Welcome back everyone! Now if you are new to the show refer back to my first post about this to learn the rules.
So basically I've headed back to the classics for this game and chosen a song from the anthologies of my 2 favorite song writers to describe to you all either: our relationship or how your personality strikes me (kind of like a spirit song). Who are my favorite song writers you ask? Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen. The songs will appear in that order as well.
The people form the first list don't all reappear but most of them stay and there are some new people.
1. BJ: Big Shot BS: Born in the USA
2. BJ: You May be Right BS: Waiting on a Sunny Day
3. BJ: Viena BS: Your own Worst Enemy
4. BJ: Piano Man BS: Tenth Avenue Freeze out
5. BJ: Keeping the Faith BS: Hungry Heart
6. BJ: New York State of Mind BS: Glory Days
7. BJ: Scenes from an Italian Restaurant BS: Born to Run
8. BJ: Miami 2017 BS: Jungle Land
9. BJ: River of Dreams BS: Livin' in the Future
10.BJ: She's Always a Woman BS: Thunder Road
11.BJ: Only The Good Die Young BS: The Ties that Bind
Happy Guessing!
Fonts
Sunday, January 25, 2015
Saturday, January 17, 2015
348 days, 1 hour, 7 minutes
It's been a quite night and I'm not going out tonight, so I figured now's a good a time as any to catch up with you nice people. Unrelated, American Sniper is an outstanding film, I highly recommend it.
So it's been ten days since my last post and this is the first since I arrived back in Richmond, so that's your land mark on my time line.
My Brother and 10+ of my close friends are headed to their semi-formal dance, I only went to 2 over my Abbey career so I wasn't really sold on the whole thing, but I hope they all have a good time and make good decisions, you know who you are (Cough, Claire, Cough). My other friend had her first college musical theater audition today as well out in West-Nowhere PA (Pittsburgh) so I was sending her good vibes all day too.
New Year, New Semester, same me.
That was my thought on the flight back to Richmond a week ago Sunday. In the last 7 days I've discovered some acceptations to that.
1. It's not really a new year because I always measure things by school years, so there's that.
2. The Semester thing is totally foreign to me coming from the Abbey so I'm trying to treat this semester the same as the old one, with respect and diligence and try my darnedest to do well.
3. Winter break was great for 2 big reasons: A, I got to see everyone and B, I got to leave again.
Now let me elaborate on point 3. The first time I left I had a nagging feeling of incompleteness for a while, I needed to call and text constantly to keep in the loop of what was going on back home. Coming back a second time, I find a lack of desire to do the same things, I feel like I don't rely on it as much anyways. Don't get me wrong, not like I hate anyone now but it's interesting to have this space from people. There's a lot of time to reflect on. So after 7 days back home I can say that With the new semester and new year there will be a new me. I've gone to the gym 5 of the last 6 days and am hoping that that isn't a once in a blue moon thing. I've updated my blog at the end of the week like I hope to do for a while longer, so I don't keep myself too far or too close from y'all. And I've looked at 3 text messages without responding, something I hope helps the new me get headed in the right direction. I've also started writing music again, more lyrics than melody, but I still count it.
It's 10:53 on 1/17/15 which gives me about 348 days, 1 hour, 7 minutes until I ring in 2016 at a party with all of my friends, in that time I hope to change who I am for the better, and I'm holding myself to this. A year from today I'm going to write a post in response to this post. Hopefully a year from now I'll have so better stories to share with y'all.
Until then I'll be around.
Don't be a stranger.
So it's been ten days since my last post and this is the first since I arrived back in Richmond, so that's your land mark on my time line.
My Brother and 10+ of my close friends are headed to their semi-formal dance, I only went to 2 over my Abbey career so I wasn't really sold on the whole thing, but I hope they all have a good time and make good decisions, you know who you are (Cough, Claire, Cough). My other friend had her first college musical theater audition today as well out in West-Nowhere PA (Pittsburgh) so I was sending her good vibes all day too.
New Year, New Semester, same me.
That was my thought on the flight back to Richmond a week ago Sunday. In the last 7 days I've discovered some acceptations to that.
1. It's not really a new year because I always measure things by school years, so there's that.
2. The Semester thing is totally foreign to me coming from the Abbey so I'm trying to treat this semester the same as the old one, with respect and diligence and try my darnedest to do well.
3. Winter break was great for 2 big reasons: A, I got to see everyone and B, I got to leave again.
Now let me elaborate on point 3. The first time I left I had a nagging feeling of incompleteness for a while, I needed to call and text constantly to keep in the loop of what was going on back home. Coming back a second time, I find a lack of desire to do the same things, I feel like I don't rely on it as much anyways. Don't get me wrong, not like I hate anyone now but it's interesting to have this space from people. There's a lot of time to reflect on. So after 7 days back home I can say that With the new semester and new year there will be a new me. I've gone to the gym 5 of the last 6 days and am hoping that that isn't a once in a blue moon thing. I've updated my blog at the end of the week like I hope to do for a while longer, so I don't keep myself too far or too close from y'all. And I've looked at 3 text messages without responding, something I hope helps the new me get headed in the right direction. I've also started writing music again, more lyrics than melody, but I still count it.
It's 10:53 on 1/17/15 which gives me about 348 days, 1 hour, 7 minutes until I ring in 2016 at a party with all of my friends, in that time I hope to change who I am for the better, and I'm holding myself to this. A year from today I'm going to write a post in response to this post. Hopefully a year from now I'll have so better stories to share with y'all.
Until then I'll be around.
Don't be a stranger.
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
First Post of the New Year
How's it going? Still hung over from NYE? Probably not considering there were no fun drinks at the party me and my dedicated viewers attended on the night of December 31st, but I digress.
I picked now to write again because I'm in a bit of a rut... I thought I was going to sit down and crank out a new song for my band when I realized the emotions I was trying harness for this new song were a little too, um, raw. So I got a little off topic, so here I am in my basement 3 beers later just staring at my reflection in my blank TV screen.
Staring is weird cause you stop as soon as you realize you're doing it, but if not you can last for several minutes at a time. So staring at myself I got a lot of thinking done about a lot and most of that will probably fund it's way into future posts. 2 main things managed to stick with me through this self staring contest, well 3 if you count the fact that John Mayer has the best deep thought music in the world. 1st is that I'm not very happy with my current personal state of affairs, and that's my problem to deal with, and again will be talked about in the future, but more importantly, I was thinking about how it's the end of the "holiday season" and so all the joy and cheer and merriment is gone for the most part.
So kind of tied in with my first point, I thought back to my favorite Christmas movie of all time: White Christmas. Top to bottom, just a fantastic movie, if my family doesn't make time, I find time to watch it all by myself and I frequently sing along. You all should be thankful I didn't snap chat this one out to y'all.
The song that stuck in my mind tonight was the song "Counting your Blessings". It's all about not being able to sleep and what the 2 protagonists really want with each other in the rest of the movie and in life. So as I continued to stare at myself in the TV screen and questioned everything about myself, I eventually gravitated away from the "have nots" and focused more on what I have in front of me every day that I should be thankful for. Sometimes life deals you a rotten hand, and lately I think I've been sulking a little too much for my own good. So that stops as soon as I hit publish on this post, not quite cold turkey, but I'll begin the process, it's weird cause this is all happening under people's noses and I find it funny, I hope the other party involved gets a kick out of it too.
So yeah, that's all for tonight, see y'all in the AM,
and keep your beans cool,
Fonts
I picked now to write again because I'm in a bit of a rut... I thought I was going to sit down and crank out a new song for my band when I realized the emotions I was trying harness for this new song were a little too, um, raw. So I got a little off topic, so here I am in my basement 3 beers later just staring at my reflection in my blank TV screen.
Staring is weird cause you stop as soon as you realize you're doing it, but if not you can last for several minutes at a time. So staring at myself I got a lot of thinking done about a lot and most of that will probably fund it's way into future posts. 2 main things managed to stick with me through this self staring contest, well 3 if you count the fact that John Mayer has the best deep thought music in the world. 1st is that I'm not very happy with my current personal state of affairs, and that's my problem to deal with, and again will be talked about in the future, but more importantly, I was thinking about how it's the end of the "holiday season" and so all the joy and cheer and merriment is gone for the most part.
So kind of tied in with my first point, I thought back to my favorite Christmas movie of all time: White Christmas. Top to bottom, just a fantastic movie, if my family doesn't make time, I find time to watch it all by myself and I frequently sing along. You all should be thankful I didn't snap chat this one out to y'all.
The song that stuck in my mind tonight was the song "Counting your Blessings". It's all about not being able to sleep and what the 2 protagonists really want with each other in the rest of the movie and in life. So as I continued to stare at myself in the TV screen and questioned everything about myself, I eventually gravitated away from the "have nots" and focused more on what I have in front of me every day that I should be thankful for. Sometimes life deals you a rotten hand, and lately I think I've been sulking a little too much for my own good. So that stops as soon as I hit publish on this post, not quite cold turkey, but I'll begin the process, it's weird cause this is all happening under people's noses and I find it funny, I hope the other party involved gets a kick out of it too.
So yeah, that's all for tonight, see y'all in the AM,
and keep your beans cool,
Fonts
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