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i just finished watching obama's inaugural celebration which was pretty awesome. i'd love to play that gig someday. it felt so good to me to be reminded of how powerful music really is in the world. i'm gonna have to think about that whenever i'm lacking the motivation or questioning why i play music because most of the time, i hate the way i sound. i hate how behind i feel. i hate how i feel like my skills should be way better than they are. i miss being able to progress at such a rapid rate like i used to. i hope that i can get back into the swing of things again and get serious about improving myself. i want to take my harmonica playing to the next level, i want to learn as much as i can about chord progression and songwriting, and i want to sharpen my mind and be able to widen my capacity for knowledge (including memorizing song lyrics hahah).
wowzers, i have a lot of updating to do. well, i'm just going to start off with what's on my mind currently. kung fu hustle is on and it just started, hell yes. i found out today that ben folds is playing during mid-winter break (wednesday feb. 18th) at the michigan state theatre in ann arbor and then on saturday (the 21st) the koffin kats and the creepshow are playing at the magic stick. i don't know how but i'm going to both of those shows. we don't have school tomorrow but i still have to be up there before 2:30 for play practice. i'm in the ensemble for the production Annie hahahah.. i get to be a hobo with sam and justin, i'm very excited. i might be put in some other scenes but i'll talk about that later. i'm kind of upset that i won't be able to get a job soon because this play stuff is going to take up most of my time. i have no clue how i'll be able to go to prom, chicago for spring break, cedar point, and get money for whatever else. i am SO glad we had a four-day weekend thanks to the cold weather on friday. this week nearly killed me, i was soooo tired.
on the 6th, i went up to the school with sam to try out for annie. on our way in, i slipped and fell in the parking lot because of the ice. i scraped up my right knee and then just severely bruised my left one. my audition went well even though my knees were killing me and i could feel blood running down my leg. whatevs. lmao... so i stayed home for 3 days because my doctor's office couldn't get me an appointment until friday. on friday, i was on my way with my mom to my appointment and half a mile away, a boy in a taurus who had only been driving for about a year braked too late and slid straight into the main road. my mom tried to avoid him but we collided into the driver's side of his car and somehow did a 180. i hurt my shoulder so i ended up going to annapolis to have xrays done on my shoulder and my knees to see if everything was alright. no broken bones but i felt like shit lol. so yeah, that was a rough week. buuuut the following tuesday, justin and i got out of play practice early and him, kristin, my sister, and i drove to royal oak music theatre and saw monkey jacket, tip the van, streetlight manifesto, and REEL BIG FISH. ahhh what an AMAZING night, everything went unusually well, we had a great fucking time. i couldn't even believe that nothing held us up, we got there on time, nobody's parents were bitching, no car problems, nothing. and the crowd wasn't as routy and rough like the last time we saw RBF play there and we danced our asses off. we participated in conga lines and hung out with drew. =o)
i'm going to back up now toooo...christmas vacation. the 20th, i went to tita sis with drew, justin, kristin, and a bunch of other sweet people to celebrate dave gedert coming home from basic training for the holidays. phillipino food is awesome, followed by dave's ridonk stories, sledding, and then a bonfire at dave's place.
the next day, branden gave me my christmas present and took me out to dinner at bahama breeze. afterwards, we drove to auburn hills to see trans-siberian orchestra at the palace. they played for like 2 and a half hours and they sounded awesome. =o)
i hung out with sam three days in a row that week lmao.. we decorated cookies, played the wii, and had a blue christmas (oo-oo-o0o-oo0o-ooo0). santa was pretty good to me this year, i got a handful of gift cards from branden's family, a visa card and a weed money container from sam, a sexy picture of mr. depp from justin and kristin, a movie/dinner for two thing from drew, some candy from alex, and i think a few other things that i'm too tired to remember at the moment.
on the 30th, branden, sam, and i went to fairlane and hit up the MAC store. i bought post haste and orange which i'm very happy with. can't wait to get more stuff from there.
sam hosted the 3rd annual new year's eve party. kristin, justin, branden, drew, my sister, alex, and i celebrated and had a feast. we brought in the new year with will smith and we were later joined by jackie and dave. we played apples to apples while watching drunk people on CNN. acoopz looked attractive but not as attractive as my lesbo-in-crime sam. ;)
i think that this holiday break was probably the best that i've ever had. i'm really feeling good about life lately and it's a nice change. my relationship is kind of failing but it's not really bringing me down like i thought it would be. i guess it helps my mood that i know where i'm going to college, this school year is just breezing by and i'll be graduating soon, i'm content with my grades and i'm not having much difficulty keeping it that way (although i had a lot of catching up to do this past week), and my friends are the best in the universe. i'm finally feeling free from slipping into depression so easily for long periods of time. i haven't felt that way in a while actually. i'll get sad or upset about things but...i think i finally understand the concept of being able to make myself happy. there are things in my life that i enjoy doing and working hard for and knowing that i can improve my lifestyle and/or improve others makes me feel great. and i'm beginning to feel my creativity come alive again. the main thing i think i need to work on is just not getting lazy and not wasting time. i need to set small goals everyday when i wake up and stick to them. tomorrow, i'm going to do my homework, redo my sister's myspace layout (lol), and maybe i'll get to some of that icky college paperwork that i have to do really soon (yikes). ooh, and organize my files on here because shit's getting messy as fuhh on here. damn, i've been wanting to write in this for like 2 weeks now lol.. i feel a lot better now. shit, it's five minutes to 3am, i should probably get to bed.
wowzers, i have a lot of updating to do. well, i'm just going to start off with what's on my mind currently. kung fu hustle is on and it just started, hell yes. i found out today that ben folds is playing during mid-winter break (wednesday feb. 18th) at the michigan state theatre in ann arbor and then on saturday (the 21st) the koffin kats and the creepshow are playing at the magic stick. i don't know how but i'm going to both of those shows. we don't have school tomorrow but i still have to be up there before 2:30 for play practice. i'm in the ensemble for the production Annie hahahah.. i get to be a hobo with sam and justin, i'm very excited. i might be put in some other scenes but i'll talk about that later. i'm kind of upset that i won't be able to get a job soon because this play stuff is going to take up most of my time. i have no clue how i'll be able to go to prom, chicago for spring break, cedar point, and get money for whatever else. i am SO glad we had a four-day weekend thanks to the cold weather on friday. this week nearly killed me, i was soooo tired.
on the 6th, i went up to the school with sam to try out for annie. on our way in, i slipped and fell in the parking lot because of the ice. i scraped up my right knee and then just severely bruised my left one. my audition went well even though my knees were killing me and i could feel blood running down my leg. whatevs. lmao... so i stayed home for 3 days because my doctor's office couldn't get me an appointment until friday. on friday, i was on my way with my mom to my appointment and half a mile away, a boy in a taurus who had only been driving for about a year braked too late and slid straight into the main road. my mom tried to avoid him but we collided into the driver's side of his car and somehow did a 180. i hurt my shoulder so i ended up going to annapolis to have xrays done on my shoulder and my knees to see if everything was alright. no broken bones but i felt like shit lol. so yeah, that was a rough week. buuuut the following tuesday, justin and i got out of play practice early and him, kristin, my sister, and i drove to royal oak music theatre and saw monkey jacket, tip the van, streetlight manifesto, and REEL BIG FISH. ahhh what an AMAZING night, everything went unusually well, we had a great fucking time. i couldn't even believe that nothing held us up, we got there on time, nobody's parents were bitching, no car problems, nothing. and the crowd wasn't as routy and rough like the last time we saw RBF play there and we danced our asses off. we participated in conga lines and hung out with drew. =o)
i'm going to back up now toooo...christmas vacation. the 20th, i went to tita sis with drew, justin, kristin, and a bunch of other sweet people to celebrate dave gedert coming home from basic training for the holidays. phillipino food is awesome, followed by dave's ridonk stories, sledding, and then a bonfire at dave's place.
the next day, branden gave me my christmas present and took me out to dinner at bahama breeze. afterwards, we drove to auburn hills to see trans-siberian orchestra at the palace. they played for like 2 and a half hours and they sounded awesome. =o)
i hung out with sam three days in a row that week lmao.. we decorated cookies, played the wii, and had a blue christmas (oo-oo-o0o-oo0o-ooo0). santa was pretty good to me this year, i got a handful of gift cards from branden's family, a visa card and a weed money container from sam, a sexy picture of mr. depp from justin and kristin, a movie/dinner for two thing from drew, some candy from alex, and i think a few other things that i'm too tired to remember at the moment.
on the 30th, branden, sam, and i went to fairlane and hit up the MAC store. i bought post haste and orange which i'm very happy with. can't wait to get more stuff from there.
sam hosted the 3rd annual new year's eve party. kristin, justin, branden, drew, my sister, alex, and i celebrated and had a feast. we brought in the new year with will smith and we were later joined by jackie and dave. we played apples to apples while watching drunk people on CNN. acoopz looked attractive but not as attractive as my lesbo-in-crime sam. ;)
i think that this holiday break was probably the best that i've ever had. i'm really feeling good about life lately and it's a nice change. my relationship is kind of failing but it's not really bringing me down like i thought it would be. i guess it helps my mood that i know where i'm going to college, this school year is just breezing by and i'll be graduating soon, i'm content with my grades and i'm not having much difficulty keeping it that way (although i had a lot of catching up to do this past week), and my friends are the best in the universe. i'm finally feeling free from slipping into depression so easily for long periods of time. i haven't felt that way in a while actually. i'll get sad or upset about things but...i think i finally understand the concept of being able to make myself happy. there are things in my life that i enjoy doing and working hard for and knowing that i can improve my lifestyle and/or improve others makes me feel great. and i'm beginning to feel my creativity come alive again. the main thing i think i need to work on is just not getting lazy and not wasting time. i need to set small goals everyday when i wake up and stick to them. tomorrow, i'm going to do my homework, redo my sister's myspace layout (lol), and maybe i'll get to some of that icky college paperwork that i have to do really soon (yikes). ooh, and organize my files on here because shit's getting messy as fuhh on here. damn, i've been wanting to write in this for like 2 weeks now lol.. i feel a lot better now. shit, it's five minutes to 3am, i should probably get to bed.