a funny thing happened...

well, life is awesome. really. there are so many cliches that i could spout out about the light at the end of the tunnel, or never giving up faith, etc, and honestly they are all true. life is really something to delight in. i have been through my fair share of ups and downs and its glorious that through it all i came out the other side with the love of my life.

last weekend was halloween. its also the day my life changed forever. i got engaged. i will one day be "mrs. hall" and i am thrilled about it. i dont know how i got so lucky that God saved the greatest man in the world just for me, but he did. i could go on and on about all the good things he has to offer, but i wont bore you or make you throw up with those gushy details. all i will say is that there is no way any girl should ever settle for anything other than the best. even in my previous relationships i thought that they could work, or it would be ok, or that i was happy enough. why be happy enough when you can be overly happy? seriously, my number one advice for anyone always will be to not settle! settling is for the people who dont have enough confidence in themselves to see what they truly deserve. everyone deserves to have their dreams come true, just work hard and believe.

so for halloween, i dressed up as a fiance! it was quite perfect and lovely and sweet. i got to drink $5 champagne and wear a cute dress and hold hands with the greatest guy ever. and now i have an awesome sparkly ring that i stare at too often and i worry about quite a bit. its perfect though. i really am lucky, and i know this. and i know its annoying to hear about how in love people are a lot, but im ok with that for the time being. i am on a crazy emotional love high and i am proud to discuss it right now!

and so begins my life as a fiance who hopes to not become a bridezilla!

good day.

love is...

a funny thing. it happens when you least expect it, yet it finds the exact spot in your heart that needed it most.

i really am very much the happiest i have ever been in my life. i know, i have said it before, but that "happy" is nothing in comparison to how my heart is perfectly content for the rest of my life. my friends are great, my work is great, and my boyfriend is perfect.

i know this is sappy and lame and completely like me, but yes, i really am in love. i knew it on our first date.

girls, listen up, sometimes the nice guys scare you the most. but those are the ones you need to look for and let into your heart. they are the best. im so thankful that through all of my heartache i came out a winner. i have the single greatest human as my absolute best friend for the rest of my life.

when i was growing up, and still to this day, i loved the movie say anything. i always wanted lloyd dobler for my very own. yet i still made horrible choices in love by choosing guys with bad attitudes and even worse jobs. why? i have no clue. through those ups and downs i found out that lloyd dobler is just a poor mans jeremy hall. find a boy who brings you flowers (especially on your first date). its the best choice he ever made, and i wont ever let him forget it.

i never knew being this happy came naturally, i always worked for happiness. find the boy that doesnt make you work for it. thats when it works out the best.

and now my cheesy blog has ended.

good day.

day 20...song i listen to when i am angry

well. i actually had no idea. and this probably isnt even it. but i dont get angry very often or when i do i dont normally listen to music. but this popped into my head so i chose it anyways...

good day.

day 19...a song from my favorite album

this is very easy. my favorite album of all time is alanis morissette's jagged little pill. in my mind it fits all the rules of a perfect cd: over 5 years old. love every song. dont ever need to skip any. still can play it and love it the same. can be in any mood to hear it.

the hardest part may even be picking a song off it. this one is probably my favorite though. every girl feels this at one point or another and i like that. its simply cute.

good day.

day 18...a song that you wish you heard on the radio

I wish i heard Honor Society on the radio more often! :)

good day.

day 17...song i hear often on the radio

well i will list a song that i like that i hear often so that when i look back on this i can laugh about the fact that its my current favorite song...

i love it. i sing along often.

good day.

day 16...a song i used to love and now hate

i know!

need you now by lady antebellum. its mostly just emotionally hard for me to hear but its played a lot so i am over it for now.

i would post a video but i was too lazy to hunt it down today.

good day.

day 15...a song that describes me

well. i had to ask my friend rich to help me out with this one and he came up with quite the perfect song actually.

i may be a lot of things to a lot of different people so i couldnt pick one song that described me, but through all of it i have ocd. haha

and since this song is all about ocd i basically connect with it quite well. here's to my craziness and the fact that i drive most people i love away cause its quite annoying, even to me.

good day.

day 14...a song no one would expect me to love

previous to getting my 2 ipods stolen i had a work out mix saved on one of them. this was the first song on said work out mix and i totally love it.

i also love lots of music that is very similar to it but i find this song to be most shocking probably.

in all honesty for a long time in my life i went to mainly metal shows and my whole ipods top 25 played were comprised of mostly metal too. now my horizons have broadened and i listen to a bit of everything.

welp. here is it.

i hope you all just had your minds blown.

good day.

day 13...a song that is a guilty pleasure

i ABSOLUTELY love ludacris and pharrell. they are my two rapper crushes. so them teaming up made my life...

oh, and i could have used this for my song i know all the words too as well cause sadly i do. ask lisa. or kat. i sing it way too often.

i would have used the regular music video version but it made me uncomfortable. haha

good day.

day 12...song from a band i hate

well. everyone knows who i hate and everyone also knows i wont justify him with a song on my blog.

so i will just say every phil collins song ever is a song from a band i hate.

heading to nj to go to bamboozle today and then go to take a road trip with my cousin to charlotte and nashville. wooohooooo.

good day.

day 11..a song from my favorite band

my favorite band?!?!?! you think i have a favorite band?! i have like 3857328975. i cant pick just one!!!

my goodness. this day is a tricky one.

i guess i will go with my longest lasting "favorite" band and my favorite song by them...

but i do also love Bleach (RIP), Sanctus Real, House of Heroes, and Mat Kearney.

good day.

day 10...a song that makes me fall asleep

enough said.

good day.

day 9...a song i can dance to

what dont i dance to??

but anyways, this was an easy one.

what better dance than the honor roll?

and in keeping with that song today i will now go see them perform live in times square at the nokia theater!!!

good day.

day 8..a song i know all the words to.

this is so easy. i mean i know all the words to almost every song because my memory only has to hear a song 3 times to know most lyrics but this one is a crowd pleaser. aka it makes me laugh that i sing it so well and so often.

sadly good quality video wasnt exactly around when this video would have been recorded so enjoy the pixels.

good day.

day 7... a song that reminds you of a certain event

I FORGOT TO BLOG YESTERDAY. but because i havent gone to sleep i will count it anyways.

anyways.

a certain event. well when my one brother got married i made him and his wife a slide show for their wedding ceremony that had photos of them and their friends and this song played. it was very stressful but it came out very well and i was very proud, but i will not lie it was a huge relief once it was done.

but now when i hear this song i always remember that day and how excited i was that whole summer because both my brothers got married and i got 2 wonderful sister in laws.

also, the reason i am late today is because my two friends from LA have come to visit me for the week!

Leslie and Elissa landed tonight so i spent the day cleaning and preparing. yahoooooo.

good day.

day 6...song that reminds me of someplace

i couldnt decide on a certain place i was always reminded of with a song but i figured this would count...on our tour bus last summer our bus driver big mike LOVED battlefield. he would sing it every single night, he would wave a flashlight, he would dance, basically he would get into the zone with this jam. so now whenever i hear it i think of sitting on the tour bus driving from city to city with battlefield as our soundtrack.

good day.

day 5...a song that reminds me of someone

i have known my best friend lindsay since we were in 4th grade. when i got my license we would just drive for HOURS and HOURS every night. we would make annoying mixes, literally entitled annoying mix, and i would drive. we would go to the one arbys that was about 45 minutes away, go to a certain walmart to buy boxes of ball pit balls for the one day we ever actually made a ball pit, and then we would just keep on driving. we drove into PA once just for the sake of it and then turned around. we were strange but easily entertained.

one day when we were doing the arbys to walmart part, we were BLASTING this song in my awesome silver saturn singing all the words and somehow when we were in the walmart this strange man was like you girls are the ones who drive around with that bad pop music! but it was weird cause we hadnt done that in a couple miles so we felt like he followed us.

anyways, the build up of that story is better than the ending. but i still laugh when i think about it. and how i now have hundreds of ball pit balls and no place to put them other than a bathtub for now.

good day.

actually..

i am adding another sad song to today. cause i have cried to this song so many times in my 24 years from the oc to my own life.

good day.

day 4...song that makes me sad

I may want to skip this day. I dont like songs that make me sad lately, plus a lot of songs do that currently.

Well. I will go with this one for now.

The wreckers - leave the pieces.

girls are really good at angsty raw emotion.

anyways, more happiness tomorrow. haha

good day.

day 3...song that makes me happy

what songs make me happy? i am really struggling with this.

i guess i will go with....

but really anything by the beach boys would work in this case.

good day.

day 2..least favorite song.

well, so far so good. i am keeping up with this song thing.

although wow, pick my least favorite song?

i have so many. i probably hate more songs than i like even. i couldnt pick phil collins because i literally would have a blog filled with every one of his songs. so for just a random song i think this one may inch out the competition.

Shaggy - It Wasn't Me

yes. that song wins for sure. horrid.

good day.

reunited and it feels so good...

i forgot completely about this blog. i know it is not nearly as exciting as the grog blog, but it is good enough to me!

anyways... i think i have a lot to say as of late so its a good thing i found this little bugger!

PLUS i want to do the 30 songs in 30 days thing. so i hope i dont keep forgetting about this sucker or else that will be another failed blog experiment

Ok. Day 1: My favorite song. It is a tough call because I have 2, but one now has tainted memories and this one does not! So this one wins hahah

good day.