recent.

this week has been a bit insane. i'm incredibly tired and on my way to getting sick because of it, which, of course, is always a blast. there are some people who run on just a few hours of sleep every night and, although they may be tired, they're still quite functional. that's not me. if i go more than one or two nights with anything less than seven hours of sleep, i get sick. really, it's a good time. and by that i mean it's entirely inconvenient. especially when i have a week like this one i'm having where i wake up at 6:30 a.m., go to work, and go somewhere else straight after work.

it's also making me a bit nervous because i registered to run the thanksgiving day road race this year, completely impulsively, because i figured it would bring me some sort of motivation to know that i paid $20 to run a 5k. but i don't have any time (not to mention energy) to even get on the treadmill. and have i mentioned that the only time i've ran in the past three-ish months was for 10 minutes two weeks ago?

i'm going to die on thanksgiving. or i will end up spending more time walking than running, which is such a great way to spend $20 that i didn't really have.

in other news, i have this neat little feature set up on my itunes where an automatic playlist gets created/edited that includes all of the songs i've added to my library in the last week. i love this feature because it tells me what's new that i purchased and what's new that i've downloaded from noisetrade or other various (legal) free-download websites.

this week, i have three songs in my "recent" playlist.

sugar & the hi lows –– see it for yourself (single)

sugar & the hi lows is a new collaboration between two of my favorite 10 out of tenn members, trent dabbs and amy stroup. "see it for yourself" is the first and only single they have put out so far and it just came out yesterday! i've only listened to it a few times through, but i love it. i'm excited to hear their full-length album, which is due out on february 14.

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christina perri –– a thousand years (single)

i love her. her first single "jar of hearts" was on the radio for a while and i've heard her second single, "arms," played a few times as well, but neither of them were included in the regular rotation. i (impulsively) bought her album a while ago and it's pretty good. not amazing, but i enjoy listening to it. her new single "a thousand years" is bringing her a lot of attention though because it's included on the breaking dawn - part 1 soundtrack. i saw that it was released a few weeks ago, but i didn't really listen to it until yesterday, when i listened and then listened again and again and again. and then i bought it.

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Jesus culture –– come away (single)

i don't know if this is technically a single or not, but by "come away," i mean the song, not the album. we've sung it in church a few times, but we sang it in church this past sunday and i went right home and bought it so i could keep listening to it. it's such a great song and a nice reminder.

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the other thing i wanted to mention that's also been recently added to my itunes is the new fray video for "heartbeat." it's FREE on itunes this week, so go download it. i actually haven't had a chance to watch the entire thing yet, but it's definitely at the top of my list for today!

–– s