YES! Percussion XS finally has a home at Reese Academy! Please come see us at the open house ppl, it's located near Sam's, check the site for more info. http://www.rpaa.net

Gloria Patri

*edit* PS: I had the wrong day I'm actually getting my hair dyed in 8 days!

We invite everyone to our Grand Opening August 13th from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.



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We will continue registration during our Open House August 20th from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Auditions for the Reese Performing Arts Academy Company Dancers will be held August 15th and August 16th. Company members will present performances reflecting the highest standards of excellence throughout Middle Tennessee and represent Murfreesboro in regional and national dance competitions. We invite all dancers ages 7 to 18 to audition and be a part of a winning team!

For more information, contact Casey Reese at 615-849-8905.

We are excited to announce the Academy is now home to Percussion XS and Percussion XS-II, a Middle Tennessee Honors Percussion Program, under the direction of Julie Davila. For more information, contact the Academy or email Julie at sistajules@comcast.net.



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Does anybody not have church service wednesday and wanna go to starbucks and hangout at the mall or want to go earlier in the day and then take me to church with them? I dunno what to do without church on Wednesday lol.

Two days till I get my hair died! YAY!

Gloria Patri
Nathan


Ps: Read yesterday's post!

"To know God and yet nothing of our own wretched state breeds pride; to realize our misery and yet know nothing of God is mere despair; but if we come to the knowledge of Jesus Christ we find our true equilibrium, for there we find both human misery and God." - Blaise Pascal

"Awe of God so basic to our lives. Without it, we live unhappily, unaware that God can make such a vast difference to us. Living without awe of God is like living as a beggar, when instead we could live in the kings palace as the heir. Our sense of awe wakes up when we begin to take notice of the mysteries of life. We begin to see that life is too wast and mysterious to be flattened into cheap explainations." - James Houston, Pursuit of Happiness

"Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete lacking in nothing." - James 1: 2-4

Gloria Patri
Nathan

Now I'm sunny with a high of 75, since you took my heavy heart and made it light!!!

So I promised myself to start writing like I used to on hear, my tohughts, poems, song lyrics, short stories, but I can't, I forgot what I was gonna say.... lol

But I promise, I really did have something worth saying at one time....

But yeah I'm really starting to want to go to school man! Totally, I feel like such a square.... I've just been workin..... at my mom's school and stuff.... but I don't mind so much, and when I'm outside I love it, but I miss my friends a lot....

Gloria Patri
Nathaniel

Ok, lol, you ALL missed this! I didn't say "goober", I said :

"Music, it's like a small glimps into heaven... like what you see when you look out the window, ya know, you can't see all of it, heck you can hardly see any of it, but it's still that little bit that comforts you, reminds you there's something else other than right now... so I guess that makes me a window...."

I thought it was cheesy. Lol.

And for those of you who haven't heard or have and want to know why, I had to drop out of band. It has just become too much of a commitment for me with all the other music stuff I'm involved in. But if you wanna talk more about it you can call me cuz I got my phone back fixed! Yay!

Gloria Patri
Nathan

Music, it's like a small glimps into heaven... like what you see when you look out the window, ya know, you can't see all of it, heck you can hardly see any of it, but it's still that little bit that comforts you, reminds you there's something else other than right now... so I guess that makes me a window....

Gloria Patri
Nathan

Yay, movies tonight!

So yeah, band.... phew, makes me tired.

Yeah, pretty sure I had something to say, but I don't know what it was...

Gloria Patri!
Nathan

"I hurt from lonely" - Line from Xanga Girl Squad (heh heh fun stuff)

Gloria Patri

More band camp... haha, that's all that happens to me lol. First full rehearsal tomorrow hmmm... fun... VERY ready for school! At least to see ppl lol!

Gloria Patri
Nathan

Just thought y'all should know!

Gloria Patri
Nathan

Hey y'all I gotta new sn linked to my old one... drumsrgr8forn8..... heh heh

Gloria Patri
Nathan-Bo-Bathan

Hmm... so every1 in the hair salon's gonna help me convince my 'rents to be okay with dying my hair... YESSS!!!!

Band camp.... hmmm..... this'll be a fun season!

*sigh*! *good sigh!*


Gloria Patri
Nathan

*sigh* It takes a lot of time to improve... I'm having trouble with something very frusterating... lol, of course I'm talkin' about band music... of course I would have trouble with something in traditional grip that is SO easy to me in matched.... I need to spend more time practicing but I've gotten to that point where I practiced SO much that my hands don't wanna speed up anymore... (I hate that...) so I have to stop... but I don't want to...

Well, for those of you who don't know who Bernard Goldberg is or about his book "100 People Who Are Screwing Up America"... well I was going to tell you about it but it's pretty selfexplainatory. But yeah, I REALLY wanna read it cuz I've watched as many interview with him about it as I can find (most of them are attacks against him... let's just say that on a show watched by next to nobody he was treated like his oppinion didn't matter... they got really angry..... and they hadn't even READ the book) and I agree with most of what I've HEARD... so I want to read it to see if I agree with the entire book. If you want to see a FAIR interview I suggest goig to www.foxnews.com/oreilly
right now there is one interview with him but they just did another one live so it should be up soon... (it talks about one of the attacks agains Bernard Goldberg) I'm sorry if this post offended anyone becuz of the book or author... if you must know I don't consider myself a republican or a democrat but a moderate who attemps to take in each point and evaluate it against my beliefs. Politics are to screwed up anyway and I don't want to be part of the continuous sill argument about who's MORE right or better.... it's quite silly I must say....

Gloria Patri
Nathan

I just now found out that Dave Matthew's Band is in concert in Nashville tonight... darn it!

Oh well....

I've been workin' on the stuff for band camp, it's working out good!

Good Nerdy Momma jokes:
Your mom is so ugly; she put her face up to a retinal scanner and got ERROR: INVALID MEDIA

Dim YourMom as Variant

Your Mom is so stupid, she uploads executables in ASCII mode.

Your Mom is so fat, if she was a c variable, her initialization would look like this: yourMom = (TFAT*) malloc(sizeof(YOUR_MOM)); //Stack Overflow

Kids in the Way!
One of the best bands on earth! I love them!
Check them out on Purevolume!.

(click here to go to their page on purevolume.)

So I'm curious, what do you wanna be when you grow up?

Gloria Patri
Nathaniel

Band camp started today!!! Well... it went good for our first day.... we have a lot of work though.... we're playing cannon in D! Yay! great fun! I need to work out my double strokes back up in traditional grip.... I still have great doubles in matched but traditional's still new to me... BUt yeah.... and I have trouble standing straight becuz I'm kinda crooked and have some back problems... I'm workin' on it...

Yes, band WILL be interesting this year...

Gloria Patri!
Nathan.... Percussion Expert (yeah right... just kidding, not even close)

Aragorn

If I were a character in The Lord of the Rings, I would be Aragorn, Man of the West, leader of the Rangers who guard the hobbits.

In the movie, I am played by Viggo Mortensen.

Who would you be?
Zovakware Lord of the Rings Test with Perseus Web Survey Software

btw, that's a VERY inacurate discription of who Aragorn/ Strider/ Elessar... etc.... is.... lol

Gloria Patri
Nate

Ok, so I said I'd now be writing exclusively on my Phusebox.... changed my mind... That's just the main place I write. Yes I know, I'm a traitor lol. I Updated my xanga... and now I'm gonna start Myspace. *SMILES*

*Sigh* Band camp here I come...

I'm SO ready for school believe it or not. Exciting things, my first year in chamber, tryin' to figure essentially a completely fresh new drumline, my freshman friends (weird I'm a sohpomore.... time is too short), new teachers, new chances, hmmm.... I'm excited.

So I'm curious, what do you wanna be when you grow up?

*edit* I'm getting a haircut Friday! DUN DUN DUN!

*second edit* Have you ever been in a situation where you're not as close with some friends that you have very fond memories of and it's becuz of someone else? It's quite silly I must say... (btw, if you think I'm talkin' about you I'm not... there's only one personwho might know what I'm talkin' about and they aren't gonna see this...)

Gloria Patri
the artist still known as... Nathan

I'm in town kinda now.... I'll be at my grandparents.... but it's still....

ugh, band camp......

GLORIA PATRI!

RYM got cancelled.... blah.... Well now I'm prolly goin' to my cuz's house... which normally would be awesome, and I kinda wanna go... but it's my last week at home b4 school starts (thanks to bandcamp...)

*sigh*

Me and ML never got to jam either.... dern....

*edit* MAN! Dave Matthews Band ROCKS, I'm really diggin' "American Baby", mmmm good!

Gloria Patri
the OTHER nathan

Random song lyrics: "You rose from the ashes/ like a phoenix with a heartache/ and you're takin' me away with you tonight

and I know that I can't fly/ but when I'm in your arms/ I'm holdin' up the sky!" -Phoenix With a Heartache by Kids in the Way

random fact: NYC was thought to be the place that consumed the most hotdogs, but turns out.... it's O'hare Airport in Chicago.... go figure....

Well thanks to the hurricane we may not be goin' to RYM... hmmm.... I haven't been in town so I haven't heard much but apparently the hurricane could prevent the week from going as planned... Oh well.... *sigh*...

So I'm on my way home today! YESSS!!!! Drumset here I come.... yay....

Gloria Patri
the OTHER nathan