Music Sunday: Happy Mother's Day

Mama, we all go to Hell

These are the days of Mr O

A lot has been going on lately, which will be highlighted in bullet points with each probably getting their own post at some point.

*Hopefully no one takes this the wrong way, but I can't take much more tornado footage after last week. I literally see it the whole time I'm at work and I'm not getting annoyed with it... it's just so sad. I can only imagine that some people woke up that morning wondering what to post on facebook and ended the day wondering where their house went. I think the most scariest thing is that this "season" isn't over yet

*Immediately after I got off work on Saturday a spur-of-the-moment trip happened and I saw Fast Five that night. And enjoyed the hell out of it.

*Finalized a plan to see a show in two weeks... in New Orleans

*Am close to asking for a day off in the middle of the week toward the end of the month... for a different show (in Atlanta)

*This was my thought process to the Bin Laden news: "holy shit, Bin Laden's dead?" - "AMERICA!!!" - "This is crazy, we are all celebrating someone's death" - "How the fuck did this turn into Obama hatred?" (this one is DEFINITELY getting its own future post)

*Saw Paranormal Activity 2. Was intense.

*In one month, I will be landing in LAX. California may as well be called "Heaven" for that week.

*My bfff will be graduating on Friday and welcoming her daughter into the world in two months. I'm excited to be a part of the celebration for both :)

So hopefully that holds you guys over for a bit. Hold me to my word on turning these into separate posts ;)

Tornadoes Suck

Working at a newspaper in the capital city of a state, you deal with a lot of state-wide headlines. Today was one of those days.

We had reports of severe weather all throughout the day. At first we saw a tornado touched down in Cullman. Then that a hospital in Cullman was hit. And then the biggest news was that it ripped through Tuscaloosa.

I stayed at work a little late to monitor if it was coming our way and what, if anything, we were going to write about it. So far, all we got in the city of Montgomery was some rain. Though by the time I wake up tomorrow that might change.

3 people have died in a city near us (Eclectic). At least 15 died in Tuscaloosa. And as of the time I'm writing this, 58 have died across the state.

The images I've seen have been unreal. And I don't think I will get them out of my head for quite some time.

Snapshot(s) of My Life (Picture Post!)

A desktop I really need to clean up:

A season of a TV show I just finished:

Movies I am currently watching to get ready for this weekend:

My Wrestlemania souvenir cup from my Atlanta weekend:

Music I'm currently listening to:

Me. In my Monday off-day attire:

Music Sunday: Easter Edition

*Note: I plan on bringing back the concept of Music Sunday. Just not a countdown or anything. For right now it will just be whatever is on my mind for that particular time. But any suggestions are not only welcome, but encouraged.

It's Easter. Here's a song with Jesus in the title:

"Well Jesus Christ, I'm not scared to die,
I'm a little bit scared of what comes after"

April 21, 2006

I feel like when someone close to you passes away, there are two dates that are going to stick with you - the day they passed and their birthday.

In my 24 years of living, I have had three good friends taken from me. Two of them, two that I graduated with, are tattooed on my wrist. It's my way of taking them with me everywhere I go, but I still think of them on the above mentioned days.

Two months ago would have been Cynthia's 24th birthday. But we didn't get to celebrate because five years ago today she was taken from us. I say "we" and "us" because she had A LOT of friends.

And honestly, that's a bonus I think to facebook. I didn't get sad to be reminded of it. I was happy to see everybody talking about how much they missed her. Made me realize how much of an impact she had.

I don't want to be entirely depressing, but I want to mention one story. Cynthia lived with her grandmother and the house they stayed in had friends come over so often that we all sort of became another family.

At her funeral, I got ready to go in and say my hellos to everybody and tried my best to "be a man" and not cry or anything. But when I walked in, I locked eyes with her grandma who gave me a sad/proud look. She hugged me and said "she really loved you guys" and all I could say in reply was "we really loved her too." And then, of course, I lost it.

Her grandma joined facebook not too long ago and we all friended her and I thought it was really awesome to see her post this as a status:

"Today marks five long years and yet it seems like yesterday since Cynthia died. She was one special gal.I'm glad to see so many of you remember and care. I love you guys !!!!! Love Grams Our angel is watching over you"

Recently I got the new Yellowcard cd and this song really stuck with me and it's what I posted today.

"All I can do is keep you closer now
'Cause I know your somewhere out there looking down
Wherever you are (Wherever you are)
I hope you can see me smiling"

The Boy Who Blogged Wolf

I feel like after so much time talking about going on hiatus and not blogging for the longest time, I bet anybody who regularly reads this thought that's what happened these past few weeks.

But that is not the case.

I was without Internet after moving into a new place. I had no idea it was going to take THREE WEEKS to get back into it, but in that span I've realized a few things:

*My name is Mr O and I'm an Internetaholic

*No matter how cool having Internet on your phone is, there is no substitute for the computer.

*I have really really missed blogging. And reading blogs. It kind of served as a wake up call because of all the things I could do on my phone, checking blogger was just uncooperative.

I hope you guys are ready for a flurry of posts because I have a lot to discuss. Mostly music stuff (of course) but maybe a few other things thrown in for good measure.

Oh, and if you are my friend on facebook (which most of you are, so you've seen my Internet presence anyway) then I hope you don't mind that I'm about to partake in one of those 30 Day Music Challenges.

Until next time, I want to leave you with my favorite song right now