Amber @ MindSay 
The awsome traveling shop is in town for one week, starting today! Amber forever Amber is in the Eastern hills mall, here in Western New York. You really should visit them. They have the coolest rings, and pendant's around !
~ Tell them I sent you
I'm going to revisit 3 chosen songs I wrote when I first started to record music seriously.
A few years ago I wrote and recorded 9 songs in about a teo week period with a very talented guy called "Mick Paul".
Mick plays a mean Bass Guitar and has been busy in his career up to now. He also runs his own recording studio, and the nine songs I recorded with him, were done in that studio.
I've picked 3 of those songs to upload to youtube, and this is the first of them.
The title of the song is "Amber falls". The meaning is quite dark. I wonder if you can work out what the song is about, before the video tells you near the end.
Check out the video here:
I have put some snippets of info about Mick in this first video, and I will be adding more to the following 2 videos. There may be a name or two that some music lovers might recognise.
I put a warning in the video description of this song, because the song contains what is known as "Speaker busters". Extremely deep high volume bass notes, that can cause damage to a bass speaker when it's turned up full. I just thought I'd let you know that. :)
Now for some youtube food.
I only need another 10 subs to get to 700. So the current figure is 690.
My channel views are now 15,424.
The overall video views are up to 235,621. The way things are going, I might hit the quarter million by the first year anniversary of my first video upload.
In my next post, I'll be bigging up the second of the three selected old original songs :).
CARE PACKAGE!!!
More importantly, care package from two families I'm acquainted with. My dear Amber and her new husband, and Evie and Dickie, whose girls I played with quite a bit all summer (and at church, for that matter).
The apparent inspiration is because of the upcoming trials of finals. Can't even get bummed about that. Too excited.
CARE PACKAGE!!!
We have:
Homemade chocolate chip cookies! An absolute must in the category of comfort food (Also, has fond memories - these are all friends from camp, and camp is the first place where I made more than 400 chocolate chip cookies in one afternoon. By myself, and yes, they were amazing.), since people get weird about mailing bread.* For that matter, bread gets a little weird about being mailed.
A prettily decorated bag of lifesavers mints, individually wrapped. Yay candy.
A sensible package containing granola bars, hot chocolate, and microwave popcorn. Which is usually exactly what I eat when I have a day on campus. I love these guys.
A small box of Russell Stover chocolates. I am loved.
An interesting decorated box that I am unable to open without scissors.
A note from the four of them.
Drawings from the girls (they're roughly 4 and 6 - well, and 2, but as such, M doesn't do so much drawing).
A small, cylindrical package wrapped Christmas-cracker style, in Christmas paper. I am debating on whether I should hold off on that one for the next two weeks.
This in the bottom would be...*gasp!* "A book? They got me a book!!" All else is briefly forgotten. I am delighted and borderline enraptured. Friends I love, in a package designated to let me know they're thinking of me in a presumably rough time, have included in said package, a book**.
Later exploration, it's also a book that they've gone through and highlighted specific bits from. They didn't just pick it off the shelf, they read it, and they still thought it would be good for me to have right now. Highlighting sections is the bibliophile's variation of dedicating a song: "Hey, I didn't write this, but these words make me think of you, and I know you'll be reading them later - wanted you to know this." I don't care if they probably did the same for every other student on the staff; this is wonderful.
*It occurs to me that my appreciation for good bread could be read as an obsession.
**I already KNOW I have an obsession with books.
I am loved by people I love! People I love made me cookies and put together stuff and got me a book! Joyous euphoria!!
Of course, I'm now too excited to study.
Then, I'm still having a Caribbean food craving, so I stopped at Vallarta to get some ingredients that aren't in Albertson's. This time, we're going to make stew chicken, another recipe for peas and rice and then have another go at fried plantain. We were supposed to embark on this culinary adventure when I got home, but by then, I felt like shit from low blood sugar and a return of the headache. Can you have low blood sugar and be at least 40 lbs overweight? I don't think it works that way, but I know if I don't eat regularly/get too hungry, I get mean headaches, and feel like crap.
I also did some other shopping which I said I wouldn't do. But... Does it count if I bought online, they were books for my PDA and they were for me? *shrug* LOL
The amber I bought last week arrived while I was out. Columbian amber with fossilized insect inclusions. Very cool stuff. I've always wanted my very own bug in amber and I finally found a reputable place to get it and not pay a fortune. If you want to see cool pics, go to AmbericaWest
So, yesterday was Amber and Mike's wedding. Yay!
Amber wasn't the one who was most instrumental in making me realize that I had to go through with the breakup - that was Bliss. But she was the one who was most there for me in a mentor-capacity afterwards, and in general a fantastic encouragement. Really, it's probably impossible to meet Amber and NOT like her - she just gives off this spirit of joy and compassion everywhere I've seen her.
(Yes, the breakup was a rather defining piece I'm still coming to grips with. It's going to keep showing up. Anyone who's known me awhile, remember how much getting over depression showed up later on? Count your blessings - it could be worse).
A fair number of camp-people were there. Amber and Mike both being instrumental at camp, it makes sense. Had a definite feeling of reunion, in addition to everything else. From where I was sitting, I could see Mike's face much better than Amber's, and I kept happy-crying.
Every day is a learning experience. This is the first wedding I've attended since the breakup, and while there was initially some sense of how much I'd wished things could have worked out for the two of us, far more of it was focused on their joy. Happy that they're together. Happy hanging out with my camp-friends at the reception, dancing with munchkins.
Oh yeah! lilcass, bethie and I were sitting together at a table with two other women and their munchkins. During the dance, I'm not sure why, but a few five-year-olds decided that they wanted to dance with me. Who am I to deny a dance? That was a lot of fun.
And, yes, I caught the bouquet. Irony loves me.
So, congrats to Mike and Amber!!
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