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hey everyone! i’m feeling very talkative– prepare yourself!!

1. the benefit show
i wish i was 100% sure about the details… but for some reason this show has just been impossible to set up. it should all be confirmed in a few days. here is what i have for now… though nothing is for certain. i want to say that no matter what it will be the 20th… though that might be hard to pull if i don’t have a venue to put it in…
saturday, september 20th @ ground zero (on USC campus, Los Angeles), 8-9PM
all ages, $10 donation at the door (which ALL goes to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society)
i’m REALLY excited to have a good all ages show again! for those who don’t know about this– the reason i am holding this benefit concert is because i have committed to raising money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society by training for my marathon with Team in Training. this is a cause very near to my heart, so to have a bunch of awesome people gather in support of the LLS is a very powerful thing to me. i hope to make it a very special show.

2. “ours to keep”?!?!
“samurai girl”?! craziness. apparently this past week, “ours to keep”, formerly on “general hospital” aired on a show called “samurai girl”. i had no idea this was going to happen… but cool! i still haven’t seen it but i’ll get to that sometime this week. oh yeah– and what does this really mean?? you can finally download the song on itunes! woohoo!

3. 16 miles… alone
this weekend i was scheduled to do my longest run yet– 16 miles!! but i woke up sunday morning with that awful feeling of– oh no. i feel way too rested to be waking up at 6am– i was right, it was 7:20am and my practice in santa monica had started 20 minutes beforehand. after a few minutes of freaking out to my roommate and texting my only mega runner friend to see if he’d do it with me (unfortunately he had run a marathon the day before), i collected myself and decided i’d have to go alone. i mapped out a 16.3 mile loop from my house on mapmyrun.com and wrote down every mile-marker cross street on a little note card i carried with me. the run took a about 2 hours and 50 minutes, but it turned out to be quite an exciting and fun challenge– though i was very happy to finish.

4. po box goodies
i am so so sorry that it’s been so long since i’ve posted a po box video! to everyone wondering if i received your gifts and letters– i most likely have– and they are all SO incredibly awesome, but i’ve been so busy lately that i haven’t had time to sit down and put the video together. soon!!

5. switzerland!
i received an email from someone letting me know that my song “stay just a little” was heard by thousands of listeners on a Swiss radio station yesterday!! apparently the dj, Reto Von Gunten, saw my video on youtube, liked it, and decided to play it on his show. ahhh! stephan– thank you so much for telling me the news! and thanks to anyone that might have helped in getting Reto to see my video. i can’t even believe how cool that is. wow.

you MUST be bored now, and i have a head ache from a sharpie- covered banana peel. time to go!

heart,
kina

oovret: Week 19

What musical instruments do you own?
own?? ok… i’ll breakdown the ownership
me: 3 acoustic electric guitars, one classical guitar, a keyboard, a ukelele
the grannis family: a grand piano, a keyboard, 4 violins, another ukelele, an accordion, a flute, 2 recorders, a koto, another classical guitar… i think that’s it.
Have you entered any other music competitions? yes! 4 years ago i entered “pantene pro-voice” with “highlighted in green”. i didn’t win– but marie digby did– so it’s ok. :) never thought i’d be the one in that position someday… pretty crazy!
What is the longest you have stayed awake? probably close to 2 days. sometimes i get in these moods where sleeping just seems like a waste of time that could have otherwise been spent productively… or unproductively for that matter… haha. but i like the night…
What is the longest you have slept? i think once i slept for 14 hours… it was for a really good reason… but i can’t for the life of me remember why.
Do you listen to music while you run, what kind? i used to! my favorites for running were imogen heap, frou frou, k’s choice, mindy smith randomly (someone gave me her album in new zealand and i only listened to music when i ran), sigur ros, missy higgins. but when i started running with Team in Training for my marathon, they don’t let you listen to music during runs for safety reasons (like being able to hear a car that’s about to hit you), and now i can’t listen to music when i run. i tried the other day and it just seemed like too much stimulus for my body. pretty weird.

@susana
i’m so sorry about your emails! i’ve been trying to look up your emails and i can’t seem to find them– though i thought i sent a reply earlier on– i’d love to hear the song if there is some way to get the recording to me. if you email me again we can talk about it! kina@kinagrannis.com
@max!
welcome! hope to see you in brazil someday!
@angleT
hello to you too! hope to see more of you around these parts :)
@blew
welcome back!
@kelsieH
thank you so much!
@joepike
why was i in a closet… hmm. it just seemed appropriate. i’d have preferred it to be set at midnight on top of a mountain… but alas, it was noon in my bedroom, and a closet was as close as i could get.
@ senator
re: did i upgrade to the 3G iphone? i wish! but it’s ok, i still have a functioning old iphone that i love dearly, so i figure my money is better spent on things like food and rent :)
@katiebean
*highfive*for awkwardness!