A love letter to Adam Young

Dear Adam,

        I have this reoccurring fantasy about you. Well, maybe you would call it a scenario because it does depend on many factors. I know it's far fetched, but love is weird and unpredictable, so maybe you have to dream too big to end up happy. When I tell you my plan, I am not going to say, "if this happens," I am going to say, "when this happens," because I so badly want it to come true. If I have learned one thing from you, I have learned to always be optimistic because, well, dreams don't turn to dust.
        My plan sets off when I am blessed with a large sum of money. I am not trying to buy your love, but I do need to purchase some necessary supplies. See, I need to go buy a hot air balloon. I understand I could probably rent one for an afternoon, but hey, I thought I would splurge. The balloon design is simple; plain maroon. Now that I have the balloon, I need to know how to fly it. Everything is less romantic with a random third party, even if that third party is flying the balloon. As two extremely introverted people, I think it would be better to be alone, which means I need to learn how to fly this bad-boy.
        I don't know how long or how much hot air balloon flying lessons are. I am guessing it takes a while. Maybe I should have bought the balloon after I learned how to fly it. Nonetheless, how many months later, I am in the air. Alone. I pack light. The gondola is feeling too empty right now. I keep well, and I keep optimistic that my plan is going to be a success.
        As a Canadian Girl, the trip from the tip of Ontario to Minnesota is quite the journey. Travelling over the great lakes is a miraculous view. The birds welcome me along with their best of luck songs. The balloon is smooth sailing. It's as if I was stationary and the sky was sailing around me.
        Before I know it, I am nearing my destination. I am nervous, of course. I start to have doubts. This is crazy. This is never going to work. What was I thinking. But I think back to your blog posts. Your far fetched fantasies of meeting the girl of your dreams. I have to keep positive. I have to believe that I might get to unlock the secret that is Adam Young with my own key. I start to descend.
        I know all of Owatonna can see the balloon landing. I pray you are looking too. The field begins to fill with people wondering who this mad woman is flying this balloon. I search the crowd for your face, but with no luck. You're not here. After telling everyone I did mean to land here and that my balloon did not need to be repaired, the crowd thins. It starts to get dark, yet there was still no sign of you. I settled in for the night, but I miss the air. Insomnia claws at me everywhere I turn. I can't just give up now. I have to find you.
        Then I hear the best thing imaginable. A simple, "Hello," coming from the dark. I stand up to peer over the gondola with my flash light. You squint at the sudden brightness in a way that makes my heart melt. "You finally made it," I say with a smile. I like how you smile back, as if knowing I came for you.
        You say you don't need any bags and that we can take off right now. Hand in hand we are Airborn. And this is how it will stay.

                                                                                           -Stephanie

Happy Birthday Adam Young

Adam Young. Where to begin.

He is everything. He inspires me to be a better person just on the fact that he, himself is a good person. Adam doesn't do this in the way of corruption. He does it simply by optimism through his music.

I try to be optimistic, but from this blog, you probably know that it fails. I have my ups and downs, but I always come back to Owl City. People say his music is 'soft', I say it is truly gratifying. Everyday we listen to songs about loss and fear and death. We all feel those things, but should we focus on them? Should we allow ourselves to become consumed? No. We need to focus on the positive.

That's what Owl City's songs are about. If everyone goes through bad things, why should we listen to music about it?

On another note, Adam is from a small town. He is an introvert. He recently played a live show for over 60,000 people. How crazy is that? He went from loading trucks to touring the world in like three years.

He is a dreamer that has actually seen his dreams come true. There is nothing more inspiring then that.

Maybe dreams don't tun to dust. (And I will marry Adam Young one day.)

All Things Bright and Beautiful

Hello blog! How I've missed you! I know I haven't been away for that long, but I hope you missed me too!
What? No! I have not been seeing other blogs!
Well, Tumblr isn't really a blog.
We don't have the same relationship!
You are special to me! Please don't leave!
You want me to do what in bed?
Okay, fine.

And things are back to normal. I've had so much homework! It's been a horrible past couple of days.

LOLJK.

I may be running on little sleep and migraines but I'm so happy!

Owl City's new record came out today. All Things Bright and Beautiful. I pre-ordered it in like March. I've been waiting a while. It is beyond incredible though.

I was listening to it until 3am. And loving every second of it. I can't remember being this happy. To put in prospective, I could think of this album and muster up an amazing patronus. Which would probably be an owl. Hehehe.

That daily Adam really failed, didn't it? Oh well. Ahaha

It's like I'm riding some weird Owl City high. I feel good. Too good, it scares me. I felt it at school today. Everything just went better then expected. I had to present something, and it just happened. Like it did in my head. I didn't fail like I did in the presentation I did yesterday.

I hope this lasts.

Daily Adam Day 5

I have this new thing where I draw on my thigh with pen. The joys of shorts. I don't know why. It just happens.

The sweater.

I love how Adam owns about 6 shirts and one pair of shoes. Two including the cowboy boots.

"If I can create something positive and something creative and something that fills my creative drive and if that same end result will inspire some kid somewhere and make them feel as though they can be a better person, or however the music chooses to speak to them. It, to me, feels like my job is done."

-Adam Young

 Early Birdie - Owl City

Another of my all-time favourites :) This one has a wonderful video. The sweater from above seems to come up a bit..

Daily Adam Day 3

Hey party people.
Sitting in my room singing, "No you can't always get what you want!" I feel like at night I am like 120% better at singing. I don't know what it is. Like last night at 2am I was playing Wonderwall on guitar and singing and I thought it sounded amazing and I go and play it today and I was like, meh.
It is such a wonderful song though. I was singing it all day, then I went to the mall and it was playing! I thought it was a really weird coincidence.

Love.

This picture. It's just one of those pictures that make you smile.

“ You've got mountains of your own, I’ll bet on it. Take heart. Be encouraged. Remain steadfast. Hang on for dear life. You've got a better grip than you realize.”

-Adam Young

I love this quote because it applies to everyone. We all have those moment where we are so overwhelmed that we just want to scream. But once you take a look at your life, things aren't always as bad as they seem.

This is the Future - Owl City

This is my all time favourite Owl City song. It gets to me every time.

Daily Adam Day 2

Today was a pretty crappy day. But whatever. Moving on.

You know what never fails to cheer me up?

This guy.

I really enjoy this picture. Heart-hands ftw :)

"A lot of people think I’m weird and totally uncool because I’m not always talking. It makes me laugh sometimes. enjoy listening a lot more then yakking."

-Adam Young

This quote seems to be a lot like myself. Today, after handing back a test, my teacher said to me, "I wish you would talk; you're hilarious," after I added a joke answer because I had no idea what the real answer was. Little does she know that I truly am hilarious and I embrace it everyday. Obviously not in that class.
This kind of upset me though. The phrase, "Bitch, you don't know my life," came into my head. But I was just angry with myself. Maybe I should send her the link to this blog.


To The Sky - Owl City
I suggest that you watch the video as you listen to the song. They are both wonderful. This movie is also wonderful, you should watch it sometime. Good day.

Daily Adam

You guys know how much I love countdowns! Owl City's new album comes out on June 14th. All Things Bright and Beautiful is Adam Young's new baby. So, for the next two weeks I will be posting a little something about Adam Young right here. More specifically, a picture, quote and song!

Cannot contain self.

Meet Adam Young.

I love this picture. I love his sweater. I love his face.
What I feel for Adam Young... we are not going to get into it. I'm going to try and keep this as clean and innocent as possible. This is my favourite picture ever. Of anything.

"The future is bright, and by all means, it’s beautiful. There’s really no telling what tomorrow may bring." 

- Adam Young

I'll Meet You There - Owl City
This song holds special meaning to me. I can proudly say that this is the first Owl City song that I ever heard. And of course the lyrics are pure and beautiful. That is something I've come to respect from everything Adam Young.

It's nice to listen to his music. It feels like it cleanses your ears from all the sex and drugs you hear in pretty much every song.

Everything is Owl City and nothing hurts.

Last names

Stephanie Doughty
Stephanie Lamb
Stephanie Awesome
Stephanie Sauce
Stephanie Owl
Stephanie Fey
Stephanie Simmish
Stephanie Wendy
Stephanie Podephanie
Stephanie Flowerpot
Stephanie Moonface
Stephanie Toadephanie
Stephanie Young
Stephanie Lemon
Stephanie Frank
Stephanie Fridge-Magnet

I am not a huge fan of my last name. It's random and and no one knows how to pronounce it. It means brave, fearless, bold, courageous... The list continues. I may be all of those things, but I will change my name when/if I get married. *Insert forever alone face.*

I am a huge fan of last names that are common objects. I find them hilarious. If you have that boss and they go around calling you 'Lunch' out of habit of calling everyone by their last names, I'm sure this might happen often, "Someone go get me Lunch! 45 minutes late is not expectable!" I can see all the assistants and unimportant people looking around thinking, "Is this guy insane? It's 8:45am..."

I'm sure you can think of your own clever scenario involving another common word that could be a last name. I will even help you out; think of one with the last name Wetter and tell me about it later. Or now, depending I guess.

I also love it when people's last names rhyme with their first names. "That Randy Fandy is a pain in the ass." How can you take someone seriously? You sound like some made-up character from a children's book. "Randy Fandy is really depressed, I hope he doesn't do anything stupid." "AHAHA, Randy Fandy? What a name!"

Another last name group I enjoy are the two first names people. Like, you don't even have a last name. You have two first names. "Donna Kevin is here to see you." "Do you mean Donna and Kevin? I only have time for one interview." I imagine if her middle name is Anne it would be a whole lot worse. But Donna is just one person, don't let her name throw you off. Poor people.

Millions of people suffer from weird last names. It's something we deal with. No one really knows how we got our last names. Well, I'm sure some people do, but shh. I don't.

When I get married to Adam Young I will become Stephanie Young. Assuming we will never get divorced; I will sing Forever Young for the rest of my life. And it will be awesome.

Photoshop

A while back my brother somehow downloaded Photoshop onto his iPod from a school computer. I made him put it on my computer. So, here I am with a free Photoshop. I would open it sometimes and just pretty much look at it because I had no idea in hell how to work it.

Then came this YouTube contest. Thinking back, it was pretty stupid. What you had to do is add this orange's face into a picture. I'm like, I want to win this and I have Photoshop!

And thus begins my journey on discovering my Photoshopping powers of awesome. I didn't win the contest either. But I did teach myself how to use the program.

I love Photoshop. I love making graphics, banners, having celebrities in my living room...

Do you guys not know what BRB means!?

Oh, how we have fun here. I thought this was clever because it is pretty much my life.

Anyways, Photoshop is great. I may not be Photoshop Queen, but I'm still learning. Like I recently learned how to just simply draw on the picture... didn't know how to do that.

As long as I know how to add Tina Fey and Adam Young into my living room, I will be content.