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Yay! My favorite couple are parents of a brand new baby girl! Keith and Nicole welcomed Sunday Rose Kidman Urban this morning!

Oh, I am so freakin' happy for them. Hooray!

Woohoo! My radio is playing Keith's new/old single. I am so excited that he re-recorded "You Look Good In My Shirt" for his new single. It's one of my favorites from "Golden Road", and I know how much he loves performing it live. He does it so fantastic live, too. I'm so happy to hear this song on the radio now!

This song makes me smile. Heee! So happy.

Back to trying to write my last fic for a challenge. Oy. It may not get done until tomorrow, but I'll be done! Yay! I posted my second one over at fic_variations this evening. As much as I adore writing Tony, I've got to get back to plotting the novel. It is my goal for June--to truly have a plot outline and all the characters lined up. Because, yes.

Working 1-10 tomorrow. Heather and I are going to do at least five hours of storeset, and try and get at least three zones of our store done with new product. Here's hoping for productivity. Maybe I'll bring the iPod and play uptempo fun stuff all night. Hahah.

Back to writing. No, really.

So Leo the computer is back. Woo to the freakin' hoo! And I didn't lose a darn thing. This teaches me to back my crap up! Mom and I are going to go grab a flash drive tomorrow sometime, methinks. Meep. I about died thinking I was going to lose everything for Reasons Why and for my novel. But I lost nothing in the great Crash of 2008, and I am beyond relieved!

Work was--cruddy last week. This week will be better. It has to be. DM visit on Wednesday, oh joy. We'll probably be in my office for like, three hours compiling feedback for her conference call on Thursday. Goody. Heh. No, I like the feedback thing, as I am the district feedback captain. Whee! But yeah, work will be better once the weather decides what the crap it wants to do. It was like, *95 here today, ugh. It's going to be a nasty summer.

New music! Yay. I finally got ahold of Nelly Furtado's "In God's Hands", the duet version with Keith Urban, which is phenomenal. They blend so well together. Keith rocks, as always. Then, as I was puttering on the country page on iTunes, I found a new artist who covered one of my absolute favorite Train songs. This guy does "I'm About To Come Alive" just beautifully, so I had to spend the .99 and get the dang song. And as usual, it makes me cry. A sap, I am.

Lady A debuted at #1 on Billboard last week. Was psyched for Charles, Hillary, and Dave.

I think I got flirted with via text messages this evening. And it may have been fun to kind of flirt back. We'll see what happens with that, if anything. Eeep.

Going to bed soon. Trying to scribble down three plots to use for May's fic_variations prompts. I am a glutton for punishment and signed up, hoping it'll kickstart the muse.

Good night.

So Leo the computer is back. Woo to the freakin' hoo! And I didn't lose a darn thing. This teaches me to back my crap up! Mom and I are going to go grab a flash drive tomorrow sometime, methinks. Meep. I about died thinking I was going to lose everything for Reasons Why and for my novel. But I lost nothing in the great Crash of 2008, and I am beyond relieved!

Work was--cruddy last week. This week will be better. It has to be. DM visit on Wednesday, oh joy. We'll probably be in my office for like, three hours compiling feedback for her conference call on Thursday. Goody. Heh. No, I like the feedback thing, as I am the district feedback captain. Whee! But yeah, work will be better once the weather decides what the crap it wants to do. It was like, *95 here today, ugh. It's going to be a nasty summer.

New music! Yay. I finally got ahold of Nelly Furtado's "In God's Hands", the duet version with Keith Urban, which is phenomenal. They blend so well together. Keith rocks, as always. Then, as I was puttering on the country page on iTunes, I found a new artist who covered one of my absolute favorite Train songs. This guy does "I'm About To Come Alive" just beautifully, so I had to spend the .99 and get the dang song. And as usual, it makes me cry. A sap, I am.

Lady A debuted at #1 on Billboard last week. Was psyched for Charles, Hillary, and Dave.

I think I got flirted with via text messages this evening. And it may have been fun to kind of flirt back. We'll see what happens with that, if anything. Eeep.

Going to bed soon. Trying to scribble down three plots to use for May's fic_variations prompts. I am a glutton for punishment and signed up, hoping it'll kickstart the muse.

Good night.

As per usual, Keith Urban rocked absolute socks last night in San Jose. Carrie Underwood was awesome as well, but Keith--Keith is perfection. He busted out "You Look Good In My Shirt" for us, which was awesome.

My mom had a great time, and I had a fabulous time as always. Keith played and looked fantastic, and he never stopped smiling. He made himself laugh at least six times--so cute! The duet with Carrie was a brand new one, "Stop Dragging My Heart Around" by Stevie Nicks, and they rocked it.

I could gush for days, but we got home at 3 am and I'm still all groggy. I shall gush at a later time. Work will be stressful for the next couple of days.

KU Setlist: March 11th, 2008 (San Jose, CA--HP Pavilion)
Once In A Lifetime
Where the Blacktop Ends
Shine
Faster Car
Used to the Pain
Better Half
Making Memories of Us
You'll Think of Me
I Told You So
Days Go By
You Look Good In My Shirt
Tonight I Wanna Cry
Stupid Boy
Who Wouldn't Wanna Be Me
Somebody Like You
Got Right This Time
Better Life
Everybody

So it looks like I'll be moving into a new apartment in the next couple of weeks. I've been wanting out of my current one for a couple of months now, and I just haven't gone hunting for a new place. Until today. I had today off and my dad came and we went apartment hunting. We went to three places, and the first one we went to looks like it is a winner. It's a bit closer to work, and right near a big park and such. I'll be taking a one bedroom this time, as opposed to the two bedroom I have right now. So yay! New place. Dad and I are going to go file paperwork on Monday and such They had an upstairs available immediately, so i might just take that one rather than see if a downstairs becomes available in the next few weeks. I still have to pay December's rent here anyway, because my lease ends on Dec. 31st. But we';ll see what they have to say on Monday. I'm kind of excited and I can't wait to be in a new place!

Work is--work. We're struggling to make business happen and it's frustrating, because while I know we've only been open for three and a half weeks, I still feel like I am failing. It's so stupid, but I just feel it. Foot traffic sucks, and it's just not going the way I had hoped, and not the way my higher ups were hoping wither. Sigh. I know there isn't a lot I can do about it, but I still feel like I am just not up to par. On the upside, I have a fantastic staff, and my team rocks. I'm still waiting to hear how my assistant manager candidate did on her interview with our DM, and then I'm hoping to hire her in time for Christmas. I need a manager that can absolutely do 40 hours a week.

I know things really can only get better with my store--this is the majorly rocky part, and I just need to muddle through and get things going however I can! It will get better, and I just have to keep telling myself that, no matter how tough it is.

I am completely in love with this song. I can't wait for Lady A's album next year. Love Don't Live Here is awesome, and Charles, Hillary, and Dave rock. I put the song on my MySpace profile too, just because I adore it. Charles has an amazing voice, but it obviously runs in the Kelley family. Josh's new album drops early next year, and I am way excited for that too!

Speaking of albums--I am so excited to run to Target on my lunch break on Tuesday to grab Keith Urban's greatest hits album "18 Kids". Not like I don't have 95% of the songs already, but hey, it's Keith. I am so road tripping to San Jose probably in February or March to see his and Carrie Underwood's tour. I think I'm going to drag the parents with me, and if they won't, I bet I can get coworker!Jess to come with me. I am beyond excited for the "Love, Pain, and the whole crazy Carnival Ride" Tour. The name made me laugh. It's so not original, but it's cute.

Spent the evening watching Gilmore Girls S7, finished that, and ended up watching Proof Of Life. I hadn't watched it in a long time. I'd forgotten how awesome that movie is, if not for the action itself, but for the simple fact that it's two of my favorite actors all in one place. Russell Crowe AND David Caruso? So happy. DC does the patented Horatio head tilt several times and it makes me laugh--considering it was way before Miami even started! Hee!

I have got to get to writing again. Ava and Ryan keep creeping into my head, as do Hannah and Tony. And Hannah and Tony seem to be meeting Horatio in the back of my brain too, because I puttered on a little future!family snippet earlier today that has Horatio meeting their daughter for the first time and Hannah asking him to be her godfather. I have NO idea where that came from, but I've now got to come up with a way H would have met Tony. Meep. I'll come up with something, and if not, I'll beg you the flist to help me.

Ugh. Off to bed now. Work 10-7, and then off Monday for apartment stuff and ATL conference call. 'Tis the week of Black Friday. Hooray!!

Good night.

So it looks like I'll be moving into a new apartment in the next couple of weeks. I've been wanting out of my current one for a couple of months now, and I just haven't gone hunting for a new place. Until today. I had today off and my dad came and we went apartment hunting. We went to three places, and the first one we went to looks like it is a winner. It's a bit closer to work, and right near a big park and such. I'll be taking a one bedroom this time, as opposed to the two bedroom I have right now. So yay! New place. Dad and I are going to go file paperwork on Monday and such They had an upstairs available immediately, so i might just take that one rather than see if a downstairs becomes available in the next few weeks. I still have to pay December's rent here anyway, because my lease ends on Dec. 31st. But we';ll see what they have to say on Monday. I'm kind of excited and I can't wait to be in a new place!

Work is--work. We're struggling to make business happen and it's frustrating, because while I know we've only been open for three and a half weeks, I still feel like I am failing. It's so stupid, but I just feel it. Foot traffic sucks, and it's just not going the way I had hoped, and not the way my higher ups were hoping wither. Sigh. I know there isn't a lot I can do about it, but I still feel like I am just not up to par. On the upside, I have a fantastic staff, and my team rocks. I'm still waiting to hear how my assistant manager candidate did on her interview with our DM, and then I'm hoping to hire her in time for Christmas. I need a manager that can absolutely do 40 hours a week.

I know things really can only get better with my store--this is the majorly rocky part, and I just need to muddle through and get things going however I can! It will get better, and I just have to keep telling myself that, no matter how tough it is.

I am completely in love with this song. I can't wait for Lady A's album next year. Love Don't Live Here is awesome, and Charles, Hillary, and Dave rock. I put the song on my MySpace profile too, just because I adore it. Charles has an amazing voice, but it obviously runs in the Kelley family. Josh's new album drops early next year, and I am way excited for that too!

Speaking of albums--I am so excited to run to Target on my lunch break on Tuesday to grab Keith Urban's greatest hits album "18 Kids". Not like I don't have 95% of the songs already, but hey, it's Keith. I am so road tripping to San Jose probably in February or March to see his and Carrie Underwood's tour. I think I'm going to drag the parents with me, and if they won't, I bet I can get coworker!Jess to come with me. I am beyond excited for the "Love, Pain, and the whole crazy Carnival Ride" Tour. The name made me laugh. It's so not original, but it's cute.

Spent the evening watching Gilmore Girls S7, finished that, and ended up watching Proof Of Life. I hadn't watched it in a long time. I'd forgotten how awesome that movie is, if not for the action itself, but for the simple fact that it's two of my favorite actors all in one place. Russell Crowe AND David Caruso? So happy. DC does the patented Horatio head tilt several times and it makes me laugh--considering it was way before Miami even started! Hee!

I have got to get to writing again. Ava and Ryan keep creeping into my head, as do Hannah and Tony. And Hannah and Tony seem to be meeting Horatio in the back of my brain too, because I puttered on a little future!family snippet earlier today that has Horatio meeting their daughter for the first time and Hannah asking him to be her godfather. I have NO idea where that came from, but I've now got to come up with a way H would have met Tony. Meep. I'll come up with something, and if not, I'll beg you the flist to help me.

Ugh. Off to bed now. Work 10-7, and then off Monday for apartment stuff and ATL conference call. 'Tis the week of Black Friday. Hooray!!

Good night.

Yippee! CMA nominations were announced this morning and I am beyond thrilled! My Keith got three nominations, plus one of his songs got nominated. He is nominated for Entertainer of the Year, Male Vocalist of the Year, and his album "Love, Pain, and the whole crazy thing" is nominated for Album of the Year. Plus, "Stupid Boy", written by Dave Berg, Deanna Bryant, and Sarah Buxton was nominated for Song of the Year. This is so exciting! Sarah must be thrilled.

Whee! This is so awesome. Am excited for Emerson Drive as well, nominated for Group of the Year and for "Moments".

Was up way too late last night loading more songs onto H the iPod. I put all of No Strings Attached and Celebrity on it, and I hadn't listened to either CD in so long, that I had forgotten how good these albums are. Celebrity is still my favorite. It was fun going back to high school and my first years of college with these albums. Heh.

Also went back through my LJ and was reading old, lame entries. Hee. It was kind of fun going back to 2001 and 2002. Old friends, old memories, old fics (shudder).

Speaking of fics, I need to post my second NCIS Gen fic for fic_variations and get started on the third and final one. I'm not going to do the next round, and I'm going to focus my energy on my Reasons Why 'verse, and Imperceptible (my novel). Plus, brightillusions and I are going to work on resurrecting pdficchallenge and get it going again. New challenges, maybe some contests, and new fandom involvement. We are open to suggestions. Heh. If all else fails, we might start a brand new community.

Had yesterday off and did absolutely nothing except finish watching S3 of House and finish my fic. Woo. Today, I have got to get out and do something. Woke up to rain and text messages. I knew the rain was coming last Saturday, but no one believed me. I said my shoulder and my hip hurt. Hey, I am the human barometer. I know, man. My shoulder never lies. Age 25 and I am falling apart. lol.

The dad and I went to SF last Saturday to the Giants/Brewers game. The Giants played excellent (I freakin' heart Omar Vizquel!) and I got to see Jack in the bullpen, but then they teased me and didn't put Taschner in the game. They played him on Sunday. Grr. But we won, and it was nice and cold, and we had a lot of fun. Wore my jersey proudly.

Was up too early this morning, and I'm so awake now. Off to attempt to be productive. Oh, Keith and "Everybody" just came on the iPod. Yay! I finally heard it on XM the other day, and I may have cried. Maybe.

Have a good day.

So yesterday the dad and I went up to San Francisco to the 2007 All Star Fanfest. It was so awesome. We got to see the 2007 MVP trophy and the World Series trophy, and a bunch of cool Hall of Fame stuff. We had a lot of fun, and I got an All Star shirt and a brand new orange and black Giants jersey. My old one had Jason Schmidt's name on it and now he's a Dodger traitor, so I refuse to wear it. Heh. This one has no name and number on the back, so I can't lose. But Dad had a friend he plays baseball with that runs an embroidery shop, and could have a number put on the back if I want. If I do it, I'm either going to do #22 (for my beloved Mike Matheny), or #37 for Jack Taschner. I can't decide. Heh. But Dad and I had a great day in SF, and got a little lost on the way back home, but it made for a fun day. We got home and watched the rest of the Giants/Cardinals game. Tim Lincecum totally made my day by ignoring the sign from the third base coach to score. Hee. He's adorable and gutsy.

We actually listened to a lot of Live Earth on XM Radio, but I missed Keith Urban. Got to hear John Mayer, who did an outstanding job. He picked a good four song setlist too, with Belief, Vultures, Gravity, and Waiting On The World To Change. I did, however, get to hear Keith Urban and Alicia Keys, and was blown away. Keith must have been psyched to sing with her, and they were amazing together. The guitar solo was incredible. The XM idiots irritated me, though, and one of the guys was all "Who knew he could play like that!?". I gave my dad a look when the idiot commentator said that. Luckily, the other guy redeemed it by saying "Well, his fans sure did.". Thank you, Captain Obvious. The fans know. And there's a lot of us, thanks. But Highway 16 on XM replayed Keith's Live Earth set from yesterday this morning. He was awesome, and Stupid Boy sounded so good. I may have gotten a bit weepy. He did a terrific job, as did Mayer.

Have been scribbling in my notebook lately. The mom gave me an old ledger that she found at the house and I've been scribbling notes for my Reasons Why series. I've easily got 20 ideas written down, and it's been fun to see where and how I can develop Tony and Hannah and their friendship and eventual relationship. There's so much I can play with, and it actually may turn into a novel, if I can develop Tony in a different way--and original way, including a name change. We'll see. I'm concentrated on my writing again, for some reason. I just want it so bad, I guess. I lovelovelove my job, but I still have the whole author thing in the back of my head.

Work is good. I've missed a few days with the food poisoning incident (which is all better now), but I'm back at work with almost a new enthusiasm. My final interview for store manager @ River Park (it's basically just to put my name on paperwork, really, and to find out a bit more about me) is July 31st and I'm getting my brain prepared for that. It'll go well and I'm not worried, but it's nice to be ready and have the proper language in my head. This fall is going to change my life completely, and while I'm excited, I'm sad too. I won't have Rach to rely on anymore and yeah, that scares me. I know I can do it, but it's nice to have someone I trust completely around. Something to get used to, I guess.

Had a store meeting this morning, and then I have to pick Rach up at 2:30 to had back to do the split shift and work 3-8 today. Have Wednesday and Thuirsday off, so that'll be nice. I need to clean my apartment and such, and I really need to go get a new little bookcase for my writing books, which I really need to pull out of boxes and set up again. Meep.

Off to nap (maybe) before I shower again today for work. Have a good day!

So yesterday the dad and I went up to San Francisco to the 2007 All Star Fanfest. It was so awesome. We got to see the 2007 MVP trophy and the World Series trophy, and a bunch of cool Hall of Fame stuff. We had a lot of fun, and I got an All Star shirt and a brand new orange and black Giants jersey. My old one had Jason Schmidt's name on it and now he's a Dodger traitor, so I refuse to wear it. Heh. This one has no name and number on the back, so I can't lose. But Dad had a friend he plays baseball with that runs an embroidery shop, and could have a number put on the back if I want. If I do it, I'm either going to do #22 (for my beloved Mike Matheny), or #37 for Jack Taschner. I can't decide. Heh. But Dad and I had a great day in SF, and got a little lost on the way back home, but it made for a fun day. We got home and watched the rest of the Giants/Cardinals game. Tim Lincecum totally made my day by ignoring the sign from the third base coach to score. Hee. He's adorable and gutsy.

We actually listened to a lot of Live Earth on XM Radio, but I missed Keith Urban. Got to hear John Mayer, who did an outstanding job. He picked a good four song setlist too, with Belief, Vultures, Gravity, and Waiting On The World To Change. I did, however, get to hear Keith Urban and Alicia Keys, and was blown away. Keith must have been psyched to sing with her, and they were amazing together. The guitar solo was incredible. The XM idiots irritated me, though, and one of the guys was all "Who knew he could play like that!?". I gave my dad a look when the idiot commentator said that. Luckily, the other guy redeemed it by saying "Well, his fans sure did.". Thank you, Captain Obvious. The fans know. And there's a lot of us, thanks. But Highway 16 on XM replayed Keith's Live Earth set from yesterday this morning. He was awesome, and Stupid Boy sounded so good. I may have gotten a bit weepy. He did a terrific job, as did Mayer.

Have been scribbling in my notebook lately. The mom gave me an old ledger that she found at the house and I've been scribbling notes for my Reasons Why series. I've easily got 20 ideas written down, and it's been fun to see where and how I can develop Tony and Hannah and their friendship and eventual relationship. There's so much I can play with, and it actually may turn into a novel, if I can develop Tony in a different way--and original way, including a name change. We'll see. I'm concentrated on my writing again, for some reason. I just want it so bad, I guess. I lovelovelove my job, but I still have the whole author thing in the back of my head.

Work is good. I've missed a few days with the food poisoning incident (which is all better now), but I'm back at work with almost a new enthusiasm. My final interview for store manager @ River Park (it's basically just to put my name on paperwork, really, and to find out a bit more about me) is July 31st and I'm getting my brain prepared for that. It'll go well and I'm not worried, but it's nice to be ready and have the proper language in my head. This fall is going to change my life completely, and while I'm excited, I'm sad too. I won't have Rach to rely on anymore and yeah, that scares me. I know I can do it, but it's nice to have someone I trust completely around. Something to get used to, I guess.

Had a store meeting this morning, and then I have to pick Rach up at 2:30 to had back to do the split shift and work 3-8 today. Have Wednesday and Thuirsday off, so that'll be nice. I need to clean my apartment and such, and I really need to go get a new little bookcase for my writing books, which I really need to pull out of boxes and set up again. Meep.

Off to nap (maybe) before I shower again today for work. Have a good day!