Happy Moment

So today in band...Mr. O. usually counts us off like "1, 2, 3, 1, 2..." and then each number gets a note and we make a beutiful chord (...sometimes, haha). But earlier this week he got tired of it so we did, "Chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, chocolate..."

We did that for two days and so today he wanted a new one...it was, "Soo Jin, Kyle, Rachel". I loved it!!! The three of us sit in the back row of band and we're kinda separate from everyone else, we talk a lot during band, so it was really funny. :] :] :]

Mr. O. was like, "All the Rachels...play concert Eb" and it sounded HILARIOUS. Well to me it did, I guess it wasn't as funny to some other people, but oh well, it was my happy moment of the day.

You Should Really Get Up From Under That Bus

I am so SICK of your moods. I'm not really mad...I'm just upset that you let yourself get this way. You put yourself in this mind set and then NOTHING I say can get you out of it. NOTHING. Do you know how frustrating that is? To see someone you love totally throw themselves under the bus, and when you go under there and try to pull them out they just shove you away...yeah ok, I get that you're upset. But I am too. I am so SICK of you always putting yourself down. YOU DON'T DESERVE THAT. You are so much BETTER than that. So just STOP, ok? I need you to stop. And I don't want you to read this and then stop out of guilt. I want you to stop because you owe that to yourself. You REALLY do.

I'm sorry if I've done something or a lot of somethings that you're upset about, but instead of just keeping them all inside and then blowing up on me randomly, can't you just tell me about it when it happens? Then I would KNOW. I would know if something I said upset you, and then I'd be able to fix it for the future. But right now? I don't know ANYTHING. I'm not inside your head, I can't just guess what you want/need from me.

I'm SORRY, ok?

My finger almost DIED

So today in wind ensemble, SOMETHING happened and I ended up dropping the bari and my finger got caught on a sharp needle part and as the needle was falling it took my finger with it. Can we say OUCH? I did...except with a ! instead of a ?.

Luckily, Trolley saved my life. I was talking to him later when Amy gave me and him a ride home and he said he's trained in emergency medical stuff, which is kinda cool. So I cut my finger badly, blood's gushing all over my hands (no joke) and he's like, "Rachel, calm down (I was crying...), it'll be ok, just let me see it..." which I majorally protested to like a baby cause it hurt. But everything turned out to be ok. I survived with a little more than half my finger. KIDDING. Haha, it's all good, just a really deep cut.

So that was my adventure of the day.

It's all true!

Stumbled across these as I dozied through space. Heading to bed now.

Every time you lick a stamp, you're consuming 1/10 of a calorie.

Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning.

More people use blue toothbrushes than red ones.

A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.

You'll eat about 35,000 cookies in your lifetime.

In Alabama, it is illegal to wear a fake mustache that causes laughter in church.

In Florida, it is illegal to sing in a public place while attired in a swimsuit.

Kansas prohibits shooting rabbits from a motorboat.

In New York, the penalty for jumping off a building is death.

In Ohio, it is illegal to get a fish drunk.

Here's the site to find a bunch of other random ones about the laws, those crack me up. ;D

http://www.lawguru.com/weird/part01.html

Good Kid Bubble

So I guess you could say for most of my life I've been in the 'good kid bubble'. I'm still kinda in that bubble...it's just gotten a bit smaller (due to marching band...hah).

Anyway...for most of my life I've been the stereotype of a "good kid". Looking back at things...at age 14, I obeyed and had a great relationship with my parents, could have an intelligible conversation with an adult, had only seen one PG-13 movie, didn't understand "that's what she said", and had never had a relationship with a boy. I wasn't rebellious, I was content with my "good kid" bubble.

Thinking back to those times, I realized that even though I didn't do anything bad...did I really do anything that excellent either? Was I just..."good"?

Looking through the Bible recently, I've seen that I haven't been called to be "good". Jesus Christ didn't give his life on the cross for me to make me "good". God has called me to excellence.

In the book of Proverbs, one verse stuck out to me, “The complacency of fools destroys them. - Proverbs 1:32″. Over time, refusing to reach higher, try harder, and risk more robs us of the glorious purpose and wonderful future God has created us for.

Those are my thoughts for the night.

My apostraphe? The Lord expects great things of me, and I'm determined to deliver. I am SO excited now to see what I can do, what GOD will have me do.

Cara and David back me up on this...

...remember at youth group last night? And that one song came on and I was like, "I don't think I know this song...but it sounds familiar" and then it came to the chorus and I was like, "I LOVE THIS SONG. I GOTTA POST IT ON MY BLOG."? Remember that? Yeah, so I'm posting it. :]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YyikWzpiyk

"Smiling Down" by Pillar
You make it so hard on yourself
But there's nobody else
That could ever understand
The feelings that you felt
I could hear you think about
All the time I was around
If you could only see me now
I'm right here looking down

So next time that you feel like crying
Next time you don't feel like trying
Just remember I'll be right there
Smiling down on you
In the morning you don't feel like rising
Next time you feel like compromising
Just remember I'll be right there
Smiling down on you

I know you won't forget
All the time we got to spend
Just because it's been a while
Doesn't mean that its the end
So right here and now
I'll swear you a vow
That I will always be with you
Whenever you feel down
Nothing ever will come between us
Now I'm holding on to the hand of Jesus

I'll be right there looking down
Even when the shine don't shine
I'll be right there looking down
All along the winter night
I'll be right there looking down
With a smile on me face
I'll be right there with my arms open wide
Right here on Jesus' side


Good song. I really like it. Speaking of another song I really like...meh, I'll post that one later, it would make this post really long.

Ok, quick sum-up of the day before I get my battle gear on and charge to go to homework:

Andre was back!!! As funny as that sounds, it made my day THAT much more fun. It was HYSTERICAL having him back in German, he did all his old shenanigans of messing with Frau, stealing my pencil, trying to hide my backpack, and all that. And then we played this review game where we had to point to a picture that represented a vocab word on the board, and it got INTENSE. There was one point, when Zane went up, and Andre was like, "Ok Zane, you got this!" and he was like getting him all pumped up and then Kevin (sidenote: whenever I think of his name, all I can think of is, "Kevin!" from 3-2-1 Penguins) comes up to Zane and SLAPS HIM ON THE BUTT. Frau didn't really know what to do. HILARIOUS.

And then at lunch, Jordan had this brochure about eating right (I assume he got it from Health class?) and on the back there was a cartoon drawing of a girl and then there were arrows that said like, "Heart", "Bicep", and stuff like that, and she was holding a jump rope. So for a large portion of lunch we made fun of the picture, and Jordan said that the jump rope was her whip, and she was standing in a rather provocative way so we were laughing at that, it was funny.

Thhhhheeeeennnnnnnnnn....umm....what next...oh yeah! Jazz band!!! Jazz band was aight. It was a weird day cause it started late and so it wasn't our usual routine, and it was Monday (which always stinks, it was just uber stinky today), and then we were getting 'fitted' for our uniforms and everything, so we were just all over the place today. But I got to play my solo-ish section today in Libertango, so that made me very happy. Haha! We got our bow-ties towards the end of rehearsal,

Got a ride home with Amy, and she was giving Trolley a ride home too so that was a fun car ride. The three of us might try and go see "The Blind Side" sometime, but that was just random conversation, who knows if it'll happen.

Haha...speaking of movies, I might be seeing "Sherlock Holmes" TWICE this weekend. There's a possibility that me and David are gonna double date with Sean and Amber and go this Friday night to see it, and then me and Alice are gonna go see it Sunday afternoon. So fun weekend plans. :] :] :] (Haha...Cara look, three smiley faces ;D)

Gotta go do homework now, adios.

Sidenote: *bragging moment* My boyfriend looks cool when he plays trumpet. He's got his groove on. ;D

Pics!!!

So I'm procrastinating on doing AP work and I started looking through old marching band pictures, and I found some that I really like/are funny. Enjoy!

This was at Nazareth when it was REALLY cold. I like this one. :]

Funny face. This was after Championships at like...one in the morning?? :P

This was my face after we found out we won. Happy happy happy! ;D