Summer...

Yay, well, summer's almost here...but that also means friends are graduating...( T^T )

At least we still have the summer to play and fool and around be crazy. Hopefully that doesn't lead to us getting arrested. (laugh)

So lately, it's just been lots of final projects, last minute tests, concerts, and...lots of movies! Ok, three isn't a lot but for me who never really goes to the movie theaters, it's a lot. We watched Ghosts of Girlfriend's Past (fun chick flick), Night at the Museum 2 (luved it), and Star Trek (Epicness!).

Aside from that, I have manga club end of the year cosplay picnic coming up and decided to play with the band there. Sadly, I don't think they're plugs in the park so...acoustic! We will make everything acoustic! Yay!

Aside from that, people leaving is sad, finals are going to be a pain...and I still have a bunch of band kinks to work out.

Oh yeah, I'm playing for graduation in orchestra. ( -^.^- ) I get to watch all my friends graduate. Yay~ But that also means playing for about ten minutes then sitting there for two HOURS listening to people give speeches and getting diplomas, and no leaving because we have to play the recession as the graduates leave. Maybe I'll sneak in my PSP. ( >_< )

Drummer!

Yay! We got a drummer!!! -throws confetti- Ends up being my friend's boyfriend ^^ Thought we'd get someone from school but at least he went there, right?

We were going to practice at a nice guest house behind my parents' friend's house but we're still stuck in my garage...getting attacked by mosquitoes. I'm planning to put a fan while we're playing to blow the bugs away. Hopefully it'll work. Or we'll just have to break out the three electric fly swatters out and they'll fry!

Our drummer is more experienced in the band area, but even if I want to someday maybe be able to do music for a living and being known would be a nice bonus, the band is still for us to make awesome music and have fun. He's really excited, so that's awesome. ( ^.^ )

Man, are drums loud. I thought we were playing loud with just out guitar and bass amps, but with the percussion...my bass needs to go WAY up. I wonder if the guitar amps will be loud enough... ( >.> )

I'm so excited too~

And finally, pop concert is done! The last night was so much more fun than the other performances with all the disco music we were playing while waiting to go on. When you dance disco and doing the lawnmower, shopping cart, walking the dog, the monkey, the sprinkler along with other various strange dance moves in a large group, everything's more fun.

Pop concert time~

So we had pop concert last night, the biggest and most important concert for vocalists. It's annoying how you have to audition through three stages to make the top twenty, but since I'm in one of the choirs, I automatically get to perform. Yay. Had the first performance last night and have two today. Hopefully it'll go better since Saturday's the most important night. I think it's the night they film it.

I got a bit nervous last night since I'm one of the six people with microphones and our director didn't make the smartest decision by giving us the vocal parts two days before the first performance...( =.= ) I think it went ok, except the same director also didn't turn on our mics until five seconds into the song, which cut out an important vocal intro. -sigh-

A bit pissed right now because my dad's being "I'm going to yell at you about everything and have no reason for it just because I'm tired." Wow...because performing for crowds of seven hundred five times this weekend isn't tiring at all! Geez, he's being so hormonal. I kind of wanna go to my friend's house, but I don't know what they're up to...

For now I'll play my point 'n' click games...and hopefully not get yelled at by Mr. stupid mood swing.

Soccer...

not the greatest game to play in class with 20 boys and four girls...especially when the guys are all idiotic jocks and just idiots in general. I ended up being tackled by a guy three times my size and at least five times my weight. Not really fun when you land on a field covered in dead grass, which is mostly just really hard dirt.

So we've been asked to perform at my friend's graduation party, which is always a good starting gig, but we don't have a drummer...which I've mentioned countless times...

Oh yeah, I'm thinking about adding 'Untouched - The Veronicas' to the set list since I've fallen in love with that song. Plus, it'll make good use of the keyboards. ( ^.^ )

I've tried playing Mabinogi again since Maplestory is being stupid and not loving Vista. Problem is after playing Mabi for about five minutes nice and smooth, it starts lagging as if I'm trying to play it on a 95 with dial-up. My friend tried out her computer here to test if it was my connection and she played perfectly...

So apparently I have a virus or something evil in my computer.

I can't believe I've typed this much...On saturday, me and one of my guy friends were playing with those nerf swords and you'd think they're pretty safe right? Nope. He swung it hard enough that you could hear the plastic rod inside the layer of foam crack against the second joint of my right ring finger. It's all purple and swollen so I can't bend it much right now...and I realized how much I use this finger...at least I can still hold my cello bow and play guitar. ( T^T )

Set list

Wow, tonight's practice went surprisingly well...except for when our guitarist came an hour late. But no problem, he showed up and said he had to play some meet or game or something, at least our school won! Yay~ ( -^.^- )

So we ended up dragging it until 9 PM, but also because their rides didn't get here till then...anywho, I learned how epic electric bass sounds through a distortion pedal and how much we can get done in an hour and a half.

We managed to put together a 'set list', if you could call it that, in the last twenty minutes or so while we waited for their rides and it now includes, besides Rolling Star, God Knows, Secret Base - Kimi ga Kureta Mono~, Glamorous Sky (maybe), and Qing Fei De Yi. I think we should practice the last one more for now since it's one of the few awesome songs in the world that don't require a drumset.

I'm still alive~

Been ridiculously busy lately, like with little brother's birthday party and such. Ugh, having seven third grade boys running around and screaming on a precious Saturday really isn't my favorite past time. For some reason, they decided to get lost in the woods next door...

Alright, so did that and had Solo and Ensemble before that, having been a few minutes late and the moment I had come into view of the group and my teacher, they all told me they were searching for phones to call me in case something happened to me. The only reason I was late was because I got up later than I had planned and my dad didn't know where we were going.

So lately I've been stressed out about my English assignments because I had left the two stories I had to write to last minute. I ended up staying up until 12:30 AM last night finishing one of the them and writing half of the second one without having it thought out at all.

Ended up bringing my laptop to school, putting the file on a flash drive at school, then finishing it on the crappy school computers. Sadly, I had to lug around my heavy laptop just because I forgot to transfer it onto my flash drive. Arg. ( =.= ) Managed to finish it all with a minute to spare, but it had such a crap, improvised ending that I really don't like what I wrote. ( >.< )p Thumbs down for me.

Guess I can take a breather since it all got turned in on time. Plus, second band practice tomorrow. ( ^.^ )

Also, planning to cosplay Komui (D.Gray Man), Ayuzawa Misaki Maid ver. (Kaichou wa Maid-Sama!) and my usual white mage, all for the next con. Hopefully I'll get it all done.