Another Music Post

What can I say? I love music.

Today I decided to highlight my top female singers. I was going to put them in a specific order, but it was too hard to decide, so they are in no particular order.

1. Lights

Also known as Valerie Poxleitner. She definitely isn't a powerhouse compared to other singers, but her soft voice is very infectious. Her style in the studio could be considered as intergalactic pop, or synthpop, but her acoustics are my favorite. This is an unreleased song called "Cactus In The Valley". I hate it when I love unreleased songs...

2. Hayley Williams
Lead singer of Paramore, and definitely a powerhouse compared to Lights. She sounds just as good live as she does in the studio. This song doesn't really show off Hayley's mad vocal skills, but it's definitely one of their best songs.



3. Demi Lovato
Out of all the Disney Channel stars that decided to try singing, Demi beats them all. She sings perfectly live and in the studio. Demi even had the opportunity to sing a song with punk/pop band, "We The Kings."


4. Sierra Kusterbeck
Sierra is the lead singer of the alternative-rock band "VersaEmerge." For me, their album "Fixed At Zero" never gets old.

Experimental Cookies

Tonight I felt the need to make cookies, but I wanted to try something new. Something that involved....pudding. The only instant pudding I could find in the cupboard was white chocolate, so I googled "cookies made with white chocolate pudding" and found this delightful recipe.

Of course, as baking goes, I realized at the last minute that I didn't have 2 cups of butter in the fridge. In fact, the only butter I could find was a small chunk in the side door and another chunk that had been previously melted and then put back in the fridge. I decided that all the butter I could find was about 1/2 cup, so I divided the recipe into fourths. All of the measurements came out very strange, such as 9/8ths cup flour, and 1.7 oz pudding mix. Also, I didn't have any chocolate chips, but I conveniently found some IKEA chocolate sitting in the fridge door! Broken up pieces of IKEA chocolate is the equivalent to chocolate chips, in my opinion.

Did they turn out? That depends. Are you a fan of delicious flavor? (Psych quote ftw!) Well, they didn't turn out very pretty, but the white chocolate pudding gave them an absolutely delicious flavor!

Moral of the story: pudding is the key to cookie success.

Welcome to Mystery

When I first heard the beginning of this song, I thought it was a song from the seventies.

New Senior Pictures!

I had the opportunity to take my friend Jackie's senior pictures, and I think they turned out nice.

Trip to D.C. and North Carolina

A few weeks ago I had the privilege to fly to Washing D.C. and North Carolina with my sister. The first day there we walked around D.C. the whole day with my cousin and her kids, and now I am starting to recognize the monuments (especially the Washington monument) in T.V. shows. Walking around D.C. made me want to join the FBI just so I can live there.

Arizona needs better public transportation.

At the Jeffersonian, I saw this sign that made me laugh. When I first read it, I completely misinterpereted it several ways, and thought it said "from mammals to restrooms" explaining how we evolved, or where humans originated from....silly me!

On the third day, my sister and I failed to find any open flights to get to North Carolina, so we ended up renting a car. Someday, when I can buy my own car, I want to buy a cute little red Ford Focus, because it gets excellent gas mileage....and it's cute, as I mentioned before. Although it took us twice as long as it was supposed to, because of absolutely horrible traffic, we finally managed to get to Chapel Hill. The drive was definitely an adventure! Once we decided to get off the freeway and go a different way, we were able to backtrack the past two hours of stop and go traffic in about ten-fifteen minutes.

The next day Julie and I visited the lovely UNC campus, where we managed to get some free food at a barbacue the dorms were having. It is so hidden away in the trees that it is easy to forget that you are on a university campus. We also visited Duke's campus for a few minutes, although we spent most of our time trying to find our way back to the car :) Duke's buildings look like castles! I felt like a princess just being there. The Duke gardens was by far the prettiest part of the whole campus.

Overall, the trip was fantastic! It was my first time ever to the east coast, and after seeing so much desert and lack of color, the density of the trees was a pleasant surprise. I definitely want to travel to the east coast again.

Neon Trees

Neon trees is awesome. Seriously. Thanks to iTunes' "free single of the week" I got the studio version of this song for free, BEFORE it became popular!

Wildflowers

It is the springtime, which means that my front yard is covered with wildflowers.