Good week!

My best friend is coming to visit!!

I haven't seen Rii in two years... we talk all the time, of course... but yeah. Wow. I'm so excited! She's flying up here in October. :] We're going to have so much fun! We've known each other for... just about 8 years now. It'll be 8 years in two weeks and two days. haha

Had an awesome day today. I went to bed at an almost normal time the past couple of nights, and got plenty of rest. Feeling pretty good! Went shopping for a few things today... got seasons 2 & 3 of Psych (one of my favorite shows!!) and the X-Men trilogy (some of my favorite movies, and shockingly didn't have them). My Grandma treated me to a pair of new PJ bottoms. :] Really nice, comfy capri ones too from American Eagle! I never buy myself PJs, so most of mine are a year or more old (some being as old as 4 years), and starting to get really worn out... haha So I'm pretty excited to go get in my comfy new PJs!

Yesterday was pretty awesome too. Nic, David, and I hung out with some of our buddies... Luke, Cody, and Brandon. We went and saw Wolverine again. Great, great movie! Love it! It was a lot of fun... we went to Starbucks and Taco Bell afterwards, and then played some Apples to Apples. Good times!

I so rarely have so many days in a row off from band practices or shows, so this week has been a nice treat. Even so, I'm still working on tons of band stuff. Writing new songs, practicing on my own, editting podcasts and photos, learning how to design a website for the band... etc.

But tomorrow... chore day. Fun, fun!

Well, back to practice. Oyasumi nasai, minna-san!

Psalm 4:8

So, one thing I realized: this blog -- along with my Twitter -- are probably going to be used to talk about food a lot. :D I love food.

I'm really hungry right now, so food is on my brain. My dad's making scallops for dinner, along with baked potatoes and salad. Yummm.

I've been eating all my favorite foods again lately. I love bread, but for about a year I was gluten free. I thought I was allergic to gluten -- it runs in my family, and my mom and brother are -- but as it turned out, I don't think I am. I may be, but I think it's so minor an allergy. So the past two weeks, I've been eating bread and stuff again. It's been awesome!

I'm also vegetarian (something which I will never change -- I hate meat! Ew). Most meat substitutes have gluten in them, so the combo of being gluten free and a veggie head severely limited my diet.

Even though I'm pretty much eating whatever, I'm still trying to eat the best I can. I've cut high fructose corn syrup & it's variants from my diet. That stuff is just not good for you. And, of course, still trying to eat organic veggies and fruit. :] For being a vegetarian though... I am really not good about eating vegetables. :P

Okay, enough about food.

Show this Saturday. Getting ready. Just remembered I have a bunch of guitar strings to change... haha Oops. Better do that tonight!

But first, dinner. Trying to decide if I want to read while I eat, or watch Psych? I'm almost done with season one... hm. I'm thinking Psych. Good show. :]

By the way, if you haven't yet, go give Essential a listen on our Myspace! We just put it up. :) Have had requests for that one to be added to the Myspace... so now it is. Enjoy!

On a last note, I've been pretty stressed out lately... But I'm feeling better now! I feel like this verse greatly applies to my day today:
"At day's end I'm ready for sound sleep,
For You, God, have put my life back together."
Psalm 4:8, The Message

Always in need of Him, always needing Him to guide my life, and shape it to His will...

Blog at ya later.

You know you're rocking too hard when...

You break a string during sound check. Then, break a string on a different guitar during the first song of the set. Next song, on the same guitar as sound check, you break a DIFFERENT string. Borrow Nic's Telecaster for the next song -- which, during that song his strap broke and needed a different guitar as well -- and break a string on THAT guitar a couple songs later.

Left each of us with only one guitar to play the rest of the show. haha What are the chances of that.

I'll have a bunch of guitar strings to change this week...

Great crowd at the show tonight. Very energetic. :]

Longggg week though. Really ready for a couple days to relax. I need to spend some quality time with the Lord. It's been a very trying week, and I need Him to rejuvenate me.

Looking forward to our show next Saturday at The Vineyard. I love that store. So cool. And they've been great to us -- they sell our album and promote it a lot. Pretty nice.

Well, I have about 4 1/2 hours to catch some Zzz's before I need to get up, get ready, and head off to vocal lessons. haha Early morning... The race is on tomorrow night though! :D Looking forward to that.

Night all.

"'Ai no uta' wa owaranai, Owaranai, Love & Truth"

"This 'love song' never ends, it never ends, Love & Truth" -- "Love & Truth" by YUI

Probably one of my favorite songs ever, and definitely one of my favorites by YUI. :] Which is why I titled my blog that... I think it fits me, yes?

Ahhh, I've done blogs before, but not consistently. So I'll have to try to be better about that.

I went to bed at 4am last night, only to wake up at 6:30am... Wayyyy early for me!! I've been feeling fiesty all day. :D haha! I think it's one of my better traits... many may disagree... Who knows.

I'm surprised I haven't crashed yet.

I would write more, and probably something more interesting, but as it is, band practice is in an hour and 10 minutes, and guess what? I've been working in my pjs all day. hah! Guess I should go so I'm not even later than usual. :P