I'm Excited.

In 12 days I will be having the best night of my life.
Why? Because my 2 favorite bands, Relient K and Switchfoot, will be playing a show together in my hometown!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm going to do everything I can to meet them because I want to meet them and I want to know if Jon or Matt will possibly sort of know who I am maybe because of blog comments/messages.
That would be really cool...but I highly doubt it lol
I also have some things to give them. Nothing special, just stuff I could afford on my very low budget :)
OMG IM SO EXCITED I CANT CANT STAND IT!!!!!!
Ruth is pretty cool too...so that makes it even more awesome :)

Dave :(

Okay...I love Dave and I totally respect his decision...but this is really REALLY depressing. I'm like about to Cry. I'm not evening kidding.OMG!

After seven years of touring, recording, and rehearsing, Dave Douglas has decided to leave Relient K. His final show will be 12/29. As a part of Relient K, he has been an amazing drummer, singer, collaborator, and friend. Before Dave joined the band, we were plagued with drummer turnover. Although he was the fifth drummer in two years, the moment he joined was the first time we ever felt like a complete band. He will be missed on the stage and on the road, and we wish him all the best.
RK


I know that there have been some rumors and speculation about my future in Relient K. I suppose I should clear that up. The time has, in fact, come for me to leave the band. This has been a very difficult decision, but I know that this is the right one. Relient K has been a huge part of my life and I'm sure that it is going to take a long time to get used to not being a part of the band any more. I've had a lot of good times, met a lot of great people, and been able to go a lot of places. it's been a blessing and a pleasure to work with Matt, Matt, John, and Jon. Also, I want to thank everyone else who has been involved with the band, especially those who have been on the road with us. Our fans are amazing and I want to thank all of you for your support and enthusiasm.

I am moving on to new music projects, and I hope that I will still have all of your support. Come the first of the year I will be devoting most of my time to Gypsy Parade . Feel free to look us up and say hi. Until then I will playing with Relient K, so I've got a few more shows left in me. I suppose that this is my "farewell tour." hopefully I, and the rest of Relient K, will see you at one of them.Thanks to all of you.
-Dave Douglas


I don't know what to say.
I know that I'm gonna start crying here in a minute.
Why must all this happen within less than a month...

Taking Back Sunday - Fred left

Eleventyseven - Nate left

Relient K - Dave left.

The world is like coming to an end (only not really but if feels like it)
I need to go and make Dave like 5 pages in my book instead of 1.

When Alexis posted that on myspace....I think my heart skipped a beat. Seriously.

O M G!

erg

some depressing things happened this week...

Nate left eleventyseven

Fred Mascherino left taking back sunday

I dont think the world can take anymore sadness...

oh and amanda just said that juuichi nanatsu is not how you say eleven seven in japanese (it means seventy eleven). The person that told the guys that was wrong...so they have to fix that somehow because they made a japanese promotional video saying that like a million times. Fortunately they havnt finished editing it or anything so they can re-do it.

I'm too depressed to say anything else today...

JUUICHI NANATSU

hahahahahahahaha
the eleventygirls are awesome.

wow.

I'm seriously going to start saying that.

Let me know if you know what that means :)

hmm...

what do you think of this? It's actually bigger than that but it wouldn't fit in the post so I had to make it smaller....I have wayy to much time on my hands.

I Love Relient K wayy too much.

If that were at all possible it would be true. (you could never love them too much)

But seriously, They're awesome.

I can't wait till November 3rd. It's going to be crazy awesome...Hopefully I'll be able to get there really early because I have to give them the scrapbook I'm making. If I finish it, I most likely will but I havn't really started. All I've done so far is write down 50 reasons why Relient K is awesome (with the help of a few people...but mostly me) And I just HAVE to meet them...it has been my dream ever since I heard them. The last (and first) RK concert I went to my camera died right before they came on stage...which kinda sucked...and then I had to leave right before they came out and played Sadie Hawkins dance. So, I didn't get to stay and meet them...plus it was in a wal-mart parking lot so I know that I would have gotten to meet them if I stayed, the Alfonsos of course did lol.

I don't know why I post stuff on this....I mean no one knows I have it...I mean like seriously...no one. All of this typing write here is completely meaningless. And yet, I continue to say stuff to no one.

It's been a long time.

Wow...I really havn't updated this in a very long time...
I guess because nothing really intresting happened...actually that's a lie. Intresting stuff has happened I've just been too lazy to write about it.
well let's see here....
Relient K and Switchfoot are coming to Greenville November 3rd and I'm really excited about that. hopefully the Alfonsos will be able to go because they're the only people I know who like to go on the floor and up front and jump around like insane crazy people.
I've seen Eleventyseven twice(the Alfonsos became friends with the 11ty7 guys at cornerstone)...The first time was August 31st and I had never really listened to them because I heard a few of their songs and I thought they were okay. But, after the concert I was like HOLY COW!!! THESE GUYS ARE AMAZING!!! (Relient K is still my favorite band though haha) and we got to hang out for a long time after the concert and then we went to sonic with jonathan and nate (road manager) so that was really awesome. Caleb had to go eat with his parents and Matt went downtown with his girlfriend so they didn't get to come. but on Tursday we (me and the alfonsos) went to another eleventyseven concert and we got there a little over 2 hours early so we could talk to them...and NO ONE was there except for the guys and the other band so we got to hang out and that was freaking awesome. And we talked to Matt for like an hour about movies and TV shows and the Alfonsos amazing house and movie theatre (which he said would be the only house they would ever play a show at) and we talked about spiritual things and stuff like that. That was really awesome.
I made my own t-shirt and it was really awesome and all the guys thought it was insanely awesome =D
Matt said that no one was going to show up...and he was right...only like 25 people showed up...I felt really bad for them. They didn't wear their spacesuits and rockbot didnt play :(
so we went over to nate we were like why didnt "rockbot" play? and he said well it wasnt the right crowd and "he" didn't want the guy from the other band be like...whats that crazy robot doing there and then shoot "him" in the head with his shotgun....haha it was alot funnier when nate said it.
But, yeah it was crazy awesome. I have a ton of pictures of it on facebook.
okay well I guess that's all I have to say...for right now...I'll try to keep this updated more often.

hello

I've come to the point where I can't trust anyone anymore. I've been so stupid about telling people things because I thought I could trust them and I really couldn't.
I've also learned that gossip is a very powerful thing. I've been hurt by it and I know other people who have been hurt by it and I even know people I've hurt by gossiping. I've let my friends down and the people who I thought were my friends let me down. I've been really convicted about that lately and today something happened that just pushed me over the edge and made me realize that I'm just like the people I gossip about, and the things I do are just as bad as the things they have done. I'm no better than they are. I really want to stop doing that because it causes too much pain and drama and stuff. so I'm going to be slower to speak than I have been because friends will stab you in the back with no warning whatsoever and you'll be left wondering what in the world happened.
I realized today that there's a bunch of hypocracy in the people around me who say theyre christians. I guess that's because they give this profession of faith and when they do something wrong you're not expecting it. I've also grown farther apart from some of my friends. I see stuff theyre doing and I don't want to be a part of it anymore and it makes me so sad and I plead to them not to do it and I realize that I used to do that stuff too. I guess that should sort of be encouraging because it shows that I've changed, but it really makes me sad too because they just won't listen.
It seems that ever since I got saved more people have said bad stuff about me or said I've done bad things and I get in trouble and dissapoint my family and the people around me because again...people gossip and people get hurt. It's really been more than ever since I got saved. I thought things would be better and that there would be less gossip and stuff but it's been the other way around. I guess because satan tries to mess with us and stuff and make us fall into sin. I've just been more convicted than ever and I feel soo bad and I wonder why did I do that?? I know it's wrong and I know I shouldn't have and this is not what the Lord wanted me to do...but I did it anyway. I hate when that happens because then I let my parents down and with my dad being a pastor it's kinda worse because the biggest thing he wants is for me and my siblings to be saved and follow the Lord. I remember a couple weeks after I told my dad I wanted to get baptized me and my mom were mad at each other about some homework and I was talking back to her and my dad came in there and was like "why are you guys yelling? it's just homework and especially you! (he was talking to me) you just came to me and said you were saved and you're doing this" and when he said that...it just made me want to cry...and I did later...because I let him down and now I did something wrong when I'm trying to show fruits so that he can tell that I've changed and then I mess up and that's what he sees.
It's really hard being a christian.
Well, I don't know what else to say...but remember to keep Christ first and when you mess up repent and ask for the people involved to forgive you and ask for God's forgiveness and He will forgive you. We're all sinners...we're going to sin...but remember God's grace.

~WonderfullyMade~

When I Go Down

hmm....I don't really have time right now to say anything...seeing that it's almost 11 pm...so I'm just gonna post the lyrics of one of my favorite songs. It's kind of a sad song but it makes me feel better when I'm sad. I can really relate to this song. It talks about something that's happened that he thinks is his fault but in the end it talks about how God makes it better. The end is my favorite part.

When I Go Down
Relient K

I'll tell you flat out
It hurts so much to think of this
So from my thoughts I will exclude
The very thing that
I hate more than everything is
The way I'm powerless
To dictate my own moods

I've thrown away
So many things that could've been much more
And I just pray
My problems go away if they're ignored
But that's not the way it works
No that's not the way it works

When I go down
I go down hard
And I take everything I've learned
And teach myself some disregard
When I go down
It hurts to hit the bottom
And of the things that got me there
I think, if only I had fought them

If and when I can
Clear myself of this clouded mind
I'll watch myself settle down
Into a place where
Peace can search me out and find
That I'm so ready to be found

I've thrown away
The hope I had in friendships
I've thrown away
So many things that could have been much more
I've thrown away
The secret to find an end to this
And I just pray
My problems go away if they're ignored
But that's not the way it works
No that's not the way it works

When I go down
I go down hard
And I take everything I've learned
And teach myself some disregard
When I go down
It hurts to hit the bottom
And of the things that got me there
I think, if only I had fought them

Any control I thought I had just slips right through my hands
While my ever-present conscience shakes its head and reprimands me
Reprimands me
Then and there
I confess
I'll blame all this on my selfishness
Yet you love me
And that consumes me
And I'll stand up again
And do so willingly

You give me hope, and hope it gives me life
You touch my heavy heart, and when you do you make it light
As I exhale I hear your voice
And I answer you, though I hardly make a noise
And from my lips the words I choose to say
Seem pathetic, but it's a fallen man's praise
Because I love you
Oh God, I love you
And life is now worth living
If only because of you
And when they say that I'm dead and gone
It won't be further from the truth

When I go down
I lift my eyes to you
I won't look very far
Cause you'll be there
With open armsTo lift me up again
To lift me up again

Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve

I have a facebook and I recently joined a group called adam and eve, not adam and steve.

What really bothered me was all the anger people had towards each other simply because they disagreed. I am completely against homosexuality and I believe AND KNOW that there is only 1 God: The God of the Bible.
The Bible says to love one another...and yes, that means homosexuals too so that we can witness to them and help them come to the Lord Jesus Christ. Homosexuals can be saved by the grace of God and saved people desire to do the things of God, not the things of the world.

Another thing that bothered me is all the language people were usuing, even the ones who claimed to be Christians, even people I knew who I never thought would say anything like that. Doesn't the Bible say not to let a corrupt word come out of your mouth?

Also, people were trying to force their beliefs on other people. You can't do that. You tell them about the Lord, witness to them (many times) but don't get mad and start arguing with them just because they don't believe what you believe. It's good to speak up and take a stand but don't get angry because anger is a sin. Tell them the gospel, then it's the Holy Spirit's job to do the rest.