I really didn't get a new one, I already have three and DH thinks that is plenty. If you didn't guess already, it's lyrics...Saving Abel...they are performing in a tiny hole in the wall bar twenty minutes from my house tonight.
We LOVE live music, and neither of us had any idea they were even close! Who knew!?!? So, I rarely 'go out' and thus have no idea how to dress for such things...I am always very self-conscious about how I look, especially when I am out and about. In attempt to find non-mom, non-teacher, non-fat girl clothes suitable for a bar...I raided my teenage daughters' closets. Hey, closet raids can go both ways, right? I paid for all of it! Here is what I came up with.
Not bad for an over-weight, middle aged mom, eh?
The clothes on the counter are not mine, btw...they belong to DH.
We had an adventure today. Not really, but we tried. There is this waterfall that we have been wanting to see. We tried a few years ago to go, but took the convertible and the road was washed out. Needless to say, we didn't get there. We did get cute pics that day though...
Once again, the road was under water today and even though we had the truck, the gates were closed. Fail again. It was a nice drive on a beautiful afternoon though.
We also plotted out where our garden will be and made plans to get it started in the next few weeks. You can check out my post about our first garden (last year) here. This year it will go in the same place, but will be a double expansion of what it was before. Today, the garden space looks like this...
Oh, and I tried out a new braid today. I kinda like it.
blogging vacation. I can't believe it has been almost a month since I last posted! I don't really have any excuse, other than I just haven't felt the urge to blog like I usually do. There have been plenty of blogable moments, just no 'oomph' to get to actually blogging them! So, in a quick run-down, here's what has been going on during my time off...
I forgot to push the door all the way closed on the freezer. It froze over. We lost some food.
I've been crafting. A lot. J's Jingle Jangles is quickly building up stock and needing to make some more sales!
Lefty had All-Region Band and All-Region Jazz Band. She did terrific, as always.
Boo went to a masquerade party for a friend's 'Sweet 13' birthday. I don't have pics of her in her dress because she was at her dad's that night, but this was her gorgeous hair...
Today was a snow day. I know, I could've spent the day blogging and checking out all of the blogs that I have neglected visiting lately, but I didn't. I cooked 'freezer foods,' did laundry, tidied up a bit around the house, and that's about it.
Not too many people interest me enough for me to give them more than a fleeting thought on occasion, much less to be fascinated with them. That sounds harsh, but there are so many things to do, see, be in life; and not nearly enough time to get it all in while being consumed with thoughts of another person, especially one that probably does not give you a second thought either!
However, there is someone that I do give a good bit of thought to...my favorite singer in the world, Cris Brown. No not the woman beater Chris Brown...one of a different variety. This guy...
Now, I know for a fact that my Cris Brown does not think of me at all. I have been around him a total of maybe three or four times, for just a few minutes each time. He, however, is with me much of the time. In my car especially. There are times when there are three One Less Reason CDs in my 6 disc player. I love them. I especially love him. He writes. The most beautiful words. I love words. Especially ones like these...
All I've got are screams inside, but somehow they come out in a smile...
While you were adding me up, I never amounted to much, I'm just the person that needed you most...
Live it like you're alive, love it as if you were dying...
And every new beginning, comes from some other's end...
You had your mother's broken heart, your father's laughing eyes...
Was that just goodbye? You know I couldn't tell...a heart that's made of gold, doesn't mean that it's for sale...You taught me how to love, then set me up to fail...gave me prayers without the words, a cross without the nails...then let me go.
I left you in the sunshine, but missed you most in fall...
Cause life it hit so hard, that I couldn't breathe...
So much guilt that I couldn't cry...waiting for God and the words to save you...I should have got it right...on my first try.
You'd better hold me down, stand me up keep me safe while I'm falling to pieces...tell me how should I bend, when all I know is to break?
This man writes so beautifully, eloquently...and phrases the lyrics to his music so well, with intense emotion. His smile rarely reaches his eyes...when he does smile. I find myself wondering where he has been and what the hell he has seen and been through in his fairly short life. He is one of the very few people that has a talent that never fails to amaze me. I would most definitely love to sit down with him for a while and just talk...listen to him tell his story. His talent is even more impressive live; his intensity and passion can't be contained. If you haven't checked One Less Reason out from my previous posts...please do! They are definitely up and coming, about to bust loose on the airways! Catch a quick glimpse below...
"When words fail, music says it all." I saw this on a canvas in a 'catch-all' store the other day. To me, music can be a comfort, an instigator, an inspiration, or a deterrent. It can be many things, depending on what your soul needs that day. Mainstream music is not always my favorite. I am not one to listen to or even know what is on the radio most of the time. On occasion, I will get bored with my CDs, and may listen to the radio for a day or two while driving from this place to that, but for the most part, I am pretty set in my musical ways. At the present time, I do like Kesha, Lady Gaga, and Adam Levine (Maroon 5). I can handle a little bit of Bruno Mars, but only here and there. Everything he does sounds the same. My musical tastes run more along the lines of Breaking Benjamin, Seether, Evanescence, Three Doors Down, Fuel, Default, One Less Reason, Nickelback, Pink, Rhianna, Eminem, Saving Abel, Pop Evil, Lifehouse, the Fray, the Script, Avenged Sevenfold, Daughtry, Cavo, and this list could go on and on...but I only really like the original work put out by all of these bands/artists...not the edited versions. It irritates me no end to be listening to a song and it be bleeped throughout. That is probably why I do not particularly care for radio music!
It is so frustrating to me when artists change their original 'personality' to be more mainstream. Amy Lee with Evanescence has seemed to do that with her new release "What You Want." She's definitely not the only one either. I heard an interview with Jason Derulo a day or so ago, where he was talking about having to change lyrics in order for his work to be sold in Wal-Mart and Target. Argh. Seriously...say what you have to say...and don't let others (and/or money) change your originality.
Yep, you heard it correctly the first time. I do not have an IPod. As much as I love music, that's a little bit nuts! However, if I did, these songs would be on it!
...that I couldn't breathe. Those are lyrics from one of my favorite bands, One Less Reason, and they sum up where I have been for the last week. On Friday, Lefty and I had a conversation that pretty much slapped me upside the head and knocked me on my ass. I won't go into details now, not until some things are resolved, but some days it is all I can do just to function because my momma's heart is where-ever my babies are...and half the time they are not with me...so when I know things are right in their world and I can do nothing to fix it, I just do that; function.
So Lefty, as we will call my oldest daughter, went on a school band trip this weekend to participate in 'All-Region Band' for the first time. She is thirteen and has a passion for music of all varieties. I have been so impressed with her abilities and determination in musical pursuits. She began playing the trumpet in the sixth grade band, consistently maintaining 'first chair' throughout the past two years. I am no musician, although in the shower I sound like a rock star, so you can imagine the pride I have in her. I have learned a lot by observing her journey through band and budding awareness of music around her. 'First chair' means that the students in her group (instrument and section) compete on a piece of music to see who plays it with the most expression and fewest flaws. She also has been teaching herself the piano, accompanied by the occasional tinkering around on the drums.
Anyway, back to the weekend at hand...I have seen Lefty perform at various band functions, of course, but nothing prepared me for the emotion I felt as I watched her take the stage with a group of people she had not met until 24 hours prior to performance. I was nervous; I was proud; I was impressed. Think about it. These kids have never played together...a hundred 8th and 9th graders...coming together to read and perform music that they had never seen before...with seven hours of intense practice as their only preparation. Wow.
And then came the music nots. On the way home (an hour and fifteen minute drive by the way) Boo, which is what we are calling my youngest daughter, decided to sing. If she is being for real, she has a very sweet singing voice. If she has the sillies, she can sound like a farm animal in distress. Unfortunately for our ears, today she was not singing for real. So when Lefty got in the car, she too decided that she could sing...which she absolutely can not. It was rough to say the least, but hilarious. We came in the house laughing so hard we cried.
Today was a prime example of moments in life that are precious. What was your precious moment today?
