Jamie's Ramblings

I was just checking the i-tunes store, because it's new music Tuesday and I happened across: "Hushabye Baby: Lullaby Renditions of Willie Nelson"

Nothin' quite like having "Whiskey River" lull your baby to sleep.


Update: Ahhh, Taylor Hicks has a new single out (which has apparently been out for a week already, but I often forget to check anything other than the Country section, lol). Yay!

I can't believe another stinkin' hurricane is coming at us (Jeanne). This silly thing has been going around in circles (& I do mean in circles.. you should have seen the projected forcast for it.. lol) for the last few days & now they project it to go West & possibly turn north.. They're saying we might get tropical storm force winds (if it turns North). If it keeps going strait it will pass pretty close to us.. which I am NOT looking forward to. TURN NORTH!!! NOW!!! I am sick of hurricanes. I like being able to see out my windows, I like having power, I don't like having to hunt around for bottled water & gas like it's gold, & we need time to fix our roof dangit! Ack.. is that Big & Rich.. it sounds like a guy & a girl.. & yet it sounds like Big & Rich... It is them, I looked it up. Well, they are distinctive (note, I'm not saying that's a good thing).... What was I talking about? Oh yeah, hurricanes... We got Frances... & then yesterday we had the remnants of Ivan (which wasn't too bad.. it just knocked the Satellite out for awhile & we had some rain). I don't want anything else. Ok, I'm done whining about that now let's move onto something else.

My tv shows are all finally starting to come back. Survivor came back on last week. It looks interesting. Tonight Smallville came back on. It was an interesting season opener that brought forth a lot of new questions to be answered. I also checked out a new show on ABC called Lost. It looks interesting (you know what? I just used the word interesting 3 times in the past 5 sentences). I will definitely try & catch it again next week to see if it's something I want to continue to watch or not. Let's see.. what's left to come back on... Enterprise (in October) & American Idol (whenever that comes back). The nice thing is that I think everything will be on different times this time. Last year I had like 3 shows on at the same time. It was really annoying because nobody could decide what to watch (everybody in my family liked a diff show the best). Smallville is on late Wednesdays though, Survivor is on Thursday, Enterprise is moving into the death slot on Friday (can we say soon to be cancelled?), & American Idol should be on Tuesdays & Wednesdays (when Smallville isn't on). Hmmm.. if I actually like Lost & want to keep watching it.. it might clash with American Idol. Oh well, that's what VCR's are for. I can't believe I just wrote that much about my tv watching habits. Lol.. oh well, if you actually read all that, you may even have less of a life than I do (j/k).

I'm out.


Edit: Haha.. the satellite radio & my regular radio are playing the same song ("She's In Love With The Boy" by Trisha Yearwood) at the same time.. so I'm listening to both of them. Why? Because I can.

Happy 4th of July! Tonight my dad & I watched the fireworks that our city puts on. They were nice.

This afternoon I got Josh Gracin's CD at Best Buy. It's pretty good. There are only about 2 songs that I don't like.

Before we went to watch the fireworks, we took our SNES (Super Nintendo) & moved it from the living room (where it was disconnected) to my room, where my N64 (Nintendo 64) is. It's funny, whenever my niece & nephew come over, they don't want to play the more modern N64, they always want to play the SNES. So now I think they'll be happy that they'll finally be able to play it again (it was disconnected for about a year). I'm glad I put it back in here too.. I forgot how fun the games were.... especially the classic Mario Kart. I have the GBA (Gameboy Advance) Mario Kart & when you get a Gold Cup (with an A grade) on any level (50cc, 100cc, or 150cc) you can open up the old classic SNES Mario Kart tracks, but they're still missing some of the elements that the SNES version has. One game I have been slightly obsessed with lately is Ms. Pacman (which I have on the N64). Retro games are so much fun!

I am soooo happy!! Jeff Gordon won the Pepsi 400 in Daytona last night. This is the 2nd race in a row he's won, & the 2nd time he's won back to back races this year. He's had some tough luck this year too though.. so it really makes me happy to see him on top of things again. There were soooo many special paint schemes in the race though. It was hard to keep track of everybody. There were 9 C2 (Coke) cars & only 1 Pepsi car (Jeff's), which won. Go Pepsi!!

I'm gonna run now. Later!

I've been working really hard on my music lately. I wrote the lyrics of a song yesterday & the melody of a (different) song today... & I've been really putting forth the effort to practice on the guitar lately. I know this is what I want to do with my life. I want to be involved in music in someway.... whether it be a singer or a songwriter.

Hmmm.. what else have I been up to in my 5 month absense from this journal. Oh, I turned 21. Yeah, it wasn't really a big deal. Don't get me wrong, I had a great birthday.. it just wasn't this big deal that it is for a lot of other people because I don't really care about any of the things that you have to be 21 to do. On the day of my birthday I went out to dinner with my mom & dad & then to celebrate with the rest of my family I went to see Joe Diffie & Scotty Emerick & then we went to Sonny's to eat.

I went to some other concerts between the last entry & this one too. I saw Joe Nichols, Lorrie Morgan, Jo Dee Messina, & Alan Jackson in late January... Trace Adkins, Joe Nichols (again) and Brad Paisley in March. Joe Diffie, Scotty Emerick and John Anderson in April... and Josh Turner, Cowboy Crush, Terri Clark & John Michael Montgomery in May. I don't have any more concerts lined up though until at least September.

I've recently gotten into the hobby of scrapbooking. I've been making these little (2-10 page) themed scrapbooks & I think they're turning out pretty well.

All of my tv shows are over for the summer & now there's nothing to watch. "Smallville" left us with a cliffhanger & I'm really upset that "Enterprise" did too. I know it's normal, but the whole season of "Enterprise" has been like one big cliffhanger so I thought it would have been nice if they gave us a break this time. I'd like to report that both of my picks for Nashville Star (Brad Cotter) & American Idol (Fantasia Barrino) won. So far I've picked Kelly, Ruben, Fantasia, Buddy, & Brad. Unlike, Kelly, Ruben, & Buddy though.. I'm not really attached to Brad or Fantasia. I think that they are both talented... & although I think that they both deserved the most to win out of the final few people, I'm not really into either one of their styles. I also think that AI runner up Diana DeGarmo is very talented and actually like her style better than Fantasia's (I just think that Fantasia made fewer mistakes throughout the competition.. so that's why I voted for her). I am sort of ticked off with AI though because I think that the best talent got voted out of the competition way too early (namely Jennifer Hudson & Latoya London). I think that they & Fantasia should have been the final 3 (& I don't know who should have won out of them... I would have had to of seen the other 2's later performances to see how they would have held up). But anyways... both American Idol & Nashville Star were very different for me this year because right away in the previous ones I knew that Kelly, Ruben, & Buddy were my favorites.. but it took me awhile to establish a favorite in this season's.

While I'm on the subject of reality tv.. may I say that Survivor really ticked me off this season? They repeatedly ignored the threat of Rob & Amber & let them win. My only consolation is that Rupert won a million through the fan vote. I would love to be on Survivor if it weren't for the bugs/reptiles & the fact that I am totally uncoordinated & not athletic. I always say that if they ever do a Survivor - Alaska (or Antartica, I'm not picky, haha), I'm there!

While I'm talking about the things that bug me... let's talk about the ACM Awards (American Country Music Awards). I was really upset that Brad Paisley was not even nominated for Male Vocalist of the Year. He has had a really great year and totally should have been in there! Also, I am upset that Toby Keith/Willie Nelson's video beat out Martina McBride's "Concrete Angel" & Brad Paisley's "Celebrity" video. Oh yeah, & I'm also upset (see how these things just keep piling up & piling up?) that neither Buddy Jewell or Josh Turner won Top New Vocalist. I can sort of understand how Josh didn't win because he's still pretty new. But I thought that Buddy really deserved it. I do like Dierks Bentley too (he won), but I thought that Buddy should have taken it home. Now that I've gotten all of that off of my chest, may I add that I'm really GLAD that Martina took home 2 awards (Female Vocalist & the Home Depot Humanitarian Award). GO MARTINA!!! I'm also glad that Randy Travis got an award (I can't remember if it was song of the year or single of the year) for "Three Wooden Crosses". If it would not have been for Martina & Randy, the night would have been a bust.

I'm gonna go before I can think of anything else that bugs me, haha.

I have not been diligent in posting here at all... but I'm going to try & get back to it.. I really love my LiveJournal.

Happy Thanksgiving to everybody! I hope you have a great one. I'm going down to my sister's house, like we do every year. Today I am going to bake cookies to take down with me.

I am really excited because I recently got tickets to see Martina McBride's Joy of Christmas Tour. I really wanted to go last year but they never came down to FL... this year they are finally coming down, and although it's a little out of our way... there's no way I would miss it.

Gonna go eat lunch now, later.

I forgot to mention that I got my faaavorite artists brand new CD today (technically yesterday, but whatever... I got it on Sept 30). It, of course, is "Martina" by Martina McBride. It is soooo awesome! I think the song "How Far" is especially beautiful. Gosh, if you don't have the CD yet, go out & get it now! Ok.. not now.. because it's late, lol. But get it soon, you wont regret it!

Today Country Music Legend Johnny Cash passed away. I'm a fan of his & although it was expected.. it still shocked me. It always does. Just like when Bob Hope & Katharine Hepburn passed away. You knew it was going to happen, but when it finally does it's just like... wow..

I'm gonna miss the man in black! Please pray for his friends & family.

I haven't updated in awhile because things have been pretty basic over here lately... we took my Grandma swimming & stuff like that. Oh, I also got Brad Paisley's new CD, "Mud on the Tires" this Tuesday & it's really awesome! It's got 16 songs on it & they're all great! I also got a Judd's Greatest Hits album & a Martina McBride karaoke CD.
We went to Target tonight & they had a lot of stuff on really good sales because of all the kids going back to school. I got 2 notebooks, 2 packs of crayons, a pack of markers, & a big pack of pencils all for under $2.50. Now that's my kinda sale!
That's all for now folks.

Nothing interesting really happened today... pretty basic. I watched tv & exercised a bit.
AAAHHH, my song is on the radio right now (the one I stuck up in the "current music" spot)!!!
American Juniors is on tonight, that's like the only good thing left on tv. I heard some bummer news though.. they're not gonna announce who made it through tomorrow night. They're not going to announce it until next week. I don't wanna hafta wait that long :( I prolly wont talk about the performances tonight after the show. I'll wait till tomorrow in case I have any Canadian visitors :)
I'm gonna go have some grapes, later!

Thought of the day: How come I can never pull the little plastic sticky label (that goes across the top of the CD with the singers name & album title) off of the CD completely intact? I have done it TWICE just twice... & I have like 100+ CD's... 2/100+.... hmm... (haha, I had written in "ONCE" but while I was typing this message I managed to open one of the new CD's I got today off completely intact).

Today was a good day. We went over to the pool this evening because I was hoping I'd get some sun... but it started drizzling as soon as we walked out the door. We still swam anyway tho because it wasn't lightening or anything & it eventually stopped. I don't think I got any sun tho because I think the tanning rays were all gone by the time we got there.... so I'm still pale as anything. Lol.. there were these kids there & they had like abandoned their innertubes so they kept floating into my mom & I & we'd have to push them away... it was annoying. I like it much better when we have the pool to ourselves.

We also went to Best Buy & I got 3 CD's.... Jimmy Wayne's, Jo Dee Messina's Greatest Hits, & a Joe Diffie one. So far I've only listened to Jimmy's & it's pretty good. I know I'll like the other 2 tho, since they're both Greatest Hits ones.

I watched American Juniors tonight & I wont say who made it through now cuz I don't wanna spoil it for anybody... but here's who I think should be the top 5 in the group...

Lucy
Danielle
Tori
Taylor
AJ

The only prob with Lucy is she seems a little old for the group... if she doesn't make it for some reason I think she should get a solo recording contract cuz she's really good. If she doesn't make it then I think Morgan should get that spot. Although I think he should tone down on the hyperness cuz it's getting to me.

I'm gonna run, it's getting late.




You are Joshua Gracin! You lean more towards
country, which is not a bad thing. You are
well-respected by fellow contestants and the
public. Stay close to your roots. We love ya.


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