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So I realize as I am going that the form and shape of this blog is going to be taking place as I write. I like it better that way. I am just happy that I am finally blogging like I have wanted to for a while now!
Now, I know all 4 of you who actually read this blog will be sad to hear..(;..but music may have to be on the back burner this semester. Not the songwriting, but the voice practicing and guitar playing.
Here's why:
I am going to be starting my 40+hour/wk internship soon in an elementary school where I will slowly become the teacher and teach for a bit and work alongside the teacher as well. I am looking forward to it(especially graduating at the end of December!) but I remember even in my two-day-a-week junior internship almost losing my voice most weeks. One time I was in Publix buying some groceries and could barely talk..the cashier looks up at me and asked if I was a teacher. I was confused as to how she knew this and she told me that her daughter who is a teacher was always losing her voice.
I forgot this until recently..which means that pushing my voice another hour or so a day doing my practice sessions would not be a good idea. I am not an expert, but I have heard(and it's common sense) that if your voice is sore, or even feeling tired..then pushing it is not a good idea and could end up doing more long term harm. If you're a singer and have to, you make it happen and usually hire voice coaches, doctors, etc. to help you through it. Or they make you do this:
That would be Miss Taylor Swift..
So knowing my voice is going to be challenged enough to talk for 8 hours a day with little break, five days a week until December, I am going to have to not push my voice too much more then that. Also with guitar, it's going to be tough finding time for it. So until the end of the year I will focus on getting through internship in one piece, songwriting, and taking care of myself. I hope you will all bear with me but that does not mean I won't talk about music..I just won't be doing much more then songwriting for a while.
I think I will be posting more day-to-day things..and you can travel the journey with me! I can't wait to talk about my internship and how it goes, also I am training for a 5k that will take place in five weeks! AH!
I love working out..once I get into it..and I have started running more and really love it. I am the kind of person though that needs an end goal in mind. So I will be running in a 5k in five weeks. It will be interesting training for a race(although I am NOT looking to win or even make an amazing time, I just want to run it all the way through!) while juggling my internship but I wanted to keep working out daily anyways so it will just give me more of a push. I also notice an improvement in my voice after I work-out, which is probably why they often suggest working out to better improve performance.
I will be posting my work-outs here as well so you can see how I trained for it. I am not an expert, I am just taking things from different training programs and fitting it realistically into what I can do.
Today, I ran 2.11 miles in 30 minutes. This was a run/walk but I was excited because it was definitely more than half running. I ran ten minutes straight and for not doing much exercise in the last month that was good for me! I am doing a run every-other-day plan with cross-training on the other days and a rest day or two throughout the week. Depending on how sore I get and how my knee feels after.
I am learning to be healthier and I really enjoy it. I think it's really important and something I have always striven for, but I am more actively pursuing a healthy lifestyle now. I know it's not about music, but I think being healthy is important for my mind, my emotions, and my music. It's all connected.
OH! My pictures are done, and if you read this you probably know me and have seen them on facebook already. I will post more when I get the CD of them on the off chance I don't know you in real life! ;)
I am excited to blog about daily adventures, little surprises, and things I love. I think who I am and what I experience becomes the music in the long run. So I think it makes sense. Anyways, I hope you will keep reading and enjoy.
Thanks for reading this, whoever does! :)
Katy Love Love Love
Went to my first Dave Matthews Band concert Friday and it was awesome! It's not just a show, it's a major event. People tailgate for Dave. It's a really amazing experience. We made it up to our lawn seats and had a decent view of the stage and waited for an hour or so until Dave came on.
It was the most amazing feeling, being there. These guys are such amazing performers and makes that ticket you bought worth every stinkin' penny..sadly my camera happened to run out of batteries(fail) on the way up and we were running late as it is so I did not get to take pictures. My iPhone camera was also an epic fail..it could barely make out anything during the show..
Again, amazing..here's the playlist from that night:
Funny The Way It Is
So Damn Lucky
Why I Am
You Might Die Trying
Crash (Into Me)
Typical Situation
Spaceman
Burning Down The House
Seven
Squirm
Jimi Thing
Shake Me Like A Monkey
Alligator Pie
#41
Dancing Nancies
You and Me
Time Bomb
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Sister~
Little Thing (tease)
Grey Street
Thanks to the DMBSetlist app on my iPhone. :) They added every song as the show was going on. Really great. I actually do look at it occasionally..I think it's cool to know what they played at their shows the night before. :)
I wish they would have played older stuff..our favorite album is "Crash" and I also LOVE "Under The Table And Dreaming" but they played "Crash Into Me" and I won't lie..I got a little misty. But that's really the song I HAD to see live. And I did. That's a check off the bucket list..If I kept one of those..
I then spent the weekend with my mom and step-dad and also had some time with my Aunt Tracy, Uncle Chris and my little cousin Claire from Cali. It was so wonderful to be back home. It's strange, for a while I hated going down to Fort Lauderdale but I suddenly love it again. I think that's mainly because my mom is there!
My friend Krista and I had a fun photo shoot today. She's aspiring to get into photography as a side business in the future so she practiced on me! I am honored to be her first model but it certainly won't be the last. Here's a couple favorites(she only posted 7 so far..can't wait to see the rest!!
You will just have to wait for the others!!
Tomorrow I will be doing voice practice, and some guitar! Hoping to make progress and build calluses! Never thought I would hope for calluses..bleh..
Hope you all are enjoying your week!
Katy Love
"..I‘m not between you and your ambition. I am a poster girl with no poster. I am 32 flavors and then some."
Music has a way of sinking into our souls and our minds and never leaving until we let them go (or mainstream radio overplays the heck out of them ;).
I fell in love with music at the age of ten I was home a lot in the summer and watched MTV (this is when they played more music then television shows) because I had seen two music videos and fell in love with the music that filled them. I would literally sit around all day and watch MTV for the chance to hear these songs one more time. Oh, the days before iTunes, MySpace, etc. One of said songs was The Dave Matthews Band’s “Crash Into Me”(with somewhat questionable lyrics at times, I know). I just thought the instrumental was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard. Consequently that is the instrumental I walked down the aisle towards my wonderful husband too. Lyrics not included.
The other song was “Wonderwall” by Oasis. I have been listening to these songs over the last twelve years and I still get this feeling that overwhelms me. I feel something every time I hear these songs, a sign of great music.
Let’s flash forward to the present. I am twenty-two years old, a newlywed to an amazing man, finishing up school with a four-month internship and I am so completely in love with listening, creating, and playing music that it’s all I ever want to do..ever.
Again, I am not trying to become “famous”. If in the end of all of this I learn to play guitar and keyboard and can just play music for family, friends, or strangers in a coffee shop I will be happy. I am sure if I get to that point I will strive for more but for right now, my immediate goal is to just be able to play music. I have a God-given passion and the worst that can happen is that I end up not going anywhere with it. But at least I won’t look back to this time in my life and wonder “What if?” As of right now I do not play an instrument but I can sing and with persistence I will be able to get past the difficulties of learning to play an instrument. No fear, no regrets.
I will be writing about my journey to find out who I am as a musician and as a person. I am a chronic “give-upper” and I am giving THAT up. When I began this I wondered if anyone else had been in my situation and I couldn’t really find anything. Most people I notice have been singing or playing music since “before they could talk” or say they were practically “born with a microphone in their hand”(poor mothers) but that isn’t me. I hope you will take this journey with me and learn that no matter what your passion is and no matter how old you are you can begin anew and follow your heart, your passion, and your song.
Okay enough of this seriousness, now that you know why I am here, I will be writing another entry later today about something really exciting happening tomorrow!
Katy
(Title: “32 Flavors”- Ani DiFranco)
