Post A Photo of Your Hair Day: A Documentation.

It all started when TJ posted a photo of her new haircut on Facebook.  Check out the awesome bangs!

Then I did.  I know, it's a mess of curls, but I've had short hair for years and this is the first time in a long time I've decided to grow it out.  Besides, my boyfriend Jason already told my stylist not to touch my hair. (Yeah, he likes long hair.)

Then Christina uploaded hers.  Awesome shirt!

Soon everybody else followed!

Whitney and her awesome white headband

Babe-alicious Dawn

Stephanie's CD album cover

Dahlia's crazybeautiful red locks

Marissa and her killer blue highlights, how I envy you!

Amy, hypnotizing you with her eyes

Sarah and her adorable glasses

May and her mustache.  Another fellow hair grower due to boyfriend's demands. :P

So far, those are the people who were bored enough to follow the fad.  Haha, maybe next time we should do a weekly post-a-pic theme!  That should be fun.

I owe you a better blog post next time.

Lotsa love,

MrazGal

Love Love Love

Idk why I am just hearing this song now but its amazing! Its called Love Love Love by Hope and its feat. none other than our man Jason Mraz. I posted a link to the actual video on perez but here is just the audio. =)

I'm the queen of rock apparently.

Or so says my boyfriend.

I miss you lovely ladies. None of us have posted lately. We need to get back in the groove. I understand it is the end of summer/beginning of the school year for some, but we HAVE to remain in contact.
The ones i talk to most of the time are TJ, Jam, and Marissa, and I'm pretty sure y'all are three of my best friends. I love you.



So, yeah, my life is going amazing.
For once in a long time, I am truly happy.
I have an AMAZING boyfriend, no exaggeration.

He makes me feel like the most amazing girl in the world.
That's how every girl in here should feel. Because you are amazing.

I'm pretty sure...
EVERYTHING is AMAZING right now.

Just remember girls, YOU fucking did it.

And i love you.


On love,
ChristinaMarie(:

Artist you should know.

i think it would be fun for each of us to share a not so well known artist that we love and think deserves the spotlight. My first artist is Florence and the Machine, unlike a lot of female artists out today she can actually sing! she as a stunning voice and a very unique style.this song is called Dog Days are Over. It plays on VH1 sometimes and its very fun and very catchy. Enjoy



Love, Marissa <3

My heart beats for love

In August i will be 19 years old, I have never been in love and never been kissed. I've never actually been in a relationship. (not for my lack of trying)I guess i just haven't met that special person who will take me for who i am. Sometimes i get a little down and ask myself "whats wrong with me? why haven't i found someone" HOWEVER i do believe that i will find that someone. As you all know i come from a family of divorce. My sisters have all seemed to have given up on Love, they say it only brings only saddness and pain but I know thats not true. I firmly believe in love. i love love. Love makes the world go 'round, it makes us happy, it makes us sad,it makes us FEEL. LOVE brings us together. and sure i haven't found my soulmate yet. but i have found love in so many other places. In music, in singing, in my family, in my friends and in EVERY single one of you. Knowing that love is out there keeps me going, and I will never stop trying to find my happy ending.
This is a really great and empowering song that i play for myself when im just about ready to give up it lifts me up, gives me hope and reminds me to never stop looking. I hope it does the same for you.


I've been stranded on a lonely street
Got lost in the shadows
Fell hard in the battle
heard The cries and the suffering
I walked through the darkness
Left broken and heartless

I'm calling out, can you hear my voice?
I'm gonna find you through all the noise
Ooh whoa
You know there's nothing that I wouldn't do
So shine your light as I reach for you

My heart beats for love
My heart beats for love
It's the sound that I hear, tells me not to give up
It breathes in my chest and
It runs through my blood
My heart beats for love
My heart beats for love

Whoa ooh oh oh oh yeah

And I've been told at least a thousand times
It's not worth the struggle, the hurt or the trouble
I keep running up to these front lines
No I won't surrender
I'll wait here forever

Standing here with my flag held high
Oh can't you see that it's worth the fight?

My heart beats for love
My heart beats for love
It's the sound that I hear, tells me not to give up
It breathes in my chest and
It runs through my blood
My heart beats for love
My heart beats for love

Whoa ooh oh oh oh yeah

I'm march across this battlefield
I'm screaming out, can you hear me now?
I'm holding on, I stand my ground
I'm screaming out, can you hear me?

My heart beats for love
My heart beats for love
It's the sound that I hear, tells me not to give up
It breathes in my chest and
It runs through my blood
My heart beats for love
My heart beats for love



with LOVE, Marissa<3

Empty Cup

I don't know why I'm writing this blog or if I'll even choose to publish it. But it is something I've never shared with anyone. I'll start from the beginning. When I was 2 years old my parents divorced. But I never looked at that as a bad thing, because my parents getting divorced led to them getting remarried and I gained 4 sisters and a brother. My dad remarried when I was 4. My step mom pretty much raised me as her own, I even call her mom. I posted previously in my "how i found Jason" story that my dad and step mom divorced when I was 14. I was just getting ready to start high school. I was upset of course but i handled it. It wasn't until my senior year of high school, that the weight of my parents divorce fell on me. I really started to think about everything that had happened. I felt abandoned by my step mom. I thought her decision to leave was selfish, especially since my father had fallen into a weird depression and i was stuck raising my sisters. Back to my senior year, I was feeling alot of pressure and I finally cracked. I was failing out of high school and my parents never even noticed, and when they did notice they didn't care. This led me to do some pretty stupid things, almost as a cry for attention. I started smoking cigarettes & I experimented with drugs. Midway through my senior around prom season i started keeping a journal. Around this time I was really struggling with my weight. I hated myself and I wanted nothing more than to be thin AND i wanted someone to take me to prom. So I stopped eating, this lasted for about a month and my friends started noticing that wasn't eating lunch at school, so i started eating and throwing up after. But this got to be to much for me, i started to think if i eat I'm going to have to throw up and it got to the point where if i didn't i felt sick until i did, so again i stopped eating. At this point in time i was also cutting myself. basically i was going through alot and my parents still hadn't noticed. But one day i woke up and i thought this has to stop. and so it did. I released all of the negativity I was holding towards my parents. I realized that I couldn't expect anyone to care about me if i didn't care about myself. I realized that I was okay with my body and the way i looked and that I wasn't losing weight for me, i was losing weight for everyone else. August if that year I went to my 2nd Jason Mraz concert. I was having a blast dancing and singing, and then he began to play Love for a Child. this song never really struck a cord with me until that night. As soon as he started singing I started to cry. It was as if everything i had gone suddenly came rushing back with every note he sang. After that night I was done. I changed my attitude towards my life completely. That was also the night I chose to "be love". I came across that journal i mentioned a few days ago, along with the WSWDWST album with the acoustic EPs. I put the cd and began to read the journal.It was awful so full of hate and self loathing. Im glad to say that a year later i am in a much better place. I love my self and i love my life. I decided to share this story because today i noticed that i had skipped a song on the EP's album. It was Love for a Child. I closed my eyes and listened to the words and i remembered that when Jason was asked why he chose to share this song he said it was something that he needed to share. and this story for me is something that i needed to share, so i thank you all for reading this, and for caring. and i appologize for it being so scattered =P
With Love Marissa <3

so are they or aren't they?

so i think we have all been thinking about this since they attended some awards ceremony together, but if you though any think like i did, it was too soon after Tawney. but looking at the small amount evidence,I'm thinking they are definitely on.

Tristan's Twitter
tprettyman: somebody ran off 2 brazil w/my <3. might have 2 go there 2 find it. maybe its in da blenda w/ some acai or bronzin brazilian bikini style? Link to J's latest blog titled: Her Name was Rio

Tonight, Not Again

Today I went to the cd store with my sisters to finish off my Jason Mraz collection. I picked up 'Tonight, Not Again, Jason Mraz Live' and at the exact moment Bella Luna started playing overhead. i turned around and yelled across the store to my sisters that Jason was playing. and this young guy who worked there looked up and smiled and said 'hey good ear. this is my favorite song by him' we then went on to have a 15 min conversation about Jason, our favorite songs by him, how awesome he is live, and just how awesome he is period. it was pretty cool to find someone(local) who is just as into Jason Mraz as i am. =)

What makes me smile?

Okay so it was really hard for me to pick a song that i love and that makes me smile, so i picked 4 but even that was hard. the first song i picked is Perfectly Lonely by John Mayer, i have NEVER ever been a big John Mayer fan but his new album is really fantastic. I like this song because i feel like in society today there is alot of pressure put on people to find and be in relationships, but this song says that you can be happy alone.


Had a little love, but I spread it thin
Falling in her arms and out again
Made a bad name for my game around town
Tore up my heart, and shut it down

Nothing to do
Nowhere to be
A simple little kind of free
Nothing to do
No one but me
And that's all I need

I'm perfectly lonely
I'm perfectly lonely
I'm perfectly lonely (Yeah)
'Cause I don't belong to anyone
Nobody belongs to me

I see friends around from time to time
When their ladies let them slip away
And when they ask me how I'm doing with mine
This is always what I say

Nothing to do
Nowhere to be
A simple little kind of free
Nothing to do
No one to be
Is it really hard to see

Why I'm perfectly lonely
I'm perfectly lonely
I'm perfectly lonely
I'm perfectly lonely (Yeah)
'Cause I don't belong to anyone
Nobody belongs to me

And this is not to say
There never comes a day
I'll take my chances and start again
And when I look behind
On all my younger times
I have to thank the wrongs that led me to a love so strong

I'm perfectly lonely
I'm perfectly lonely
I'm perfectly lonely (Yeah)
'Cause I don't belong to anyone
Nobody belongs to me

(It's the way, it's the way, it's the way that I want it)

My second song is called Waving Flag by Knaan. Knaan opened for Jason Mraz at the concert i saw in august. all of his songs were pretty good but this one struck a chord with me. It makes me feel strong and never fails to make me smile.


when i get older i will be
stronger they'll call me freedom just
like a wavin flag

when i get older i will be
stronger they'll call me freedom just
like a waving flag
and then it goes back (3x)
ahhho ahhho ahhho

born to a throne
stronger than rome
but violent prone
poor people zone
but its my home
all i have known
where i got grown
streets we would roam

out of the darkness
i came the farthest
among the hardest survive
learn form these streets
it can be bleak
accept no defeet
surrender retreat
(so we struggling)
fighting to eat
(and we wondering)
when we will be free
so we patiently wait
for that faithful day
its not far away
but for now we say

when i get older i will be
stronger they'll call me freedom just
like a waving flag
and then it goes back (3x)

ahhho ahhho ahhho

so many wars
settling scores
bring us promises
leaving us poor
i heard them say
love is the way
love is the answer
thats what they say

but look how they treat us
make us believers
we fight there battes
then they deceive us
try to control us
they couldn't hold us

cause we just move forward
like buffalo soldiers
(but we strugglin)
fighting to eat
(and we wonderingg)
when we will be free
so we patiently wait
for that faithfully day
its not far away
but for now we say

when i get older i will be
stronger they'll call me freedom just
like a waving flag
and then it goes back (3x)

and then it goes when i get older i will be
stronger they'll call me freedom just
like a wavin flag
and then it goes back (3x)
ahhhooo ahhhoooo ahhhooo

and everybody will be singing it
and you and i will be singing it
and we all will be singing it
wo wah wo ah wo ah

when i get older i will be
stronger they'll call me freedom just
like a wavin flag
and then it goes back (3x)

and then it goes when i get older i will be
stronger they'll call me freedom just
like a wavin flag
and then it goes back (3x)
a oh a oh a oh

when i get older
when i get older
i will be stronger

just like a wavin flag (3x)
flag flag
just like a wavin flag

The third song is called You Got Me by Colbie Calliat. I dont really have a reason for loving this song.



You're stuck on me and my laughing eyes
I cant pretend though I try to hide
I like you. I like you.

I think I felt my heart skip a beat
I'm standing here and I can hardly breathe
You got me. Yeah, you got me.

The way you take my hand is just so sweet
And that crooked smile of yours
it knocks me off my feet

Oh, I just cant get enough
How much do I need to fill me up?
It feels so good it must be love
Its everything that Ive been dreaming of.
I give up. I give in. I let go.
Lets begin.
Cuz no matter what i do,
Oh (oh)
My heart is filled with you.

I cant imagine what it'd be like
Livin each day in this life
Without you. Without you.
One look from you
I know you understand
This mess we're in you know is just so out of hand.

Oh, I just cant get enough
How much do I need to fill me up?
It feels so good it must be love
Its everything that Ive been dreaming of.
I give up. I give in. I let go.
Lets begin.
Cuz no matter what i do,
Oh (oh)
My heart is filled with you.

I hope we always feel this way
(I know we will)
And in my heart I know youll always stay

Oh, I just cant get enough
How much do I need to fill me up?
It feels so good it must be love
I give up. I give in. I let go. Lets begin.
Cuz no matter what I do,

Oh, I just cant get enough
How much do I need to fill me up?
It feels so good it must be love
(Its everything that I've been dreaming of)
I give up. I give in. I let go.
Lets begin.

Cuz no matter what I do,
Oh (oh)
My heart is filled with you.

Oh (oh)
You got me. You got me.
Oh (oh)
You got me. You got me.

Okay DONT LAUGH AT ME. but my last song is a Justin Bieber song. I know i know, but i just cant help it. Something about this kids sugar sweet voice and equally sweet lyrics just get to me. I might be Justin Biebers only 18 year old fan. oh well. This song is called U Smile. Just give it a listen. you might like what you hear.



Oh
Yeah
Mmmm

I'd wait on you forever and a day
Hand and foot
Your world is my world
Yeah
Ain't no way you're ever gon' get
Any less than you should
Cause baby
You smile I smile (oh)
Cause whenever
You smile I smile
Hey hey hey

Your lips, my biggest weakness
Shouldn't have let you know
I'm always gonna do what they say (hey)
If you need me
I'll come right there
From a thousand miles away
When you smile I smile (oh whoa)
You smile I smile
Hey

Baby take my open heart and all it offers
Cause this is as unconditional as it'll ever get
You ain't seen nothing yet
I won't ever hesitate to give you more
Cause baby (hey)
You smile I smile (whoa)
You smile I smile
Hey hey hey
You smile I smile
I smile I smile I smile
You smile I smile
Make me smile baby

Baby you won't ever work for nothing
You are my ins and my means now
With you there's no in between
I'm all in
Cause my cards are on the table
And I'm willing and I'm able
But I fold to your wish
Cause it's my command
Hey hey hey

You smile I smile (whoa)
You smile I smile
Hey hey hey
You smile I smile
I smile I smile I smile
You smile I smile
Oh

You smile I smile

You smile I smile

Enjoy.
With Love,
Marissa<3

Being Love

This is Jason.
He is my dads girlfriends son and he is 6 years old. I love and adore him more than anyone on this planet. Today while Jason and I were listening to 'A Beautiful Mess' the live one from 'Jason Mraz's Beautiful Mess Live on Earth' he told me "I want to be Jason Raz's best friend" when i asked him why he said "because his songs make me want to hug the Earth." <3

=]

Hi Everyone!
Its been forever since ive posted, and the community has grown alot. So for the sake of the new members and the ones i just haven't met yet i would like to introduce myself and share my Jason story.
My name is Marissa, Im 18 years old and i live in NJ. When i was 13 my family and i were on vaction, my parents had been fighting alot so they were spending as much time apart as possible. while in the car with my dad wordplay came on. i was instantly amazed by the lyrics and his ability to sing them so fast. i was more amazed that my dad knew all the words. i asked my dad who the singer was and he told me 'Jason Mraz, you know him, he sings the Remedy' of course i knew the song but i didnt know the man behind the song. I then challenged my dad and told him i would learn all the words to Wordplay before vacation was over. And i did! Shortly after our vacation ended my parents told my sisters and i that they were getting divorced. Of course i was upset but ive never been good with emotion. so instead of crying and dealing i threw myself into Jason Mraz, i was determined to learn every song and everything about him. it didnt take long before i was obsessed. i was on the computer day and night watching a new youtube video, learning a new song, or reading a different interview. then i discovered the blog. at this point he was blogging on myspace, and i went back and read every single word. 5 years later and i am still clinging on to every word this man sings and writes. And i still find myself turning to him when im upset. On January 5th my great grandmother died, she was the most amazing women i ever knew. when she died i was devasted and i found myself with The Sunshine Song on repeat, for days that was the only song i listened to. I guess my point is that the day i found jason changed my life, its almost as if he knew i would be suffering and he came along to soften the blow. Being a part of this community and meeting new friends who share my passion is a blessing. I thank every single one of you for being a part of this community and a special thanks to Jam(MrazGal) for bringing us all together
<33 Marissa

This is the song I currently have on repeat.

Begin Again- Colbie Calliat

so its not christmas anymore but i just found this vid today, and its beautiful, just wanted to share<3

New Years

I know its not New Years yet but tonight I started thinking about what i want to do in 2010 here are some of the things I came up with: I want to create a healthier lifestyle for myself, I want to become more organized, and I would like to take more risks in life, put myself out there more. Now I wanna know what you ladies have planned for the new year
Love Always Marissa<3

Today im sad. I got a call from my grandmother saying that my great grandmother(mom-mom) might not make it through the weekend. this news was particularly hard to deal with because it is the the holidays,but mostly because she is a great women and the person i look up to the most. she has been really sick for awhile and i know its better for her to go, but i will miss her so much. I guess i just want to tell you guys that even though we havent met im very grateful to have made such wondeful friends, that i can share this with. Merry Christmas <3
Love Always, Marissa

I dont know about you guys but ive been having some trouble getting into the holiday spirit, so i decided to post some jason christmas songs to get us all in the holiday spirit<3





And my personal fave



Happy Holidays Mraz Girls <3333

just thought i'd share the video that started my mraz maddness =]