Can't talk right now...busy playing with my new Galaxy S "smartphone". So much nicer than my old "stupid" phone...

Christmas Shoes

Is it wrong that I can't stand the song "Christmas Shoes"? If you have never heard it, it's a song about a man in a line up at a store, and there is a poor, unkempt boy in line ahead of him. The boy has a pair of womens shoes that he wants to buy for his momma. See, she is sick, and is going to die soon. So he wants to get her this nice pair of shoes before she dies, so she looks good when she meets Jesus. The problem is the boy doesn't have enough money for the shoes, so he looks at the man and pleads for help. Man helps, writes a song about it and there you go.

You know, it doesn't sound so bad when I try to explain it to you, internet. But why is it when it gets put to a melody, it makes me feel a bit like throwing up. I don't know. Is there something wrong with me that this song doesn't just make me want to cry with sadness for this boy? Am I just a bit cold hearted that the strings of my heart don't melt with a tear that this boy wants to do something so nice for his momma, but can't, and then this nice man helps him out and discovers the true meaning of Christmas at the same time?

Of course the kids love this song, ever since they watched the movie. Yes, internet, someone created a movie based on this song. And now, when it comes on, the kids sing it at the top of their little singing voices for all to hear. In the immortal words of Charlie Brown - Aaargh! (now there is a Christmas movie getting all teary over)

linking up

I just added a link to a blog that Vanessa and I have been reading for about a month now. It's called "stuff christians like" by Jon Acuff. Not sure if you have heard of him or not, but he's funny nonetheless.

Sunday updates

This past week has been super busy. A couple of night shifts on the ambulance at UBC started the week off. I don't really understand the purpose of a 14 hour shift, but there are many things that I don't understand about BCAS. I have spent a good portion of the minimal free time I've had this week trying to re-equip our computer after having to strip it of all of it's info due to a virus we picked up. The programs got back to 2005 basics, and most of our info was wiped. I managed to save some of the pics pre-wipe, which is kind of nice. I haven't been able to get the itunes repopulated from the ipod though, and I'm not sure if I will be able to or not. I think there is some sort of security feature on there that only lets you upload music that you have purchased from itunes. Most of our close to 1000 songs were from cd's though, so I will need to do some research on how to make that work.
We have a laptop now too, which makes dual-computering at home a bit easier now. The sore throat that I thought I had kicked from 2 weeks ago came roaring back last night at work, and I almost lost my voice. Trying to keep quiet today to make sure it is ready for work again tomorrow.
Christmas is fast approaching, and thanks to my amazing wife, we are almost totally ready for it. Hoo-ray! We are heading out to the annual Christmas Dessert Theatre tonight, which should be awesome. My brother is performing in it this year, and I am excited to see what his first on-stage performance will look like. Time for a rest now before the next busy week starts up.