Five on Friiiiday & I am backin that azz up with excitement!!

Oh hot damn, this is my jam!
(if you didn't just sing that, then you're wrong)
Oh yes, today, Friday, is. my. jam!

I've felt better today than I have in a couple of weeks, with pcd turning into a full depression with everything that happened last week, I told myself I was digging out of the hole & thank goodness I was able to do it in time for this weekend. I actually think the upcoming fun-ness that should happen this weekend is what helped pick me up.

Anywhooo...let's do this business!
Linking Up with Darci & Whitney today!

-ONE-

It's Gold Rush weekend. A festival that happens in my town every year. Shuts down the middle of town and there are booths and fun as far as the eye can see. I've loved it since as far back as memories go & I still love it. It's one of those things you always look forward to. So, I am SO ready for this weekend!

-TWO-

Doug said we could carve punkins! YAY! I don't know what I want to do to mine, but I'm excited as shit. (Remind me of this if you see me complaining on Twitter about it. lol) I'm thinking either another Framing Hanley pumpkin or an old school, simple face)

-THREE-

I'm finally deleting texts off of my phone in hopes that it will free up some storage space so I can receive fucking notifications again. Seriously it's ridiculous. I don't get ANY notifications anymore. And texts...EL OH EL...The number I had on my phone is embarrassing...let me give you a very, very small idea of the number...I already deleted one thread of message, from a number that hasn't been a working number for over a year...that thread? Had over 4,000 messages in it, with the first on in it dating back to August 2011 (when I first got the phone). Between that and another thread and some other random messaged that I haven't deleted for what ever damn reason I think I've deleted close to 10k...so far.
DON'T LOOK AT ME LIKE THAT. Anywho, if this fixes my little issue and helps my phone even a little bit, I'll be able to hold off on getting a new phone for just a while longer, which would make me and my wallet happy.

-FOUR-

I updated a couple of apps last night & MFP was one of them...apparently updating it logged me out. So I type in my info to log back in and it says "please be patient, this might take a while.." Yea, I'm still not logged it...It's still "taking a while". Shithead. Speaking of...if you're my friend on MFP,..you'll probably be big-eyed as hell this weekend, cause today I have a constant craving for moutntain dew and this weekend I am going to try my damnedest to get me some Sbarros because I have been craving and talking about it for a couple of weeks. Hey, at least I'm doing a lot of walking tomorrow & maybe Sunday. Maybe it will balance it out. ;-)

-FIVE-

AND FINALLY! So you know how some radio stations put on/sponsor holiday concerts. "Jingle Balls", "Jingle Jams" or whatever. Well there are a couple of our stations that do that also & last year, I went to my first Star 94 Jingle Jam, I blogged about it here. I got to see Ed Sheeran (EEK!!), Alex Clare, Grace Potter, Andy Grammer, Jason Mraz (EEP!) & Phillip Phillips(EP!), it was an aaahhhmazing show. I went for Ed & was blown away by EVERYONE that performed. SOOO,...I decided I might go again this year & I have been WAITING for the announcement of the line-up and when tickets go on sale and blah blah blah...WELL, Wednesday I happened to be listening to that station in the car when I heard them FINALLY mention it...and then who was going to be on the line-up. Let's just say my jaw dropped and I called Doug right then and asked told him I was probably gonna get tickets if that was okay with him. He said yes. Which means I actually told and asked. :) Anyway, tickets were set to go on sale today at noon & I was awake before 10a.m. and watching the clock tick by. Noon hit and I GOT MY TICKETS!
YAYY! So who am I seeing?
These guys:


These guys:

This girl:

& these guys:

OHEMGEE, I am sooo excited right now! I don't know if there will be anymore artists added to it or not, but I'm excited about just that line up, so I hope it remains the same (in other words, I hope no artists have to bow out). 90's & pre-teen Sissy is SO HAPPY right now! And I'm pretty excited about The Fray too.
Above all else. I'm seeing BSB. LIVE. FINALLY! (O_O)
And the Goo Goo Dolls!
And Avril!
Holy God.
And I'm sittin right about here (the star)

My first time (EVER) having floor seats to a concert at a big venue. So I'm excited!
:-)

Now I'm just ready for my hubby love to get home!
I'm all smiles today.
I really hope it lasts all weekend,
I hope this weekend turns out fantastic
AND I hope it turns out fantastic for you as well!!

TGIF & HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND!
Love ya, Later!
♥♥♥
Brandy

Rambling

Today is Friday...and I had originally intended to post about the concert I went to last Saturday for the Fan Friday link-up. But,...um..I didn't feel like typing most of it up last night, so ya know....here we are at almost 4pm on Friday with no post.

I sucked as a blogger yesterday/last night.

It's okay though. Everyone sucks at some point.

(Contrary to how this post is starting off, I'm in a good mood.)

Soo...you get a ramble box today...

--I'm supposed to be putting some of my music on my brotha micro mini card so he'll have jams for his phone.

But, I felt like blogging first.

Sorry, Broseph!

Also...I don't quite know what to put on it. He gave me pretty much free reign.

Which isn't always wise.

I think he needs some One Direction & maybe even Backstreet Boys thrown into the mix.

Don't you think?

:-)

--My husband is leaving with my brother in a few hours, they'll be gone until Sunday & I'll have 2 nights off a full bed to myself. Yep, it's definitely hunting season. As, always I'll miss him. But, deuces, baby! Get me a big one so we can have some tenderloin & jerky. And so you can shave!

--Speaking of my husband, I'm so glad he embraces, and actually share the same weirdness as me. We've decided that if we can get our living room functional that we are gonna do a small Christmas tree down here. Just to be festive...more on that later, assuming it actually happens. But, I actually need to shut my pie-hole because it's too early to talk about decorating for Christmas.

--I'm gonna see if my mom wants to hit up Spirit Halloween with me this weekend for shits and giggles. Cause it makes me way happier than it should to be in a store like that. 

--This weekend is supposed to be laid back, which I'll take. Last weekend was amazeballs, but so hectic. We have a birthday dinner to cook for my Granny on Sunday and that's pretty much the only plan at the moment. Family time & football, I'll take it.

--& I still haven't kicked PCD. I'm still looking for the rewind button on my life VCR so I can go relive Saturday night but, it's just nowhere to be found. Sad face.

--I was talking photography with one of my fellow FHans on twitter the other day that does what I would like to do, and my God, every time I talk photography with someone it motivates me to really want to try with it. But, that goes away. It's a bittersweet thing, that's for sure.

--Welp, now that I've wasted a good twenty minutes staring at the screen and typing every so often, I suppose I'll go do what I was supposed to be doing. :)

♪But, I can't leave with out backing my azz up...

so, you get the next 3 songs that comes on, on my MP3 player....

drumroll....

1.

2.

3.

♥♥♥

Brandy

It's here...Friday!

You get a mild case of Rando Brando today!

-First and foremost, I know some of you -if not all of you- have read about Lora having to give birth to precious Harper way early. If you haven't read; in short Lora unexpectedly gave birth to her precious baby boy, Harper on Sunday. She was only 25 weeks along & Harper was born weighing in at 1lb and 9oz. Thankfully he has made it pass the first 72 hours, which her doctor said is the most critical. He still had quite a long road ahead & he will have to be in the hospital until at least December. A few amazing bloggers have started a fundraiser to help them with bills and other expenses. If you'd like to donate, you can do so here.
And of course if anyone who is a prayer warrior could keep them in mind, that'd be appreciated too. I remember when I first "met" Lora and we were both talking about wanting to get pregnant and some of the issues we were having & I was so excited when she announced her pregnancy. I'm pulling for Baby Harper to keep growing and get to go home to his mom, dad & big sisters as soon as he's able to!

-I am so ready for this weekend! SO. READY. Today is my MIL's birthday & we are going up to spend the night with her & my bro in law. I've made her banana pudding for her birthday "cake" & I'll be making chicken enchiladas and tacos for supper! Tomorrow? Well, I'll be at the Fall Out Boy & Panic! At The Disco concert that has been a long time coming. As in I've been waiting for about, ohh...8ish years -for BOTH bands-!
The downside to that is I am going to miss my Dawgs play! And they are playing LSU. I'll be a nervous wreck, but Doug has already been told that he'll just have to text me the score every so often. And I'll remind him of that several times.
And while we are on the subject of football (and the weekend), all four of my teams are playing on Sunday this week. ALL FOUR! Geeze. The only two I'll get to actually watch are my Broncos & my Falcons & they are spaced far enough apart time-wise that I should get to watch both in their entirety. I'll just have to DVR the laundry list of Sunday night show that I watch.

-And I'm bout to close this shiz out with some music. Duh. I find it so hard to pick one song...seriously. So, you get 6 today...yes, 6.

First one is this one...I heard it actually just this week I believe and I actually really like the sound of it.

Since I'm seeing FOB & P!ATD, I'm gonna do 2 songs from each....
FOB:

 Fall Out Boy- Sugar We're Goin' Down Swingin'

Circa 2005

Fall Out Boy- My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light Em Up)

Circa 2013

P!ATD:

Panic! At The Disco- I Write Sins Not Tragedies

Circa 2005

Panic! At The Disco- This Is Gospel

Circa 2013

And last but definitely not least...

a completely different genre of music.

This song is stuck in my head. To the point where I literally had YouTube open in a tab the other night & was playing this video on repeat. Over & over & over again.

And I have to hear it at least once a day.

It won't go away. But, I'm not complaining.  ;)

Luke Bryan- That's My Kind Of Night 

 

So, yea...

TGIF everyone. 

Til tomorrow...

♥♥♥

Brandy

Happy Friday The 13th! [Link Up Party.]

Great news! The internet is back in my home! Since Wednesday!
The thing is, I haven't known what the hell to post the last two days since I have actually been able to, so I just didn't.
But I need to try to jump back into it.
So what better way than with a shit ton of link ups all in one post?
It'll be a little lengthy.
At least it gives me stuff to talk about! ;-)

Today I'm linking up with a lot of lovely ladies for about 4 different link ups! Pretty sure this is my first time doing a 5 on Friday & I'm not entirely sure if there is a certain thing you're supposed to do...so here's to winging it!. Linking up with Darci, April, Natasha, and Christina.

 

One....

First and foremost, it's Friday the 13th! I'm one of those weirdos that loves this day! So in spirit of this day, I just want to point out how extremely excited I am about all of the Halloween stuff in stores! Y'all, I really am a weirdo. The whole gothic, old, scary/creepy, horror, haunted kind of feel,...I love it. I've already been to Spirit Halloween to check out everything & then of course all other stores getting all of their stuff out: Wal Mart, Target, Michaels, JoAnn, Party City... Love it. To celebrate we are going to watch Freddy vs. Jason tonight, per my nephews request. This is a big deal. He's 10. When I was his age I already loved horror movies, but he is just now showing interest so it will be interesting to see how long he watches or how many times he covers his eyes, aside from the mandatory covering your eyes during anything sexual or whatnot. It is rated R after all. lol

Two....

It's also Football Friday. I unfortunately don't really have much to contribute. I have no food ideas, or outfit ideas or anything like that. Sunday DirecTV had a "free sample day" for NFL Sunday Ticket -which I don't have-, so I decided to take advantage of it. I live in GA and while my Top NFL team is the Atlanta Falcons, I also follow 3 teams out of my region so I miss actually getting to watch A LOT of games. Well, I still ended up missing huge chunks of them since 3 games were on at the same time. It's so hard to juggle! Anyone else had Sunday Ticket? If so, do you find it better or worse as far as keeping up with all the games? It aggravated the shit out of me that I would turn it to one game and they see a bad play or two only to finally switch back to another and see that I've missed a good play or two. At the end of the weekend two of my teams had lost & 3 had won, I will take that. I am still on cloud 9 about that UGA/USC game. This weekend/week I'm hoping that My Falcons & Bengals can pull out a win, and my Dawgs are on a bye week, so they'll be back next weekend. I'm so glad Erin, Erin & Tiffany are going to periodically have this link up going on throughout Football season, maybe next time I will have something better or more to contribute! I'm excited to hop around and read others posts.

Three....

Wish my Daddy, bro & hubs luck! They are leaving tomorrow for the night for a gator hunt! Last year my brother was drawn for it & he nabbed a 5 footer. This year my dad was chosen so I really, really hope my Daddy can get one! He'll be just so excited. It was supposed to be 2 nights, but he couldn't get Monday off of work so they had to shorten it to one night. Since Doug already took Monday off for it, I told him that he and I could do something! So I'm excited to get to spend a weekday with my man. It really is kind of different from a weekend, especially during school, not quite as many kids out. We were thinking about going to the Zoo! But we'll see what the forecast looks like.

Four....

Stuff to do! This weekend isn't too planned for me. It'll just be my mom, myself and my nephew on Saturday & the main plan is his baseball practice. I'm excited to see him finally be able to play sports, even though it's not on our county. So, other than that it will be relatively low key, aside from helping my mother clean her room. Next weekend is Nopi Nationals & I'm excited to go and see how it is, compared to the last time we went (2007..or 8). I don't like change and it's at a different venue now that's it's returned. It started back last year, but my brother's gator hunt fell on the same weekend & so I sucked it up and let Doug go to that instead of us going to the car show, with the condition that next year (aka this year) we were NOT missing it. Now the bummer to that day is that my niece will be here and I won't get to see her. Devastated is an understatement. Then weekend after next is the Fall Out Boy/Panic! At The Disco concert. The fact that I have loved both bands for about 8 years, and the fact that this is Fall Out Boys tour & I bought the tickets back in Feb., or March, not even knowing yet who they would have with them only for it to be announced that it was Panic!,..I mean...it's like fate! It was MEANT to happen! I'm SO stoked for this! The rest of September looks good.

 

Five....

Helene did a "Songs That Define Me" link up yesterday & luckily it's still open. Being a avid music lover, I was excited to hear about this, but then quickly realized how hard it is to picks songs the truly, truly define you. I mean everyone has "their" song(s), their favorite songs, or whatever. But think about it, what song(s) define you. My answer right now is simply, I really don't know. So, I chose a few songs that I love & that may have some meaning or bring some level of comfort to me.  Since I'm doing a 5 on Friday, I'll stick with the 5 theme & pick 5 songs.
1. Linkin Park- Crawling

I was 12 when this song came out & it couldn't have been a more perfect time. I began to really struggle with the typical pre-teen, hormonal, whatever-you-want-to-call-it depression. Only mine didn't really go away. That's a whole other story on it's own. The entire Hybrid Theory album was amazing therapy to me. Even today, when I'm in a hole, it's still one of my go-to songs/albums. There's a weird sense of sadness yet comfort with it. When you find a song that expresses exactly how you feel, it sticks with you. Linkin Park has and will always hold a special place in my heart for being there for and helping me.

2. Incubus- Pardon Me

"Pardon me while I burn & rise above the flame. Pardon me, if I never be the same." Change. A phoenix rising from the ashes. Coming to the end of your rope with whatever it may be & finally deciding that something has to change. That's what this song says to me. I've loved it for years! But really in the past 2 or 3 years it's stuck with me a lot more. I have changed, and I feel like I still am, and this song is just even more fitting than ever. I mean extremely fitting, where it's like, "wow, this song IS me right now." Besides who doesn't love Incubus?!

3. Jessie J- Who You Are

 

A song about being true to yourself. Who couldn't benefit from a song about that?! It's amazing. If you haven't listened to it before, go ahead and do yourself a favor. I have to take this song in from time to time. It so easy to beat yourself up or compare yourself to others. Jessie J is awesome. Check her out. 

4. Bill Withers- Lean On Me

I have always loved this song. I remember singing it on the bus in Elementary School. I remember singing it with my mom as a kid...and now, haha. I'm a nurturer by nature & so I often times will be the person someone can talk to about things. And I like that. I like to be able to help people, even if all I do is listen to them. It can also be a fault, I overextend myself sometimes. But anyway, I just love this song. And it makes me think of my best friend. This is our song for each other. Since we are so far apart, just a reminder that no matter what I'm always there for her and vice versa.

5. Zac Brown Band- Chicken Fried

"I was raised up beneath the shade of a Georgia pine, and that's home you know." You'll always hear me say that I'm proudly southern. A song about the small, simple things that mean the most. At the end of the day that's what it's all about. As much as I'd like to do, see or have all of these different things, when it comes down to it, I'm a small town girl who would be/is happy with a happy home, husband and family. And I'm a Georgia girl. So this song seems a little more personal. Plus, Zac lived here for a few year and still comes around every so often -although I haven't seen him yet.- ;) And now I want fried chicken and beer. TGIF!


I'll leave you today with Eminem's new song!

"Take your shoes off, let your hair down, go berzerk! All night long!"

Happy Friday!
Hope you all have a fabulous weekend!
♥♥♥
Brandy

Oh & Happy Birthday 20th to Niall! :p