complete fans, squee-ing like little teenaged girls on the side of the stage while Adam and Anthony sang. It was too cute.

I had mentioned in my previous post that my dream wedding would take place in Wales, preferably by Cardiff Castle. But I think I've found a few alternative locations, two in Pembrokeshire (St. Anne's Head, and Dale – perfect little castle, straight out of an Austen novel) and the other one in Powys (Powys Castle). I know, I know. I'm talking about it like it's ever going to happen in this lifetime. It will take for me to win the lottery to be able to afford to have a wedding in Wales, but like I said, I can dream, can't I? – haha If you'd like to help towards Achau's Dream Wedding in Wales, please send your donations to… hahahahaha I'm completely off my rocker!

Apparently, there's a new Rockapella CD-ROM out and I didn't know about it until this week. Supposedly, it features the "new" incarnation of Rockapella, new footage, and a couple of new songs! Contemplating on buying it, but it is only available online as it were. I may just have to wait until their next concert here in California to purchase it, that is, if they would actually sell it at their concerts. I'll just have to wait and see, I suppose.

C'mon, phone, start ringing! I need something to do! Ahhh!!!

Bible study last night went pretty smoothly, I think. We're going through John Piper's book, Life as a Vapor, and I have to say that at first reading, I don't quite get what he is trying to say in his meditations, but last night, I realized that there's a method to his madness. LOL It's great though because, instead of Piper spoon-feeding us what he wants us to get from the meditations he's written, we actually have to wrestle with it and come up with the answers ourselves. Honestly, I get a bit frustrated whenever he starts expounding on the thought that he presents in his meditation for the week, because he usually goes off in complete tangents, but somehow, he manages to bring us all back to the thought presented at the beginning of the chapter. Like I said, a method to the madness! But the greatest blessing is that I'm really learning a lot about God through that book. God is God and we can never understand His ways, nor will we ever understand them. Otherwise, He ceases to be God, and our hope will be lost. He has a purpose for everything, whether our journey to the fulfillment of our purpose is good or bad, in the end, all those things work together for good. God knows what He's doing, and that's a blessed assurance that we can hold on to.

I'm running out of fuel (a.k.a. coffee), and this chocolate cake from SavOns that I'm eating is a bit dodgy. Is it 8 p.m. yet? The day's been going by really slow. Pray that I get out of this funk, and fast! 'Ta.