Today is April 17th! and I am loving my life! I must admit guys.... I am far far from where I think I should be right now BUT I am strangely happy! Its all Christ that makes me so excited about my life. So many promising adventures on my horizon. With my family, my fiance and my company, APLUS Music Group! ITS GREAT! :-) So anyway, enough with the morning rants.. lol... today is Friday and I have PLLLAANNSS for tonite! ooooo BIG STUFF! I rarely go out in these streets (if you know me you know you can catch me at only FIVE places: The studio, with Otis, teaching (music or subbing), at home or at church! See, only five... (thats so sad! lol) HOWEVER, tonite I've planned to hang out with friends!! Dinner to celebrate my brothers birthday (YAY TIM!!!) and then over to this lil spot to hear my girl I went to high school with(who is BIG TIME NOW!) perform! (YAY TAYMA!!!) so yea guys, I'm a lil bit amped up!!
So like in a week I'll be with The Runners and The Inkredibles to do some records (HOW EXCITING) and hopefully right after that we'll be diving into some gospel songs! ALWAYS love that! Things are looking great with Jennifer and Adrienne and MJB. PRAY SAINTS!
I love my life! I love you guys! LEAVE YOUR COMMENTS!!
CIAO!
Friday, April 17, 2009
Friday, April 3, 2009
A New Beginning
Its April 3rd, 2009.... ten months before I am Mrs. Antea Joy Shelton.... WOW......*pause* That is so weird to type.... "Mrs. Antea Joy Shelton".... God is so amazing.
I wanted to write today to help me take in all this amazing stuff that's happening to me right now. Sometimes, my life is so crazy that I don't really get the chance to sit and breathe in the magnitude of everything.... Now is that moment for me. Typing/writing slows my brain down and helps me to soak in my life... enjoy my life...reflect on my life.
I thank the Lord Jesus for choosing me................. Choosing me to be a songwriter (because I CERTAINLY didn't pick this path for myself. Thanks Shani for saying that to me last time we were together! "Songwriting chose me, I didnt choose songwriting..."). I thank God for choosing me to find the man He created to be my husband and for choosing me to be on the career path HE chose.... *BIG SIGH* My God.... I could scream and cry and shout right now (but I'm in a classroom full of 7th graders so I won't... lol)! I am so so so amazed and grateful and in awe....
Craziest thing is I have not led the cleanest life. I have not been upright and blameless in my life. I have QUITE a private history... quite a past that only very few know about. Above and beyond ALL OF THE THINGS I'VE DONE WRONG and ALL THE TIMES I'VE FAILED, God STILL picked me. Dang. Thats so crazy. And to think, I just KNEW I had messed up my life and God was never going to bless me because of all the things I have done wrong.... but He proved His word to me "my sins thrown into the sea of forgetfulness..." YES!!!!
So, on another note (industry stuff now), Anesha and I are looking for a new publishing deal. Yea, we are not Darkchild anymore.... We've been in with Jennifer Lopez and Adrienne Bailon (from the Cheetah Girls) of late. We are looking forward to working with new Def Jam artist, Justin Bieber as well as Karina Pasian. I'm praying to God (agree with me please!) that within our new publishing agreement we will have good success, solid networking opportunities and MOST of all God's favor.... In this industry, I've learned, that you just cannot get a shot if you are not favored by God.... APLUS is favored.... and our God is bigger then their politics! :-)
I'm excited about the future! Marriage, a new publishing deal and a new beginning for Anesha and I. This is very good.
I wanted to write today to help me take in all this amazing stuff that's happening to me right now. Sometimes, my life is so crazy that I don't really get the chance to sit and breathe in the magnitude of everything.... Now is that moment for me. Typing/writing slows my brain down and helps me to soak in my life... enjoy my life...reflect on my life.
I thank the Lord Jesus for choosing me................. Choosing me to be a songwriter (because I CERTAINLY didn't pick this path for myself. Thanks Shani for saying that to me last time we were together! "Songwriting chose me, I didnt choose songwriting..."). I thank God for choosing me to find the man He created to be my husband and for choosing me to be on the career path HE chose.... *BIG SIGH* My God.... I could scream and cry and shout right now (but I'm in a classroom full of 7th graders so I won't... lol)! I am so so so amazed and grateful and in awe....
Craziest thing is I have not led the cleanest life. I have not been upright and blameless in my life. I have QUITE a private history... quite a past that only very few know about. Above and beyond ALL OF THE THINGS I'VE DONE WRONG and ALL THE TIMES I'VE FAILED, God STILL picked me. Dang. Thats so crazy. And to think, I just KNEW I had messed up my life and God was never going to bless me because of all the things I have done wrong.... but He proved His word to me "my sins thrown into the sea of forgetfulness..." YES!!!!
So, on another note (industry stuff now), Anesha and I are looking for a new publishing deal. Yea, we are not Darkchild anymore.... We've been in with Jennifer Lopez and Adrienne Bailon (from the Cheetah Girls) of late. We are looking forward to working with new Def Jam artist, Justin Bieber as well as Karina Pasian. I'm praying to God (agree with me please!) that within our new publishing agreement we will have good success, solid networking opportunities and MOST of all God's favor.... In this industry, I've learned, that you just cannot get a shot if you are not favored by God.... APLUS is favored.... and our God is bigger then their politics! :-)
I'm excited about the future! Marriage, a new publishing deal and a new beginning for Anesha and I. This is very good.
Friday, March 13, 2009
FINALLY AN UPDATE!!!!
It is hilarious how I said I was going to keep up with this blog but I haven't! Honestly, I lost the password and couldn't get in to update it!! LOL!! so irresponsible! Anyway, SOOO much has happened between now and last year. For starters, IM ENGAGED!!!!! WOO HOO!!! Otis asked me to be his wife on his birthday, December 26, 2008! ...and OF COURSE I said YES! *sigh* if your a member of faccebook, the proposal video is on my page! It was sooo beautiful (but I look a COMPLETE MESS! Head wrapped up and the whole nine!! LMBO!!!)
So now its March and life STILL IS NOT NORMAL! Alot of industry and non industry things are pushing the events of my existence forward DAILY! Music is slow (financially) so, I've picked up teaching again! ...and, believe it or not, IM LOVING IT!! It reeealllly gives me a sense of normalcy (is that a word??) in my crazy everyday.... I substitute teach K-8 (which is decent. The kids can be a challenge at times tho) and then I teach private voice at a music store in the suburbs of Detroit.... and this is what I love. MUSIC!!! :-)
Industry stuff... *sigh* Well, we've got a few songs floating out there.... on Ciara and J Lo. Mary J is cutting a few of our records and I'm headed to NY (tomorrow actually) to do some commissioned work with Def Jam. I'm looking forward to writing great songs... and thats pretty much ALL I'm looking forward to... Its still cold in NY (like it is here in the midwest) so thats a drag... Late hours, greasy take out, no Otis.... But, don't get me wrong, I am ALWAYS grateful for the opportunity to write... it really is a blessing from JESUS CHRIST to have people who barely know you believe in your music and the gifts God has given you! I certainly don't take that type of favor lightly however, I do feel soggy about the things that come along with road travel... Unlike my sister Angela (who lives out of a suitcase and tours year after year after year AND LOVES IT!) i like home.... Oatmeal for breakfast, coffee or tea out of a mug NOT a plastic cup or thermose, hugs and kisses from my fiance WHENEVER i want them and comcast cable at my ma and dads house... which has become surprisingly comforting over the years... lol... Im so sappy.. I know... but I can't help it! Seems like the older I get the more I'm starting to realize what is a necessity for my life.... and it sucks when I have to leave those necessities behind to go away...
Now about the wedding... LOL... *sigh* so expensive, so stressful and SO on the back burner right now. We have set the date at February 27 2010. Its soooo far away because I have to assure that my publishing situation is secure before I get married, WHICHEVER way it pans out (thats a WHOLE DIFFERENT BLOG!!) and that we can afford to live comfortably for two years without a nine to five gig so we can BOTH do our music full time... In the meantime, we are having a lil Engagement shindig for our friends and family. We're hoping to get a bit of money from this party to go towards our wedding expenses as well as really have a WONDERFUL celebration with the people we love.....
So that's all folks!! :-) Consider yourselves 100% updated!! I'll hold on to my password this time so I can update more often!!!! Ciao!!
So now its March and life STILL IS NOT NORMAL! Alot of industry and non industry things are pushing the events of my existence forward DAILY! Music is slow (financially) so, I've picked up teaching again! ...and, believe it or not, IM LOVING IT!! It reeealllly gives me a sense of normalcy (is that a word??) in my crazy everyday.... I substitute teach K-8 (which is decent. The kids can be a challenge at times tho) and then I teach private voice at a music store in the suburbs of Detroit.... and this is what I love. MUSIC!!! :-)
Industry stuff... *sigh* Well, we've got a few songs floating out there.... on Ciara and J Lo. Mary J is cutting a few of our records and I'm headed to NY (tomorrow actually) to do some commissioned work with Def Jam. I'm looking forward to writing great songs... and thats pretty much ALL I'm looking forward to... Its still cold in NY (like it is here in the midwest) so thats a drag... Late hours, greasy take out, no Otis.... But, don't get me wrong, I am ALWAYS grateful for the opportunity to write... it really is a blessing from JESUS CHRIST to have people who barely know you believe in your music and the gifts God has given you! I certainly don't take that type of favor lightly however, I do feel soggy about the things that come along with road travel... Unlike my sister Angela (who lives out of a suitcase and tours year after year after year AND LOVES IT!) i like home.... Oatmeal for breakfast, coffee or tea out of a mug NOT a plastic cup or thermose, hugs and kisses from my fiance WHENEVER i want them and comcast cable at my ma and dads house... which has become surprisingly comforting over the years... lol... Im so sappy.. I know... but I can't help it! Seems like the older I get the more I'm starting to realize what is a necessity for my life.... and it sucks when I have to leave those necessities behind to go away...
Now about the wedding... LOL... *sigh* so expensive, so stressful and SO on the back burner right now. We have set the date at February 27 2010. Its soooo far away because I have to assure that my publishing situation is secure before I get married, WHICHEVER way it pans out (thats a WHOLE DIFFERENT BLOG!!) and that we can afford to live comfortably for two years without a nine to five gig so we can BOTH do our music full time... In the meantime, we are having a lil Engagement shindig for our friends and family. We're hoping to get a bit of money from this party to go towards our wedding expenses as well as really have a WONDERFUL celebration with the people we love.....
So that's all folks!! :-) Consider yourselves 100% updated!! I'll hold on to my password this time so I can update more often!!!! Ciao!!
Monday, December 15, 2008
A brief mid december update
It's been awhile since I've done a blog. I've been INCREDIBLY busy. Anesha and I are in "grind camp" with Darkchild right now... So its keeping us SWAMPED!!!! Good thing we haven't had to leave in order to particpate in this years camp. Praise the Lord. We not too long ago were out in Cali with J Lo. That was fun... 3 records in with her... YES! On a dimmer note, we've been trying to recover from our ONLY ciara placement leaking. I hope her a&r picks up a few more of our records. That will help our recovery efforts. Its always hard being the "new kid on the block"... Its ok though. SOMEONE will be gutsy enough to choose us for a single as opposed to a "name" just for names' sake....
Enough about music. TOMORROW IS MY BIRTHDAY!!! I don't have much planned on my actual birthday however, alot is going on around my birthday. Last week on Thursday I WENT TO SEE BOYZ II MEN!!! OMG!!!!!!!!!!! lol... listen, you have NO IDEA how I feel about these guys but thats an entire different blog ALTOGETHER! Friday, Otis and I went to the the double six lounge to hear the Killer Flamingos. LOTS OF FUN. Saturday, we ate pizza and fell asleep on the couch. lol. Yesterday we had birthday ice cream (cold stone) and played scattergories. Today I'm hanging out with Becky and Joi... Something I havent done in FOREVER! Tomorrow, my mom and dad are cooking dinner and having cake for me. We're probably gonna play some games too. THHEEENNN the day after Christmas (Otis' Birthday) We're heading to Chicago for the weekend! This is our Birthday/Christmas gift to each other... I'm looking forward to it! :-)
So I guess thats it. Happy Birthday to me! :-) I'll blog again soon enuf!
Enough about music. TOMORROW IS MY BIRTHDAY!!! I don't have much planned on my actual birthday however, alot is going on around my birthday. Last week on Thursday I WENT TO SEE BOYZ II MEN!!! OMG!!!!!!!!!!! lol... listen, you have NO IDEA how I feel about these guys but thats an entire different blog ALTOGETHER! Friday, Otis and I went to the the double six lounge to hear the Killer Flamingos. LOTS OF FUN. Saturday, we ate pizza and fell asleep on the couch. lol. Yesterday we had birthday ice cream (cold stone) and played scattergories. Today I'm hanging out with Becky and Joi... Something I havent done in FOREVER! Tomorrow, my mom and dad are cooking dinner and having cake for me. We're probably gonna play some games too. THHEEENNN the day after Christmas (Otis' Birthday) We're heading to Chicago for the weekend! This is our Birthday/Christmas gift to each other... I'm looking forward to it! :-)
So I guess thats it. Happy Birthday to me! :-) I'll blog again soon enuf!
Friday, October 24, 2008
another day.... another weekend.... lost in the shuffle....
Today is October 24th, Friday. It's 9:30am and I am awake... running on about 3 hours of sleep in a classroom full of 3rd graders... lol... needless to say, I'm pooped! I just got back from New York earlier this week. My experience there was WONDERFUL (as it always has been when I'm dealing with Chris and Shani from Warner Chappell. They always take great care of us!) We worked with J Lo. Very sweet person she is... and her twins are SO FREAKING HAPPY and cute. I guess I'd be freaking happy, too, if I were that rich! lol We are going to California next week to continue working with Jennifer. She cut 3 of our songs and has 2 more to cut in California... all in which she is keeping. I spoke with Mark Pitts yesterday (Ciara's A&R) about the status of the record we did on "Fantasy Ride". He said that they are keeping it but, he does not know if it is still contending for the single. In his words "We are pulling back and re-grouping and dropping the project next year. Hey, you never know what can happen" So, in other words, "I'm On" just may not make it to being a single... Its okay though. Shani (from Warner Chappell) has some AMAZING things lined up for us in the upcoming weeks. Chris Brown, Mary J and Keyshia Cole... IM EXCITED.... I must admit thought, I am QUITE dissapointed we missed out on Beyonce's project... Next time BEY! lol
ok ok ok enough about the industry crud (said i wasnt gonna write about that in this blog). On a personal note, I'm looking forward to this weekend. SAW V is out today and, of course, I am DRAGGING Otis to the movies to see it (eventhough he really isnt into horror flicks). I'm excited to see how long Megan Goode is gonna stay alive... I watched her in "One Missed Call"... She died in the VERY FIRST SCENE.... it sucks how these movie directors cast black "hotties" in their scream flicks to draw a more divese audience and then kill them off in the opening credits!! At least give 'em a FEW lines!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol.....
Anyway. On an even MORE personal note. There are a few things happening around me that are unfortunate. I can't really openly discuss them but, I will say this; its making me sad. Sometimes I really don't understand why negative things happen to people who I think don't deserve it... Especially when its someone I love so very much. *sigh* it sucks.... I'm tryin not to let these things effect my life personally but its becoming more and more difficult everyday. Pray for me guys.... "The darkest hour is just before day..."
ok ok ok enough about the industry crud (said i wasnt gonna write about that in this blog). On a personal note, I'm looking forward to this weekend. SAW V is out today and, of course, I am DRAGGING Otis to the movies to see it (eventhough he really isnt into horror flicks). I'm excited to see how long Megan Goode is gonna stay alive... I watched her in "One Missed Call"... She died in the VERY FIRST SCENE.... it sucks how these movie directors cast black "hotties" in their scream flicks to draw a more divese audience and then kill them off in the opening credits!! At least give 'em a FEW lines!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol.....
Anyway. On an even MORE personal note. There are a few things happening around me that are unfortunate. I can't really openly discuss them but, I will say this; its making me sad. Sometimes I really don't understand why negative things happen to people who I think don't deserve it... Especially when its someone I love so very much. *sigh* it sucks.... I'm tryin not to let these things effect my life personally but its becoming more and more difficult everyday. Pray for me guys.... "The darkest hour is just before day..."
Monday, October 13, 2008
Monday after the cruise...
HEY! Today is October the something and I'm back in Detroit... Disoriented and still on vacation in my mind... I'm dizzy and bloated and COMPLETELY dark skinned (from the hell hot sun in the Carribbean). Strange thing is, I LOVE IT! lol... I feel odd right now. "Out of Body-ish". Almost like I'm on auto pilot. Maybe I'm just that darn relaxed that "reality" just has not kicked in yet... lol. "And I thank GOD! EE BEE BEE AH SHANAMAH!! (inside joke)"
Anyway, I made some phone calls today, read some emails and wrote a song and now here I am. Sitting. Staring into the computer without a care on my mind. Oddly enough, my body is rocking back and forth and my head is still spinning from the cruise ALL LAST WEEK. I think my poor brain hasn't registered the fact that I'm BACK ON LAND. I swear I'm still dizzy like I'm on the sea. Feels like the whole room is rocking left to right. I guess my body has to "re-adjust" itself. lol
Vacation was GREAT! Like I thought, I missed Otis TERRIBLY. So many moments I wish he was there for (like when I entered the "Ms Margaritaville Booty Shaking Contest" or when I performed "Baby Got Back" at karaoke for my dads birthday or all the nights I stood on the deck and stared at the dark black sea with the warm breeze licking my skin, eyes closed Thanking God for such a great feeling... *sigh*).
Family time was SO NEEDED and very much appreciated! It was tons of fun to say the very least. We got alot of the moments on the "Flip" video recorder and OF COURSE pictures... I'm eager to post my lovely Bahamian tan on Facebook. I LOOK SO FAB!! lol
And tomorrow....? Well, reality arrives again. I'll be headed to New York for work (back down into those dang tiny airplane seats.. Humph!).. chasing placements, paper and a better life... *sigh* Hopefully my autopilot mind will remain all throughout my work week CAUSE I'M LOVING IT!!!!
Anyway, I made some phone calls today, read some emails and wrote a song and now here I am. Sitting. Staring into the computer without a care on my mind. Oddly enough, my body is rocking back and forth and my head is still spinning from the cruise ALL LAST WEEK. I think my poor brain hasn't registered the fact that I'm BACK ON LAND. I swear I'm still dizzy like I'm on the sea. Feels like the whole room is rocking left to right. I guess my body has to "re-adjust" itself. lol
Vacation was GREAT! Like I thought, I missed Otis TERRIBLY. So many moments I wish he was there for (like when I entered the "Ms Margaritaville Booty Shaking Contest" or when I performed "Baby Got Back" at karaoke for my dads birthday or all the nights I stood on the deck and stared at the dark black sea with the warm breeze licking my skin, eyes closed Thanking God for such a great feeling... *sigh*).
Family time was SO NEEDED and very much appreciated! It was tons of fun to say the very least. We got alot of the moments on the "Flip" video recorder and OF COURSE pictures... I'm eager to post my lovely Bahamian tan on Facebook. I LOOK SO FAB!! lol
And tomorrow....? Well, reality arrives again. I'll be headed to New York for work (back down into those dang tiny airplane seats.. Humph!).. chasing placements, paper and a better life... *sigh* Hopefully my autopilot mind will remain all throughout my work week CAUSE I'M LOVING IT!!!!
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Saturday B4 the cruise & my formal intro
Hey! So i was surfing online and found an OLD OLD blog that I started back in 2005 when I was "AnteaJoy" on WMUZ for "Joy and Jones in the Morning". If you DON'T know what that is, that was when i was a RADIO HOST/DJ at a gospel radio station in my hometown, Detroit. Anyway, I thougt it was pretty cool...eventhough I only did ONE entry and never returned back to it again. So, I'm deciding to start it up once more. An online journal so to speak. This blog won't be about industry gossip, who I'm working with right now or Aplus. This is all going to be about me. My brain. My heart. My life... from the inside. :-) ......................Here we go!
Today is October 4th, 2008. Its Saturday. 4pm and I am STILL IN BED. Sitting here with my computer on my lap, procrastinating (what I do BEST lol. j/k). On Monday morning, I am boarding a plane with my mom and dad and Anesha and heading to Miami to board a ship for a week long cruise. Fun! I am looking forward to it however, its odd these underlying feelings I have. Hang ups I guess. Worries. For one, the airplane seat. ALWAYS TOO SMALL for my 54 inch hips (yea... thats right... might even be bigger now...). I feel so bad for whomever is forced to squeeze down next to my hips and be smashed for the whole ride... terribly embarrassing.... Second, the cruise aftermath. Since I'm such a fastforward thinker, I have skipped past the crusie and I'm thinking about the FOLLWING Monday morning when Ill be squeezing BACK down into an airplane seat as "Antea from APLUS" heading to New york for work having gained these "cruise 7lbs" everyone keeps warning me of... as if I'm not big enough already.... *sigh*
And then there's Otis. Oh Otis. Leaving him here.... My dad wants him to stay at their house with the dog and "house/dog sit".... I really wish he was going to be with me next week. Sippin umbrella drinks, sand in our toes, cuddled up on a beach somewhere in Grand Turks... *sigh* So, needless to say (but I'm saying it anyway), this is a bittersweet vacation.... Good thing i have sexy/comfy sundresses for everyday of the week. At least I'll feel sexy and thats ALWAYS a plus in my world... I'll post pics! Ciao!
~antea
Today is October 4th, 2008. Its Saturday. 4pm and I am STILL IN BED. Sitting here with my computer on my lap, procrastinating (what I do BEST lol. j/k). On Monday morning, I am boarding a plane with my mom and dad and Anesha and heading to Miami to board a ship for a week long cruise. Fun! I am looking forward to it however, its odd these underlying feelings I have. Hang ups I guess. Worries. For one, the airplane seat. ALWAYS TOO SMALL for my 54 inch hips (yea... thats right... might even be bigger now...). I feel so bad for whomever is forced to squeeze down next to my hips and be smashed for the whole ride... terribly embarrassing.... Second, the cruise aftermath. Since I'm such a fastforward thinker, I have skipped past the crusie and I'm thinking about the FOLLWING Monday morning when Ill be squeezing BACK down into an airplane seat as "Antea from APLUS" heading to New york for work having gained these "cruise 7lbs" everyone keeps warning me of... as if I'm not big enough already.... *sigh*
And then there's Otis. Oh Otis. Leaving him here.... My dad wants him to stay at their house with the dog and "house/dog sit".... I really wish he was going to be with me next week. Sippin umbrella drinks, sand in our toes, cuddled up on a beach somewhere in Grand Turks... *sigh* So, needless to say (but I'm saying it anyway), this is a bittersweet vacation.... Good thing i have sexy/comfy sundresses for everyday of the week. At least I'll feel sexy and thats ALWAYS a plus in my world... I'll post pics! Ciao!
~antea
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