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A Skylit Drive

lolwut?
i haven't been blogging here as much because my photography blog usually turns into my daily blog anyways xD
but I wanted to share some music :]

This band is called A Skylit Drive and I've only heard a few of their songs but I really like them. I'm not big on the whole screaming thing but I'm okay with it sometimes and I can tolerate the amount this band uses (most of the time xD) But if you're a big anti-screamo person you might not enjoy it.

I don't know about you but I haven't heard a whole lot bands with this kind of sound. The first thing I thought of when I heard them for the first time was Rush but I know next to nothing about Rush so I'm not going to look like and idiot and say they sound like Rush xD
But I like the vocals and they have some pretty cool guitar and drum parts too, thats always a plus.

This song is called All It Takes For Your Dreams To Come True

I am 16 going on 17 ♪ ♫

You have no idea how long I've been waiting to use that as a title :P exactly a year, today xD
Anyways, last year I did a big long year-summary post the day before my birthday so I'm going to do another one. becauuusee, tomorrow is my birthday :D and I'll be 17 years old. You should also know I have this unhealthy addiction to Rodger's and Hammerstein movies o.o I think I've seen State Fair 5 times now, its my favorite so far xD

ANYWAYS; the list:

FEBRUARY

-13th; turned 16 :P
- 21st; got to see the eclipse

MARCH

- 3rd; got my last baby tooth pulled
-10th-15th; took my OGTs and passed with flying colors
- 21st; got my hair cut again :]
- 31st; i got to see the Lipizzaner Stallions

APRIL

- 1-5th; Went to Washington DC with my school! it was so amazing
- 23rd; Got to meet Chris Richardson from American Idol :]

MAY

-4th; made Risotto for the first time
-13th; bought a nintendo DS
-18th; Got to see an Elvis impersonator :P
- 22nd; painted my room and got bunk beds

JUNE

-6-14th; Went to North Carolina :] it was so awesome
-21-24th; Went with my "youth group" to Scranton, PA for the Higher Things Conference

JULY

- 17th; Went to Warped Tour with my cousin and her friends and had an amazing time

AUGUST

- 25th; Started my new school, OHVA

SEPTEMBER

-3rd; decided on a new blog name and changed it shortly after

OCTOBER

-22-26th; went on a homeschool retreat with some friends to ft. wayne :]

NOVEMBER

- 1-30th; participated in NANOWRIMO and finished a 50,000 word novel :]
-16th; got my ears pierced for the second time

DECEMBER

-9th; Hung out with some friends i met from school
- 25th; got Guitar Hero World Tour, oh yeaahhh

JANUARY

-1st; Made the resolution to take a photo every day and so far I have

FEBRUARY

- 2nd; bought a cell phone

And here we are :]
Tomorrow I'm going snowboarding and then bringing my friend Emily home with us. Then we're picking up my friend Robyn after my dad gets home and going to Chuckee Cheese to meet Eddie. I'm excited :] and looking forward to seeing what this next year will hold for me. (Maybe a driver's license sometime before i'm 50? ;D hey if i get my temps a few days after my birthday and do the hours, i wont have to take drivers ed because by the time the temps expire i'll be 18... dun dun dun)

pigs are flying

whaaaat?
me of all people?
with a cell phone?
of my very own?
yessssss.

it might not be as amazing as some of those phones out there that i've secretly drooled over but i dont get any amazing bills either :P
it has a camera and texting and a currency converter, and a tip calculator, and a normal calculator, all that fun stuff xD
and its all prepaid so every three months I spend between $10 and $20 (or more) on some minutes, (i automatically get double the minutes for life) and im all set :]


p.s.

i hope you're keeping up with my photography blog
its much more frequent
and a lot more interesting.

more random facts

I'm doing this because I'm bored. I've done a couple of these before but i feel like doing another one and posting it here because I haven't blogged in a while.

• Ive always had a secret/dormant thing for Koalas. I don't know why, except that they're awesome. I used to have this stuffed Koala that was apparently supposed to go to some charity thing or something and my parents wouldn't let me keep it and I was very upset. I was like 6 i think. xD Did you know Koalas aren't actually bears, like a lot of people think? No. They're just Koalas.
• Recently I've had this thing for owls too. its weird.
• I collect TY Beanie babies. I currently own 49 of them. When I see them on sale somewhere it drives me crazy and I HAVE to get one/them. lol. Unless they're nasty. I'm a little picky about fur conditions. Now I just need a way to display them awesomely. But the new online ones are stupid.
• I also collect shot glasses. I own about... 25 ish? I havent done an official count in a while. I try to get one whenever we go someplace new. I also have 2 that people got for me when they went on vacation. I dont have room for those either. =/
• I love to cook/bake things. I've been making dinner a lot lately. Its fun. The fanciest thing I've ever made is risotto. And I put way too many chives in it. And there was so much left over we ended up throwing it away because not too many people liked it xD But I liked it, and it was fun.
• I'm not against the idea of tattoos. THIS DOES NOT MEAN that I've planned out a sleeve or something xD thats not for me. I'm just not against tattoos :] they're awesome. but sometimes people who get them are stupid, lol.
• I love fashion. I just dont have the budget for it. Right now my money vase has a $5 bill in it and some pennies. But it drives me crazy because I always feel like I wear the same thing over and over and I want to switch it up and dress up. while the fantasies are nice, i stick to jeans and t-shirts and the two (count 'em, two) dresses that I wear. Sometimes I give things away just because I'm so sick of seeing them.
• I'd like to get a job. Someplace like Dots or something.... but somehow transportation always ends up being the issue. But I can't afford driver's ed so we're back to the money issue. what the french toast?
• I wish I knew how to ice skate. it looks awesome. I also wish I knew how to hip hop dance. and do ballet, and do ball room dancing. because they're all awesome.
• I still dont know what to do about my hair. some days i like it, some days i hate it.
• I'm very indecisive. And i'm very good at talking myself out of things. Then I'm confused because I want something but I tell myself that I dont. so i want something and dont want it at the same time. lol. then im crabby because i really wanted it the whole time xD
• I use the word "awesome" a lot. Some other words I abuse are "dude" and "lol" those are the big ones right now xD
• Since I was born in California, I've always wanted to go see what its like.
• I have a love/hate relationship with concerts. I love them because seeing your favorite bands live is amazing, and I get to meet them sometimes and I get to hang out with people and I get to spend crazy money without feeling guilty (that is, if i even broke down and bought the tickets in the first place xD) and i hate them because they cost a lot of money, moshers scare me, and i have no friends so i cant ever go to awesome concerts near me.
• I have this phobia of breaking my glasses.
• When I talk, sometimes I just hurry up so i can stop talking because I feel like I'm boring people.
• I'm not anti social. Just socially awkward. If I dont know you very well, if at all, you have to make the first move/break the ice first or else we aren't going to get anywhere.
• I think i get overly attached to friends because I don't have many of them. Only those friends don't have this problem and aren't as attached as I am. And then I get jealous when they do certain things for example, hanging out with our mutual friend and not inviting me. xD
• Oh, I get jealous easily sometimes.
• I'm on the computer almost all day. I'll admit it. But I wish I wasn't. I just dont have anything else to do and then before i know it the day is over. my school and my friends are online. so what am i supposed to do? =/ I guess you could say I don't have much of a life.im tryyyinnggg i just have no motivation
  

and nowww i am going to bed before i get too carried away. lol

new music

I heard this song called Message From Your Heart by a girl named Kina Grannis. I had never heard of her before and I still havent heard anything else from her yet, lol but I made a Kina Grannis station on a website called Pandora. Its pretty much my favorite song now.



While my station hasnt played any more of her songs, it has started playing more of Kate Nash. I'd heard of her before but didn't actually know she was a musician xD But she's really good. I like her a lot. Some of her songs are a little weird :P But what I've heard from her are all pretty good songs. So I like her too.