Musicals

This year we aren't having a musical and it makes me sad. I love musicals with all of my heart. Musicals combine two of my favorite things, acting and singing. I fell in love with musicals when I first watched Annie from that I moved on to Grease and West Side Story. I think acting is good and singing is good but the two combined are just amazing! We plan on doing one next year and hopefully those plans won't change because it will be my senior year and a musical will make it so much better. There is something about them that just makes me so happy even if it's a sad story. All the work that goes into it the endless rehearsals and it almost always pays off.

The Piano

I have forgotten how much I enjoyed playing the piano when I was younger. I used to come home from school throw my books down and dart for the piano. I would just play whatever came to me, most of the time it was what I needed to know for my lessons the next week or a recital piece. Sometimes I would play songs by ear. I could sit at the piano for hours and never get tired of it. It was the one thing that couldn't run away from me. Now, I feel like it's a burden when people ask me to play and I can never think of a decent song to play. I don't think I know any songs worth playing and I laugh at myself for ever thinking I was good at playing the piano.

The Joys of Babysitting

So I went to babysit tonight and I was responsible for four kids. Three girls and a boy. Of course the boy is a little obnoxious since he is the only boy in the bunch and he likes to torture his sisters. They were all super excited because tomorrow is the last day of school before spring break. I guess the full moon had something to do with it too. I've babysat these kids before but they have never been this loud. I have a pounding headache but the experience was bittersweet. The oldest girl is so sweet and read me books the entire time I was there and the second oldest girl wanted me to watch all her cool "tricks" then the boy was just loud and well a boy and the baby was just in her own world when it came to anything. At one point we let their little dogs in and so the boy and second girl were fighting over something silly and the baby was yelling because she didn't want the dogs to jump on her and then the oldest was playing the piano and singing. Talk about chaos. But I enjoy babysitting because it's funny to see how kids interact with each other in certain situations.

American Idol

I heart American Idol but the one thing I don't like is that Ellen is the new judge. She knows absolutley nothing about music. I think their ratings have slipped and the producers hope that having Ellen on the show will boost their ratings back up. She definitely doesn't know anything about music though and it is quite obvious. The contestants this year don't really thrill me this year although I do like Big Mike. He is such a good singer and he seems to be pretty humble as well but that could just an act for television. To me it seems legit though. My parents really like Crystal Bowersox but I think everyone gives her too much credit. I think that she is good, don't get me wrong, but there are a lot of girls who sing in the same style she does she just happened to audition for the show. And even if she does win her albums won't be popular amongst the hit radio stations she is more of a folk like singer.

Heading Back

So I'm supposedly getting my job back a JCPenney. It'll be bittersweet if I do. I like the people who work there but they seem to work me so much. I know when I worked there before it was seasonal so there were holiday hours that people needed to work but I don't have time to work all the time like I did in November and December. Hopefully, they won't schedule me all the time. The bad thing is I won't have time to do a lot of the things I enjoy doing after school if I have to work and I'll have to work my ENL filmings around my work schedule which can get complicated. Also, if I get into GSP then I'll be gone all summer and I may not have a job when I return. Maybe they'll hold my spot for me if I'm accepted. Another good thing is I'll have extra money to spend on things I want and I won't have to ask my parents for gas money anymore. When I ask for gas money I normally get the third degree on where all I've gone and how much gas do I have left or where I'm headed after I get gas.

Spring Break

Spring Break is going to be really boring for me because I'm not going anywhere special except the doctor. I may go and visit my sisters who live in Bowling Green one day but other than that nothing special is going to happen for me. Although I do turn seventeen over the break which is cool I guess. I'm not really into birthdays though to me it isn't a big deal. Even when I turned sixteen I wasn't all that thrilled, cool I get to drive with a parent or guardian for six months! No, not cool at all. This time I'll get my full license, no stupid restrictions, unless of course I get a ticket between now and my birthday which would be terrible considering it's so close to my seventeenth birthday.

What I do with my old writings.

When I was younger my parents would hold on to them for a while but with five daughters things start to pile up so everything eventually got thrown away. As I've gotten older I try to hold on to things I write but I'll read them and sometimes think that something isn't really worth keeping and I'll throw that away too. If I'm proud of something I wrote I'll hold onto it and keep it in a box with other things I keep but other than that everything just gets thrown in the trash. Maybe I should start recycling my old papers since I don't really want to keep them anymore.

Taste The Rainbow

Skittles are so random. And they have false advertisement. They don't have every color of the rainbow in each package and you can't taste a rainow. They have teased us for years trying to trick us. Skittles won't trick me! I know you can't tast a rainbow you can only taste the sugary goodness of a skittle. In the words of Dakota Coomes "You can't taste azul." Which is really true. You can not taste colors or anything else you aren't able to put into your mouth.