Since my last post about beautiful songs was such a hit, I decided to broaden it, with Nathan's help.

Here are the 31 Most Beautiful Songs.

As compiled by Shelley and Nathan Warren.

31. Lightning Crashes - Live
30. Not Enough - Our Lady Peace
29. Miracle Of Miracles - Fiddler on the Roof soundtrack*
28. Grace - U2
27. Shoot The Moon - Norah Jones*
26. Cats in the Cradle - Harry Chapin
25. Kill The Silence - Adler
24. Send In The Clowns - A Little Night Music soundtrack
23. Latter Days - Over The Rhine
22. If I Sing - Rich Mullins
21. Zoe Jane - Staind
20. Be Careful - Patty Griffin*
19. Over the Rainbow - Brother Iz
18. Thy Mercy - Caedmon's Call
17. For Good - Wicked soundtrack*
16. Brightly Wound - Eisley
15. Sweet Baby James - James Taylor
14. You'll Be In My Heart - Phil Collins
13. Come What May - Moulin Rouge soundtrack*
12. Rainy Days And Mondays - The Carpenters
11. Music Of The Night - Phantom of the Opera soundtrack*
10. Breathe (2 a.m.) - Anna Nalick
9. Chicago - Sufjan Stevens
8. A Lack Of Color - Death Cab for Cutie
7. Piano Man - Billy Joel
6. (A Tie) Emptiness/Sore - Break Forth A New Day
5. Hey Jude - The Beatles
4. Into The West - Annie Lennox
3. Joy In The Journey - Michael Card
2. Grow Old With Me - John Lennon
1. The Luckiest - Ben Folds

*Not approved by Nathan Warren

I should really update this more often.

I really love beautiful music. More than I love hard rock at the moment. It's just more pleasant to listen to.

Speaking of hard rock, Break Forth a New Day had a gig at Northwest Church of Christ last night for a Brasil mission trip fundraiser. They played with two other Christian rock bands, Years After Jerico and Just 3 Words. It was so much fun! All three of them were great. I love almost all of Break Forth's stuff, but my favorite is definitely Emptiness, followed up by Sore and Why?

I'm currently failing chemistry. I'm pretty bummed about that. But honestly, when am I ever going to use chemistry after I finish this course? Aubrey told me not to worry about it too much, because she failed after being tutored personally by the class valedictorian, and she turned out fine.

I'm currently on a mission to see all of Christian Bale's movies. My list of accomplishments so far is: Newsies, Little Women, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Reign of Fire, The Prestige, Equilibrium, Pocahontas, and Batman Begins. Next up should be Swing Kids. That looks really good. Then 3:10 to Yuma.

I just watched Equilibrium two nights ago. It was a really weird movie. As Nate said, once you get past the fact that it is extremely implausible, it was excellent. Probably the most well choreographed fight scenes I've seen in a movie.

I'm going to see the Symphony play along to Wizard of Oz next Sunday! I'm so excited, you have no idea.

I'm really excited that cooler weather is coming soon. It makes me really happy.

My cats are doing really well. Here are pictures from when I first got them--I don't have any recent pictures.

Melchizedek

They like the bookshelf

They also really love fighting with inanimate objects

So that's my life right now. If I think of something else, I'll let you know.

Love always!

"In a white sea of eyes
I see one pair that I recognize"