Rotten Day

Not such a good day for me today.

To start...I was supposed to be at DK's right now. Well THAT didn't work. My mom wouldn't let me. Because...? Yeah, don't really know. But whatever. (uh oh! I said 'whatever'...my dad's noticed that when I say that I'm either in a bad mood or the "wall's" about to go up...yeah, me not in a good mood right now...)

So that stunk.

Morning went ok...learned some new drill, I actually kinda like it (my dots are easy) and there was a funny moment when Mr. O. told us to find Set #something, and so I was on the 50 and on the Front Hash, so I walked right over to it and right in front of me was Dave standing like 2 INCHES FROM ME. So we just kinda stood there and I was like, "Dave, this is my dot..." and he's like, "Yeah, it's mine too." So I was a LITTLE confused and then he was like, "Oh...wait...I'm looking at the wrong set number..." and he moved eight steps away. It was funny. :]

Then came lunch...lunch was ok, but DK was exhausted (which I can totally understand, logically he's supposed to be dead right now) so not much conversation and you know if you're around a really energetic person you feed off their energy and end up really hyper too? Well it was kinda like that. He was totally exhausted and just BLAH so I became just BLAH...which was not fun.

Afternoon was ok. I do NOT like the changes Mr. O. made though. They sound WEIRD and it is SO hard to play cause of the little bisque key. GRR.

Then we went outside...sixteen block to the right was TERRIBLE. OH MEH WORD. Wow...bad.

We ran sections of the show, reviewing and putting music and marching together and it was going ok, there's just one new part that I can't play and march at the same time. It's the fourteen triangle-circle-move-around-thingy. I'm not completely confident in the music (which doesn't help) and so I can't put the two together. I can do the marching just fine when I'm not playing, but yeah...

So then we did our huge run through. Top to bottom of what we've got so far (all of part one and two). And it was BAD for me...there's a part towards the beginning, the snap turn around that I don't like...cause then I'm doing backwards sideways technique (I prefer frontward sideways), and then I HATE the 13-14-15 turn around thingy. My stupid legs won't do it...GAH. And then after 7 beats AFTER that me and Julia have the run thingy and from the previous set I get so off that I have to like RUN to my next dot while trying to play a 16th note run...I stink at it.

Other parts of the show are really good and I did really well on, but of course me, perfectionist...can't look at anything but the flaws. So I was NOT in a good mood...plus, add on top of that my jaw was hurting (for like the first time in WEEKS, I was SO mad), and I have really bad cramps...uh-oh. DURING BAND CAMP. Somebody shoot me now...

And so when I got home I asked mom about going to DK's, and she said it was fine so I was ECSTATIC. I NEED a break from doing HW...I read SO much over the weekend. But THEN, we remembered that we have to bring Sam home, so....UGH.