Hey guys I'm just gonna ramble about the things that happened to me this last year, so press play on the music and read on So lets see, I became a published author,  yes I won second place in a poetry contest with my poem The Graveyard Madman  and the JCPL published it and now here it is:

The Graveyard Madman
By Jeremy Shelnutt

What eerie light the lantern throws
and the darkness falls as the shadows grow
heed what evil noises come from graveyard yonder
feral sounds on which to think and ponder
what monster creeps in this darkness waiting to take its prey
what madman waits with knife in hand
 for the innocent to come his way
to take the lives of those who chance
into the graveyard on a moonless night
even though they know that they will forfeit their life.
Behold where go these villagers
with pitchfork and sword in tow?
to rid the graveyard of this madman
and his eerie lanterns glow.

yup, so now something not so great but at the same time a good thing... my parents got divorced after waiting for over year since papers were filed, but its a good thing my Dad is... mmm not the person he should be, he's never been a father, or husband, it was good for us to get him out of our lives we(myself and the boys) have to go to visitation every other weekend  but we're living through it.

If you know me then you probably know that I have always wanted to go into music, to drum on at least one album... and it happened!!! I met some people(here is there website: http://thewilli.com ) at a home group, who had just started coming to our church, and they are all extremely, musically talented, and they have been working on an album, but none of them play drums or any percussion instruments, and they asked me if I would play drums on two of their tracks, and congas on one... needless to say I freaked out... on the inside, on the outside I tried to stay composed, so I got to experience a studio session which I thoroughly enjoyed it, it was awesome!!
But the best part was that I made four new and completely awesome friends, that I wouldn't give up for anything(I'll let you know more about when and where you can get the album later).

Alright some smaller highlights, I voted for the first time, its my last year of highschool, and I worked hard and bought a MacBook yes!! absolutely awesome gotta love Apple and Steve Jobs.

I hope you all had an awesome year, and an awesome Christmas, I know I've had better years, but at the same time this was really our first year as a family unit without Dad here, I mean he wasn't here last year but they were still married and this year it was different... it was better.

Well I think thats about it, I'm gonna try to be on here a lot more write some more keep it updated.

Thanks for reading(If you read this far)
God bless

Hey Guys!! I'm back now, I looked on here the other day and I was like holy... I hadn't done something on here in like almost a year, not really blogged, I had put up music and links, copy and pasted articles, but not blogged so here I go.
So a lot has changed in my life in the past year, umm which is probably why I didn't find time to get on here, but things are slowing down and I can sit here and relay my life to you
Biggest issue my parents got divorced, it had been in the works for a while, my dad isn't who he appears at first sight, and hasn't ever really been a dad or husband, its kinda fallen to me to be the dad, papers were filed in January and we finally went to court in June, in which we (being me, my mom, and brothers) got the farm and farm stuff, which was good we had been praying for that, we have to visit him every other weekend all weekend.
So we get to stay home and be home schooled during the week which had been another prayer, so we helped him move his stuff and will start visitation soon.
Next, not being able to afford gas to JC every week we started going to a church that is a lot closer, I'll still be at Hosanna every other weekend when I'm with him, anyways this little church is awesome! they invited me to play Sunday morning right away, and I played once, then they had a huge service with all the college students from the college where we meet came, they expected 500 max... 700 showed up and I played it was awesome,  But anyways they've been pretty sweet helping us along like family, taking us in right away, reaching out to us so thats been good.
Next I've been blessed with a good paying job $10 an hour yeah! even though I only work once a week most of the time, I always work ten hour days so it works out nicely, and I put that aside for awhile and bought my self a shiny new Apple Macbook... YES! and it came with a iPod touch both of which I am making good use of, I'll be useing th Macbook to produce my own music you can check it out here http://www.xanga.com/SheLikesCloth if you get there before I revamp I'm sorry but I should get to that soon so check back, I also bought a bass & a keyboard which I'm useing to that end as well and a electric guitar will soon follow I hope for a metal/posthardcore/rock feel like a mix of Paramore and Haste The Day, Still Remains and The Wedding, I'll let you know when a sample is up and when its avaliable on iTunes, I'm aiming for five tracks of dark salvation yes! I like the sound of that.
I got a little kitten and I'll have pictures of her up soon.
At this point I was going to rant about politics but I've chosen not to because I'm tired of politics I will just say please don't vote for the lesser of two evils, you don't have to vote McCain or Obama there are other choices, like Chuck Baldwin(http://www.baldwin08.com/) a pastor from FL he is running on the Constitution Party ticket we have a three way ballot but the media rufuses to acknowledge that, anyways thats all don't vote for the lesser of two evils just because you feel a need to vote for a republican or a democrat, okay I'm done.
All right I think thats about it I hope to keep this thing updated.
Here are other places you can get in touch with me:
Purevolume: http://www.purevolume.com/listeners/thedeadrose
Facebook: comment or e-mail me and I'l get to you on Facebook.
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/SheLikesClothhxc


Okay guys I'm done now please be praying for me and my family things have been hard but we're hanging in there.
God Bless, Peace
Shelly

Music!!!!