~ I got my Baylor class ring!!!! It was very exciting because I got the pretty rosewood box even though I did not have to sit through the extremely corny ring ceremony. I originally was willing to give up the overrated box so I didn't have to sit through the ceremony, but once I gave in to going I realized I had the last MSSA meeting to attend the same evening, so I didn't have to go. Anyway, it is really pretty, so I am excited!
~ I am going to Hawaii!! I am going over Spring Break with David and his family and I am sooooo excited! We are staying at the Hilton in Honolulu which is right on the beach and next door to the military hotel with all the fun amenitites, so there should be a lot of future in-law type fun. We will have to do all of the adventure-type stuff like climbing Diamond Head and parasailing since Linda and I are the only two girls so we are outnumbered, but there will be a lot of scuba diving and tanning involved too. I was so jealous of Jessica for so long since she got to go in October, but now I get to go too! Many pictures will be taken, don't worry...
~ I have found a new musical obsession....
(This is on my Facebook profile too, so if you have been ignoring it there you really need to read it!!)
BIOGRAPHY: James Blunt
James Blunt’s family have served in one kind of army or another since 995A.D. A long line of warriors. Savages really. Not a musical bone in any one of their bodies. The only music he heard growing up was “Happy Birthday” and “Silent Night”. His father considered all music, even classical, to be unnecessary noise. Although James was not one to rock the family boat, he didn’t really think he was going to join the army – it sort of crept up on him. Plus his family didn’t have a boat. Aged fourteen he just held the teenage conviction that he would have an interesting life – maybe that’s why he picked the guitar? Then again, maybe if he hadn’t, he would have tripped over it. He went to University and studied Aerospace Manufacturing Engineering and Sociology, spending most lectures asleep on the floor at the back. In much the same way, he ended up in the army. In essence, one day he was sleeping off a hangover at the back of a sociology lecture hall and the next thing he knew he was in Kosovo with a gun and a guitar strapped to the side of a tank, wondering who he could possibly sleep with to get out of this war. To break up the super attenuated monotony, James would sometimes stroll through Serb villages wearing an East German cap singing, “All we are saying is give peace a chance”. “We were peace-keepers at that point,” he explained, shrugging helplessly.
So how did the music get into him, you might ask? Well if you were sent to boarding school aged seven, studied Engineering by mistake (“I thought we were going to fly planes, but we just pulled metals apart – the brochure was very misleading.”), joined the army by default, guarded The Queen, buried The Queen Mother and pranced around London like a tit for Japanese tourists to photograph, what you’re going to want to do very much after that, besides getting stoned and laid, is put your gun down, pick up a guitar and make an album in America with Linda Perry. So James came to Los Angeles in September 2003 to record with Tom Rothrock et al. At night he’d go to bars, bringing with him his valuable British accent (in the U.K., too posh for some people – in LA, the best thing she’d heard all night) and the fact that like 50 Cent he’d been shot at numerous times, but unlike the Cent, had dodged the bullets. One song, “Goodbye My Lover”, was recorded in his landladies’ bathroom (“She was a frequenter of mental hospitals and in general, a freak – but pleasant”) where, naturally, she kept a piano.
From birth in a military hospital in Tidworth, to Harrow School, to Aerospace Manufacturing Engineering, to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, to The Household Cavalry, to Kosovo, to Buckingham Palace, to a recording studio in Los Angeles. How did James get from there to here? Only James Blunt’s hairdresser knows for certain, and either he isn’t talking or James cuts his own hair, and it’s up to you to join the dots – there are ten of them on the album.
Written by The Landlady
"the Cent" is my favorite part
get with this shit: http://www.jamesblunt.com
~I made a whole bunch of gingerbread men for people at work and to bring home to my family. I doubled the recipe because last year when I did it there were a few left over, but not enough to satisfy everyone! So I had already doubled everything else when I realized that the regular recipe called for seven cups of flour, so even though I have known that 7+7=14 since I was six years old, I kept on hoping somehow it would turn out differetly. It turns out that my fears were justified because my handmixer only lasted until the tenth cup of flour, whereafter it caught on fire because the dough was so thick that the beaters could no longer turn on any setting. I had to throw away my handmixer and have David come stir as I added in flour a little at a time. It was a mess, and I have soooo many cookies left over it is not even funny. Take a look:
~ The History Channel came and filmed at work on Wednesday and the Dr Pepper Museum will be featured on another show on the History Channel on Tuesday night. My friend and former co-worker Joy was also in town this week to spend the holidays with her in-laws, so it was very nice getting to se her again.
~ Tonight I went to Nature in Lights at BLORA with Liz and her family, and it was really fun except we had to wait an hour to get in, so we spent the time watching Dodgeball on Liz's brother Michael's PSP and amusing ourselves by watching the people in front of us jump out of their car and go to the bathroom in the woods about five times. I haven't been to the lights since the ninth grade, which was FOREVER ago, so it was a nice trip down memory lane, literally!!
And that is all the major stuff that has happened since Thanksgiving, but don't let the overall joyful mood fool you. I have stayed up til at least three in the morning every night for the last two weeks, so I am basically exhausted and so sick and tired of school that it is just not even funny. But I am glad it is break, and I hope everyone has a Very Merry Christmas!!!
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