Music of the week {Revive}

Many thanks to my friend Paul, I am now a fan of the band Revive. Actually I have been a fan for quite awhile, but have only recently forked over the currency required for legal ownership of their music.

I'd say they're definitely in the running with Trading Yesterday.They also get bonus points because if you watch some of their videos where they're talking instead of singing, they have cool Australian accents!! Because they're from Australia. (go figure.)

The saddest part? THEY'RE NOT A BAND ANYMORE EITHER.

Why do all the awesome bands stop making music? I think I might die if tenth avenue north does that.

Alright. Enough about that.

My current most favorite song is:

Hold On Love


There's fear in your eyes
As you face the unknown
You keep asking why
For a reason to hold on
But hold on love

The life that you plan
The dreams are all gone
You don't understand why you should hold on
But hold on love

I'll be here
Whatever comes your way
I'll be here
It's a promise I have made
When you close your eyes
And say your last goodbye
I'll be here

I'm strong enough
I'll be your hope
I made a way
I just need you to hold on
Hold on love

I'll be here
Whatever comes your way
I'll be here
It's a promise I have made
When you close your eyes
And say your last goodbye
I'll be here

No matter what you're facing now
As you're drowning in a sea of doubt
You should know I won't let you go
No matter what you're going through
Just remember I have been there too
You should know I won't let you go

I'll be here
Whatever comes your way
I'll be here
It's a promise I have made
When you close your eyes
And say your last goodbye
I'll be here

Hold on
Hold on love

Also, when you have time to kill and feel like listening to more awesome music, check out:

Don't give up the fight:

We Were Meant to Be:


And last but not least,

Blink:

If I could have just one wish...

Yes, I do believe this is what I would wish for.

Happy Monday!

Oh wait, it's Wednesday.

I'm pretty sure I just live in perpetual mondays....or it could be that I didn't have school yesterday and that threw off my little mental picture of where I was in the week and so now it feels like Monday all over again. O.o

I'm starting to think days off aren't quite a good idea as they seem....

But anyhow, I am here to introduce you to "Blimey Cow" or...I think his name is Jordan? Anyways, cool Christian youtuber for you to check out.

He made this oisome video on Monday about smartphones and the overuse of technology, and has thus gone at least 65 points up on my awesome list. (that's a lot of points)

Be sure to check out "10 ways to get girls to like you," "If you are a Christian you have to be happy all the time," and "Stupid stuff people do on the internet," and "Seven lies about homeschoolers." =P




"Would our waitresses be doomed to 2% tips??!!"

"My brain is a miracle! This is just a piece of nuts bolts! ...Did you just tweet me?!"

"I'm still partial to the original form of communication...I don't know if you've heard of it, it's called talking with your mouth!!"

"It's like we WANT Pixar's Wall-E to come true!!"

"I mean, come on! How could a human being with a soul compare to Angry Birds and Fruit Ninja??"

Also, disclaimer: I'm not saying you're dumb if you have a smartphone, because I know several highly intelligent people who own smartphones. I just think our culture's overuse of technology is ridiculous -- to the point that sometimes (like in this video), it's funny.

Music of the week.

I discovered this band quite a bit ago, but I'm only finally posting about it now. Props go to Gray for hitting a radio station in the car on the way home that was playing this song, and to Shrimpy for introducing it to me when we got there. I always like it when I find new bands.

This is OneRepublic.

They are not as awesome as tenth ave or Trading Yesterday. Some of their songs are a little bit weird. They have creepy-ish music videos.

But nevertheless, I really like some of their music, and the new style is really refreshing to me. Favorite songs so far are:

Good Life
Marchin' On
Someone to save you
Say (all I need)

This is how I feel right now...

If you can't read what the book says, it's "Chinese." And yes, I have been studying it for the past hour, and yes, this picture is from my book.

In Which I Blog About The Ice Storm

I probably shouldn’t be wasting precious computer battery life.

But I am.

I mean, 6 hour battery life – you can’t blame a girl, right?

Staying up watching movies….piles of blankets, movies with my brothers, candle flames…

I know pretty much every parent in the world (as well as every internet-geek in the world) hates it when the power goes out, but I kind of like it.

Granted, the branches creaking and crashing down around my house every 10 minutes isn’t the most comforting feeling in the world, nor is the fact that I can’t sleep in my own bedroom due to a Very Large Tree just outside my bedroom window.

For those of you who don’t live within a 50 mile radius, allow me to explain:

The snow mentioned in the previous post actually all melted within a day, forcing me to attend school on Tuesday. However, it soon reappeared – much to my thrill and delight, in time for them to cancel school on Wednesday. It did the same thing again on Thursday, where I proceeded to have many sledding adventures with Very Awesome Neighbors.

However, it then froze over, rained, froze over, snowed, and any growing bit of nature is now 20 feet closer to the ground than its natural state due to the heaviness of the aforementioned frozen rain/snow/ice/rain/snow.

The power, sadly, could not hold up against all of the falling bits of nature, and I am now forced to use my battery life and walk around with my cell phone light so that I don’t trip and kill myself.

I’ve gotta say though – nothing is more fun than getting to talk on a phone that has a cord on it. Okay, maybe I’m young and techy but it’s COOL! Also, so is sleeping with lots of blankets, crunching through ice, and watching movies because you really can’t do anything else with the lights all off.

Yep. So of course you won’t read this until the power comes back ON and I have wifi again.

Living without power is kinda fun. I’m sure I’ll be tired of it at some point, but hey – life is an adventure and I might as well live it, right?

Day 2 of the ice storm!

Well. Living without power sure is freezing COLD. Praise the Lord for gas powered water heaters and stoves!

Also for neighbors with power. Who let me dry my hair and charge my laptop at their house. :)

It's kind of fun to wear 10 layers of clothing. Plus warmer outdoor temperatures have manifested themselves today, so it's not so bad.

Everything is melting all over the place now, a gigantic branch fell off our tree, and everything is drip drip dripping, with snow lopping off of all of the trees with a crunch as it hits the ice. It’s like Narnia when spring was coming!

24 hour power outage...it's good to have lights and heat again. But it's also really, really nice to not have it. I know that sounds strange, but it's nice to take a break from the internet and just let my world quietly revolve around my neighborhood. I got to hangout with my neighbor a lot this week, and we don't get to do that often.

To not have electricity makes me really grateful for it, but there's something quietly...peaceful about not having electrical wires radiating their....electricity....all around me. It's not all busy busy.

When all of the electric-things are gone, and all I'm surrounded with is the power of nature, the beauty of a storm, and the cold nipping at my nose, it leaves me in awe of the strength and might of God. I can just sit in quiet wonder of his beauty.

It was a good week.

I just have to say....

Okay, so everyone everywhere who lives within like a 50 mile radius of me has probably posted about the weather in some way.

BUT THAT'S BECAUSE IT'S GLORIOUS!!!!!

I don't care how many adults or grown-up children there are who hate the snow, I will shamelessly continue my love for it. I refuse to let my sheer delight for tiny white flakes die.

I will dance in the snow, even if it means my boots get soaked through....

I will make snow angels and sled and have snowball fights till I'm freezing...

I'm going to build a snowman, I'm going to run up and down hills and delight in it like a child.



Also add to that that there's NO SCHOOL TODAY?! Yes I am happy.

This is why I love tenth avenue north.

ALSO THEY ARE RECORDING A NEW ALBUM...CAN YOU SAY 'EXCITED?! '