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So our choir concert was today. I had two solos, one being a verse from the Old Hundredth, which was our opening song and one being a few parts of "Lead Me, Lord". Nailed those two and then joined the rest of the choir (which is a trek... go out the back of church, walk around to the front, then climb the 30-35 feet up to the loft. During one song, and without getting winded at all so you can sing the next song) for the rest of the show. Everyone sounded great. And yes, I broke out "THE SUIT". Complete with shades beforehand. And I'm rocking the chromedome once more. Look good, feel good, sound good, life's good. Anyway, we did a few hymns from the front at the end with the congregation joining in singing. Last one was "Let There Be Peace On Earth", possibly one of the best songs for my voice, because the most powerful section is right where my voice is most powerful too. Turned the power up to about 8.5-9 and had myself a game of "Jim Versus The Giant Pipe Organ." Apparently, I won, because the other organist, who was standing in the choir loft next to the organ said he could clearly hear me. Go me. Managed to keep the power up without forcing it at all.

Got a LOT of compliments on my singing from a lot of various people, including two close family friends who hadn't heard me sing in a long time and were impressed, and a former choir director who really enjoyed hearing me as well. Even the people who've been there for years and the priests were impressed. I don't get a chance to really open up the pipes that often, so I made sure to make the most of it.

Amusing anecdote: I'm walking around in the back at like 3:58 and I'm like "No big deal, no nerves, no problem." The other main soloist, who is a music major and has done concerts at various churches here in town is a bundle of nerves. She even told me she takes pills beforehand to calm down because she gets so nervous. She was stunned that I'm wandering around and being all calm. Hell, I was even caffeinated, so I was worked up a bit, and I was still about 10x more cool and collected. Yes, I'm stroking my ego, deal with it. :P

Mom taped it, but I swear the tape recorder makes everything sound like it's wavering. We'll see.

Got home, turned on the race and saw that Jimmie Johnson's "nearly insurmountable lead" had a huge chunk taken out of it. Crashed on lap 3, ended up in 38th after huge amounts of work on the car were needed to just make it run. Mark Martin, on the other hand, finished 4th. Lead's down to 73 now.

Also, Shaz-Bagl (my fantasy football team) is rocking this week. Looks like I'm making a late charge and might be getting my 3rd "Weekly High Score" award.

Now just taking it easy, preparing for the service on Tuesday (another couple of solos then as well), and then looking forward to AUSA. Can't wait to see so many of my friends that weekend. Only wish Shelly could be there too (she'll be at AAC that weekend).

And now, time for VGZ! http://www.livestream.com/vgzlive

I am really really really really bored so this is what I'm doing.

( A dumb survey )

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it doesnt matter what you change or what you do in the end it be shit again, cuz everything always turns into shit, even wen u think u had life figure out, you are seriously wrong, u never kno whats gona happen, but life isnt happy.

Think about the beginning of this statement and then finish it by confessing/sharing something you might not be able to say openly to the world...

"As of today, I am making the commitment to never again.... "

My pre birthday celebrations were fun.


As was my actual birthday and then post birthday celebrations. I turned 21, finally got that out of the way. Halloween was anticlimactic but still fun. The Frankenstein rock opera wasn't as awesome as it could have been but it was still pretty damn good.

I was accepted into the London abroad program as well, I'll be there from Dec 26th to Jan 17th.


Oh- I'm busy, pretty damn busy atleast. Trying to tuck away as much cash as possible for London so I have some spare change for those three weeks. So this post is hella short. Here is some luls.

Today was kind of worthless.  I got up really late, I ate a burrito(FREE burrito), gorged on dark chocolate peanut M&M's from the girlfriend, played Borderlands, and installed a retail copy of Windows 7 on my laptop.

Oh, and now it's 3am and I just finished updating DumbLicensePlates.com  and I have work in 4 hours.  The weekend was kind of nuts though.  Halloween in NYC is kind of ridiculous.

So yeah, Halloween was fun at my cousin's place. Well, except for twisting my ankle when I was taking the kids trick-or-treating around the neighborhood. It still hurts now. Bah. But fun was had, food was eaten, and all was good.

Watched ND pummel WSU, USC lose to Oregon (if you listen closely, I'll bet you can STILL hear Colin Cowherd crying), and the Yanks beat the Phillies (and it looks like the teams remembered to bring their REAL bats for this game finally). Tomorrow is Giants-Eagles, Favre Bowl, Talledega (I can't believe I'm praying for Johnson to crash), and Game 4. And of course, VGZ at 10 PM.

MORE OF YOU PEOPLE NEED TO COME LISTEN TO THE LIVE SHOW AT 10 ON SUNDAYS AND WEDNESDAYS. HTTP://WWW.LIVESTREAM.COM/VGZLIVE IF YOU DON'T AND YOU DON'T HAVE A VALID REASON (like "brb, honeymoon"), YOU GIVE US TACIT APPROVAL TO MAKE FUN OF YOU. :p

And lastly, there's this convention in June. It's called AnimeNEXT. It'll be June 18-20 of 2010. It'll also be at the Garden State Exhibit Center (along with the Doubletree and the 300 Building) again. Since it's Thanksgiving month, and I am He-Who-Gives-You-Badges-For-Money, I've made a decision. I've decided that I can give Thanks for you Giving us your money and you can give us Thanks for Giving you another weekend where you can dress up like weird characters...
fangirl over yaoi...
spend more money on random stuff in 3 days than you would on food for a month...
dub hentai...
watch hentai...
look sexy in hot costumes...
proclaim your love for a certain bald guy
have fun and be awesome.

And in order to do that, we're officially opening pre-registration. You can go to http://animenext2010.eventbrite.com/ in order to pre-register. It's $37.50 for the rest of 2009. If you want to do mail-in or group pre-reg, we'll have those forms up on the website soon.

Alright, time for Jim to head to bed. Come to ANext. You know you want to. :D

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