True Life: I'm Moving to NYC

So I feel like my life was a movie today. If it was, I even know what music I'd have picked out for the different scenes.

Scene 1 - My taking me to the airport

I believe I would have had Katy Perry's Fireworks playing. It's just a happy, fun song that I feel like it would have been appropriate.

Scene 2 - Delay at the Airport

The song I'd pick out for this scene would be 'Waiting For' by Peter Gelderblom.

Scene 3 - Arrive in New York
'The World Is Mine' by David Guetta (you knowwwww, MY ANTHEM!!) most definitely. I could definitely see it playing as I was walking off the plane with a huge smile on my face. I walked down to baggage claim and my bags were already out on the belt. As soon as I took them off a man came over and assisted me with getting my luggage on a cart and getting me a taxi. It honestly couldn't have gone smoother. And I loved the man working the taxis who said 'You must be moving to the city with all that luggage' and I just laughed. He proceeded to then say 'Welcome to the City. Enjoy your life!'.

Scene 4 - Driving in the Taxi to my Apartment
I don't even need to pick a song because I believe the song that was playing was perfect. Journey's 'Don't Stop Believing' was playing and the cabbie was jamming to it. It was honestly perfect and, I won't lie, I totally got choked up and teary eyed. I was texting my friend Iwona and everything just hit me all at once- that this was real. I was really driving to my new apartment. That I was really going to live here. That I was really going to be living in the city that I'd always dreamt of.

Scene 5 - The Apartment/Concierge
First State's 'My Sanctuary'. Within an hour of being at my new apartment I managed to make the management office pissed off and become friends with Jose the Concierge. Haha

Scene 6 - The Ikea Treck
Well. Jose told me to take 3 different subway trains and then to walk 20 minutes to Ikea. I wasn't too thrilled to do that off the bat so I tried to get a cab. 2 to be exact. And both of them told me they wouldn't take me there. So I said, suck it up. Ya gotta try it. And I headed down into the subway. I believe a good song to play at this point would be Tiesto's 'Driving to Heaven'. Because I feel like it would capture all the hustling people scurrying around in the snow at rush hour and also would get in all the passing trains down below the city. Well, after successfully taking 3 different trains (and only managing to stand and wait 10 minutes for a wrong one -but I realized before I got on it that it was wrong) I ended up in Brooklyn.... and got totally LOST. A good song to play at this moment would probably be 'Brooklyn's Finest' by Jayz. Just because when I think of Brooklyn that song always plays in my head.

Scene 7- Getting home
Probably 'All I've Ever Wanted' by BassHunter.

Yay!! Good First Day!

Peace, Love, and NYC <3

Interesting Day.

So, today my plan was to get up, head to NYC, buy furniture and start to set up my new room :)
My plans have been greatly diverted as NYC is currently getting like 12 inches of snow. Of course! Of course they would. Why wouldn't there be a big snow storm the day I'm trying to move? haha

It's funny because Brad is half way around the world and we were supposed to have our flights at the same time- mine at noon and his at 7pm- but that's not happening. I'm sitting at the gate and they're saying it's a 3 hour delay, but I have a feeling this flight it going to get completely canceled.

Oh well. Nothing I can really do at the current moment. It's just the beginning of my adventure :)

There is this lady sitting at the gate who is totally dressed to the 9's. She has high black heels on, this black coat with white ruffles around the wrists and neck line and this glittery headband. She's probably in about her 50's and she's currently on her mac and checking her iphone 4. Totally can tell she's from NYC. It's funny because as I sit here I could totally see myself become someone like that. Haha, but let's be honest. My budget will be more like the sunglasses and headbands found in china town, not the ones on 5th ave.

It's sooooooo weird I'm actually doing this. I've always dreamt of this, but never thought it'd come true. As I was packing my 2 suitcases to bring with me I kept weighing them to make sure they wouldn't be over 50 pounds. When I got here and put them up on the scale they both were EXACTLY 50! haha it worked out perfectly.

There are these 3 girls sitting across from me right now getting so excited for their trip to Europe. They're going to study abroad in France and they're waiting for their flight to get over there. It takes me immediately back to when Iwona, Anna Marie and I were sitting in the Chicago airport waiting for our flight to Europe. And come to think of it I actually was wearing the exactly hoodie I have on right now when we were going to Europe. Haha so weird. As I'm sitting here remember all the amazing times I had over there I can't help but think how blessed and lucky I am to have all the opportunities I've had in life. I'd never trade my study abroad experience for anything in the entire world. I wish I could go back and do it all over again. I can't wait to have kids and take them over there and let them experience what I experienced. I think that everyone MUST go and experience different cultures and see how other people live. It really puts life in perspective.

Well- I'll update, but as it looks right now who knows when I'll actually make it up to NYC! Ha may only be going up next weekend at this rate.

Oh wellllllll. When in life is anything easy? It's taken me 25 years to get to this point.... what's a few more hours?

My pick for this post is a Tiesto song that was released back in the fall- Speed Rail


Peace, Love and STOP SNOWING!!

HERE WE GO STEELERS HERE WE GO!!

 PITTSBURGHS GOING TO THE SUPERBOWL!

Sunday night my Dad and I went to the AFC Championship game against the JETS and needless to say the best team wooooonnnn :)  I was fortunate enough to go to the last AFC Championship game, but I feel like this one was even more special. I was so excited to be going to cheer on the black and gold, but to go with my Dad and experience it with him definitely made it great! The energy of the stadium was great and I’m so excited we’re advancing on to the SUPER BOWL!!!

We met up with my Uncle Denmo and Justin before the game! They actually ended up sitting a section over from us!

Justin, Me, My Dad and Uncle Denmo

Wish I could take a trip down to Dallas, but between moving to NYC, trying to save to take a vacay to Africa, and just in general trying to live I don’t think it’s in my budget! Booooooooooooo. Oh well. One of these days… maybe ;)

Before the game they took a 500 billion pixel picture of the entire stadium. Here's the link to where my Dad and I were sitting:  Giga Pixel Cam

Here's a screen shot of the pic :) It turned out perfect! We not only were looking, we were smiling and waving our terrible towel!!!

We were on the NFL Network camera though. So my Dad’s seats are right next to a camera. Sometimes it’s a network camera, but yesterday it was the NFL Network cam. At the end of the game they took a shot of us with our sign that said:

All

For

Cope

And had a pic of Myron and the terrible towel on it and we were yelling happy birthday! It was fun.
It was fun to be a part of a record setting crow 66,662 (me and my Dad like to think we’re the 2 in that number haha). I liked the extra seats they put in for the Winter Classic. Makes the stadium look complete and full. I was actually thinking, I bet it’ll be easier to kick a field goal down that end of the field now with those seats. That could work to our disadvantage ;) hahaha. Oh well.

Sunday I woke up and had on repeat a Steelers playlist. My pick this week is an obvious one, but definitely need to put this up.



Peace, Love and Black and Gold

WVU Holiday Fairy Tale

This video is so cute! Makes me miss Christmas already :(

It always is a great day to be a Mountaineer!!!!!

Cheers, Beers, and Mountaineers

- Juls

Entire cds?

I have to laugh because I just loaded $20 worth of itunes credit onto my computer and I only have $5 left now. After buying a few singles I came across the Swedish House Mafia's 'Until One' album. I'm actually shocked I don't own it yet seeing that it came out the end of Oct, but then again you do have to remember that Nov- Jan I have a strict 'Only Christmas Music' policy. But what made me laugh is that my boyfriend was just mentioning the other day that I'm probably the only person that still buys complete cds! Is this true?! Do you guys still buy whole cds or just singles off of itunes?

I can't imagine not having whole cds. He does make a great point that more people are apt to buy just the single rather than spring for the entire cd ... which would force musicians to try to make their cds as complete and perfect as they can. I mean no ones going to buy that entire cd for those 5 songs that shouldn't have even made it there in the first place. He's right- Itunes and other internet music media companies have forced artists to challenge themselves and try to make the best album that they can. *Don't tell them, but I'll probably still buy them regardless;)*

As for the SHM I'll update once I get a good feel for the album, but I mean... I feel like there's no way it can be that bad ;)

If you're thinking to myself, Swedish House Mafia... sounds familiar. What's one of their songs.

You may have heard one of these:

One:



Miami to Ibiza:


I have a feeling you may see more blog posts from me about music coming now since I'm trying to stay busy and keep my mind off my boyfriend who's a million miles away right now :( waaahhhhh

Peace, Love and Electro House,
Juls

Dreams.

Dreams.

Everybody has dreams. Dreams for the future, dreams for the present, and dreams of things that they wish would have occurred in the past.

I've always been a dreamer. Coming up with new schemes or ideas in my head that I wished would play out into real life. Dreams of being famous and singing in front of crowds, dreams of having a family and living an amazing life, dreams of me living in crazy exotic places experiencing life as you would not if you were to stay in Pittsburgh.

Dreaming of being the next American Idol

I've always known I wanted to leave Pittsburgh. Maybe not for forever, but at least for a little while. To experience other cities, cultures, different ways of living... I've always said, there are so many places to live in the world I don't want to spend all my time in just one.

Within the last year I made it a priority to live out this dream of moving. Once my apartment lease was up I moved back in with my parents to plan my next move... "to where" was the only question.

While making plans to live out my dream of moving, my life started making it's own plans. Now I sit faced with the amazing opportunity to move to a city of my dreams only to be set back with doubts and fears.

I never thought one person could impact your life (and in such a short amount of time) as a certain someone in my life has. As I get ready to make my move I trust in my heart that the decisions I'm making are the ones that I need to get off my chest before going further down life's road.

*At least I'm crossing my fingers that they are...* LT3

On a not so serious note...
If you listen to only one suggestion for music that I ever make please let this one be it.
Download the Radio 538 Powermix podcast, specifically episode 196. For the beginning of the year they did a 3 hour mix of music. It's awesome.... even my sister said it was awesome (which is saying much because she doesn't usually like my music)

Peace, Love and Dreams-
Julie

Delilahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh *puke*

If there's one radio host I HATE listening to it's Deliliah. I'm a pretty positive person, but her 'happy all the time' mood makes me want to puke. I swear that she says these happy stories and once it cuts to a song or a commercial she starts flipping and cussing out the people who called in and told them.


The only time I will ever listen to Delilah is for Christmas music.


ONLY TIME.


Sorry. I just felt like I needed to post how much I hate her.


Thanks all XOXO
Merry Christmas <3

Trading in the Beemer and Moving to NYC

Ever since I was little I always pictured myself living in a big city or somewhere else outside of Pittsburgh. Of course I fantasized about NYC and pretty much every place I would visit. My family and friends always tease me because when I come back from a trip I’m on a ‘I wanna move to XYZ’ kick until I visit somewhere else.

Coming out of school I never really wanted to stay in Pittsburgh, but since I got a consulting job based in Pittsburgh I figured it would be the best of both worlds. Travel during the week and be home with my fam and friends on the weekend.  Well of course that didn’t happen. I got ‘lucky’ and pretty much am in the 1% of people at my company that doesn’t travel. I’ve contemplated moving many times over the course of the last 2 ½ years, but never had made a move. I’ve always felt that in my life I’d need to do something drastic. Make a huge change. Get out of my comfort zone. Try something completely new. When I went to Italia I got some of this. It was for a short period of time (and I’d love to move back for greater than the 5/6 months I was there), but I always knew I’d need something more as well. There are sooooooooo many places to live in this world- I don’t want to stay in 1 place my whole life.

One of my really great friends from middle/high school moved to NYC after school and has been living there for awhile. This past summer I went up to visit and of course started my ‘I wanna move here asap’ rant. Welllllllll jump forward 6 months and his roommate moved out and needed someone to sublet his room! I really felt like I couldn’t pass this up. It’s definitely gonna be a hugeeeeee change- I’m selling my car (which I’m pretty much obsessed with), pretty much leaving everything I own here and moving up to the big city!

It’s crazy to me because I feel like I’m starting to live out a dream of mine I’ve had for soooooooo long. I know that there are some people here that will take it personally that I’m leaving- especially new relationships that I’ve started over the last few months. My Mom keeps telling me I need to get this out of my system beforeI have a family. I’ll always wonder what would have been if I don’t go. I feel like over the last year I’ve been working so hard to create a better ‘me’.  This is something, without a doubt, that I need to do in my life before I’d even be able to THINK about settling down.  I’m so excited to live a new life in a new city… I wish I could take certain people with me.

Me and the new roomies :)

Christmas Music :)

So my favorite music, of all time, is Christmas. I LOVEEEEE IT. Back in high school I had vocal nodes and wasn't allowed to sing and talk a lot for 6 weeks. OF COURSE this 6 weeks was over the Christmas season and honestly, that was probably the most depressing part of my life to date. I always joke and say that my mission on this earth is to put out a Christmas album that people will listen to and say 'Wow, how did we live without this before?!' I mean- think along the lines of Mariah's Christmas album. That big. Hey, here's to wishing right ? ;)


Anyways,
I always find it interesting to find out which Christmas song is people's favorites and why?  It is extremely, extremely hard to pick my favorite song. Almost seems down right like an impossible task for me... but after much deliberation I have come up with my fav.


My favorite Christmas song is Oh Holy Night. I loveeeee this song. I love the melody, the lyrics and I especially love to sing it! I just think it's such a beautiful song. My Second favorite is It's the Most Wonderful Time of Time of the Year.


Now I absolutely love myself some Silent Night, We Wish You A Merry Christmas and all the rest of the songs, but if I really had to pick those would be my favorites.


My favorite Christmas album is definitely the Kenny G Christmas album. It just reminds me of being little and decorating the house. That's the music we always bust out at Christmas time!


The best thing about Christmas music is singing the music! In high school I always loved going around to the different nursing homes and performing. I wish I had oppotunities now to sing around the community. One of my favorite traditions is singing Christmas Eve mass. When I was younger there was a group of us that sang in the Church choir. Every Christmas we all come back together and sing. It's always so much fun and I absolutely love it! :)

Leave me a comment and let me know what your fav song is!!!

Here's one of my fav Christmas pix! In college we loved having themed parties and had an awesome Christmas party :)

Love don't let me gooooooooooooooooo

So I have an anthem song. I can't remember if I've ever talked about it before, but it's the one song I listen to that get's me pumped up no matter what. I remember listening to it on the way to job interviews and on my first day of work, before going out and on days where I was just kinda depressed... The World Is Mine (FMIF Remix) Seriously- that song gets me going haha

But since I went over to Europe in 2007 and first heard Love Don't Let Me Go- David Guetta vs. The Egg I fell in love with David Guetta. Loved him. Love his songs, beats, the artists he collaborates with- everything!

Last year I remember hearing him an interview and he was saying how he didn't understand why House/Dance music was so popular in Europe and not in the US and was determined to have it cross the ocean. With the release of Sexy Bitch with Akon I believe he's on a great path to do so. I won't lie, it really does bother me that he has to collaborate with celebrities that are famous over here to get big in the US - but I'll take it. I'm proud that he's on a mission to get his music out there.

He released a follow up to his One Love album entitled One More Love a few weeks back. It's One Love PLUS additional hits he's had come out of the last year PLUS oldies but goodies like the original cut of The World Is Mine and Love Don't Let Me Go.

Check it out- I'm really glad he's becoming main stream in the US :)

Peace, Love and David Guetta
- Juls