Year 3, Day 227

Hiya. Today's song is Don't Know Nothing by Maroon 5.

So I'm at my uncle's again today. They had to go out of town for a funeral, which means I get free reign of the house for a few days. Just like last time I started off by belting music, although this time it was all Christmas music. The last couple of hours I've been stuck in a bad Christmas movie loop (a.k.a the cheesiest movies in existence.) No seriously, I cringe watching the awkward moments. For example: the Mistle-tones. I do like the movie, and the one guy singing Burning Love was possibly my favorite moment in any holiday movie, but some scenes I have to change the channel for. I am an awkward enough person in life, I can't handle watching other people go through it. These cheesy Christmas movies did give me an idea for a horrible holiday marathon though, so Sammy and I will be doing that on Friday. I have to choose two films, one will probably be Mistle-tones but the other one is a mystery currently. So if you have any ideas let me know!

Peace.

Year 3, Day 226

Hey guys. So today's song is Chandelier by Sia.

I had breakfast with my family this morning. That's not really odd because every Saturday I have breakfast with my grandparents, but today my uncle Charlie and Kristine came. If you've been following this blog for awhile you'd remember them as the ones who got married last December. It was fun seeing everybody, and a lot of crude humor made it's way across the table (as always happens with my family.) Charlie harassed me about jobs again, and told me to go back to Wholesale because he wants stuff from there haha! Yeah...not gonna happen. I have volunteered myself to do the Christmas baking this year, my way of contributing to the potluck-esque thing we're going to have, so I asked everyone for requests. I will have a lot to do. So far I know I need to make my grandma's signature cheesecake and chocolate chip cookies. Then along with that Sammy wants nanaimo bars that she can actually eat (she's lactose-intolerant and wants the super chocolatey things?!) and mini homemade oreo cookies because the regular size is gigantic. My grandma wants Christmas cookies/sugar cookies, and hasn't asked for but absolutely loves gumdrop cookies. Charlie today also said sugar cookies and shortbread cookies...then "basically anything we can't buy"...so in other words I need to assume I'm baking for an army. Not to mention I need to make crown shaped cookies for my Christmas box and I have never attempted that before. Good thing I've been baking since I could walk, otherwise this would be daunting. I'm curious if you guys do any baking over the holidays. Let me know in the comments!

Peace.

Year 3, Day 225

Hello. So today's song is Empire by Shakira.

My computer is scaring the shit out of me. I know I've basically run it ragged, and it's slowly dying, but now it's taken a turn for the worst. My speakers no longer work, the screen keeps freezing and it takes about half an hour just to load. So as I write this I'm currently backing up everything onto my new external hard drive. It's my early Christmas present to myself, because I kinda needed it. I've actually never backed anything up in my life, but I mean all of my stuff was saved on multiple computers and in my email which is online so I can access it anywhere...now I have one computer and I deleted all my old emails. So time to do the responsible adult thing and backup my files! I decided to clean out my computer before doing it, so I've spent the last four hours trying to do that. I finally gave up about ten minutes ago, there is just too many goddamn files. The problem is I have every document I ever used from school on here, so most of those are useless, but still need to be scrolled through just in case. I still have so much to go through, but I can't anymore. I needed a break, so why not do my blog! Today and for the near future are going to be radio hits again, because it's better to do those all in a row. Then I think after that I'll feature artists that I never have before, in any year, and that should be a fun week. So enjoy!

Peace.

Year 3, Day 224

Hi. So today's song is Bixby Canyon Bridge by Death Cab For Cutie.

Yeah, so yesterday I didn't last very long without a new rant coming up. Living in a city during winter is enough to get me angry within two minutes flat. Instead of complaining today though I want to gush because I just watched the first part of the Flash/Arrow crossover and it was possibly the best episode of anything I've ever seen. Every single character was on point and weren't left out which was really tricky considering there is ten of them. The reactions to things and interactions of the characters was so brilliant. I had to keep pausing because I was laughing so hard, and I'm pretty sure I watched the entire episode twice from the amount of stuff I rewinded to watch again. I'm going to explain my love for it without ruining anything...or at least I'm going to try. When they set up the initial plot for the episode I kind of guessed what would happen, and then the opposite did. Same premise as what I thought, but different characters in different roles. There was a lot of funny for the first little bit, and then the pain! I'm too emotionally invested. The ending though is really what killed me. The anger, the betrayal, the woman in the place! and holy shit the fire and the living and blaergh. If you don't watch those shows you seriously need to because it's amazing.

Peace.

Year 3, Day 223

Sup. Today's song is Take Me To A Higher Plane by Kate Nash.

So this video is actually a live session of the song, meaning it is all the raw recording you see going on in the video. Granted it means it isn't as polished as the CD version, but that's a given. It seems my mind has been made up for me on the two job dilemma. One of the jobs I applied to offered to give me one shift a week, which is really a non-job. Considering the time of the other one that I really want to overlap with this one shift, I've decided it's not worth it. I am not desperate enough to take a job that is only one shift, not even eight hours, and every holiday. If that's all a company is willing to offer, then they shouldn't even be putting that posting out when another employee can easily take on the excess labor. It just doesn't make sense to me...So that's my rant for today. Hopefully I've gotten it out of the way and the rest of my day will be stellar. I'll see how long it lasts, it'll be like an experiment. I'll let you know what happens.

Peace.

Year 3, Day 222

Hey guys. So today's song is No Envy No Fear by Joshua Radin.

I'm stuck at home today. My car is in for 'winterizing'. Usually I wouldn't even bother on my car, but my grandpa got a jump scare when he almost crashed so he kind of made the appointment for me then just stole my car to take it in...reasons my spare set of car keys should probably be taken away from them. Although it's a good system. My family collectively has keys to everyone's stuff. Like, I can get into my sister and my grandparent's houses; and my grandparents can get into everyone's places but my sisters, and can get in both mine and her cars. This way if we every forget our keys or lock our keys in the car (I've seen it happen) we aren't fucked. Since I'm stuck in the house I've been just kind of watching the grossness of outside through the window, and it dampened my mood so you get a slower, softer song today. It just feel right.

Peace.

Year 3, Day 221

Hiya. So today's song is We Are Not Losers Anymore by Actionslacks.

Dorry about the video, I couldn't find this song on YouTube anywhere else. From it though I bet you can guess where I heard this song. I kind of like watching the video because of the montage of Ryan and Espo. If you don't know what this is from, these guys are characters in Castle. As much as I absolutely adore Nathan Fillion, Seamas Dever is my favorite. It is also just the cutest thing ever that his wife on the show is his wife in real life. It makes me happy. So anyway, it's a new band, new song that's pretty cool. It starts out kind of slow and then gets more awesome as it goes, so check it out.

Peace.