#78: Books, books, and more books

I have too many books. Ok, maybe not too many books, but not enough space for my books. I have books everywhere. Well, my whole family does. I have two bookcases filled with books in my lounge, I have books in and on top of my file cabinet, inside my purple storage container/ ataman, inside my window seat, filling up half of my closet, and books cover my desk in my room and the hanging bookshelf I have. We keep books in the movie room and in the kitchen and in the family room. We have a library/music room with 3 tall bookcases in it, but those are full so we just started stacking the books on the floor next to the bookcases. My parents have books overflowing in their rooms too. We even have books in the storage closet. Our house may sound cluttered, but honestly it’s not. We just have the books strategically placed so that our house is still neat and orderly but hiding the chaos of our book collection. The thing is, we have read almost all of the books we own, but we always read books multiple times. Maybe we are just weird but we like to read things over again. Who knows? 

#77: Childhood shows...

I miss the old Disney channel and the old Cartoon Network and the old Nickelodeon.  The new shows that they have are not the worse thing that could happen to the channel. Some of them are actually pretty good, but they still aren’t the old shows. I mean those shows were my childhood! They cancelled the Kids Next Door, Totally Spies, That’s So Raven, and a lot of other shows too. Some of the shows they replaced them with are really bad. I mean really bad. I have only seen a few episodes of them, but that was enough for me to see what the show was like. I don’t even remember the name of it but I do remember that it was on Disney channel and it was basically like a sitcom but for kids, and had really bad jokes. They were probably purposeful bad jokes, but that just made the show even worse. Maybe I’m just too biased because I am too nostalgic for the good old times. At least some of the old shows are on Netflix which is good, but the ones that aren’t on Netflix I miss even more because I can’t watch them. Its actually kind of frustrating.

#76: College and things

So this whole college application thing is starting to freak me out. I mean I am gonna be a senior this year and that means applying for colleges, which means I have no clue what I am doing. The guidance counselor at school does an ok job at explaining things but she can be really disorganized and as a person who hates disorganization, I can’t stand to be trying to talk or listen to her. It gets on my ever lasting nerves. I know that she is trying to help, but personally I think she needs to be better organized for the job she has been assigned (although she does probably have a billion other things to do). I will just have to wing it on the whole college application thing. I know I need to get recommendations and stuff and do the college essays…These first few months of the school year next year is going to be so hectic. I guess I have to try to fit all this other stuff into my schedule over the summer…Is my summer even going to be a summer or is it just going to be me doing various things that are related to school? 

             

#75: Marching band rant (part 3)

All the rising seniors and some of the other high schoolers had the idea of doing a super hero show. We had all the music picked out and talked to our composer and she said that she could make it work for our size band. We planned out the order of the songs, what the guard costumes and flags would look like (well, that was mainly the guard captain but we tried to help her out) and what the props would look like. Our band director had said we could bring the idea to him and so we did and from the way he was “listening” to us I could tell the idea was going to fail. He didn’t seem to be paying much attention to us. Maybe he had is mind already set on doing the “Painted Life” show. Who knows? All I know is that most of us who were involved in planning the super hero show really don’t want to do this show (and we aren’t the only ones). I am going to try to make the most of it and hopefully my senior year in marching band won’t suck because of the music and show choice, but if it does, I am going to be one very mad senior.

#74: Marching band rant (part 2)

For marching band we are doing a “Painted Life” theme.  Don’t ask me what the heck that means. All I know is that it was based off of a poem one of the guard people wrote for their English class and it talks about how each color of life represents something different. As far as I know, no one wanted to do the painted life show except for the band director and the guard director, who apparently don’t care about what the band wants, but only what they want to do for the band. We started playing the music on the first day of marching band. It is difficult and it sounds pretty, but personally I do not think it is marching band style music. Marching bands are supposed to keep the crowd excited. With this music we will either put them to sleep, or they will lose interest very quickly. I’m not saying that the music is bad. Our composer did a good job writing it, but its not for marching band. Or at least, not our marching band. The music is really short so far too, we needat least an 8 minute show (I think) to be in competition, but so far each of the three pieces we have gotten has only been a minute long…and we only have one more piece coming…

#73: Marching band rant + summer

My band director wants me to play piccolo for the upcoming marching season, so I have to find piccolo lessons to fit into my hectic summer schedule. I am going to Boston for a week in June, and then I am going to the beach for a week, then I am going on a mission trip with my school to Florida for a week, but my family and I are staying down there for an extra week and visiting some family friends and possibly going to Universal Studios and Disney World again. Then the last two weeks of my summer are going to be taken up by marching band and I am going to be having bake sales to raise money for my senior trip to Europe which costs like $3,000 to go, but I want to go! Between all that stuff I am gonna have to find time to work and now time to learn piccolo. We already have one piccolo in marching band, and it is hard enough to get that one in tune. I can’t imagine how we are going to manage 2 piccolos. Maybe it will work if we are on opposite sides of the field…yeah that might work.