I'm trying to finish PowerPoint for church tomorrow. Tomorrow's only 34 minutes away. I've gotten most of the sermon & songs done, just announcements left! Rrrgh, how I dislike this!
It's not usually this bad. I'm usually doing it at home, on my own computer, where all the sites and passwords are saved, I have an actual MOUSE instead of a touch-pad, and there is plenty of chocolate to eat while Pointing Powerfully.
But I'm not there.
Sis & I are dog/cat/house/plant sitting for a while. I'm on my employer's laptop, which is rather nice but also rather irritating. It has a stylus and touch screen--I can draw directly on the computer to Paint or whatev. But there's no mouse, which makes highlighting, copying, and dragging more difficult. My computer has PowerPoint 2011, this one has '07. I usually keep track of when I have 'Point, but I thought I didn't have any until next week. (Come to think of it, I already did 'Point this month! Oh, wait, there's 5 Sundays.)
I think I'm going to give up for now and go to bed. The sermon's done (which is important), the songs are done (they're important, too), the annoucements are not done (does anyone really read them off the screens anyway? They're in the bulletin.). I'll just slap somethin' together really quick tomorrow morning, either here or at church. I'd prefer to do something fancy, but procrastinators can't be choosers, can they?
~Procrastinatin'Fruit~
P.S. Remember that Winter Jam concert? A week ago? Wait 'til I get the pictures on my computer, and then on here!! They're AWEsome! =D
Showing posts with label Winter jam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Winter jam. Show all posts
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Someone's going to go see Newsboys, Newsong, Kutless, Red, KJ-52, David Crowder*Band, Sidewalk Prophets, Francesca Battistelli, Chris August, Chris Sligh. For free./Post With The Longest Title
Last Monday I was listening to the radio, and the dude said "If you hear "GO" by the Newsboys in the next 1/2 hour, be the third caller and you'll win Winter Jam tickets!"
So I listened, phone in hand.
And listened.
And heard "GO"
The dude answered the phone and said "Thanks for calling, you're caller number 1, try again."
I tried again.
"Thanks for calling 111.1 KIWI, you are Caller Number Three!"
So my brother & I freaked out and did little happy-dances all day (People in Jo-Ann's look at you weirdly when you do happy-dances behind the register...).
Yesterday, I opened up the email I put in the Winter Jam video description.
"Hello,
If you have received this email you are a Winter Jam Ultimate Fan Contest Runner Up! Congratulations! You will receive 2 VIP passes to the Winter Jam city of your choice! Please reply to this email with your mailing address and the Winter Jam city of your choice ASAP in order to receive your VIP passes. Thank you for you[r] Youtube Video uploads! All of the videos were uploaded correctly and were very creative! It was a great success overall. We were able to spread the word to thousands of people because of your participation! Thanks again and Congratulations!"
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So now I've got FOUR tickets (About $120 worth, plus I saw something about the VIP Platinum Passes including tee shirts, which would bring the $ up to $140?), and all I have to worry about is how to get down there. Sis has a seminar at church that day that she might be going to, and it doesn't end until 3:30, but it takes 1 1/2 hours to get down there and the doors open at 5:00.
We've got some clever figgering to do there, but I'm going to ignore it for just a few minutes, exit the library, and do a little jig. (Jigs are frowned upon in my library. =/ )
Toodleoo!! =D
~KiwiDFruit
So I listened, phone in hand.
And listened.
And heard "GO"
The dude answered the phone and said "Thanks for calling, you're caller number 1, try again."
I tried again.
"Thanks for calling 111.1 KIWI, you are Caller Number Three!"
So my brother & I freaked out and did little happy-dances all day (People in Jo-Ann's look at you weirdly when you do happy-dances behind the register...).
Yesterday, I opened up the email I put in the Winter Jam video description.
"Hello,
If you have received this email you are a Winter Jam Ultimate Fan Contest Runner Up! Congratulations! You will receive 2 VIP passes to the Winter Jam city of your choice! Please reply to this email with your mailing address and the Winter Jam city of your choice ASAP in order to receive your VIP passes. Thank you for you[r] Youtube Video uploads! All of the videos were uploaded correctly and were very creative! It was a great success overall. We were able to spread the word to thousands of people because of your participation! Thanks again and Congratulations!"
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So now I've got FOUR tickets (About $120 worth, plus I saw something about the VIP Platinum Passes including tee shirts, which would bring the $ up to $140?), and all I have to worry about is how to get down there. Sis has a seminar at church that day that she might be going to, and it doesn't end until 3:30, but it takes 1 1/2 hours to get down there and the doors open at 5:00.
We've got some clever figgering to do there, but I'm going to ignore it for just a few minutes, exit the library, and do a little jig. (Jigs are frowned upon in my library. =/ )
Toodleoo!! =D
~KiwiDFruit
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Another contest!!
Here's a video I made for a Winter Jam contest! Thanks go to my brother, for helping with it. =) Go watch! Better post to come
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2JPnT4vHGw
~Kiwi~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2JPnT4vHGw
~Kiwi~
Thursday, June 11, 2009
100th post!!!!!!!!
On a blogger's 100th post, it is customary to post 100 random things about yourself. Here's my 100 things. I hope you don't get too bored!
1. I know and can sing many many songs. Most of the songs played on Air1 and K-love in 2008 I know by heart.
2. I love to read. (P.G. Wodehouse, Shannon Hale, Christopher Paolini…)
3. I have been home schooled since birth.
4. I’m going to graduate in ’010!
5. I am hopelessly addicted to blogging.
6. As I write this, I’m listening to “Protest to Praise” by Downhere.
7. I simply adore biking.
8. I’m contemplating getting a bug-shield for my bike.
9. I nearly had a bike crash earlier today.
10. One of my favorite hobbies is painting.
11. My “Old Movie Blog” is fun to do research for!
12. I have met 15 famous people: Daniel Kirkley, Jason Gray, Jason Germain, Marc Martel, Glenn Lavender, Jaime Jamgochian, Lanae Hale. Brian, ’Nirva, Gabe, and Tedde from the Diverse City Band, and Hawk Nelson.
13. Concerts are great fun to attend!
14. But I’ve only been to three: Newsboys, Bethlehem Skyline Tour concert, Winter Jam ’09.
15. I don’t have a boyfriend, and don’t really see a need for one right now.
16. I really need to build up my “Artiste’s imagination”
17. No, I don’t have Facebook, Myspace or Twitter.
18. I should be doing chemistry right now.
19. I love to run, but I haven’t got any endurance.
20. My name doesn’t actually have a ‘k’ or ‘w’ in it.
21. “Rockstars need money,” and so do I.
22. I really really really want to see Paul Colman in July!!
23. I have one of the starring roles in The Play.
24. I used to sleepwalk on occasion. Who knows if I still do so…
25. I have two brothers and one sister.
26. I know at least the choruses to 80+ Newsboys songs. By heart.
27. I was ecstatic to get a letter from my friend the other day. AND it had a picture of her in it!!
28. Writing 100 Random Things about me is harder than I originally thought!
29. Sometimes I (randomly) burst into a (random) song.
30. I used to have a sheep that I showed at the fair. Her name was Mandy, and then she had a lamb named Freddy. I still have a 3rd place ribbon that Freddy won…
31. I was in 4-H once, but didn’t like it.
32. My sister and I are NOT twins!!
33. I like having my nails brightly painted.
34. I recently memorized the first stanza of “What is so Rare as a Day in June?” by James Russell Lowell.
35. I prefer geometry to chemistry.
36. I am quickly running out of things to say.
37. I really really really want to enter Downhere’s tee-shirt contest!!! Really!
38. I don’t get to wear pj’s to school. Horrible, isn’t it? :-P
39. I have a stuffed turtle.
40. Flip-flops rate higher with me than tennis shoes.
41. I have never broken a bone. (Of my own, that is…)
42. Volleyball is amazingly fun!
43. I do a lot of diving in volleyball.
44. I have 6 cds: the Newsboys’ GO, Thrive, In The Hands of God and the ITHOG EP. Michael W. Smith’s Live the Life, and Avalon’s Testify to Love.
45. My dresser top is always a mess ‘cause it’s my “catch-all.” But more on that later.
46. I can’t believe I accidentally skipped this one!
47. I love the Newsboys’ Going Public cd.
48. I want a new pair of shoes.
49. I can’t wait for consistently warm weather.
50. I have a “Zits” cartoon taped to my door that describes me perfectly! I’ll have to give y’all a pic of it sometime.
51. I cannot brain today. I have the dumb.
52. Sadly, I appear to be the “Teasable Type.”
53. Colors are cool!
54. I don’t like washing dishes.
55. My occupation? Dishwasher, scullery maid, bathroom scrubber. Oh, and most-of-the-time student.
56. My plan for this summer is to stay as active as possible. That means bike rides, volleyball, double Dutch jump rope, anything else that’ll keep me moving!
57. This has been 57 random things already!
58. One of my friends ‘owes’ me $31.64 already. It’s a long story…
59. I went horseback riding once in Tennessee in ’06.
60. Skip-bo is a good card game.
61. I don’t play any instruments.
62. I accidentally skipped #s 46-49! Oops!
63. Hopefully I’ll be able to hand out awards to my faithful blogreaders soon…
64. I learned that it is possible to start a Twitter account with a fake email.
65. But I either deleted the account or forgot the password. I forgot the password, anyway. The account may still be there. *runs off to check* Nope, it’s still there! www.twitter.com/kiwidafruit. No updates, though. Unfortunately, I can't get in to delete it because of the forgotten password.
66. I luuuuuuuv my digital camera! (Thanks, grandma & grandpa!!)
67. I have been hit in the face by the ball in the following sports: soccer, baseball, dodgeball, and basketball.
68. I have been knocked down in the following sports: dodgeball, soccer, basketball, football (LET IT BE KNOWN: I was not playing football voluntarily. It was entirely against my will that I was standing out there in that field, watching everyone else know what to do!), tag, and, as of Sunday, volleyball.
69. I used to be quite accident and injury prone.
70. I enjoy beading earrings, necklaces, and bracelets, but haven’t been ‘inspired’ to do so lately.
71. Writing is fun, but not ‘on demand’ writing.
72. Geometry was so much better than chemistry!
73. I like the game Bomber Penguin. (Skittles, you'd like it! give it a try.)
74. I just found two cool videos of Marc Martel that I'll have to post soon!
75. I am ¾ of the way done with this thing!!
76. My toenails are pink right now.
77. I want to visit my great-grandma (and Skittles!) in Florida!
78. Have you ever played ‘Pit’? I have.
79. I am 17 years old, 2 months, 2 weeks, and 5 days old.
80. I want my own email address. (Hinthinthint)
81. Blogger frustrates me!
82. I like music videos.
83. I want to make a music video to “Praying for Sunny Days” by Hyper Static Union.
84. Catchphrase is a good game to play with friends, especially when it gets rowdy!
85. I’m going to give 25 points to whoever reads all of this!
86. I think I’ve been on blogger for about one year.
87. I just read through a year’s worth of my life in my diary.
88. I have had one of my watercolors sold at an art auction.
89. I want to see Dagmar soon ‘cause I have a s’prise for her…
90. My room is a wee little bit messy right now.
91. I had no school today.
92. My middle name is Elizabeth.
93. My hair, after being twisted up in a bun for 24+ hours, looks really odd!
94. I am/Praying for sunny days to return to me…..
95. I don’t have a best friend…I have about 20!
96. If you looked at my dresser right now, you would find: 3 porcelain dolls, a crystal bell, four cds, a Willow Creek angel, a little-bitty doll, five glass bottles, perfume, Mary Kay product, four ponytail holders, an IOU note (from my friend, now worth $31.64), a library card, four barrettes, two pairs of earrings, a cd insert, two batteries, song lyrics, bangle bracelets, two necklaces, flattened-out foil from a blue Easter crunch-bunny, a ring case, bookmark, a radio, and $1.33 in small change. I hope you found that fascinating!
97. Three houses ago, ‘Punzel and I chased the landlord’s cows around. (I was 6-7)
98. I have a signed Newsboys poster with a large, long haired hole in it…;D
99. I am very very very distantly related to Dan’l Boone. I think.
100. I survived my first 100 Random Things post!! Hallelujah!
Okay, I'm going to make the rest of this brief. I owe a big thanks to Dagmar and Matt, because they got me started in blogging and have answered numerous questions about it.
Thanks to Mom & Dad, for letting me get a blog.
Thanks to everyone who reads this blog and comments.
A smaller 'thank you' to the people who read this but don't comment. Comment if you want to get a big thank you.
And thanks to my followers, just for following.
Basically: THANKS ALL Y'ALL TO EV'RYONE WHO READS THIS!
So long, readers!
~Kiwi~
1. I know and can sing many many songs. Most of the songs played on Air1 and K-love in 2008 I know by heart.
2. I love to read. (P.G. Wodehouse, Shannon Hale, Christopher Paolini…)
3. I have been home schooled since birth.
4. I’m going to graduate in ’010!
5. I am hopelessly addicted to blogging.
6. As I write this, I’m listening to “Protest to Praise” by Downhere.
7. I simply adore biking.
8. I’m contemplating getting a bug-shield for my bike.
9. I nearly had a bike crash earlier today.
10. One of my favorite hobbies is painting.
11. My “Old Movie Blog” is fun to do research for!
12. I have met 15 famous people: Daniel Kirkley, Jason Gray, Jason Germain, Marc Martel, Glenn Lavender, Jaime Jamgochian, Lanae Hale. Brian, ’Nirva, Gabe, and Tedde from the Diverse City Band, and Hawk Nelson.
13. Concerts are great fun to attend!
14. But I’ve only been to three: Newsboys, Bethlehem Skyline Tour concert, Winter Jam ’09.
15. I don’t have a boyfriend, and don’t really see a need for one right now.
16. I really need to build up my “Artiste’s imagination”
17. No, I don’t have Facebook, Myspace or Twitter.
18. I should be doing chemistry right now.
19. I love to run, but I haven’t got any endurance.
20. My name doesn’t actually have a ‘k’ or ‘w’ in it.
21. “Rockstars need money,” and so do I.
22. I really really really want to see Paul Colman in July!!
23. I have one of the starring roles in The Play.
24. I used to sleepwalk on occasion. Who knows if I still do so…
25. I have two brothers and one sister.
26. I know at least the choruses to 80+ Newsboys songs. By heart.
27. I was ecstatic to get a letter from my friend the other day. AND it had a picture of her in it!!
28. Writing 100 Random Things about me is harder than I originally thought!
29. Sometimes I (randomly) burst into a (random) song.
30. I used to have a sheep that I showed at the fair. Her name was Mandy, and then she had a lamb named Freddy. I still have a 3rd place ribbon that Freddy won…
31. I was in 4-H once, but didn’t like it.
32. My sister and I are NOT twins!!
33. I like having my nails brightly painted.
34. I recently memorized the first stanza of “What is so Rare as a Day in June?” by James Russell Lowell.
35. I prefer geometry to chemistry.
36. I am quickly running out of things to say.
37. I really really really want to enter Downhere’s tee-shirt contest!!! Really!
38. I don’t get to wear pj’s to school. Horrible, isn’t it? :-P
39. I have a stuffed turtle.
40. Flip-flops rate higher with me than tennis shoes.
41. I have never broken a bone. (Of my own, that is…)
42. Volleyball is amazingly fun!
43. I do a lot of diving in volleyball.
44. I have 6 cds: the Newsboys’ GO, Thrive, In The Hands of God and the ITHOG EP. Michael W. Smith’s Live the Life, and Avalon’s Testify to Love.
45. My dresser top is always a mess ‘cause it’s my “catch-all.” But more on that later.
46. I can’t believe I accidentally skipped this one!
47. I love the Newsboys’ Going Public cd.
48. I want a new pair of shoes.
49. I can’t wait for consistently warm weather.
50. I have a “Zits” cartoon taped to my door that describes me perfectly! I’ll have to give y’all a pic of it sometime.
51. I cannot brain today. I have the dumb.
52. Sadly, I appear to be the “Teasable Type.”
53. Colors are cool!
54. I don’t like washing dishes.
55. My occupation? Dishwasher, scullery maid, bathroom scrubber. Oh, and most-of-the-time student.
56. My plan for this summer is to stay as active as possible. That means bike rides, volleyball, double Dutch jump rope, anything else that’ll keep me moving!
57. This has been 57 random things already!
58. One of my friends ‘owes’ me $31.64 already. It’s a long story…
59. I went horseback riding once in Tennessee in ’06.
60. Skip-bo is a good card game.
61. I don’t play any instruments.
62. I accidentally skipped #s 46-49! Oops!
63. Hopefully I’ll be able to hand out awards to my faithful blogreaders soon…
64. I learned that it is possible to start a Twitter account with a fake email.
65. But I either deleted the account or forgot the password. I forgot the password, anyway. The account may still be there. *runs off to check* Nope, it’s still there! www.twitter.com/kiwidafruit. No updates, though. Unfortunately, I can't get in to delete it because of the forgotten password.
66. I luuuuuuuv my digital camera! (Thanks, grandma & grandpa!!)
67. I have been hit in the face by the ball in the following sports: soccer, baseball, dodgeball, and basketball.
68. I have been knocked down in the following sports: dodgeball, soccer, basketball, football (LET IT BE KNOWN: I was not playing football voluntarily. It was entirely against my will that I was standing out there in that field, watching everyone else know what to do!), tag, and, as of Sunday, volleyball.
69. I used to be quite accident and injury prone.
70. I enjoy beading earrings, necklaces, and bracelets, but haven’t been ‘inspired’ to do so lately.
71. Writing is fun, but not ‘on demand’ writing.
72. Geometry was so much better than chemistry!
73. I like the game Bomber Penguin. (Skittles, you'd like it! give it a try.)
74. I just found two cool videos of Marc Martel that I'll have to post soon!
75. I am ¾ of the way done with this thing!!
76. My toenails are pink right now.
77. I want to visit my great-grandma (and Skittles!) in Florida!
78. Have you ever played ‘Pit’? I have.
79. I am 17 years old, 2 months, 2 weeks, and 5 days old.
80. I want my own email address. (Hinthinthint)
81. Blogger frustrates me!
82. I like music videos.
83. I want to make a music video to “Praying for Sunny Days” by Hyper Static Union.
84. Catchphrase is a good game to play with friends, especially when it gets rowdy!
85. I’m going to give 25 points to whoever reads all of this!
86. I think I’ve been on blogger for about one year.
87. I just read through a year’s worth of my life in my diary.
88. I have had one of my watercolors sold at an art auction.
89. I want to see Dagmar soon ‘cause I have a s’prise for her…
90. My room is a wee little bit messy right now.
91. I had no school today.
92. My middle name is Elizabeth.
93. My hair, after being twisted up in a bun for 24+ hours, looks really odd!
94. I am/Praying for sunny days to return to me…..
95. I don’t have a best friend…I have about 20!
96. If you looked at my dresser right now, you would find: 3 porcelain dolls, a crystal bell, four cds, a Willow Creek angel, a little-bitty doll, five glass bottles, perfume, Mary Kay product, four ponytail holders, an IOU note (from my friend, now worth $31.64), a library card, four barrettes, two pairs of earrings, a cd insert, two batteries, song lyrics, bangle bracelets, two necklaces, flattened-out foil from a blue Easter crunch-bunny, a ring case, bookmark, a radio, and $1.33 in small change. I hope you found that fascinating!
97. Three houses ago, ‘Punzel and I chased the landlord’s cows around. (I was 6-7)
98. I have a signed Newsboys poster with a large, long haired hole in it…;D
99. I am very very very distantly related to Dan’l Boone. I think.
100. I survived my first 100 Random Things post!! Hallelujah!
Okay, I'm going to make the rest of this brief. I owe a big thanks to Dagmar and Matt, because they got me started in blogging and have answered numerous questions about it.
Thanks to Mom & Dad, for letting me get a blog.
Thanks to everyone who reads this blog and comments.
A smaller 'thank you' to the people who read this but don't comment. Comment if you want to get a big thank you.
And thanks to my followers, just for following.
Basically: THANKS ALL Y'ALL TO EV'RYONE WHO READS THIS!
So long, readers!
~Kiwi~
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
A New Post (duh)/Comment Blitz
This is (obviously) a Brand New Post. I figured it was because of the title. With a title like that, it has to be a new post. :P
Here is my first announcement: my friend, Kirsten, has started a blog! I told her I'd introduce her to the rest of my bloggy friends. Bloggy friends, THIS is Kirsten! Kirsten, welcome to our part of the Bloggosphere! On the right side of my screen I have links to most of my other readers, but a few are not linked so you'll have to go to the comments section. Skittles, Guitargirl, and Judi comment fairly regularly, so you can meet them on there through their profiles. Welcome to my bunch o' bloggy buddies! You ought to receive a beginning blogging welcome packet, but it hasn't quite been invented yet, so you'll have to do without. But feel free to ask me any questions you may have about blogs!
Here is my second announcement: As of 9:27 last night, The Old Movie Blog is updated and you are all invited to stop by and visit HERE if you want to read my latest post! And I have another movie review coming up later this week or sometime next week, as well. Feel free to drop in anytime!
Here is my first announcement: my friend, Kirsten, has started a blog! I told her I'd introduce her to the rest of my bloggy friends. Bloggy friends, THIS is Kirsten! Kirsten, welcome to our part of the Bloggosphere! On the right side of my screen I have links to most of my other readers, but a few are not linked so you'll have to go to the comments section. Skittles, Guitargirl, and Judi comment fairly regularly, so you can meet them on there through their profiles. Welcome to my bunch o' bloggy buddies! You ought to receive a beginning blogging welcome packet, but it hasn't quite been invented yet, so you'll have to do without. But feel free to ask me any questions you may have about blogs!
Here is my second announcement: As of 9:27 last night, The Old Movie Blog is updated and you are all invited to stop by and visit HERE if you want to read my latest post! And I have another movie review coming up later this week or sometime next week, as well. Feel free to drop in anytime!
Here is my third announcement: the new Newsboys site is finally up and running!!!! I just found that out, and I'm glad. :^D They now need to fill it out a bit more, as it is rather bare. I wish I could get on the message boards! If I had an email address of my own....
I can't wait 'till the new album comes out! If I only had an extra $14 lying around, I'd pre-order it and get In The Hands Of God and Houston We Are Go. RRRGH! WHY can't I just SNAP MY FINGERS and have ALL THE MONEY I WANT?!? probably because then everything would be way too easy and I wouldn't be misrable so often. :-P
Here is my fourth announcement: I have a quick, painless, three-question survey I'd like all y'all who read this to answer.
#1. What is your fun little weakness (such as chocolate, coffee...)?
#2. Where is your favorite place to visit?
#3. Are you a morning person or a night owl?
I asked Skittles two of the three questions this morning, but didn't get to the third. To numbers 1 & 2, she said "CHOCOLATE!!!" and "Greece."
I asked one Adam Agee the same three questions, and here is his return comment:
"kiwifruit...
1. espn
2. grand cayman, cayman islands
3. hoo hoo"
Please respond, readers! Surely if Adam, who is a very busy dude, has time to dash off a quick reply, so do you!
Here is my fifth announcement: I have run out of announcements. Drat. I like to announce things.
Here is my sixth announcement: This is my 60th post! Which sounds great to me, until I look at Skittles' latest post...400th post. It makes me feel sad that I'm so way far back. *counts up posts* *tries to figger out a way to reach 100 posts by her 1 year anniversary* I have to post every 3.15 days in order to reach 100 posts by June 11th. That shouldn't be too hard (famous last words....)!
Here is my seventh (and final) announcement: I have no more announcements to make.
Let's see.... Oh! One very last announcement!
Here is my eighth (and very last) announcement: I am starting a new comment blitz! for the same person as last time, HMS Avalon. Here are the instructions: THE INSTRUCTIONS. Same place same person as last time. It has been over a month since her last post. Beg for more story, more about her life, anything, just ask for more posts!
Well, that's all that I can think of to post right now. Except that, at the Winter Jam concert, I got to meet Nirva, Shon, Brian, and Todd from the Diverse City Band, and Hawk Nelson. Nirva is very nice, and pretty, and I wish we'd been in a position to talk for a bit more. Shon was hawking their wares:
"Ice cold posters! Git yer ice cold posters he-ere! Oh, we have cd's, too. Do you want a cd?" he asked me.
"Sure," said I, playing the smart alek, "Give me some money, and I'll buy a cd!"
Shon laughed and 'bapped' my hat. Yes, Bap is a word. It's the sound that was made when my hat was hit. :D
And then Jason (?) from Hawk Nelson (whoever the lead singer is) signed by book "To [Kiwifruit], (heart) Jason, (smiley)" so we were playing around afterwards, pretending to be crazy fan-girls, swooning over the fact he signed with a heart. :D It was fun. I just wish we had been able to meet The Afters.
Well, I'd better go ahead and post this. See y'all later!
~Kiwifruit~
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Heyz, I'm back!
Okay, Here goes. The Winter Jam concert was amazing and I enjoyed (almost) every minute of it. Stephanie Smith, I'm sorry to say, was not the best I've ever heard. She started the 'pre-concert party' right off with loud music that I couldn't understand. The only one I knew was "Not Afraid", which I hadn't heard since we moved four months ago. The best part about her performance was when some big, pink, hairy ape (I'm not kidding! Owan might have a picture to proove it...) ran on stage and stole her guitar.
Pure NRG was next, and they all have good voices but they're too.....Tweenish, if that's a word. For one thing, they perform on RadioDisney, so they have to be energetic and fast and do a lot of dancing and back flips, etc. Also, before the concert started and during the intermission, there were commercials for each of the bands playing on the screens. Pure NRG (made up of two girls and a boy) was advertising the "Precious Girls Club" where you can *plasters smile on her face and speaks in a very cheerful voice* "design your own Avatar, decorate your own room, and you can even earn wings so you can fly all over" this cheerful, happy town! Um, yeah. I looked at the site, and it's definitely for younger girls. And the poor boy had to help advertise for this totally girly site! Poor fellow. Needs a haircut.
Then Francesca Battestelli performed, and she was okay, despite the fact that I knew only one of her songs and she was quite reminiscent of Stephanie Smith.
Newsong came on after Francesca, and O boy, they were good! I've never really heard much of their music, but the ones they played, I knew. They did "New Song" and "Arise My Love". Wow, "Arise My Love" was amazing! No, amazing isn't quite the right word, but it's as close as I can get at the moment. Powerful? Anywhoz, they were great. And since I'd only ever heard them on the radio and didn't even know what they looked like, it was really weird trying to believe it was really them up there singing.
Hawk Nelson did a few songs (including "Friend Like That" and "Zero"). The lead singer (what's his name?? I keep wanting to call him Hawk Nelson, but that's not him.) had a smoke machine which he picked up and blew at the crowd. He also went down and sang in the audience some....but not near us. :(
INTERMISSION
The Afters were even better than I expected them to be! I'd seen a video taken at a live performance, and Josh sounded awful! But they were really good instead. They played "Never Going Back to Okay", "Ocean Wide", "Myspace Girl" (a really sweet song about how a former member met his wife), and "Beautiful Smile". I'm going to see them again! I hope.
Owan and her sisters introduced TobyMac by video, and then the Diverse City Band came on and.......TobyMac Himself! He's pretty cool. Loved his hat. They started out with "One World" (isn't there a 'Cheetah Girls' song by that title? Don't ask me how I'd know...) and followed with many, many, many others. Nirva is very pretty and has a beautiful voice, although we were kinda secretly hoping for Mandisa to pop out from backstage for "Loose My Soul".
Whoops, gotta go. I'll try to post tomorrow or day after? Oh, and Skittles, I'll show you that (heh heh heh) Secret Snow Weapon then. >:D
Adios!
~Kiwi da Mac'd Out Fruit
Pure NRG was next, and they all have good voices but they're too.....Tweenish, if that's a word. For one thing, they perform on RadioDisney, so they have to be energetic and fast and do a lot of dancing and back flips, etc. Also, before the concert started and during the intermission, there were commercials for each of the bands playing on the screens. Pure NRG (made up of two girls and a boy) was advertising the "Precious Girls Club" where you can *plasters smile on her face and speaks in a very cheerful voice* "design your own Avatar, decorate your own room, and you can even earn wings so you can fly all over" this cheerful, happy town! Um, yeah. I looked at the site, and it's definitely for younger girls. And the poor boy had to help advertise for this totally girly site! Poor fellow. Needs a haircut.
Then Francesca Battestelli performed, and she was okay, despite the fact that I knew only one of her songs and she was quite reminiscent of Stephanie Smith.
Newsong came on after Francesca, and O boy, they were good! I've never really heard much of their music, but the ones they played, I knew. They did "New Song" and "Arise My Love". Wow, "Arise My Love" was amazing! No, amazing isn't quite the right word, but it's as close as I can get at the moment. Powerful? Anywhoz, they were great. And since I'd only ever heard them on the radio and didn't even know what they looked like, it was really weird trying to believe it was really them up there singing.
Hawk Nelson did a few songs (including "Friend Like That" and "Zero"). The lead singer (what's his name?? I keep wanting to call him Hawk Nelson, but that's not him.) had a smoke machine which he picked up and blew at the crowd. He also went down and sang in the audience some....but not near us. :(
INTERMISSION
The Afters were even better than I expected them to be! I'd seen a video taken at a live performance, and Josh sounded awful! But they were really good instead. They played "Never Going Back to Okay", "Ocean Wide", "Myspace Girl" (a really sweet song about how a former member met his wife), and "Beautiful Smile". I'm going to see them again! I hope.
Owan and her sisters introduced TobyMac by video, and then the Diverse City Band came on and.......TobyMac Himself! He's pretty cool. Loved his hat. They started out with "One World" (isn't there a 'Cheetah Girls' song by that title? Don't ask me how I'd know...) and followed with many, many, many others. Nirva is very pretty and has a beautiful voice, although we were kinda secretly hoping for Mandisa to pop out from backstage for "Loose My Soul".
Whoops, gotta go. I'll try to post tomorrow or day after? Oh, and Skittles, I'll show you that (heh heh heh) Secret Snow Weapon then. >:D
Adios!
~Kiwi da Mac'd Out Fruit
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