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A Few Tips For Buying Vinyl Records from Goodwill

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Recently, I started to go to a Goodwill near where I live. The store is right next to my closets Joann’s Fabric and Craft store and is in the same strip mall. I like to visit the area for Joann’s, but after deciding I will need to move, I decided to stop by Goodwill to see if the location gets a frequent supply of furniture. I’m not ready to buy anything (I haven no where to store it) but I’ve seen some awfully high quality couches, desks, coffee tables, and other furniture in very good shape for shockingly low prices. (And if there was something wrong with the furniture, I could spend the money I saved for furniture to get it repaired or buy supplies to repair it.) In order to force myself to stop looking at furniture, I started to look at books, DVDs, CDs, and vinyl records on a hunt to see if there are anything I would like to buy.

I decided to start buying some vinyl records. The records are extremely cheep at $1.49 and I found many records from artists I would love to own vinyl records of. After searching through the records and buying several of them, I learned a few basic things about buying records from Goodwill. Continue reading “A Few Tips For Buying Vinyl Records from Goodwill” →

5 Singers I Used to Love as a Child and Still Love as an Adult

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Recently, I started to binge listen to music I used to like when I was a child. Some of the music I like but realized I missed the real meaning of the lyrics because of my youth. Other music I usually listen to regularly whenever I feel like I need to hear it again. This made me realize I had favorite artists I used to love when I was little and still love as an adult. Although I have many more artists I love as a child and as an adult, I’m listening to five singers a lot lately. Continue reading “5 Singers I Used to Love as a Child and Still Love as an Adult” →

Music Review- Now That’s What I Call Country Classics 90s (2020)

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While recently shopping at Walmart, I wandered into the music and movie section of the store. The music section at the Walmart I shopped at is now tinny compared to the size it used to be when the Walmart opened in the late 1990’s, but most of the music in the section are country music. Country music is probably one of the most popular genres of music in the area, so I wasn’t surprised there was many albums from country music genre. While looking at the CDs, I found a few albums I didn’t own and some I seriously considered buying but never did. One of the albums is Now That’s What I Call Country Classics 90s.

I listened to the Now That’s What I Call Music CDs since they were first introduced back in the late 1990’s, but, thanks to my focus on other things and my own lack of interest in modern day music (Sans a few songs and artists), I stopped buying them and listened to my old CDs. I thought about buying this version of the Now album series, but I ultimately didn’t. After looking at it again, I decided to buy it. After listening to it, I thought it would be a good album to write a review post about. Continue reading “Music Review- Now That’s What I Call Country Classics 90s (2020)” →

Favorite Music Hits from the Year 2000 (Country Music Only)

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Back in the year 2000, I used to listen to pop and top 30 music all the time, but I also listed to an equal amount of country music. Today, I don’t listen to country music nearly as much because the music style has changed so much I really don’t like it at all. Although there are some country songs that are new and enjoy listening to, for the most part I listen to the “oldies” from the 2000’s and any decade prior to the year 2013. Because of this, I listen to more songs I loved in the year 2000 than pop music.

And so, without further delay, here is a list of all the country hits I used to like in 2000.

  • It’s a Great Day to Be Alive- Travis Tritt
  • Prayin’ for Daylight- Rascal Flatts
  • There is no Arizona- Jamie O’Neal
  • Kiss This- Aaron Tippin
  • Breath- Faith Hill
  • What About Now- Lonestar
  • How Do You Like Me Now?!- Toby Keith
  • I Hope You Dance- Lee Ann Womack

 

Well, that’s all for now! Thank you for reading!

Favorite Music Hits from the Year 2000 (Pop/Rock/Ect. Music Only)

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It’s the last few days of 2020 and I’m lamenting about all the posts I wanted to write this year. One of the post topics I wanted to write about is reminiscing about the year 2000. I didn’t end up writing any of the posts because I felt the events of this year, especially the pandemic, made reminiscing about my good old days was in poor taste. So, I held back.

Now it’s the last week of 2020 and I feel like I missed my golden opportunity to talk about the year 2000. Despite this, I know I can take all my post ideas and topics and rewrite them into a future post. All I need to do is write those posts. Although I’m planning on saving all my post ideas for later, I still wanted to talk about something nostalgic from the year 2000.

Back in 2000, listening to music was one of my favorite hobbies. Ironically, during the day at home orders, I began to listen to all the music I could find that I used to enjoy. Even though it’s been years since I listen to the music, I wanted to listen to it, mostly because it was something I would listen to when I was stressed or worried, much like I was this year. Although I enjoyed many songs from the year 2000, I wanted to share my favorites from the year 2000 that I still love to this day…

  • (You Drive Me) Crazy- Britney Spears
  • I Try- Macy Gray
  • Breathless- The Corrs
  • I Need to Know- Marc Anthony
  • Shape of My Heart- Backstreet Boys
  • No More (Baby I’ma Do Right)- 3LW
  • Gotta Tell You- Samantha Mamba
  • I Knew I Loved You- Savage Garden
  • With Wide Open Arms- Creed
  • He Love U Not- Dream
  • It’s My Life- Bon Jovi

 

Well, that’s all for now! Thank you for reading!

Ballet Company YouTube Channels That Are Streaming The Nutcracker Performances- 2020

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Well, this holiday season hasn’t turned out the way I wanted to. In addition to a lot of things happening in my real life (Including a health scare of one of my relatives (It has nothing to do with the pandemic)), I also missed a few days of Blogmas! To be honest, I suspected I may miss a few posts this year because this year has been so weird, but I still hoped it wouldn’t happen. Despite this, I still plan to make 25 or more posts this month… even if some of those posts are on the same day.

During this odd and stressful holiday time, I discovered several ballet companies are posting videos of their 2019 performances of The Nutcracker. This made me extremely happy to see because the videos are not clips of the performances, but of the whole entire show. Although I don’t have the time to search each ballet company’s YouTube channels (Or try to search and see if they actually have a YouTube channel) I wanted to share some of my favorite ballet YouTube channels that did post videos of their Nutcracker performances in full.

 

Well, that’s all for now! Thank you for reading!

Recent Additions to My Vinyl Record Collection- September 2020

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I love owning and playing vinyl records, but I don’t have a large collection that I feel comfortable playing. Most of my collection is made up of vintage, original print vinyl records that can be played, but I’m worried about ruining them but don’t. Because of this, I decided to try to collect vinyl records that are reprints of certain albums or of newer albums that I can purchase very easily.

Over the past few months, I found a few albums I would like to own on vinyl. Although I didn’t buy them at the same time, I’m very happy to own them and wanted to talk about them in a post. Continue reading “Recent Additions to My Vinyl Record Collection- September 2020” →

Current Favorite EDM Throwback Songs- April 2020

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Being stuck at home during quarantine gave me a lot of time to think and reflect about a lot of things I used to do. One of the things I used to do a lot of in my younger years was listen to EDM or electronic dance music. I was never a raver, but listening to the music in the background when I used to work on my college papers. While I worked over the past month, I became tired of listening to the music I normally played while I worked and started to search for something else to listen to. That search lead me down a rabbit hole of old EDM music I used to play and listen to avidly. So here is a list of some of my most played/listened to EDM songs in the past month. Continue reading “Current Favorite EDM Throwback Songs- April 2020” →

Top 5 Favorite Christmas Songs for 2019

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It’s Christmas day and that means I’m probably going to be too busy to think of anything fun to write! So, for today’s Blogmas post, I wanted to share my top 5 favorite Christmas songs for 2019. Continue reading “Top 5 Favorite Christmas Songs for 2019” →

September 2019 Favorites

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September is now over and I’m so happy to see it go. It was hot month weather wise and a struggle for me personally, including set backs in my move to a new city and getting sick. Even though September was a stressful month, I do have a few favorites, mostly beauty and one non beauty, I discovered and enjoyed during the month. Continue reading “September 2019 Favorites” →