violin troubles

Yeeks. My violin is acting up. Or my 'A' string is acting up. You see, today at orchestra, my A string decided that it didn't like the tail piece on my violin, so it snapped out of it's spot in the tail piece. My conductor/teacher had to fix it. Then this afternoon at fiddle orchestra (yeah I know, two different orchestra practices in one day) my violin was totally out of tune, so I asked my other teacher to tune it, and guess what? The A string snapped out AGAIN! 4 times, actually. So I think I have to get my violin looked at. And maybe get new tuning pegs. I don't know. It's really annoying. Anyway I'll survive.

Peace!

Crazy orchestra practice

Oh my goodness! Orchestra. There was an orchestra practice today, but because it's still spring break, there weren't too many people there. Which wasn't good for the first violins. (I'm a first violin). Ok, the first violins who were there were me and two other people who love to speed. It's like they have a mission to speed up the whole orchestra. So as you can imagine, I had a really hard time keeping the correct tempo. I did my best to listen to the cellos blaring behind me (we have a LOT of cellos) and watch my conductor, which helped, but it was still hard. *sighs* Ah well, that was my excitement for the day.

Wa wa wa

I have just received annoying news. Apparently, there is to be a Clan reunion this summer, and WE CAN'T GO!!! For two reasons: One is that my dad's choir has a performance that weekend, and an important one at that. (which is not bad-- I love my dad's choir). Secondly, if all go's well we will have a new puppy to take care of and love. Which, again, isn't bad, because I love dogs. But that still means WE CAN'T GO! Which totally sucks: my cousins are going to be there, as well as aunts and uncles and my grandparents and family friends. (I hardly know some of the family friends, but whatever). I don't get to see them often, so as you would imagine, I jump at any chance I get to see them. And the last clan reunion was so much fun, but it was so LONG ago: who knows when the next one will be?

I will stop complaining now. I will have other chances to see my family: maybe we will go visit my grandparents this summer. I really hope so.

Over and out.
May the stars watch over you.

travel

Why I haven't written about this yet I don't know, but last weekend, Mama and I went to the Vancouver area for a little spring break visit. (unfortunately, my dad did not come with us). We have friends and family there that we don't see that often. :( Oh well. We had fun. I had fun. We took The Furry Face (my dog Poppy) along with us. He is such a good traveler... in the car. When we get to a new house, he's not that relaxed. Well actually, it's at night that he's not really relaxed. Weird, eh? Anyway, our friend has a young puppy (I don't know how old she is) named BB: for Black Beauty. We took Poppy to see BB to see how they got along. It was kind of sad, because BB wanted to play SO BAD, but Poppy (who's 7) just wasn't into it. She was so disappointed!

The picture was taken at Cathedral grove. Isn't it beautiful?

Ok, this is crazy, but...

My choir got invited to the Provincial music festival. The Provincials!! Only the best go there. I never even considered the possibility of us going there, but we are! Well, we won't be going physically. The way it works with choirs is you send a recording for the judges to listen to. Don't ask me who made up those rules, 'cause I don't know, but such is life. I think it would be interesting to go to the Provincials and see what all the fuss is about, but I'm not going... oh well. That's all right.

Anyway, I am sick again. I'm getting over a cold that kept me in bed for the whole weekend. Nothing has done that since I don't remember when. And now I'm coughing like crazy. No fun, but I'm on the mend.

One last thing: does anyone even read this blog? Or am I blasting into empty space?
Bye-bye!