Update of Updateness

I'm really creative with those titles, eh? XD

I'm listening to Justin Moore right now 'cause this may be a lengthy post.  NOOOO!!!!

XD Prepare yourself. XD
"I CAN'T HIDE MY REDNECK SIIIIIIDE!!!  IT'S IN MY BLOOD TILL THE DAY I DIIIIE!!!  WHEN I START HAVIN' A REAL GOOD TIIIIIIIIIIIIME!!!!!  NO, I CAN'T HIDE MY REDNECK SIIIIIIIIIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

I FREAKIN' LOVE THAT SONG!!!!!!

Ok, back to the update. XD

I left choir early.  I'm really busy with school (and getting wrapped up in Krav ;)), so I left after the fundraiser last Friday.  I got a lot of goodbye hugs and even stayed in touch with a couple kids, so I left on a good note. (HA!!  BAHAHAHAHA!!!  HUMOOOR!!!!)

There's testing for level two in Krav next month, and I know Daddy's gonna do it, but I'm not sure if I can.  I want to, but we'll see what happens.  Tons of things have been happening lately...

My songwriting has been going great—I have seven songs I plan to send to other artists.

Wait.

Seven?

Let's see...Keith Urban, Thompson Square, Billy Currington (I'll rewrite this one at some point XD), Hunter Hayes (I WROTE THE LETTER!!  OH YEAHHHH!!!!!), Eric Church, Lady Antebellum...??

Who's seven?

What?  Did you say PIP?

As in, Pip from The Voice? 

As in, NOT COUNTRY?

Whoa.  Whoa.  WHOA. 

That's crazy.

Well, crazy as it may seem, it's true—I'm writing a song for PIP!!!

I know I say I only write country music, but I have a very Taylor Swift-Hunter Hayes songwriting style.  It's kind of country-pop, but it's not more pop like "I Knew You Were Trouble" or "22". 

Still, there's no banjo or fiddle, which makes it difficult to write. XD

I have a verse and the chorus, and I really like how it's going.  I'm super excited about it. 

School's been good.  I have Test 120 this week.  After that, I'll only have tests 140 and 160, then I'll be done for a week, then I'll go straight into the next grade.  Huzzah...

Oh well.  Gettin' crap done, at least...

Oh, and guess who's playing a small acoustic set in my area tonight?

HUNTER.  HAYES.

"Oh, you mean your favorite singer/songwriter/musician/human whom you've missed opening for Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood?"

Yes.  Him.

I wouldn't have been able to go even if I won tickets from the radio—you have to be at least twenty-one to get in...which, actually, is kind of funny when you think about it, considering the fact he wouldn't have been able to go to his own show a year ago. XD

Fortunately, I think there's gonna be a livestream on US99's website tonight...WOOHOOOOO!!!!!!!!

And I heard him talking about it on the radio, so that was pretty awesome. :D

Things are going pretty well...ups and downs for everything, but eh, that's life.  I wasn't playing guitar because I was busy with school and choir and Krav, but now that I'm done with choir, that gives me over six hours back in my week. (Two rehearsals a week, and it takes about an hour to get there...bleh.  I'll still miss it a lot, though. <3) I began practicing guitar again, thank goodness...

STUPID DRAWING TIIIIIME!! OH YEAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Where we do Krav, there's a really tight hallway where everybody exits out into after their classes.  A few minutes after our class, I went to get my coat, and there was only like, one other person there.  It was pretty quiet.

As usual, my cousin and I were goofing around and laughing about something.  I don't remember if we were making fart noises or duck noises or walrus noises or what, but we made some kind of disturbing noise that we thought was absolutely hilarious.

As one of us made this sound, a woman walked by.  She probably was picking up her kid from a class or something.

Well, she was disturbed.

It was so hilarious.  She literally spun around and stared at us, horrified. 

We laughed so freaking hard.

You know, I really enjoy all the reactions I get.

:)

Thank you all so much for reading!  I can't tell you how excited I get when I see a new view on a post.  Thank you for living with my crazies. XD

Have a wonderful day/night/whatever! XD

~Naomi

Happy Birthday Snoopy! ♥

Happy tenth birthday to my lovable Boston Terrier, Snoopy!  I made him birthday bacon this morning. :D

Yup...he loves Thanksgiving. XD

It's a normal week—I have choir today, Krav on Saturday (I'm hoping to do weapons), and hopefully Krav on Sunday (I wanna try KO bag).  Songwriting and schoolwork have been going well, and I missed five rehearsals already this semester—if I wasn't sick, Mom was sick, and if we were healthy, the weather was bad, and if we were healthy and it wasn't snowing crazily outside, the world ends, and if the world doesn't end...

Thanks for reading possibly my shortest post ever!  I hope you all have a wonderful day—including my little Snoppers! <3

~Naomi

*Happy Dance*

Why am I dancing?

'Cause I think it's funny to dance in public for no reason.

Ok, that's not why. XD But it IS funny. XD

About twenty minutes after I wrote Eric Church's song, I wrote a duet—with Lady Antebellum in mind.

This is the sixth song (counting Billy Currington's soon-to-be rewritten song) I have that I'm gonna send to other people...I'm so excited.

I'm listening to country music right now as I write. XD Little Big Town's "Tornado" is currently playing.  Mom and I were listening to country during breakfast—we heard Carrie Underwood, Chris Young, Taylor Swift...an awesome way to start Friday. :) (I'm still hoping "Wanted" or "Somebody's Heartbreak" will come on. ;))

That's it for this post.  I gotta go do something productive. XD Thank you for reading, and Snoopy says, "Have an awesome weekend!"

 

:)

 

 

~Naomi

 

 

OH YEAHHH!!!

Guess who just wrote a song for ERIC CHURCH?!?!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

XD

My mom and I absolutely LOVE Eric. We're part of the Church Choir, haha...;)

Anyway, we were listening to Chief on the way to choir today, and when we got home, I had an idea for a song. (Its message is like Eric's song "Homeboy." It's a fantastic song.  You gotta check it out. :D)

After writing just the first few lines, I could imagine Eric singing it.  With the thought of sending it to him, I finished it easily.

I'M SO EXCITED!!!

This is the fifth song I've written that I plan to send to other people (well, I guess fourth—I wrote a song for Billy Currington, but I lost it :P I'm gonna rewrite it at some point, though :)).  WOOHHOOOO!!!

CELEBRATE WITH STUPID DRAWINGS!!!!!!!!

I did better with drawing Brad's facial hair this time—even if everybody's ears SUCK.  I apologize for the terrible drawing, haha. XD

Thank you all for reading!  I'm so happy about this song.  I've been working a lot on my music lately, and I have a dress rehearsal on Saturday and a performance on Sunday, so I'm pretty busy.  I hope to go to Krav on Monday, but I don't think I'll be able to go. XP Oh well.  I'll be able to go back next Saturday—and I want to try KO bag on Sunday.  I think Dad's gonna do it this weekend.  Woohoo! :)

Thanks again for reading!  You all are amazing. <3 :)

~Naomi

WORLD'S FASTEST UPDATE >:D

...Ok, not really. XD

I'll try to make it fast, though...

This is my last choir semester.  There are quite a few reasons why I'm leaving, but the main one is so I can focus on schoolwork and my music...also, I'm getting pretty wrapped up in Krav Maga. ;)

It's so fun!  Everybody there is great, and it's an awesome activity.  Everyone I met has been so kind to me. :)

I'm gonna miss choir, and I've been here for two years now, but I've gotta move on eventually. 

School is going well, as songwriting is.  I have five tracks for a new album (seventh or eighth...I dunno XD), and they're all written for the same guy...heh heh. XD I also have another track on an earlier album for him.  WOOHOO!! XD

Is it dorky that I'm actually writing an outline for Hunter's letter...? XD Hey, it's gotta be professional...XD

I'm bummed I'll have to miss Krav this weekend; I have a dress rehearsal on Saturday and the performance on Sunday.  I'm trying to memorize choir songs, studying my notes for school, work on my own music, there's been a bit of family drama, friend-making drama (slight drama, though—mostly just frustration)...lots of stuff going on. 

I'm happy to say OCD has improved a lot—I don't talk about it a lot on here, but I have mild OCD that really sucks. XD In one area it's gotten a little worse, but I think I can handle it.

I have to go, so I don't have time to make a new silly drawing, so I'll look around for something on the computer.

DANG IT!  I can't find a picture. :(

Well, that's it for this update. XD That wasn't the world's fastest update, but it was MY fastest update. XD
Thanks for reading!  You're all so awesome. :) Have a great week!

~Naomi

Happy Valentine's Day ☺

Who is my valentine today, you ask?

Just kidding.  Slenderman's my sister's valentine.

I don't have one—unless my dog counts. XD

I love that little baby<3 :)

♥

Happy Valentine's Day, everyone!  Have a good week. :)

You know, a lot of people are like, "I hate Valentine's Day 'cause liking it is too mainstream," which is funny, since now THAT'S becoming mainstream.  I don't absolutely love it, and I don't absolutely hate it.  I look at Valentine's Day as my golden opportunity to get more chocolate. XD

That's it for this post—I finished another album, and Mom's gonna help me write Hunter's letter tomorrow.  YAY!!!! :D

Thanks for reading, and have one heck of a week! :)

~Naomi

Hot Chocolate

Who wishes to hear the harrowing tale, "The First Time I Made Hot Chocolate from Scratch by Myself?"

It's terrifying, I assure you.

Okay, enough of that. XD
Quite a while ago, my mom found this AWESOME hot chocolate recipe online.  The problem was...it was eight-hundred calories. XD

However, she found managed to make a three-hundred calorie recipe from it instead. XD It's really, really awesome...

I think it was Thursday night, and Mom was pretty sick.  She was in her room watching a movie.  After dinner, I decided to make hot chocolate to make her feel better. 

I seemed to have forgotten I was making a double batch...and the little pot wasn't the one Mom used.  I forgot there was a bigger pot.

I did what I was supposed to do—I put in a pound of chocolate chips and four cups of milk (this was the double batch, so that's why there's so much of everything XD I'll put up the recipe at the end of this post ;)).  When I poured in the last cup, the solid/liquid/whatever the heck it was at the moment was nearly at the top of the pot.

I started freaking out.  I watched Mom do this a million times, how was this going so wrong?

Thinking it'll go down once it's all melted, I turned on the stove.  I had to add a cup of sugar and four tablespoons of vanilla (which actually isn't really necessary; I'll explain at the end). 

By the time these ingredients were added, it was about to spill.  I turned the heat down and looked in the cabinet.

Sure enough, there was a much bigger pot.

After scolding myself several times for not bothering to check, I managed to get the substance into the other pot.  It wasn't easy; it was really tricky.

I got out two measuring cups, one big one and one small one.  I used the small one to slowly put the sort of melting liquid but not exactly solid into the other pot; I used the big cup to catch any drops that spilled.

When the half-melted hot chocolate was in the other pot, I realized most of the unmelted chocolate chips were sticking to the sides of the smaller pot.

After about five minutes of chocolate-scraping, I had everything together in the bigger pot on the stove.  I had a lot of crap to clean up, but the hot chocolate turned out really well; Mom loved it.

I practiced making it again last night (for some reason, I love drinking hot chocolate while watching The Walking Dead, which is strange 'cause of all the gross scenes...but there weren't as many last night), and it was A LOT better than Thursday, thank goodness.  Actually, I found the vanilla isn't really necessary; I didn't add any last night because we were out.  It tasted the same to us.  We'd have to make a batch with vanilla and one without to really see if there's a huge difference. 

You know, let me just sum up the experience with these pictures:

One: Hot Chocolate Starts Overflowing

Two: Transferring the Hot Chocolate to the Other Pot and Dealing with the Unmelted Chocolate

Three: Finally Getting Everything Together and Not Having the Kitchen on Fire

:)

If you wanna make it, you'll need (this is the three-hundred calorie recipe, by the way XD):

*2 cups of milk

*1/2 cup of sugar

*8 ounces of chocolate chips

*2 tablespoons of vanilla (although, as I said before, I didn't add any and it didn't make a huge difference)

I suggest putting the chocolate chips in, and THEN the milk; the other way around might result in milk everywhere. XD I also suggest using a big pot if you make a double batch...like I forgot. XD After you have the milk and chocolate chips in, turn on the stove—the heat should be between low and medium.  After you put in half a cup of sugar, make sure you stir it evenly; whenever I make it, there are LOTS of chunks. X) You can choose whether or not you want to add the vanilla. 

When everything's finally melted (I gotta admit: the chunks are fun to eat XD it's like drinking a chocolate bar!! XD), turn off the heat and wait for it to cool down a bit before you pour it; it's gonna be pretty freakin' hot. XD

It's really good the next day, too.  It's good when it's cold. :)

If you make it, I hope you like it!  Mom got the recipe online somewhere. :)

Thank you so much for reading!  I really appreciate it<3 :) Bye!

~Naomi