After a crazy week of karaoke contests, driving all over the tri-state area, seeing old friends come back into town, watching other friends move out of town, and being under the weather for a few days, I believe that I'm finally ready to post about Tuesday (the 12th) - otherwise known as Barenaked Ladies day (special thanks to Justin for ( Read more... )

I have been neglecting the poor LJ. I always mean to copy from MySpace blogs and paste here, but I never do. If you want, come over to: www.myspace.com/monpine and hit up the blog. It will make you feel like you never lost touch with the blithering dorkiness that I usually post to this thing ( Read more... )

Karaoke. The only time when it's completely okay to get up in front of people and be a terrible singer. It's accepted. No one will laugh...well, not in a mean way, I guess ( Read more... )

"In the summah, summah time / You can sit back and unwind ( Read more... )

In 1999, after getting my first job at 17, I finally had a little money of my own to spend. At this time, $15 was (and still kind of is) a lot of money to me. However, I had been rocking this song called "Freak of the Week" for the longest time, and wanted to take a chance on Hey! Album by the Marvelous 3. I traded in my green for this CD (don't ( Read more... )

Got the new keyboard yesterday and installed it myself (with a little help from Dell Customer Service). Even upgraded my Norton and renewed my subscription. So, my computer is back up and running. It's a nice feeling. Hopefully, Josh understands not to eat or drink over this thing again and we won't have to worry about installing anymore ( Read more... )

Woke up this morning and went out to check my email and MySpace, as has become my first thing in the morning ritual, and noticed something, shall we say...amiss. Every other letter on my keyboard was non-operational. And when I clicked on the Firefox browser, it asked me if I was "sure" I wanted to delete my shortcut to said browser. Hmm...most ( Read more... )

Went with my brothers, Mara, Jackie and Jamie to Chevrolet Amphitheater last night to see Panic! At The Disco perform. Originally, the venue was supposed to be Club Zoo. However, due to an overwhelming amount of ticket sales, they decided to move it to Chevy to accomodate more people. I'm glad they did. There would have been stampedes of ( Read more... )

I've got some fun things to talk about today, so I'll just get right into it ( Read more... )

Sometimes I feel like leaving this town ( Read more... )