Wow. I'm lazy. But, I've been bold!

Ok, ok, so I haven't posted in 12 days. It's not like there's anyone really reading this... except for you Carolyn :D So, this one goes out to you! haha, along with all the others. Maybe someday, I'll be a famous, explosive, dynamic, and quipping blogger. Someday :) Anyways, I have been lazy about blogging, but maybe it's just because I've been being BOLD! Haha. I meant to blog on my birthday, and make it special, but I didn't. I was too busy being bold, like calling people back, sticking to plans, and just being BOLD. I can already feel a change.

But change can come only so quickly. Even though I have been being more bold, I am still coming up short. Very, very short. Which is what I expected... I'm going to have to work into this BOLD thing. Examples of shortcomings? I didn't call my friend Megan back about her party. I didn't talk to some kids at church that usually don't come to youth group events about coming to one. I haven't blogged since my last blog (a long time). Bahaha. It stinks to look back on your negatives, but it is necessary.

One thing I really focused on this week, in my life, is that timing is everything. It really hit me on Friday, right before school was out, and I tweeted it because it was just that important, bahaha lol. But really, timing is everything! I'll have to blog about it one day, I'll give it it's own title and everything, but that's another day.

My birthday went swell, I got a bazillion Facebook wall post saying happy birthday from people I had spoken to that day, and others who I hadn't spoken to for years. Some people I didn't even know! lol scary. Anyways, I would like to comment on my boldness in the sense that I not only commented EVERYONE back on there (along with getting back to anyone who sent me greetings) but I started talking to some old friends again that wished me happy birthday. Talking to old, goooood friends is so warming, I truly get butterflies thinking about my old friends and all the things we used to do and achieve and get in trouble for and how much I miss it all, which brings me to my next point... I'm getting old.

That's right, me, Zack Powell: I'm getting old. I'm 17! What's up with that!?! That means in 1 year, if I so choose, I can play the lottery, buy cigarettes, drive anytime I want, and I can make phone calls to infomercials! AHHH! That's so scary! So much responsibility! And, I really don't want to grow up. The other day (I also tweeted about this), I was getting really deep into thinking and about how much I am going to miss my childhood, how much it's going to suck leaving it, and how much I want to be a kid forever. I don't want to grow up, and though I may never truly grow up, I have to at some point. Why do I speak of this? Because I am very wary and feeling a premonition that I am going to have to grow up soon, whether I like it or not, and I am very afraid of it.

Anyways, on a happier note, I get this coming Monday off, and I'm going to DISNEY with Emilee and her family, and it shall be awesome. But it means I'll have to work on my research paper later, which deserves it's own blog posting as well. It's such a splendorful project. Also, it means that I can stay up late Sunday night, which I LOVE staying up late. Staying up late deserves it's own blog post too, someday! I'll have to be BOLD and make sure I write about all of these things.

I hope tomorrow I will wake up at a decent time BEFORE church, not right as it is starting. Yes, that's right, I woke up last Sunday at the time that church started. Whoops :P I still went, and actually had a great car ride listening to worship there, it was spectacular. Also, while on the note of waking up late, I should add that to being bold: waking up early/on time!

SNOOZE!

Farewell, my readers, and don't forget to turn off the lights when you leave the room you're not going to be in. Be bold and save electricity! Bahahaha.

Procrastination is my Vacation!

Realizing that I haven't taken a legit vacation in a very, very long while, I also realized that procrastination is a fair excuse for a vacation. A vacation from homework. A vacation from stress and worries. A vacation from the biggest task of all: LIFE, and it's available anytime you'd like. Yes, it's bad for us, and it's a bad trait to have, but I am a proud sponsor anyways. To any college who is reading this, it's all a lie as far as you know! You should still accept me into your college! Bahaha, for any normal readers, just pretend the last two sentences don't exist :D.
What do I do to procrastinate? I typically turn on some jams like Owl City (or his newer project, SkySailing), take a sit down wherever is most convenient (like the chair, the floor, or a stack of unread encyclopedias), and just drift away into dreams and nothingness. I find myself doing it right this very second, writing about basically nothing, and not doing the motherload of homework my bookpack (what I call a bookbag or backpack, just the two words combined) is containing. So, I'll explain how this applies to being bold.

On my 17th birthday, as you know, I have goals to become more bold. One of the biggest steps to take in this, for me anyway, is to eradicate any and all procrastination that I have in my life. This ranges from homework, practicing trombone, projects, shopping for celebration gifts (birthday, Christmas), calling people on special occasions (I'm really bad about this) and even simple task like texting and calling people back. I feel so bad about procrastinating with all of this (and more) and I truly believe that if I can knock off the procrastination in myself, I will exemplify much more BOLDness, as this is a big factor hindering my boldness.

With the coming of my birthday, hopefully I will start reversing my old ways and personal cliches that people have unfortunately become accustomed to and I can begin a new, BOLD me.

Would you agree?

Days Till' Birthday: 1 more day! OHMYGOODNESS I can't wait! Holy Poop!

P.S. Shoutout to Carolyn! She found (or I more or less showed her) my blog! Finally, a reader :P

Lalala I love Baths.

I have to admit something to you... I love taking baths. It's a rare occasion, but just stepping and laying down into fresh hot water just makes everything chill. Its like the the early morning sun stepping into the horizon, it's something one must behold.
Today we had Jesus Christ Superstar rehearsal... IT WAS BAD bahaha Mr. Warren was being the devil, or just being himself during a much needed intense rehearsal, but I am still a fan of lightening the most serious situations up. Which brings me to a serious situation, or conversation I should say: The whole point of this blog. Sure, an outlet for me to express myself and just have a dandy time writing about my life to look back at 48 years from now and just saying "wow, I was [insert term for cool 48 years from now]." But the focal point of this blog is for me to become a much more bold person. Some might say I'm already BOLD, but I disagree. Sure I'm outgoing, but that's only a fraction of being bold. Hopefully I can elaborate more on my concept in the near future. It'll be like the reason for getting an iPad, you understand in time :D.

Anyways, my birthday is coming right around the corner, which also means Cher's birthday, Christopher Columbus's Deathday (is that what you call it?) and Jesus Christ Superstar's opening night! So much to worry about, but if things get out of hand, I can just submerge in a hot bath, and float away to a problem-free, wide open ocean, all of this via hot bathtub :D.

Carry on! Don't drag, lift up and press forward! Be bold! Goodbye!

Days Till' Birthday: 2!!! That rhymes with poo! Haha

It's been a while...

It's been a while since we've talked. Yes, you: the cyber oblivion that I write to. I have decided not to give away the blog page until my birthday, where I will be making quite a few announcements. The past couple of days (what has it been 6 or 7 days? Yeah that's about right) have been great, awesome, horrible, dreary, lugubrious, spectacular, and everything in between. For starters, the marching show for next year was announced, and although I DID know about it because I got to make the video for the show, I am excited about it and most everyone else is too; the music is crazy, the theme is epic, and I truly can't listen to it without jamming :D. It's great! That sad part is that I will not be conducting it as Drum Major :( Sad face, I know, but it's all good. I am the sole band captain this year, and although leadership panned out pretty variously and unexpectedly, it will be an awesome year! Ben Judkins will be conducting our way to a great season this year, and while I am still disappointed in myself for not trying harder and being lazy and confused on the thoughts of the judging panel, I am wholly supportive of their decision and I am proud to say that their decisions were in conscience. I am so excited for the coming Marching season! My friend, Carolyn Thornton, got me into this blogging thing, and she is the one trying to find the blog at the moment. I love her to death, and she just happened to get Director's assistant which I am excited about too! I can't get over how awesome of a year it's going to be!

Moving right along, Nana and Poppop came in, as they always do for band banquets, and they enjoyed themselves. Saturday, midday, we went out to eat at Moe's and shared lots of memories and thoughts and I love talking with them, they are so wise, hilarious, and sweet. I can't wait to be old! Anyways, they also got to see me and Emilee take off to Prom, along with about 20 other people at Emilee's house! Haha pictures were crazy, trying to look at camera's and keeping my lips licked :D. Prom was great, it was Emilee's prom (her Senior year) and although we couldn't find parking to save our lives at the location, we spent most of our time with Kristen and Ernie who followed us around to the Cheesecake Factory (delicious shrimp! Too bad I left our leftovers in the car trunk, whoops), to the actual prom, and to a friends house where we watched Mean Girls with a bunch of other band geeks that went to prom. What a great time!

On a short note, I love when my friends that were previous PCs get Macs... I love showing them around and helping them, I love it! Just thought I'd fill you in on that...

I am going to find myself a parachute and land in the land (that's redundant) of sleep. Goodnight nobody!

Days Till' Birthday: 3!! wahoooo!

Lots about Owls. Owls. Owls.

Hello Hello! It has been a while since my last post, but get used to it, I'm lazy :D Anyways, it has been a great weekend, super busy, but got little done of what I was suppose to get done. However, there was much excitement. Happy Mother's day for one! I love my Mom dearly, I get my crazy from her and a lot of my work ethic, along with my sense of direction, looks (haha to my Dad lol), and dexterity. Moms are great! Anyways, got to see Owl City in concert again today! bahah yeah I did but it was over a broadcast from London, still pretty awesome though. Missed a lot of it and it's coming on again here in a little bit as a re-run. I NEED TO GET TO WORK! I've got a busy week ahead of me, Band Banquet on Friday (whoohoo for Drum Major announcements), Prom on Saturday, and before the weekend I've got 2 AP test, meetings to attend, grades to bring up, and a whallahoo (just made that word up) of work to do. How will I survive? Owl City, Emilee (my girlfriend), Church (Monday Night Bible Study, Wednesday night kids celebration! woot so stoked), and last but not least, MY IPAD will help me out tremendously! Oh yeah, iMovie is gonna be a big helper too, but I can tell you why :D What am I listening to? Owl City with one of my favorites: Sunburn. Why? Well it came on, and it reminded me that I am sunburn, and it sucks! I'll get over it eventually, but I hate getting sunburned. argh! Oh yes, on the note of Owl City, he (Adam Young, the guy who.. uhh... IS Owl City in it's entirety lol) released a music video for Umbrella Beach, one of my favorite songs from him, and it blows ones mind, almost makes me cry. On another note about Owls, I really like them as an animal, and would really appreciate it if someone got me an Owl silly band. I have a couple of friends working on it (LOL thanks T!) (T is short for Tiffany, one of my dearly beloved friends), and I'm not crazy about silly bands but I would love to have an Owl! In other news, Summer is around the corner, along with my birthday, and I can't wait to be Seventeen Years Bold!

Days Till' Birthday: 11 (practically 10 lol)

Flying Away With Me!

Hey again. It's Zack. I'm listening to Owl City, flying away with myself, and it provoked me to tell you more about me. I love my life for one, as shaky, crazy, annoying, and ridiculous it may get, I always look up. I love Owl City, I love classical music, and any kind of music that gives me chills, aka Eric Whitacre (a composer for you non-bandies) among others whose music just let's my fly away in my own world. I dream, literally, of going on a cruise and having the time of my life, as I have before, but haven't in a very long time and love the idea of cruising so much that I am highly considering working on one after graduating college. School? I'm a good kid, make decent grades enough to get into NHS and Beta club what not, but I find myself becoming very lazy as I progress in my high school career. I dream of attending New York University, but with my financial status I'll probably end up attending a Florida school since I get practically free college with bright futures scholarship. I love computers of any sort, but I do favor Apple products. I can help with problems if you need, and I really kinda enjoy it so have at it lol. I play Trombone in band (my new one is coming in tomorrow!!) and I am decent at playing, nothing more, nothing less. I am a proud and excited leader and hopefully I will get Drum Major next year for marching season. Once again, for non-bandies, drum major is the guy who waving his hand like he's casting spells at the band when really he's keeping them together bahaha. I am a JESUS FREAK haha I go to Church and spend a large portion of my life, 4 days a week, doing something with the church, and if you ever want to talk religion or JESUS, hit me up! I am happily dating (NO, not married lol) the beautiful, charming, and (extremely) intelligent Emilee Bannister, a senior heading off to USF for college and set to live a spectacular life. We actually just celebrated 6 months of dating! Ok, it's half a year and we aren't big on the OHMYGOSHWE'VEBEENDATINGFOR6MONTHSWEARESOFREAKINGAWESOME thing, but 6 months is quite the stepping stone. Uhh, I think that's where I'll leave you tonight, I know you're so desperate to know more. I'll fill you in later on the roller coaster ride of a life that I live and my coming birthday where I will be turning 17 Years Bold!

Days till Birthday: 15

16 Years HOLD ON A SECOND.

Heya, it's Zack. Yeah, I'm not 17 yet, but heck this could be a preface to the blog ehh? Yes I think I'll do that. I'm currently typing on my 3.5 day old iPad (of spectacularness) (yes, spectacularness is now a word, even if my iPad doesn't recognize it xD). I'm currently listening to my iPod on shuffle and All Time Low (haha, I accidentally typed "slow" there instead of low. Guess you had to be here) just happens to be playing. Oh and that's over now, I've moved on to Narnia soundtrack. Heh... I'm a loser :D. Wow, that whole last 7 seconds of your reading (unless you speed read) was a waste of your life, I'll try to keep it interesting starting... now. I'm 16 years old at the moment and will be turning an ever-rearing age of 17 on May 20. Whoopee, the age I get to become a senior in high school, search and hopefully be accepted into a college (still dreaming for NYU... Pffffft xD), and according to law, I can drive until 1AM instead of 11PM... Bahaha as if I follow that rule anyway ^_^

Well the blog will officially start on my birthday but I'll let you learn about me in the coming days until then, and the prelude to my age of 17 Years Bold.

Days till' Birthday: 17 (do I smell irony? No, just a shear coincidence.)