Dying my hair and Back in the Mixx!

As many of you might know by now I’ve decided to dye my hair. Two of my friends accompanied me in the decision of what color. For the longest time I have wanted to, just I wasn’t sure what color. Last week I noticed two or three days in a row when leaving work that my hair look brownish/redish in the rearview mirror the way the sun hit my hair. So I told my friends this saying I liked the color. We headed out grabbed coffee, and then went to drug fair to see what they had.

The closest thing we found after my friends told me to get on my knees to compared the sample’s to my hair, was Very Rich Auburn (66 Warmer). My friends informed me that it would look really good if I spiked my hair again, but with short spikes. Here is an image or well similar image to what the box looks like. There’s some slight differences maybe the one I’m purchasing is just an updated design.

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Let me know what you guys think. Am I crazy for doing this? Think it would look bad? Let me know your opinions! I’ll still get it done either way but still it’s nice to hear everyones point of view.

In other news I’m starting to get back involved at mixx.com the social media website and the mixxingbowl. After a short but small fight with another member who I am friends with I started becoming active again. I actually planned on coming back before that thanks to SilentJay74. We talked for a bit on facebookjust catching up and then something kind of just clicked.

Mixx is awesome and looking forward to providing more great content to everyone. If you don’t know what Mixx is here is how the people behind mixx describe their site/service.

“Mixx is your link to the web content that really matters. There’s a lot of information out there and, let’s face it, you don’t have all day to find the good stuff (if you do, we’re totally jealous). And who knows better than you what informs you, what makes you think, what makes you laugh? So why should some faceless editor get to decide what’s important?

But now you’re in charge. You find it; we’ll Mixx it. Use YourMixx to tailor the content categories, tags, specific users and groups, and we’ll deliver the top-rated content as chosen by you and people who share your passions. So go ahead and whip up your own version of the web. Just tell us how you like it Mixxed and we’ll deliver the best the web has to offer—morning, noon and night.“

So head on over to mixx.com and check it out!

Oh and for all of you spammers out there who are on Mixx, watch your back. Just a reminder to everyone about why Spam on Mixx is not a good thing, here is the post from a few months ago that I wrote on the topic. You can check it out here.

Remember for those of you in NJ and live in, near, around or even far away from Morristown. There is the Party on The Green this Saturday. Check out the video below for more info!

It’s Monday and I’m happy?

It’s Monday and for once I’m actually happy to wake up today. I was dreading Monday this whole weekend but for some reason I’m not today. I had little trouble waking up, I actually woke up at 6am cause I turned on my TV by accident while sleeping. But after that my alarm went off, I popped right up looked at the time, knew I had enough to time to sleep in just a bit more. But of course my alarm clock didn’t wake me up for 20 minutes later. I didn’t have any trouble though even though I didn’t wake up at the time I wanted to I had no trouble.

I missed LQD (Liquid) yesterday, mainly due to the weather. But of course when it was about 6:50pm it cleared up and there was no more rain! Looks like I’ll have to watch this past Sunday’s message online which if fine by me. Jeff I hope you got home ok last night! Your brother called me asking if you were at my house, which really confused me but then he explained. Let me know bro!

I signed up for the Water Walk after much thinking. For a while I’ve had an urge to volunteer for it and I’m glad I did. I can’t wait to see what it will be like this up coming weekend!

For those that didn’t hear, I had to get my Voyager replaced for the 3rd time. Worst part about it is Verizon didn’t transfer my numbers over. But the way I see it is those who give me their number are the ones that I want to stay in contact with. I know I’ve messed up a lot of friendships in the past but I’m looking forward and seeing how those friendships could have messed up my life in some way or another. I’m not perfect and I never will be and the important part is to just press forward.

Anyways back to about today. I’m working out of my uncles house today so I don’t get to deal with the horrible traffic in to Union until about 12:00pm so that may be contributing to my happiness. Ah well I need to head out! I’ll post more on this later. There’s so many things running through my mind right now that I need time to sift through everything that I want to post!

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I’m back and ready to finish this thing up. I think what my happiness has to do with is the weather, the fact that I slept better and because I didn’t have to deal with the rush hour morning traffic. Oh and maybe also because I finally got around to cleanning my room! Anyways I have another small announcement to make, this week I’m scheduling to get my hair cut but along with that I’m getting my hair dyed. What color? Well everyone will just have to wait and see! It probably will shock all of you, but it should look really good.

I’ve also come to notice that no one has been commenting lately. I know many of you read my blog because my stats on my admin page are showing plenty of visitors. Feel free to speak up! Don’t be shy! It’s the user comments that help keep this blog running! Thanks!

Giving up a Party to Make a Difference

I’ve been struggling with this decision I needed to make for the past 24 hrs. For those of you who attend Liquid know about the Party on the Green, raising money and giving away money to build wells in Africa to provide clean drinking water, etc. So I’d like to just summarize what was talked about this past Sunday to catch everyone up and if I missed anything for those of you who were at Liquid please speak up in the comments.

This Sunday Tim was pretty much talking about those in need. And in all honesty I don’t remember much of what was said. But I do remember specifically about him talking about everything going on over in Africa. There are families over there that don’t have a proper source of water. In fact they are drinking from dirty, muddy water. With out the proper clean water they need, they cannot drink, or even have proper medical care. So to make a difference in many peoples lives in Africa Liquid Church has partnered with Charity Water to bring wells to these people.

One of the ways Liquid is helping out is by throwing this huge summer party in Morristown on the green. There will be music, food, face painting for kids, an opportunity to walk with two Gerry cans filled with water to experience what those in Africa go through daily. For every person who does, Liquid is giving money away to these people to build wells and to provide clean water. But not only that they are also selling gas for 99 cents for a period of time during the day. This all sounds fund and great and I want to go or at least wanted to go. But there is one problem, it’s during the first weekend of August and that’s when I’m suppose to go up to Upstate New York for the weekend for this big party up there.

When I found this out I started thinking about it for 24 hrs straight knowing I needed to make a decision soon. I needed to decide if I should go Upstate or should I stay in Jersey. I struggle with this until about now. I decided to stay in Jersey and make a difference in peoples lives. I’m passing up the partying, and the craziness that will happen in New York (And when I say craziness I meant it in a good way) to help out at this event. I know I’m going to be disappointing many people who are going upstate and even for those that live there. But at the same time I think you guys can understand my decision.

I just feel like this is the right thing to do. The more I think about it, the more excited I become about this event in Morristown. There’s just something about doing events like this that just fills my heart with joy and I don’t know why. When I was in England and we did this big even called Merseyfest it was amazing to see what God was doing there, how He was just bring everyone together to have a good time. But not only that it was inspiring to see everyone working together to make this event happen.

Every day I think about the friends I made over there and how lucky I am to still have those friends in England and I look forward to the day when I’m able to go back over there and reunite, have a good time and make a difference again. I’m hoping this event that Liquid is having will be the same, will introduce some great people into my life, and will forever be remembered.

Playing Live, Fourth of July and more

I wanted start off by talking about this past Saturday night as it’s the highlight of my weekend.

Saturday my band and I played a small gig for Dane’s (Drummer) sisters sweet 16 party. There were roughly 100 kids (at least that’s what I was told). We were originally suppose to play for a half hour in the beginning and then play the rest of the night at 8:30 – 8:40. But we couldn’t figure out what songs to play as they were between 2:00 – 3:00 minutes each and we didn’t want to play our own songs at that time. So instead Dave C (lead guitarist/vocalist) played some of his music for a bit, then dinner, and then we were on.

I’ve played live shows before but most of them were competing for money (BOTB), and another just didn’t go well. This was our first time actually playing live, being able to have fun and do what we love to do. It was the first time that I myself really felt excited to play live, especially since this would be the first time we played our new material live. The kids who were there were a bit hesitant at first, Leonard (bassist) and I were telling everyone to stand up and to participate. Leah (Lead Vocals) eventually joined in with helping us. It was great seeing everyone get involved with our music dancing, singing along to some of the covers we did. It was actually really encouraging.

There were some slight hick ups with my pedal but nothing too noticable, people told me that they didn’t notice anything when I said I messed up on something’s for example going into a chorus I ment to step on my distortion, but when my foot came off it, I tripped my echo effect pedal so it never exactly went into it and I couldn’t tell if my one distortion pedal was working properly during a song ( I think I accidentally lowered my volume pedal) so I turned on my CTRL pedal which I shouldn’t have done as it gave a heavy distortion (quickly turned it off though).

So over all I was happy with the turn out and I had that high so to speak to play Live again. I can’t wait to get back out there and to play for even more people. Leonard is working on getting us into the studio (free) to record some tracks.

Now Fourth of July, long story short it got ended early. My cousin, Brother and I were launching Fireworks and while we were firing off our last Mortar a Longhill Police Officer was turning on to the street. While he was coming down the drive my cousin is yelling (let’s fire off the ring in ring ones now!). Shortly after we hear “Long Hill Police” and he starts questioning us, getting our Lincense’s checked out, taking down my cousins information (it was her house), and then asking us if we know that it’s illegal in the State of NJ to have fireworks and to be firing them off, and then informs us that if he has to come back because were firing off more that we’ll be arrested and charged. But it was fun for the amount of time we had to fire them off.

On another note I’ve noticed that I’m really having trouble with sleep. Not in the sense that I wake up during the night not being able to falling asleep. It’s more so every day during the week and especially on weekends. I feel very restless when I wake up, even when I have gotten plenty of sleep. During the week I just feel like not wanting to go to work just because I feel so restless, and during the weekends I just don’t want to get up and really do anything at all. Maybe it’s my mattress or my pillows? I’m not quite sure honestly but it’s draining me a lot.

But what else is really weird is about 2 weeks ago I got into a fight with one of my friends about some one they want to be friends with and then eventually date again and last night I had a dream where I was returning a text book to a friend but there were no cars in the drive way, so I went into there house and of course I didn’t find anyone, so I walk out and then all of a sudden there’s this white Lexus like car in the drive way, and my friends brother comes up and says hi, I tell him I’m leaving, and as I’m about to close the door after he walks away and goes in I see the person that my friend and I got into a fight about as they are  abusive, liar, etc.

Next thing I know he starts swinging at me and hitting me with a hockey stick. I was able to get out and he throws me a hockey stick and wants to fight. I start defending myself and next thing I know my friend, and their older sister come out of the house. And this person we got into a fight over about, all of a sudden no longer has a hockey stick and I’m with one and my friend and their sister just look at me. I start saying “This is not what it looks like, he attacked me when I was in the car and then gave me this…” and I just stopped there and they walked towards me my friend tells me to not even bother explaining, and they take him turn around to go inside and then the dream just ends and I wake up a few minutes later from my alarm clock.

Weird huh? I can’t determine if this was some kind of spiritual battle or what. Cause this issue I have with my friend has been going on for the past two weeks, and the issues I have with this other person have been going on for a while.

All of this I kind of realized in my car on my way here to work. I put on a David Crowder* Band CD that I was listening to yesterday (Illuminate) and I fast forward to a specific track and then listened to the following one after that. I’m not sure what came over me, but I started to feel tears come to my eyes, during the two songs and all of a sudden the heaviness, sadness that I felt was gone. I wouldn’t say my spirits were lifted and I felt happy cause I wasn’t jumping for joy or smiling or anything. I just no longer felt what I felt before. I don’t know what I felt and I still feel it now. It feels like as if everything is just very lite around me, and as if there’s something not there and I don’t even know what it is.

Hopefully some of you have some insight on this cause I can’t figure it out at all.

I’m starting to eat healthier, almost every single time I ate something it involved meat (I do love steak) and other unhealthy things. You can also see it in pictures between my Junior/Senior year of Highschool and now. Man was I skinny and in shape then! I’m really trying to cut back, I’ve been cutting back on the meat, and cutting back on the late night snacking, ice cream, and what not. I’m now looking into eating more greens like a chicken salad with light dressing. And then of course I’m working in some work outs. I’ve started picking back up DDR, I want to pick up Wii Fit soon, and hopefully I can get back into going to the gym again soon. Any suggestions also appreciated on eating healthier and getting in shape if anyone of you have any.