Time for Ketchup

That is my pun-opener.  It has been almost 2 months since I last updated and for that I sincerely apologize.  My parents have drawn this to my attention two times lately, so I owe it at least to them and hopefully other readers.  If you're out there, say, "aye".

I am currently importing several cds that have recently come into my possession.  For now living in Nashville, I think I average gaining at least 3 cds a week.  Whether or not I get them from Gotee, or I go to a show, fall in love and buy the music, those are all stories in and of themselves.  The cds I am "cooking" now are the 10 cds that Abby and I acquired last night at the "Ten out of Tenn" Christmas show.  We Christmas'd each other with the $60 bundle and split it.  It was 10 cds for $60.  What a steal.  Ten out of Tenn is a touring act--the brain child of Trent Dabbs (one of the Ten out of Tenn artists) and who I also had the pleasure of working with when I was an extra for his music video.  (It can be viewed HERE).  Anyways, the show was 10 Nashville artists all playing together and individually and gosh, it rocked.  I am a big fan.  Check out their music.  Just google them: Erin McCarley, Katie Herzig, Butterfly Boucher, Trent Dabbs, K.S. Rhoads, Andy Davis, Andrew Belle, Jeremy Lister, Matthew Perryman Jones, and Tyler James.

Music sums up my life.  I.love.it.

I need to be better at keeping up because I can't really sum up 2 months of my life on one blog or it would be interminable and no one would read it.

I guess I will keep to the more recent news.  Last Saturday I had the privilege (thanks to Gotee) to go see Gotee band House of Heroes, along with Remedy Drive and Family Force 5. It was a great show! Here are a few pictures:

 

Tim from House of Heroes :>)

Colin and Jared (house of heroes)

Remedy Drive

Family Force 5

Tim and me after the show!

A little over a month ago I went to Indianapolis with my friend Rachel for a NEEDTOBREATHE concert.  They are also Christian rock like the fore mentioned show.

So we had to drive through Kentucky.  This was my first time to the state (that I know of) and it is a family tradition to take a picture with the sign if possible

It was too dangerous to get out for Indiana but THANKFULLY my camera was miraculously quick enough to take it from out the window.

This is Bo and Bear from NEEDTOBREATHE ..they are brothers.

We were right up front.  This is Bear and I almost strummed his guitar (I could have) but I chickened out.  Also, like a dummy I had my phone resting on the stage and he almost crushed it.  Thankfully he didn't. :>)

Also, in case you missed it, I moved into Nashville finally from Franklin.  And here is my house!  We love it.  It's great and it is in a GREAT part of town.  We are so close to everything. :>) :>) :>)

Well, my internships are just about over (Dryve is done and I am going into Gotee for like 2 days this week).  We celebrated at Gotee last week though because some guys will be gone this week, like Joey, the boss.  They took me out to lunch, gave me a gift card to Target and thanked me for all my hard work.  It was great!  Dryve gave me a ticket for this Thursday's stand-up comedy act by the one and only Dave Barnes...What? He does stand up?  Yes, yes he does.  I'm excited.  Check out his new Christmas Extravaganza Video....so....stinkin..funny.

Then on Friday, my dear friend Cameron Habel is coming to visit until we go back for Christmas.  More fun straight ahead!

Tonight I went over to the girls' house that I babysit for to play with their new kitten, Callie.  She is the sweeeeeetest kitten! She'll just let you hold her forever.  Tyler, the dog loves her and I actually predict that they become friends:

Face-off...I love it

Tyler making me feel uncomfortable---I'm still not a dog person....

Allie with Ty and Callie

Katie with Callie

Me and Callie!! She is sooooooo precious.  7 weeks old.

In other news, my grandfather, Ga-Ga, passed away 3 weeks ago and it has been very hard.  Things remind me of him and I start crying.  I had my first dream about him the other day since he's been gone and I was at my wedding about to marry God knows who (really...God knows who) and there was a guy there who looked like Ga-Ga but it wasn't.  In my dream (or maybe in real life), I exclaimed, "THAT'S NOT GA-GA!"  because I was so upset that it was someone that looked like him but it wasn't the real man that I love.  I woke myself up in mid-wail, groan, sorrowful noise and I had tears streaming down my face.  It was way intense and I didn't like it.  I feel that it is worth documenting though because he is worth the tribute.  That is a hard thing that I've been facing though is that I am so sad that he will not be able to attend my wedding (if and when that ever happens).  Anyways,  Ga-Ga, I love you and I miss you terribly.

I am so thankful he was able to make it to my graduation!  This is probably the last picture we have of just the two of us.

Thanks for reading.
You stay classy,
Faith

Well, I HAVE Been to Nashville in the Fall

This is but a few miles from where I have been living.

Those are pictures I took today in downtown Franklin.

Now for some of the updates I mentioned earlier.  Last week I had the privilege of getting to go to the Country Music Hall of Fame Benefit for free.  It was incredible.  I'll let the pictures tell the story:

Keith Urban

Keith Urban and Brad Paisley

The big screen!

Keith again a little closer up

Dierks Bentley! I was so excited to see him

Lady Antebellum (They are fantastic)

Jason Aldean!
Faith Hill!

Taylor Swift! My life is complete. She played Love Story.

Me in front of Keith Urban's tour bus!

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 In other recent news, I went to Atlanta this past weekend to visit Uncle Victor and Aunt Dewey for Uncle Victor's 70th (goodness!) birthday party.

Atlanta is pretty.

My cousins Jerome and Sarah with me

My 2nd cousins (?) Cecelia, Max, Zipporah, Saraphina, and Isaiah

Isaiah (5)

Zipporah (4)

Saraphina (3)

Me with Dewey and Victor. They are so tall!

Me with Jerome, his wife Sarah, and CiCi and Max

And finally, Chattanooga on the way home.

Absolutely gorgeous!

In other news, I just finally bought Owl City's newest record, "Ocean Eyes" and I am pretty much addicted.  Matt Thiessen is good friends with Adam Young (who IS Owl City, he does everything himself) however Matt collaborated on a few tracks of the album with him.  It's fantastic.  I also bought Sherwood's "Qu" (great, chill music), and the new Deas Vail, "Birds and Cages" I got from work. It releases next week (also fantastic and has a song featuring Matty T). He gets around! I'm just in love with his voice so I love anything that he helps out with.

The Relient K Show last week was as always, very wonderful.  Here are a few pics:

Hoopes and Thiessen

Matt :)

The job and apartment search is officially on.  I mostly wanted to get all those pictures to you guys.  Hopefully  I will actually type a better update in this next week or so.  Stay tuned!

Thanks for reading,

You stay classy,

 Faith

Teaser...

Howdy blog-world!

I can't believe it has been literally about 3 weeks since I updated.  I have been trying to be diligent-ish and blog about 2 times a week, but literally I have been so busy I have been putting it off.  So many photos I must share with you over what has happened!  Let me just give you a teaser of what I will blog about soon and what some big events are that have happened:

-Oct 3rd Elaine and Josh (good friends of mine from college) got married in San Antonio so I had a quick trip back home to Texas
-Oct. 6th Relient K's album Forget and Not Slow Down FINALLY released.  It.is.incredible.
-Oct. 7th-10th was Next Big Nashville (NBN) that I attended with Valerie.  Basically it is a 4 day-16 venue-200+ artist showcase.  It was a blast.
-Oct. 11th I attended my 5th Relient K show.  It was epic.  The volume of happiness that I experience at one of their shows is equivalent to how much fun I have country dancing (probably actually more), but whatever my brain releases during both of those activities is exactly the same because the euphoria that rushes over me is actually indescribably numbing...no exaggeration---just ask Rachel Blythe my new good friend up here.
-I've started attending a Bible study on Tuesday nights called Kairos that is very similar to Breakaway
-Last week I started a Bible study of a book called Crazy Love through Brentwood Baptist.
-Oct. 16th-18th I went to Atlanta to visit the Kramers (Uncle Victor/Aunt Dewey, Jerome/Sarah/Sarah/kiddos).

Those are the highlights to look forward to.  I still have to put more photos on my computer, but here is a teaser.  Most have probably already seen this.

He remembered me. :) :) :) :) :)

Thanks for reading. You stay classy.

-Faith G.

Thank you Lightning 100 and Lipscomb University for Free Shows

I don't feel like writing a long post and I am guessing you guys don't want to read a ton because if you're like me, your attention span is not very long.  Monday-Thursday I babysat the 9 year old twins.  We had some drama.  Among that drama, Tyler the dog decided it would be a good idea to eat blue home-made play-dough.  Well you can imagine how agreeable it was after he ate it.  So yes it ended up halfway digested on Pat's white carpet. yuck.

Thursday night Lightning 100 (local awesome radio station) continued it's Live on the Green free concert series.  They invited Thad Cockrell, Matthew Perryman Jones and Dave Barnes to play.  All 3 are amazing.  I accidentally left my camera in the car on Thursday night, but I managed to get some pictures last night when I was able to attend yet another free concert sponsored by Lipscomb University.  They brought in Matt Wertz and Sister Hazel.  (Sidenote, on Thursday when Dave played he brought out Matt to help him out on a few songs)...So, last night when Matt was the entertainment, he invited Dave out with him as well as Thad so it was like Thursday revisited just in a different order (minus Matthew Perryman Jones).

That's Thad in the red. Matt on the far right.

 Best friends Dave and Matt

Dave up close and personal.

And then Sister Hazel topped off the night.  Honestly I only stayed for like 3 songs of theirs because I only know like maybe 3 and my favorite one "All for You" was most likely going to be the very last song they played so I didn't care to stay that long.

Instead, I went and met up with my friend Abby and we went to the Bunganut and were entertained by watching 50-65 year olds dancing at the bar.  It was quite funny.

Over and out.

Thanks for reading--if you still are, I never get any comments :>(

you stay classy.

Faith