For anyone that enjoys listening to Explosions In The Sky…I present to you their Latin counterpart Rod Y Gab. Before I get into why they are amazing, I’ll let you view a video of their recent performance on The Today Show.

The duo hails from Mexico City, Mexico but moved to Dublin, Ireland working hard to build not only a name for themselves but a huge fan-base as well. They pair gained credibility in the states when MTV featured the music as well as having a song on the original soundtrack for Tim Burton’s A Nightmare Before Christmas. Six albums later and they are still going strong and selling out shows across the country and overseas.

Discography: Foc (2001), re-Foc (2002), Live in Manchester and Dublin (2004), Rodrigo Y Gabriela (2006), Live in Japan (2008), 11:11 (2009)

I currently have fifteen million things running through my head. I have a strong desire to start all of them and complete all of them simultaneously but that’s not how a normal body should work. (FYI: my body is abnormal.) So right now the desire to spill out all of my emotions on this here website is absolutely crucial and then I can focus on everything else that NEEDS to be done. (ie reading two chapters for my statistics midterm and then doing a review.)

I am one step closer to solidifying plans for Spring Break 2010. I have decided to spend my week away from the East Coast and with the loves of my life on the West. I am so excited, anxious and nervous. I suppose this is motivation for me to do well on my midterm and have a spectacular week. In celebration of this glorious event, I will begin working on The Little Black Book which is one of my side-projects that I am currently preparing for. I have something HUGE that I am also working on but its not ready to be released yet. But when it’s ready, I will have it here for ya’ll to read/see. I am hoping to do the following things while I am out there: go to disneyland, visit LA, go to the beaches and see my favorite faces in the entire world. If some amazing things happen while I am out there. That’d be a win-win situation for me. Right now, I am currently nervous and anxious but overall excited. (I believe I have already expressed that but oh man you have no idea how much this week means to me. NO IDEA.)

(You can view this photo (and the others) on Flickr )

I had a productive day today and learned a few things about myself. The main thing is that I can overcome fear and come out stronger than ever before. I fear rejection. I know what you’re going to say but you seem so confidant. Everyone has those fears but today I made it a point to push it aside and keep doing what I love to do. That is living it up to the fullest. (Whatever your heart desires for ‘it’ to be.) I walked into every lifestyle store and presented myself with confidence and it definitely showed. I got my report done on time but as I realize that there are things I need to do to make it stronger. I could have taken the comment/criticism to the heart but instead I used it as fuel to be a better lifestyle rep. I even started to write something amazing based on today’s event and it has a beautiful tone to it. AH! I can not wait.

Oh and if anyone is wondering, here are my (current) favorite lyrics.

This feeling is so relative to where I am tonight, if you only knew.

-BIG IF (You Went Gold)

Girl you’re the best: You could be an angel among society. But you get crushed from what you see. You try to hard to help and that’s enough for me

-Justin Timberlake (Let’s Take A Ride)

Of all of the places I’ve looked and all of the pictures I took. One of them’s here with me now.

-Yellowcard (Sure Thing Falling)

That is all for now. Back to studying and doing a bomb job on this midterm. Wish me luck. xoxo

I have been feeling extremely disoriented and stressed to the point that it effects my mood. I don’t feel motivated like I used to be to do certain things and I surely do not feel productive. I am currently experiencing a  pre-panic state of mind because of that. I am letting one day in the near future freak me out to the core: graduation. There is so much on my mind and so much pressure to just be great. But I’ve realized I am already great but why is there so much pressure on me to be great. What is the definition of greatness? In my belief it is the effort you put into the world and the rewards you will reap in return for doing your part. Just doing things that makes you happy. Just being happy is great. I do not know what will happen to me a year from now but all I know is that I will end up doing what I love to do and just being genuinely happy for myself. That isn’t too much to ask, am I right?

I just have to put that out there and get it off my brain. It’s far too crowded in there as is without having  things overcrowd my mind that I really don’t need to think about. Life is pretty splendid. I just have to utilize my time and be intense with my studies.

Less than 100 days ’til graduation! HOLLA!

I was going to wait until I designed a new theme on here to re-open the site again but knowing me that’ll take a long time to do. Aside from that I got really antsy and wanted to upload this theme again (more on why I have to do so later) and then post a “Hey! I’m still alive” post. I have been cheating on OLS with Tumblr and then felt really awful about it. I like Tumblr but I also like having a personal place of my own to just rant and rave about things. Besides that I am paying for hosting and this domain. I got annoyed with 1and1.com for plenty of reasons and noticed that people on my blog roll was using Holdfire and wanted to try it out. So to sum it up in five words or less: they freaking rock so much! Not only did they help me with getting everything set-up with the website. They are also friendly, knowledgeable and quite affordable. So yeah go and check them out! You won’t be disappointed. http://www.holdfire.net

Teehee, it felt really good typing in this box again. Oh Wordpress.