Finally...

KLC has gone home. Thank you American Idol. I don't know if I could take it anymore. Granted she wasn't anywhere near as bad as Sanjya was last year, but still.

Sometime after class today I am headed to Dothan. I hate that drive. I love Dothan, but not the time and rows of endless trees I have to go through to get there. It's all okay when I do get there and see friends and family though. My grandmother died (mom's mom) yesterday, so I am going home for the funeral and to be with family.

So that is where I will be for the next 2 and a half days. I'm ready for life to settle, but it never does. I keep trying to think forward to a time where I won't have anything going on, and I can't. I have papers due and finals for the next two weeks, and then I graduate. After that, we're going to the beach for a week. Then, hopefully I will have a job.

I started Beth Moore's study Stepping Up yesterday. I'm really excited about it. I'll try to put highlights up weekly.

Randomness:

John Mayer's song "Stop this Train" is one of my favs of his. Partly because it expresses how I feel about growing up. I guess I'm reflecting on it since my birthday was a few days ago. It's not that I think 22 is old, because I know it is definitely not. I don't really think I'm anywhere near being old (30 is the new 20, right). When life starts to change, and you are kind of forced to start making your own way, sometimes you just want not grow up. You want to sit and enjoy right where you are for a while. But then again, you would never get to move on the the joys of life that await you. All that to say, I really understand the lyrics. And I love the ending. I like the answer to the problem... you've just got to do it. We'll never stop it.

Stop This Train Lyrics
Artist(Band):John Mayer
No, I'm not colorblind
I know the world is black and white
Try to keep an open mind
But I just can't sleep on this tonight

Stop this train
I wanna get off
And go home again
I can't take the speed it's moving in
I know I can
But honestly, won't someone stop this train?

Don't know how else to say it
Don't want to see my parents go
One generation's length away
From fighting life out on my own

Stop this train
I wanna get off
And go home again
I can't take the speed it's moving in
I know I can
But honestly, won't someone stop this train?

So scared of getting older
I'm only good at being young
So I play the numbers game
To find a way to say that life has just begun

Had a talk with my old man
Said "help me understand"
He said "turn sixty-eight
You renegotiate"

"Don't stop this train
Don't for a minute change the place you're in
And don't think I couldn't ever understand
I tried my hand
John, honestly we'll never stop this train"

Once in awhile, when it's good
It'll feel like it should
And they're all still around
And you're still safe and sound
And you don't miss a thing
Till you cry when you're driving away in the dark
Singing

Stop this train
I wanna get off
And go home again
I can't take the speed it's moving in
I know I can
Cause now I see I'll never stop this train


I found this video of John Mayer performing the song. The sound quality is surprisingly good. If you've never heard the song, I encourage a listen.