Music ♪♫♪

Music , music , music !!
This is a topic I could talk .... type about all day . Music means different things to every different person . For me , music is my entire life ! I can't go a day with out singing . I've been singing since I was about 9 years old , and it's my dream in life to get my song Heaven , that I wrote for my grandfather , produced and in the music market . ♥
Music can change your mood without you even noticing it . It's all about expression , that's why a lot of people get emotional when a certain song is sung . Music can be a great way to build yourself as , or a better way to break yourself down .
See , as much people love to sing the next cool song on the radio , but very seldom do people listen to the words , or inflection in the artists' voices . I , personally , use music to tell story . For every person there is or will be a song that exactly mirrors how they feel or think . I honestly think it's important for every person to find that mirroring song , cause it will help you feel like there is someone else who connects with you , who can interpret how you feel even if you cannot .
For aspiring singers , no I'm not a professional .. But I don have some very important tips for you ..
1. Learn how to take deep breaths , in short amounts of time
2. Hold in your diaphragm , it's makes you voice more projectile without you sounding like your shouting ..
and
3. No matter how amazing your voice is , you will sound that much better if you relate to what you are singing .
If you sing a song that has no meaning to you , it will be harder to be master .
I've been told I have a good voice , which honestly unless you are tone deaf , most people can sing fairly well ; However , I get more compliments on songs that I sing that have some sort of effect on me , that resinate with me on a deeper level .

And that , for me , is what music is about . Connection , understanding , and communicated through an alternate source .
-Elle ♫

Fathers Day Tribute To MY Papa

As we all know Sunday, June , was Father's Day. Also known as the hardest calendar day for me.
 Growing up for the first 5 1/2 years of my life, I had no paternal family. My parents split up while my mom was pregnant with me, and my father and his family in no way, stayed in contact with my mom or I.
My mom raised me as a single mother with the help of her parents and younger brother. My grandfather, Filder Lloyd Johnson, was the father I never had. He treated me like his best friend and his own daughter at the same time. My mom always says that the relationship I had with her father, exactly mirrors the relationship she had with her father.
He would play legos with me, he would watch tv with me. Every morning, after we moved in to my grandparents house, Fil and I would watch The Price is Right and Family Feud, and at night we'd watch Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune. This was our ritual. Even I was only about 9 when we moved in, I as convinced I knew how to cook and bake and other miscellaneous things. So I would go in the kitchen and concoct some random semi edible thing and ask my grandpa to try it, and he did ! Every time!
 My grandfather was honestly my favorite person. I remember sometimes it would be late on a night when he didn't have to work, and we'd both start to fallin' asleep watching television, and he'd poke up his head and go 'Lenelle, no sleepin'.", then fall back asleep. I even have a picture of him wearing my PINK River Cats baseball cap, cheesing like no bodies business.

Just like there's picture of my mommy as a little girl being used as a fish ruler. My grandfather loved to fish, and whenever he'd come home, he would compare the size of the fish to the size of his baby girl. It's incredibly adorable!!
My life with my grandfather was amazing, even after my father came back thinking he was just going to swoop in and be "Super Dad". My grandpa was always the REAL man in my life.... Until March 11th of 2006.
My grandpa, my friend, my companion, the war veteran, the devoted father, was in a fatal car accident after having a brain aneurism. I blamed myself for years for his. You see, every night while I was getting ready for bed, he was getting ready for work. I would give him a hug and a kiss in the kitchen and say, "Hurry back grampa! We can't miss The Price is Right.", but this time .. This time I didn't. Subconsciously I knew, he wasn't coming back, so I didn't say it. The day I found out he had passes I locked myself in the bathroom and cried for hours. And to this day there's a song that I can't sing without crying, So far away by Avenged Sevenfold.
I wrote him a song this year titled Heaven, which I revised in to a poem for a Facebook note. It's definately been hard not having him around but, I know we'll see each other again.
Happy Father's Day , Grandpa <3

http://www.facebook.com/notes/lenelle-johnson/heaven-i-miss-you-3/397157696963003
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7ry4cx6HfY
-Elle ♫

No barking Barbie !

The things you see while you're out on adventure !

So , my mom and I went out yesterday to visit my grandfathers grave. I had originally asked to go on Father's Day , but with the special occasion and the heat, my mom decided it would be better to go the day after . The reason for my going there is that my mom's father was the dad I never had , he was a Vietnam veteran , Air Force Officer , and a devoted family man.

On our way their , we were stopped at the light on Sunrise Blvd., and Fair Oaks Blvd. There was an old abandoned parking lot with a small concrete wall spray painted to say , "No Parking". However, someone thought it would be clever to trn the P into a B, so as we drove by, I hysterically laughed at the fact we were being told not to "bark", and snapped a picture.


 After our trip to cemetery, we headed to K-Mart to do some shopping. Driving around the parking lot looking for shade to park in, we drove past the K-Mart auto center, only to fine a car entirely painted in Barbie!! Again I took out my camera and got to snapping pics.
Maybe I am just picture crazy, OR maybe people are crazy and I just like to capture the moment !


I wonder, do YOU snap pictures of crazy things you see on your busy days ??? ( :
-Elle ♫