This morning's practice was amazing...so good. We got sectional time for like...what? Three hours? 2 1/2? SOMETHING like that. We got SO much done and it was SO good and then we put it all together with the pit and the drumline and it was just like...WOW. That feeling was there, that feeling that's been missing for the past few weeks. I absolutely loved it.
But then the afternoon practice stank...you could tell Mr. O. was not pleased, I wasn't happy either. Some people in the band just have no MOTIVATION, and others just don't a good attitude, yeah they're at practice, but they give off the impression like they don't want to be there, and then their sour mood brings everyone else down and next thing you know you have like 20 stinky rehearsals in a row...YEAH.
So frustrating...like today, we were doing 16 block and we were doing really bad at one of the tempos, so Mr. O. said it was the last time, we repped it, it STANK, and so he's like, "Who wants to do it again?" and you hear me, DK, and a few other people say "Yeah" and everyone else practically shout "No!" And then Mr. O. says, "You have the choice to improve and make yourselves better or to accept that last rep. What do you want to do?" and STILL some people said no. That irked me SO MUCH.
It was a relief when practice was done...the afternoon was horrible---I think the highlight of my afternoon was when I got grass in Shep's mouth. ;D
Then I went to DK's house!!!!!! Well, it wasn't that simple to get to his house...but I'll spare all the boring details about how DK FORGOT TO TELL ME WE WERE GOING UP A STEEP HILL. ;D
Sidenote: I can take faster showers than DK. SO HAH.
We went out to the trampoline and talked and then we had to move inside due to little children who actually wanted to jump on the trampoline but our legs were too tired. :P
We had some really good conversations...REALLY good. Lots of stuff about marching band, like what I was saying before, lacking the motivation and energy and just not having the internal drive to be...BEYAWESOM.
Then dinner...YUMMY. Buttered bread (ALWAYS AMAZINGUH), mashed potatoes with the skin (I thought I wouldn't like them...BUT MMM MMM MMM), pork (YUM), and applesauce (we thought of you Cara ;D).
Then we went back outside but nOOoooOOOOoooOOOO, DK was too COLD. ;D Silly boy was only in shorts and a sweatshirt but I had my sweatpants and my big comfy sweatshirt which I love incredibly much.
Sidenote: "I can't handle the heat!" ;D
Sidenote of a sidenote: I guess this is really just a post that DK will get...sorry, lots of inside jokes. :]
It was a good night. :D
And now I should head to bed...big day tomorrow: church (9-10), car wash (11-4), homework (5-infinite), Solomon's Porch (infinite-9).
Sidenote: I made DK listen to the two songs I bought, it was great! HAHA!!! I also made him listen to the Hoedown Throwdown...
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Answers
The country song is "Boots On" by Randy Houser.
The pop song is "Party in the U.S.A." by Miley Cyrus.
IT'S STUCK IN MY HEAD.
"I got my hands up, they're playing my song. I know I'm gonna be okay. Yeah, it's a party in the USA!"
P. S. DK's the best. :]
The pop song is "Party in the U.S.A." by Miley Cyrus.
IT'S STUCK IN MY HEAD.
"I got my hands up, they're playing my song. I know I'm gonna be okay. Yeah, it's a party in the USA!"
P. S. DK's the best. :]
Country and Pop...HAHA!
Ahh...sometimes I just have to laugh at myself...I just bought a country song and then a pop song, the contrast between the two playing is SO different, makes me crack up...
So anyway, I've decided that I wanna learn how to play a brass instrument, really badly. I brought it up with my parents last night, but they basically said no. I got SO mad. My mom can't understand why I want to learn a brass instrument and my dad says that if I'm gonna learn any new instrument it should be another woodwind instrument so I can "expand my repertoire". So then I said, isn't learning a brass instrument expanding my repertoire? And he mentioned something that if I wanna ever perform professionally it'd be better if I knew all woodwinds, and I said I would most likely become a high school band teacher, and he said that I'd learn brass in college and I don't have to worry about it now.
???
Worry? I'm not worried, this is something I WANT to do...
So those two songs this morning are my cheery-uppers. ;D
But you can't guess what the two songs are...
So anyway, I've decided that I wanna learn how to play a brass instrument, really badly. I brought it up with my parents last night, but they basically said no. I got SO mad. My mom can't understand why I want to learn a brass instrument and my dad says that if I'm gonna learn any new instrument it should be another woodwind instrument so I can "expand my repertoire". So then I said, isn't learning a brass instrument expanding my repertoire? And he mentioned something that if I wanna ever perform professionally it'd be better if I knew all woodwinds, and I said I would most likely become a high school band teacher, and he said that I'd learn brass in college and I don't have to worry about it now.
???
Worry? I'm not worried, this is something I WANT to do...
So those two songs this morning are my cheery-uppers. ;D
But you can't guess what the two songs are...
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Random Cake?
There's this random cake in the top left corner by the blogger logo when I log in...is it someone's birthday? Oh well.
Tonight was SO much fun!!!! Ok, so we're all sitting at the table eating dinner and then mom and dad had to go to their meeting and so it was just us three kids at home eating dinner...and listening to "In the Heights". OH YEAH. So I start going crazy at dinner, doing hair flips and all that fun stuff, and we clear the dishes and then me and Sanya just go INSANE and dance around the ENTIRE HOUSE. It was at that part on the CD where it was crazy fast 6 minute songs and it was just so much FUN. We were jumping up and down and I was picking her up and swinging her around and we were doing the SILLIEST things but it was SO MUCH FUN.
Ahhh...well, I gotta go finish my LINCs cards now, but guess what?!??!?! I FOUND OUT HOW TO GET SIRIUS RADIO ON THE INTERNET. It's only free for seven days, but it's so cool to listen to!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D :D :D
Happy night for me!
Tonight was SO much fun!!!! Ok, so we're all sitting at the table eating dinner and then mom and dad had to go to their meeting and so it was just us three kids at home eating dinner...and listening to "In the Heights". OH YEAH. So I start going crazy at dinner, doing hair flips and all that fun stuff, and we clear the dishes and then me and Sanya just go INSANE and dance around the ENTIRE HOUSE. It was at that part on the CD where it was crazy fast 6 minute songs and it was just so much FUN. We were jumping up and down and I was picking her up and swinging her around and we were doing the SILLIEST things but it was SO MUCH FUN.
Ahhh...well, I gotta go finish my LINCs cards now, but guess what?!??!?! I FOUND OUT HOW TO GET SIRIUS RADIO ON THE INTERNET. It's only free for seven days, but it's so cool to listen to!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D :D :D
Happy night for me!
QUOTES!!!
So in English class we're writing a personal essay called "This I Believe" and some of the stuff she had us look at to get inspired were quotes, and I LOVE quotes. We got this big packet so I'll post some of my favorites. :]
The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They cna never be solved, but only outgrown. -Carl Jung
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts...take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. -Marcus Aurelius
The life given us by nature is short, but the memory of a life well spent is eternity. -Cicero
The love we give away is the only love we keep. -Elbert Hubbard
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year. -John Foster Dulles
The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. -Chinese Proverb
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have. -Norman Vincent Peale
If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. -John Wooden
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth. -Pearl Buck
A man may make mistakes, but he isn't a failure until he starts blaming someone else.
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
Talent is God given; be humble.
Fame is man given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
Learn as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
I've learned that if osmoene says something unkind about me, I must live so that no one will believe it.
I've learned that there are people who love you dearly but just don't know how to show it.
The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They cna never be solved, but only outgrown. -Carl Jung
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts...take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. -Marcus Aurelius
The life given us by nature is short, but the memory of a life well spent is eternity. -Cicero
The love we give away is the only love we keep. -Elbert Hubbard
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year. -John Foster Dulles
The miracle is not to fly in the air, or to walk on the water, but to walk on the earth. -Chinese Proverb
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have. -Norman Vincent Peale
If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. -John Wooden
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth. -Pearl Buck
A man may make mistakes, but he isn't a failure until he starts blaming someone else.
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
Talent is God given; be humble.
Fame is man given; be thankful.
Conceit is self-given; be careful.
Learn as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
I've learned that if osmoene says something unkind about me, I must live so that no one will believe it.
I've learned that there are people who love you dearly but just don't know how to show it.
Monday, September 14, 2009
Apostrophe of Apostrophes
Wait...is apostrophes a word? Is it apostrophe's? Or it is just apostrophe as the singular and plural? Oh well...ANYWAY.
So yesterday was my apostrophe of all apostrophes day. It was so GOOD. DK came over after church (which took my sister forever to figure out...it was hysterical, eventually she just believed me when I said he was flying over on his magic broomstick ;D), we played a game of Life (he won, I should REALLY stop letting him win this much... :P), and then we went out for a walk.
Yesterday was GORGEOUS. The weather was like PERFECT. A little more wind would have been cool (HAHA, get it? ;D) but it was all good. We walked the HUGE loop ("So how long is it?"/...this long." HAHA), and then we sat on the swings and just TALKED (and swang...of course). How long were we out there? Like 2 1/2 hours? So probably on the swings for like two hours or maybe a little less. But it was good, REALLY good.
Haha, we were walking and I said something like, "I expected you to have a spreadsheet" and at the same exact time I said that he pulls a piece of paper out of his pocket, I CRACKED UP.
So...yeah, really great day, lots of thinking, lots of apostrophes, lots of good stuff.
So yesterday was my apostrophe of all apostrophes day. It was so GOOD. DK came over after church (which took my sister forever to figure out...it was hysterical, eventually she just believed me when I said he was flying over on his magic broomstick ;D), we played a game of Life (he won, I should REALLY stop letting him win this much... :P), and then we went out for a walk.
Yesterday was GORGEOUS. The weather was like PERFECT. A little more wind would have been cool (HAHA, get it? ;D) but it was all good. We walked the HUGE loop ("So how long is it?"/...this long." HAHA), and then we sat on the swings and just TALKED (and swang...of course). How long were we out there? Like 2 1/2 hours? So probably on the swings for like two hours or maybe a little less. But it was good, REALLY good.
Haha, we were walking and I said something like, "I expected you to have a spreadsheet" and at the same exact time I said that he pulls a piece of paper out of his pocket, I CRACKED UP.
So...yeah, really great day, lots of thinking, lots of apostrophes, lots of good stuff.
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