#143 - i got a fever...

and the only prescription is more cowbell. okay not really "cowbell," but something i think because i'm in a funk. a total funk. i've been messing up left and right and left again. i blame vog. i think. i'm not sure. probably started last week tuesday, it was an extra voggy day and i went home and crashed because i was feeling crappy, i left my windows and sliding door open (like i usually do) and when i woke up i had a full on sore throat. i thought i was getting sick from not enough sleep (that usually happens if i don't get at least one full 8-hour night's sleep in the course of one work week), but looking back it was just because of the vog. nevertheless i spent the rest of the week taking cold medicine and crashing during and right after coming home from work. then i had that tremendously horrible sunday (see a couple of posts ago) when i slept from midnight on saturday to 9:30 am sunday... then crashed again from 9:30 am to 2:30 pm! i felt completely crappy the whole rest of the day. and i completely missed my tennis lesson that day... it was at 2:00 and i slept through it!

then on monday i think i was still feeling hangover effects from that awful sunday. i was super sour on monday and it was a rotten day. i tried to make up for it by going to workout (i had skipped all my workouts the week before because of my sore throat) but i could only get in maybe a 2/3rds workout because i was still feeling crappy.

then on wednesday my bro archuleta didn't win. sad. although i'm really happy that david cook actually did win, and i'm sure the producers of american idol are even happier, they're probably thanking their lucky whatevers that cook won, they snagged themselves a bonafide star artist and redeemed credibility of their show i think. i think he's gonna do great. but fox news also said that david archuleta will ALSO be getting an american idol sponsored recording contract, which i think is very smart of the producers. archuleta's got great appeal for their "target" demographic (their actual demographic has been increasing in age pretty drastically, probably influenced by the dearth of current artists willing to be guests on the show) and could really fit in nicely with their new disney affiliations i think. plus, i've been downloading tons of idol songs off of itunes and i've downloaded 13 archuleta songs to only 6 cook songs so... but from interviews and stuff throughout the season and post-finale, it really seems like both archuleta and cook are real sincere and genuniely stand-up guys, so i'm happy for the two of them. look how cook invites all of them up on stage with him at the end, good for him!

oh, and today all i did was read internet news posts about american idol. can you tell? i've completely got idol fever. idol on the brain. i can't think about anything else. it's kinda scary. i mean, i know i let myself get submersed in all the american idol hype this season (for good reason i think), but i'm totally hanging on idol still. now all i've got are my itunes downloaded songs and my anticipation for any new archuleta or cook news that i can sniff out anywhere.

so here's me today... with the itunes songs blasting and in completely a weird state all day... and i completely missed my volleyball game! there are two matches a day, one at 6:30 and one at 7:45, i thought it was at 7:45 so i get to the gym at that time and they're already playing, so i jumped in right away and hit the first ball UNDER the net. then i played like 5 more points and the game was over, i was confused, i asked if they started early and all my teammates looked at me weird... the whole match was over already! they played the first match and i had arrived right at the very end of the whole thing. grr... and i even had it written down as 6:30 on my calendar but what the heck? i'm dumb. so that's the third fun sports thing i missed out on this week. OH YEAH, and i was supposed to play tennis with my friend for the first time yesterday too (because she lives all the way in town but was gonna be in mililani), but it was pouring rain!! grr...

so what's it gonna take to bump myself back into life? i'm stumbling down a weird road and i've lost my right path. i've been bumping into things and spilling things all over the place (literally, i've probably got three new bruises on my knees and the top of my head and i've been dumping juice and water all over my floors). there's all these little things that i can't get right. get myself out of this weird crappy can-just-something-go-right-please?! funk i'm in right now. how do i get back on the right track?

and then of course, He answers. just gotta quiet yourself down and take a listen. there's this cool quote from mother theresa...

"slience leads to prayer. prayer leads to faith. faith leads to love. love leads to service. service leads to peace."

and that's when i clicked around and found these two songs written by merrick christensen and sung by DAVID ARCHULETA... from like a year ago. not the fanciest, but a great message i think. check out "angels in the alleyway" and "the most beautiful part about this is..." at:

http://merrickchristensen.com/blog/

y'know i used to listen to a ton of christian music (think relient k, switchfoot, hawk nelson), and maybe i need to get back to some of that... puts me in the right state of mind i think, y'know? well, anyway, i think these two songs sung by my bro are a good step back in the right direction.

plus i get my post-idol fix. haha... and here's more!

see? david was always like that, i don't think he's ever gotten to pick his own songs to sing:


ps - some news article i just read said that if archuleta wasn't a singer he said he'd be an ENT (ear, nose, and throat doctor, medical cousin to the speech pathologist)! haha, how's that for little bro?

and with that last comment i've now realized that i've gone completely overboard to the scary point with all this american idol stuff so now i need to stop.


but...speaking of post-idol hangovers... good job to fox for putting the first episode of "so you think you can dance" on the very next night after the idol finale. thank you very much. i'll be watching that show for the next couple of months, and while it can't match idol (mostly because dancing and singing are just too different to compare), it definately meets my post-idol cravings. plus, some of this stuff is pretty sick, check this: