#MusicMonday: Better Days - The Goo Goo Dolls

This is the last music Monday of 2014 which is pretty weird, I promise to get a hell of a lot better at this next year so tag along for the journey. 

Better days by the Goo Goo dolls is just the perfect song for this time of year. Each year I am drawn back to it. It's perfect to feel nostalgic to and to help you move forward into the new year. 

"so you ask me what I want this year and I try to make this kind and clear just the chance that maybe we'll find better days"

#MusicMonday: Get Back to Gold - Bethany Joy Lenz

Bethany Joy Lenz has now released "Get Back to gold" an EP launched using kickstarter proceeds going to Stop the Traffik as well. 

"Get back to Gold" is the perfect title for this EP as the three tracks currently released do  exactly that. Joy shows of her incredible vocals, extraordinary writing skills and ability to make an incredible record. 

"Belong to me" is a definite hit. With a catchy tune and a beat to get you into it. This song creates a base that indicates what sound BJL is now going for. 

Joy had previously released a snippet of her singing the beginning of "Start it up" so I was most excited to see what this song would be and WOW did she blow it out of the water. It hits you hook, line and sinker and you will catch yourself singing the chorus for days after. Lyrically perfect I fell in love with this song the minute I heard it. 

"Call of the wild" is in a league of it's own though. The song is hauntingly beautiful. And does indeed feel like a call of the wild. Joys vocals are hypnotic. This is my definite favourite.

Check it out on spotify and iTunes 

Success doesn't just happen

A little bit of rambling I did on a typewriter app, just my musings on what it takes to be successful. May or may not make sense. 

Talking to a camera?!?!

Hey everyone!!!

I am really excited to start sharing new ventures. I am now talking to a camera, with so much happening this is going to be a great way, to show you and bring you on this journey with me. So rambles of an impatient girl is still going to be here and I'm going to try and figure out a schedule to update it so that I am being consistent in my content, on top of that ImpatientGirlProductions will have a new video weekly, sometimes there may be more.

Another great thing that I am excited to share is 1995 productions is almost ready to start uploading content and I will delve further into that venture when I can.

With great new opportunities on the rise I am stepping foot on to a bright new journey, and I am so excited guys cause THIS IS THE START!!!

Refreshed... No! Just really Stressed

I have read countless blogs about people who have given up their phone for a few days, whether unexpectedly due to it being broken, stolen or loss or out of their own free will to see what life is like without portable technology there to be at there beck and call. Now maybe I’m just looking in the wrong places but 99% of these articles I read the writer realises they rely on technology way to much and vow to reduce there consumption or have more no phone days. Saying it is refreshing to not have this thing to constantly fiddle with, that they look up more and embrace life… 

Well I unexpectedly went without my phone for four days and I have to say it was such an unpleasant, nerve wracking experience. Maybe I rely on technology to much, but this opened my eyes to how much having my phone made life easier. 

• Having no actual alarm that became my phones job (it snoozes for just the right time and I can set and turn it off with ease.)
• It’s my main source of news (as I don’t buy a newspaper or really watch the news, idle time spent on busses ect is spent reading interesting articles and finding out whats happening in the world)
• Camera (though I do have a canon dslr, I do not always have it on hand), 
• Music player (sometimes, I forget to pick up my iPod when rushing out the door), 
• Calendar (the convenience of adding things from messages, putting in specific times, and changing the view at a moments notice is all too brilliant) , 
• Notepad (I am a lover of old fashioned pen and paper, but once again convenience takes place when in a hurry, plus it means I don't spend hours looking for a pen), 
• Weather checker (one simple click, no complicated winds coming in an easternly direction at a zillion miles her hours), 
• Travel router ( you have no idea how many times I have walked to a new place guided by google maps) 
• Clock (no I don't own a watch). 

But the hardest thing about being without my phone is that I became unreachable if I wasn’t in the house or near a computer. Which meant that really large portions of the day where I was at work or college, I was not entirely reachable and in return couldn’t contact others in return, which is extremely hard, I am starting a new career which means that I need to be contactable all off the time, I also was working on a lot of stuff that meant it would be helpful be able to be in constant contact with people. But no twitter, Facebook, email, text and calls where all gone. So many ways to stay in touch and I could access none. 

And truth be told I missed being able to be tweet at a moments notice, or check out instagram, or snapchat friends. All a sign of the times I guess but these things have become a part of my life that I like. Seeing what other people upload, how people use social media to make a difference, share an opinion or just make others smile. 

I don’t know what these other people must of done on their phones to have a few days without theres be eyeopeners to the lives they were living. I felt like nothing changed, I noticed what was happening in the world just as much, appreciated the little time I spent with friends and family just as much. Only I felt hugely disconnected a lot of the time. Totally out of sync. It wasn’t some refreshing experience I expected it to be instead I am relieved to have my lifeline back.

I am NOT a morning person

Ask anyone who knows me I am many things, some good - some bad, but the one thing I am most defiantly not is a morning person. Peeling myself from the warmth of my nest in the ‘wee’ hours of the morning becomes a task that is both physically painful and mentally exhausting. 

It normally takes several alarms set and many attempts before I can even bare to remove the covers and embrace the cold. And thats not even where the hard morning ends, once the light is turned on the challenge is to adjust myself to this unsuspected brightness and make my way down the hall (which by no means is a long walk) without injuring myself severely, many a stub toe has been a result of a hazy morning. 

Then I have to will myself to get ready, make up, hair, clothes… why cant we just have an automatic machine like in futuristic movies where it just zaps and there we are perfect for the day ahead… but no here I am looking for my other shoe, how I am constantly losing only one shoe when I defiantly, without a doubt take them off together and proceed not to move them until I need them again.  

So when I leave the house half bedraggled probably a little late…. or like you know a lotta late I am in no more of a good mood and am now daydreaming of my bed once more and knowing I can’t be in it makes me a whole big irritate-able mess. Little things, tiny details that normally go overlooked suddenly bug me to no end and I have to bite my tongue more that I would admit to not snap at people who probably aren't doing anything wrong…. most of the time. 

Then comes the unstopping yawns, proclaiming to everyone that I am tired, and the little comments like you should go to your bed earlier, or where you out late last night come along, this does not help in the slightest with my annoyance with the world. 

But when I get home and can safely climb back into bed suddenly I am wide awake, unable to sleep I stay awake and content myself with series of tv shows, or a movie… maybe 5, start a book, or an ides, write, erase, write, erase, write, erase. Tweet. Eventually find sleep, and morning is here again. 

For a night owl I am but a morning person I will never be. 

Both Sides Now

Sometimes you go back to a song a hear it different each time. Thats how I feel that Both Sides Now reacts with me, it changes and adapts to fit my life, emotions, at the time. An incredibly beautiful song that has been playing on my mind the last few weeks.