Playlist made for a ROCKSTAR

OK. So the weirdest thing happened to me the other day, I got into the car and there was this mysterious playlist playing on my ipod. It was a compilation of 25 songs, 20 of which I had a strange magnetism towards....These were all songs that you and I used to jam along with, stereo blasting, top down, GW Parkway style jammin', (only you know what I am talking about...) HOW ODD, right!? I had never made this playlist, nor did I even know that I actually had half of these songs on my iPod. The whole way to work I was completely perplexed....I honestly thought that you had somehow, someway, made a playlist on my iPod the night before...in your paranormal form, LOL. Impossible, I know. I thought that this may have been an unexplainable act that was a gesture or signal from you. BUMMER! It was not. Go figure......So once I figured out what was actually going on, my initial reaction was, "What the heck is "genius" and why is it on my iPod?"  Apparently it is some "cool" thing that an iPod can do, it makes a compilation of songs and transforms them into a playlist based on the music on your device. Um NO, a signal from you up above would have been WAY COOLER.

Nevertheless, I did get a pretty awesome mix of beats - you would no doubt appreciate the following assemblage, compliments of iPod Genius;

1. Stone Temple Pilots - Plush

2. Pearl Jam - Jeremy

3. Alice in Chains - Rooster

4. Soundgarden - Spoonman

5. Bush - Glycerin

6. Incubus - Pardon Me (Live)

7. The Off-Spring - Self-Esteem

8. Green Day - Longview

9. Stone Temple Pilots - Creep

10. The Black Crowes - She Talks to Angels

11. Pearl Jam - Yellow Ledbetter

12. Metallica - Sad But True

13. Puddle of Mud - Control

14. Guns n' Roses - Live and Let Die

15. Bush - Machinehead

16. Alice in Chains - Them Bones

17. Disturbed - Stupefy

18. Pearl Jam - Black

19. Staind - Outside

20. Metallica - Fade to Black

Rock on Big Daddy!

April Festivities

Hey there! So this weekend was pretty eventful for Kelly and I. I was off on Friday so I was able to lounge around the house for a good part of the day. We had people over on Thursday night to watch the Penns game and to drink some brew dogs, ice cold style...bahaha. I was glad I got to sleep in on Friday morning, unlike Kelly and the rest of the boys! Friday night we went down to Fredericksburg to celebrate Mikey's 27th birthday. Kirsten had a surprise party for him with his band members, Kel & I, and his brother and his girlfriend. It was fun, Mike played his band's new demo and it was pretty badass dude, I think you would like it. He can sing really well. Saturday, as you know, was BIG MAMA's birthday!!! She went to a winery with Jerry early in the day and then Kel and I cooked her dinner, it was a lot of fun. I think she really enjoyed herself, despite missing you like crazy. Kelly and I got her a wine "bouquet" as a gift; we went to Total Wine in Springfield and got her this stand for the kitchen that holds 6 wine bottles. Yep, we filled all the holders up and had a partay! Kelly grilled her a filet for dinner, she actually ate the whole thing....and get this ....he got her to try a bite of his steak, MEDIUM RARE. I know right? We were all thinking the same thing, "there is no way!!!" We had cake and a cheers to Mom and Justin's dad who was celebrating his birthday as well, only he was not with us, he was up in Ohio.

Another shocking thing from the night, MOM CLEANED THE DISHES!!!! I went upstairs to try and get pap to come down for cake, he originally said that he didn’t have enough energy to get down the stairs.....however, when I said, "Mom is actually doing dishes" Pap was like "I have to see this...let me go pee and I will be down" HAHAHAHAHA So he came down and I got him a glass of Moscato and a piece of cake, then the drunken stories spilled on out. I was really happy that he made it down, I know it made mom happy. Blair made a really great home-made cake, it was a lemon cake with butter cream icing. We jammed to Rush and mom told me that you, Pinky and Paxton went to see them live a few years ago. I had no idea!! Kelly was super stoked to hear that, so he turned it up and we all started dancing, then Mama started to tear up...so we switched it to some other music. We ended the night with Mom, Blair and I out on the back deck with all the balloons and we did a cheers to you and let the balloons go. Did you get them!?! We figure that instead of popping them, LIKE YOU ALWAYS USED TO DO (GRRRRR!!), we would send them up to you....for your popping pleasure. Te-he ;-) Over all a great night Daddy, wish you were there!!

Sunday, yesterday, was relatively quiet and uneventful...I went and spent about $500 on new work clothes for spring, a new Cuisine art knife set for the kitchen and some undies from Victoria Secret (your favorite eye-candy store!) Hahaha I just remembered all the times when we would walk past the store in the mall when we were kids and you would always go, "Wooooo look at them hotties!" Blair and I used to get suuuuper mad! You would always say "I am just looking!!!" Hahaha good times. Anyway, I got home and then watched some TV, hung out with the pups and Kel, cooked some dinner and then called it a night. We made a pork tenderloin, apple-smoked and bacon flavored. SO GOOD! Kelly is such a great cook, just like you!

Alright Daddy J, I am at work, but I wanted to give you a week-end update! Enjoy your day, talk you in a bit. LOVE AND MISS YOU!

Just in case you don't believe me,

I cook all the time now!

Making Up For Lost Time

So get this, I decided to make your journal a public thing! I know, you are absolutely thrilled I am sure, especially since I know how against computers you are. Tehe. The main reason I am doing this is because I feel like that the memories you and I share are FABULOUS and I want them to live on. Plus, I think it would be cool for those who miss you to have the opportunity to keep a little part of you alive, via blogging. Again, I am sure you are thrilled. Winkwink.

I feel like I have not wrote to you in forever. That course I was in for work consumed my entire month of March, I am happy that it is now over. I can finally take a minute to breathe. I received my CON090 certificate and am movin' on up in the world! Holla! However, I will admit that since I was consumed with the dreadful amounts of homework and such, my time to write to you was slim to none this month. Not an excuse I know, but what can a girl do!

You know what is funny and a little bit lame, I keep a list of things I need to tell you about in my iphone. The list is long....and I will admit I kind of forgot the significance of some of the bullet points. Those bullets must not be too important, right? I have a lot of stuff that I am going to write in your book, only because I dont want to put anything too personal out on the web for the world to see....so check the book for the juicy stuff ;-)

Because I love to brag about the loves of my life, let me mention the pups! Dude, I wish you could be here to see them, they are truly the light of my life! They are becoming such perfectly behaved dogs! They haven’t had an accident in (knock on wood!) over a month. We got them fixed on Monday and they have been moping around the house. But they are recovering quickly, thank goodness they are healing fast, because it is hard to keep them from rough-housing. They are worse than two little kids!! They keep me busy Dad!