It Seems Like Yesterday...

Destination: Beautiful by Mae is such a good album. I like it because it reminds me of a good time in my life. I didn't really know who they were when I bought the CD at Best Buy. I think I was just bored that day and decided to go hang out at Best Buy. I do that sometimes. I love hanging out at stores when I'm bored. If it's after 9 or so I'll go to Wal-Mart and just walk around. I'm a really weird person.. Sometimes I weird even myself out. I think that's a very hard thing to do.. to weird yourself out. Anyway, hanging out at stores is fun for me. I like Wal-Mart (or Whore-Mart, as we sometimes call it), Target not as much because I used to work there, but it's still a cool place, I like the electronic stores the most. I can get lost in Circuit City or Best Buy for hours. Most of the time I won't buy anything, I'll consider things, like a video game or a digital camera, or a printer. I usually won't walk out with anything besides CDs though. That's how I got into Mae. I saw that they were signed to Tooth & Nail Records, which is the same label MxPx got started on, so I decided it couldn't be horrible. I put it in my CD player on my way out of the parking lot, and it was a bit more mellow than I expected. I liked it.. It took me a few more listens to love it. But I did. I really loved the CD after Destination: Beautiful, The Everglow. I could listen to that album over and over. I did eventually stop listening to it.. Then Mae came out with a new album--their major label debut. I wasn't impressed. Maybe I'll give it another shot. I wasn't horribly impressed with a few of their live performances either. I really like the band though, and I know it takes a lot of work to keep a band like that going.

Today I went on a hike/trail run with Lee. Well, it was about 20% trail run, 30% hike, 50% enjoying the Sandia's and talking. It is so beautiful up there. We started at the Ellena Gallegos picnic area and went up some trails there. The Sandia's are amazing to me. I love the view of this massive mountain just standing right in front of us.. Then behind us was the view of the city and beyond. The mountain was green from the snow run off and a few rain showers last week. It almost feels fake sometimes. When we were around 30 minutes into our hike we came to a running spring. This was really cool because there was desert not 20 yards from the spring, but by the spring there was an abundance of life. I guess there's an abundance of life in the desert part too, but a different type. More lizards and cactus.

Chicago

I'm going to Chicago tomorrow! I'm pretty excited. I just packed my bag.

Here's a song I like.

Mayday Parade etc..

I freakin love this band Mayday Parade. I saw them with Emery I think, I may have seen them at a different show.. I thought they were really good, but I didn't get a chance to check out their music after the show right away. Not until I saw that they were on the Warped Tour did I decide to get some of their music. I started listening to them every morning on free.napster.com (which, by the way is freaking awesome). Now I have the newest album on my computer and I'm listening to it non-stop. I really like the first song on the album, Jaimie All Over. In fact I actually spent a good portion of tonight leaning it on my guitar. It's not a difficult song. I got most of it, there's a little solo/bridge section that I need to listen to a couple of more times, then I should get it down. The other song I really like is Miserable At Best. It's a slow piano track. My perfect song formula, slow+piano+nice lyrics=good song for me. Both singers have great voices too. I love the song.

Mix Tape

I made a mix tape. Check it out.

Spring Is Here (And I Love It)

I love spring so much. I love the smell in the air the most. It's funny how smells trigger memory. Tonight the smell in the air reminded me of my first apartment. I remember how excited I was to be on my own. Good times. I'm going to fall asleep with my windows open. Hopefully I'm not lazy in the morning and I can get up early enough to enjoy the beautiful weather before I go to class.

Spring makes me thing of what's coming up next. Summer. I'm looking forward to this summer. I hope I can make it to a bunch of Warped Tour dates. I want to go to Cruces and Denver at least, but if possible I want to make it to Salt Lake and Phoenix...and I haven't checked yet, but if there's a Vegas date I want to go to that too. I want to have a lot of fun this summer. I want to go camping at least once. I want to go hiking a dozen or more times. There are a bunch of things I'm thinking about, things I want to do. I have to think about the next couple of weeks first though.. getting finished with this semester.

I adopted a new kitten. His name is Osker "floofy, floof, floofer, floofarini". He's a really nice cat. I got him from Lee. He's a nice cudly long haired cat (hence the name "floof"). He's been hiding under my bed a lot, getting used to the environment, but he's starting to come out a lot more. He's cool, and I like it when he keeps me company when I watch Conan.