Ok, so I totally thought it'd be romantic comedy....

The Movie Of Your Life Is A Cult Classic

Quirky, offbeat, and even a little campy - your life appeals to a select few. But if someone's obsessed with you, look out! Your fans are downright freaky. Your best movie matches: Office Space, Showgirls, The Big Lebowski

If Your Life Was a Movie, What Genre Would It Be?

My Brother's Duel (title of song)

Gabcast! My music #1


Ok, this is a link to a very poorly done soundbyte of a song I wrote. I'm sorry for the crudeness, I'm working on getting it improved.

Dealing with the Stress.

Ok, so here's what's going on in my life. I've got a vocal competition I'm entered in on Saturday. I have a presentation to do in class thursday (this one's cake). I have a five page paper due Monday. I have a ten page paper due two weeks from Thursday. I have german homework nearly every night from a prof who seems to think we have nothing better to do than to bask in German. I have voice juries, essentially my major finals, in three weeks, and finals week in four weeks. In amongst this, I am planning a wedding, and I've begun working at Ace Garden Center again. The garden center opens friday, so everyone, including me, is putting in extra hours to make sure we meet that deadline. We are also apartment hunting right now. Life is fun.

Fortunately, my boss gave me tonight off, and I admittedly skipped german, but I called a friend to find out about the homework, and there is none. So tonight, I've had somewhat of a break. Yes, I should have spent some of it working on papers and my voice stuff, but it was nice to have recuperation time. Chris and I did look at some invitations, but we didn't get very far, which is ok. Tomorrow the craziness will begin again, and much too early I might add, for me to stay up this late, but oh well. I'm enjoying my breather. I'm going to read a chapter in my book, and then go to bed.

You get to vote!

Ok, as you can all see, I've finally updated my blog. With this update, I've decided to change the picture of me from me in high school to me now. Here's the catch. I took a few in photo booth, with effects, that I may want to use. If enough of you vote, I'll probably listen to you on which one to pick. If very few vote, I'll pick it myself. So vote!

Y'all wanna see something funny?

Ok, so first of all, I got a haircut. The haircut looks nice, I like it, but it's shorter than most people have seen on me in awhile. This fact, combined with the fact that I bought those overnight curlers just for fun, yeah, well, hilarity ensues. Apparently you are only to use these things when you have extremely long hair, as I did when I was younger. In any case, I thought I"d share the pictures with all of you before I wet my hair down to tame it and go to work.







Update: Ok, so I didn't feel like showering, as I showered just before bed last night, and so here's my hair after two bands and a bit of straightening balm. :)

Woody Woodpecker

This is the woodpecker I saw outside my window today. There's a tree that grows maybe 2 1/2, 3 feet from my window, and he pecked at the base of it. When he saw me taking pictures of him, he started to play peek-a-boo, but at least this picture turned out!

Carter Burke

Yay! This is my new nephew, Carter Burke! Isn't he adorable?? He's one week and one day old today. :) Top picture is him with Cody and Susan, his parents.

Well, for all of you who didn't know, I was in an opera recently, and I thought I'd post a few pictures. The last show was last night, and while I'm sad that we won't be doing any more shows, I'm also relieved that we're done.

Also, I've got big news! I have a nephew! Susan had her baby on Thursday, March 22nd. His name is Carter Burke, after his father, Cody Burke, and he was 8 lbs. 3 oz. and 20 inches long. I haven't gotten to see him yet, but I can't wait!


Ok, here's some pictures of the opera...hopefully pictures of Carter to follow soon!

Ok, I know it's been awhile, but I thought I'd post this quick. I thought it was hilarious, especially since I"m part of that nintendo generation.

Just so y'all know, wedding plans are pulling together. We have a caterer, and almost have the menu nailed down. We have narrowed invite choices down to a few different options, and all the other big stuff has been taken care of for now.

Classes are kind of crazy, but they're steady crazy, since not much changes week to week, there's just a lot. The opera premieres a week from today, so all next week we're rehearsing every night, building set, and getting costumes together. It should be very fun... we're doing Trial By Jury, if I hadn't mentioned that before (I"m sure I have), and it's in english, so yay! Ok, that's all for now, I need to go eat lunch and rehearse for my lesson.

I found this quite funny, given that the date doesn't exist.

Your Birthdate: February 31

You're a pretty traditional person. If it's lasted, it's probably good. You seek stability - both in your career and your romantic relationship. In return, you're very loyal and predictable. Which is usually a good thing. Without a partner, you feel lost. Being with someone is very important to you. Your strength: Your dependability Your weakness: You hate being alone Your power color: Midnight blue Your power symbol: Shell Your power month: April

What Does Your Birth Date Mean?

Admission.

Alright everyone, it's time I let you in on a not-so-secret secret. I have another blog, which I call my weight loss journal. It catalogues my workouts and random diets. I've had it for quite awhile now, but didn't want to make it public knowledge. Now it is. I'm making it such for accountability, so that I know more people are actually reading it, and I actually keep posting. I've been better recently, and I intend to continue on this trend, which is why I'm announcing this...you'll find the link over in my links menu, as soon as I finish this post and update it. Feel free to comment, good, bad, suggestions, tips, whatever you please. Whatever messages are left, I promise not to get upset or offended. :) Ok, there's my little intro to it. Check it out!

P.S.
Chris's link in the links column is now fixed as well...sorry it took so long!

Happy Birthday Cody! Happy soon to be birthday Sara! :)

Yes I promised I'd update soon, so here it is.

Lately, I've been working on wedding planning. We've had to move the wedding date, yet again. This time it is finalized, and it is set officially for the 14th of July. We've booked a gorgeous reception hall, and the church is great as well. I made an appointment with Monica of Cakes by Monica. We go in Thursday at 3:30. Besides that, tomorrow I'm going to stop down to the flower shop that's doing our flowers and officially put down a deposit, or whatever I need to do to reserve their services. Hopefully tonight I can figure out what I want to have for my bouquet so I can just get everything written down. Once I figure out my bouquet, then we can get the corsages and boutonnieres worked out, since they'll probably be flowers from either my bouquet or the bridesmaid's bouquets. So yeah...that's my wedding planning so far.

On another note, I got another computer. My laptop was slowly dying. I couldn't do the basic functions I needed to for my classes, and since this will be a computer-intensive semester for me, this was a problem. I invested in an iMac, which is a desktop mac, and it's got a beautiful 20" widescreen display, and no tower! That was the cool thing to me. The entire computer is housed behind the screen, so it's nice and space saving, and I actually have room to do homework on my desk again. What a concept!

Right now I've pictures I took this summer of montana and seattle cycling through as the background on my desktop. It's pretty.

I should be reading my Music History textbook right now, but I really just plain don't want to. I will before I go to bed, because I basically just don't want to get more behind than I already am on reading. I'm ten pages behind. It doesn't matter all that much, because we aren't graded on reading, but it does help for me to pay attention in class more, because then I actually can follow what my prof is talking about.

I may work on Elythra tonight. I haven't done that in awhile. Y'all can comment or e-mail me if you want to know more about Elythra, I'm not going to go into that here, it'd take too long.

Right now, I think I'm going to change to pj's and clean up my room a little, maybe work out a bit. Goodnight all!

Well, here we go again. Schools back in session, and I'm officially avoiding homework. Right now, I'm going to run to Hy-Vee. Groceries, etc. are a good excuse to avoid it for at least a little bit longer. :)

So here I am, sitting in my parent's living room, watching You, Me and Dupree with my little sister and her boyfriend Charlie. I like the movie, but I really wish I was in Vermillion. I'm a little bit bored here, and I've got stuff to do in Vermillion...not stuff that can't wait, but stuff I'd still like to get done, nonetheless. Oh well...I'll just lounge around and do nothing for a bit longer.

Fishy! Wake Up!

Fishy, Wake up! Why are you sleeping??

Ok, I feel like Darla off of Finding Nemo right now. Let me tell you about my recent pets. Well, you all remember Thekthi? Well, Thekthi died over thanksgiving break. I think I gave him a concussion when I changed his water, since there's a rock on the bottom of the bowl, and when I put him back in the tank after changing the water, he hit his head on it. He died two days later.

After that, I meant to get more fish, but I decided to go with goldfish this time around. I waited awhile, and I just bought them Tuesday night. I had not even named them before they were floating belly up. Chris told me that I could return them within 24 hours and get new fish in exchange, so that's what I did. I decided to go with larger fish, in hopes that they would be healthier and live longer. Chris and I named them Orange Juice and Coffee, since one was orange and one was black. They died within about four hours.

After that, I wasn't gonig to get any more fish for awhile, but I decided to try one more time. I got two more large fantail goldfish, and I named them Milk and Cookie. (One was white, one was orange and white.) They died by after about six hours.

Tonight, I returned my fish, and got the money back. After returning fish to Wal-Mart three times in four days, I've officially given up on fish for now.

Another Panda Dog.

I found another picture of that dog...but I still can't find out what breed it is! Oh well...this one looks older than the last one.

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Midland   "You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.
The Inland North
The Northeast
Philadelphia
The South
Boston
The West
North Central
What American accent do you have? Take More Quizzes

Free points to the person who finds the pic of a guy in my blog template. I didn't put him there, for the record...the guy who's picture it is designed the template...anyway, kudos to whoever finds it.

Exhaustion.

Ok. I have to work in the morning, at 9 am, and I'm seriously considering staying up later. I'm exhausted though, and I have no reason to stay up. What is this? Is this just me missing freshman year when I could stay up as late as I wanted on Friday nights because I had nothing to do on Saturdays? I am such a slacker. I haven't even worked on my homework...though I have painted a pumpkin for the guy I'm a secret santa for in Choir...we all were supposed to paint a pumpkin. Anyway, I'm really tired, yet I'm staying up. Oh well...maybe I'll head to bed soon...we'll see.

New blog....and panda dog.

As you all can tell, I decided to change the look of my blog a bit...I was going to do a different template, that I really like a lot better, but it had some bad code, so we're working on fixing that. Meanwhile, I do like this one as well, so it's here to stay for awhile.

Amanda, I saw these pictures, and I thought of you. Were you to get a dog, this would be the one to get. Yes, it really is a dog.




P.S. I don't know where the title of the blog went, but I'll deal with that later, when I don't have homework to finish. I'll add my links back in too...the links that are there are the default ones for this template....one's the guy who designed it, so if you like it, feel free to check it out...he's got some really incredible ones....be warned...template #50 is the one I had trouble with.