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My Old Journal: My Elvis Stamp

Published on Sunday, November 25, 2007 in Christmas, My old journal, NaBloPoMo 2007, Photos and Rock Band. 2 Comments

NaBloPoMo – Day Twenty-five

MY ELVIS STAMP by me (11:26pm 01-10-94 Mon.)
Look! I have an Elvis Stamp! Mom would say, “Wow. Big deal…” Dad would say, “Gee, I wish he would come out with a new album.” As you can see they are polarized. I’m kinda in the middle – I like lots of his songs, but I do think he is dead and I don’t go overboard. I’m glad they voted for this “young Elvis” stamp over the “old Elvis” stamp. Anyway, here it is:

[see photo below]

Mom put this on one of her letters to me with some comment about the wonderful “Christmas stamps” Dad got for her. Hmm…thems be fighten’ words! :)

my old journal page 249

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The above entry is from page 249 of my old journal. It’s ironic that it’s the next one in line on my “NaBloPoMo schedule” because I spent a good portion of the day, yesterday, doing holiday related things: We went on a shopping spree and completed our “gifts to be purchased and mailed” list! We got the Christmas Tree partially decorated (and I have a feeling with two kitties and toddler in the house it will always be partially decorated.) ;) And, then I spent a while addressing 100 envelopes, printing our Holiday Letter, and stuffing the envelopes with our Holiday Photo Card! My goal is to get them done and out the door by Monday! Of course, I was sure to not neglect my band-duties as lead singer…it’s been a busy weekend!

As I mentioned before, some people on our Holiday Card List will get a “holiday” stamp (Sadly, these stamps are not as cool as the Elvis one, above.), and some will get a silver holiday bell that looks oddly like the Liberty Bell. ;)

ROCK ON

Published on Wednesday, November 21, 2007 in Claire, Fun, Games, It's a paycheck, Rock Band and Video. 1 Comment

Yesterday was a pretty stressful day in my business world, and my day was indescribably horrible. Luckily, it was also the release for Rock Band for the Xbox. I’m not really into all this gaming stuff, but my hubby assured me that this game was awesome, and that I would fall in love with it.

He picked up his pre-ordered copy, and we set it up last night. He was a drummer in a former life, and I was itching to sing. (I used to sing all the time, but I haven’t done that in a while.)

This game is SO MUCH FUN. I cannot even describe how much fun this is!!

My hubby ROCKED the drum-set like there was no tomorrow, and I ROCKED the mic, if I do say so myself. All the troubles of the day were blasted out through my mic. I felt like a rockstar. In fact, I was a rockstar.

In case you’re curious, here is one of the songs we did:

http://youtube.com/watch

Embedding has been disabled, but here is the link to the video of “I Think I’m Paranoid” by Garbage.

This is supposedly the real band, but the resemblance to what was going on in our basement last night is uncanny! ;) You can see me singing lead vocals, and you get some glimpses of my hubby on the drums. For some reason, you can’t see Claire running around and singing into her pretend mic. I’ll have to talk to the videographer about that…

I’m totally kidding. I’m not Shirley Manson, and we aren’t in Garbage. But, last night, the difference was negligible. ;)

Some friends are coming over tomorrow, and all four of us will play. (We have two guitars, the drum-set and a mic.) I can’t wait!

ROCK.
ON.