My grown-old Xmas list

Dear Santana,

Why must you have such terrible songs???

Dear Santa,

Please don't let my hair-line recede anymore. That's all I ask. Por favor!

-jake

Always can count on a 75 degree day in the beginning of November in Georgia, no? Smokin'!
Always can count on a nice leafy piney smell outdoors this time of year.
Always can count on some early mmj to perk me up in the fall.
Always can count on it happening: me feeling like this this fall-time.


Hmmm...I wonder how many wrinkles my forehead has now that i'm almost a quarter century old???

OUch! I busted up my big toe this morning getting into my walk-in stone floor, room-enough-for-twelve-people shower.

And so I had to use two band aids.

Cass McCombs - Dreams come true girl

Band of Horses, Cass McCombs

The other night Band of Horses came through Eugene with special Cass McCombs. I just can't decide which set was awesomer. Having never heard Cass before, I was spinning from his song writing. Really smart. And the fact that he is really east coast made it fun to watch! Then watching Ben Bridwell, das leadsinger for BoH, blew my head clean off! Their songs were much much more exciting live than on the recording. Not to say, though, that the recordings aren't grrrrrreat. Anyhow, was probably the best show i've seen while here in Eugenenenenene.

Black Butte

That's Mount Jefferson to my left and Mt. Hood way off in the back right.
Went over to Central Oregon last week for a little hikesy. It was 4 miles round trip with a heck of a steep incline. But the weather twere perfect and you could see clear to Washington. Gonna miss this place.

The most d-lish of them all!

A black cherry tomato from Stu's and Val's and Josh's and my garden. Tastes like the summer. My fave.

Move it on over!

Sold my car today...sniff sniff. Got 800 big ones. Going to be consolidating everything i got. The northwest ain't seen the last of me...more sniffing. :(! It'll suck real badlike leaving this place. But for now...It's back to the Dirty South!

What a good song!

Made me cry...again. Sheesh!

Wildwood falls!

Couldn't believe it. Was quite the idyllic swimming hole. Me and friend Andrew had a grand ol' time! We were the first ones there and then started rolling in the locals and the pot and the brews and the tunes. So we scrammed.

Astoria!

I've been and will be in Astoria, Oregon for a week here at the Astoria Music Festival. I get to play for the opera apprenticeship program. Tiring? yes. Do I value alone time and escape from the singers? yes. Just a week more and i'm home free and hanging with loved onessssss!

Sooooooooo Smooth....

Bill Withers is soul in a nutshell

D-U-N, done.

I'ma graduating this Saturday. Just finished my final final today. Phew. Couldn't be more happy to be done with school for a while. Goodness!

Birthday Treats for Josh!

Mt. Washington

Mom came and went to my recital. Then! We went to Sisters, OR. A mighty cute place. Disneyland cute, not puppy dog cute, though. Here is a photo that we were lucky enough to take. Also we got to play with the Yankee's dogs. The big one is Barnabas and the small one is Evinrude. They were dolls.

Fweyeday!

What a good day! Just heard that my classes are cancelled for the day and then the sun came right out! But not for long. O well. A much needed break. This morning at Eweb the little kiddies were o so cute. I asked..."what day is tomorrow?" Valentine's day! they responded. So we put our arms over our heads to show our sunshines and sang "you are my sunshine." I guess the excitement was too much that after one rousing round of YAMS (you are my sunshine) poor Everett yacked! Didn't seem to bother him too much though. He just pointed at it and looked concerned that there was a mess on the ground. A teacher quickly cleaned it up and gave him a new carpet square. :) Then when I said goodbye to the toddlers, sweet Daly blew me a kiss. Gracious!

So I leave you with this! Happy day before valentine's day.

Animal Collective - My girls

Here is my new favorite song! I almost cried when I first heard it.

So week 2 is finalllllllly over. I had an ex-Israeli army person who wanted my head on a platter for half of the week. Then the problem was resolved. In other news, the Tuvan throat singers are coming to the school of music!!!! I wouldn't miss it for ja world. Did you know that children laugh an average of 400 times a day, where adults only laugh an average of 15 times?!?!? This is terrible. I suppose that is why they have laughing clubs.

My new address is 1228 Arthur St. Eugene, OR 97402!

Just returned from a lurvely trip to the South. I like that place. I like it here too too!

Anyhow...a few notables...

Ben and Katie bought me a kitty cat shirt! I simply adore it.


Caleb Tingle and I were in a close call. Poor Caleb now has a broken thumb. It were heavy. I was in the passenger's seat and phew was I lucky. Caleb, I'm so sorry bout your digit, man, not to mention your belovéd car car.
This, however, didn't stop us from going to see Of Montreal a couple of nights later. And let me tell you...WTF?!?!??! What a crazy show. I didn't know where I was a couple of times there. It was super sweet to be in the 40 watt again. What a nice place.

I hope everyone had a lovely holiday and as my friend Brett told me..."Right on chall'Happy two thousand shine!" Pretty hippie, no?