Do the zombie walk

Sooo hard to wake up this morning. I have loads to do today as well and I'm aiming to go to bed rather early tonight. Tomorrow is the Christmas party with the gym members, and I can't be this tired if I'm gonna be at my best behavior, that's for sure. 

At least I finished the finance part of the business plan, now I just have to prepare everything for the presentation on Tuesday. But as for today I still need to learn all my songs properly before rehearsal later today. 

But at 11 am I'm meeting up with Steve's mum to pick up my blow up mattress. Just a stupid time of the day, but what can we do sometimes?

down and dirty

Today has been long. Woke up at 5.45 am and I have been raound and about all day actually. But great things has come together. 

Gym session, God it feels like ages ago, started at 7 am. Then I had a great 1,5 hours practice. I need to sit down and sing some phrases over and over again tomorrow, these functions songs ain't easy. I'm telling you that much. 

Eh, went and finally had my wax, painful but so nice to have done. Finally!
Then just home for a quick lunch before heading down to school to meet up with Perea. We're gonna record the cover of "This must be the place" this term already, and I'm  doing my vocals next week. So one more thing I need to get down and dirty with. 

Eh, what more. Went straight to Andres to write the business plan that has to be handed in tomorrow. Everyone had almost finished their parts when I started mine, I just haven't had time to do it until today. But I must say my table and my 183 words came together quite nicely and informative enough for this. Now I just need to be able to explain all the numbers by next week. Down and dirty. 

Eh, yeah. It's almost 2 am, which means that I've been awake for abour 21 hours straight. Right now I'm actually a bit hype, but I think I probably need some sleep. I'm just gonna start writing on a survey that we're gonna send out asap with the business group.

I should really be going to bed, but I have all this music in my head...

today

Today has been a bit long. 

Our class wasn't happening today, which of course no one had informed anyone about. But we had a good business meeting, and I think we will be right on track. Just need to write out business plan until Thursday. 

Good session at the gym. As most of the times.

Good latin music class. Though I always get so tired around that time. 

Then I went down to my friend Andres and we started working on my first recital tune. I'm actually so excited about how it's gonna come out. We're re-arranging "This must be the place" by Talking Heads. It's gonna sound completely different. Ah I'm so excited.


Now, loads of things to sort out, and I'm going up before 6 am to go to the gym to start my day off.. Well there you have it.

the storm after the storm

So... when you think things are gonna ease up a little, new things start to appear and eventuelly you realize that you still have shit loads to do. This is my reality. 

It's gonna be fine. I've been sorting out shit all evening, well it's already 1 am, so I've been doing it for a little while then.

I have started creating a practice/work schedule so that I don't miss out on anything, and that I don't over-do something else. 


I'm feeling the study hype coming to me. So I hope I can get the most out of it for the rest of this term.

Topic of the day

 

 One of many deep conversations I share with my best friend Emilie.

Good moring

My eye lids are annoyingly heavy this morning. Time to wake up. I'm also very hungry!

colour of the wind

There really is a bit of a storm going on tonight. I kind of love it when it's a bit windy. When I was a kid I used to pretend that I was Pocahontas, and that the wind would kind of speak to me. The funny thing is that I sometimes still catch myself doing it. For one second I close my eyes and take a deep breath. I love nature, so it's nice when nature reminds you of it's existance.

Where the wind take me

It's so windy today. It's so windy that my "curtains" are moving quite a lot. So, when winter kicks in for real, it's gonna be a long and cold misery. I need to think of ways to keep me warm for the next couple of months. Hmm...

Jazz Night

 

The Jazz gig last night went alright. Of course you're always your worst critique. So I was happy with my performance but I wasn't as good as I was in the rehearsal the night before. But I pulled my scat solo off, with a few wrong notes. But I'm happy. And people seemed happy, though when you're performing to your friends, you'll never get the complete truth about your act. 

Oh well. 

On our way there I did this epic fall, where I stumbled for several meters before I surrendered to gravity. I bruised my knee pretty badly, and it actually hurts quite a lot today. But it was so funny I would have loved to see it myself. Embarrasing like hell, but that was on me.

tide is high

The last coupe of rehearsals with the band sounded quite alright actually. So I think we have a little chance to do this gig right. I hope everyone can be on their A-game tonight. I'm sure gonna aim for it, or beyond it. 

Woke up 5.50 am this morning to get down to the gym. I took a quite intense core class before killing my legs and ass with my killer leg workout. Now I am so knackered, but I'm gonna have a nice shower to wake myself up a little before practicing my songs for the last time.

California Monday

Yeah... I must be going a bit crazy. Drinking on a Monday is not something I usually do. But, I'm a grown up woman now, which means that I can actually do what I like. 

So the plan is to write some lyrics tonight as well... and my theory is that it will be awesome once I'm drunk. That's how Adele wrote all her material for her latest CD "21"... that worked out pretty well...

why get one when you can get three?

What do I feel like? Australian, French or Californian wine? 
Yes, I bought three bottles...

A few of my favourite things

Today has been loooong.

We had a four hour rehearsal, and we still have to wake up early to go to school to run the set a few times. We haven't actually played the songs once after eachother. 

But I had a good private class with my tutor today, so I have a little more confident. Now I just need to nail my solo, or drop it completely. Just how it's gonna be.


As for the titel. 

Just came home and I had porridge and red wine for dinner. Good combo actually. Now I'm gonna drink some more red wine for dessert and practice my ba do bo ba di ba da... Yeees.

a sitting-on-my-ass-getting-shit-done-kind of Sunday night

I'm having such a great night. Even though I've been in FB for most of it, things has happened. 

1. I had an almost two hours long skype session with my friend Emilie. 
2. I'm almost done with my lyrical analysis
3. I have put my recital band together, and I probably couldn't be more stoked about it. Now I just wanna produce! 
4. I've given away pleanty of advice for people in need. I'm always glad to help. I should concider a change of career. Oh I forgot, I don't really have a career going for me at the moment. 

Anyways, it's been a very plesant day. Tomorrow is gonna be long. Good night.

Love is like a fart. 

If you have to force it, it's probably shit.

Sunday's treat

I had such a lovely time with Marie strolling down Brick Lane Market. The sun was shining and free hot chocolate was handed to us.

Then I had a nice meeting with my music business people. We came up with some good ideas whie brainstorming and I think we can actually make something good out of this. 

And on top of this I didn't have time to go to the store before it closed today, but I still managed to cook an amazing dinner for myself. Pasta with a creamy mushroom sauce, with a touch of chilli and garlic. So proud of myself. 

Now time has really been flying and I still have plenty of things to do, but I'm happy that today turned out the way it did. Proper nice. I think a shower before attacking my homework will sort me right out.

my heart belongs to daddy

Studying is going slowly when I have the sun in my eyes and I'm dreaming on leaving the house for a walk down to Brick Lane market. 

Well, I'm actually gonna go in a minute. It would be stupid not to go out when it's such a beautiful day. I'm just finishing up a little prep thing for tonight, so that studies can go a bit smoother, once the break of dawn arrives.

I had a little nice skyping session with my dad earlier today.
I'm so excited to come home and see my loved ones. 

cheap drunk

It was really nice to meet up with Steve last night. And it was sooo nice to have beer. I think the last time I had beer was with him as well. And we haven't seen much of eachother lately. I got a little tipsy to be honest... 

So the christmas party with the gym is a dangerous thing to look forward to. Nah, it's gonna be good. Getting drunk with random people can be best thing. Me and my occational drinking while travelling was always good fun. I think I had some of my best night out while on the road.

Well, Sunday is here again, and as always I have a pile of things that needs to get done by Monday morning. So off me go! 

don't you die on me

For some reason the heating is not working in my room. I'm so freaking cold now, wrapped in double scarfs and all. Oh well.. A little more practice, and then I'm heading down south for a drink or two. Finally a normal Saturday evening, I guess.

a first

I swollowed my first raw egg ever today. It took me a while to mentaly prepare, and I had to devide it by two. I would have never been able to take the whole load, haha. 

I must say it wasn't as bad as I imagined. It didn't taste much, but the texture of the egg white is something I'd have to get use to. 

I give the experience a 3/5.
I do prefer them cooked in any other possible way.

NOW, practice.

killing me softly

Yesterday I added more weights to my squats, so I'm now on 35 kg, 4 x super-setting 6 front squats and 8 heel elevated back squats. Then I also did leg press on 50 kg 4x10. 

Today I did pilates and trained with my friend Jack, we did loads of bastards and some leg stuff that he does with his Tyco (?) group. That proper killed me. I had to stretch for about 30 min after that.

So tomorrow I'm gonna walked like I've been ass raped. Just saying. 

As for the rest of the day I need to stay awake and do loads of practicing. Jazz gig is on Wednesday and I was not sounding bang on when we rehearsed the set yesterday. Well, no one really did, but at least I can make my part sound as good as possible and hope that everyone else has the same mind set for this weekend. We still have 5 hours rehearsal on Monday and 2 hours on Tuesday morning. 

And later tonight I'm meeting up with Steve. It has been a while, which I think has been good for both. But I'm looking forward to see him. And I still need to pick up a few things from his.

early morning bird

I woke up 7.30 this morning feeling rather fresh and energized. I think my hour with Mr. Grey last night had me well sorted and relaxed when I fell asleep. It's really nice not to sit by the computer the last thing you do before going to bed. 

So I've had pleanty of time this morning. I painted my nails red while watching Grey's Anatomy. And now, when the house is awake, I can start practicing a bit. 

I don't know why I'm so excited.

well hello you

I think the right thing to do to end this day is to go to bed and catch up with Mr. Grey. It has been waaay too long since our last session. And today has been so exciting that I just wanna finish it with little cream on top. So good night!

I just can't hide it

Today I've been such a good girl. I went through a few handouts we've gotten during the course, and I played everything on the piano as well. So it took some time. I love my keyboard. It's not the most fancy one, but I think it's amazing to be honest. 

Then of course I went to the gym. Shoulders today. Not much to say about that. 

Made a nice omelette for dinner and now I'm taking a shower before going back to some practice. I'm really feeling happy and excited about life riht now. Can't really explain why, but I just don't have much to complain about I guess. 

Jazz gig next week. We have about 10 hours worth of practice time before that, devided on three days. So yeah. I'm sure we're gonna get there. I'm actually excited about that as well. 

take three

I thought I lost my Oyster card, so I blocked it and ordered a new one last night. Then today my band member said he found it, and when I asked why he didn't call me yesterday he just said he thought I was at the gym and then he forgot. So buhu for that. At least 20 pounds gone, for nothing.

Coming home I was just soo knackered that I though a half hour nap would do me good. It had to be 1,5 hour nap, bacause I just couldn't get myself to leave the bed. 

Then I've been practicing, and just now I wrote some lyrics. For the first time in ages actually. Almost two verses just ran through my hand and onto paper. 

I just came home from a run with MD. It was so nice actually, so I'm glad she managed to talk me into going. We ran really fast too I must say. 


So I started writing this post around 1.30 pm today. Then I continued a bit around five-ish and now it's 8.30 pm. I have just forgotten to post everything all day. 

So here we go. 
The rest of the night I'm gonna take a sing some more, steam, take a shower and finish watching this documentary for compositon class.

i wish i had a river

Today was not as eventful as I thought, though I didn't really have any thoughts about today at all. 

I woke up early and went to the gym. They got robbed, but the guy only got away with a studio mic and a timer. Boho when he opened the box. 

Then we had a massive clean up in the house, so it's all fresh and new. 

I've been skyping with my mum, talking to my dad on the phone and then skyping with my friend Emilie. 

Andres came over and we studied the jazz. He was good and more or less finished his draft, while I only did the chords and the bass line. I might just do the drum groove now so it's done.

I guess a few things happend today anyways. 
Tomorrow we're back in school after reading week, and I'm actually excited. I do wish I would have ticked off all things on my reading week list though...

sleep in saturday

It's past noon and I just started my day by the desk. I did have breakfast and did my vocals while in bed, so now it's when I officially start the day. Really nice with a long lay in to be honest. 

Time to get cracking with songs for the Jazz gig, and the song I'm recording with a producer at school. Gonna be good. I haven't been sining in a long time it seems. Funk got the best of me. But now I'm free for a while, so I better make the most out of it. 

Oh, and I furnished my room. Or well, I put my keyboard up next to the desk, instead of ON the desk. So there will be no excuse for me not to get shit done now. 

I told you to be patient, I told you to be kind.

I went to see Bon Iver at the Wembely Arena last night. OH MY GOOOOD how good that was. Just pure epicness. I never wanted it to last actually. Today I feel all lifted. Like walking on clouds. 

Today I'm sitting at my friend Andres place to finish my funk arrangement. I have 5 hours before deadline. I can do this. I will do this. I am amazing. Eh.

funked up times

Okay, I've been sooo good. I'm not finished with the funk, but I sure have worked on it a lot now. I think I'm gonna make myself a bit ready for bed, then just maybe even be wild and crazy and actually go to bed. Wehoo!

I wonder what's up with Mr. Grey. It's been ages since I read anything from the 50 shades of fucked up book!

yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away

Yesterday I went to London Eye with my friend. It was so amazing to go there by night, especially when I had the clever idea to go at 5th of November. Bon fire night. Sooo nice to look over the city.

Then we had a nice dinner before heading home again. At home I met my drunk friend. Had a nice chat with her and then went to bed. Slept really well. 

Eh today I did more on my funk shit before heading off to band practice. We're getting there, slowly. the gig is in 8 days, so I hope slowly isn't too slow... 

Went to the gym, did my legs. All good. 

Now I'm back with the funk.

big hearts. big parties

I went to my friends' gig last night. They are all kind of my friends in that band, but I really wanted to see Leo, the guy that was my bass player during HNC. I called him cave man. He just have the biggest most open heart there is. So it was so nice to see him. And their band was really good too!

I did this instead of going to a crazy fancy dress party in a house far away. In a way it's a shame I didn't join my flatmates on this event, but I knew that today would be an even worse productive day than what it is right now. So good job Em.

But when I do I don't follow through

Woke up and it was raining. So I cancelled my class at the gym. Really nice to just lay in the bed looking out a grey sky. Honestly.

Then I had a nice breakfast with my friend before we both, in agony, went up to my room to study. It's not even 12pm and I've already had a bag of sweets. 

I have decided that after today I'm gonna be more or less done. Meaning, I will send my teacher my draft, and if he tells me to change something, I will. But I'm aiming to be done today. 

Eh, and tomorrow we have to hand in our vocal project thingy, so I still have to finish that. Though it's not much left to do really. 

I lost that feeling

I had to take a break from the funk. Went food shopping and cooking lunch for me and Cooker. Now I'm feeling slightly tired to be honest. 

I have definately gotten a little further with the composition, but not as far as I need to go. But maybe I just take a little nap and then get back into it. Can't do funk without the funk mojo..

I got that feeling

I'm feeling the funk. And my friend just got a phone call that she got one of the rooms she has been looking at. So tonight I think there's gonna be some celebration going on. 

But I'm not quite there yet. So I'm not gonna say too much too soon. But I'm feeling it.

nackered

I had such a long day yesterday. 


My gym session was great, and I can really feel it today. I love it when the gym is almost empty too. 

I had a mic test session with my producer friend that I'm gonna record a cover with next week. It took some time but I think we found the right mic settings. I'm so excited to go in the studio again. 

And we had band practice for three hours. I think we did okay. Still needs a lot of work and we only have two more weeks before the gig, but I'm sure we'll manage. I booked 5x3 hours rehearsals for next week.. Haha. 

Then I came home and I fell alseep so early. I think I slept about 10 hours. 10 well needed hours. I feel rested. Today I'm so gonna get some funk down, I can't wait for it to be over!

bad girl

I'm so terrible at updating this blog right now. 

Nothing new has really happened to be honest. School is still tough btu I'm managing to keep it together. I'm so lazy though and it feels like I'm just lalala-ling around doing nothing. So this coming week when we have no classes I will have to catch up and organize my life again. This just won't do much longer. 


Eh yeah.. tomorrow is busy. 
Have to learn 2.5 songs before 1 pm, then I have a mic test session with my friend Andres. We're recording a cover from Manchester Orchestra. Gonna be epic once it's done!! Then we have band practice 3-6 pm. And I have loads to get done before and after that. Plus a gym session to squeeze in.

It's midnight and it's time to sleep.
I will be better at this. 
Good night.