A short post from a not so short person.

A conversation from the other day with my dad, while I was baking cookies, and he was cleaning:

Me: Hey dad! What cd should I put on?

Dad: Hmm...OH! That one..Five...five...

Me:..FIVE SCORE AND SEVEN YEARS AGO? BY RELIENT K?

Dad: YEAH! I love that one!




Gotta love my dad. My mom is the same way. My mom told me I should listen to Switchfoot more often when she is around. haha. My dad is upset that he has his play performance on the night of the Eleventyseven concert next week. I pretty much have the coolest parents ever.





I will leave you with the words of Stellar Kart...Life is good, eternal life is better!

=D

Untitled.

What to say, what to say....
I have been working alot lately. I like my job surprisingly alot. Well, maybe not the job, but the people there. The day I leave Happy Jack's will be bittersweet. Emphasis on bitter.
I have always told myself that the day they build an Old Navy in McHenry, I'd apply there. And look at that. Right as I'm enjoying my current job, they start building an Old Navy. I would probably start at around $2 more an hour there than I make now. I would get a discount on clothes. I would get some experience on the fashion industry(ish), and it would help me for my future career(possibly. that's only if I do decide to go into fashion design.) Sounds like all systems go, right? Ahhhhhh. I think I'll stick with HJ's, because I'm almost a manager, I know what I'm doing, and it's flexible. I would hate to have to start learning a new job from scratch again. Maybe I'll just get two jobs......
Here are three shows that I'm most likely going to in October:
Oct 6th: Eleventyseven/Matthew West
Oct 19th: Underoath/Every Time I Die/Maylene and the Sons of Disaster
Oct 30th: Paramore/The Almost/The Starting Line

Oh man. I can't wait. Then comes November...and RELIENT K AND SWITCHFOOT!

Sorry for the randomness. I really have nothing else to say at the moment.




Should I cut like 6 inches off my hair?

Still Great The 8th Time Around.

So I saw Relient K on tuesday. Again.
Kim and I left around 2, and got to madison in lightning fast time around 3:30. It took us until 4 to actually find the stage and/or parking though. Hey, at least we pretty much know madison like the backs of our hands now.
We parked and walked over to the stage, which was still getting assembled. There were only a couple fans there, including a girl that Kelly and I had met at the Rave show. Kim and I decided to go find some grub, and ran into good ol' Relient K. They were walking down the street, and I said "Hey" and they said "Hey how's it goin?" as they passed. After getting some hot dogs with Kim, we headed back to the stage to secure our front row spots. Somehow I always end up in front of Hoopes. I think 6 out of the 8 times I've seen them that's how it's been. Strange. Then I glanced over to the street and did a double take, because I spotted Kelly and April! I ran over to them screaming. What can I say, I was happy to see them! They were like "Surprise!" They definitely drove 7 1/2 hours to see this show. Now that's fan dedication.
Next we went back to our front row spots, and April and Kelly said they would be front row by the time the show starts. Kelly said she didn't drive 7 1/2 hours for SECOND row. The girls next to us proceeded to push right back when we tried to make room, we even asked them to make room, considering they had plenty. The girl from the Rave refused, I think it was because she wanted to be right in front of Thiessen(no surprise there.) When The Last Goodnight started, Kelly and April made their mad dash for front row, and succeeded. Now all four of us were front row, and everything was better. Relient K came on, and only had a 40 minute set. They did about 5 songs, and had to skip to Be My Escape because Matt T's guitar wasn't working. Then the crowd screamed for an encore(the usual), and they got his guitar working, and played a few more songs. Hoopes tossed me his pick and I nabbed a set list and some posters that some girls were handing out and that completed the show.
Kim and I went over to talk to Jon, and I got my picture with him, because he was the only RK-er that I didn't get my picture with at Sonshine.
Then Jon spotted April and Kelly before we could and we went over and chatted with them some more. As Jon left, Matt T came over to say bye to Kelly and April. He recognized me and we all talked for a little bit. I snapped a picture for Kelly and April, as always. I think I should have a uniform that says "Kelly and April's personal Relient K Photographer."
Then we said goodbye and Kelly and April left for MN. Kim and I went back to the good ol' Illinois and after getting lost by missing our exit, were glad to be home when we finally arrived.
It was a good day.

Let's give 'em something to blog about.

Why can't I sing? Why can't I play guitar better by now? Why did I stop at 5 years of piano?

It's a secret wish of mine to be in a band on tour. After going to so many shows, being stage crew at shows, and meeting so many cool people in bands, I envy their lifestyle. Sure, they may be tired, worn out, and homesick the whole time, but I personally think it would be worth it.

Hopefully I can continue to develop my guitar skills past the point of just the basics. Then I can really RocK out.

Singing, on the other hand, may take a little more work than merely practicing.


Listen to Eisley. Now. My personal favorite and high recommendation is the song I Wasn't Prepared. [which I can totally play on the guitar now, let me hear a "boo-ya!"]

An attempt at Emo-ness.

Sometimes I wonder, if I called some people with any phone number than my own, they would actually pick up?
My homeschool group this year consists of people I don't know too well/don't hang out with, friends who I consider as friends...but the feeling isn't too mutual, and friends that I have hurt or there has been drama with in the past. Yay me, what a great senior year. Well, there are exceptions. There are some people who are really awesome and wish I could've hung out with this summer. :) But back to the emo-vibe, I actually feel like I can connect with my work friends easier than my christian friends sometimes, and that is discouraging. Why do girls have to make such a big deal out of everything? Why can't we just let go of the past? [I speak in the overall-general sense, not any specifics.] Guys are so much easier to get along with. But if I hang out solely with guys, all the girls create more drama by hating me and considering me a "flirt." Why can't we all just get along....
Who knew homeschool had this much drama?

Your typical spiel.

So the retreat was amazing. I adored rappeling down cliffs that towered over Devil's Lake. Most of the time on Sunday our group just sat on a perfect area, some flat rocks on a cliff surrounded by woods with a view of the entire lake. It was incredible. David came up with a very true analogy that I thought was worth mentioning on here, even though he doesn't read blogs(that I know of). Well as we were all sitting up on the cliffs, there were dozens of hawks circling and soaring over the lake. Apparently hawks can't fly by just flapping their wings, because they are so big in comparison to their bodies. They have to rely completely on the wind to blow under their wings to keep them from plummeting to their deaths. That is kind of how we are as humans in the sense that we can't "fly" on our own. We aren't strong enough to keep ourselves from falling to our deaths(so to speak), and we need to rely on God entirely to keep us soaring.
So yeah, that explanation just struck me as cool. A retreat was exactly what I needed revive and rejuvenate my walk with Christ. And the fact that there was 0% drama the entire time was a definite plus.

In other news, I finally found someone to buy my Ipod Nano from me. Now I can get the 30gig one that I have wanted for oh so long!

Things are great here.