Random Ramblings

I decided to update because I am bored and it is 3 in the morning. I work all the time, but I like my job so that's ok. I still hang out, but I have been running around like crazy and I feel really spread thin. But when I'm not at work I am either too happy or too sad to do anything. I feel like I'm missing a lot, but really I'm not missing too much. I feel like I am not living my life, like I could be doing better, but at least now I have money, and that's a good thing I think...
I don't know what I am doing when I go back to school or even tomorrow for that matter, so naturally I stay up and think about it. I know everything is going to be fine, but like I said, sometimes I stay awake and think about it anyway. Just wanted to say that I am still alive and kickin'.
Does anybody even read this thing?
on a side note; Something I have been thinking about and something I feel we all should think about(the song makes it better so click on the highlighted "Ten Things" in the post, the words alone just make it seem like a chain email of an exhausted topic):



Name Ten Things you wanna do before you die and then go do them.
Name ten places you really wanna be before you die and then go to them
Name ten books you wanna read before you die and then go read them
Name ten songs you wanna hear again before you die, get all of your friends together and scream them

Think of all the things that are wrong with your life and then fix them
Think of all the things that you love about your life, be thankful you are blessed with them
Think of all the things that hold you back and realize that you don't need them
Think of all the mistakes you have made in your life, make sure that you never repeat them

Name ten thousand reasons why you never wanna die,
Go and tell someone who might've forgotten
Try to list the endless reasons why it's good to be alive,
Snd then just smile for awhile about them

Soon the sun will rise and another day will come
Soon enough the sun will set, another day will be gone

Cause' right now all you have is time time time yeah,
But someday that time will run out.
That's the only thing you can be absolutely certain about.

BEREA FEST!

So it is Sunday and I am finally home after an amazing weekend. I went to this festival in Berea appropriately named 'Berea Fest'. It was a musical collaboration of DIY/folk-punk bands from around Ohio and the US. There was about 30 bands there and it was an all around good time. A couple bands that I knew some of the kids in played the show, along with a couple pretty popular(in the genre) bands were there. I was most exited to see Paul Baribeau, Spoonboy, and Defiance, Ohio and they played amazing. It was such a good time and I wish that I had more pictures and more desire to type. It was so good I can't even put it into words, so I am going to stop trying to...But yea, you are jealous.

Where Does The Time Go?

So here goes. I finished my first year at OU with honors(cum. GPA- 3.94) OU-O YEAH. Upon finishing school and moving out of Lois's home I went to athens to say goodbye to all my friends and help a few of them move. After that I went back to Chillicothe to hang out with my friends one last time. I say one last time because two of them, Steven and Luke, are going to Alaska to try and live in the wild for 4 weeks and I am pretty sure they won't make it. I am honestly afraid that they are going to get killed, but to each his own. I wish them the best. When I came home I was happy to see a bunch of my friends and the fam, but had to quickly figure out what I was going to do about money and a place to live. As you all know this was a very stressful couple of weeks and I was unsuccessful in finding a job at first. I was very stressed out and very depressed, it was hard on me, but good in some ways. So, with the absence of a job I spent a lot of time with myself and finding and meeting new people. Because of this I had an almost complete music change, and my view of alot of things has changed. I am still the same Julie, but I think that the Julie from 3 years ago would seriously beat up the Julie of today. But it's alright. The song "Christmas Lights" by Paul Baribeau really sums up my first few weeks back from school. Please give it a listen, the song means a lot to me.
I started to try and get into the local music scene again, and it has been really great. I usually go to Kent with my friend Brett and watch and sing along to my friends bands. So let me explain who Brett is. He was the Kid in the video from my last post, and it is really weird how it came about that we are friends. Well, Brett goes to Kent, where he met Libero. Brett then came to Westlake to hang out with all of the high school gang and they all became friends while I was away. Then, Memorial Day weekend we were all grilling out and Libero says his friend Brett is coming to join us. When he gets there everyone offers him a hot dog and he says "no thanks I don't eat meat" to which I reply "me too, here I have veggie dogs" and the rest is history. Now, that's not that weird but it gets more strange, Brett and I hang out and one weekend we go to Kent to meet some of his friends. Now it just so happens that his best friends from school are kids that I used to play shows with back in 2004 and I hadn't seen in 4 years. I don't know it just is crazy to me.
My friend Bohardt came up to Cleveland to do his internship and he's living with Drew. Things ended up not really working out between us, but that's ok we are still friends. He works alot, and so does Drew so he keeps busy without me. I also have been hanging out with Lynn, Mitch, and Ryan, but Lynn works all the time and I live far away from Ryan and Mitch. But when we do see each other we have good times.
The other week we threw a Surprise B-day party for my friend Danielle and it was fun to see all the kids from high school in the same place again, I got to see some people that I hadn't seen since graduation. Fun stuff.
OH YEAH, in case you didn't know, I moved in with Cece about a week ago. It has been fun but now we both work all the time and don't really get to see each other. Cece was awesome enough to get me a job at The Frosty Dog, an ice cream place that is owned by Pam and her parents. I work pretty much everyday and it's a lot of work, but also we have a lot of fun. I like the people I work with, and I like getting ice cream for people and making them happy. One of the best things about this job is I don't have to work for "the man" which was a big problem for me when I was job searching. I get to see and work with the people who own the place I work for. It seems silly, but it was an important factor for me.
Well there is way too much to tell everyone, I just wanted to give you the gist. Hope everyone is doing well.

Sorry for the Delay

I know I haven't updated in a month. I am oficially a sophomore in college with honors and I am back home. I have been having a lot of fun and I have a lot of stories to share. In the meanwhile, this video should hold you over. This is my friend brett getting a plug from Mark Norton