Book & Music Time & Week's Trend

Music:

Mayday Parade: Any Where But Here

Mayday is one of those bands that got me through a hard time...i owe a lot to them. when my heart was broken they were the ones that helped me get a lot of my frustration out, so when their new album came out i had to get it. its a pretty good album and the lyrics are of course once again awesome (seriously the best songs when you have just broken up with someone) but one of their main singers (Jason) actually left the group and he was my favorite. i miss his raspy voice in the all the songs. definitely a good album but not the same with out him... i did hear he started a new band called Go Radio so I am going to go check it out, i will let you know if it is any good. favorite songs are The Silence & The Memory.

The Maine - Black & White
my all time favorite Maine album. its awesome. remember my teenage crush? ya this is him:...still crushing ;). the songs on this album are a lot more mature than the other albums, you can tell they are maturing as people and as a band and John's voice is AmAzInG! love it. Fav songs are Inside Of You & Right Girl (both acoustic and album versions) & Fuel To The Fire.

Phoenix - United
i had to complete my Phoenix collection and this was the last one. my least favorite of all the albums but if your like me and gotta have them all its still good. i get to see them on the 23rd so excited! still don't have a date. who wants to be my date??? fav songs are Party Time & Summer Days

Books:

WARNING: IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO KNOW THE OUTCOME OF MOCKINGJAY DO NOT KEEP READING.

MockingJay - Suzanne Collins
ok...i got a lot to say about this one. you all know by now that i am a huge Gale fan and if you have read the book you know she doesn't end up with Gale so obviously i don't like that part.. i actually really liked the book..i read it so fast mainly cause i wanted to know who she picked but i still enjoyed. it is also a little more violent than any of the others. BUT the book actually gave me anxiety at the end. the moment she opened the door and saw Peeta planting the roses my heart drop. i honestly started to get anxiety and almost started crying. the whole thing with Gale seemed so real life to me. it's like having someone in your life that being with them all the time feels so right and they know you so well almost as well as yourself. and than the ways of the world pull you apart and give you different ideas on the way you want to live. it's not how life should be but unfortunately it is and i hate it. the thing is she didn't choose Peeta over Gale, she honestly didn't make a choice that way. Peeta was there and she made a decision not to change that, which i think was the wrong choice. i guess with books you expect a happily ever after and this one ended so life-like and sucky. grr... still my favorite books but so frustrating.

anyways...their is my rant. this is my only book this time. i re-read the first to in preparation for this one.

This Week The Trend

since i am on here this evening i am going to do this a little early this week. last week was good. i de-junked a lot. felt good. i need to do that like once a month cause i build up things so fast. this week is:

Train for a 10k in the MUD

literally. i have to run that race in 2 weeks and i am not sure i am going to make it! i gotta gotta focus on that for the next couple weeks...

My Labor Day Weekend

aren't holidays the best? i love when sunday night comes and i know i don't have to go to work in the morning...it is the best feeling. i didn't do anything extremely exciting this weekend but i still very much enjoyed it. i spent the majority of it working on my bathroom remodel. below are some pics.
i bought this old kitchen cabinet at a garage sale and painted/antiqued it to hang above my toliet:




i wasn't going to put the doors on it but after i look at it with all my junk in there i think i am going to. i didn't do those to begin with so that is another project to put on the list!

i am also going to be making a new hamper, putting up some blinds, making a collage, and finding other wonderful things to put around like this:pluse check out my new shelves...i dig them. i got lots of work ahead of me but after this bathroom is done it is going to be like going to the ocean everyday =)

i also saw 2 mice this weekend...is that some kind of bad luck? i haven't seen on in real life for probably over 10 years. i saw one sitting by the door of the movie theater (creepy, i know) and a dead one under my dad's new corvette (aka mid-life crisis). weird.
i also spent the weekend de-junking. i threw away loads of papers from college. i have a hard time throwing away stuff so i had this cabinet stuffed with all my college papers, handouts, assignments...i think i got rid of about 3 grown size trees (i recycled though). i have a hard time accepting i wont need something in the future so i keep everything...

which brings me to This Week The Trend:

de-junk

i got rid of some friends on facebook yesterday which was nice...what else can i de-junk?

well hope you all had a good holiday weekend and enjoy your week!

this week the trend...

i can't believe its monday already...these last week has flown by. i am going to be honest and let you know i didn't do so well at smiling at strangers last week. it was one of those weeks were i was constantely going and sometimes didn't feel like smiling...

but this week goal is to:

Catch up on Life

summer has been an extremely crazy time for me. but with september coming i actually have a lot of empty days in my planner... it is so weird! so this week is to the week to play as much catch up on things i have wanted to get done this summer but haven't had time. a few of them include reading my books, buying some new music, finish painting my shelf for my bathroom, and organize, organize, organize.

have a good week!

p.s. I am going to see Quietdrive tonight at Utah State. super excited!

this week the trend...

to smile at as many strangers as possible... (preferably good lookin single boys =) )

not sure why i am choosing this as this weeks trend but i am doing it.
last week was good. i focused my mind away from the events that were distracting and it was amazing how much i improved last week. wahoo!

this week the trend...

so i was driving in my car this weekend with my ipod on shuffle and Relient K's song 'this week the trend' came on . i felt inspired to start a weekly blog post called 'this week the trend'. the song talks about different things he wants to do every week...some stuff good, some not so good...but things to help figure out life and try new stuff. so i am going to try out that exact thing! so for this week...

FOCUS! FOCUS! FOCUS!

I have had a couple things happen last week that have caused me to loose focus and mess up my emotions a little (no, my period was not one of them..can't use that excuse this time!). i have some things i am trying to work on and improve on and these events have just thrown it off. the events were nice but i can't loose focus.. if you would like to join me this week, feel free and FOCUS! FOCUS! FOCUS!

Also found a great quote to go with it:
“We become so caught up in the busyness of our lives. Were we to step back, however, and take a good look at what we’re doing, we may find that we have immersed ourselves in the ‘thick of thin things.’ In other words, too often we spend most of our time taking care of the things which do not really matter much at all in the grand scheme of things, neglecting those more important causes.”
Thomas S. Monson