1 year ago today I wrote my first post for this blog and sent out a message to family and friends announcing it. I haven’t posted every day, or even every week since then but I’ve tried to make sure that everything I’ve posted has been interesting.
I don’t know how many people still check my blog regularly, or read it occasionally, but if you’re reading this post now, thanks. For taking the time, for caring enough about what I do and what I think about to want to know. I hope I’ve made it interesting, I’ll try to continue the trend.
It’s a fun project.
Happy Birthday Little Pink Laptop!
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So many things have happened since I last posted; I’m just going to post the highlights.
For starters I celebrated my 24th Birthday (24 feels like 23) and got to spend some time with both of my families. My parents gave me two season tickets to the Broadway in Chicago 2009 season http://broadwayinchicago.com/ and Chris took me to see Twilight (a bad teen vampire romance movie that I wanted to see….).
Christmas came and went, the highlight was getting to spend time with everyone during my 5 day weekend!
I got bronchitis in the middle of December and am just now getting over it.
2009 is now here, and I have a whole world ahead of me. And this year I have some resolutions and plans.
My first resolution is to spend more time with my friends and family, this is a little funny considering that my main resolution last year was to take more time for myself. I’m hoping this year to find a balance between doing things that I like to do alone, and doing things with and for others. Of course my other resolution has to do with weight (it almost always does). I’d like to lose about 10-15 pounds. I plan to continue packing lunches (I stated that back in November) because this not only saves me money, but also allows me to pack something significantly healthier than I could buy off the self or at a restaurant.
2009 is starting off with a bang as Chris, Pattie, Bill, Mollie, Max, Tess and I head off for a Disney World vacation Jan 4th – 10th. Chris and I will be flying, and the rest of the gang is driving (they leave tomorrow, drive carefully!). It’s sure to be a vacation to remember, Chris and I have made this an annual trip, but this will be the first time we share it with anyone. We’re really looking forward to Spaceship Earth, Buzz Lightyear, Tower of Terror and Everest. Getting to spend a week in a place that just makes me happy and feel like a kid is really something I look forward to every year and hope that this is something I can continue to do for years to come.
For anyone interested, I plan on posting a short little update blog while we’re on our trip so check back soon!
My final resolution is to try to at least post a weekly blog, but we’ll see how that goes. Life tends to get in the way. (but then, if it didn’t I would have nothing to write about) 
I have always felt that that Autumn was short changed. It seems like Summer and Winter last forever, and you can feel and see the changes of Spring for a very long time but Autumn… The leaves start changing, you get maybe a week or two of gorgeous fall colors, then they all start to fall and soon after they lose their colors and become crunchy (although, raking up the leaves and jumping in them remains one of my favorite things to do in the fall).
This year I was lucky enough to capture some of the prettiest of fall colors displayed here for you now… Interestingly enough, I did not go out intending to do this… Instead, I was outside waiting for Chris to come home when I walked to the park that is less than a block from my house… I realized that this would be one of the last good days to take pictures and started shooting… The following pictures were not captured with my SLR or even my tiny cannon, instead, they were captured on my iPhone, and they are some of my favorite pictures of the season.
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So here we are, sitting in the airport waiting for our flight. The original goal was to get here around 7:30, but there was no traffic (or virtually no traffic) this morning. We actually got to our gate at 7:30 so we now have a hour and a half wait.
Thank you Bill and Patti for driving us this morning! The drive was so plesesnt and it’s always nice to be seen off by people you love.
We will be in Disneyland for 3 days and we’ll be back on Monday, and then you can expect some pictures and fun blogs (starting, hopefully memorial day night).
The plane ride is 4 hours! Wish us luck!
We are just hours away! I’m too excited to sit still!
DISNEYLAND!!!
As it always seems to happen, when I go and see one show on a weekend I have another to go to as well.
Todays show was of a different nature, I went to go see my friends (Tess, Bill and Robin) perform with the AHCCB. This was Bills first time playing with the band and I’m thrilled that I was able to see him do it. Well Done!
This talented group of musicians performed their concert “When East Meets West” and the songs were great. The most memorable for me were “Medley from ‘Miss Saigon” and “Horse on the Prairie”. The latter of which was written by one of the bands members Taka Urayama, and I must say that it was a pretty amazing piece.
Although I tried to just sit and enjoy the music, I felt I needed to capture some of this show on (digital) film. So here are a few of the shots I got during the show.
The Full Band Waiting
Tess Waiting
The Conductor (Adam La Spata) Takes a bow after the first song
Barbara Decker Wachholz sings “Into the West”
Bill and Tess at Intermission
Bill, Tess, Mollie and Maz (he’s there I swear!) hang out before intermission is over.
Adam Explains his Outfit
(it represents the east while Adam is the West, East Meets West, get it?)
The Band Takes their Final Bow
It was great to be able to see the band perform again, it’s always a treat. I can’t wait until the 4th of July parade/concert! Today was especially great since Pattie, Bill, Mollie and Tess will be leaving for Springfield tomorrow. It’s always nice to hang out with them. Have a great time guys! Come home safe!
This post has been updated from it’s original version. Since there are nice people on youtube who posted last nights show I thought it was only fair to post the songs from that show. After all, the venue was awesome and so was the audience.
So last night I saw Jonathan Coulton at the Lakeshore Theater.
He wrote the song at the end of the game Portal (which is amazing, both the song and the game, everyone should play it). I won’t post that song here because it would ruin the game for anyone who has not played it (I think).
The show was pretty amazing. Lot’s of fun, lots of audience participation. I hadn’t heard many of his songs before going to the concert, really just the portal song, and Ikea, but I like his sound very much.
If you’re interested you can go to his store and listen to all his songs (http://www.jonathancoulton.com/store/downloads).
Here’s one of the songs he played last night. The slide show can be found by itself on youtube, but since I found a taping of last nights show I thought I would post this.
I like it, I like it alot.
The opening act was Paul and Storm but not only were they the opening act, they also sang with Jonathan (and he sang with them. Which made for a fun opening, closing, combined sort of show.
This is one of the songs they played together last night.
At the end of the night I had Jonathan Coulton sign my arm. And I went home happy.
It was great, especially for my first concert ever.
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I have always been a Daddy’s Girl. I used to sit at his feet in the living room and watch golf while eating cheese popcorn. I didn’t really like golf, the cheese popcorn was good… But I was mainly interested in hanging out with my Dad. When he was gone on long trips over seas I would sometimes sit on the floor and watch golf, just to feel like he was there.
My Daddy wrote me notes while he was at sea, drew me pictures, sent me tapes… I still have them all. I miss the days when I could sit in his lap and be read to, when we would go outside and play catch, fly kites, you know… Little girl stuff.
When I went to New York for a summer he always told me how proud he was of me. He still tells me that.
Today is my Daddy’s Birthday! Happy Birthday Dad! Thanks for everything.
(this is not a picture of my dad and me… But it reminds me of happy times)
