Building Sandcastles

Building Sandcastles
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Thursday, September 9, 2010

Just real quick

So i have about 25 minutes before my first piano lesson of the semester and I thought i would try and type up a short blog real quick considering i haven't done so in the last little while.
I am almost done with week two of my Sophmore year of college, and week two in the music program. I am officially INSANE for wanting to join the music program. And yet I'm excited for the program i don't even know if I'm going to pass. Love the new voice teacher, just going to throw that one out there. And I'm excited to start training. I have no idea how i'm going to survive aural skills and Music theory, but i guess thats when i've made friends with people who are upper level music majors and are literally going to save me. (for any typos, please forgive me, i'm using a computer on campus and the keyboard is really weird and randomly skipping letters.)
I still be working at Mickey D's and Mike just got hired on, he started yesterday, funny part of the story... I ended up training him for the first hour. I was covering an hour of a girls shift and about ten minutes before Mike is suppose to show up for training Brandi (my manager) comes to me and says that i'm training Mike until Andria gets there. I don't know how to train people. But i apparently didn't do to bad. It was after i got off work that all the stress of life hit me. Like how i didn't have book i needed, i was behind on assignments, i had to work, i was having money worries...ya know all the typical college stuff you get to deal with being a young adult. I'm on the phone with my mom trying to calm myself down and its not working so i decide that i need to do something for someone else. Except that none of my roommates are home...so who else do i know around here. I first think of Mike and Justin (because i spend half my life with them anyway) But Mike was at work, but i was guessing that Justin was home. So I send him a text asking if he'd eaten yet and if not if could i come make him dinner? (what boy is going to turn down free food that he doesn't have to cook?) So i go over and start making spaghetti. It was what i had the stuff for. Justin, being the great guy he is, kept trying to help me make dinner. I think he finally caught on that i needed to do it for him to de-stress, so he let me finish everything.
Just as dinner is about to be ready Ryan gets home, so I tell him that he should have some dinner. He said he only would i ate some too. Which i was planning on, just after everyone else had eaten. So its finished up and we sit down to eat spaghetti, veggies and garlic bread (really bland garlic bread that i failed at making. but they ate it anyway.) For some reason though, i still wasn't quite as un-stressed as i wanted to be. so I started washing all the dishes by hand. Then Josh came home, he didn't want any spaghetti but he was fun to watch drink coffee. He has a little tray and everything, its fun. Then Mike got home and he finished off the spaghetti, about the time i started finishing up the dishes is when i finally wasn't stressing anymore. Which is good, i now have a plan and a focus and i'm ok with life now. So it all worked out.
Moral of the story, life is slightly chaotic, way busy, a tiny bit stressful...but good. I've got friends who will let me be weird and randomly make dinner for them, i've got a job, even if it doesn't pay much. I'm getting an education and i'm in a major thats going to kick me in the butt...wich i think i need.
Life is so much about perspective and I've decided I'm going to tech myself to look on the brighter side, even when it starts sucking.
"Life is quite absurd, and deaths the final word. we mucst always facew the curtain with a bow...always look on the bright side of life."
little bit of spamalot to finish things off.

1 comment:

  1. Hi (insert nickname here)!

    Sorry that you're feeling stress. Just take it 1 day, 1 assignment, 1 task at a time and you'll get there. ALWAYS seek help from friends and from above and you'll do fine. There is a reason you've been put in the Music program. Yes, you're gonna work your tail off, but with patience and your talent you'll get through it and come out shining in the end.

    Mom and I are singing the 'Music of the Masters' concert with Keller High. Singing the Rutter Gloria... all three movements! EXCITING PIECE!!!!! Go you-tube it and give a listen. I think you'll like it -- Latin and all!!!!

    Just know you're loved and it's gonna be fine. This too shall pass. Work hard. Hope the Piano Lesson went well. I'm excited for your voice stuff. Now hang tough on the theory and aural skills --- get friends to help you.... you've got a great ear, now just need to learn how to translate that ear to paper.... that's what school is for -- to learn how to do it!

    I'm excited to watch you direct your first concert when you Graduate! After all, you grew up watching the best ;)

    Love--
    Dad

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