Eight Days A Week, we pracitce Down On The Corner

Everyone that performed...
Preston playing Let It Be.
At the end of Down On The Corner
Eight Days A Week...
Louder Than Words (less a drummer)

HI! So last night's performance went awesomely! Despite missing a few words and my guitar's volume being WAY down at the beginning, it went really well and was a breath of fresh air after some amature performances (that will get better with practice). Preston also playes Let It Be by The Beatles as a solo performance. Darren played drums really well for us (with his awesomly weird hat on) and we sounded great! I might be able to get some videos up on facebook...we'll see...anyways...

Bri has a baseball tournament this weekend so I probably won't be home for most of it.

Thank you to Gram for sending me lots of gummies (which have fueled me this week) and the two awesome tshirts :)


Anyways, I've got to go now, but I'll write more soon!

-Kristen

Howdy all

Hi...so I'm officially done school, which is FLIPPIN' SWEET! I did one grade 10 exam and that was it! :D Tomorrow is the Blue Water Music recital which should be AWESOME! Darby, Preston and I are playing Down On The Corner and Eight Days A Week. We're goin' for the classics this time. We sound pretty good on both songs (better with a drummer which we didn't have for most of our practices) and it should be really fun!
The new Lifehouse CD was released on Tuesday and I don't have it yet. That is really quite tragic. So sad. I need to get to CD Plus because Zellers decided not to have it. Gr.
Okay, so I'm gonna go play Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 now. I guess I'll write more soon and stuff :)
-Kristen

Lake?

Kyle at the beach!
Me freezing cold...
My mom and Bri
The marina with its new docks...

Hi...okay so it's pretty flippin' hot here now. We've gone down to the lake a few times just to get cooler. Not that you can actually swim though. You might lose a leg or two from the bitter coldness.

Here are some pics of us at le beach "enjoying" the icy cold water.



Last night, my mom and I went to a play in Salmon Arm that Travis's school put on. It was REALLY good! They did a non-musical version of Les Miserables and it was awesome. Travis played the character called Marius and he was really good! And Brendan Osborne was in it too playing the main character, John Valjon (spelling?). It was really cool! The did sooo well and they had awesome costumes and everyone did really well! so that was cool :) woo hoo!



I also have one more link to add to my list of sites: http://www.garageband.com/artist/kristenmcneilly

Anyways, I'm gonna go now. I'll write more soon! School's almost done!

-Kristen

AVALANCHE!!!

Okay...so Avalanche was AWESOME! It was soooo cool! It was so incredible! There were like...at least 500 people there (probably more) and we were all having so much fun! Got to see some cool bands I'd never heard of: Jason Upton and EveryOther Band. We hung out in between concerts and speakers. It was sooo fun! We got to go to the mall (which is pretty darn big for out here) and we ate nothing but fast food for three days and we showered at the rec centre because we were billeting and we ran through random feilds and traded sweaters and stayed up til like...three in the morning for two nights. So yeah! It was awesome! I got to know more people from the youth group (which was awesome because they're all so cool) and we learned some British slang ( ;) hee hee!) and...we went to some cool workshops and skipped out on one of the concerts to go get iced capps and through leaves at each other and then we went to the late concert and drove back to the house (falling asleep on the way :P) and then we talked about nothing in particular until we couldn't hold our eyes open anymore! FUN! So yeah! Jessica and Amanda (my new friends) are insane and we were so crazy at the concerts! And then at the late concert we were like right at the front and when they started to play some good songs we were all jumping around like idiots with "the guys" (Brendan, Ty, Preston, Travis and Marshall) and the concert ended just as we were about to pass out from being soooo tired. We also ran around in fields and stumbled across an abandoned hobo-pad thing. It was weird. But hilarious and then we walked back and Brendan was wearing my Fender sweater so I stole his and then we were all throwing leafy things at each other and um...it was fun! So yeah! I'm gonna stop there for tonight because um...otherwise it'll take you a few hours to read! So yeah...all for now!

-Kristen

Pic#1: Random clown dude. Don't know why he was there but he liked his bubbles...

Pic#2: Amanda and Jessica and Mr. Bakery Man... ;)

Pic#3: There's a long story behind this one...but it's a picture of my camera bag strap and Brendan's knee...

Pic#4: Ty and Brendan in the trunk of the van with the awesome new shoes!

Pic#5: Um...Jade being weird.

Avalanche

Hi! So today I'm going to Avalanche (the HUGE youth conference in Kelowna) with our youth group (23 of us!!) and we're gonna be gone until Sunday evening. WOOT WOOT! It should be ultra-fun! So yeah! I'm bringing the "digi-cam" so that I can take so cool pics! You can see my friends :)
In other news...an unexpected scenario has brought itself up in our family recently and I have now been granted permission to tell of this event. My mother is pregnant... :) I was a bit bummed at first but, I'm getting used to the idea now and I'm kind of excited now. And it's a BOY!!! YAY! I was hoping for a boy! That makes rooming situations much easier. He can bunk with Kyle when he's older :) So...everything's changing out here. It's kind of crazy.
On the school front, I'm kind of behind in everything but I'm working like mad to try to finish by June 15th.
Facebook is soooooo addictive. I've found people on there that I haven't seen in over 3 years! And the groups thing...I'm in over 40 groups...because it's fun. I am, however, disappointed with some of the STUPID rules. Like, you get punished for having a fake name! What the $&#*%@!! That's soooo dumb. I'm forever going to be "Commander Kristen". Gr...And then you can only change your network twice and then you have to wait 60 days. So now I have to wait until the end of June to join the Kelowna network. Ugh...But it's cool. And I like that no onw can see your profile unless they're your friend. Um...yeah...so I'm gonna go now before I can't stop myself from talking about nothing. I'll be back in a few days!!!
-Kristen

Check it out

Search my name on Google :) It's cool...there's like a bunch of things that come up :D
So yeah...what's new? I'm officially done grade 9 math. And I'm at the beginning of science, socials and english. So I'm working really hard with that. I've got guitar lessons today. Should be fun. I also get to RETURN the math kit to the homeschool office.
So yeah! i'm pretty busy today so I gotta run. I'll post more soon!
-Kristen

New sites

Hey...so I've got 3 new sites on my...list of sites. Here they are:
http://www.isound.com/kristen_mcneilly
http://www.musicpostcentral.com/band.php?bandID=322
http://www.indie911.com/index.php?cID=85422
So yeah...woo hoo...check them out...random people keep adding me as a friend on isound...so yeah...
-Kristen

Stuff

1. Happy birthday, Sean.
2. I put a cool layout on my myspace so you should check it out.
3. My brithday is in 3 days!
4. My facebook is http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=774555243

Yeah...so that's about it for now...I'll talk to you wall later!
-Kristen

The Last Spike

Pic #1: Me at the Last Spike Place...Yes, I hammered it in.

Pic #2: Part of the Three Valley Gap Hotel and the righthand waterfall on the mountain.

Pic #3: The aftermath of an avalanche across the road from the hotel. It was cleared away before we got there.

Pic #4: More of the hotel with the lefthand waterfall behind it.

Yeah...so today, we were tourists. We drove an hour and a half (and more) past Salmon Arm to Revelstoke and saw a million incredible mountains and waterfalls on the way. We stopped at the Last Spike place-thing on the way, where they put the last spike into the CP railway. It was really cool :) Then we kept going and went into Revelstoke for McDonalds! YAY! On our way back, we went to the Three Valley Gap Hotel, which was pretty darn cool! Not that we stayed...we can't afford that! But the building itself is HUGE and surrounded by mountains and cliffs and a lake and waterfalls that come from the top of the mountain and there was a fairly fresh avalanche on the other side of the road...and it was cool! So yeah!

It was also awesome because when you're driving, there's all these waterfalls that come off the mountains and come right to the side of the road!

So yeah! It was pretty cool! Tomorrow, we're having "May Birthdays" with Bri's parents :) Should be fun!

-Kristen

Post # 60

Hey everyone! I've got new glasses! We got them at a really good price and they look cool! I didn't even have to get the stupid drops in my eyes! :D

Okay, so my glasses are more round and you can see my whole eye and they're like the same colour as my old ones. The prescription is VERY different. I could hardly read the top line of the chart-screen-thing with my glasses on, so I have a lot of getting used to do with my new ones. The place we went to was great! I got my eyes checked at one place but they didn't have any frames I liked and they were really expensive, so we went to another place and they were at least 30 $ cheaper! So I found frames I likes pretty quickly (and they were all on sale for 99$) and we already knew the kind of lenses I needed so it was REALLY easy and they had them done in 25 minutes! I'm probably going to get new lenses in my old frames too because then I'll have a backup pair. I got an awesome case for them too :)

Anyway, all for now!

-Kristen

Sick

Hi. I'm sick. This is great. I've had swolen glands since Thursday and now I'm all stuffy and I
have a cough. My fever's gone though...so that's good. I had to perform in church on Sunday with an incredibly stuffy nose, which was really hard, but everyone said it was like, my best performance... We don't have any pictures though : ( I'll make sure we have pics of my next performance though.





So Thursday, Toni and Sean (Bri's parents) came and they're staying for ten days. On Friday, we had this big youth night thing, which was really fun. Darby got to go and we played games ands stuff. Saturday, we all went to the BC wildlife park with Toni and Sean and Darby. It was fun! The wolves were out and we got to see a few feeding times and stuff. :) That evening was Shanan's 40th birthday so we all went to that and had lots of fun fun fun. Sunday was church and my performance and then we went for coffee at Grandma and Grandpa's house. And yesterday was Gamma Girls "Graduation" because we finished the whole program thing. It was fun! Sandi left the pizzas in the oven (in the boxes) and they caught on fire and Alexa and Janelle found them when they were looking in the new part of the church and then we all went over and aired out the building and salvaged what we could of the pizza (which was about three of six or something)...so yeah. It was fairly eventful. Later on we made some cool cards and bracelets and got our certificates. I contributed "Steadfastness" to the group during our ten week program. So yeah! It was cool. Today, I go to the optomotrist. Yay. But I think I need new glasses so that part's good. I just hate the eyedrops that make your pupils huge. :S





So yeah! That's about it for me. What's new with you guys?


-Kristen
P.S.- Pic #1: Me in front of the random giant guitar neck at the wildlife park.
Pic #2: Some cougars.

My sites

Hey folks! If you don't have a CD and you'd like to listen to my music, go on one of my many webpages (preferably myspace or purevolume) and listen. Any of them is fine. I want to get my playcount up. Add me as your friend on myspace too, because I don't know if any of you have pages. :)
-Kristen
http://www.myspace.com/kristenmcneilly
http://www.purevolume.com/kristenmcneilly
http://www.mp3.com/kristenmcneilly
http://www.unsigned.com/kristenmcneilly
http://www.peoplefisher.com/music/bands/69

News

Sooo...lately, I've been working my butt off with homeschooling. Report cards start in May, so I need to start getting things done which is hard because I need to teach myself the lesson and then do the lesson...yeah. But it's worth it because I'm doing well. I'll be playing in church on April 22nd, hopefully with the Louder Than Words crew (my cousins) but we'll have to see how that works out. I'm not sure what song I'm playing either.
Another scrap of news: I've officially eaten all my chocolate from Easter...which is really quite the tragedy.
Anyways...I've got to go start some social studies lessons...
-Kristen
P.S. - my sites/webpages:
http://www.myspace.com/kristenmcneilly
http://www.purevolume.com/kristenmcneilly
http://www.mp3.com/kristenmcneilly
http://www.peoplefisher.com/music/bands/69
http://www.unsigned.com/kristenmcneilly
http://www.kristenmcneilly.com

EASTER!

Hey everyone! Happy Easter! Hope you had a great weekend and stuffed yourself silly with chocolate and other such goodies!
-Kristen

Pics

Pic #1: Me playing "Yourself"
Pic #2: "Louder Than Words" playing Hold My Hand
Pic #3: Me with my project
-Kristen

Hi

Hey everybody! So, yesterday was the Homeschool Expo and I played Yourself for everyone. Darby, Preston and I also played Hold My Hand (Hootie And The Blowfish) and everyone was very pleased... I didn't sell any CDs, only one that Ron bought. The girl that was there from Lakeshore News (the newspaper) was really nice and she was asking me a ton of questions and taking lots of pictures so I bet we'll be in the paper.
I'll post pics soon. They're on my computer now, so that's good.
I'm working on making a few webpages on other music sites. Here are a few links. I'm still working on all of them, though.
http://www.purevolume.com/kristenmcneilly
http://www.myspace.com/kristenmcneilly
I'm also trying to get an account at MP3.com
So yeah! As far as sending stuff to record labels goes, I'm thinking of sending one to Tooth And Nail Records and Maple Music Recordings. Both are smaller and have some great bands signed. They both sign a lot of Canadian artists (Hawk Nelson, FM Static, Thousand Foot Krutch, tegan And Sara, David Usher), and I checked their sites for info on their A&R departments, both of which claim to be "Open to new music" and to "love new artists, just send us a demo CD". So yeah...hopefully that will work out.
I've been pleasantly surprised with the success of this new album. I didn't expect it to turn out so great! One thing that's really shocking me is that a lot of people are complimenting me on my voice, which I always felt was one of my weaker talents. ONe kid at the expo was saying "she has a perfect voice! It's just so perfect" and a bunch of the girls at Youth were like "you sing so pretty" (?)...so yeah! One lady from church (Brendan R.'s grandma - she's really nice) paid me twenty dollars, which was really, really generous, for my CD. Yeah, so the response so far has been great and I can't wait to start getting my music more out in the open.
Anyways...all for now!
-Kristen McNeilly :P

Hi!

Yeah! So I'll be in Ontario tomorrow! Can't wait! It'll be fun!
I've got lots of plans so i'll be calling a lot of you to hang out or whatever! Everything I'm typing ends with an exclamation mark! Fun!
I don't have very much money for new stuff this time! That kind of sucks! Imagine my voice like a game show host and the !!!'s will make sense!
So YEAH! Be Seein' you!
"Larva, larva, larva, larva"...that's the best part of Flushed Away! It's so awesome! Got that movie last week!
Anyways...Got To Go!!!
-Kristen
P.S. - !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Walrus said...

The Time Has Come The Walrus Said,

To Talk Of Many Things...

Yeah...so my trip to Ontario is nearing. I still have to make a lot of plans. But I'm looking forward to it.
I worked today, taking care of kids. Made 20 bucks which goes towards my "Ontario Fund" so that I can buy things in name-brand stores. Can't wait!
Anyways, all for now!
-Kristen

Valmumtimes

HAPPY VALMUMTIMES EVERYONE!

Hope you had a great day!

I had cake and chocolate!

THANKS TO GRAM FOR THE VALENTINE AND MONEY!!!!

All for now!

xoxo Kristen oxox

Report Cards

Helloooo...Got my report card yesterday. ALL A's. Art 9, Computers 10, English 10, Foods 9, French 9, Math 9, Music 9, Phys Ed 9, Science 9 and Socials 9. So yeah! That's really cool...I also started on my big huge home school expo project yesterday. I decided on an alubm name and I've been working on one of my four possible covers for hours now! I babysat a bunch of kids with Darby today. Got 20 bucks. SWEET!

Anyways...that's all for now. I'll be posting more soon!

-Kristen