31 days down, 334 to go February 1, 2008

I am totally blown away by the fact that it is February already. I can tell you one thing–God has been really faithful to get my through January not only in one piece, but feeling really good about the coming months. February 1 officially marks one month since The Biggest Change of My Life, but it feels much longer than that. Some days are rough, but God’s being really faithful to me lately and teaching how to trust Him with every detail of my life. I’m going on a missions trip to the University of the West Indies over spring break, which I am very excited (and very nervous) about. Today I take my first exam of the semester and turn in my first paper, but that’s kinda crazy because I can’t even remember this semester’s class schedule on a day-to-day basis.

At any rate. I decided that this year, I’m going to make a playlist for each month. For a long time now, I’ve been waking up every morning with a different song stuck in my head. I don’t know if I dream about them or what, but they’re not even always things I’ve been listening to recently. That has since died down quite a bit and probably only happens once or twice a week. At one point I had decided it would be fun to keep track of which song was stuck in my head for every day of the month and make a mix of them all at the end. I never got around to doing that, but I decided that this year I’ll make monthly mixes. They’ll be composed of songs stuck in my head, songs that are resonating with me for one reason or another, songs that are applicable, songs I hear randomly, etc. etc. For January, I have 22 songs. Some days had more than one, others none, but 22 total.

January:

• “My Rights Versus Yours” The New Pornographers
• “Breakable” Ingrid Michaelson
• “Birds” Kate Nash (December, really, but important and there wasn’t a December list. so it can go on this one)
• “No One’s Gonna Love You” Band of Horses
• “Love Song” Sara Bareillas
• “Still Hurting” The Last Five Years
• “Sundrenched World” Joshua Radin
• “Three Cheers for Five Years” (Acoustic) Mayday Parade
• “Brick” Ben Folds Five
• “Either Way” Wilco
• “Mystery” Phil Wickham
• “Secret Crowds” Angels and Airwaves
• “Boy with a Coin” Iron & Wine (especially the awesome version in an NPR session I listened to)
• “Carousel” Iron & Wine
• “Gravity” Sara Bareillas
• “Imitosis” Andrew Bird
• “Impossible Germany” Wilco
• “The Boys Are Back In Town” by whoever sings that, in honor of Heath Ledger and the cinematic masterpiece that is A Knight’s Tale
  
• “The Pieces Don’t Fit Anymore” James Morrison
• “For All Who Are to Come” Hillsong United (yay for the book of Hebrews)
  
• “Chemicals Collide” Cloud Cult
• “You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away” The Beatles