So thanks to everyone who called/commented/messaged me a happy birthday, and to those of you whom sympathized with me about Tori.

So I found out today that I might be moving to Memphis at the end of June. GASM!!! The end of freaking June! So close is the end of my time as a kid, and approaches the beginning of my adulthood. I can't wait though, it will be a lot of fun being able to go there, learn my way around and not have to worry about school yet; sad because I wanted to spend time with people longer, but that's life.

Band concert @ 7!!!

This is the worse day of my life. I don't know how to explain it other than how it happened.

I was supposed to take my dog (Tori) to the vet at 1:00. She jumped out of my car and ran into the street, getting hit by a car. I've never seen anything so aweful. The vet brought her inside and told me that her heart was still beating, but they were going to put her to sleep. The bastard that hit her didn't even stop. If I had just put her on a leash like any person with a brain, this wouldn't have happened. My parents say that it's not my fault, that it could have happened to them, but they keep her on a leash.

Things just won't be the same around here anymore.

 Tori: Febuary 14, 2000- May 16, 2006

1) Do you have a penis?
yes, I believe I do

2) Do you pray?
yes

3) Are you in love?
yes

4) Ever wish on stars?
yes

5) Do you believe in karma?
yes

6) What's your zodiac sign?
taurus

7) Have you ever almost died?
lol, yes

8) Ever broken any bones?
I don't think so

9) Do you cry during sad movies?
sometimes

10) Do you like to dance?
um...I can monkey dance...

11) Ever laid under the stars?
yes

12) Ever sat on a rooftop?
no

13) Is there a such thing as a soul mate?
I think so

14) Could you live without the television?
prolly

15) Could you live without music?
def not

16) Do you have any self inflicted scars?
um...no

17) What do you dislike the most about life?
I can't control it

18) Have you ever been to jail?
nope

19) Ever had a job for less than a day?
no

20) Ever been fired on your first day?
nope

21) Ever been fired because of your attitude?
nope

22) Do you get jealous of other people?
not really

23) Would you rather love someone or be loved?
be loved

24) What's under your bed right now?
um...bags, shelves...and picture frames

25) Ever done anything illegal?
yes, but nothing major

26) Have you ever been dumped?
yes

27) Ever dumped somebody?
yes

28) How cool are you?
um...I sit on my butt all the time, if that's cool then I guess I'm quite cool

29) Do you support abortion?
no

30)Do you believe in God?
yes

31) Did you graduate high school?
I will on may 20th

32) Do you wear the same clothes two days in a row?
pants sometimes

33) Have you ever driven someone crazy?
I'm sure I have

35) Ever done the Macarena?
omg, it's so fun...

36) Do you act your age?
I'm told that I act 30

37) Is it okay to disrespect your parents?
not unless they're crazy

38) Do you flush the toilet when you're done?
duh

39) How long do you stay in the shower?
10 minutes?

40) What kind of soap do you use?
irish spring, yum

41) Are mullets cool?
ew, nast

42) Spiderman, Batman, or Superman?
Spiderman, he's hot

43) Do you like your middle name?
yeah, I suppose I do

44) Has anyone ever cheated on you?
yes

46) What's your favorite animal?
I like the moose

47) Favorite flower?
roses

48) Have you ever shaved your head?
yes

49) Do you think marijuana should be legal for medicinal use?
sure, I really can't say

50) Do you think it is okay to drink and drive?
no

51) If you won $1 million dollars, what would you buy first?
hm...pro'lly a house...and a new horn, lol

52) Do you fear terrorism?
not really

54) What's your favorite candle scent?
hm...something orange

55) Do you use profanity?
only when I drive...and when I practice

56) Who's the last person you talked to on AIM?
on AIM? I don't really use AIM anymore...Jeffery I guess

57) What's something you're ashamed of?
my lack of intellegence

58) What woke you up last night?
the demon that took over my sister and my cell phone

59) What did you dream about last night?
a demon that possessed my sister and sent me random text messages. it also sent me a voicemail of him playing my piano. hey, the demon isn't that bad...

60) Ever been to the zoo?
indeed

61) How many beers did you have today?
I don't drink, so none

62) What's the last movie watched?
hm...the princess bride @ Tyler's house...a while ago

63) Are you usually late or on time?
early

64) What's a cartoon you watch often?
family guy

65) Do you have any imaginary friends?
no

66) Are you waiting on something right now?
I don't think so...

67) Who's pretty?
hm...I have a few

68) Who's ugly?
ron jeremy, lol

69) Are you worried about something?
yes

Ok, so I'm at home and not at school, very bored. I think I think I'll just type until I run out of things to say.

SO I went to get my eyes checked today. Apparently it is very common for people with the same vision that I have (he didn't tell me what it's called) to get worsen over time. He said that I didn't notice any change today, but next time there would probably be some. This kinda worries me, but not to much. I asked my mom what she thought about lasik eye surgery and she didn't seem to mind if I ever wanted to get it done. It would make things easier not having to have glasses/contacts all the time. We ordered new glasses for me, yay.

I guess I should mention why I'm not in school. So I had the eye appointment at 8. Sure, I could have gone to school, but I would just be leaving at 1 anyway, and I would have missed the only class that I actually did stuff in, so I figured I'd stay home.

Anyway, on my way home from the doctor's, there was the HUGE wreck where I usually turn into my neighborhood. Like, the fire dept, ambulances, and 10 police cars were all over the place. I got a peek at two of the cars involved...yeah, it was really bad.

Right now I'm watching a documentary. I love them. Movies get boring sometimes because they all have the same story lines it seems like. I dunno, I like documentaries. This one is on the ice-man. It just started, so that's all I know so far. I think it'd be cool to get a video camera and make an independent film about something. I remember one that I watched on PBS late at night one time, it was sad. It was an animation about a very big guy, and a very little guy that lived together and what not. Well, one day the big guy got sick and died and the little one was all sad. One night while the little one was sleeping, the big one came back (his spirit anyway) and looked into the window. He came in and held the little one. I was like "aww." So the little one woke up because he felt the big one there and it was sad again. He went outside and made snow angels and just looked up at the sky (it was what they both did together when it snowed outside). It seemed like it was made for little kids, the narrorator made it sound like a little kid story, but it was still really good.

I'm leaving around 1 to go see Tyler, yay.

Ok, well I'm going to go watch this ice-man thing some more.

Ok, so I'll start with prom. I went and got Elizabeth around 5:00, did pictures and we left in my mom's car to a Japanese steak house in Nashville. We stuffed our faces, oh so yummy, and then left. Our chef dude wasn't very entertaining, but oh well, he made good food. We got to the dance around 8 and stayed till 11:30. I think everyone was expecting the dance to be more, but it wasn't. Lindsey and I requested My Humps to be played but it didn't happen. After we left we stopped at McD's to get a happy meal, ice cream, and change our clothes. We made it to the party after prom and played blackjack till around 3. I donated my chips to Lindsey (all $500,000+ of them) and went home to sleep.

Woke up around 12 and made it to dress reheasal (MYO) and it went very well. After that, I went home to eat something and then go to West Side Story rehearsal, which went well also.

Monday was kinda blahish. I didn't really do anything. West Side Story again.

I didn't go to school yesturday, I didn't feel like going. So my dad comes in my room around 11 and says we're going to get a car. We got a black, 2000 pontiac grand am se. It's so nice. I named it Laquita.

So ready to hear about the concert? Well we did the runthrough and all went well. I had only played 10 minutes or so before at my house, so I felt ready. I waited out in the lobby for Tyler to show up. (He didn't know if he would be able to make it because of drummajor auditions.) I stopped waiting around 7:45 at which time I went to re-warm up. I was extremely nervous. I got on stage, everyone clapped. I swear, I don't know how I pulled it off so well. The high Bb's were all there, everything went much better than I expected. I walked off the stage and back out again, and you know what? I looked up in the back corner and there he (Tyler) was. I'm pretty sure I started crying. Lol. I guess it was a mixture of me being happy, seeing that he made it in time to hear me, and just everything. It was amazing. So I got off, had some water, and went back on for the rest of the concert.

Tyler, the amazing person that he is, took me out to eat afterwards and it was GOOD! We had different kinds of chicken (and some really good mashed potatos) and yeah, it was the most romantic moment I've had. I love him so much, y'all (and probably him) have no idea.

Today was also very blah. I didn't really do anything...at all. We played sudoku during 5th period, and I left early. I went to look for some new glasses, but ended up making schedualing an eye examination for 8:00 next Tuesday morning. I then went to have Laquita checked out and make sure she checked out so I can get new tags. After that I went to eat and then to West Side Story rehearsal. I don't know what days I'll be playing yet, but it looks like I'm playing tomorrow night. I was hoping Tyler could drive down again and see it with me, but he can't. Oh well, I'm going to see him on Friday for his band banquet.

Guess what about Mr. Turner, he got drummajor! Woot. I knew he would though, he's super. Congrats to him.

So we had a dress rehearsal for West Side Story today. The pit started around 6:00 and we worked on music till 7. Everyone in the pit is so amazing, the woodwind guys are super. The trumpet players aren't married...and you can tell why. They make dirty jokes all the time, it's really funny. Christian Condreanu (the other horn player) is very informative and tells me random things..and those random things have helped my playing in just two times of sitting next to him.

Anyway, so the choir and dancers came in around 7 and we had a full dress rehearal that didn't get finished till 10:15. We had to stop everyonce and a while to fix timing issues and cues from the vocalists. Our conductor/pianist is crazy and wicked good. He's playing the pianist score and from what Tyler tells me it is quite difficult, but he rarely messes up. I wish I could hear what was going on on stage, Greg and Brady (Greg lives next door and Brady I've known forever) are the lead guys and they both sing incedible. But yeah, life in the pits is great! I wouldn't mind doing it for a living one bit.

I'm not going to be able to play on each show because of work on the weekends. We're supposed to be giving a show for the middle school friday afternoon, that will be fun. I remember last year that they weren't a very good audience and laughed at times they weren't supposed to; but the show was Aida and it was probably unfamilier to them. I think they will pay attention to West Side Story because it was one of the more popular shows and I think they learn about it in middle school...but I could be wrong.

So today was our senior picnic, that was uber fun. Mrs Gregory dancing to My Humps and reciting rap music in a poetic style during the teacher talent show made my day, well, almost. I hung out with Beth, Sara, and Ashton during the pizza thing, yay.

I went to gas my car today, blah. We've found a convertable that looks promising...and I might have it tomorrow for prom, yay! So I went to pick up my sister and bring her home, take a shower, and went to meet Tyler for us to go to Olive Garden.

We got to Olive Garden to meet Abby and la Madre, it was yum. Our waiter was kinda slow, but the manager said she was sorry for our food coming out slow because she knew that we had to be out for the symphony, so she gave us free cake/pie- score! It was good on my wallet, too.

The Nashville Symphony played Mahler's 2nd symphony tonight and they did a fantastic job. I could tell Tyler enjoyed watched the conductor seeing how that's what he wants to be later on in life. T'was his first orchestral experience, I don't think he'd mind for another one. I could tell Abby enjoyed it, yay, if Tyler wasn't there I would have been an active listener also. Lol.

But yeah, Abby's birthday is (looks at clock) today; happy birthday Abby!

Tomorrow is West Side Story pit rehearsal from 9-1, then I have to go get some shoes. At two I'm going to look at the car down the road and hopefully buy it. At 5 I'm going to pick up Elizabeth, take pictures, and head to the Japanese steak house for some yum yum time. Then we're headed to prom/after prom. Mrs Mullen said she doesn't want us out past 3:30 because of the dress rehearsal on Sunday.

Happy prom'n!

I thought I'd blog about what's been going on since my last blog on Friday.

Well, Saturday was NAI, it was good. I played sudoku on the way to Chatanooga because I'm addicted. We had practied before we left and it was all dandy, so I wasn't worried. We got there and did our warm-up and did our concert. It went very well in my opinion, not many mistakes from everyone, which is very exciting. We didn't win, but we did get superior ratings and superior horn and euphonium sections, woot! That was all good. Golden Carcus (as Mr. Rhody refered to it) was amazing! I ate like 6 plates of various vegitable items, for I was in that kind of mood. Pie is good. On the ride home I was on the floor most of the time just talking to people. It was fun. We got home around 11.

Sunday I went to church and went to work, not much happening there. Yesturday was...different. I spent $30 at the music stop repairing my horn, it got in an accident. It's all taken care of now. My parents were at my sister's ball game till like 8, so I made pizza's. Tyler was supposed to get home from his band trip at that time, so I stayed for him till around 9:30. I watched cartoons and was hoping he'd text me or something when he got home, but oh well.

Today I left school around 1:20 to go get my sister and bring her home. Then I headed to Warren County to do band rehearsal, but they were on tour all day so we didn't have it- I didn't mind at all. Went to Tyler's house and layed around. We had a very intense game of jinga. That is an evil, stressful game. We also played various card games. Word of caution, don't touch his computer! He will beat you up. Lol, it was all fun. We had hand-to-hand combat for like 15 minutes, it was crazy. Of course, the sister was there cheering us on, haha. So I left around 9 and stopped to get food in Woodburry...omg, that is the most red-neck town ever. Anywho, devine intervention made my visit w/ him possible today. I didn't have any money for gas and I told him around 8 that I wouldn't be able to make it, sad. Luckily, my mom called me at school saying that I needed to come get my sister and that she would give me some money for gas and food tonight. I was soo excited. Tyler says I'm good at surprises, yay. He got the this really pretty ring from the beach. I finally have something to replace my other one, which is now deformed from being around my finger for 5 or 6 years. He got me a bracelet also.

So as of now, I'm watching Saved by the bell because cartoon network felt the need to put it on TV again, gross.

So, is she your girlfriend?- Mr. Nolan

So, if I haven't told yet- the insurance company wants to destroy my car from the storm damage. I'm excited, I didn't like my car much. My mom and I are going to some car lots to look around today, hopefully I have one by next week.

Sorry Mrs. Steen for not messaging you back, I was going to but it said your profile was under 'routine maintainance' so it wouldn't let me. But I'm doing fine, and thanks for your comment.

We have the Grand National Adjudicators Invitational tomorrow. I'm excited, I have been since my freshman year (play bass clarinet) and it's going to be amazing. I can't wait. I'm proud to say that the band directors have told me that I have surpassed my competition (the two people who sit ahead of me). My senior year is complete as far as horn playing goes, my goal was to be more the best in the Rutherford County area, and I have done that.

My concerto is sounded very well in MYO, I'm very excited about the concert. We (Elizabeth and I) had our interviews on Wednesday and the article is supposed to be published on Tuesday. Mrs. Mullen said that the woman who interviewed us said that we were the most cordial that she's interviewed for the MYO articles in years, it was cute. Yay for performing prom dates!

Tyler has gone on his band trip, I will be muy lonesome not talking to him till monday. He means a great deal to me. It's good to know that we really care for each other. I'm sure some of you know that we argue a bit, more than most couples, but it just shows how much we like each other because we always work things out and move past it. I hope more than anything we can survive through college.

Random question: does anyone (mostly guys) feel gross if they haven't shaved in a while? I know I do. I haven't shaved in like...4 days and even though I know I'm clean, I just feel gross. I don't know if it is the same for girls (the ones who wear pants all the time) but like...it is on your face and you see it whenever you look at yourself. Oh well. Beth and I are going to Nashville tonight for some prom shopping so I will shave before I leave.

I found out today that I'm going to be playing in the West Side Story pit! I'm so excited! Won't be paid, but I just want it for the experience and to put on my resume, lol. Yay!

Woot woot!

So let's see..last time I blogged last was Saturday? So here it goes.

Easter was on Sunday (duh) so I had two services to play for at church, there was an hour and a half between them, so I went home and took a nap. I have all the pizzas out of my fridge, finally. I went to work around 12:45. I met some other the other cashiers, they are all nice and willing to help, work is enjoyable. There is the one girl (Jamie) who is ghetto, and utterly histarical. We talked about obiestity (sp?) in today youth, teen pregnancy , as well as spending 10 minutes talking about hand sanitizer. Again, as customer or two would chime in, lol. For my lunch break I went to sonic and got a slushie, played sudoku, and just relaxed, it was nice. Left around 7:30, yay.

Monday I was very tired. English was...uh, she passed out papers and then we just sat around the rest of the time. I hate being in classes where I don't do anything. We learned about minor chords in music theory- I wish we would move on to harder stuff. But yeah, enough of school. I gave a trombone player a lesson about good practice habbits and how to develope a nice high range without working as hard. It was nice.

Radu cancelled my lesson, I was a little bummed. I didn't get to see Tyler either...because of reasons, I was bummed again. Hopefully, I have found a way to help Tyler out with lessons. Seeing him would be great, but I would love it more to see him taking lessons with the guy he wants to- hopefully that will happen. On the subject of Tyler, we didn't really have a great night last night. I guess it started with "what if" kinda questions, but it didn't go well. Thank you Abby and Matt for offering your support if I asked for it.

I went to see him today though, during and after his band practice. I stopped and got him a beautiful tie-dyed rose because I felt really bad. He is an amazing boy, if you don't realize it, you should. We went to his house so he could change clothes and put his flower in some water. We just kinda drove around and talked- which talking is good. I took a picture of the sun behind some clouds as it was going down, it was amazing. We returned to his casa, his momma made us supper, and it was really good! We sat on the couch and talked some more, about last night and other things. I'm possitively sure that we're ok. After dinner we went outside and swang on his swing, it was cute. I haven't done that in years. The sister joined us. We also just sat on the grouned and looked at the stars- that is pure romance right there. As far as college goes, we both know we won't get to see each other often, which is sad. Everything logical is saying we won't last, but I'm certain we will. We have something special, which can't easily be broken, and we're both going to try to keep it that way.

He took me back to my car and explained for me how to get back home. So here I am, eating some mini-cheese burgers.

Then end.

So I woke up at 8 this morning and got ready for work. I arrived at 8:50, clocked in, and met the guy who was going to train me. After he did his normal routine of putting money in the registers, he proceded to train me. All was dandy, he talked very fast. I shadowed this girl named Ashley, who was really cool. We had fun. I start wrapping the breakables and after our first break, she let me cover the register and she 'took it easy' till we clocked out. Anywho, so it started out kind of slow, so it was good. I had ringing up mulch, it confuses me. I also don't like people who buy like 20 plates and are like "will you wrap them individually, I don't want them to break" and then tell them you are going to slow. Excuse me, if you didn't ask me to wrap all your precious plates that cost a dollar each, you would be out of here already. Yeah, we made sure that woman had a hard time getting into her bags. (It is procedure that when breakables are placed in a bag, you tie a knot at the top, well...we tied like three .) So yeah, that was fun. We took our lunch breaks, but because there were so many people in the store we couldn't take them together, so I got to be cashier 1 for 30 minutes. I hope I don't have that number tomorrow, that is the one that is most busy. I took my lunch around 1:10 and bought a fish sandwich in the cafe, it was yummy. I returned working; Ashley and I had our own little conversations the rest of day and customers would chime in everyonce and a while, it was fun. They commented on how she was 21, living at home, and dropped out of college, I laughed. So around 5 it started being uber busy, but we got to leave at like 5:45, not to bad. So I worked my 8 hours, and did 15 minutes of over time.

So I came home, took a shower, and went shopping for more polo shirts for working in. I got a really nice argyle one, yay. I think I did a nice job for a person who never goes out to buy clothes. I also baught a really cute fagbag, yay! I saw it and it looked like one that Tyler has...only it has some blue striped pattern on the inside, like some shorts that he has. It looked like Tyler, so of course I bought it.

My tailbone kind of hurts.

I went out to eat at a pizza place, it was good but took forever long for me to get back home. So here I am. I have to get up at like 6:30 tomorrow because I'm playing at the two Easter services in the morning. I get to go work after that...but only till 7.

Yay!

So my surprise for Tyler went well, yay. I woke up around 7 and cleaned myself up, that was hard! It is no fun waking up early when you don't have school (or work). But yeah, I left my house around 7:45 and got to Tyler's around 8:30. His mom was outside and let me in. I walked in to find a half asleep Tyler, who looked muy confused when I walked in and yelled surprise! Lol, it was all good. We just kinda layed around all day and watched TV. He played the movies that he and Lynzi made, they were cute. We watched a pool tournament on TV. (We slept through some of it, too.) I left around 2:30 and pulled in to my house at like 3:20, not to bad of a drive. I was craving a sonic burger, so I went.

I fell asleep around 4 and didn't get up again till 8. I think that my drugs are working, woot. Speaking of working, I start my first day at Old Time Pottery tomorrow. I'm supposed to be trained the first hour and then I'll shadow someone the rest of the day. My hours are from 9-5. I get two 15 minute breaks and a 30 minute lunch break.

I am currently learning about pop culture. Tyler, and the amazing person that he is, typed up a lesson for me on pop culture which includes CD's. Maybe now I won't look totally confused at prom.

My throat hurts muy badly today. I'm just not going to talk...much...because I'm going to go see Tyler tomorrow (he doesn't know it yet, so it will be a surprise) and I want to be able to talk to him and not be in pain. Uh! I don't know if it is my allergies or not, but oh well. I just hope it gets better...soon.

I have orchestra rehearsal tonight till 9. I really hope that she spends more than 10 minutes on Elizabeth and mine's concertos because the orchestra isn't sounded like it needs to. I'm sure she will though, I have faith in her. After that, I have quintet till 10. Oh boy.

Time again to rethink my plans for prom. According to Beth, Jackie and Brady gave her a number of seats to reserve at the Aquarium...and Elizabeth and me aren't on it. So now I guess we'll have to eat by ourselves at Olive Garden or something. Thanks of including us (not directed at Beth).

Well Linda, am I a nerd in this post? :-p

So I'm so happy that I get to sleep in my own bed for more than one night! I mean yeah, the bed I was sleeping in at Abby's house was really nice...and the sleep number bed at the hotel was awesome...but nothing beats your own bed. I was slightly confused as to where I was at when I woke up on Monday morning.

So, we had our band trip to DC last week. Well, everyone knows I'm not big on "let's go see monuments and be all patriotic" but DC is BEAUTIFUL! It is so clean there, and all the buildings...I love big cities. It has like 10 parks and everyone was really nice. I enjoyed it very much. I know I should go into more detail, and post some pictures...but I really don't want to do that...so if you want to know about it, e-mail me or something. I don't think that it tops the Chicago trip though...nothing can top Blue Man Group and the Chicago Symphony (playing Mahler 1). DC is amazing, if you get the change, go!

Tyler, being the sweetie that he is, came to meet me at school when I got off the bus. We went to the greenway and walked around. I love being outside and just walking around, it's so peaceful walking on the greenway. And being with someone you adore to death just makes it all the better.

I saw him again last night. We were going to go to a concert, but we were short money...even though the lady was going to give us tickets with the money we had, we just decided to go sit at the park. Let's talk about that for a second. So apparently in Murfreesboro, the park closes at 30 min. past sunset. I didn't know this, and the gate was open. Well, we were sitting at a bench just hanging out and enjoying the outside, and what happens? I cop pulls up. He's all like "hey guys...what are y'all doing?" Smoking Pot! J/k. He said that we were in violation of something for being there...but how were we supposed to know? THE FREAKING GATE WAS OPEN! So yeah, we left, making fun of the cop who was closing the gate behind us, and just went to find something else to do. Mr. Turner was sick today, so I drew him a picture on the back of some manuscript paper during music theory. I think I did a good job for not being an artist.

But yeah, so I'm offically employed at Old Time Pottery. I work this weekend on Saturday (9-5) and on Sunday (1-7). I'm going to be a cashier, so nothing to difficult. I'm so happy that I'll have an income now, gas money!

So, yesturday was more fun that I thought it would be. We woke up around 9 something....very slowly. Packed, did all that good stuff. We left around 10 something...after I kinda got distracted by the breakfast buffet. I'm not sure if I slept in the car or not...I don't think I did, but Matt said I did...so I'll go with him. Abby sure did, man...she was out, lol. We stopped at a very...well...interesting Burger King. They messed up my order, but I got it fixed. We got back in the car and Tyler called me.  I talked with him for about an hour. Eventually, we got back to Matt's house (which looks amazing) after a fun car ride.

Abby and I left Memphis around 5ish, only to get caught in a tornado. We stopped at the Walmart and had a subway while things were going on outside. We got back to Dberg to find her parents on the porch. Madre got me sudoku book. Yay! So I left around 9 something from there, after the storm cleared a little, got gas, and called Tyler so I'd have someone to talk two while I was driving back home.

The way home was different, lol. I drove through the tornado the entire time. Tyler was watching the news so he'd randomly be like "ok, you're about to go through some stuff" but that is why I love him, lol. So I got to Nashville as soon as I get there, what happens? The thunder goes on...and on...and on. I made it home around 12:15, thankfully. Took a shower, opened up a box that had my new horn case in it, unpacked, and went to sleep.

I didn't go to school today, I wanted to sleep, so I didn't really care. We were supposed to have parade practice afterschool, so I went at like 2 so I could warmup and what not, but we didn't...we have it tomorrow, so I left and here I am.

I'm going to meet Tyler around 4ish because I haven't seen him in a week. He's going to love the pocket score that I baught him at the workshop. It's Ein Heldenleben. I baught one for myself too, so now I just need to get a recording of it so I can follow along, it will be so fun.

So let's see..today was fun. We started off going Adam Unsworth's masterclass, it was good, I took a page of notes. Yay for jazz horn! It is fun to watch his mouth when he plays.

After that, we went and looked at some more horns. I talked to Ion Balu managed to get a discount on a mute, hehe. Being the student of the guy he hung out w/ in high school in Romania is good. I baught another score, a shirt, and...I think that's it.

We went to a lecture on historical brass instruments (aka, evolution of the horn) and it was amazing! He had all these horns with him, like an alphorn, some horns from India, some hand horns, it was crazy!

We ate lunch on campus, beside the tree. I climbed in it...after Matt threw me up. lol.  Abby and I also ran around with our horns, fun times!  Fun times.

So the highlight of my day...the Gail Willaims masterclass! I took like...3 pages of notes in that one. It was very informative. She just, said things that are very obvious, but you wouldn't ever think about. And that is why she is Gail Willaims.

So yay for Tyler and Kyle's one month today! Matt and Ben's is on Monday and he was all like "Kyle, what should I do?!" but I failed to offer any help for them...and life as usual, whoa is me.

So yeah...we're leaving at like...10 tomorrow so I can be home sooner. My horn case came in whoot whoot!

Tootles.

So today was fun! I woke up around 7:15 to call Tyler, he didn't pick up but saw that I called and got happy. I succeeded.  I then went back to sleep. So after Abby crawls in my bed for like 5 minutes from the house keeping lady waking her up, I decided to get dressed, pull out the silent brass mute and warm-up.

We went to the workshop and got all registered, that was fun. We found a practice room, where Matt and Abby played duets.

I was called to do the contest 2nd. I think I played well. I missed the first high Bb, but came back with the 2nd one and played it very strong. Abby and Matt said that it was better than the girl who went before me and played. I didn't make finals, but that's ok, I wasn't expecting to. Everyone who did was from Texas.

What did Abby and I do next? Exhibitions! Omg, it was fun. I played on Alexanders, Paxmans, E. Schmid, and the Alex Wagner Tuba. OMG! Wagner tubas are soooo fun! The Schmid was pro'lly my favorite custom horn that I tried. I baught something really cool for Tyler, and a CD with a Vienna hornist playing recital stuff. I'm going to have to go back and get the thing I got for Tyler for myself also, it's amazing. I'm going to get a new hand guard also. From getting the flipper put on, I had to cut up the one I have now so it slides around sometimes.

We went out for lunch, it was good. We went back to hear the opening recital. The Four Hornsmen of the Apocalypse did an amazing job. (We ate dinner with them.) There was also a lady who played an Alphorn and it was cool! But yeah, after that Abby and I went to a class on natural horn. It was great, we're both wanting to buy one because they were so fun. Matt went to a lecture on horns used in film music. The principle horn player from the London Symphony was there (from when they recorded all the Star Wars and other music) and played excerpts and told stories and stuff.

We went to eat a this really nice place. I had authentic gumbo. The waitress was uber slow and we missed the first half of the concert. Speaking of the concert...holy freaking cow! Gail Williams and the other were amazing on Konzertstuke (sp?). Gail seemed that she was having a bad day, but played amazing. She has this presence that is like...don't mess with me.

So we're now at the hotel, being all lazy. More tomorrow!

So, the past two days have been...eventful. We'll start with yesturday.

So, I woke up around 9:45 to go downstairs and see Sierra on the computer looking at pictures of her boyfriend, it was...funny. So we went upstairs and I showed her pictures of mine, hehe. The madre then took me to subway to get lunches for her, Abby, and myself. It was yum. Abby spent her lunch time playing duets with me. We also walked around the school to collect her school work and what not. 6th period we had horn sectional, her section is so much more fun than mine. (Sorry guys.)

(Kitty in my suitcase.)

Abby and I went to walmart, and of course, goofed around. We went to the pet store too, it was fun. Later, we went to eat at Abe's (Dberg 'fine dinning') and ate veal. It was good, but gave us gas.

Tyler and I have a small...well, medium sized dispute. We're learning how to compromise with each other, as well as learning our personalities. I guess being 45 minutes away from each other, and then around 5 when I move to college will really test us, but I think we can do it. The task now is the whole job schedual thing.

Abby looks funny in a facial mask.

Today we woke up at 9 something, pooped around till 11:45 and made our way to Memphis. We met Matt, talked to Dr. Holland for a little while, and goofed off. (Abby Wang.)

Matt took us to eat and it was yummy.  He took us this round-about way to his house, which is amazingly beautiful! I want to live there. We loaded in the car, and drove...since four...and didn't get to the hotel till...1 something.

We had a random time in the car. Talking, singing, just being dumb. I did two sudoku's in 20 minutes. Hehe.

We stopped at O'Charles and they waitress was funny! She came and sat with us, told us dirty jokes, and just had fun.

We got back in the car...goofed off some more, and now we're here. I'm going to get up at ::insert time:: and suprise Tyler. He has a big guard competition tomorrow, and the had an...akward practice. So, I'm going to try and help his day start out well.

I have the solo competition thing tomorrow, I hope it goes well. It sounded good today, so I'm not too worried. I don't expect to win, but I want to represent myself and Radu well. We'll see how it goes.

More to come tomorrow!

no, the hopelessly romantic thing was GOOD! I was saying that I was NOT hopeless anymore...

have a nice day.