As most of you know, I’m a huge John Williams and Star Wars fan, so Amber sent me a link to this video a few days ago.  I was quite surprised and happy to see the video version of a song I’d been singing to for over a year.  Thanks to Alan, I’ve had “Star Wars” (that’s the name of the song; I know, very original ) on my iPod for over a year.

I was actually going to post this video sooner, but I kept getting side-tracked. Sorry. Kimberly posted it on her blog and reminded me that I hadn’t done it yet.  Thanks, Kimberly!

Anyway, the guy in the video (Corey Vidal) is just lip synching and isn’t the actual composer of the song.  He did an awesome job at making it look like he sung all four parts to the song, though, didn’t he? The song was written by an a capella group called Moosebutter.  You can find “Star Wars” on Moosebutter’s album See Dee.  Moosebutter actually gave their blessing to Corey to do the video because of all the attention.  I’m not sure how long this information’s going to be availalbe, but, for now, you can read about it on their website.

PS–Moosebutter has a “Harry Potter” song that’s sung to the tune of “Pretty Woman.”  I don’t think it’s as good, but it’s still a lot of fun.

Happy birthday, Nate!

As I was leaving work yesterday, I kept thinking about how much I want a new couch because my couch has a hole in the middle cushion and you can barely sit on it anymore.  Then, I started thinking about all these other things I want and I got kind of greedy and depressed.

After a few minutes of this greedy, selfish thinking, I realized that I have so much to be grateful for.  Even though my couch is broken, ugly, and worn out, I still have a couch and it matches my love seat.  That’s a lot more than some people have.  Even though I don’t have a car with a working air conditioner or the car I want, I have a car that runs and gets me where I need to go.  And, even though I’m not liking my job so much right now, I still have a job, a job with good benefits and fairly good pay.

So, I’ve decided that even though I don’t have a lot of things I really want, I still have quite a bit and most of the things I need.  Sure, I can still strive to get better things and improve my life, but I need to focus on what I do have and learn to be happy in my current circumstance.

I think that’s why Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.  It’s too bad that Thanksgiving is sandwiched in between Halloween and Christmas.  It never gets the recognition it deserves.  Is that really surprising to me, though?  Honestly and sadly, no.  Of course, the world is going to focus on the holidays that are all about “me” or getting things instead of the holiday that is about the other person.

I guess the whole point of this post is that I’m going to start focusing on the things I’m thankful for rather than the things I want, and not just around Thanksgiving either.