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A bit of a preface to this next piece. First of all, it’s not written by me. It’s written by someone who’s very near and dear to my heart. I’ve always known that she was extremely talented with her writing, and told her that on numerous occasions, and this just proves my point. The story itself is actually about a stuffed animal that I’ve had since before I was born. “Baby Chris” as I’ve called him my entire life. He’s a small stuffed bear that fits into my palm that my mother received as a baby shower gift for me.
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 I’ll be honest. While I am a very avid music appreciator, I’m not normally one to focus on all the awards shows. It’s just never really been my thing, mainly because I never like any of the “main stream” artists who get put up for awards. I think they’re shoddy, over-produced and over-hyped. I wasn’t even planning on watching this years Grammys, but as circumstance would have it, I found myself with nothing else to be doing at that time, and the remote control about five feet too far away from me. So, I watched.
I came in a little
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Ok, so I just wanted to be able to use the word Shenanigans in a blog title. But in all seriousness, I’m sure some of you have noticed the smorgasbord of different themes, and designs I’ve been going through lately on this site. I think I’m honing in on something I like, and that’s easily changeable. For now, ignore the pretty raspberry bushes and other nature images that scroll through the header image…still working on creating something for up there, but I like the layout of this design.
It’ll probably change in a month. I’m super ADD, with pretty much anything
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Picture this if you will. It’s Friday night, you’ve just gotten a paycheck from work. You’re overjoyed! You have money! The world is your oyster!! Then you realize that your check pretty much entirely goes to your cell phone bill, your utilities, rent, groceries for the week and and any other payments that you need to be making. Suddenly that joyous feeling has been trumped by a feeling of despair, as you’ve now got a measly hundred bucks left to your name to last you the next two weeks for food, gas, and “fun.”
Have I sufficiently depressed you enough?
So what
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Once every three hundred and sixty five days we have a rebirth. A new beginning. A chance to re-evaluate our lives and make resolutions to change for the better. A new year.
Or do we?
Not to be cynical or anything, but isn’t January 1st just the beginning of a new month? And don’t we have a new month every thirty (or so) days? Hell, narrow that down just a bit further and you’ve got a new week. And we have one of those every seven days. Narrow that down even further, and you’ve got the beginning of a new day.
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A friend of mine posted this on his facebook today. It’s a trailer for an independent film that’s being released at the Sundance Film Festival in 2010, depicting the LDS involvement in California’s Proposition 8 this past year. Now, I’m sort of split down the middle on this entire thing. Not Prop 8 necessarily. I’m pretty much indifferent at this point. I have a lot of gay friends, and I would be completely fine with them being married, but at the same time I can understand the argument for keeping marriage what it was defined as in the constitution. A
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Every once in a while there’s a band that comes along and “wow’s” me to the point where I have no problem shamelessly promoting them.
I found this band while randomly searching on MySpace for some new artists, like I do, and ended up hearing a couple of the songs and going “Hm, this isn’t half bad.” So, me being me, I messaged them (not expecting a response) just telling them that I appreciated the music, and I thought it was really good. Well, much to my surprise, I got a response back from Sky, who’s the vocalist/guitarist/everything-ist for the band
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Top Albums of the Moment (In no particular order): Emery: "...In Shallow Seas We Sail"
The Roots: "How I Got Over"
After Midnight Project: "Let's Build Something to Break"
Eminem: "The Recovery"
Vampire Weekend: "Contra"
Asking Alexandria: "Stand Up and Scream"
Janelle Monae: "The ArchAndroid"
Glee: "Volumes 1 2 & 3"
The Dead Weather: "Sea of Cowards"
The Classic Crime: "The Silver Chord"
Sara Bareilles: "Little Voice"
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