Time for a change.

Many changes are about to occur in my simple life. I will be starting grad school in the middle of August, and while I'm excited, I am nervous about this new venture I am about to take. I will be going for a Masters in Elem Edu, and hopeful to teach Kindergarten or 1st grade. Going to grad school, I also encounter much debt with student loans boo! I just had a transportation chance in my life, I have bought myself my first car. It is a 1994 Mercedes E320 and she is lovely! Her name is Maggie Mae (yes Beatles influenced) and I love her! Brian was a huge help in this decision and I am so grateful that I have him in my life! So there is another debt increase to car loan boo!

An exciting once in a life time opportunity that I will be experiencing on Monday, July 26th is I will be having my dream come true and seeing Paul McCartney perform live before my eyes! If anyone knows me, they know I am obsessed with The Beatles and this is such an exciting event for me! A friend I have in England gave me a security contact that if I find this security guy he will have an All Access Pass for me to go backstage! AHH!! So hopefully I will find him, if not it will still be a surreal experience for me!

I am at a great place in my life currently. I am seeing the light at the end of the tunnel of my career, I love my job being a preschool teacher, I have a wonderful boyfriend I care about and he cares about me that I see myself marrying one day and having kids in the future, I have wheels to get around, a dog that is wonderful to come home to, and much music in my life! God has provided so much for me and I am forever thankful to Him. It has been a tough year for me financially, but I have risen above it and I am at peace finally.

I am hoping to find the time to post pictures of Lucy, Maggie Mae (my new car), Brian, etc things in my life soon.

Until next time,
Peace and Love!
Danni

My Bucket List

So I have had a Bucket List since I have been in college, and of course it is constantly being added to as I get older. I decided since there are many things I want to do in life I might as well document my list, so I can remember what is on it. In case anyone is wondering what a Bucket List actually is, it is basically a list of things you want to do before you die. Yes I know it sounds depressing, but I view it as a positive thing, so you don't take life for granted!

My Bucket List: (In no particular order)

1. See Paul McCartney live in concert (doing this in July)
2. Run a Half Marathon (check, ran the Country Music Half Marathon in April)
3. Travel to the UK
4. Walk across Abbey Road
5. See Eric Clapton live in concert (check, saw him in February)
6. Get married once to my love
7. Become a mom
8. Graduate from college (check)
9. Graduate with my Masters in Elem Edu
10. Live on the beach
11. Be in NYC on New Years to see the ball drop (check, in 2008)
12. Own a Mini Cooper
13. Go hiking
14. Go to Hawaii
15. Go sailing

This is just a short list and I'm sure to have left some things out, but that is it for now. :)

Peace and <3
Danni

Updated pics

Getting ready for New Years

Out in Nashville celebrating the New Year!

Our new friends Johnny and Carly.

Johnny Lang downtown Nashville for free!

New Years Kiss!

Running the Blues Jam at Live

Our new friends Dana and Adam.

Some jammers and the Blues Jam

Me and my love at the Blues Jam

Joe and Brian jamming and Beer Sellar

Lucy all grown up! 9 months!

Searching...

So I figured since I have new digs for my blog I should probably do an update, since it has been awhile. As you notice from the title, I am still on a quest for a job. It will happen someday I just keep searching and praying. I have applied to be a substitute teacher for Metro schools in Nashville, but that takes 6 weeks to process so I won't know anything until February about that. I have been applying for admin assistant positions constantly, but those require more experience than I have and a lot of the postings I come across are scams to get you to fill out stuff, so I have to be pretty picky.


Since I have had more time on my hands, I have finally took it upon myself to try cooking. I have always had a huge fear or cooking, since every attempt in the past has set off smoke alarms. :) Well my older sister, Amber, has started a Cooking Blog and has posted all of her recipes and others my mom has used and grandma has used. So, since I know some of the meals I have attempted them. Red Lobster biscuits are my favorite and I have those down, salmon patties are easy (but I still have to get the cooking down better), and pumpkin bread turned out good (except the fact I filled it too high and it was dripping opps!). I am learning as I go, but Brian definitely enjoys that I am cooking more and he doesn't have to come home after working all day and then having to cook dinner. :)

The blues jam is going ok. We still enjoy running the jam, but the guy who sets up the gigs is starting to "screw" over his friends and us. So we are looking into starting our own jam in another venue, but we just have to find a venue who will pay us a base pay so we can make sure the host band is paid for their time. We will see, but we are tired of being taken advantage of by this guy especially since I do not have a day job he is asking me to do more promoting and other things without any pay. So we will see....

Brian and I are great! We love each other very much and talk about marriage almost everyday, we just are in a poor financial situation to even think about a wedding. Brian tries so hard to make me happy and my family happy, all he wants is to be apart of my family and I be apart of his. But with my thinking, I just want to move away and maybe that will get people to miss me and talk to me. Oh well! It's just sometimes my parents forget that I am 24 years old and I am an adult, I never ask them for help with anything anymore, and I am extremely happy at where I am at, but I feel like I'm always trying to please them, but never can. Brian sees it takes a wear on me and wants to do something but can't. That is where I am getting this maybe I'll move away idea. Sometimes I feel like that stereotypical middle child, my older sister has the kids and lives in Chattanooga so people get excited to see her, my younger sister is always in trouble with something so gets attention in the way that everyone just wants to help her and not let her help herself, and me well I keep to myself, figure things out and have to call everyone if I want to see them. Oh well I have a plan.

I do have a plan for my career. I am looking into going back to school and getting a Masters in Elementary Education so I can become a teacher. I am interviewing for a position with the Nashville Teaching Fellows Program so I hope to get that. If not, I will go to MTSU and get my Masters that way. We will see, but this way I can move where ever I want.

That's all for now, check out a new artist I have come across recently... Madeleine Peyroux.

The future is blurry but I'm still living life!

So I am at a point of confusion in my life. Seems almost as if I am living in limbo at the moment. I am sure to get out of this part of my life soon, but it is not so fun. The job that I obtain currently has become weary and I'm once again on the hunt! Please do keep me in your prayers! I have had a few leads as to what to dive into, but no responses just yet. My job is safe atleast until the end of the year, but if you know me and how I work and worry then you know I'm on the prowl and not stopping.

Other than the job thing, life is good and I am very happy. I live with a man who treats me with respect, comforts me, cooks for me, always tells me how he is lucy to have me and how happy I make him. There is so much love in our little townhouse it is about to explode! Lucy is great and she is fully healed from her leg accident 3 months ago and I have 1 more month of payment and then that Credit Card will be paid off! Yay!

My dad's birthday is today and I got him a barbeque tool kit which is pretty cool! Brian's birthday is tomorrow and I have already given him most of his gifts to include, a dolly (so he doesn't kill his back carrying amps to jams), strings for his guitar (David Gilmour style), and a book about David Gilmour's black strat (if you can't tell David Gilmour is his idol). I also got him a fender brown leather strap for his guitar since his is to pieces. We will be celebrating his 27th birthday at the Blues Jam tomorrow night so that should be fun! I made his favorite cake too yellow cake with chocolate iceing yum!

Thanksgiving is coming up which is also my birthday so I am excited to have my family and friends come over for a Thanksgiving dinner at my townhouse and all sit down and eat together. It is the best birthday present I could ask for. I just wish my dad and older sister could be there as well, but that would take a miracle to get all of my immediate family in one room. Maybe someday!

That is all I have to spill about me. I'm sure I will be updating later on the progress of my job hunt.

Enjoy some new pictures of Lucy :)

New Quote book

So I just got this new journal, but instead of journaling in it since I do that on here, I decided to write down songs that I hear and fall in love with, quotes that I read so I do not forget the wisdom, and just bands and artists I should not forget. I will go ahead and start the list I have going.

Currently I listen to the music channel at work so when I here a song I immediately write it down, and I have been doing a lot of reading lately, just finished 2 Autobiographies! Eric Clapton's and Pattie Boyd's they are awesome! I am now working on "Here, There and Everywhere" by Geoff Emerick, I started it a couple years ago and now I have picked it up and it is exciting to read behind the music things on The Beatles.

Here is the List:

• Eric Clapton: "Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other BS attached. Music survives everything and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hinderance. It has always found me, and with God's blessing and permission, it always will." Clapton Autobiography
• Susan Tedeschi/ Buddy Guy: "Too Many Tears"
• Etta James: "At Last"
• Little Walter: "Bad Hours"
• Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown: "The Drifter" (I wrote this song down for Brian)
• Sam Cooke: "A Change is Gonna Come"
• Albert Collins: "Cold, Cold Feeling"
• Hank Ballard/ The Midnighters: "Work with me Annie"
• Buddy Guy: "The Things I used to do"
• Al Green: "Tired of Being Alone"
• Cat Stevens: "Wild World"
• The Allman Brothers: "Midnight Rider"
• Duke Robillad: "I Wanna Hug You, Kiss You, Squeeze You"
• The Allman Brothers: "Statesboro Blues"
• Blind Faith: "Had to Cry Today"
• Stevie Ray Vaughan/ Double Trouble: "The Sky is Crying"
• The Beatles: "In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make." The End
• John Lennon: "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.."
• The Band: "Don't Do It"
• The Beatles: "Something" and "Strawberry Fields Forever (Take 1)"

That is what I have so far and I am having a blast doing this! I hope everyone gets a chance to check out these songs. I love spreading music, love and wisdom!

Take care!
Peace and love,

Danni ♥

I've got the blues! (In a good way)

So I have been working for my dad and I think it is going well, just business has been slow and steady, but that always wins the race right? Well things are good there.

There is a blues and jazz festival coming up this weekend in Nashville in Riverfront Park that I will be helping out my boys. The Music City Blues Jam is selecting some regulars to play in a set for 45 minutes. I went to the rehearsal on Tuesday and I think they are going to sound awesome! My job will just to be everything goes according to schedule and people get on and off stage in an appropriate timely manner. So come out and support us! Brian, my boyfriend, will be playing in it and he is awesome and I think needs more people to tell him that so he can believe it himself! You can go to my youtube account under DeeW1185 and I put a video up of him playing "Red House" by Jimi Hendrix. Go check it out!

Other than preparing for the festival I have just been working on my Arbonne business. Yes, I now sell Arbonne and if you are interested in buying any products from me or want to do a party I can set that up with you. Let me know! Just busy busy is my life but I love it that way. Lucy is doing great and is getting bigger day by day and she is a smart puppy.

I will try to get pictures up this week of concerts and Lucy and the festival this weekend.

Peace and love,
Danni <3