When you're a fan, not a fangirl....... Or stan

 I may or may not have mentioned that I enjoy listening to KPop music. Just today, I found out that a member of a group I am fond of is putting out a solo album later this month. I am super excited because this member (who will remain nameless as I don't want to be teased) has a voice that I enjoy listening to. It's a smooth, rich tenor voice that is incredibly flexible. R&B, Pop, Rap, Funk, his voice manages to shine. Taking into account that he is singing in a group with 8 - 11 other people, the fact that I can easily spot his voice is part of the reason I am a fan.

Anyway, I was excited but suddenly found myself with no one to share that excitement with.  Every time I get excited about something, the sibs accuse me of being a Fangirl. I am most definitely not. I don't have the funds, energy, or wish to be more than what I am. A girl who gets excited when some one she knows does something noteworthy or new in their life. My walls have pictures of nature, not singers or actors. I am not about to fly to wherever it it is they're at and wait outside for hours to try and get an autograph. If you all want to do that, you can have my place. I'm rooting for you to stay safe and be successful! 

My mom even teases me about being a fangirl. I told her repeatedly what I've said earlier but I think she's ignoring me so she can have fun. It might be extended payback because I didn't give her the chance to have that epidural. Her teasing is annoying but at least I know she is joking. The kids seriously think I am a fangirl-type of person. Now, there was an time in my teen years when that may have almost applied to me but not any more. They should let up.

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Just a wee bit stormy.......

 I was having trouble thinking of a post today when I looked outside and realized how stormy it was. Since Sunday, we have been having nasty storms. It messed with my sleep. 

I can sleep through a storm. That is not my issue. LS2 gets worried and can't rest so I promised long ago that whenever it storms at night, I would stay awake so she can rest. And that, my friends, is why my brain feels fried.

I want to nap but it looks like another storm is coming. As always, feel free to leave me a message below.

Dry Bar Comedy

 As you all might have gathered, I spend a lot of my free time in the company of minors. I enjoy listening to stand up comedy but a.lot of comedians have sets that are not child-friendly.  Last thing I need is having to explain to my mom why her kids are making age inappropriate jokes. I like living. It's a great look on me.

Dry Bar Comedy is a clean comedy club in Provo, UT. They have a YouTube channel that I listen to often. They provide stand up comedy that I can listen to around the Sibs without putting my life on the line. The youngest sib likes to bring trouble to me sometimes. But, I'm not going down this way, the little pip squeak.

Below are some of the comedians that perform at the club.

I hope you got a good chuckle in. As always, feel free to leave me a message below.

Wireless headphones are cool

 My tablet audio port (or jack) is acting super fritzy so I purchased a pair of wireless headphones from Jade Sales. I wasn't expecting much but the quality is pretty awesome. 

I know that I am slow on the uptake sometimes but I am quickly finding the upsides and downsides to wireless headphones. Upside #1: I have more mobility and don't have to worry about the wire catching on something. Downside #1: I can't binge-watch an unlimited amount of content. I will have to stop to charge. Upside #:2 I can't watch unlimited content so I will either have to read or sleep while it charges, both of which are very important things.  #priorities Downside #2: Time management will probably have to be used so I don't drain it over nonsense. Upside #3: I can finally break free from the shackles of the endless cat videos! Downside #3:We all know that's a lie. Cat videos are too cute to relinquish.

So, yeah. That is where I am at right now. As always, feel free to leave me a message below.

Emarosa : a KY hidden gem

 One day, I was rambling around YouTube as one does and was recommended a band I never heard of before. As soon as I heard their music, I knew that my mom would love it too. I was right.

Their last two albums are a mix of 80's pop rock/synthwave. They sound like a summer mixtape. The good kind you pull out when traveling with your besties for a day out. I honestly want to blast their music while on the highway. I adore Emarosa's album, Peach Club. I am in the process of going through their older music too. But, Peach Club will stand out as my favorite album.

 Emarosa  was started in Lexington, Kentucky in 2006. The band currently consists of lead guitarist and founding member ER White and lead vocalist Bradley Walden, who joined the band in 2013. The group has undergone several line-up changes throughout its career, with lead guitarist ER White being the sole remaining founding member, according to Wikipedia. Vids below:

The last song is from the last album that had a AltRock sound. I hope you all can give them a listen. They deserve it.

It took me a bit put this piece up as we were working on the Wi-Fi today. So, that happened. As always, feel free to leave me a message below.

Eww, Brother, Eww......

 I was talking to my mom earlier today and I was telling her how awkward it is when people say my brothers are handsome. Internally I'm like, " Where? Are we looking at the same person!?" I don't see it because they are a pack of snot-nosed twerps to me. She said that she feels the same when complimented on her handsome sons. She still sees her babies.

I guess our relationships color our perspective a lot. Siblings and children are seen in the light of "that kid I raised/grew up with" and we are occasionally(or fully) blinded to their appearance. I am fully blind to my sibs appearance. Like, I can help you look decent and your best so you don't embarrass me by looking like a slob, but Where is the supposed handsomeness? I don't see it. All I see is a little brother who threatened to flick a booger in my hair half an hour ago. All I said was that it was hanging out your nose. 

As always, feel free to leave me a message below. I would love to hear another sibling out there relate.

Venetia by Georgette Heyer: The Audiobook

 I am relistening to Venetia lately. I got a headache and other than classical music, a Georgette Heyer audio book is soothing. I felt the yearning for one of my favorites of hers. Synopsis below, courtesy of Goodreads:

Twenty-five-year-old Venetia Lanyon's beauty is rivaled only by her sensibility. Intelligent and independent, her future seems safe and predictable. Lovely Venetia despairs of ever meeting the handsome hero of her romantic dreams but is nearly resigned to spinsterhood, thanks to the enormous amount of responsibility she inherited with a Yorkshire estate and an invalid but precocious brother, Aubrey. She lives in comfortable seclusion in rural Yorkshire, she has never been further than Harrogate, nor enjoyed the lackluster attentions of any but her two wearisomely persistent suitors. She can not accept to marry the respectable but dull Edward Yardley - she will only marry for love.

Then her long-absent neighbor, thirty-eight-year-old Lord Jasper Damerel, returns home to Yorkshire. In one extraordinary encounter, she meets the infamous neighbor, who she knows only by reputation - a gamester, a shocking rake, and a man of sadly unsteady character - and before she knows better, she finds friendship with a libertine whose way of life has scandalised the North Riding for years. Lord Damerel finds Venetia to be the most truly engaging and wittily perverse female he has encountered in all his life and determined to woo and win her, he pursues her with a passionate abandon that is soon the talk of the ton. And after her encounter with the dashing, dangerous rake, Venetia's well-ordered life is turned upside down, and she embarks upon a courtship with him that scandalises and horrifies the whole community.

But Venetia has no intention of losing her heart to the rakish lord until she is sure that beneath his swashbuckling ways and shocking manners lies a tender heart belonging to her. And Lord Damerel would marry her in a heartbeat if he did not think it would ruin her. Then she discovers a shocking family secret that changes everything ... It was therefore particularly provoking to find that occasion, Lord Damerel could make up his mind to be idiotically noble....

I am just going to chill and let this book play. As always, feel free to leave me a message below.