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I have to decide what to do this summer and it is REALLY stressful. Uber stressful. I have no idea. So I am stress eating like you wouldn't believe. Like I have gained an easy 5 pounds. And my hair is greasy. Gahh. Okay enough self pity. Now to catch up since Monday. Well I bought Titanic. That is pretty much the only good thing that happened. Except last night I went to the John Phillip Sousa concert (my roomate Sarah performed in it and did fabulously), then I went to comic frenzy, and we came home and had a poutine party. And I watched Kung Fu Panda and it is soooooo funny. Today I went on a date to my school's production of Burdens of Earth. The play was written by a professor at BYU and it is about Joseph Smiths time in Liberty Jail. I highly recommend seeing it if possible. Very thought provoking. Other than that I have been ridiculously lazy and stressed and baaaahhhhh. What else to say. You know what is crazy. Back in the Renaissance day puny little peasant no names and the random water gypsy would compose some motets. But....because they were so wimpy (socially speaking and also probably in stature) they would attribute their works to famous composers and then publish them. For example their is this motet called Milles Regretz and supposedly it was written by Josquin des Prez......but the work was discovered like 50 years after he was dead. So historians were like dude Jo died 50 years ago this can't be his song, but there is no way to prove it so his name stays on it and the wimpy limp leg is up in heaven laughing, saying bah hah now my song is famous. Poor Josquin, what if the motet railed hard core. Stinks for him. He would get blamed for a royally bad song. How unfortunate. Okay well just ponder that for a bit. Namaste.

Busy busy dizzy busy...take that

So thats how it's going to be eh? Taking pictures of our schedules eh? Well ok then. The blog war begins. This was last week. Doesn't that look nice. And the next one was earlier this month. And below that is Shahrukh Kahn. All this is in jest of course....of course? I do not wish to make a mockery of your busy schedules by any means. That has never been my intention.

Moving on now. Before I forget. Monday was our wards Valentines Day party and when we got there the party planning coommittee (I have to double most the letters because I don't know which ones are supposed to be) split us up so that each FHE group was competing with another group. Well one of the challenges was to eat a gallon of ice cream, and while doing so your wrists were tied to the person on either side of you. I hate to lose. So I repeated yelled at my group . . . . and threatened them as well. Needless to say, we won. We killed actually. Ours was the only group to finish the whole thing. . . and we did it in four minutes. I'm pretty sure I did most of the eating, and I am very proud of that fact.

Okay on to this weekend. I can't remember friday night. Oh yes I can. I went to see Austrailia in the cheap theaters. Saturday we went to the hot springs which were really dirty, but fun. They have this really cold water pool. Like cold cold cold. And just to prove how man we were Rachel, Julie and I sat in it for 5 minutes. Awesome. My body. Was practically dead. Then we made an appearance at the bollywood party, then we went to broulims and bought food. Then we got Titanic and watched it. It was sooooo romantic. I ate lots of cookie dough during it. Sunday morning we went to mass in St. Anthony. Catholics are sweet. During the part when everybody turns around and greets their neighbor and says peace be unto you, I said oh thanks. What?! Really who the heck does that. Stupid. I even know that I'm not supposed to say that. Oh well. Then I went to real church and then we watched Pearl Harbor. Today we had quartet practice and we CAME UP WITH A NAME. It's the Dapper Dames. Cool huh! It's so perfect. Ok well thats about it. I will go now. peace. Namaste.

Gorge yourself....it's valentines

I plan on excessively eating candy today. Happy Valentines all! Crap holiday. My feelings won't change until I have a husband. . . who will be musically talented and ultimately resemble Hugh Jackman; a gift. AHHHHH I'm going to be an aunt again! Ridiculously exciting! My name suggestions are as follows. For a girl: asher and nickolai. For boys: miles and chase. I have reserved the right to name my first born tucker. So back up that train real quick. OK. Plans for today. I think me and some fine people are going to go to the dunes and sled and then go to the hot springs. Tonights plans are still up in the air. Either I can go to rachels and watch Titanic. Or I can go to Erin's and have a bollywood party. But they are going to watch Namaste London, a disaster of a film. However most people going to the party have never seen a bollywood so Erin has to show a mild bollywood so people don't get scared away. Namaste London doens't have any reincarnation in it or any other crazy bollywood themes. So yeah. I like the real bollywood so I probably won't go. I have to go make ladoos. I will finish this later. Salaam.

Muttin' Bustin'

I'll muttin' bust you if you don't watch it. So tonight we had our spirit week rodeo. For a part of it they had the wee little kinsfolk of the schools teachers and staff come and do muttin' bustin', where instead of steer riding, they ride sheep. These kids were little though. I'm talking ages 4-7. What were their parents thinking? They could have been killed. Bucked and Baaaaa'ed upon. Sad sad. Overall the rodeo was pretty bomb. OHhhh, and I got my passport in the mail today so now I can legally go to Canada next weekend. Shwing. Right now I am eating beans. On Thursday we had Opera Scenes and we staged part of the scene, mostly just the recits. So Don Giovanni at this point has convinced me to go away with him and betray my soon to be husband. At the end of our duet "La ci Darem la Mano" he has to kiss me. It's awkward enough because he is married and also because he looks like he could be my father, I am so dweebishly small beside him. Anyway on Thursday he wasn't prepared with his music. Nothing was learned, so Kris (a women and our director and wife of Norman and world renowned Opera Diva) stepped in for him. So now I am being seduced by a women. Weird. And we get to the kiss part and she is actually going in for it. So when my teachers face is literally a centimeter away from mine I am thinking oh my heck what the crap my teacher (a women) is about to kiss me. How odd. Most surreal sensation of my life. In the end she just kissed me on the cheek.....very close to my mouth......and no this isn't harrassment....this is just Kris Ciezinski doing what she does best, which is being herself and awkward. Now tomorrow morning we get to stage the rest of the scene and review the last one. Joy. How terribly exciting. Now I must bid adieu. For my bed time has come and gone. Namaste.

Bacon

Bacon oh bacon how I love you. How I love to smell you and eat you and savor your taste. But alas I cannot because I don't have any. Crap. So I have a lot to catch up on. Thursday was sick. I had a dictation test for ear training, which I think went okay. It was so long ago I can't remember what else I did. OH I had Opera scenes. That went well. Man I know Thursday was busy but I have no idea what else I did. Wait. Yes I do. I know what I did. I went to forum at 2 and I had a workshop for work at 4:30 and then after Op Shop I practiced with my accompanist. Then I practiced with my Broadway Revue group. Then I had to meet with my theory group to get our presentation on Debussy ready. Friday I was supposed to have my theory presentation but we ran out of time. I hate that. It is awful to be ready and then not able to go. And I had my lesson with Norman and bless his little South African heart. He tried to teach me how to trill even though he has never trilled before because he is a Wagner tenor. Moving on. It was hilarious though. He was doing a terrible job explaining trills. Friday night I had Broadway Revue. I sand like crapo but the rest of my group did great. Truely though I was like honky mcgee. My voice was trippin out. That night Rachel and Laurel and I went to the Backyard Grill and I got a Barbeque Swiss Chicken Burger. My mouth died from pure bliss. Rachel and I went back to the Snow and studied for our Music Lit test. Sleep. Saturday. Rachel and I got up early because we planned on going to the temple. Turns out I haven't moved my car since it started snowing. There was big blocks of ice behind the tires and needless to say we were stuck. Haha Rachel had to push the front of my car in her skirt. She's such a stud. Once we were unstuck we drove to the temple just to find out there was already a two hour wait for baptisms at 8:30 AM. So we left and went to the snow to study for our Lit test.. . . . . . and we studied our butts off and were all set to take the test online and when we logged onto I-learn the test folder was empty. I facebooked my teacher and told him he needed to put up the test like right then. And he did! I started the test it was going fine then I realized I had to go meet Kris Ciezinski (Normans wife) to pick out my rep. I left my computer open saved all the answers I had done and went upstairs to her office. I ended up staying for an entire lesson and she actually taught me to do trills because I told her that Norman was failing miserably. Cool experience. When we finished I went downstairs and my computer deleted all my short answers. So I had to completely start over my test and when I finished it like 5 hours later and pushed submit it said system error contact your system administrator. GGGGGGGGGGGAAAAAHHHHHH! My entire test didn't submit. So gay. Now I'm mad. Basically I spent from 9:30 AM to 7:30 in the Snow working on that dang test and nothing good came from it. But at 7:30 I went to the Vocal Point concert with Rachel and we had reserved seats but when we got there some really old couple was in our seats and we obviously couldn't kick them out so we scoped out different seats and lo and behold there were 2 in the very middle in the the very front row. Lucky. The concert was brilliant. Afterward we went back to Rachel's house and ate a ridiculous amount of ice cream. I came home I slept I woke up today at 11:00. Went to church at 1:30 and that was that. Now I am doing this. Cool beans. And now I have nothing to say. So I will post the link to the Broadway Revue video and call it good. Namaste.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kci1p9O5jRo

Letters are cool

Today I got a card from Jeff and Bekka and a letter from Mikey! Fabulous. And also today I had an amazing practice session. Everything just kind of clicked in my voice. That it is very rare experience for voice majors. Today was also very long though so I am going to shower and then sleep. And it will be grand. At least it better be because I have been looking forward to sleeping all day. OK byieeeeee

My best friends are the SPK

Thats short for sour patch kids. I love those things. They are a gift. A beautiful invention. But also my demise. I spend all my monies on them. Mom said I can only eat them after I accomplish something. However I decided that me staying sane is an accomplishment so I should get to eat them all the time right? Righto. Moving on. Cool news. On either Friday or Saturday some lady went to the Barbershop festival and really enjoyed my quartet. She contacted Brother Kempton (one of our vocal staff) because supposedly he is in her ward. Anyway she asked if our group would provide 15 to 20 minutes of entertainment at their ward Cub Scout banquet on Feb. 18. Of course we said yes. That means we have to brush up on Mr. Sandman from last year and have that ready to go. Because we don't have that much music prepared we asked one of our fellow barbershoppers to get his quartet and come along with us. I think it should be grand. Hmmmmmm what else. This week has had gnarly weather. Today was -30 with the wind chill and -22 without. Thats Rexburg for ya. And it has been snowing non-stop all day. Pitiful. Every school is shut in the district except ours obviously. Today I learned why...and I will share. Below -18 the diesel fuel in the buses congeals so the buses won't start and they can't get the kiddies to school. Interesante. I vote that instead of walking all college students must ride buses. OH! I got a letter from my friend Dano yesterday. He's on his mission in Sierra Leone Africa. Neat. He wrote it on 12/21 and I just now got it. Thats real snail mail. Truely. I bet in Africa they have snails as big as some peoples heads and they strap mail to their shells and send them across the barren desert landscape. Forging a slimey trail. I totally feel like time is working against me. I have to go now and do more stinking work. Before I forget though I will put up a link to our other video. It is the same night just a different angle. When Laurel puts up hers I will link those too. cool Namaste.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYNC8fX5Z9A