I'll Bring Texas To You

Johnny Cooper. I heart him. ALOT. The show was great at Hanks. I'm thankful we will now be on a hiatus from Hanks for a while. I was tired of smelling like an ashtray every time I left there. It was so bad on Saturday night that when I got home and walked into the den my Mom goes, "take those clothes off and put them on the washer. You smell horrible." Gotta love Mom. Anyway, JCoop played some new songs and let us know a new record is in the works. This excites me more than you could possibly know....except for maybe a certain EYB album that needs to come out...NOW.

Oh I need to upload my pictures of me in the infamous dress I wore to the wedding. I was told a billion times how great I look. My favorite Amy Jo even told me my makeup looked professional. Well I don't know about that, but she is a hairstylist/makeup artist, so who knows.

One last thing before I end this....our favorite Jamie recorded 4 NEW Ryan Turner songs from his Wolf front porch show and has graciously e-mailed them to me. If any of you are interested, I would be happy to forward the e-mails to you so you too can enjoy them :)

Everyone have a great week. My only excitement is Mardi Gras on Friday for this weekend. Looking forward to it :) Props to our favorite M for scoring us some tickets :) We love her!

Heather's Baby's Daddy

I LOVE RYAN TURNER!! Here's a video from the acoustic show at Hat Tricks I took with my camera! ENJOY!

http://clipshack.com/Clip.aspx?key=C57A52162A0E1707


p.s.--Dear Gary Kyle, I would never openly admit that I recorded a live album at Hat Tricks. And it had probably been a long time since you'd seen Deidre and I because, well frankly, we don't like your music. Mr. Light My Candle.

I also took a video of John Fullbright at Hank's while Mike and the band took a break.

http://clipshack.com/Clip.aspx?key=7583BEB685DCEBE3

Everyone have a great rest of the week! And Heather...the new puppy is so cute, I can't wait to meet her!

Nobody's Fool

So, this past weekend was an amazing one for music. I have been turned on to the tunes of Amanda Graves. She is so amazing! I guess I just never really went to take a listen to her myspace page. But, live she is awesome! I can't say enough about her. She opened with MMC's "July Your A Woman" and had me hooked until she left the stage. I would check her out if she comes to your area. You won't be disappointed. As Rockman told me, "she's the only girl singer I really like." haha AND then McClure hit the stage. I don't even have to say anything because those of you who read this already know the greatness that is McClure. And greatness it was. That's all I'm gonna say about the evening. ;)

I saw "27 Dresses" this weekend as well. What a great movie in my opinion. I laughed. Alot. So I recommend seeing it.

Speaking of dresses I have a wedding to attend this coming weekend for a girl I have known for 20 years. I decided that for the first time since I went prom dress shopping that I would wear a dress to the wedding. I promise to take a picture of myself before I head out. Be prepared to be impressed. haha!

On Sunday I went to my grandparents to visit for the afternoon. My cousin, Tim, came over and was telling me about how he had gone to some place near Terrell to see a band with his friends. He asked me if I knew of the singer that sang a song that had something to do with a picture and freezing his life. I started laughing and I go, "Are you talking about Brandon Rhyder?" and then proceeded to sing "Freeze Frame Time." And he was like, "Yeah that's it!" It made me smile.

Today has been an extremely tough one. I left work in tears over something really stupid, but it did make me realize that there are some relationships that need change. I'm not one to be extremely spiteful or wish things upon people, but when the first thing that flashes in my head is for this person to rot in hell, then there's a problem...and it's not me. So, from this point forward, I am done. There are alot of things that are important to me, but this has suddenly become something that is no longer important. And, perhaps I'm relieved by that.

I wrote that song with Ryan James

Falling
by Mike Eli & Ryan James

I'm a runner that's what I do
Don't be surprised that I run from you
When you turn around
I'll be gone

I won't leave because of something you said
nobody will know which way that i went
beat you to the door
before you get the chance

It ain't the falling in love that I'm scared of
It ain't the moonlight shining in your eyes
It ain't the falling baby
'cause the falling I've always liked
Ain't good at being lonely
But, lonely's all I got
It ain't the falling in love that'll kill me
It's the sudden stop

Lookin' now I can't waste time
I'm not the kind that likes to stay all night
Once the sun comes up
There's too much at stake

Never wanted a one night stand
A broken heart can really change a man
you're the kind of girl
that could really hurt me bad

It ain't the falling in love that I'm scared of
It ain't the moonlight shining in your eyes
It ain't the falling baby
'cause the falling I've always liked
Ain't good at being lonely
But, lonely's all I got
It ain't the falling in love that'll kill me
It's the sudden stop

Can't afford to fall again
If you leave you know nobody wins

It ain't the falling in love that I'm scared of
It ain't the moonlight shining in your eyes
It ain't the falling baby
'cause the falling I've always liked
Ain't good at being lonely
But, lonely's all I got
It ain't the falling in love that'll kill me
It's the sudden stop


Can they release the new album sometime in this life time? I can only listen to our camera recordings for so long! haha (please note these are the lyrics I think I'm hearing and may be subject to change when the album comes out! ha!)

2008

Well, this year will mark 15 years since I graduated from high school and 8 years since I graduated from college. I still have not been married. And I still have not had a child, since I would prefer still to follow the traditional way of having a family...you know...first comes love, then comes marriage, then comes something in a baby carriage...

Anyway, I have lots of things to be thankful for. One thing I am not thankful for is my bacterial bronchitis which kept me from spending the weekend south of here. Doesn't it figure when you make all the necessary arrangements with work and family and friends that you get sick. I have the people at work to be thanking for that. I did have a fabulous time on NYE with Deidre and Jamie and our favorite EYB. Mike was sick...but the show was great and I got to sing some sort of semblence to I Call The Tune into the microphone before "I sold James his pants" boy interrupted me so he could sing into the mic. Deidre and I left as soon as it was over in hopes to make it home before all the drunks were on the road. Except for that one time when we almost died on the 635 W ramp, we managed to make it home before the drivers were bad. Since then I had progressively gotten sicker and sicker until I finally went to the doctor on Friday. After I spent the weekend going from the bed to the couch to the bed again, I am feeling much better. So, yay for that.

My Mom got me possibly THE best X-Mas gift this year....a new alarm clock that I can wake up to my IPOD with. I have been enjoying being able to listen to my IPOD while I'm going to bed through it. I highly recommend getting one of these for your IPOD. I'm just saying....

This weekend has got me seeing some cute Braun boys on Friday and PS I love you with Deidre ending with a wedding shower on Sunday. Should be a nice weekend indeed......