Monday, October 26, 2015

IT CONTINUES

IT CONTINUES!! My plan to post a blog and a video every two weeks has been successful thus far! Well, I mean this is the seconds post, so I don’t know if you can call that a success…but it’s progress none-the-less. Making videos is a pretty easy feat. (Especially when I am given a request of what to sing as has been done this week.) And I have a few videos already recorded and plenty of songs in my repertoire that I can sing. What I didn’t think too much about is the blog post side of this.

WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO WRITE ABOUT?! I mean…some people blog about their lives but not many interesting things happen in my life. Some people have picture blogs, but that requires like, going outside. I write poems sometimes, but that gets old doesn’t it? And then there’s the thing of, do I want the blog post to be relevant to the song that I am singing in the video? Or is it okay if the blog post is kind of irrelevant.

OH! THAT REMINDED ME OF A JOKE!!! Okay, are you ready? (I heard this from Ed Sheeran)

What do you call an elephant that doesn’t mean anything?

Any guesses?

Anything?

No?

An irrelephant.

Get it? Irrelephant. Irrelevant. Haha? No? Okay, fine.

You can watch my new video below if you’d like. It is a request from my mom. An old hymn by Andrae’ Crouch called Through It All. Thank you for reading and tune in in another 2 weeks for more rambling, bad grammar, and potentially more bad puns. Oh, if you watch the video you just might hear my mom singing harmony in the background. ;) 


ALSO!! check out my mom's blog at http://www.thefarmersplace.com/p/31-days-of-waiting-and-trust-god.html. She's has been writing about her chronic pain this month and is also doing a giveaway for her birthday. 

Saturday, October 17, 2015

Tired of Being Scared

I am tired of being too scared to do the things I want to do. In this case the thing is posting videos to my YouTube channel. This is something that I have wanted to do for several years now, but I have never gotten up the courage to actually do it. Not regularly at least. Ever since my friend introduced me to vloggers on YouTube I have loved the idea and have tried to come up with what I could make video of. Should I do a video blog just talking about stuff? Should I do art videos? Maybe my friends and I can start a channel together? I can post song covers!

They were good ideas, and they worked! The only thing I lacked was the motivation to keep doing it (and things to film in some cases but that’s not the point). This is something I always think about. I would love to make videos regularly, but I am too scared. Scared of what? I don’t know. Maybe I’m too scared to record videos when everyone in the house can hear me talking/singing to myself. Or maybe I am too afraid to put the videos out there for everyone I know to see and judge. I don’t know. But I do know that if I would just do it that it wouldn’t be scary anymore, or at least less so.  

So here’s the plan. I am going to try to start posting videos more often. I am also going to try to make a blog post for every video and I want to do this every 2 weeks. But I need some help. It would be awesome if people could keep me accountable to this. I know it’s hard to remember what day of the week it is let alone remember that every 14 of them Mikaela’s supposed to post a video/blog, but if you think about it just say “Hey, when’s your next video gonna be?” and I mostly post videos of me covering songs so if you have a suggestion for a song you would like me to do, suggest it! If I don’t know it, I can probably learn it. All you have to do it ask. :) 


Thank you, and here is my latest video. Freshly uploaded for your viewing pleasure (hopefully). It is a kinda decent cover of a song by my favorite band (who have an album coming out next week #PreorderSoundsGoodFeelsGood Oct 23!). This is Amnesia by 5 Seconds of Summer.