Celine's tour ended..

26th February, Thursday, in Omaha.
All of us Celine fans have been quite emotional about it- I'm sure there are many people who won't understand, but that's ok, no need to judge our feelings!
It's just been an amazing year, we were so surprised that this tour even happened after the whole Vegas thing, and for so many people, including me, it involved our first times seeing her live which was an incredible dream come true.
It's also been great talking through fan clubs to people around the world as she traveled, from so many different cultures and situations but all touched in the same way by who she is, and the music she makes.
She's gonna be on Star Academie on Sunday night, and then she's going to take a year and a half off, and hopefully have another baby!! I'll be praying, waiting, loving, all that stuff, always :)

Rien N'est Vraiment Fini.....

"Nothing is Really Finished..." I love this song, and it seems so relevant at this moment. I didn't make the video btw, so all credit goes to whoever did, it just came up in a search for the song on YouTube. Anyway, here's a translation I did...

The eternal promises
The days of great sun
The moments of gold and light
The silences of souls
The unsaid that ignites
The fire that comes from moonlight

So the water falls asleep in the eyes of Queens
As in river beds
As long as our hands remember
Nothing is really finished
Sometimes the large winds bring back
The sailor who is lost
As long as your voice follows mine
Nothing is really finished
Really

The fantasy perfumes
The nights of amber and honey
The sweet magic of the skin
To our way of life
To all this that binds us
To this past that keeps us warm

If the large winds bring you back
Nothing is really finished..

Pancake Tuesday

Are we seriously approaching Easter already!?
Well it's Shrove Tuesday, Pancake Tuesday. I forget what shrove means.
I made pancakes tonight...well, crepes...French pancakes, whatever you want to call it. Yummy! Now I just have to think about what to give up for Lent. I've done pizza, chocolate, ice cream, lollies, and cookies in the past. It wasn't too hard. I did giving all my loose change to charity, a daily prayer journal, and Bible reading. So I'm kind of out of ideas. Hmmm...

Bawling like a baby...

Maybe I should just become an emo. I'm crying enough :P I'm listening to this song and something about it just hit me, it's so emotional, whatever it means.

Ahhh crazy!

I've been working all week, training staff, I still have an ear infection, and I am now sleep deprived from it all. We have family dramas, not to mention Belle's been a little sick, and I just had to get a booger out of Missy's nose. Gross, huh? I guess I'm prepared though, for if/when I have human babies someday. Well that's my venting done for now.

Desperate Housewives...

I'm watching it now. I think sometimes it's a bit crazy and it goes a bit too far, but it's amusing. Funny. And I kind of like, the concept of people whose lives seems so perfect, but underneath that, it's not. That's true.

Happy Valentines Day!

To everyone I love. To my family, friends, pets, inspirations, God, and all the good people in the world. I love you all! Thanks for being you.
I do feel like this day is too commercialized, but I still love that it's celebrating something so special that we're blessed to have in our lives- love.

Happy Birthdayyyy....

My little bunny boy, Peter, turns one year old today! I'm proud haha. I think I'll feel a real sense of achievement when Belle (my youngest animal baby) turns one, which will be in June, but I'm still happy to celebrate a whole good year with Petie now! Also, Valentine turns four tomorrow! He's the oldest of the five of them. :) :)
Note- pic is from Ruby's party last year. I decided not to make him wear the hat again today. :P

City..for a day...

I'm not sure if I've blogged about this before, but sometimes I go into the city, just for a day to get away from all the familiar crap in life and just clear my brain. I think today, more than anything, it just made me tired though, and gave me a sore foot since my shoe was being weird. It's after 11pm and I've just finished doing so much stuff.. Some of my friends are in Montreal, with Celine. I wish I was there...but I'm not. So I was attempting to make the most of today. I got a ferry from the harbor to Manly...went to the beach. I didn't swim, didn't have a towel or anything with me since I didn't want to have to carry it all. (Yet I did purchase a box of Lucky Charms cereal and have to carry that around all day long.) So I just had lunch, got harassed by seagulls (One actually landed on me. Grr.) took some pics, and left. My Grandparents actually met there, but I had never been. So it was a little interesting. Just a lot of traveling involved for not much to do there.
Other things going on...the bush fires in Victoria...the news makes me so sad, every day. It's lovely to see people supporting each other though, and how much effort is being made to help pets and wildlife.
The Grammys..I didn't watch. Without judging before we have all the facts or saying too much, I do think it's pathetic for any guy to hit a woman. :(
Well I've probably stopped making sense, so goodnight.

Music...

I was thinking...music can make us believe in love with the things it makes us feel. Love makes us believe in life, and heaven, and God. I have sooo many favourite songs. These are two I've listened to in the past few days. The lyrics made me think. I don't know what the first one is about. But the second one seems relevant lately.


February Song (Josh Groban)

Where is that old friend gone
Lost in a February Song
Tell him it won't be long
Til he opens his eyes

Where is that simple day
Before colors broke into shades
And how did I ever fade
Into this life
Into this life

And I never want to let you down
Forgive me if I slip away
When all that I've known is lost and found
I promise you I
I'll come back to you
One day

Morning is waking up
Sometimes it's more than just enough
And all that you need to love
Is in front of your eyes,
It's in front of your eyes

And I never want to let you down
Forgive me if I slip away
Sometimes it's hard to find my ground
Cause I keep on falling
As I try to get away
From this crazy world

And I never want to let you down
Forgive me if I slip away
When all that I've known is lost and found
I promise you I
I'll come back to you
One day

Where is that old friend gone
Lost in a February Song
Tell him it won't be long
Til he opens his eyes
Opens his eyes.


Smile (Lonestar)

I still remember the night we met
You said you loved my smile
But your love for me was like a summer breeze
Oh it lasted for a while
I could hold on a little tighter I know
But when you love someone gotta let them go

So I'm gonna Smile
Cause I wanna make you happy
Laugh
So you can't see me cry
I'm gonna let you go in style
And even if it kills me
I'm gonna Smile

Kiss me once for the good times baby
Kiss me twice for good bye
You can't help how you don't feel
And it doesn't matter why
Give me a chance to bow out gracefully
Cause that's how I want you to remember me

I'm gonna Smile
Cause I want to make you happy
Laugh
So you cant see me cry
I'm gonna let you go in style
And even if it kills me
I'm gonna Smile

I'm gonna Smile
So you can find the courage
Laugh
So you wont see me hurting
I'm gonna let you go in style
And even if it kills me
I'm gonna
Smile

Delta!!!

Last night: One of Delta's concerts at the State Theatre, Sydney- Part of her Believe Again Tour.
It was my 5th time seeing her perform, 8th time seeing her in total, so I don't have anything new or surprising to talk about there! But she was amazing, as always.
Brian was the support act, he opened the show, singing Twisted, Jones, Patience, and Like Only A Woman Can. Then Delta...she had 6 costumes in total. I only have a few pics, since we were in the 3rd row and they were being kind of strict with cameras. Maybe because they were filming for the DVD? I don't know, but I wasn't using a flash, just trying to get a few pics on my phone...it doesn't make sense to me, for them to ban us from taking photos, since we pay enough to be there...still, we were in the 3rd row and it was kind of hard to avoid getting told off by security, but I managed thankfully. :) Some of the songs she sang...Believe Again, Innocent Eyes, In This Life, I Can't Break It To My Heart, Not Me Not I, Out Of The Blue (with an interesting, very different new arrangement, I guess to erase the memory of who it was written for!!), Brave Face (which she didn't actually get to sing any of, since she decided to walk into the audience a whole bunch of people kind of ran at her!), then she danced like Michael Jackson (sounds LOL funny but she was actually really really good at it!!!) and then You Will Only Break My Heart. Intermission. Then 3rd costume, which involved less sparkles but more feathers. Hm ok. :) She sang Born To Try- and played guitar!! (She now plays guitar too!) Then Butterfly (brought some audience members up on stage), That's Freedom, Running Away, Queen of the Night, and Sweet Dreams. Tried to pull the skirt off her dress at this point (had another costume underneath) but got stuck LOL. Then in the middle of her talking, Brian came back and started singing the next song...she seemed slightly annoyed at him LOL but they just went with it..it was a song from Dirty Dancing, so they were dancing together, however she was cracking up laughing sooo hard at his ummm...suggestive dance moves. Then she tried to make us all do the Mashed Potato dance. Ok. Then Brian ruined the end of the song, so they argued for a while about everything from him being Irish, to her looking at him with "big cow eyes." They're so cute together. Next was Almost Here, Together We Are One, and One Day. The encore was Lost Without You.
By the way, the venue was creepy. Beautiful, but very old fashioned, and the people on the balconies were told not to stand up in case it collapsed. Umm can you say OHS problem!!!???

February...

January went so fast, huh? Anyway, here are my current thoughts to start off February, and the song I'm listening to now (I'm seeing Delta again in 2 days, btw.)
The past few days have been crazy. I've been in situations where I've really had to stand up for what I believe in, arguing with people. This is kind of a continuation of my last entry. It may seem insignificant, but I really felt like I was being tested at times. Conversation arised where I kind of had to confront the reasons certain things upset me so much. And while that's painful, I think maybe that's God's way of healing us. Getting us to talk about our pain, pull it out of us and use it for good. To be honest, many times I've been bawling in frustration, but I think that with anything like this, if you can stand strong in what you know is right, it makes you stronger in the end. The other thing that's been going on is problems with my parents. I'm sure many can relate. Whenever they don't like what you do, you get told to "grow up." And even when you're being mature and sensible, they still treat you like a child. Just can't win. Not to mention the internet went crazy over the past few days, (If we use too many downloads, the company slows down our connection, and apparently we have the biggest plan so we can't upgrade) and I spent Saturday night babysitting a 74 year old and a bird that screams every time I step out of the room. It's one of those weeks that has just felt very crappy and it kind of makes me sad. But I guess there has to be a reason for all this. I haven't been going to Church lately, I'm not sure what my views are on that at the moment. There seems to be a few very distinct versions of Christianity around. The one where God is a strict law enforcer and we had better obey him, or the one where we are loved no matter what we do. I think I'm somewhere between the two and quite confused right now. It often feels like the Church is all about humans, when it should be about God. It's all about people's interpretations of things. I don't know.
The song has changed now...I love this line, it's so true, how we're born to be before the world destroys us. Can we try to not let it? "The ways she shimmers, the way she shines, the way she radiates, the way she lives, the way she loves, the way she never hates..."