Ask and ye SHALL RECEIVE!

Oh my goodness. I... MADE.... BEL CANTOS!!!!!!!! I was SOOO happy when I found out! Like, ecstatic. But then later that week I was feeling pretty down and like nobody cared. So I prayed and asked to know if anyone cared. So. The next day during seminary, one of the members of Bonnevaires came up to me and asked me if I made Bel Cantos. "Yes, I did!" I replied.
"You're going to have so much fun!" He said.
"Yea! I'm way happy!" I replied.
Then he told me "I knew you were going to make it all along."
"Oh really?" I queried.
"Yea! When you were with Shayann one time, I was out there talking to Mr. Dresen you know? And he told me you were going to make it in no matter what." He was all grins.
"Oh really?!" I said. "That's awesome!"
"Yea!" He said. "Congrats on making it!"
It was exactly what I needed. Now I feel a lot better. :D

All Better!

All better now, my emotions are back under control. I am actually feeling pretty great right now.
I am really starting to understand now just how much I love my family... well, my aunts and uncles mostly. I love my siblings but... I don't know.
My uncle took my mom, two sisters, and me out to dinner today. We went to Outback Steakhouse. It was a lot of fun. We ate dinner, sang happy birthday to one of my sisters, and it was great. Just what I needed. I hadn't realized just how alike my uncle and my mom are. My mom is the girl version of my uncle. Insane, I know! It's funny though. My uncle talks with his mouth nearly closed and my mom talks with her mouth a bit taller. It's interesting to observe them, they have same mannerisms, basic movements, and their personalities are very similar.
Anyway, it was just nice to see him. He and his family live in Florida and we don't see them very often. In fact, I haven't seen his kids since I was ten. It was so long ago!
I just... I feel the love that I have for my extended family starting to manifest a lot more than ever before. I don't know. It's weird. .... hmmm...

Mixed Emotions... They SUCK!

So today was my Grandpa Shepherd's funeral. It was very sad, and I even cried a little bit. I mean, he was my grandpa. I'll miss him a lot. I'm just glad I have something to remember him by forever. My grandpa was an avid quilter. He even made quilts that took up to 20 years. He learned how to quilt from the Relief Society people when he was on his mission in Hawaii. He made quilts for each of his grandkids. And I was lucky enough to receive one. I will cherish it always.
After the funeral, we had the luncheon, during which I met cousins I didn't even know I had, who happen to be my age, and very nice people. I ran around and played line tag with them today, then went outside and had a snowball fight outside. I hurt my hand catching a snow/frozen ice ball, but had a lot of fun anyway.
We got home and cleaned up for a while. Then my friend said "Hey, do you want to go swimming now?" and I told her I'd better ask my mom first... so I called her quickly, got an okay to go, ran downstairs quickly to let her know that Yes, I could go, but just as I pressed the enter key on the message, she told me "Sorry, just left. Come Friday, maybe."
Just what I needed. I was thinking that it would be nice to get out and just chill for a while but NO, they just happened to have to leave just as I was given the okay to go too. Couldn't she have waited 15 more seconds? ACK. Bad day.

Procrastination Station

You, my friend, are reading the blog of the Procrastination Station.
I had intended to spend my entire spring break preparing for Bel Cantos auditions. But I didn't. I sat around and vegged. It was nice, but I wish I had worked more on getting ready. Luckily, we have another week to prepare. But still...
Right now I am figuring out why I want to join the choir so that I can write it down on my audition sheet... (required).... I had a whole bunch of reasons before spring break, but now I've forgotten them so I am starting from scratch and they are due tomorrow. Great. This is why I shouldn't have procrastinated. It's not that I won't be able to figure out what to write, just that now I have to come up with the reasons all over again, and there are bound to be some left out.
I procrastinated my memorization for The Tempest. We have to be completely memorized by the end of this week, and I don't have much spare time this week anyway. At least I have the first act memorized, that is what we'll be rehearsing tomorrow. Luckily. But I will have to really start working on this.
Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate. It sucks.

Hasheesh!

Goodness, it's been a long time since I last posted. I'm a bad blogger. Bad. Bad.
I'll try and do better.
I did well on my choir final. I got 98/100 due to my failure to clap my hands one more time at the end of the song. I'm more nervous about this next final in choir. We have to sight sing, using the Sol Feg, with accurate dynamics, articulation, rhythms, and pitches. Last one was cake compared to this.
Also, auditions for Bel Cantos is coming up... next week! I'm nervous about that, but not as much as I thought I'd be. I'm not sure why... I think it's because my mind is totally confident. But the rest of me isn't totally confident. It's weird.
I'm such a procrastinator. We have until this coming Monday to be totally memorized for the play I'm in at school: The Tempest, by William Shakespeare. I am playing the part of Caliban, the savage and deformed [and deranged] slave. Why am I always the only cross dresser? In ALL the Shakespearean plays I've ever taken part in, I've had to play a boy. All the other girls who are playing boy parts have been able to switch their roles to girls, but I'm the only one who can't. I'm not complaining, I just think it's funny. Anyway we have until this coming Monday to be TOTALLY memorized, and I have only my first scene down. I know that everyone else is practically the same way. Ms. Dunn won't be happy about that.... But I figure she brought this upon her own self when she didn't cast us until three weeks ago... She was "too busy with other more important things." Whatever.
We perform on April 22nd and 23rd. I better start working on it!
This summer I'm going to be in the Sounds Choir production of Oklahoma. I hear it's a good musical, and can't wait to start rehearsing! I'm a bit nervous though. This is the first Sounds Choir production I've been in since Annie Get Your Gun, and I don't know very many people who are in them usually. I'm sure I'll do fine though. Haha.
Well that's all the jibber-jabbering I'm doing for today. Bye for now~!