You know, I'm really more of a "Fall Back" kinda gal than a "Spring Forward" type. That's all I'm sayin'.

I just got Creed's Greatest Hits. We're buying my MIL's used car, and it has a CD player in it. Wahoo! I'm in the 21st Century now, baby! So, I spoiled myself a little and got a new CD for my "new" CD player.

I really like Creed. The guy's voice is so powerful, and the music pounds. Plus, I like emotive lyrics. I don't know anything about the guys' personal walks, but it is clear that the songwriter wrestles with his spirituality and feels a profound break between the nature of this life and the soul.

He sings about God, the cross, grace, and redemption, so I'm pretty sure we're on a similar page. At least the same book. There are quite a few Christian artists that I love and listen to all the time. What I like about Creed, though, is that it isn't all happy-happy, joy-joy. Not that I have anything against happy-happy, joy-joy: as a depressive artist type, I need all the uplifting messages that I can get. And none of the Christian artists I really love (Third Day, Shawn McDonald, Justin McRoberts, Jennifer Knapp, to name a few) sugar-coat things. But sometimes this life is just painful, whether Christ is central in it or not. I'm grateful that's not the end of the story, but I can really rock hard with a guy suffering with his own brokeness, and the broken state of this world.

And now I can do it in my car.

Okay, so this is a pretty minor thing, but you know what bugs me? This tendency, on music CDs, to record a track, but not number it. The first time I encountered this was either on an Alannis Morrisette or a Tori Amos CD, in the early 90s. After the last song played, there was a stretch of dead air, and then, surprise! an audible Easter Egg - a song that wasn't included on the playlist. You can't skip to it, because the "beginning" of the song is really the beginning of the song before it. It seems like most of the CDs I buy today have one of these, usually toward the end. I don't like listening on my MP3 player and having 30 seconds of dead air. Plus, as I mentioned, if I like a song, I may want to go directly to it, or hit replay.

Anyway, I warned you that this was pretty petty.

Man, looking into tools to start a blog was daunting. I looked at Typepad & Wordpress, as well as a few more I can't remember, and dispaired ever getting started, much less creating something that looked the way I envisioned it.

Squarespace rocks. It has a FREE month trial period. (Typepad's is free too, but ya gotta enter cc info). Plus it is much more user friendly, IMO. It explains things more than the others seem to.

Anyway, I'm still finding my way around.