Rainy Day Thoughts

It's actually pretty quiet in my house for once.

My brother and dad are off at baseball practice, my mom is in the living room playing some chill music and I'm just sitting here listening to the music, writing this post and watching the rain lightly fall down.

It's pretty nice to have a bit of relaxation.

Yesterday Olivia came over to spend the night. The original plan was to go to the beach today after our sleepover but we went nix-nay on plan A when I saw the weather forecast...and I'm glad we made that decision. Beach + rain = miserable.

So instead we hung out here and we ate enchiladas for dinner and jammed out for quite some time on guitar and vocals (Olivia) and trumpet (me). It was really fun. We also watched a couple of horror movies. Last night we watched  the 1983 film 'The Poltergeist' which was VERY VERY awesome-ly freaky, creepy, and scary, and I highly recommend it to anyone who likes those kind of movies. And also don't be fooled by its rating of 'PG'. It is most certainly more like PG-13 scary.

And my words of wisdom on the motto of this film:

IF YOU'RE GOING TO MOVE A GRAVEYARD, MOVE THE HEADSTONES AND THE BODIES.

This morning we also watched the more recent movie 'The Haunting In Connecticut' which is actually a true story and wicked creepy. It was very scary, but enjoyable. It included some pretty creepy stuff though like post-mortem photography (WHY would anyone want to take pictures of dead people?) and cutting off eyelids for necromancy and stuff. Very well done and a really gripping and suspenseful story, I highly recommend it to you as well.

And again, my words of wisdom to you:

DON'T DO CREEPY STUFF LIKE NECROMANCY AND CUTTING OFF PEOPLES EYELIDS AND SEANCES AND TALKING TO GHOSTS AND CREATING ECTOPLASM AND DON'T LIVE IN A HOUSE WHERE THESE THINGS HAVE HAPPENED AND YOU WILL BE FINE.

Quite simple things to follow actually, when you move graveyards, move the bodies, and don't do creepy stuff. This is what I learned at my sleepover last night.

Since Olivia went home, things have been pretty chill around here, like I said before. I had some practice up at church for a piece that I'm performing on Sunday, and I went to the library to get a bunch of books (obviously...) and I guess when I'm done I'll work on my packing for Pilgrim Lodge, which I am SO SO SO SO excited for and to which I wish I was going tomorrow instead of Sunday, but oh well. At least I don't have to wait until August, which would be torture. 

So yeah. Those are my rainy day thoughts.

Please take my words of wisdom to heart.

You don't want to get caught up in a horror movie.

Avatar

We all know the movie Avatar, right? You know....the blue people?

Like, this movie?

Anyway, it's a suuuuper awesome-ly good movie, and because I'm a band geek and know this, it's got a really great soundtrack. Imagine my delight then when I'm told we're playing selections from it for our upcoming concert.

I was pretty much like: EEEEEP!!!! WE'RE PLAYING SONGS FROM AVATAR!!!!!!

And I was able to listen to the arrangement the same guy arranged a Lion King medley that we played earlier in the year and he's really good, and this arrangement was no different. So here are the YouTube videos for the soundtrack and just imagine our band playing them. It is. SO. TOTALLY. EPIC.

Enjoy! :)

so happy right now

You honestly have no idea how happy I am right now,

because it's vacation,

and it's gonna be AWESOME.


also, please enjoy this little video i made quickly. i do understand that i said 'it's pretty awesome' WAYYYY too much, and please please please excuse the horrid off-key singing at the end.

The Clock Ticks Down

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The clock ticks down. Slooooooooooooooooooowly. It's one of those ugly school clocks, that seems to always run slow with that little red second hand going slowly round. Round and round and round as it tick tocks through the day.

It's the last day of school before break. So it's going REAAAAAALLY slowly. Thankfully it shouldn't be that bad of a day considering the fact that first block is study hall, second period English is a joke, we're doing fun stuff in French, and well, geometry will be the same as always, but you can't get EVERYTHING you wish for. So today I thought I'd let you have some holiday insight into what I'm up to.

I FINALLY found my holiday Peace shirt that I've been looking for for forever and I was really glad it turned up- right before Christmas! YAYYYYY! {Can you tell I'm hyper?}

Earlier in study hall I was bored, as usual, so I took some markers and drew a little holiday design. Isn't it cute?

I love watching those old little kid Christmas movies. They are EXCELLENT. And on Sunday I got to watch 'A Year Without A Santa Claus', and just to set this straight.......SNOW MISER IS SO TOTALLY MORE EPIC AND AWESOME THAN HEAT MISER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

And the clock.

Ticks.

DOWN.

Brickways, Magic, & Travel

Hey everyone! So over Thanksgiving, my family decided to use up a bonus week for our timeshare and spend the holiday week down in Cape Cod. We got down here Sunday night, and hung out right around here yesterday, and today we traipsed up to Providence, RI.
We had been there a few years back and went to this AWESOME cafe called Brickway on Wickenden, so we went there for breakfast. They've got these hot chocolates that come in mugs as big as soup bowls with towering piles of whipped cream and some scrumptious hashbrowns among other things. Yum. :)

We then headed to the mall, Providence Place, which also contains a huge movie theater. We got our movie tickets, and still had a few minutes to poke around in some of the shops. I've been needing a nicer warm coat that I can wear to school and church and around and stuff as the only things I have right now are by ski coat and marching band jacket. We ended up buying this really cute pea coat at Aéropostale that I love very much.

 

Finally we went and saw Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows {part 1} in IMAX. The screen was so incredibly huge and the surround sound made everything shake. The movie was totally awesome, and very true to the book which was nice. I can't wait for part two!

All and all, we had a good time today, and we're going to go up to Plymouth tomorrow which should also be fun. What are you guys up to? :)

marching band and everything else that's been going on the past few days

Whew! I'm tired after just typing the title! I haven't posted since when? Monday afternoon? That's just sad :( So this is a post to catch up on the goings-on in my life.

MONDAY EVENING

Was our first marching band rehearsal! It was rather chilly and a bit misty, but we worked on out new music and were able to practice our new music and set a few drill spots which was good and fun. I had forgotten though how much it hurts your feet to march backwards!

TUESDAY AFTERNOON/EVENING

Guess what? Marching band! It was still cold, but at least it wasn't raining! After marching band got over at nine, I drove up to Olive Tree's for a sleepover with her and Elrania and our friend Serena. We watched Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Grail (lolz) and had a lot of laughing fits. (Especially when I was coming back from the bathroom, stepped on a corner of one of the air mattresses, tripped, and flew through the air landing on top of Olive Tree and Serena. Oops.)

WEDNESDAY MORNING/AFTERNOON

In the morning we filmed our last Lord of the Rings spoof. We had so much fun! The funniest part was the scene where Frodo, Sam and Gollum are at Mt. Doom and Frodo (me) had to push Gollum (Elrania) off Mt Doom (a hill) to kill him. So Elrania and I were stage fighting and I made the move to push her down the hill and she rolls head over heels and totally cracks up. We just had to put that in slow motion in the movie. After I left Olive Tree's I had to go straight to my trumpet lesson and then we went to see my little cousins for about an hour and a half. By the way, it was raining quite a lot the whole time.

WEDNESDAY LATE AFTERNOON/EVENING

At 3:30 I headed off to the third day of boot camp. (marching band) It was raining so we stayed inside and did music practice until eight. By that time they said that it had stopped raining and misting, (It hadn't) and so we would go down and do some drill practice at the parking lot for about 50 minutes. It was pouring, I didn't have my raincoat, and I couldn't see anything because my glasses were covered with water. My section says I need windshield wipers for them. It was a long 50 minutes. One of the worst parts though was that all of these little frogs had come out to play in the lake that was the parking lot (Seriously. At some times I was ankle deep in water.) Unfortunately they were very small, they hid under the water and we weren't allowed to look down to watch where we were stepping, so there was a great amount of frog carnage by the end. Poor little frogs....

Arrival @ Destination Uno

After an eleven hour drive (with one stop at a hotel in New Jersey to sleep) we finally arrived at our first destination- Our grandparents place in Maryland. The drive was very long and tiring, especially in the3 backseat where I get very carsick, but we did have some interesting moments. Such as...

While driving through Massachusetts, (After about three hours of driving) my dad heard a funny little noise. Suddenly a grasshopper jumps out of nowhere and onto the dashboard, staring my mother in the face......while she's driving 75mph on the highway. Naturally, we go crazy, but my dad finally catches in and throws the grasshopper out the window. And that was all the excitement we had.

And now, a couple movie reviews from XanFan, on the two movies that we watched during the drive:

YEAH GO ME!!!!!!!!!..........ok

Night at The Mueseum:
Good movie and it's good because I like it. OK, but seriously, it's pretty awesome because evrything in the New York Museum of Natural History comes 2 life and the dude almost gets fired twice and then these dudes try 2 stael the thing that makes the museum come 2 life.SO AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! watch it.

Fantastic Mr. Fox
so its different from the book in a lot of ways but its still cool. so Mr. fox buys a tree nd his wife says he has 2 stop stealing birds but then 2 years later he starts staeling them again and then its the same as the book pretty much so ya bye seeya IM AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!

(Cornet Crazie back here. I appologize for all of the awful grammar in the above. Like I said, that's not me typing. Off to the pool later, and D.C. tomorrow!)

Summer Fun With Olive Tree [and a tag]

It's been a fun couple o' days! Yesterday, Olive Tree came over and we took a walk and took pics, went down to XanFan's baseball game and took pics, and came home and watched Avatar! It was my first time watching it and it was sooooo good! But sad :( Anyway, this morning/afternoon my mom took the two of us to the beach! The water was cold, the sand was hot, the waves were big and we had a great time. She's going to be posting about our little adventures on Wednesday- so be sure to check out (of) Horsefeathers for pics! Right now though, I'm practicing my trumpet  no, that's not true. I'm writing a post) but AFTER I will practice my trumpet some more (I already did some) and work on packing packing packing for Pilgrim Lodge! In the meantime, here's a tag from Elrania:

What time did you get up this morning?
7:10

What time is considered getting up early for you?
During the school year I get up at 5:30 every day so I'd probably say 5.
What time is considered sleeping in for you?
Anytime past 8. It may seem crazy but, whatever :)

Cheese or Pepperoni pizza?
Cheese. I'm a vegetarian, remember?

What did you have for dinner last night?
A yummy pasta dish with cheese, tomatoes, and spinach!

What is your favorite dessert?
You really wanna make me decide??? That's just mean cruel.
How many movies have you seen in 3-D? Name them
Zip. Nada. Zilch. ZERO.

Who is your current favorite movie character?
Ummm.....uhhh....gosh. I really don't know!
If you have an iPod, how many songs are on it?
I have an iPod but I haven't gotten around to putting many songs on it. I mostly just have some Owl City and trumpet stuff.
What do you need to shop for?
Nice summer-y clothes.
Name one goal you have on blogger:
I'd like to get 100 followers (which by the way is only 3 more!)

Movie Review: 9 (and Saddleback)

Last night when Olive Tree was here, we watched the movie '9'. First off, it should NOT have been rated PG-13. It was less violent then Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which was rated PG! Basically, the story is that all the people have been killed in a great war and there are only these 9 little manikin people who weren't killed and they have to fight the machines that took over the world. And 5 of them die, but as they are set free it starts raining again, and what comes out of rain? New life! My rating? 3 out of 5 stars, because although it carried a really important message, a lot of the parts were just pointless.

Also, tomorrow I leave for Saddleback!!!

I *LOVE* this mountain. The view from the summit is INCREDIBLE and the trails are awesome. We'll be skiing there for 3 days, but luckily, my dad is bring his laptop so I'll still be able to post and check e-mail every night. It's a 2 1/2 hour drive so we'll have to leave around 6 tomorrow morning, but it will all be worth it once we hit the slopes!!!

Today's Slightly Interesting Classes

Sitting in workshop and there's really nothing to do so I guess I'll just write about my classes today :)

Got to school at 7:35, threw everything into my locker and promptly went to the band room. There, Bella and Queen of the Bass Clef hung out talking and helping Mrs Barry get set up for the day before the bell rang. Fun, and it's really good to e helpful to your band director during concert week because they get reeeeeally stressed out. :)

First class of the day was French (Bonjour, mon amis!) and we had fun just telling about our weekends. Tomorrow we get back to work conjugating verbs. Next was Social Studies where we began to watch another 'R' rated movie. It's pretty funny that the 2 'R' rated movies I've seen have been in Social Studies class! (Of course they relate to the subject at hand, we watched 'Glory' last year when we were leaning about the Civil War and today we began 'Murder in Mississippi' because we are learning about the civil rights movement of the '60's)

Science wasn't that bad today. Elránia and I were lab partners doing a little light experiment. Not that bad. Also found out that not only is there Google Earth, but Google Moon, Google Mars, and Google Sky. SOOOOO COOL!!!

After Science was Band!!!! Woot woot! just worked on all our pieces for he concert. C'est trés bonne! Fantastique! (Sorry non French speakers, I'm trying to incorporate French into my speaking more)

Lunch was good, and after lunch I had Math where we reviewed for tomorrow's test, which was nice and then we worked on our research projects in LA. And finally, in workshop, I did this awesome post! YAY!!!!!!!!!