His Favorite Christmas Story

I skipped out on writing a blog post last night, such a tragedy. OH WELL.

Today's prompt is "a song that makes you cry (or nearly)" and since I have yet to find a song that makes myself cry/nearly cry, I'll go with one that's insanely depressing. The first song that comes to mind is my all time favorite Christmas song too. (It so figures that I would only like depressing Christmas songs.)

His Favorite Christmas Story by Capital Lights isn't necessarily all that Christmas-y - which may be part of why I like it so much - but it tells a bittersweet love story. It's one of those songs I can't get enough of, despite how sad it is.

I really, really want to learn to play this on the guitar.

Glee

Your favorite television program??? Don't these people know that I don't watch television on a regular basis? Whatever.

I suppose I'll discuss the only show I've actually bothered to follow in the past year: Glee. Call me a "gleek" if you will, it's an entertaining program. A satirical, humorous take on a repulsive experience like high school, WITH awesome music? Yes, please.

Aside from that, it's one of the few programs I'e seen that actually has character development, *GASP*. Imagine that. It also helps that I was a choir kid back in high school, and still am currently. Speaking of, I should really be learning my songs for the concert this week...

When I'm Gone

So, rather than put forth the effort to think of something remotely interesting to blog about, I'm going to be doing a 30 days of blogging sort of challenge I found while browsing the net for writing prompts. Strangely enough, 30 days from now will be the first of the January. Convenient, no?

Anyway, day one's topic is "Your Favorite Song." Being a rather musically inclined person, this is actually way harder than it should be. My top ten favorite songs, now that would be easy, but choosing just one? That's like choosing between children! (Only I kind of hate children, so it's more like choosing between friends.)

While I can't select an overall favorite, I can say that one of my favorite song lyrically is When I'm Gone by Simple Plan. I absolutely adore the message/feel of this song. When I first heard it, the style bothered me, where was the punk rock Simple Plan??? But then I got around to really listening to the lyrics, and I realized it was one of those few songs I absolutely agree with.

"If misery loves company, well, so long, you'll miss me when I'm gone~" It's clever, it's catchy, and I love it.

Who Knows

It's another one of those late nights. Yes, I realize it is 8:30am and technically morning, but I have yet to go to sleep - not that I plan on doing so. I'm not sure if it's the sleep deprivation, or a sheer coincidence, but it seems like I always end up rather jaded when this happens. It's like, all the things I hate about life are suddenly on my mind. Maybe it's just because I have all this extra time to think?

Who knows.

Anyway, aside from my random bout of emo, I went to a concert on Thursday night. This is a fairly normal activity for me, and was not particularly different from any other concert I've been to. I became absorbed with the music, jealous of those on stage, and contemplative of life. The usual.

Other than that I -

......

I just realized I only have two weeks of summer left. WHAT AM I SITTING HERE BLOGGING FOR?!?!?!

Progress?

So, we're about half-way through the summer - technically halfway between June 9th and August 30th would be the around 19th or so, but whatever - and I decided to check up on my To Do list for the summer. (Thought I'd forgotten, huh? Well, I did, but I just remembered again.) For a recap, here's what was on the list:

- Figure out why I'm going to college.

- Learn at least 3 more songs on guitar.

- Clean my room.

- Do well in my summer classes.

- Go on an adventure.

- Post at least 15 drawings.

- Finish at least one video game.

- Write at least one story/fanfiction.

- Do a random favor for a friend. This was actually REALLY easy.

- Watch at least 5 movies.

- Read at least 5 books.

- Continue to blog regularly.

I'm not quite half through the list, but that's alright. I've at least done some of it. As far as drawing goes, I'm about 1/3 of the way finished with that goal. With the video game, I've started plenty, I just... you know... have to finish one of them. The story I actually completely forgot about. I'm thinking of doing a Fullmetal Alchemist post-manga, EdXWinry oneshot. Possibly.

"Do well in my summer classes" is a bit more difficult to gauge until final grades are out. (That's still two or three weeks from now.) I haven't been practicing guitar much, as I am a lazy bum. Same goes for the room cleaning.

Then there's the one goal. The big, fat, ambiguous one. Yeah, figuring out why I'm in college. I don't know if I'll ever reach that one. I guess it's becoming clearer why I'm here, but it'd be nice to have a real reason - something beyond the fact that I don't want a job yet.

Oh well, either way, I'm getting somewhere. Maybe I should do these to do list things every season? I mean, obviously it's more effective than "I SHOULD DRAW MORE" or "SOME DAY I WANNA FINISH THIS GAME." Just saying.

Something I *do* absolutely HAVE to do is get back on a somewhat diurnal schedule. Especially if I plan on taking traditional - meaning NOT online - classes this Fall.

Chill

Today was... chill. Normally "chilling" irritates me beyond belief because I'm fidgety and have a short attention span.

Today, however, my friend set up an acoustic mini-concert (an audience of 4 or 5) for a band that had an extra day to spend in Riverside. It was fun. The entire atmosphere was relaxed. They're pretty cool guys, I must admit.

Now I'm back to my non-chill self, blasting music, catching up on work I procrastinated, etc.

Equilibrium has been reached.

Or something like that.

Four Years

Four years.

Hard to believe how quickly the past four years have passed. In fact, I'm not really sure if I do believe it.

Four years ago I was a ninth grader, just about to drop out of private school for good. I hated just about everything at that point in time, and was about to enter the worst summer of my life, followed by the worst school year of my life.

Yeah.

Fast forward to today. I stepped out of my car and thought "Wow, this is the first time in four years I've been this happy with my life." Then I tripped and fell face first on to concrete. But you know what? I didn't care. I laughed.

Which is good. I think.

I think last Memorial day weekend, exactly one year ago, was the turning point. It's when I started on my whole turning-negatives-into-a-positive kick. Since, I've written songs about everything. And I do mean everything. A little over 50 have been finished since then.

Looking over it, this post is kind of just random reflection. But it's proof that it is possible to move on. Which I am proudly doing.

The Game Of Life

Why am I in college? Seriously. Don't give me that "to gain more career opportunities" crap either. That's why people go to college. But why am I here? My parents gave me the college or move out ultimatum, but in the end, I could've gone out and gotten a job.

It's like when you're playing Life, the board game. At the beginning, you can either get a career or go to college, and I've forgotten why I chose this path. I think I'm going to add that to my list of what I want to do this summer, figure out why I put myself through this misery of higher education.

Actually, I'll make a list right now:

- Figure out why I'm going to college.

- Learn at least 3 more songs on guitar.

- Clean my room.

- Do well in my summer classes.

- Go on an adventure.

- Post at least 15 drawings.

- Finish at least one video game.

- Write at least one story/fanfiction.

- Do a random favor for a friend. This was actually REALLY easy.

- Watch at least 5 movies.

- Read at least 5 books.

- Continue to blog regularly.

Wow... that's a really long list.

Finally

So, I finally took down the Christmas tree the other day. I also finally started importing all my CDs into iTunes. A daunting task indeed. I'm thinking I'll take a break between every 500 or so songs, but I'm not sure.

It's funny how I'd forgotten about so much of this music, yet still manage to recall all of the lyrics.

Oh, wow, it's almost six a.m. and I still haven't gone to bed yet. You're not surprised, are you?

Just A Few Notes...

Okay, so , you all know that I am a vocalist, yes? Well, today I was wondering what exactly my range was, so I pulled out my electronic piano and tested it - F2 to G5. I was surprised to see that this spanned almost the entire keyboard (which extends from C2 to C6) and thought it should be a goal of mine to get my range to that length :) It sounds rather difficult, but what's a few more notes, eh XD?

Anyway, I decided to post it on here so 1) I remember, and 2) I can actually keep track this way.