The Birthday Massacre

I like theatric titles. Anyway, this is the name of a really cool techno/rock/pop band that I like, and on Pandora, it's giving me awesome songs. I like it.

In other news, I'm beginning to wonder about a significant lack of material in my blogs. In past journals, blogs, whatever, I've always written about how things are going wrong in my life. But ... nothing is. Things are going perfectly. I feel like I'm falling more in love with Jessica every day, and nothing's going wrong, and the Nickelback song "Feelin' way too damn good" keeps running through my head; I feel like something IS going to go wrong, just because it can't stay this good forever =P. But I can be optimistic, right? What if it really can stay this good?

Well, at any rate. I went out to eat today with my family and my sister's boyfriend (and her, of course), and the only notable thing that really happened was that my mom and sister both commented that I'm apparently really good at beating things with drumsticks, because they can hear me upstairs when I whip out this tupperware container and the top of my Xbox 360. That's pretty epic, if I may say so, because I've of course had no lessons, and they're very makeshift drums. It's flattering that they think I'm good from what they've heard (especially because I can only do two drums at once, and I only HAVE two or three different noises, and they still find it good ... what if I had a bass pedal? More drums? A cymbal?). This makes me happy :D. I do still need cash for a drumset, but Texas Roadhouse (where my sister works) told me to bring the application back Thursday between two and four. I'll hand it to a manager, and see if I can get a job as a busboy (when they generally make $50 nightly, at least). The drumset will come slowly after that, but maybe I could do a rental thing (I know some music stores do it) where I can pay monthly, and if I rent it long enough to pay the cost, I get to keep it. That'd be kewl, because what if it turns out that after all this, I don't really enjoy playing drums? At any rate, I'm pretty excited at the thought of playing drums more seriously.

School is going to be hell. I'm going to have to pay for it, and I know I won't scrounge up the money, so I'm going to look into student loans. Of course, Forsyth Tech will cost me less than $1000 a semester (and my parents are refunding that), so ... I could totally get a larger student loan, and then spend the money on a few small things (like a drumset!), and pay it back later ... I mean, you don't even have to begin payment on student loans until AFTER you've graduated from school entirely, so that wouldn't be too much of a problem. I'm usually really good with saving money, so I'm not worried, especially if I don't use the loan on something like ... a new car. Just small things. It's a really bad idea, theoretically, but it works, eh? Just a thought. I'll have to look into it.

I wanna play Rock Band. Hrm. Jordan's in Ohio ... that makes this difficult. I shoved my drumset into the box to send it back, but it has no packaging ... but still. If I tape it up and send it, they might send me a replacement, and then I can take it to Max's if he wasn't off on church camp. All my Rock Band options are gone, wtf! xD, bastards... you just lost The Game...

Anyway. I wanna do something. Most notably, I want to go to Virginia, but lacking the money for that =P, I may try to go do something with someone nearby to entertain myself (notably tomorrow, when Jessica will be gone from noonish until nineish to practice and record. She's pretty damn good with that guitar, I must say. I can't wait to hear the recordings :D). But yeah.