Gone Country

I've always been a country fan, always. In fact for about 4 years in elementary school it was all i listened to. My classmates actually thought i was weird, cause no one else listened to country but me. Shania Twain was my first concert. When I was little i wanted to be a singer. I liked Shania Twain a lot and thought i had a pretty darn good voice, which I don't. Well this lead to me thinking people thought I was Shania Twain when I sang along to her songs. I know realise this is completely impossible because at the time I was 9. I am laughing right now as i write this. But i do remember singing once and I told my dad, "Oh, i better stop singing or the neighbours might think i'm Shania Twain. Yes, true story but i realised I couldn't sing, and I surprisingly was okay with that. Anyways that was off topic. Summer is fast approching and I can't think of a better summer soundtrack than country music. Nothing beats a car ride with the windows down, country music blasting and singing along like no one's listening. Just listening to country lately gets me super pumped for summer!

Take Heart

The new Hillsong album was released today. It's fantastic. Been listening to it on repeat all day long. I'd let you in on my favorites but I actually don't have one at all. Heres a good one though.

BOB

Yeah, thats my church. So proud to call my church home. Its pretty cool we have the oppurtunity to host this and have hundreds of people who don't know God in our building. Just being able to love on them, serve them, and just show them who Christians really are and who God really is. The place was packed to hear some awesome bands. Being in the Coffee Bar all night I couldn't hear all that much but I did hear some pretty good muffled songs. There was one thing that stood out to me tonight when I was cleaning up foyer. One guy was standing with his friends swearing then his friend just looked at him unimpressed and said "Dude, we're in a church show some respect." It definately put a smile on my face. And if this guy doesn't know Jesus, i'm hoping its a step in the right direction.

I'm gonna fill you all in on the rest of my day to since it was pretty rad, because at the end of a long day I just like to get the events down, cause this is like my little journal. Started the morning nice and early since my Ma had the day off too. Okay pause. I realised, Chanel, ever since you left i've started calling my mom, ma. Don't know why and I didn't realise it until a few days ago. It's weird. Unpause. We took off downtown to go visit my cousin who is expecting any day now. It was a great visit considering I havn't seen her since she's gotten pregnant, well actually didn't even learn she was pregnant until 2 months ago because my mother seemed to forget to let me in on this little fact. They're having a canundrum because they're having a home birth and two days ago their furnace kicked it. Appropiate heat is important to a home birth. They can't get the part in until Tuesday for their furnace and she's been having contractions since last night. So i'm praying for a donation of electric heaters from friends and family for this safety of their new child. Which the already have one daughter Juna. And its so cute because when you ask her "Where's the baby?" She goes to her mom pulls up her shirt and kisses then hugs her belly. Its absolutly adorable....i should mention their other daughter is 20 months.

Now i'm going to skip to after Battle of the Bands. This aparently is going to be a long post today was a super packed day. Where one part I was very mad at Rogers but we're going to skip that because I have already vented to a few about my frustrations and anger can eat you up, and its the devils work. So i'm over it. Done. Amen. aahaha.

Okay seriously. After BOB we came out to about 2 inches of snow I guess. It was pure magic. I got home and started writing my letters to Chanel and Letitia...and now I guess Paula's going to get one too.
Then I realised how last BOB the bands the both of them were here in Canada. We would have all been together tonight. Probably jump in Hector blast the tunes and go to White Rock as usual. Tonight feels like the kinda night we would just sit in Hector and watch the ocean and play worship music and just sit with each other and God. hen go frolic in the snow, maybe build a small fort.
Man I miss that so much, not the sitting with god part cause I do that all the time, cause I just can't help it. But the sitting with all if us in Hector having God time and just us time. Love you guys, you know who you are.

"I feel like i'm floating"

I was browsing Itunes about a month ago and found this amazing pianist. Because I want to learn to play the piano so much, and will someday soon, it found his songs super inspiring. Paula makes fun of my because I kinda feel like I'm floating or running in a Field full of flowers when i'm listening to his music. His peices have a voice all to themselves. It just puts me in a complete sense of peace. And its so amazing how music can do that do you. A song can directly affect your mood, that's why i'm so careful to what I listen to sometimes. But you gotta check out his music. The stuff from his latest CD I couldn't find anywhere on youtube so this is from his last. I like his new stuff better. You all have heard his compositions before because he has wrote music from many people one being Celine Dion...haaha

Recognise this...

yeah i thought so. :)
He also co-wrote the official olympic song "I Believe"

And all that Jazz

Okay, time to blog. I dread this sometimes. I always do it right before I go to bed, in fact I am lying in bed with my laptop when I blog. Yet, once its done I'm glad I have done it. It's nice to just get thoughts and events written down. Also the fact I'm taking English next semester and this will help with my writing...or maybe not because I do not follow proper sentence structure, grammar, or spelling in these little spiels. I am well aware my blogs don't make a bit of sense at some parts, but did I not say I do this task in bed whilst I am longing for sleep to overcome me. It does help my flow, vocab, and creativity however.

So last night...what did happen last night. Don't worry I did not forget. I went to Jazz for a Cause held at Java Jazz Cafe, my dear friend Mia's family establishment. Sorry I like using the word establishment I feel sophisticated. To continue, it was a nice little fundraiser put on by a few people I like a real lot to raise money for Watoto.

Watoto is an organization in Africa that rescues many children orphaned by aids, abducted and put into child soldiery etc. They feed, nurse and educate the children as well as place them in a safe home environment with a mother within their organization.

Click for more info on Watoto here!

It was a wonderful night of Jazzy entertainment, talent, friends, and good company. And man, my friends are talents. Tried to put up a peak of my talented friend Liz (chub - the one photographed with me to the left) but Blogger was being lame so pictures will have to do.



Definately thought my laptop had called it caputs the last few days. Good thing i just found out there was a peice that was loose at the bottom. Few. But it made me rethink getting a new laptop. I really think its a good idea for the long run. I really want the new Mac Book Air. Its like 1 cm thin and its runs on Flash Storage, don't really know what it means but it can store ALOT. Someone explained it to me but I don't quite remember. But the new Mac Book Air is way more advanced than many of the notebooks out their and Mac's last a heck of a long time. So i think this one can hold out for this year then maybe for my birthday i'll buy myself a new one. Seems like the right time. I will have to get a new one anyway cause by that time this one will be 6 years old and its already not participating.

GOOD NEWS - Michael has started breifly talking. He can say his own name and anwer the nurse staff when they ask if he's in pain. Can't wait until we can go visit him in the hospital :)

And the new Kings of Leon album is superb

You were only waiting for this moment to be free

Listening to the Beatles again. Why are they so amazing.












Their are so real, I think thats what makes them the best. Yeah they may have been high on what ever when they recorded or wrote but that doesn't make the music any less honest or innovative. Earliest memories of them in my childhood would be their song Black bird. My Momma sang me to sleep with the song when i was little and still to this day its one of my favorites. Then my favouite song in grade two was Here Comes the Sun. They were truly challengers of their generation in a time where war and hate was all you saw all around you.


All you need is love.

Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise.

And anytime you feel the pain, hey Jude, refrain
Don't carry the world upon your shoulders

Sounds of laughter shades of live are ringing through my open ears
Inciting and inviting me
Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns

The sun is up, the sky is blue
It's beautiful and so are you
Dear Prudence, won't you come out to play?

What would you think if I sang out of tune
Would you stand up and walk out on me?
Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song
And I'll try not to sing out of key
Oh I get by with a little help from my friends



My favorite will always always always be Blackbird.

Oh dear Beatles, you amaze me.

Yes, you may have been high most of the time.
And maybe I don't agree with that.
But your songs are so ingenious!
Simple yet so brilliant.
You just make me smile.

Well, I'm Not Too Clever, I, I Just Adore You

Lately all i've been wanting to listen to is Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett.
Time were so much simpler back then...in some aspects.
Fashion, style, furnishings, lifestyle, and cars just make my heart skip a beat.