I was messing around on here, and it said something about importing address books and I don’t really know what I did all I know is I unfollowed a bunch of people and ended up following a bunch of other people from my email.  D:  

I’m computer-illiterate, so I think I went back and set it all straight again. :D 

Untitled Track 12 = Made From Dust. 

<3 
I love this song.  

Thursday morning I saw a picture Steve Augustine posted of ‘setting up in Rhinelander, WI.’  Steve Augustine is the drummer of a band called Thousand Foot Krutch which happens to be my second favorite band in the world.  My first favorite is Relient K, and probably always will be.  But my best friend used to talk about TFK all the time, and then sent me their songs.  As with most songs he sent me, they scared me. :P  It took a while before he convinced me to listen to them again.  A few months later, right about when he moved on and found a new favorite band, I decided I loved them so I stole them for my favorite list. :P  I got to see Relient K live at The Barrymore, a tiny theater in Madison, on October 6, 2008.  It was their Bird & The Bee Sides Tour, and I was thrilled.  I got to see Owl City (3rd favorite band) May of this year.  But TFK has never been near here before, so I geeked out and begged Mom to go to the show Thursday night.  We looked up Rhinelander and found it was about 6 hours away and through tiny back roads.  So we looked up the show the next night which was 5 hours the opposite direction and it said sold out.  I was the epitome of disappointment Thursday.  There was a glimmer of hope however when my dad got home from work.  He’d found a few extra tickets from a different seller.  Friday night, my mom and I were so going to this show.

My mom gets a little paragraph now.  She is probably the coolest mom in all mom-dom.  I let her listen to Thousand Foot Krutch once (more like forced I think) and she actually really liked it, and put all the TFK albums I own on her little samsung mp3 player, affectionately named Sam.  Sam’s top-played song is even Smackdown.  So Mom was just as excited as I was to be going.  TFK was headlining the tour, it’s their Welcome To The Masquerade tour but actually just part of Creation Fest’s shows they send around every year.  So the openers, weren’t really like “openers”.  It was Ivoryline (who I got to meet) and Disciple (who I really like) so it was even a great lineup!  Well, after waiting in line for a really really REALLY long time, we finally got in, and had the best night ever.  Seriously, even my mom was screaming and headbanging and all.  It was pretty awesome.  I knew all the Disciple songs (except Rise Up, which I don’t know the lyrics to, just I know the song) and about half the Ivoryline songs and of course had every riff of TFK’s show memorized.  We got some awesome pictures viewable here.  Shuffle through, they’re pretty awesome.  

The way home was tons of fun.  We had no voices left, and were so exhausted that we just downed our caffeinated tea (and I had a mountain dew as well which is really rare) and hoped it would keep us up.  And then I got to play music louder than I ever had in the car before.  And sang along as loud as I possibly could.  So did Mom.  We put on Family Force 5, and normally I’d be like, humming along and singing a bit of a harmony, but that night we were both like “WE ARE THE RADIATORSSS!!”  It was awesome. :P
Plus, we were totally in road-trip mode, and we kept tossing our trash just into the backseat.  So the more bottles of Mountain Dew and Diet Coke we emptied, we just tossed em back til we had to clean out the back of the car at 3 when we finally got home.  So much fun.  My mom is amazing.

Last night I got to go to yet another concert, Josh Wilson (he has mad guitar skills, seriously) Johnny Diaz (dye-az, not dee-az) and Matthew West.  It was definitely awesome, but for me, I was far more comfortable at the Disciple/Ivoryline/TFK show.  I was surprised that both of them were about equally spiritually powerful.  Like, I know the other bands are Christian bands, but I didn’t expect them to speak about it and pray and for it to be as worshipful as it was.  Which only made it like, 5000x better than a normal concert.  It was definitely the best night ever.  

I’m not used to actually liking guys as opposed to being friends with all of them.  It’s actually freaking me out. D:  So here’s the story.

There’s this kid.  I’ll call him Bob, cause everything that needs a codename should be codenamed Bob.  I’ve been friends with him for a few years now, kinda friends.  Acquaintances is probably more accurate, come to think of it.  We like the same bands, talk about random things, stuff like that, and he’s super-friendly so when we talk, it’s like we’ve been friends forever.  I realized a little while ago that I really really like him.  Usually when I have a crush on a boy, it’s kinda like a Jonas Brothers song where it’s like, hearts in my notebooks with their name in them sorta deal.  And usually I get over it relatively quickly, so it’s all good.  Bob’s different though.  Like, I want to go for a long walk with him and spend it all just talking.  I want to discuss things with him, one-on-one that I wouldn’t really feel comfortable talking to other people about.  I want to watch Toy Story with him, and understand his views.  Play board games, show him my guitar songs, just do all of that sort of thing.  It’s kind of weirding me out.  

To bring the downside of the situation, first I cannot flirt.  My best friend tells me flirting is apparently playing with your hair.  But I don’t think we really have that right. :P  I don’t know how to hint at liking him, or even if I should and stuff. D:  Second, he’s super-popular.  The whole “to have friends you must shew yourself friendly” thing? He’s got that more than covered.  Almost everybody is friends with him on some level or knows him.  So I’m one of tons of people he knows, and probably not a very important or memorable one.  Thirdly, he went off to college this year.  So I barely get to see him.  I got to see him today though, and he hugged me, and I was like, super happy.

So what do I do? ._.

This morning was fun!  I got to talk to my best friend and he was sleepy, which always makes conversations exciting. :P  As we were talking, I told him about the hotel we’re staying in.  5-stars, apparently.  But it has no microwave (no toaster either) and no fridge.  So I’m trapped here all day with a box of pop-tarts that are filled with goopy stuff, a six pack of diet 7-Up, a can of Chicken of the Sea, and a bucket for ice.  Well.  If that weren’t adventurous and rugged enough, Dad came up on his lunch break from his meeting and we decided to go get more ice.  So we left the room and came back with a bucket full of ice.  And our door bolted shut.  You know those ball latches that have a metal thing you pull across and then they don’t let the door physically open?  That got caught.  So we’re standing in the hallway, me barefoot with my pajamas still on, holding a bucket of ice, waiting for maintenance to come open our door.  My phone rang about that point.  Inside the room.  I could hear it beep a reminder every 2 minutes after that.  15 beeps (30 minutes) later, we were safely back inside our room with a broken door latch, and a satisfied cell phone.  

And that was our 5-star adventure.

I’m hungry, does anybody know if chicken of the sea is chicken?  Or is it Shrimp or tuna?

D:

I did this with my blogspot too.  School keeps me busy, church keeps me busier, no ballet this year, which I regret, but I think church is more helpful.  They might be able to help me through some stuff I’m dealing with.  I hope.  

I also made a friend!  Yes! Me! Making friends!  So unusual, I know, but I’m a senior and this is my last year at youth group, and possibly maybe without my brother to hide behind I’m coming into my own limelight as the weird kid with the Italian last name!  I’m more outgoing this year, I like that, I kinda strike up random conversation.  Which is so strange.  And I made a friend.  

Went to my friend’s birthday party last night, watched Murder on the Orient Express.  Sean Connery was there in all his lispy-goodness, it was and exciting movie.  I missed my friend though, we used to be soooo close, now we rarely see eachother. :(  So it was nice to see her again.

Tomorrow I’m going to the most amazingly wonderful city on earth, Chicago.  I get to go on my very first college tour, University of Chicago.  I’m very excited, though I don’t know if I intend to go there or not.  Who knows?  Guess that’s why I’m going to tour it. :P  I also get to hang out in a hotel room for a whole day by myself and do school.  Which reminds me of when I used to talk to one of my best friends Kyle, because I remember we got MSN’s webcam and mic to work the weekend my brother and I stayed in a hotel room all day while my dad was at a conference, and he and I were chatting back and forth and it was lots of fun.  I miss all my friends, it’s lame that we’re all growing-up now. :P  Most of them are off at college, or working full-time jobs, and stuff like that.  

I will be soon enough.  

Day 6 of school.  I’m surviving!  Doing my homework all nicely and thoroughly.  I feel so … prepared I guess is the word.  Physics is my favorite class.  Mr. Shoemaker makes it all simple, and I love the content of the class.  I also really like Pre-Calculus/Geometry II/Trigonometry.  Which is different, usually the math classes are meh and I can’t wait to get to English.  This year I’m not so interested in English, strangely.  Oh well.

I’ve been trying to tumbl better, but I don’t think I can really. :P  
I fell off of my 30 day thing.  So I’m just going to post things I like I think.  Cause that’s more fun.  

My mom and I have been trying to do makeup tutorials because we bought some cheap eyeshadow sets, and want to mess around.  I looked up Beyonce’s from ‘Telephone’ and did it myself the other day.  That was fun, but we’re looking more for stuff you can wear out in public.  If anybody’s got any, feel free to suggest.

 I’ve been somewhat procrastinating a few things, namely my reviews for the month, so I shall go do those.  

:D