Praise God for Friends when you need them most...

Needless to say, it's been a long week.

Praise God for those people who have offered their help to make it better. And Praise God for those people who have taken the time to call and make sure I'm ok.

I have been texting on my phone a lot this week... It's been good to "chat" with someone who seems to get me... I look forward to meeting him in person... This weekend may be when we both have time, I will have to see what happens. I don't necessarily believe in fate but thus far, thing seem too good to be true... If that's the case, when will the other shoe drop? :S

Tomorrow is going to be INCREDIBLY hard!!! I am going to be singing "Take Me In" with Laurel accompanying me on the guitar and then Laurel and I are going to sing "Amazing Grace" and she's going to play that one too.

One of THE most awkward conversations I have had to have with some of my close friends lately was asking if they would be pallbearers tomorrow... See, my mom and grandpa are both only children and my brother and I would REALLY rather not do it... So I asked some of my friends, some of my grandparents friends want to be included and a couple of my relatives from my dad's side of the family that are coming. I am surprised and touched by the number of my friends who are willing to help.

I am going to try and get some sleep... I got about three hours of sleep last night and I'm exhausted... :(

Something to kill time... and braincells... while I can't sleep...

I saw this on someone's blog on Nex and thought it was pretty funny... Anyone who reads this and has their own blog, copy and paste the list and see how many you have seen...

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If you have seen more than 70 you have no life.
Do you have a life?

(My note: I added a few because there were sequels listed for many of them but missing on others... so it should be more like, "if you have seen between 75 and 80, you have no life..." I can guess (before I mark them) that I probably don't have a life... :D

( ) Rocky Horror Picture Show
(*) Grease
(*) Pirates of the Caribbean
( ) Boondock Saints
(*) The Mexican
( ) Fight Club
(*) Starsky and Hutch
( ) Neverending Story
( ) Blazing Saddles
( ) Airplane
(*) The Princess Bride
( ) Young Frankenstien
(*) AnchorMan: The Legend of Ron Burgandy
(*) Napoleon Dynamite
( ) Saw
( ) White Noise
(*) White Oleander
(*) Anger Management
(*) 50 First Dates
( ) Jason X
(*) Scream
(*) Scream 2
(*) Scream 3
(*) Scary Movie
(*) Scary Movie 2
( ) Scary Movie 3
(*) American Pie
(*) American Pie 2
(*) American Wedding
(*) Harry Potter
( ) Harry Potter 2
( ) Harry Potter 3
( ) Harry Potter 4
( ) Resident Evil I
( ) Resident Evil 2
(*) The Wedding Singer
(*) Little Black Book
( ) The Village
( ) Donnie Darko
(*) Lilo &Stitch
(*) Finding Nemo
( ) Finding Neverland
( ) Ghosts
( ) Signs
( ) The Grinch
( ) Texas Chainsaw Massacre
(*) White Chicks
(*) The Butterfly Effect
(*) Thirteen Going on 30
( ) I, Robot
(*) Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
( ) Murderball
( ) Universal Soldier
( ) Lemony Snicket: A Series Of Unfortunate Events
(*) Along Came Polly
( ) Deep Impact
( ) King Pin
(*) Never Been Kissed
(*) Meet The Parents
(*) Meet the Fockers
(*) Eight Crazy Nights
(*) A Cinderella Story
(*) The Terminal
(*) The Lizzie McGuire Movie
(*) Passport to Paris
(*) Dumb &Dumber
( ) Dumb &Dumberer
(*) Final Destination
(*) Final Destination 2
( ) Halloween
( ) The Ring
( ) The Ring 2
(*) Harold & Kumar go to White Castle
(*) Practical Magic
(*) Chicago
( ) Ghost Ship
( ) From Hell
( ) Secret Window
(*) I Am Sam
(*) The Whole Nine Yards
(*) The Whole Ten Yards
( ) The Day After Tomorrow
( ) Child's Play
( ) Bride of Chucky
(*) Ten Things I Hate About You
(*) Just Married
( ) Gothika
( ) Nightmare on Elm Street
(*) Sixteen Candles
(*) Pretty In Pink
(*) The Breakfast Club
( ) Coach Carter
( ) Bad Boys
( ) Bad Boys 2
(*) Joy Ride
( ) Seven
(*) Ocean's Eleven
(*) Ocean's Twelve
( ) Identity
( ) Lone Star
(*) Bedazzled
( ) Predator I
( ) Predator II
(*) Independence Day
( ) Cujo
( ) A Bronx Tale
( ) Darkness Falls
( ) Christine
(*) ET
( ) Children of the Corn
(*) My Boss' daughter
(*) Maid in Manhattan
(*) Jersey Girl
( ) Fraility
( ) Best Bet
(*) She's All That
(*) Calendar Girls
( ) Sideways
( ) Mars Attacks
(*) Event Horizon
(*) Ever After
(*) Forrest Gump
( ) Big Trouble in Little China
(*) X-Men
( ) X-2
( ) Jeepers Creepers
( ) Jeepers Creepers 2
(*) Catch Me If You Can
( ) The Others
(*) Freaky Friday
( ) Reign of Fire
(*) Cruel Intentions
( ) Cruel Intentions 2
( ) Cruel Intentions 3
(*) The Hot Chick
( ) Swimfan
(*) Miracle
(*) Old School
(*) The Notebook
( ) K-Pax
(*) Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
( ) Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
( ) Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
(*) A Walk to Remember
( ) Boogeyman
(*) Hitch
(*) The Fifth Element
(*) Star Wars Episode I The Phantom Menace
(*) Star Wars Episode II Attack of The Clones
( ) Star Wars Episode III Revenge of The Sith
(*) Star Wars Episode IV A New Hope
(*) Star Wars Episode V The Empire Strikes Back
(*) Star Wars Episode VI Return of The Jedi...
( ) Troop Beverly Hills
( ) Swimming with Sharks
(*) Air Force One
(*) Con Air
( ) For Richer or Poorer
( ) Trainspotting
( ) People Under the Stairs
( ) Blue Velvet
(*) Sound of Music
(*) Mary Poppins
(*) Parent Trap 1
(*) Parent Trap 2
(*) Gone With the Wind
(*) Casablanca
( ) The Burbs
(*) The Terminator
(*) Terminator 2
(*) T3
(*) Empire Records
( ) SLC Punk
( ) Meet Joe Black
(*) Nightmare Before Christmas
( ) The Silence of the Lambs
( ) Sleepy Hollow
(*) I Heart Huckabees
( ) 24 Hour Party People
(*) Dead Poet's Society
( ) The Chronicles of Narnia-The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardorbe
(*) King Kong

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I've seen like 98 of them... But I think some of them are unfair as they are things I watched in school or things I was dragged to... Also, there are things that I "watched" but more like I slept through them... Whatever... :D I added something like 20 or so...

My Grandfather.

My grandfather passed away tonight at approximately 9:00pm.

My heart hurts.

My family will miss him...

I know he is in a better place and without pain and we are happy that he didn't suffer but it is going to be rough on my grandmother. Please pray for us as we go through this time.

Without God, my family and friends, I think I would be a complete mess right now...

As it is, I am crying a lot but I know I will get through this and he will live on in the memories of those who loved him.

Frustrated with myself...

Short blog today, I have a ton of stuff to do this week.

I did some analyzation of a piece that is due on Friday, I did some of it wrong... It is a V of V of whatever instead of just a set of elisions (if you don't know music, this may be Swahili to you...) and I didn't realize it when I was doing it and now I have to redo it... AHHHHH!

I have a midterm (singing) on Wednesday. I don't know what she expects and I have tried to go over the pieces but they are frustrating me. I don't know if she wants them on scale degree numbers, mod 12 numbers or "la"... And I don't know if she wants them analyzed before we sing them... Grrr.... So many choices and so little information...

I have another exam tomorrow... It's my Canadian History midterm and it was one of those "hows the studying going for the midterm tomorrow?" "The midterm's tomorrow?" "Ya, the 14th." Tomorrow's the 14th" Does this tell anyone how my last few weeks have been and how far off my internal clock is right now??? I KNEW when the exam was but I completely didn't realize that the 14th is TOMORROW!!!!

I have an exam on Friday... From 2-4... Which means I can't leave for Calgary until after that. It's a class I am working my butt off in but it's the same prof as the singing exam on Wednesday and I swear she hates me so I'm worried...

On top of which, I am almost done the planning for my mom's 50th birthday party... I called and solidified the room and ordered the food today. I have all of the guests phone numbers or e-mail addresses and all I need to do is send the e-mail and call those people I haven't already mentioned it to. I called a few of the out of town guests yesterday and I will still send them/call them with the information now that it is finalized. All I need to do is get decorations, order a cake and flowers and arrange DJ equipment for John. *sigh* Not too bad for 24 hours work so far...

I guess I just feel kind of spacey right now. Like I'm not retaining all of the information I have been reading and I am getting frustrated with myself which isn't helping...

Today, I'm not reaching for anything, I am striving for brilliance so I can do well on my exams this week and I am hoping for my grandparents to get better and I am praying that everything works out the way it is meant to.