I'll Be There As Soon As I Can

   It's been one of those day. Yea. One of those days.

   Waking up at 3:30 A.M. with possibly the sorest sore throat you've ever had in your life; almost choking trying to swallow some pills; almost choking again trying to drink tea while watching That '70's Show.

   Oversleeping till 10:20 A.M.; not starting school until Noon; not finishing school, even though you spent all your waking hours on it; realizing you can't do Physics because your calculator is dead.

   Heating up your flat iron, only realize you don't have time to straighten your hair; planning on wearing your black tank top, only to discover it's gone; only having time to remove the nail polish from your toenails and not having time to repaint them (which we all know is just as bad as not doing anything to them at all)

   Getting very little accomplished for your Christmas program; getting all confused trying to reactivate/activate/deactivate phones.

   Now I have all these horribly petty things to complain about. Really, there isn't any reason to complain about them at all. But sometimes in order to get things in perspective, it helps to make a list of all the bad things that happened during your day, then make a list of all the good things that happened. Here's my good list:

   Within 10 minutes of hopping back into bed after a horrible sore throat episode and praying to God to ease the pain, having Him answer your prayer and you fall into a painless sleep.

   Getting some school done (which is better than none); getting a 100 on your History quiz.

   Having hair that decided to be nice today and looked OK without being straightened; finding a navy tank top to substitute your black one; getting laundry done.

   Receiving your replacement phone; spending the evening with your sister and friend at Salvation Army; finding a really adorable skirt and a belt; peppermint hot chocolate at McDonald's (yum :)

   Seeing all your youth group friends :)

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   Sometimes I forget how much God as given me. I forget how He's constantly changing me, how I am growing in Him.

   Sometimes I forget that I can just be myself around my friends. I don't need to put on some disguise and pretend to be someone I'm not.

   Sometimes I forget that God's in control. I forget that I need to give up control. Because I can't do anything on my own. It's only with God that I can get anywhere. Without Him, my efforts are pointless.

   Sometimes I forget that it's not about me.

   It's all about Him

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   :)

Cheers♥

My obsession. These guys are freakin' awesome. their percussionist, Kevin, is a Christian and on tour with David Crowder Band! Scott's voice is so... man. There are no words to describe his voice. This song has been stuck in my head all day.

The Heartless

   I would like to start off saying that I am EXTREMELY jealous of you people with frozen yogurt shops near you. My mouth waters looking at those pictures of some exotic flavor of yogurt unknown to most mankind, topped with crazy and delicious sweets. I guess Rita's will have to suffice for now :)

   Kelsey is having a cool giveaway over here. Check it out!

   Found this song over at Julia's blog. I think it'd make an awesome anthem for Cupcakes for Life's organization.

   My friend Cecilia has a post on her blog regarding the passing of someone in the motorcycle industry. Her dad has some really inspirational stuff to say on it. Check it out!

   The Sing-Off. So I got a little ticked off. NBC was apparently having some technical difficulties because THREE TIMES during Pentatonix's performance tonight, it was interrupted by a Chrysler commercial (can you guess what car I won't be buying anytime in the near future?). And I know from Shawn's speechlessness and "ugly face" it was a dang good performance! Ah, well, tomorrow I'll be sure to check out the whole video somewhere.

   Avast! found 4,580 infected files on our computer. I don't know which is worse - having 4,580 infected files on your computer, or having an antivirus system that couldn't keep 4,580 infected files off your computer.

   I actually got some school done today! I would've gotten more done, but I was discouraged by the two tests I was supposed to take and the 10-page State of the Union address I was supposed to read. Not cool.

   On the bright side, I had tacos for dinner!

   That '70's Show. Man. I love it. Makes me laugh, every single time.

Cheers♥

The 60's

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   So this weekend has been fun.

   Saturday I had a piano competition, and I usually hate it, because i have extreme nerve problems where I just all freaked out, panicky and shaky before performing. It kills my nerves for like a week after. But my performance actually went really well, I got the highest score and performing at the state show! This performance was followed by a trip to Sam's Club where my sister bought me a giant blue raspberry Icee for $1.19. It was delicious.

   Sunday I attended a going away party for my friend who is leaving for Honduras tomorrow night. It was a complete surprise and the look on her face when she saw us was priceless. So many awesome things happened at that party... I played Just Dance for the first time in my life and beat the unbeatable person at the party, another friend was forced into playing and he was... interesting. There was an enormous amount of hip-shaking by the guys. We watched Paul Blart:Mall Cop, were very disturbed when taking the movie out, because that weird Indian kid was on the screen, shirtless, and just standing there. There was no butter or extreme amounts of cinnamon in Amy's apple cider (did you know cinnamon is a laxative? Several people discovered this the other week during an episode that shall not be retold). I totally failed at American Idol, and we ended the night watching Finding Nemo: one of my favorite movies and I can quote almost every line in it. And then a fun car ride home talking to my friend about... random and weird things :p It was super fun!

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   Today was just a normal boring day. School, Band Hero, weird voicemail, and The Sing-Off!!!

   Tonight's episode was so... whoa. The last two weeks nobody really knocked my socks off. But tonight... whoa. Several groups pulled out some wicked top hits, and others did some spectacular 60's songs. I mean, I think I was blushing as much as Sara when Aaron from The Yellow Jackets sang. He is just so adorable! Afro-Blue is just so....smooth. And Moi's performance in "Let It Be" was so emotional! AAAHHHHH!!!! I'm going crazy thinking that they had to eliminate someone!!! It was so sad :(

   This week is gonna be full of fun stuff: babysitting, a birthday, CLEAR, corn maze, softball tournament... crazy!

Cheers♥

Oh Happiness!

Linking up with Jocee from The Cupcake Dictionary :)

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Sweet old couples at the grocery store

Little girls playing dress-up in princess costumes

Chocolate chip banana muffins...YUM

Doctor Who marathons (tomorrow!!!)

Ted Dekker

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Coldplay

The Sing Off

Hilarious friends

Those sad, deep, wonderful movies you can watch a billion times and still cry

Fall and all things associated with it

My puppy

Colorful twisty straws

Scott Hoying's voice... *shiver*

 Hot apple cider

Fridays

Reminiscing

   I don't got nothing else to say :)

Cheers♥

That blonde dude singing? Yea, that would be Scott Hoying. I am in love. With his voice. I'm having spazz attacks listening to it that are worse than Shawn's during Committed's performance of "Apologize" last season. Yea. That bad. And if you haven't seen it well then...

Skip to 1:20 for the song. And watch for Shawn's spazz attack at 2:35