This past week has been great.

It was spent:

playing guitars for hours at the enormous Guitar Center,



Meeting new friends and spending time with old ones,



And of course celebrating Christmas with our dear grandparents!



One thing that I'm really excited about is a thingamajig called a drawing tablet, which will help me a lot in my further pursuits in web design! It's pretty awesome! (you can't really see it in the picture but I have a cool stylus pen in my hand which I draw on the tablet with)


Be sure to leave me a comment and let me know how YOUR Christmas was! We had an amazing one here. And so...

As promised, I have bought Les Miserables! To start at the beginning...

We flew to the States last Tuesday, and it took us 28 hours to get from doorstep to doorstep!


Right now we are happily staying at my mom's parents' new house in Eugene, Oregon! We're spending Christmas with them for the first time in 13 years, so it's quite the occasion. We've been busy buying Christmas presents as well as stocking up on clothes.


Today we drove about 2 hours up to Portland, and spent the whole day...you guessed it: shopping (and the occasional food).


Powell's bookstore in Portland is a legend (to us at least). So we decided to go check it out, and we were amazed at it's vastness. It's a really cool place. After about half an hour of wandering around I stumbled upon the very thick book by Victor Hugo. At $4 it was a steal.

So far, it's very...different. I really love Hugo's style of writing, but it's unlike anything I've ever read. I'll keep you updated on my thoughts on it once I get the chance.


Dad flies in tomorrow evening, can't wait!

Christmas is coming!

Well, the concert is over! I feel pretty good about it... and I'm totally beat. I'm ready to sleep and sleep and sleep some more... It's been a long day.


But it was really fun. Thanks to everyone who came and watched and listened to us!


While setting up earlier today I had an idea...so I went and asked our drummer, Pavel: "Do you think it's possible for me to stand on your bass drum and jump off?" He said no problem, and we tried it out a couple times...hehe! I did it twice during the concert, and it was awesome. Luckily there were no casualties!



If Hudson or Becca are reading this, i have one thing to say...: "I wore my band shoes!!!"



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And I also learned how to make an omelet this week, but that's another story...

Tensing concert on Friday! Here's the poster I made for it.

The song I'm most looking forward to playing is Pieces by Sum 41 because I can jump around during it!

Last night i watched Les Misérables (the 1998 version with Liam Neeson) and I really enjoyed it. It's for sure one of my favorite movies now. When we go to the States I'll be sure to pick up the book (it's over 1800 pages long)!!!