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Pray For You – Jaron and The Long Road to Love

tyralyn — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 22:15:04 +0000

I havent been to church since I don’t remember when
Things were goin’ great ‘til they fell apart again
So I listened to the preacher as he told me what to do
He said you can’t go hatin’ others who have done wrong to you
Sometimes we get angry, but we must not condemn
Let the good Lord do His job and you just pray for them

I pray your brakes go out runnin’ down a hill
I pray a flowerpot falls from a window sill and knocks you in the head like I’d like to
I pray your birthday comes and nobody calls
I pray you’re flyin’ high when your engine stalls
I pray all your dreams never come true
Just know wherever you are honey, I pray for you

I’m really glad I found my way to church
‘Cause I’m already feelin’ better and I thank God for the words
Yeah I’m goin’ take the high road
And do what the preacher told me to do
You keep messin’ up and I’ll keep prayin’ for you

I pray your tire blows out at 110
I pray you pass out drunk with your best friend and wake up with his and her tattoos

I pray your brakes go out runnin’ down a hill
I pray a flowerpot falls from a window sill and knocks you in the head like I’d like to
I pray your birthday comes and nobody calls
I pray you’re flyin’ high when your engine stalls
I pray all your dreams never come true
Just know wherever you are, near or far, in your house or in your car,
wherever you are honey, I pray for you.
I pray for you

Nice Evening…

tyralyn — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:16:28 +0000

The last few weeks have been complete and utter stress. Today was the worse of it. Meltdown city for both Mom and me. It’s just not getting any better either. The only good point was that I got to get out of the house for a while tonight. I went to the Spring Concert for my alma mater. I quite enjoyed myself. I am not pleased with the new chorus director. He chose music that I didn’t find appropriate for a public school. I don’t mind the style of music that chose, as it’s something that I’ve listened to, but it definitely wasn’t what I’d expected.

The Senior Band and Jazz Ensemble, along with the different quartets were fabulous. I think the band program has done nothing but thrive since the district hired Dan Miller. It is definitely odd not to see the band and chorus directors that I knew and loved up there, but time does go on and people retire. Thankfully, they found someone with the same kind of passion and joy for music to fill the band directors shoes. He’s picked some amazing pieces that truly showcase a lot of talented performers. I have to say that my favorite piece had to be Solas Ane (Yesterday’s Joy). It’s a beautiful Gaelic piece. (See Youtube video below)

It was definitely needed for me to get out for a while. I think another day in this house would have been my downfall, honestly. Especially since my monitor took a crap sometime after I turned it off last night and before I tried to turn it on this morning. So, now I’m using the laptop and virtual desktop to be able to do anything. It’s kind of annoying, but at least it’s fast enough that there isn’t a ton of lag and it’s not using a ton of ram and cpu on the laptop. I need to get more RAM in the sucker so that I can use it properly since it’s at bare minimum for Vista Home Basic. :/

Anyway, it’s raining, I’m tired and a bit cranky, so I shall go to sleep. Hopefully tomorrow will be filled with good news.

Great Weekend

tyralyn — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 03:57:32 +0000

S-VE crowned 2009 Scholarship Champions! I can’t even tell you how incredibly proud of my alma mater I am. I really had very little faith in the team, since they were going up against one of the toughest schools in past years. I knew they were in the finals, since they won their qualifier round last month. Rob asked for a late shift specifically so we could go watch, rather than listen from home. I’m incredibly glad we went. It’s the second time we’ve been to a match, but the first time I’ve stayed for the whole thing. The first time I took Rob, S-VE wasn’t playing, so we didn’t stay past the first match.

It’s funny, 15 years ago, I was part of the team that got beat, quite badly. We lost out during our first match, which really shocked me, since we had quite a bright team. Or at least, it was supposed to be. We just did not do well at all. I think that it ended up being a case of not spending enough time together as a team. If I remember right, we only practiced twice. But, I digress. Saturday was fantastic. We went in early enough that they were running student vs local celebrity practice rounds and I got to have a nice conversation with the advisor for S-VE. He is one of the guidance counselors and someone that I absolutely respected beyond just about anyone. He was a lot of help and is the reason I even went to college. He encouraged me when no one else did. It was quite nice. Ironically, I found him on Facebook the other day and sent a friend request. He friended me tonight.

Sunday was pleasant too, since Rob was off work completely. I had found that there was an event going on at the middle school to showcase local businesses, plus the school jazz band was going to perform as well. I decided that, since there was nothing else going on, we would go to it. I went specifically for the jazz band. We looked around the different booths, but it wasn’t really anything overly exciting. I did see my favorite Social Studies teacher from 7th grade. That was rather interesting. He and his wife have been retired for 13 years now. I’ve learned that a lot of the teachers that started right as I was graduating are gone already, moved on or were pushed out.

Today was nice as well. Rob was off again, so we took care of a couple errands. I just wish all the rain would stop. It’s starting to flood the river. It wasn’t bad today, but if the rain keeps going, it will be really quite bad. Rob has to work the rest of the week. Crappy shifts at that. 10-6 tomorrow, then 3-10 Wednesday. Then back to 11-5 and 4am-1pm. Wtf? Crazy. It’s not bad, though. I can get a lot of things done.

I needed a great weekend, since last week was utter CRAP for me. Now, however, I’m going to go watch this morning’s View episode, write up some thoughts on the new Dancing With The Stars season, then go to bed.

My Scroll

Spencer Picnic

tyralyn — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:49:45 +0000

2 Weeks ago was the annual Spencer Picnic and yes, I’m finally getting around to posting about it. We go every year. I haven’t missed a year that I can remember, honestly. I even worked it one year.

This year, they had a bit of a different line-up and their entertainment Friday night was the George Kaye band. They play country music, they’re not too bad, but I’ve heard much better. We listened for a while then got bored and wandered around a bit, played some games, enjoyed the cool evening. When it got later on in the evening, we headed back to where we had parked at the edge of the park to wait for the fireworks to begin.

I didn’t take many pictures. I didn’t bother with any on the grounds, especially since the batteries in my camera were starting to fade and I wanted to make sure they didn’t totally die on me. My favorite, however, is one that I took with the camera on sepia. I played around with the settings some and just absolutely loved the way this looked.

The one thing I don’t understand is where some people get the energy they have. I’ve noticed that the crowd for Music in the Park and for the music at Spencer Picnic was much the same, an older crowd, really. Some of them seem to have more energy than the young kids. One couple was celebrating their 59th wedding anniversary and they were dancing up a storm. It’s amazing. I wish I had the energy they do.

Yahoo Music

tyralyn — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:22:22 +0000

I don’t know how many of you use Yahoo! Music to buy mp3′s. I know there is at least one person who does, so I thought I would share the following bit of information. Yahoo Music is closing on September 30, 2008. This means that if you have purchased music through them, you will not be able to play them because of the DRM on it.

They intend to take their DRM servers offline when they take the store down. So if you have music from Yahoo, you need to burn it to CD then rip it back to MP3 format or you’ll lose it forever. Sucks, doesn’t it? DRM sucks, but it’s what it’s come down to thanks to the RIAA.

Looking for an alternative to Yahoo? Don’t go with iTunes. I’m sorry but they’re just as bad. I’d recommend Amazon, honestly. They don’t DRM their music, that I know of. And they can be imported to whatever you need to be used on whatever device you own. So yeah. If you use Yahoo Music, you’ve been warned.

Northern Harmony

tyralyn — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 05:22:50 +0000

So, since Rob was off all week, we were able to do a few things that we don’t normally get to do. For instance, Friday night we went to Music In The Park for the second time this summer. Usually we only get to go once, if even that. This week was advertised as Square Dancing with Northern Harmony. I wasn’t sure if we would go, but I’m really glad we did.

They started out playing Polka music. Rob looked a bit mortified and I cracked up. I had never heard the band before, but the music didn’t surprise me. I thoroughly enjoyed the entire night and took a bunch of pictures. Rob took a bunch too and some have the back of my head in it. *grumble* One of them shows how light my hair gets in the summer when it’s exposed to the sunlight. I need to expose it to more sunlight. Maybe Tuesday after his dental appointment we can go to the park. He has 2 appointments, one at 9;15, the second is at 3:30. We’ll see what we do.

Anyway, I’m done for this post.

Music In The Park

tyralyn — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:01:45 +0000

Friday night, Rob and I got to go check out a new band. They are called The Cheyenne Band. They’re really a lot better than I expected, to be honest. They play a lot of older and some newer country and were really good. People were really enjoying themselves.

I got to say hi to a friend I hadn’t seen in quite a while, and had a nice conversation with a couple that lived in the trailer park, two places away from us. I hadn’t really talked to them since we moved, really, so it was nice talking to them at length. Overall, it was a really nice night. We had a nice time. Too bad this is probably the only week we can go. Maybe I’ll scope out other events for this week, depending on what happens tomorrow and we can do that.

For now, I’m done. I have more on my to post about list, those will come tomorrow or sometime this week. Hope everyone had a good weekend and has a good week.

Katy Perry…

tyralyn — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:33:03 +0000