Music Share Monday

Good evening fellow music lovers :)

With our weekend vacation coming up, last Thurday I was scrambling to get some new music downloaded for our 4 hour trip. I was looking for some 90's rock to keep J happy....(Plus, J likes to hit SKIP when one of my "weird" songs comes on. The nerve.)

The songs I share with you today were an effort to keep both our ears happy, as well as keep us awake during our road trip. It seems that rock is the genre that gave us a great soundtrack for our vacation. Here are some of my favorites from our combined playlist:

Breaking Benjamin - Breath
Alice in Chains - I Stay Away
Stone Temple Pilots - Creep
Framing Hanley - Lollipop (A remix from Lil Wayne's rendition. Awesomely funny and hard-hitting.)
Kings of Leon - Use Somebody (Can't say enough about these guys. Do yourself a favor and check them out if you haven't already.)
Hollywood Undead - Sell Your Soul
Godsmack - I Stand Alone
Pearl Jam - Black
Safety Suit - Stay (This song makes me swoon and is my newest fave.)
Saliva - Click Click Boom

What's on REPEAT for me: Paramore's Decode. I simply can't get enough of the lead's voice, the hard hitting beat and how it makes me want to run. (Read: This song is healthy for you.)

Some of YOUR current favorites:

Nicole's Playlist

Jamiroquai - Hot Tequila Brown
Counting Crows - Anna Begins
Mark Knopfler - What it is
311 - Amber
Dance Hall Crashers - Good for Nothin

Nicole thinks her music taste may be a lil odd, which tells me I'll love these songs. I can't wait to get home to listen to and download these!

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Michelle's Playlist

Flyleaf - Something I Can Never Have
Seether - Careless Whisper
The Fray - Heartless
Anberlin - The Love Song
Quietdrive - Time After Time

Michelle, these are right up my alley - cover songs can be a beautiful thing. Le sigh.

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Thanks to Nicole & Michelle for sharing today! Visitors: Feel free to leave your newest music loves in the comment section. :)

Rock on.

xo Jill
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If you want to participate in Music Share, simply shoot me an email at blueeyez055@aol.com (or leave a comment with your email) and I'll put you on the mailing list. Every Monday morning I send out an email prodding you for your newest favorites. Simply reply - to me only - with your 5 songs and I'll include them in my group email as well as on this blog.
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MUSIC SHARE

Imagine: Having a group of people with a variety of music tastes personally delivering new music material to you. Wanting new music and simply checking your email (or this blog) every Monday for hot new or great old picks from music lovers like you. Sharing your passion for music and your own personal favorites with others.

I'm starting a Music Share beginning Monday. If you want on board, simply email me, letting me know you're in: blueeyez055@aol.com. I know, its a silly old email but I'll eventually get one specifically for this project.

How it works: I email everyone on board Monday morning to prod them for the music they want to share. This may be your latest MP3 downloads, CD purchase, or something you heard on the radio. It can be old, it can be new. Simply reply to my email if you want to share new music that week. Later in the day I'll send an email out with all our music choices compiled as well as post it here on this blog.

I will not share any personal info or emails on this blog or in the email. However, if you prefer to give me an alias, I'll gladly have fun with it! (Ex: Jillybean's new picks this week are...)

As for now, I'm signing off for a little R&R in Orange Beach this weekend with my husband, sister and nephew. Can't wait to come back and see who all is on board with my Music Share!

Have a fabulous weekend!

xo Jill

Beach Bound!

This Friday we are heading to the beach. I. Can. Not. Wait.

Lately the office has been hard to take. Today isn't so bad, but I finally had to hole up in my office and just avoid as much as possible. Never under estimate an office full of men - they probably get way more done because there's less drama, less cattiness, just LESS in general.

I want to be home making a living off my jewelry so I can avoid this nonsense. Nuff said. Not going to happen anytime soon. *pout*

Some photos from a few past weekends of riding on the river:

Yes that's a laundry basket strapped to the front of our bike. Mini has to come with us! She won't let us leave home without her.

Oh and did I tell you I bought a brand new 50's pin up style bathing suit? It was a treat to myself for.... well, for no reason other than I got my bonus last weekend and decided I needed a treat! *doing the bonus dance* :) Maybe I'll take a pic in it to share. I'm thinking curls, an umbrella, and a sassy pose...

I am in creative-mode right now, but haven't the time to do anything creative due to preparation for vacation. Crossing my fingers that these few days off is what I need to get my butt back into gear!

If I don't talk to you before, have a great weekend!!

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Deep breath in

and let it out...

Apologies for the bit of upset last week. I appreciate that some of you were concerned, more than you know... thing is, I just needed to let my frustrations and disappointment out but I do have a limit as to just how much I feel comfortable sharing.

This is my journal, as I've said many times before. However, I never want to place anything on here that will make me sad when I come back and read it later. I never want to regret anything. Being so conscious of that, I'm sure I appear flighty, but really, its self preservation, my private side and a little dash of pride.

That said, I'm sweeping it all under the rug. You can't change people and you can't make people see what you see so clearly. So why waste precious moments? Instead let's fill them with the good stuff...

Like what I'm listening to now:

Matt Nathanson, Come on Get Higher
Nadia Oh, Hot Like Wow
Kings of Leon, Sex on Fire & more

I also pulled a couple of cds that were burned just for me by old friends from an old cd case. In an effort to fill up my iPod before vacation, I went digging last night and found these. One was a mix of deep, melodic music... heavy in feeling and sentiment. I found myself thinking of my days as a "youngster", wearing as much black as possible, heavy eyeliner and just sitting in a bar listening to a band with friends who understood the need to not say a word.

The other was wild trance/techno, whatever the kids call it these days. Took me back to a time when we took 2 hours to get ready to hit the dance floor and sweat our asses off, dancing for hours... coming back home looking like we'd been through a hurricane. 3 am Taco Bell runs where calories didn't count because you burned enough to last the week that night on the dance floor.

Funny how music brings back specific memories and feelings.

Of course, listening and remembering placed me in a low mood. Its difficult in this sort of limbo stage I'm in where I don't know what I am. I'm not a mother, wearing her twin sets, baking cookies and fitting exercise in when she can. Nor am I a twenty-something, going on dates with her boyfriend and shopping on Fridays for something new to wear that weekend. I'm not studying to become something. I'm just... here. Just me.

Thankfully J came home last night and got me out of my pity party. He's so good at that. As I told him last night, he knows just when to push me and the right moment to stop.

Come take a shower, he says. I'm too funky to take a shower with you, I say. And I know I'm feeling pitiful and I can't stop myself. I scowl at Mother Nature. She's on her way and man is she a bully sometimes.

He helped me wash the funky mood away. He always does.

Sometimes I wish we had a strainer in our brain to weed out the thoughts that put you in a funk. But then again, we wouldn't know the happy if there wasn't an opposite feeling. Does that make sense?

What music or song pulls a certain emotion or memory for you?

My jumbled, tired brain

I haven't slept in days. Not sleeping gives one lots of time to think. A few things that are currently becoming quite clear:

• Things aren't always what they seem.
• The people that you love the most, will often hurt you the most.
• No matter how hard you believe in something, it doesn't mean you can make others believe in it as well.
• Some people will hold on to and repeat the patterns of the past because its all they know.
• Years of self help and growth can often be destroyed in a moment.

That's all for today. There's just not enough room in my heart to give more.

Here's to a better tomorrow.

Our dog?

She likes snowballs.

Birthday Fun

Babers birthday wish was to go riding on the river. We do that pretty often, but it's one of his favorite things. (Are you singing now with a vision from The Sound of Music playing in your head? Thought so.)














Me and the Mini Monster above, trying to take the infamous self-shot photo. I was all "Come here Minner, now smile and look at the camera," and she's "Attention! Attention! Attention!" and her thanks of lick, lick, lick.

Its Baber's new favorite photo. Mine too. We luff her.















This is our lil girl waiting to jump in her spot on the 4 wheeler. As soon as she hears J start up the four wheeler, she goes ballistic. And don't be trying to sneak off without her! If any car or truck door opens while the 4 wheeler is in the driveway, she's sneaky like a ninja puppy, jumping in your car before you can tell her No, Min, I'm just getting my sunglasses...

Oh and we decided this weekend that its not the question "Minner wanna go ride?" that she recognizes and gets excited about, but the tone of that question. J tested it:

"Minner wanna do taxes? Minner wanna do our laundry?"

Yep. Its the tone.














We're getting pretty darn talented at the self shot, I must say. For some reason I think I look like a bunny rabbit in this photo. No? Look again.














J prepping the 4 wheeler for our ride. The laundry basket is strapped on top so that Mini can ride with us. Don't worry, we put a fluffy towel in there for padding and bring her lots of treats. She's very popular at the river: if she's not with us, people ask about her all day. Guess we can never break up with her. Awk-waaard...

So we rode all day long and had a blast, as usual. Then after 6 hours of riding in the sun, J's all "Hey everyone, come to our house to play some warshers!"

-- Screech!!-- Halt. Let me explain something. The game is called WASHERS, not WARSHERS. As in you throw super large washers in this wooden box with holes. I know, so country right? But we're from the small town of Central yo, and some people just like to throw random letters in the middle of words. Oh no, I don't do it. I'm totally against it and it actually embarrasses me. Besides - My mama was an English teacher. She'd beat me for talking like that. And J, well he does it either to jab at me or make fun of those who call it that. I'm thinking its a little of both. :)

Where was I? Oh yeah, so I'm all slumped over, barely keeping myself on the 4 wheeler and I hear J asking people over. I didn't say anything though, I was determined to let him do whatever he wanted on his day!

A few hours later, after a bath and some food, Baber is falling asleep beside me while everyone else is playing Washers. Gotta love him. :)

Oh and I got him this for his birthday:

















And like the chic I am, I purchased one that didn't come with darts. Go figure. I just assumed it would come with them, but you know what happens when you assume... Anyway, J is super awesome at playing darts and I hope he can teach me his skills one day soon. I need to be good at least ONE game in my lifetime. I run from all things competitive while he basks in the glow of a nice round of competitive gaming. Pool, darts, shuffleboard (okay so I love this one), washers, you name it, he's good at it.
I wanna be a boy. Hmph!

So that's it, J's big 3-0. Here's to stepping out of our twenties and many more birthdays to share together!