Albums to Look for in 2011

So if you didn't already know I <3 music. Having said that there have been a few albums out so far this year that I love and many more I am looking forward to. Hope this inspires you to try out a new band or get you excited for the release of a long waited album to come out. Either way ENJOY!

Albums already out so far this year:
Panic! At The Disco - Vice & Virtues
Yellowcard - When You're Through With Thinking Say Yes
The Strokes - Angles
Adele - 21
Go Radio - Lucky Street
Laura Jansen - Bells
Travis Barker - Give The Drummer Some
The Get Up Kids - There Are Rules
Iron & Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean
Sum 41 - Scream Bloody Murder
Cage The Elephant - Thank You, Happy Birthday
Bayside - Killing Time
Noah & The Whale - Last Night On Earth
Funeral For A Friend - Welcome Home Armageddon

So the least famous out of all these artists is Laura Jansen but she is still AMAZING!!!! So i figured i'd add a video of one of her songs. i saw her in concert when she was an opening act for Joshua Radin...she's freakin' hilarious too!!!

Albums to look out for in the rest of the year:

Owl City - All Things Bright & Beautiful - May 17th

Manchester Orchestra - Simple Math - May 10th

These bands have not yet released dates for their albums...

All Time Low - Dirty Work

New Found Glory

The Cab

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Blink 182

Fun. --> this band i just listened to last night and they are so good!!!!

Got anymore albums to add that you're excited comment :)

Cartier Pushups, Gold Medals, and One Big Black Eye

This definition has a purpose promise!
Hooker:
1) Prostitute
2) A large drink of liquor
3) A player in rugby who hooks the ball in front line of scrummage

I am a hooker...well the 3rd one, coz i'm not a large drink of liquor and i'm most definitely not a prostitute (sorry for anyone that's disappointed...i will accept dates from kind gents though!) My parents would get a kick out of telling people that their daughter is a hooker just to see their reaction to hearing that. then they would explain that it's a position in rugby. not gunna lie, i like to do that to. it's quite funny coz you can totally predict what the person is thinking!

Playing rugby for LCI was so much fun. I got to meet up with my old rugby coach, Cartier, for dinner at BP's this week. So this got me thinking back to the good old days of Cartier push ups, rugby miles, and burpies gallor!!! that and alaya french working us super hard...i was actually scared of her!! now we're tight NBD!

My first memory of rugby was day one of practice when Cartier sorted us noobs into 2 groups, forwards and backs. I started to see a pattern...all the skinny, fast girls when to one side and and the rest of us went to other side. This is not to say that us forwards were not as good as the backs, heck we do most of the work!!! OOPS! did i really just type that? lol.

Another great memory was a game in my gr 12 year against fort mcleod. Just to keep the story short coz, well, i'm not always the best at telling stories..just ask my siblings, i ended up colliding with another player and i got a HUGE black eye as a result... you should see the other girl!! I'm pretty sure she was fine, which makes me extremely bitter! I wanted to play the rest of the half and i refused to get off the pitch even though i couldn't see out of one eye! I'm sure that was my concussion talking...the other girls weren't too impressed with my persistence to carry on playing coz being the hooker requires me to see when the ball comes into the scrum. OOPS!

Needless to say this occurred a measly week and a half before grad. i kid you not!!!! i had a black eye for graduation! FML!!! i got over it...kinda.

Here's the before's and after

BEFORE: aka 10 mins after it happened....don't i look fabulous?!

A few days after...

So i couldn't open my eye for a few days...i got the nickname Quasimodo by some real FRIENDS! (*cough* the Kyle sisters and Andrew Wagner *cough cough*) great! i'm pretty sure they forgot about that name and i kindly reminded them through this blog lol.

Here's the day of grad at convocation: you can still kinda see it but wait till you see the next pic.

AFTER: No black eye!!! i still had a red eye from the busted blood vessels in my eye but i was very clever in the way i position my head so they were not caught on camera!

Now that you've seen me at my best and worst... Time to share another fond memory from rugby. South Zone Finals 2008. LCI vs. Raymond!!!! This game was super intense lemme tell ya!

Needless to say we won!! but it was really close!! It felt AMAZING to beat Raymond!! Serious!

Just look how happy/exciting we were to walk off the pitch after that glorious win!!! beautiful isn't it?
We went onto play in provincials and we WON GOLD!!!! BEST TIME EVER!!!

For all you rugby players or rugby lovers out there that have favourite memories or comments feel free to share!

Next on my fab blog...most anticipated albums of 2011 (according to me!)

peace out yo!

My love for Mixtapes

So I went to see 'No Strings Attached' this weekend, highly inappropriate but really funny (I'm not justifying going to see but whatever). Anywho I love Natalie Portman with all my heart and Ashton Kutcher isn't so bad on the eyes either. Well in the movie Adam makes Emma a 'period mixtape'...SERIOUSLY!!! It was really a mix CD but it sounds more legit when said as a mixtape. I thought it was the funniest/sweetest thing ever! The most memorable song on the mixtape was "Bleeding Love" by Leona Lewis. I will never listen to that song in the same way again!
I've had mixtapes given to me before as going away presents and such but I've only ever had one mixtape given to me before by a guy... It was an answer to me asking him to preference and it was pretty much the best thing EVER!!! This is a side for for any guy reading this (which is slim to none but o well) I <3 mixtapes!!! LOVE them!!! I find them so thoughtful when they put songs that make them think of you, or songs you should check...stuff like that. I find guys don't try hard enough these days, but that's just my bitter opinion lol!
Here's one of my fave bands ever (Jack's Mannequin) singing about mixtapes, the song is called: The Mixed Tape (shocker I know!) It's also got one of my fave actress' in the music video...Hilarie Burton aka Peyton Sawyer from One Tree Hill (Also one of my fave tv shows)
ENJOY!

P.S. I found out today that Jimmy Eat World is going to Calgary in May! Pretty much the best news EVER!

Till next people!!

Me, Myself, and I

Hey y'all!
I've been thinking about starting a blog for a while now and I've finally got down to it! Well what to say? I'm excited! I get into these cycles of writing in my journal for a while then I just get bored of my life so I stop writing in it. Then I try to catch up on what I've missed and update my journal on everything and it's exhausting. Then I had a thought! I'm already on the computer a lot and why not do a journal-like thing... like a blog! So here it is! For you and me! Let's get started!!!
Here's a few things you should know about me:

1) If you didn't already know I'm British

2) I LOVE music!! seriously love it! I went to warped tour for the first time last year and I met of one my favourite bands...The Rocket Summer!!

3) I love to dance and sing in my bedroom when no one is around...and yes I use my hairbrush as a microphone! One of my favourite feel good songs has to be Jimmy Eat World's 'The Middle'.

4) I'm in my 3rd year of post secondary school...I'm going to be a Registered Nurse before I'm 22! Not too shabby I know! My plan is to work in Pediatrics or in Public Health.

5) I LOVE shopping...a little too much! My favourite store ever...Forever 21

I also love thrift store shopping...I love it when i find something super cute and that's cheap!

So that's a little about me to get ya started...

Have a great week!