Alice

So, by far, the hardest funeral I have ever attended was this evening. Mamaw Alice, as we called her, passed away pretty unexpectedly.
I can't go into all that Alice meant to me, because I am still overly emotional. But let me wrap it as tightly as possible: Alice paid for me to have a yearbook my senior year of high school, took care of all of my prom expenses (except my dress)... and paid for my cap and gown for graduation. She opened her home to me when I was living out of my car... she invited me to spend holidays with her family, blessed us with her amazing daughter, Christy, which I know I have blogged about, and held me while I cried so many times. Now, when I could use her loving arms the most, she is not here to hold me... What made everything harder was seeing Christy. Everytime I saw her heart breaking, mine fell a little more apart. Everytime she squeezed my hand, I wanted to take the pain away. I love them. I hope she knows it.

Back to kickstart Amy.

I am making banners right now for Facebook's timeline covers. They all have Amy's most magnificent quotes. Here are the first three. If you use them, I don't mind if you skip my credit, but please keep the Kickstart website on them.

Click the image you would like to use as your timeline cover, right click and save. Then on Facebook, hover over your cover photo. In the bottom right corner, select upload. Ta-da! You are now supporting an independent artist with a positive message,

Questions I get tired of answering: Part 2

These are questions I get tired of hearing and answering about y white tattoos.

1. What is that?
   It's a white ink tattoo.
   
2. Did it hurt?
   No, it was painted on by baby fairies with magical dandelions.
   
3. So, is it like a brand?
   No.... white. ink. tattoo.
   
4. Does it glow in the dark?
   No.... white. ink. tattoo.
   
5. Is it more painful than a regular tattoo?
   Is blue ink more painful than red ink? No. just white... ink... tattoo.
   
6. So, does it become super bright when you tan?
   This is one actual question I don't get irritated with lack of thinking. Darker skin has higher melanin levels in the higher levels of the skin which will cover up any ink on the 4th layer of the skin.
   
7. Why a jellyfish?
   Jellyfish is sentimental to me. I love the fact that they go with the flow, make the most of where they land, and always have faith the group won't leave them.
   
8. What does it say?
   Well, since you clearly can't read cursive writing, it says "There is always a spark that the dark can't deny" and "I will be exactly who I'm called to be today."
   
9. Why did you choose white ink? You can't even see it...
   Are you looking at it right now? Then you can see it... and maybe it's because I am not an attention whore... and I just want my tats to be my personal story... and to feel like part of my body... not the world's....

Questions I get tired of answering.

I have a fairly interesting life. I live it because I enjoy the aspects of it... not because I want to explain it to everyone I come in contact with. Here we go:

In regards to working at Hooters:

I LOVE my job. I am in internationally recognized orange shorts, and it's a job where we are paid to be having fun.

I do have to answer the same questions over and over.

1.  Do your parents approve?
   Well, I must have missed the memo that I was living a life for my parents.... but yes, they are happy for me.
   
2. Do you get hit on a lot?
   Oh no... I just walk around looking super hot in skimpy clothes at a restaurant where half my customers are single men. OF COURSE I get hit on... but after a year of the same pick up lines, you quit noticing.
   
3. Is that your real name?
   Yes. I'm not a stripper. There is nothing WRONG with being a stripper, but the precautionary fake name is a little more of a safety issue for an exotic dancer than a waitress in a restaurant where kids eat free.
   
4. Are you wearing panty hose? Do you have to where them?
   Panty hose? No, my legs are just naturally shiny orange color that doesn't match the rest of my body. All hooters girls do... we love our unnatural leg color.
   
5. Do you work at Hooters? I noticed the socks and shoes...
   No, I sweep the bowling alley... You must be a Doctor because I noticed your McDonalds visor and polo.
   
   
   
   

Stay tuned for questions I hate answering about my white tattoo, my pet deer, and my family's religious views...

Blast from the Past.

Now, do any of you remember my high school drama days? When I was president of Drama club? Well, years later, I am now helping coach my old team. Thursdays, I am going in and working one on one and with the group to help the kids prepare for competition. It's AMAZING! Today I got to read my favorite poem to them for Poetry 101, and then we discussed Prose and Humorous Interpretation. Each student is encouraged to find the category they love to compete in... and I have realized... for every one of those kids that wants to get better, I'm willing to hep them do it. Amazing how their motivation motivates me.

Kickstart Amy!

I know I have not posted in a LONG LONG TIME!
I am posting today, 1, to update my followers, and 2, to talk about something I love.

Well, I moved to the beach for a year, and now I am back in Tennessee.

And now the thing to talk about:
Any of my followers who were active in reading my blog back when I was a teenager, know that I was very depressed, maybe even suicidal for a while. Then I shifted, and overcame so much. If you were a follower then, you probably remember the amount of thanks I would shout out to Amy Steinberg for keeping me sane. Through her music, I healed. The only way I could express my emotions over the years seemed to be through her similar experiences.

I feel like if you start at the beginning, and listen to all of her albums in order, it's a story, a beautiful story of Amy... and her transformation, and her sadness, and her evolution into the amazing spiritual leader she has become.
Well, now Amy is working on a new CD. It's called "Surrender to the Incline"

 She is using an amazing site called Kickstarter. It's all or nothing. The goal is to fund the album. Her goal is $11,111. Today is day one, and she already is 6% there. If she makes it to at least 100%, she gets the funding, but if not, she walks out empty handed. Now, here is the cool benefit for you. If you pledge a certain amount of money, you get different rewards listed on the site. I pledged 25 bucks, which is what I would have paid to buy and ship my CD anyway, and it guarantees me not only GETTING the CD, but it being signed. So, basically, I just pre-ordered my CD.

 It will be her 10th album that I have physically held. I am OVERWHELMED with excitement.
I became a fan of Amy about 10 years ago, and I would reccomend adding her to your collection any day. I am SO excited to see this album come out, and put possitive vibrations into our world. To see people uplifted, and healed through her words like I was.
Amy is an amazing singer/songwriter/performer/person. If you haven't already heard her music on my page, or on my website, feel free to youtube her, check out her samples on iTunes, Amazon, or CD Baby, or visit her site, www.amysteinberg.net
Then head on over to www.kickstartamy.com and help out, not only helping Amy live her dream, but helping the world by releasing more positive energy through music. =)

In 2004, I had the chance to finally meet Amy, after being a fan. Since then, she has become somebody who I not only love as a performer, but as a person. I never miss an opportunity to see her, and be uplifted through her music. This picture was taken in 2010 at one of the shows I went to. SHE IS AMAZING!