2012

It's two days into the new year, and the past two days have left me reflecting on the past year of my life. 2011 brought a lot of joy and pain, a lot of fun and heartache, but I made it through and will continue to do so in 2012. This new year is going to be a new beginning for me. It's always thrilling to look forward to what a new year will bring. You just never know what is going to happen that will change your life forever, but rest assured, something will happen, that part is guaranteed. In 2012, I will graduate college (finally) and be able to move on into the real adult world. How scary is that. Ok, scary isn't quite the right word, but it is exciting, nerve wracking, enchanting, enticing, overwhelming, and intimidating all at the same time. To say that I feel prepared for the year I am plunging into would be a tremendous lie. In fact, I don't feel prepared at all, but I think that's the point. If we went through life prepared for every little thing that was thrown our way, we would miss out on the chance to figure out who we are. We would miss out on the opportunity to grow into the person we are meant to become. A new year is a new chance. We are given new chances everyday. Every morning we wake up is a new chance to be better than we were the day before. It can be discouraging to think about what we didn't do or still don't have when you think about your life. I read a quote that I feel is fitting to theses situations. "If something is not happening for you, it doesn't mean it's never going to happen, it just means you aren't ready for it." I feel like I have been stuck in rut thinking about all the things I feel I am so ready for but still don't have and then I read this quote and also thought of the advice to trust in God's timing. I may think I am ready for something, and that I know what I want and think I am ready for, but if I don't have it, God is still preparing me for it, and if not what I had in mind, something greater. Whenever it comes, it will be when it is meant to happen, not when I think it should but when God knows it should.

I know it's cliche, but I am going to post a few goals I have for this new year.

1.Read my scriptures daily.

2.Write in my journal.

3.Graduate college.

4.Go to the gym at least 4 times a week.

5.Blog weekly.

JOSH GROBAN

All I can say is WOW!! August 13, 2011 was the best day of my life to date! :) Unless there is something better than going to see Josh Groban in concert (which there isn't) there is no argument about it! Josh sang for two hours straight! Oh man he is an angel sent from heaven! There is something about his voice that just makes me melt! He has been my all time favorite artists since the first time I heard him sing! The only thing that could have made the night any better was if I would have been able to meet him! Someday I will!!!!


I guess the story really began on March 2, 2011 when I bought 2 tickets to Josh Groban's Straight To You Tour concert in SLC. I have been waiting and counting down the days since then for August 13, 2011 to FINALLY come around! It took forever it seemed like because I was ready to go the day I bought them! Anyways, when the day finally rolled around my mom and I drove down to SLC and got there at about 3:30 p.m. We had some time to kill so we walked around the gateway mall for a little while. It was insanely crowded, but then again it is time for back to school shopping. At about a quarter after 6 we decided to head over to the Engergy Solutions Arena. We ended up standing outside for just under an hour waiting and dying with excitement and aniticipation. At 7 o'clock p.m. the security guards opened the door prepared for the pandemonium they were about to embark upon. We were the first in line making us the first ones through the door! I couldn't beleive it honestly! (My Grandma Child would have been so proud of us!)

First thing I did was buy myself a JG Straight To You Tour T-shirt. The one I bought was the first one I saw and immediately had to have! It had three of my favorite things...Turquoise, red, and most importantly JOSH!! I pretty much am in love with it...even though it's just a t-shirt!

After I got my shirt we found the door our seats were located through. We made our way down to the floor...yeah that's right...FLOOR SEATS BABY!!! We had to have special wrist bands to sit down there which were actually pretty cool! It made me feel special! :) haha. Our seats were so great!

The concert started at 8:00 p.m. Josh's opening act was a pianist named Eric Lewis or rather ELEW. WOW!! He was incredible! He did things with the piano that I don't think anybody could ever dream of doing! It was absolutely amazing! Such a great way to warm up the audience and get them even more excited for Josh. After ELEW was finished, Josh's violinists came out and started playing. It was the most beautiful thing! The lights were streaming and changing colors and the audience was frantically searching the entire arena with anxiety and anticipation wondering where Josh might make his entrance! After a minute or so, a stage rose up from the floor not 10 feet behind where we were sitting and Josh was on it with his piano. The arena erupted in screams and cheers from thousands of fans you could barely hear Josh begin to sing! Once the audience succumbed to the music, Josh's angelic voice flooded the arena and I seriously started to melt! This was what I had been waiting for months on end it seemed!

Josh is amazing! I honestly don't know of any artist that would be able to top his concert! He sounds even better LIVE which is most certainly not the case for most artists! His rich baritone voice awakens something within me. It just makes me melt. I could listen to him forever and never become tired of it. His sense of humor is fantastic! Seriously, he is so funny! He is just as much of a comedian as he is a singer! He sang for over 2 hours straight! It was absolutely incredible. We didn't get out of the Energy Solutions Arena until after 11:00 p.m. I wish it would have lasted even longer, but seriously I couldn't have asked for more! It has been 4 years since I attended the Josh Groban AWAKE concert. During that time I continuously looked forward to whenever the next one would be...I guess I will have another Josh Groban concert post in another 4 years or so! Such a long wait...but I KNOW it will be so worth it! And next time, I will have FRONT ROW seats! :)

The pictures I got are not the greatest...I took them with my phone which was dying...my mom didn't have her camera and we were both dying because of the great seats we had and not a way to show it off! They are ok I guess, I won't complain because at least I was able to get some to remember this INCREDIBLE night! :)

This is Josh jamming out on the drums! A-to-the-MAZING!!! Cannot even begin to describe how great this man is! :)

Blogging Round 2

So I decided I would try this whole blogging thing again even though I pretty much sucked at it the last time. It's a good way to record different things going on in life and being 23 and single, there is always something going on in life! :) I am going to try super hard to do it this time. So I am basically going to use this as a way of expressing and to remember different events kind of like an online journal I guess!

In T-minus 5 days I will be going to a Josh Groban concert!!! I am so excited! I have been counting down the days since I bought the tickets in February! I am going with my mom! We went to his Awake concert a few years ago so I am continuing the tradition! Plus....she did pay for the tickets! (It was my birthday present! And the best one yet if I do say so!) I will definetly have to post about this one!