It's February again and despite the long interval between my last post and now and the need I have to post all about the past 7 or 8 months, I'm going to celebrate this month of love with more of my random thoughts on all things romantic. Who out there will care besides me? Not many, but oh well!

So to start things off, a favorite song of mine. The Andrew Lloyd Webber song "Love Changes Everything" sung by Michael Ball really hits the nail on the head. Love makes us different people than we were before. I think that's true for all forms of love, but in romantic love it can send you reeling from what you knew. I think when you fall in love it can flip like a switch or be something that you just grow into comfortably, but when you realize it, your world is never the same. Everything is intensified and richer and and crazier and more beautiful that you'd ever imagined.

My favorite things about this song?
1) The line "Now I tremble at your name". Woo! How mushy is that? And the way he sings it? Forget about it!
2)The "list" of what love can do to you.
3)The storyline it seems to have of not only how you change when you fall in love, but as "off into the world we go" love still touches every part of life, good or bad.
4)The building crescendo and the big finish. Michael Ball's final note is so good! That voice is AMAZING!

I saw this video for the first time in about 1997. On a VHS tape. I love that I can watch it on YouTube now. It's sappy and over-dramatized and all that good stuff. The girl is beautiful and the costumes are gorgeous and I even love the car at the beginning. Enjoy!