Me? a Winner?

that's what i thought on wednesday afternoon when i got home from school. there was a package waiting for me on the dining room table. i don't normally get packages in the mail, so it was pretty odd. i looked at the return address, and it said the Weekend 22. The Weekend 22 is a weekly Christian countdown displaying the hottest songs in Christian music for the week. It's a syndicated program. The WORD FM plays the Weekend 22 on saturday afternoons. Since the WORD FM has temporarily gone away from this area, i haven't heard it in quite some time.

Anyways, so i realized that i must have won something from them. I've been entering nearly every contest they have. i do that with a lot of websites. i figure i should just enter into anything and everything i can, because i'm bound to win sometime. so i cut open the package, and find a book in there. it's called "My First Message". it's a children's devotional bible, with 50 bible stories written in the same text that's printed in the Message Bible by Eugene Peterson. This book also has really great illustrations. It seems like a great tool to get kids excited about God.

I'm not quite sure what to do with it right now. i guess the easiest thing to do is to put it away until i have kids of my own, and then read it to them. but that's a long time away. i was thinking i could give it away to someone at church, or just donate it to the church library. but i'm not really sure. so i'll just hang onto it until i figure out what to do with it.

in other news, WJTL just had their 500 countdown this past week. the fun started on Wednesday afternoon at 2:00. so for wednesday, thursday and friday i would rush out of school at 3, listen until i had to go to piano or work, and then make sure to listen in the car on the way home until i had to go to bed. on wednesday night, i washed dishes and cleaned the kitchen until 9 or 9:15 because i needed something to do while i listened to the radio.

they really had this well planned out this time around. in the past, on the third day of the countdown we would be at 10:30pm and still not be at #1. but in the past they would start the countdown at 2 in the afternoon the first day and go till 10pm, and go from 6am-10pm the next day. then on the final day they'd start at 6 and go till they finished. this time around they went to 11pm the first two nights. then they were done by 9 on the third. but i had to work from 5-9 last night. so i was a little bummed that i was probably going to miss the last ten songs. but even though it was really busy, for some reason they let me go home at 8:20.(i didn't even complain about missing the top 500 countdown. i knew they wouldn't understand) so i ran to the car and turned it on as fast as i could. it was a total God thing that i was able to get off early. when i turned on the radio in the car, they were on song 8. so i was able to go home and listen to the last 5 and a half songs with my family. that was really nice. Casting Crowns had three songs in the top ten, which was really good, and really surprising. the Number 1 song was Mercy Me with "I can Only Imagine". that was the number 1 song in 2004 too, which is the last time they did the 500 countdown.

it was great listening to the radio at every single moment that i could. i guess i do that on a normal day anyways, but it was way more exciting this week. and with listening to all the DJs, you could tell that they were excited about this too. i would be excited if i was a DJ on there. i really liked that they did the countdown this week. that way we were excited about the countdown this past week, and then next week is Thanksgiving. after that it's advent and getting ready for Christmas. well, i'm going to add some more to a song i'm writing, and work on my paper for physics. i hope everyone has a great weekend.