Wanna give a girl some advice? I am looking for a cool band name for my husband. He and I sing, he plays accoustic and electric guitar, and we have a drummer who rocks. He doesn't get to play with us every time but when he does...dang.
Anyway, we are just having fun, not really trying to go pro, we just love to play and usually just play in coffee houses and stuff. But we would love to come up with a cool name! I thought it would be amusing to see what you guys come up with, so if you have any suggestions, please post! Remember, we are band with a DMB, Gavin Mcgraw type of style, so although we love punk and alternative music, that is not our personal playing style. So what names could we use??
Thanks everyone! I look forward to reading your ideas!!
Well Halloween is on the way and I still don't have a costume!! I need something to wear for a movie-themed party, but nothing trashy because I also have a kid party I am hosting and I would love to just wear one costume. Anyone got any ideas? I need a female costume that would not cost too much. Maybe even something I could make!
Other than that I am just enjoying my semester of classes. I think things are going really well so far. But I am already ready for Thanksgiving break!! My hubby and his dad and our friend Rich are all running a full marathon on Thanksgiving day!! And his mom and sister are doing the half! I feel like such a lazy bum but I depise running. Yes, I was the girl who always tried to talk her way out of running laps in high school! I mean, c'mon, it sucks! But I don't feel too bad because I have been working out this semester. Just at a gym, on an elliptical machine, and lifting weights. And that is fun because I can do it with my friend Elizabeth.
Well you all have a Happy Halloween and let me know what you think about the costume!! I need all the help I can get.
So I am about to slip some nyqui l into the drinks of my dear sweet camp children! JK They are great kids but it is our last couple of days and we are trying to get ready for the big play on Friday, which I am stressfully in charge of, and they are wild as ever. One kid, after telling him not to play around and jump on the risers eneded up finally falling off and hurting his knee. He just wouldn't listen. But we get to have a Pizza Party on Friday so that will be fun.
So I think working with children has started to mess with me! I not only keep telling my husband I'll be back, I have to go "potty", but then I threw a dinner party last night and used the term "yucky." I gotta get out of this job! Only two more days... can I get rid of this lingo now?? I can't start back college sounding like this! LOL
Well I painted my wall in my living room victorian red! It looks so cool. Ver artsy and trading spaces looking! I have the red wall with the black couch and crazy colored lamps. It is very fun.
I now must go take a bath and hope that it will relive the great tension from my body. I feel like I am typing a report that has to be turned in in an hour. I think I should drink less coffee... :) But how would I survive??
Well I got residency so I don't have to drop any classes. I am really pumped about finally going back to school. I want to get done so I can finally become a famous novelist! Or editor, or PR rep. Who knows? I certainly don't but I do want to be done with school.
And I want a baby!!!
Not now. Definitely not now...but it sucks because I am afraid it is going to take me over the two years to finish and I want to have kids right after I graduate. I know I know, I am only 22 and so that would only make me 24 or 25 when we have children. Very young these days. But I have seen my aunt who was 30 having her first baby and she is exhausted. I want to still have the energy to be a fun mom and I want to have like three kids so that would put me at 28 or 29 and still having my babies. I want to still have my dark hair when they graduate high school.
Anyway, I think I am just overloaded because my good friend just had a baby and my friend who is younger than me is wanting to start her family soon. She decided not to go to college and just has her own business. Very cool and she gets to have babies. But I don't know what I am saying. I guess I will feel badly when she is having babies and I am waiting. She has voiced how she thinks it is a bad idea to wait and go back to school. So I just let it get to me, ya know?
Well I hope I actually get a comment from someone. I just depressed myself!! LOL I am going to chill now and watch king of queens! I love that show...
UNCC here I come!! :D I am so excited to be going back to college. I had to take a year off because we moved to a new state, and it is sooo expensive to go to school when you are considered an out of state resident. I have filled out and coppied off more documents than I care to remember to try and prove that I am now officially a resident. I have lived here 13 months now and that should qualify me, darn it!! :x
So even though I am still waiting to hear the verdict on that, I am already signing up for classes in hopes that I will be able to go full time in the fall. I got bumped back to sophomore because I lost 20 credits when I transferred, but that's okay, I just want to get this stuff done!
My good friend just had a baby! She is so cute!! They now have three little girls!! I told Ron (the dad) that he better get a male dog because he is horribly outnumbered and will need another male around! Especially when they are teenagers! They named the baby Sophia Louise Brown after her grandmother and great grandmother. She is the tinest thing!! Only 6 lbs 9 ounces!
My babies will never be that tiny. I weighed 9 12 at birth and my husband weighed 10 lbs!! We are going to have such giant babies! But that is okay. They will be healthy! :wink:
Speaking of healthy, I ran/walked like two miles today. But that is not much!! Because our family, on thanksgiving this year is participating in a marathon and half marathon. Michael and his dad will run the marathon and his mom and sister and i are supposed to do the half. I am not a good runner! I could walk it probably with no problem but running just sucks for me! I am really trying though because I want to get in shape and I really would feel terrible if I was the only one not doing it. Ah, peer pressure! LOL
Well I have a great Saturday to enjoy, so I am going to go read. I got new mystery books from the library. Ed Mc Bain seems like a really great author but I am just starting with his stuff.
Things are awesome with my new summer camp job. The kids are really sweet (most of the time!) and besides I got a $2/hr raise from when I was just doing after school. Definitely cool!
The whole job juggling scenerio is still running me ragged right now though, and I am looking forward to when it becomes routine and I get used to it. With Michael and I both having two jobs for the summer, it is hard to have time together. But we find ways! :wink:
I am really tired so I think I will make this entry short. Hope everyone is having a wonderful week so far. Good Night!
Well it has been a REALLY long time since I wrote anything. I am so tired tonight that I am suprised I even want to write now but I just feel like putting my thoughts in writing.
I have one more week of teaching and then I will FINALLY get a much needed vacation. Michael and I are going to Louisiana to visit his parents, who I love and am very excited about seeing. I love having cool in laws. I realize this is a blessing. But anyway we are stopping over in Atlanta overnight on the way there to spend the night in a hotel for our two year wedding anniversary. I am really excited because we can never afford to stay over night anywhere and I am looking forward to the privacy of being away from home where the phone rings off the hook.
And I really want to swim in the indoor pool! :) Guilty pleasures.
My husband and I are making each other gifts for our anniversary, so I am trying to be creative. I really don't have a lot of ideas right now though since I am brain dead from teaching. Today was so horrible- the middle school kids were downright nasty to me today. I don't understand why they have to act like that, but I know it is just one of those phases they have to go through. :roll: But I love them...really...
I am high lighting my hair again, which is awesome because I have been a red head for a year, but I think for the summer I am going back to some blonde. The sun is trying to bring out my natural color anyway so why fight it.
So if you have any good blonde jokes, please feel free to leave them in my comment box! :lol: After growing up my whole life with them, this past year of having red hair was a nice break...but I am actually missing the jokes. After all, they're hilarious!!
It has been awhile since I wrote! I have been busy working and trying to organize things for Easter and preparing things for this summer. I am running the summer program at the school I work at. It is really exciting! I have never done a summer school thing. We get to go on tons of field trips and stuff. It will be great!
I am also working on writing skits for a drama ministry at our church. I think it will be so fun!
We went to Nashville for spring break! It was sooo cool! I got to see all our friends from college there and visit our favorite hang out spots that I hadn't been to in so long. It was awesome. Plus we got to meet our best friend's new girlfriend. She is so cute! I am really happy for him. I hope they will stay together through the summer. That is always hard- long distance and all. And she is from Alaska!! Wow! That's far.
Well I am not wasting my whole Friday night blabbing. I have a husband to enjoy! :D
Today was good, I taught third grade today and they are fun. I am feeling a little sick now which sucks because I need to sing on Sunday! I hope it will be just a little thing.
I watched a movie called Lost in Translation today. It is an indy film and I know that means it is fifty fifty on whether I will like it or not.
Well this movie was a well made movie but sooo depressing. It was really slow and very serene. Very lonely. Like I want to be depressed when I watch a movie...I fight that feeling often and feel no need to impose it on myself through a boring movie.
I am planning a trip back to Nashville to visit all the friends I had to leave when we moved here! That will be so awesome. I haven't seen them in almost a year now.
For now I am going to get some sleep and hopefully fight this throat infection I feel coming on. ' Night! :D
Well my week is once again planned pretty tightly but I am excited because I am subbing third grade twice this week. A little extra money and a little more time with my kiddies! I teach afterschool every day and sometimes it is so hard to keep coming up with activities and crafts to do with them! I love it though and the web really has a lot of ideas.
My kids were kinda crazy yesterday though! Monday Madness I guess. I couldn't get them to just have fun and stop arguing and crying! Poor things. I have way to large an age range. I have my cute little 4 year olds all the way to 6th graders! Too much! The older kids are good kids but God blessed me with a passion for younger children, at least for now. I try to get my older friends to help me out with the younger ones.
ANYWAY church was awesome yesterday. We are really pumped because Mike Minter of the Carolina Panthers (we are in Charlotte) is coming to preach next Sunday. That will be really cool. I am trying to figure out what instrument I want to learn next. I only know keyboard, but even that I am limited on. I grew up singing all the time but I am just now really growing musically in other areas. Having the worship leader as my wonderful husband helps! :D
Well I am going to plan a St. Patrick's Day Party for my kids and for my apartment complex too so I better get busy!
This is my first year here in NC and I had no idea the weather was so unpredictable! We had a huge snow storm that got us out of school for a couple days, and then a week later we are outside playing in 70 degree weather!! What is up with that? Well for now it is in the 50's and I am just dying for warmer weather to be a more constant thing.
Spring is almost here and I have never had that urge to do spring cleaning until this year. All of a sudden I have this complete annoyance with all the cluttered spaces, dust bunnies and old junk stuffed in the closet we never use. I feel like my mother! :) Not a bad thing but as a kid I wondered how anyone could be prompted to work (and to make their kids work) on a beautiful day!
I got to babysit for the sweetest little boy last night. He is only like 1 yr. and didn't cry the whole time until it was time for him to go to sleep, and even then he just laid in my arms and drifted off in between tears. He smiles all the time and if so fun to play with. It is so hard to resist the urge to want one of my own when I am around cuties like that!! But I must fight it for now!!
Alright, enough procrastination. I gotta get lunch ready for Michael before he gets home. I love him so much!!
My head is spinning my body is weak how gorgeous you are glistening in the candlelight you wrap me in your arms I feel unafraid...captivated... [b]Beautiful[/b] Nothing else matters, as long as you are with me I will always smile...
My day was actually less traumatic today! We got the car fixed and even though we are $250 poorer at least the thing works now!
We went to a college worship thing tonight which was really cool...except the guy talked too much. I appreciate a good lesson but he really rambled and I just wanted to worship! Which I did during the music part. It was so amazing. Nothing is more intimate that worshipping to music. The band was amazing but more than that, God really moved tonight.
[b]It helped me realize that it doesn't matter if bad things happen, because God is my shelter and He is faithful, so I have nothing to fear.[/b]
I heard from a dear friend tonight too, which is why I am still awake this late. Our best man from the wedding called. It was so good to talk to him. We are planning a trip to Nashville to see him and our other old friends from back home there soon. When spring break rolls around. That will be so Awesome!!!
Ok, I know my good days probably aren't quite as interesting so I will go for now. Need...sleep...zzzzzz.
Today was truly the day from hell. First, I got lost uptown...then in desparation from trying to find my stupid doctor appointment I decided to park in front of this shopping area and walk to find it. I found the doctor but when I left 20 min later my car was gone. It got towed. Apparently it was parked in a private parking lot. What on earth??? There was a little sign far away from my car that said that. I was alone, no cell phone...it sucked. I finally got picked up and when we went to get my car and I took Michael back to work, the stupid thing DIES on us. The alternator is screwed.
Does it stop there??? Ooooh no! So we get it to start after church tonight and try to drive it home, and the thing dies half way there for good this time. We have to walk FOUR miles at night all the way home because it is way too late to call anyone. I was in my heeled boots too! I don't know if I will ever wear the stupid things again... :x
Tomorrow had better be a good day or I might just snap!!! Take care everyone- I am going to bed!!!
Today was sooo busy! I am trying desparately to track down my W2 form from when I lived in Nashville. People have been giving me the run around for weeks! :x
But it will be worth it when I can finally get the money to go back to school in the fall. I want to be a sign language interpreter. Too bad I am really close to having an english degree! I changed my mind late in the game. But hey, I will be even better off being an interpreter with a bachelor's in something.
This snow has made alll my kids (at school) completely psycho!! Two days off school and they become hyper terrors running on the ceilings!! Ah, but ya gotta love 'em....
I am looking into going to a support group for all my stress and anxiety. There is one for adult children of alcoholics so I am going to try that (since I am one). But I have never done this before so I'm a little freaked about it. Like if I go I will only feel more like an abnormal weirdo rather than feeling better...but it is better than sitting at home thinking about illogical crap, right?? At least I will get to talk! I do love to do that!! :wink:
Today has been a lazy day...just when I was feeling overworked God sent me some snow to get me out of work for the next two days!!! Hehehe.
Seriously, it is like 6 inches and still coming down. And just this week I had my class (afterschool kids) outside playing in the nice weather. This place is crazy. But hey, working at a school has major advantages- all holidays, spring breaks, and snow days off! Unless you consider that those are days I don't get paid...but who cares? Today I am enjoying the break.
Michael and I had a snowball fight today! Fun!! I am trying to think of something exciting and romatic to do tomorrow. Why? I just watched Moulin Rouge and romances always make me that way. That movie is amazing but horribly tragic. But we own it because it is so well made. We are big film buffs.
Speaking of which we are pumped about the Passion movie coming out- we are going to see it on Sunday. Gosh I just know it is going to be so sad. It really does amaze me that there is so much talk about it all. I think it is great! Even if you want to whine about too much violence, you can't deny that dying on a cross is not some glorified beautiful event- it is horrible! And the truth will set you free. Ok I have ranted enough about that...wait one more thing what is UP with people complaining about how gory it is when they will sit and watch every bloody action movie and horror torture movie out there?? Because it really happened to God himself because of his love for us? I guess I will have more to say when I have seen it. But anyway it is cool that people are interested in hearing about Jesus for whatever reason.
Alright people, I am going to go take a nice hot bubble bath and thaw out from the snow. Love you!! Til tomorrow, bye! :wink:
Today I am actually trying to get a lot of work done. Can't you see me working on it...hehehe. I am trying to get more organized so my work won't overwhelm me so much.
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I have been trying not to feel depressed lately. I really hate being so focused on myself when I would rather be doing good for other people and having fun. But I can't stop looking in the mirror and wondering what I need to do to look beautiful. I spent so much time yesterday working on myself that I did not get my apartment clean, and to make matters worse, all that work still didn't make me feel beautiful. I guess it really is working on the inside that makes the difference. That unfortunately takes even longer. But I am working on it.
Alright I am going to get started on my day. Hope you all have a good one! :)
:? I am a little frustrated today because I cannot get anything to work on my blog. Like, my tip of the day disappeared and my sparkle trailer for my cursor... Grrrr.
But I had a great day with my friend Chris. She is so awesome! I am so glad to have found a girl to hang out with. I don't have a lot of girlfriends, except all the wives at church...but somehow I am not clicking with them like i am with Chris, who is single. But I think its because she and I have had similar experiences in life. We both grew up in alcoholic homes and have self esteem issues. We had a blast picking out stuff at thrift stores for our homes. I am redecorating my living room but I don't have any money to spend on it!! Oh well! I just have to be creative. Anyone got a black couch they want to give me! Hehehe. :P
Alright I am going to take a shower and get ready for band practice. I think I am playing keyboard and singing tomorrow. Have a great day everyone!!!!!
:o I have been a little stressed lately because my jobs are adding more and more to my agenda (without more pay I might add!!) and I am constantly trying to keep up with my house work. Now I don't know what I was thinking- I thought when you get married you just magically transform into super house-cleaning gourmet -cooking wonder-woman. But strangely enough that hasn't happened yet! :roll: Go figure!
So if anyone has suggestions on how to get housework under control, PLEASE leave me a comment! Luckily I married the greatest man on earth and he loves me and doesn't really care about me being all those things. But I figure I better get them mastered before we have kids or I will be a basketcase!
ANYWAY, I was going to say that if any of you are suffering from serious anxiety or stress like me, I bought this book called [u]Deadly Emotions[/u] by Don Colbert, M.D. and it is helping! It is all about how stress, when not controlled, can be very dangerous to your health and it gives you advice on how to manage your stress levels. I am not done reading it yet but so far it is good.
Ok, I hope everyone has a great day! I will write again later!
Today has been a great Valentine's Day thus far...even if I did have to get up early! :) We went to this awesome marriage seminar with people from church. It was so awesome because Gary and Michael Smalley (father and son) spoke and they are amazing marriage counselors and writers.
My sweet husband got me a box of chocolates even though we promised not to spend any money! So that was cool. He is cooking dinner for me tonight so it will be very fun!
But what is up with our weather?! Yesterday was gorgeous and today it is nasty out there. Guess we just have to stay inside! LOL :wink:
Well I am going to go check out some other people's blogs, so until later, adios and Happy Vday!
:lol: I guess I should explain what the yellow guy is on my journal! He is The Cheat from homestarrunner.com- a hilarious site if you like quirky cartoon things. The Strongbad emails are the best. But you gotta understand- it will seem strange at first but it is highly addictive if you can get into it. Okay...for real this time I am going to bed. I think!
I am really excited about starting my own online journal...and I know right now it might suck! I am very new to doing this so you'll have to be patient. Meanwhile, I will give my visitors a quick summary of myself-
I am married, living in NC and loving it. I lead worship with my husband at our church, teach at an elementary school in the afternoons, and work as the apartment complex's activities director.
Okay, are you people still here?? Good. My life does get more interesting. Really. :wink:
Today I am trying to figure out what all we are going to do for V-day tomorrow. We are not spending money this year because we are trying not to go broke! So I am trying to think of "fun" and creative ways to enjoy our day. I want to find some crazy games to play or something! Michael is cooking dinner for me so that will be romantic. Well I guess I should get some sleep since we have to get up early! That's all for now.
