As cheesy as the title is, maybe my love stories is the music industry?

Last year at the CMT awards I was introduced to an artist that inspired me throughout the year. Taylor swift had been mentioned several times throughout that past year but I never really knew who she was. In 2008 I attended the CMT music awards and watched as she accepted award after award, seemed genuinely grateful, and even pulled off an amazing performance. I decided I had to check her out and throughout this past year I started to become a fan. There was this girl who was just a little bit younger then me who inspires me to keep working at my dream of working in the music industry. Why was it Taylor Swift that kept me inspired? Why not some country legend or even another icon that is out there?

            For some reason I admire Taylor for creating a type of music and lyrics that I can relate to. Yah may sounds dumb, but think about it. If you know me real well, you  1)know  I like pop music and 2) anyone that can write a song that is so meaningful and inspiring goes up on my list of favorite people. I have always been fascinated with the ability to turn feelings into songs not to mention a number one hit, week after week.

            Now I have heard stories of taylor being dramic and diva-like call me naive but, from what I have experienced she is a nice girl. And to be frank, I don’t care if it was just an act when she met me, the day I met her she made me realize that my goal of becoming successful and working in the music industry, can still be alive and that it takes time. Not just Taylor but anyone who can write lyrics, music, and have the personality, deserves to make it in the industry, but most importantly, someone that cares deserves it even more. Although I have said it before, when I am out of college I am going to work for somebody who cares about their fans. The music industry is falling apart but fans will always be there. CMA fest made me realize that music is still alive because of their fans.  

 Although I went to the taping of crossroads with t.swift and def. leppord and met her on another occasion last Sunday was my 1^st real performance and even though I sat at the way top it didn’t matter. The lyrics, music, and friends I spent the time with made it become real.

            Tonight was my 2^nd time watching the cmt awards and I hope to have found a new band for the year. Country music has never really been my thing, but I am learning to like it more and more. I am excited for my new band of the year and already have several picked out. I hope that one will last and that next cmt awards I can write a new blog with a new band. 

why is it that even though tomorrow is my last day of class for this semester I still cant seem to stay focused and write one last paper?

Holy crap,

I have no clue how to describe what I just saw. A tornado touched down 2 miles away from apartment tonight and thank god I was at work because if I was at home I would have been freaking out!

While I was at work I stood inside and watched the wind go crazy and rain pour down like there was no tomorrow. Keep in mind I work in Nashville which is about 40 mins away from apartment. The wind was so strong it blew the speakers off the radio stations truck, but the rain was something else. I got a text message while I was just finishing work saying that a tornado touched down on broad street which is literally 2 miles away from apt.

When I drove home I had to pass through broad street and I thought I would just hit the end of the street and be ok, but I was SO WRONG. Not only was the traffic backed up and at a stand still forever, (which I understand why now because there was GLASS all over the street) but there must have been like 200 cop cars no joke. There was police cars, ambulances and fire trucks everywhere! People were directing traffic and road crews were sweeping away glass and other debris away from the street. There was power lines down, and poles in the middle of the street. There was light posts barely hanging on and side rails UP ON TOP of the telephone/power lines. Tops of businesses were ½ blown off, and windows were broken everywhere. It was so surreal to see. I tried taking pictures while I was stuck in traffic but they don’t do what I saw justice. The only light on the streets where the flashing lights of sirens and other then that it was pitch black. I feel like I cant even explain what I saw, other than HOLY CRAP that was intense. I hope that everyone is ok, and that those businesses didn’t lose too much and have good insurance. WOW, is all that is going through my mind right now. 

Diabetes is something that cant be taken lightly. Did you know that over 7.8% of our population has diabetes? Thats over 23.6 MILLION people. 

I guarentee that you know atleast one person who is affected with this diease. I personally can name 4 people  off the top of my head without even thinking about it. One person being my dad. I am so excited and proud to blog in honor of this charity because i have seen what diabetes can do to a person.

My dad has type 2 diabetes which isnt as severe as type 1. However both are extreamly scary and important to know how to take care of. 

I remember being in elementary school when my dad was diagnosed. My whole family went through the process of learning why it is important for my dad to check his blood sugar, how to check it for him incase in the future he needed help and wouldn't be able to do it himself. It was a scary for me to watch as my dad pricked himself with a needle and drew blood but it was a harsh reality that diabetes is out there and we need to be aware of it.

Another person I know affected by diabetes is a family friend that is basically my grandma. Her name is Carroll. Growing up I never had a grandma on my moms side and Carroll was like a grandma to me. Carroll has type 1 diabetes and relies on insuln shots to live. Her blood sugar acts crazy and she never knows what it is going to do. Because of living with diabetes, getting old and her health she has totally lost feeling in her legs which is NOT uncommon with diabetes. She has also gone mostly blind. For the rest of her life she relies on insulin and checking her blood sugar 

Now i have quickly shared a few stories with you here are some symptoms that you can look at to see if you need to go get checked for diabetes at your local doctor.  

• Frequent urination
• Excessive thirst
• Extreme hunger
• Unusual weight loss
• Increased fatigue
• Irritability
• Blurry vision

And finally being a diabetic isnt going to ruin your life, if you learn to properly take care of yourself you will have a long life ahead of you. For example you could be a rockstar like Nick Jonas, Johnny Cash, or even Meat Loaf,or you could be an oscar winning actress like Halle Berry. 

Or for us less talented people you could be yourself and everyone will love you for you. 

I dont know how long the diabetes charity has been on this website, maybe i havent paid enough attention but i am really excited to change my charity to support this one because it is near and dear to my heart. I promise when I have more time this weekend I will share why its so important to me. :) THANKS! 

Long time no blog.... sorry

I can give you the excuse, i ve been super busy and stressed out with class and work but I am sure you dont care. 

So instead I will post a picture of a funny shirt I got the other day. I often get boring shirts from work with my logo on it but instead, we were handing out these funny shirts with a box of lucky charms in honor of st. pattys day!

hope you had a great st. pattys day! 

What weird weather it has been. I am back in Seattle for my holiday break and since I’ve been here we have gotten like 8 inches of snow. When it snows in Washington EVERYTHING shuts down. Its crazy. Even the mention of snow gets people scared. Last Wednesday they said we had a possibility of snow and all of the local school districts cancelled school. Both my parents are teachers and it turns out they got to go on their winter break 3 days early! Well there was no snow on Wednesday, but Thursday we got 8 inches. Then Friday we didn’t have any more snow but the streets were pretty bad. All I wanted for this break was to come home and relax. I just wanted to play with my puppy and not do anything! I know I sound lazy, but sometimes its good just to relax.  I have been using my time at home to read the twilight series. I am almost done with book three!!!!

            As I was reading tonight, I was trying to read in silence but I kept getting distracted. Not only is it snowing right now, but its really windy. Like 50-70 mph winds. Hearing the wind brought me back to a memory which happen just about two years ago. Washington had a huuuuge wind storm. Power was out for over a week and for some people two weeks. Trees were down everywhere and the city I lived in declared it a state of emergency.

            I remember it, like it was yesterday. It was around midnight and I was sleeping, the power had been out for several hours. I was sound asleep when I got a phone call from my brother. He was at a party and they had been drinking and someone needed a ride home. I of course said not a problem and went out and picked up his friend drove her home safe and sound. Then what happened next was something I will never forget. I drove up my driveway and got out of my car I had just inside and was taking off my shoes when I heard a huge crack, felt the entire house shake and heard an bloodcurdling crash. A TREE HAD FALLEN ON MY HOUSE AND BROKE OFF ONTO MY CAR! Of course, that had woken up my parents and they found me downstairs just coming home. As if I wasn’t scared enough that if I were to wait another minute I would have been squished in my car, my parents understandably were furious I went out in such a bad storm.

All in all we had three trees fall on the house. Not only did we have to move out of our house for a while but we also literally had to take off a side of our house and rebuild it.

Me standing infront of a massive tree root infront of my house

My car L

I wish everyone the best of luck with this crazy weather we are having, and hope that everyone is safe.

Happy Holidays!!

So I am turing 20 on tuesday and I decided that since I am not a teenager anymore and I am not old enough to legally drink, this is gonna be a sucky bday. Not to mention that I have class on tuesday from noon-9pm.

So i decided that since this isnt an exciting bday i am going to have a "Favorite Meal as a Child" potluck/dinner party. Basically dress up (cuz i like to dress up) and bring your favorite childhood meal.

Now heres where I need your help.... What was your favorite food growing up as a child????

About every two weeks for the last month or so I come home and I find a lady bug in my room. Normally I would say that it would be good luck, but every time I go to slid it onto a piece of paper so I can take it outside, I realize it is dead.....

Does that mean it is bad luck? For the most part I ve been have a really good week or so. Its starting to be the holiday season, and I love the cold weather, work is still fun, and I enjoy school. Thats pretty much my life, work and school.... But I cant help but think that a dead lady bug is like an oxymoron. 

What do you think 

I am a huuuge taylor swift fan. Like seriously, I don’t know why I like her so much but I do. I just recently dragged caroline to the taping of crossroads and sing her songs all the time even though no one else likes them.

I admire anyone that can write a song. Ive tried before but I don’t think I could make a living out of it. The way Taylor words things are so beautiful and I look up to that. But what is even more impressive is that she CARES. Taylor Swift cares. She LOVES her fans and lets them know it. I admire that, she doesn’t just blow them off. She realizes that she wont go anywhere without them and its incredible to see her interaction. I WANT to work for someone like taylor. After last night/this morning I have officially made it a goal of mine to work for musicians that love what they do and appricaite the fans. Not only was she really nice, but the people that work for her were incredibly nice too. They went up to people and made converstation and thanked them for coming. What? Who does that? PEOPLE THAT DESERVE TO WORK IN THE INDUSTRY DO! I know what is like to be a fan and be rejected, and I know what it is like to be a fan and be appreciated. I am still fans of those bands that appricate me and they have stuck around, and those other bands aren’t around anymore because they didn’t care.

 On my way to work yesterday I read a very long bulletin from taylor and  the very last part of it said “P.S. I heard a great place to buy the first copy is the Wal Mart in Hendersonville, TN. It's so great, I might just go there myself and pick one up.” Very subtle but I got the hint.

I have 2 tests today but I appriciate taylor so much that I went.. I drove over an hour to get there which was nothing compared to the girls who drove from Athens Georgia. But me and 6 others went because we are fans.

I AM A FAN OF TAYLOR SWIFT. Judge me if you want, everyeone else does, but I don’t care.

Taylor came in at midnight and there was about 200 ppl there. As I was buying a cd at the cash registar she was escorted to the front of the line so she could buy her own cd, but didn’t want to cut because she said it was bad luck and wanted to wait in line just like everyone else. 

She was being filmed by a few news channels and her vlog people were there taping but no one seemed to annoy taylor as she tried to walk thru the store and was being mobbed.

Altough Taylor was only there for about 15 mins, the presence of this beautiful thankful girl was shining throughout walmart. She could barely walk even though she was being escorted through the store but you could tell that she was so happy to be there. I am disappointed for the little 7 year old girls who look up to taylor swift and girls who drove from Athens and even 5 out of the 6 girls I went with who didn’t get to meet her, but she had somewhere to go and apologized and thanked everyone profusely. And honestly she took tons and tons of pictures. And signed as much as she could. Like she said, she was going to buy her cd, and sadly not many people got to “meet” her but she never said she was going to do a signing.

I am biased, but I thought she was NOTHING but graciaous, the girls from Athens didn’t care that they didn’t get to meet her, they were so happy that they saw their idol and got to be in the same store with her.

Taylor isnt my idol, but I look up to her a lot. Everything happens for a reason and somehow I got to meet her. I guess I was just standing in the right place at the right time. Ive thought about it for a long time that if I were to ever meet her what I would want to say. I had hoped that I wouldn’t be surrounded by a couple hundred people when telling her what I had thought of but I will take what I get.

Taylor was being escorted out of the crowd but stopped and took a picture with me. She took my camera and took  a pic and even made sure it worked (it was the worst pic of me ever)

Then someone shoved a cd in her face and she signed it. Then I handed her my cd and said. “ I moved to Tennessee so I could make the connections and work in the industry…”

She stopped signing and looked at me.

“I just wanted to let you know that I hope that when I am done with school, I can work for someone like you.

She looked at me and put her hand on my shoulder and said awww, thanks Thanks for coming. I am really glad you told me that, not because its nice to hear but because it really does mean a lot to me.

Then I said,  thanks for caring, you get that fans mean everything and I admire that and hope that when I am done with school the artist i will work for will understand that.

And she then said, awww that means a lot to me, thank you for telling me that. Then she said something along the lines of keep at what you are doing! btw you have really pretty eyes… no seriously you have nice eyes.

Whether she meant it or not, I don’t care. I care that she was nice to me. I will stick up for taylor swift, because when I have kids, I will have them listen to her songs and hope that they have someone as wonderful as her to be their role model. 

I will add pics later, but I have a test I need to get to..

I am currently babysitting for a family that I have only met 2x... I knew that they had animals but never in my life seen SUCH A HUUUUGE cat. The cat was outside, and was scratching at the door so I let it in. As it was walking through the door i noticed this mammoth of a thing. Like seriously, i think this cat weighs more then the 2 year old i am bsitting. At 1st, I wasnt sure if it was a cat and it kinda scared me. I am not gonna lie, I am not a fan of cats, but this thing that calls itself a cat scares me A LOT! The pictures dont do it justice... I am not discriminating against the cat, I just think that I am scared of it and i should have been warned of "it" 

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I went to get my computer fixed at the mac store today and as I was as i was leaving there was the girl who was like 5 or 6 crying and throwing a huuuuge temper-tantrum. She was screaming and crying and throwing a fit. The mom like dragged her out of the store and like cut me off as I was trying to leave. So as the mom and crying daughter exited the store a man who was entering the store walks in, looks at me and says

"wow someone didnt get an iphone"

HAHaHAHHAHA

Sometimes hugs are just PLAIN AWKWARD! 

I personally love getting hugs but I found myself going through an awkward hugging stage in my life. How long to do I hug? Who deserves a hug from me? Should I squeeze or pat?  Lets face it, either I am really strange and over analyze hugs or hugs can just be weird.

I m over my weird hugging stage in my life, but I was thinking about it today and I found this video. You will never have to question a hug after watching this.

And for everyone that has hug anxiety.... I really hope that there is someone else out there and I am not some freak... Go to this website to get some hug tips. 

;) 

http://www.wikihow.com/Hug

After reading Amber's blog about holding the door open, It made me think of this story I used to share while teaching suicide prevention. This isnt my story, and I am sure some of you have read it but its a good one!

One day, when I was a freshman in high school,

I saw a kid from my class was walking home from school.

His name was Kyle.

It looked like he was carrying all of his books.

I thought to myself, "Why would anyone bring home all his books on a Friday?

He must really be a nerd."

I had quite a weekend planned (parties and a football game with my friends tomorrow afternoon), so I shrugged my shoulders and went on.

As I was walking, I saw a bunch of kids running toward him.

They ran at him, knocking all his books out of his arms and tripping him so he landed in the dirt.

His glasses went flying, and I saw them land in the grass about ten feet from him.

He looked up and I saw this terrible sadness in his eyes

My heart went out to him. So, I jogged over to him as he crawled around looking for his glasses, and I saw a tear in his eye.

As I handed him his glasses, I said, "Those guys are jerks. "

They really should get lives.

" He looked at me and said, "Hey thanks!"

There was a big smile on his face.

It was one of those smiles that showed real gratitude.

I helped him pick up his books, and asked him where he lived.

As it turned out, he lived near me, so I asked him why I had never seen him before.

He said he had gone to private school before now.

I would have never hung out with a private school kid before.

We talked all the way home, and I carried some of his books.

He turned out to be a pretty cool kid.

I asked him if he wanted to play a little football with my friends

He said yes.

We hung out all weekend and the more I got to know Kyle, the more I liked him, and my friends thought the same of him.

Monday morning came, and there was Kyle with the huge stack of books again.

I stopped him and said, "Boy, you are gonna really build some serious muscles with this pile of books everyday!

" He just laughed and handed me half the books.

Over the next four years, Kyle and I became best friends.

When we were seniors we began to think about college.

Kyle decided on Georgetown and I was going to Duke.

I knew that we would always be friends, that the miles would never be a problem.

He was going to be a doctor and I was going for business on a football scholarship.

Kyle was valedictorian of our class.

I teased him all the time about being a nerd.

He had to prepare a speech for graduation.

I was so glad it wasn't me having to get up there and speak

Graduation day, I saw Kyle.

He looked great.

He was one of those guys that really found himself during high school.

He filled out and actually looked good in glasses.

He had more dates than I had and all the girls loved him.

Boy, sometimes I was jealous!
Today was one of those days.

I could see that he was nervous about his speech.

So, I smacked him on the back and said, "Hey, big guy, you'll be great!"

He looked at me with one of those looks (the really grateful one) and smiled.

" Thanks," he said.

As he started his speech, he cleared his throat, and began

"Graduation is a time to thank those who helped you make it through those tough years.

Your parents, your teachers, your siblings, maybe a coach...but mostly your friends...

I am here to tell all of you that being a friend to someone is the best gift you can give them.

I am going to tell you a story."

I just looked at my friend with disbelief as he told the story of the first day we met.

He had planned to kill himself over the weekend.

He talked of how he had cleaned out his locker so his Mom wouldn't have to do it later and was carrying his stuff home.

He looked hard at me and gave me a little smile.

"Thankfully, I was saved.

My friend saved me from doing the unspeakable."

I heard the gasp go through the crowd as this handsome, popular boy told us all about his weakest moment.

I saw his Mom and dad looking at me and smiling that same grateful smile.

Not until that moment did I realize it's depth.

Never underestimate the power of your actions.

With one small gesture you can change a person's life.

For better or for worse.

Before I start if you haven't read Caroline's latest blog about secrets please do so.

I have a ritual every night before I go to bed to read this website called postsecrets.com, I stumbled upon this website about 6 months ago and have been addicted ever sense then. If you don't know what post secrets is basically, people from all over the world send in their annoyomous secret to a guy named Frank Warren. Frank collects secrets and since the start of this project has dedicated himself to making a difference in peoples lives. Who would have ever thought that sending an anonymous secret would be some sort of therapy? Not only for the the sender, but for the reader as well. This project turned into a website, and this website has turned into four books. All of which are amazing an are a great pass time for anyone that needs to be entertained. 

When I found out that Frank Warren was coming to Nashville, I knew I had to go. There is something about hearing other peoples secrets that makes me feel better about myself. No one out there lives a perfect life, and we all need to talk sometime. I was so inspired by Frank and his kindness towards the community. After the end of Franks speech which included how he started this project, who benefits from it, and why he continues it, he gave us the oppurtunity to share our secrets with everyone. I was amazed by the courage that people had to go up there and face the auditorium full of strangers and share their deepest secret. Everything was shared from a mans suicide attempts to others love for god. One man shared a story of a triumph he fought with his wife who had cancer and was so miserable and was suffering  so much that he gave her an overdose. Although there was no dry eye in the house for those secrets, Frank knew exactly what to say in each instants. That was somehting that I really admired. And even though there were sad secrets shared there was the occasional silly one thrown in there. Like the person who was in Kindergarden found an empty condom wrapper in their parents bedrooms and yelled at their mom for eating candy in her bedroom. Again, therapy for the audience and speaker. There are so many stories out there to be shared. Frank shared his story, which was truly again inspiring.....

What many of you probably dont know is that Frank himself, went through depression. That is why he is such a supporter of the suicide preventiton hotline. This hit close to home for me. Throughout my Junior High and High School Career, I worked for the "Suicide Prevention Program" which is located in Seattle, Washington. I taught seminars and went into classrooms teaching peers about the warning risks of suicide. Whether you like to believe it or not, everyone on this site knows someone who has thought about suicide and even scarier is that there is a suicide EVERY 16 minuets.

Although, the topic of suicide is very sad and touchy subject, there are many things we can do to help. The most important thing to do is let people know you care!! Be there if someone needs to talk. Or refer them to get help. Ive said this a million times before. ITS BETTER TO HAVE A MAD FRIEND THEN A DEAD FRIEND. In all honesty, if I know you or not I am hear to help. I love listening to others and giving advice. People send secrets to Frank because they don't have anyone to talk to or, its easier to tell a stranger. If I don't know you and you just need someone to talk to or just want another friend I will be that person, day or night! You can message me on myspace (www.myspace.com/jessthehottie) or leave me a comment and I will get in contact with you. I honestly do care, and I know what its like to want to share something but not have anyone to share it with. 

I want to go back to Frank just once more. I ve used the word "inspire" a lot in this blog. But Frank was able make this sad and touchy subject a happy one. He is doing such amazing things with his work and I admire that. Not only was I inspired by his talk last night but I came out of it being refreshed. I didn't know I needed a refresher but this was such a good one. I have listed the rest of the tour dates below, as well as a short clip of what I got to experience last night. You really should go check it out. If you cant make it tell your friends to. Also hurry up and buy tickets, the event sales out quickly. 

University of Vermont, VT
10-14-08
age)

Clarion University, PA
10-16-08

Mercer University, GA
10-27-08

Florida Gulf Coast University, FL
10-30-08

University of Missouri, St Louis, MO
11-5-08

University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
11-6-08

James Madison University, VA
11-10-08

The College of Charleston, SC
11-12-08

Illinois Wesleyan University, IL
11-14-08

Eastern Michigan University, MI
11-17-08

LSU, LA
11-20-08

2009

Penn State Univ, Altoona, PA - January 15th

Alaska - Feburary 5th

New Mexico - Feburary

Univ Redlands, CA - Feburary 17th

California - March

My college has this system that sends out text messages “alerts” when there is a threat on campus. And even though I ve signed up for them its failed me 2x now.

Scenario 1:Last year I was sitting in my Algebra class taking a test. Of course cell phones are supposed to be off, but everyone has them on vibrate. I hear a cell phone go off but don’t think anything of it other than thank goodness that’s not my phone I don’t want to get caught. Anyways we all ignore the phone and keep taking our test when a police officer comes banging on our door, opens it up and yells “YOU NEED TO EVCAUATE RIGHT NOW!!!!” We of course leave as a class taking the fire exits and all, and I check my phone on the way out. I probably should have been more scared then I was. Yes, I got a text alert saying to evacuate because the building that I was in supposedly had a bomb in it. However, that didn’t scare my math teacher who made us sit outside the building in the rain and finish the test.

Scenario 2: Last night I got an email from my college saying that there was a spam email going around announcing a plot for a bomb. I hadn’t received the spam email so I didn’t think anything of it. Well, I arrived to campus today and there was a lot of empty parking spots. This should have been my first clue that something was wrong. Then as I was walking to my 1^st class of the day which was math, I noticed a lot of people walking back to their cars. This should have been my second clue but i m not very good at seeing the obvious right in front of me. Anyway, when I am almost at my classroom a kid from my class walks by and said there was no class and everything was cancelled. Which made since considering the campus was empty. Well, I got back to my car and on my drive home I get a text alert saying “As of noon today, MTSU classes will be canceled due to bomb threats with reliable evidence.”

Well obviously this alert system hasn’t helped me very much considering both times I didn’t get the alert until after the situation happened. This is scary when it happens but seeing that this is only my 2nd semester at MTSU and it has already happened 2x, I take it with a grain of salt. I think that if someone puts out a threat they need attention and they wont really do it. PLEASE DON’T PROVE ME WRONG ON MY THEORY!

Another theory is that they hate math more then I do, and will do pretty much anything to get out of it. I’m thankful for this enjoyable day with no classes, but I am sorry it had to be brought upon like this.

And for an FYI: I got another text alert saying that the person who put out the threats was found and arrested. 

I am so excited to start blogging for The One Love. I feel like I need to make this blog something to remember considering this is my 1^st one. But I suppose that I should introduce myself and my connection to The One Love before you read some random blog from me. So, to start off hi I am Jessica! I am from Washington where I met Caroline another blogger on this website. Caroline and I were never really good friends when she lived in Washington. But one day she moved 300 miles away and our friendship started over Ryan Cabrera and my obsession with him. Pretty much he was touring in Oregon (where Caroline had moved) and he wasn’t coming to Washington. I went to go visit Caroline after a long train ride with crazy hippies but that is another story for another day. Long story short, we went to see Ryan together and our friendship expanded from there. We would often go to concerts together, either me going to Oregon or her coming to Washington. This concert going expanded to leaving the country. Sounds crazy but in reality leaving the country from WA is about a 2 hour car ride to Canada.

In February 2005 Caroline drove to Washington and shoved me in car to drive to Canada. I remember this because that day I had just bought my 1^st car and instead of me showing off my new shiny red car that I worked so hard for, I was stuck in some old beat up car listening to a band singing about “catching a wave.” Now, let me tell you I am a sucker for pop music but I just couldn’t get over the fact that I was riding with two other girls singing about “catching waves” and “pop princesses.” Little did I know, that this band who was the opening act and was named Click 5, would have changed Caroline’s life forever. This is a story you should read about from her, but what you need to know is that the Caroline met Cassie and Jade thru this band.

Now lets skip ahead about 2 years as I find myself in Anchorage, Alaska attending college. That is also another story for another day. All in all Alaska wasn’t the place for me and I was looking for a way out. Music has always been a passion of mine and I’ve always wanted to work in the music industry. But to work in this industry you need connections and we all know Alaska doesn’t have that. I applied to a school in Tennessee which has one of the best music industry programs in nation, but I needed a little bit more then just getting accepted into the school to have me make up my mind to move 4,000 miles away to the south. I got in contact with Cassie and Jade thanks to Caroline and they were more then generous to offer me an internship. I found myself learning a lot about new media marketing and using programs like Ilike. Which actually I HATE! But I also got to help with setting up a couple new bloggers for this website. I secretly had always hoped to be a blogger on here one day. To be honest I even contemplated setting myself up but I was sure that Jade or Cassie would notice so I decided against it.

It’s been a several months since I've worked for Crowd Surf, but my patience has paid off because I am so excited to start blogging. I know this post was extremely long, but thanks for reading and letting me introduce myself. Its crazy how connections work. Three years ago I never thought I would be attending college in Tennessee and would have met so many wonderful people. I blame Ryan Cabrera but that phase in my life surely paid off!