My Musique Artist #8: The Myriad

I bought ‘With Arrows With Poise’ today before I clocked in at work. After waiting 5 months for it, I’m pretty stinkin happy.

I first heard The Myriad at soundcheck before they played with Phil Wickham and David Crowder. Probably the weirdest way I’ve ever come to like a band, but honestly, they caught my ear right off the bat. They’re live show was awesome.

I got pretty addicted to them really fast, they had a CD called ‘Prelude To Arrows’, which was just a few songs from the new record, and a track at the end with songs in the background and the band members talking about the process of making the album. I got that in December and have been waiting for this album ever since.

It lived up to expectations.

You should go buy it.

This song is on it.

 

Wish me luck..

After class I’m heading over to Waterford/Avalon to apply for a second job. Not a huge fan of working 2 jobs, but honestly, I need the money.

So, wish me luck, because I honestly hate the process of applying for jobs.

I’ll be helping Kelly apply for some jobs as well, she’s a little freaked out because she’s never had a job, and never had to apply and she has no clue how to do this stuff. I’m glad I’m able to help her out though, wish i had that kind of help when I started out.

Happy Mothers Day

Happy mothers day to all the moms out there.

I was blessed with an awesome mom, so today it’s just nice to sit back and thank her for all she does, and thank God for giving me someone so wonderful to help me grow up.

Mothers day is once a year but we should really celebrate it 24/7.

 

Go moms.

wackiness

I don’t know how many blogs I’ve written about the crime in my neighborhood, but at this point, it’s too many.

So, todays edition of “what the heck is going on!?” started when I was driving home from work. I am almost home when I see the first cop, she was park with her lights on, her outside of her car 1 block from my street. Figured she was pulling someone over at first, until I saw the other lights. I start to realize these cops are parked on my corner (I live on the corner). Then I see one drive off my street, so I get worried. There were 5 parked on the grass on my yard and our back neighbors. I saw a cop walking with a german shephard, and so I was like ooookay just gonna go straight into the house.

My door was unlocked so I figure they didn’t reverse 911 anyone, but I locked it, obviously. I have no clue what they were doing, they left a few minutes ago. Couldnt have been good. It looked a lot like what they did a few blocks from here when they found that guy stabbed. No news people so I’m guessing it wasnt a big deal, it’s just getting old. Really really old.

The bright side? I am probably going to move to Avalon in July. So, good riddance to po-po parades outside my bedroom window.

Okay, on to better stuff.

Yesterday C3 had the food drop, and it was awesome. There we’re so many people that came out, and so many stories, it was heartbreaking, but it was so nice to know that these boxes we’re going to help these families out. It makes me want to do that kind of stuff everyday, one time just doesn’t cut it, I feel like there are so many more people that need help, and people just have to step up. It was hard when we had to close the gate when we ran out. So early, only 11:11 when we ran out.

I’m trying to focus more on the positive impact we had though, and not those left out. The families we did reach are getting so much out of it, and I love that. So many of them were so appreciative, it made me feel like a jerk for wanting a new car, or a new pair of shoes. I have way more than I need. I started thinknig about one of the Nooma videos, ‘Rich’, everything Rob Bell says in that video has such a large impact on me. I watch it a lot, just to keep myself in check.

After the food drop some of us went to eat at Taco Bell. I think I’ve had enough Taco Bell to last me for a few months now. That was the third time this week I had eaten thier food, it was slightly scary.

Then we went to the pool and Barry found a McDonalds bag in there.. nice.

After that I picked up kelly and helped her try to get a job. Not so sure how that’s all gonna work out. Then went to Millenia with my sister-in-law and Kelly. Saw one of my favorite people, Andrea, at Bloomingdales, and helped Alicia find some work clothes.

Finally off to the movies with some of my favorite people, namely Kelly, Karen, Chrissy, Monica, Matt, Kayleigh, Barry, Christy, John and Adam. We saw “What Happens in Vegas”, for the record, that movie is way funnier than it looks, and according to Kayleigh, I’m like the best friend in the movie (I think her name was Tipper). haha, it was kind of true. We hung out at Barry’s afterwards and watched Wild N’ Out, which is hilarious, Mikey Day all the way. Needless to say I had an awesome awesome Friday.

Now I gotta go get ready for the party at Ambers

I cant wait for Sunday morning, pretty much my favorite time of the week.

 

What a day

It’s been a long one, and I’m tired, but it was cool.

This morning I met up with the C3 ladies at Morning Glories for breakfast. Delicious. Everything there looked ridiculous, I will just have to go back at some point and try everything. It was great getting to spend time with everyone, especially since I don’t get a lot of time with most of them.

Then I went off to VCC to buy a book, and LifeWay to pick up some cards and stuff. That was pretty lame to be honest, I hate shopping.

After that I met up with Chrissy to look at a townhouse in Avalon Park. It was pretty cool, considering the rent, I was happy with it. There are a few more in the same neighborhood we’re going to look at. And we drove around pretty much ALL of Avalon Park looking for ‘For Rent’ signs and writing down numbers. Hopefully we’ll get something good in our price range. I’m really really lookingofrward to moving out. I want the independence, not to mention to get my tattoo done finally. Talking to Brittany this morning made me really look forward to getting it done. Seriously can’t wait to find out more information on different townhouses, I wanna get out there :). Looking around today was fun, tiring, but fun. Oh, and we we’re leaving the townhouse we walked through, and Timber Creek had just been let out, and some kid walked up and got in the car in front of us wearing a Barbaric Grace t-shirt. I thought that was really awesome.

I definitely skipped class today. Don’t care much though, my guess is Nathan will catch me up on whatever I missed.

Last, I went to work, which sucked a lot. Not gonna lie. I was already exhausted and I really didn’t feel like moving the entire freaking fiction section around. Oh, and a spider appeared when I was shelving books. Definitely have archnophobia. Brandon was nice enough to kill it. Yay Brandon, he deserves another cheer (he is pretty much obsessed with me cheerleading). Whatever, I’m not at work any more, so I’m happy.

In other May 7th news, today Josh turned 23. Hooray for Josh. He’s a pretty awesome guy, so happy birthday to Josh.

Alright. I’m done, I need to rest, I have work again tomorrow and I think I’m going somewhere with Alicia tomorrow and I need to be getting ready for Kelly arriving on Friday. Peace out lovlies.

 

Amazing.

God is amazing.

I really don’t know what else to say.

God is amazing.

That’s pretty much the only thought I have right now that can be written down and not sound completely stupid. There’s plenty going through my brain about the awesome power God has, but attempting to put it in words.. I would fail. So all I’ll write is that God is amazing.

amazing: causing great suprise or sudden wonder.

sudden wonder.

totally.

God is amazing.

go go go go go go go.

Generally speaking I am a very chill, laid-back person. Unless I’m driving, then I’m intensely face paced. Otherwise, very chill. Lately, haven’t had time for that, and tomorrow begins the summer of “crap, go go go!” in a good way though I guess.

Classes at Val State start tomorrow, luckily, not all of the ones I’m in do though.. apparently my speech class doesn’t start until June 17. Which is nice since it was the earliest. Regardless, classes start tomorrow, which means all the fiasco of parking permits, dealing with other students, parking lots filled with morons, and of course, slow drivers on Valencia College Lane (biggest pet peeve EVER.. seriously why is ther only a 100ft area to pass on that whole road??)

Tomorrow my brother and his wife, Alicia, arrive from Oklahoma. Soooo glad they are coming home, Alicia is so much fun, we get along really well. My brother is a nut, total partier, but we have fun nowadays, after he moved out we became like actual siblings finally.

Friday (I think.. my days are starting to blur) Kelly gets here from Oklahoma as well (that stupid state steals everyone I love). Which is awesome because I absolutely love her, she’s my best friend for a reason. But. Because of the “go go go” ness of my summer, I probably will never see her. She wanted to hit the beach friday.. I’m definitely working. Yeah. Nice.

Other than that, it’s all school, work, church events, and friends/family functions. I can’t think of a day coming up that I won’t be doing something. It’s kind of terrifying. It’s great, I love being busy, but this is a WHOLE new level of busy.

In unrelated news, I realized today that ignoring things that bother you isn’t exactly helpful because um, it doesn’t work. Short story: A guy I had a thing with last year still lives in Orlando, and I was driving back from lunch today and ended up directly behind his car. Friggin awkward. We are definitly civil with each other, he texts me every once in a while to see how I’m doing, but it’s all kind of fake and nothing like we we’re before obviously, so it just brought back some resentment. Not a great feeling. I don’t like having negative feelings toward anyone, but our situation is just hard. So, seeing him sucked. He’d be mad if he ever saw this, but honestly, it sucked.

Tomorrow is going to be intense. But I get to see my big brother and Alicia, so it will be all good.

SYTYCD

We talked a lot about TV shows today at lunch. Probably the best one ever is So You Think You Can Dance.

It’s coming back on the air soon, and I’m pretty amped up because last season was amazing, and now I’ve found 2 girls that love it just as much as I do. Chrissy and Karen, these 2 girls that have been coming to community group are big fans of it, and thank goodness because this show requires talking about it for hours on end after performances.

Not to mention knowing someone who cares I met Kameron Bink randomly in the mall.

Here’s a clip from the second season. Occasionally on the show, dances make you feel something, or just impress the crap out of you. This did both.

My Musique Artist #7: Regina Spektor

I haven’t written a music blog in a really long time. I was at Forever 21 today and ‘On The Radio’ by Regina Spektor came on, it made me want to write about her.

I first listened to her music riding around Orlando with Robin and Kelly. Listening to them over and over for days, I got pretty addicted. The cool thing about her music, is that if you don’t pay attention you would think the songs are sweet upbeat tunes, when they really aren’t.

I’m a big fan of the piano, and she uses it a lot. I have a lot of her sheet music around, I play it from time to time. It’s all so different, Some soft and sweet sounding, others hard and strong. Without her voice behind it you wouldn’t think it’s the same artist. I hate when someone puts out an album with the same song 12 times. She doesn’t do that. It’s almost ridiculous how much it changes song to song. ‘That Time’ is almost spoken at times and kinda funny. ‘Consequence of Sounds’ is basically a rap with some vocal exercises thrown in there, ‘Fidelty’ is poppy and radio-friendly (probably why it’s a single), ‘Apres Moi’ is.. hard to describe, darker. It all changes so much, it’s refreshing to listen to an artist and never get bored.

Check out this video, it’s ‘Fidelty’.

 

 

The Interesting Thing About Working At LifeWay..

Is the people that come in day to day. We get a lot of the Channel 9 news team. That’s pretty cool. A lot of familar faces for a ton of different reasons.

Today there was a familar face in there when I walked in, she was a member of Parkway, before the C3 transition, she goes to Aloma now. She was talking to Colin at POS, I went and clocked in, when I got to POS she was still there, and obviously talking about C3. She kept saying things I found bizarre and a bit outlandish, like how the church was “destroyed”. What?

She had a lot of opinions about the church. She said she had friends that still went there, and they say that its great and that a lot of new people come in all the time. And she acted like that was a bad thing. She said that was because “something about it appealed to them”. EXACTLY. What the heck is wrong about that? I totally didn’t get her argument against C3, she was obviously just bitter about losing “her” church. People tend to forget the church doesn’t belong to them.

She didn’t know I went there, and as much as I wanted to mention I haven’t seen her there since the transition, so she has nothing to base all this on, I didn’t. I really just wanted to get on with my day, and all it would have done was caused some sort of awkward argument, her opinion wasn’t going to change so I didn’t want to waste my time.

Colin, the guy she was talking to, goes to Aloma. I went there for a few weeks, kind of this awkward time when I had no say in it. My parents left during the Parkway-C3 transition for Aloma like a lot of others, and I was forced along with them because I didn’t have a car. As soon as I got my own I went back to C3. It was only a few weeks but I got to see Aloma and how they function. I have no issue with it, it’s a good church, everyone seems pretty nice and Pastor Anthony was pretty cool. Just not my thing, I got bored a lot there and there wasn’t any sense of connection with anyone. It’s a lot more traditional, which is fine. I just prefer C3, and I like that we are more for seeking the lost then accomadating church people.

Thats what bothered me most about this womans complaints. She acted like C3 was a horrible place, like it wasn’t good enough. Sorry, but if you have a problem with a church reaching out to the community to spread the love of Christ, then you need to re-evaluate where you are as a Christian.

Not to mention it was all based on opinion. She has not been to C3 since the transition, so where is it coming from? All this anger towards C3? It’s just bitterness about not getting her way. It bothered me because it sounded a lot like my dad. My dad has some sort of beef with C3 and it comes up at random moments, he always makes snarky little comments. With my dad I definitly defend C3 a lot more than I would with some customer. It bothers me to no end because he has never been to C3, only Parkway.

I’m so passionate about C3, I think it’s such an amazing thing to be a part of, and I’ve never felt more in tune with God’s plan for my life then I have right now, as I’m getting more and more involved there. I see people coming to church that would normally be looked down on at other churches, people feel comfortable coming to C3, and traditional church people are freaked out by that.

I’m glad I’m not like them.

I’m proud to be at C3, and I love everyone there. I love everyone everywhere, but I have a special love for my C3 people :).

Speaking of which, one of those C3 people turned 18 today.

Happy birthday to Kayleigh, she is one of the most awesome girls I know.