First, thank you so much boheme06 for the virtual snowflake :)

Second, it's almost Christmas.  Wow.  Where did all of December go?

Third, got a C in calculus, thank God.  I thought I was going to fail that class.  But I'm happy I succeeded (or at least passed it) in the class because I'm not taking math next year (it conflicts with choir practice on Thursday nights) and I wanted to at least not fail a class.  (Considering how I got an F on the last test before the final, I was very worried).  I also got three A's and a B.  Overall, I think I did fairly well :) so I'm happy about that.

Fourth, I have a month and three weeks off until spring semester starts again.  Either I can attempt to work up my courage, walk into Barnes and Noble and ask if they're accepting applications or not, or I can take up a massive awesome knitting project.  I'll try both.  (I have this fear of asking people things.  IDK why.  I just do.)

I may also finish The Dresden Files series in my spare time and go through at least many other books.  If I'm not catching up on TV shows either on DVD or on my DVR.

Overall, I have free time.  I'm bound to be bored.

Fifth, my birthday was on Sunday and we had the Festival of Christmas Music at church (a weekend long concert.  One performance on Saturday night and on Sunday it was the regular singing in the morning plus two more performances in the evening).  Needless to say, I was totally exhausted Monday.  But I managed to squeeze in some fun for myself on Sunday between 11 AM and 3 PM.  I went off to Disneyland with my dad, got a birthday button, got annual passes (the last time I had annual passes was when I was 5, I believe.  That was so long ago.  It's fun having passes again), and then went back off to church.

Monday was more the day of fun for my birthday.  I opened presents, went to Disneyland again (just because I could), and relaxed.

 

Anyway, I've got all presents wrapped and under the tree.

Also, thing I learned: people from the south barely decorate around outside the house for Christmas?  (My mom is from Virginia and when she moved out here she would make fun of all the decorations.  Hell, I would do.  Inflatible Santas?  They may look fun, but I wouldn't want one in the front yard.)  Or, from what my mom told me, they would put lights in the windows and not do any serious/heavy decorations with lights like we do.  (Also inflatible snow globes with actual 'snow' in the 'globe' that would swirl around.  Looks fun from a distance.)

I really want to visit Virginia again and get in touch with my Southern roots.  And visit Colonial Williamsburg.  It must look really pretty in the winter with snow and everything.

Tomorrow I'm planning on hitting the bookstore for some personal shopping (like, say, a new copy of Catcher in the Rye) and maybe a few extra presents for the family if I see anything good.

Also, knitted my dog a sweater!  I need to take pictures and post them up, but he looks so cute in it.  I doubt if he'll ever need it, as lately it's been more windy than chilly, but there could be a time when it's really cold and he'll need it.  So at least I know he has a sweater if he's really cold and he can use it.  Or I can make him use it.  I tried it on him when I finished it and he wasn't attacking the yarn, so that's good.

Right now I'm finishing up a scarf and I'm also in the middle of knitting arm warmers.  I don't know when I'm ever going to use them, but they looked pretty and I wanted to knit the pretty and use a cable needle.

Until next time, hopefully everyone has a happy holiday/merry Christmas/feliz navidad/happy Haunakah/Kwanza/(I think I covered all my bases for holidays, right?).

 

First, thank you so much boheme06 for the virtual snowflake :)

Second, it's almost Christmas.  Wow.  Where did all of December go?

Third, got a C in calculus, thank God.  I thought I was going to fail that class.  But I'm happy I succeeded (or at least passed it) in the class because I'm not taking math next year (it conflicts with choir practice on Thursday nights) and I wanted to at least not fail a class.  (Considering how I got an F on the last test before the final, I was very worried).  I also got three A's and a B.  Overall, I think I did fairly well :) so I'm happy about that.

Fourth, I have a month and three weeks off until spring semester starts again.  Either I can attempt to work up my courage, walk into Barnes and Noble and ask if they're accepting applications or not, or I can take up a massive awesome knitting project.  I'll try both.  (I have this fear of asking people things.  IDK why.  I just do.)

I may also finish The Dresden Files series in my spare time and go through at least many other books.  If I'm not catching up on TV shows either on DVD or on my DVR.

Overall, I have free time.  I'm bound to be bored.

Fifth, my birthday was on Sunday and we had the Festival of Christmas Music at church (a weekend long concert.  One performance on Saturday night and on Sunday it was the regular singing in the morning plus two more performances in the evening).  Needless to say, I was totally exhausted Monday.  But I managed to squeeze in some fun for myself on Sunday between 11 AM and 3 PM.  I went off to Disneyland with my dad, got a birthday button, got annual passes (the last time I had annual passes was when I was 5, I believe.  That was so long ago.  It's fun having passes again), and then went back off to church.

Monday was more the day of fun for my birthday.  I opened presents, went to Disneyland again (just because I could), and relaxed.

 

Anyway, I've got all presents wrapped and under the tree.

Also, thing I learned: people from the south barely decorate around outside the house for Christmas?  (My mom is from Virginia and when she moved out here she would make fun of all the decorations.  Hell, I would do.  Inflatible Santas?  They may look fun, but I wouldn't want one in the front yard.)  Or, from what my mom told me, they would put lights in the windows and not do any serious/heavy decorations with lights like we do.  (Also inflatible snow globes with actual 'snow' in the 'globe' that would swirl around.  Looks fun from a distance.)

I really want to visit Virginia again and get in touch with my Southern roots.  And visit Colonial Williamsburg.  It must look really pretty in the winter with snow and everything.

Tomorrow I'm planning on hitting the bookstore for some personal shopping (like, say, a new copy of Catcher in the Rye) and maybe a few extra presents for the family if I see anything good.

Also, knitted my dog a sweater!  I need to take pictures and post them up, but he looks so cute in it.  I doubt if he'll ever need it, as lately it's been more windy than chilly, but there could be a time when it's really cold and he'll need it.  So at least I know he has a sweater if he's really cold and he can use it.  Or I can make him use it.  I tried it on him when I finished it and he wasn't attacking the yarn, so that's good.

Right now I'm finishing up a scarf and I'm also in the middle of knitting arm warmers.  I don't know when I'm ever going to use them, but they looked pretty and I wanted to knit the pretty and use a cable needle.

Until next time, hopefully everyone has a happy holiday/merry Christmas/feliz navidad/happy Haunakah/Kwanza/(I think I covered all my bases for holidays, right?).

 

So tired...

this morning I had rehearsal from 9-1:30 PM for this concert the choirs are doing at church and so we had this really long rehearsal that involved lots of standing and folder holding (which now?  my left arm is sore) and lots of singing and now I just want to crawl into bed and sleep forever...

or at least until tomorrow (thank God; the first concert for tonight is over; all I have to get through is the two more tomorrow night).

And now I have songs from the concert stuck in my head, which really isn't all that pleasant because they keep on repeating themselves over and over and over.

The one thing I like is the cold here in southern California.  While we may not get snow (really) we do get frost in the morning if it's cold enough.  Which last Sunday there was frost on my car's windshield and I couldn't find the scraper to scrape it off so I used my hand to wipe away some of the ice.  Which, note to everyone: don't do it unless you want your hand really numb *was born and raised in southern California so never learned the proper way to scrape ice/snow off cars* well, I did learn, but I was in a hurry and thought, 'Screw it, I'll use my hand'.  Plus I couldn't find the scraper; apparently it was in my dad's car.  Well, now I know that for tomorrow morning.

But I like it in the mornings when there's frost on the grass and frost on the roof of the houses and it sort of looks like snow, without it being snow.

And I'm looking forward to wearing my scarves I've knitted; there's this one pretty green one I'm planning to wear tomorrow morning for church.  (Speaking of, apparently the musical for next year for spring is called Broadway Our Way and we're doing songs from Wicked and Les Miserables (still need to read that book...) and other musicals that have Christian messages/themes in them...where does Wicked have Christianity in it?  Or messages/themes of?...because I can't really think of any but I haven't listened to the entire soundtrack either so...)

And it's been raining something awful this past week; major storm, apparently, or something like that.  And I heard the news say it could rain on Christmas next week so, fingers crossed (hee, reminded myself of DHSAB).

Which, as for DHSAB, got my DVD already.  I thought it would ship here Monday (it originally said it would; only because I chose 1 day shipping versus two day; I got a DVD for my friend for Christmas and wanted it here before Christmas) but it got here early.  It came Thursday night, which was a horrible time (hah pun) for it to come, as I was leaving for choir practice when it did come.

Still haven't watched the DVD yet; although I've seen it a million times already so it can wait, but the special features/easter eggs!

My grades came in for fall semester.

Straight A's.

Oh yeah.

Seriously.  I thought I would get a B in pre-calculus.  So I saw an A and I was, 'Oh, look, an A in math.  Oh, look, lots of A's.  Oh, look, I actually got all A's for the first time in my life.  Yay?'

My mom was all bragging this morning to the people in choir.  It was funny, 'cause it's not that big a deal (to me at least---come on.  The classes were easy.  We were practically given the answers to the tests in sociology, there was open book tests in physical anthropology, there were take-home tests for archaeology.  The only classes I struggled with were math, mostly, and psychology.  And 17 units?  So not enough classes.  I like taking a lot of classes; sadly, the maximum is only 18 units) and everyone thought it was a big deal (to paraphrase my mom: "Seventeen units plus two choirs [at church] with all the rehearsals, singing all four Sundays in a month, and she got straight A's."  Yeah, really not that big a deal...)

(But come on, straight A's.  I've wanted to do that since high school, always have gotten close, with like a B in one or two classes, and now I achieve my goal in college.)(Which was what I wanted to achieve this semester; it all works out in the end.)

Tired now.  Sleep now...

but I'll go watch Dr. Horrible/play Fable 2 before I go to bed; I'm just so exhausted.

Re: my DHSAB icon.  So appropriate; he sort of looks sleepy in that icon and I'm all sleepy so...

And the other day I went to The Coffee Bean (I was going to get an ice blended mocha, but I was already cold from the rain and didn't need further coldness) and there were all these little stickers up (from people who decided to leave a message? who donated something, like money? *shrugs*) and I saw one that said R.I.P. Rollie Guerria(?) and it was so random and I saw it and I was all like, 'Oh hey, Rollie, I remember him'.  Last year he died in a car accident.  I wasn't really friends with him, but I, you know, recognized him...we were like acquantinces(?) more.  We were about the same age, I think I had a class with him in middle school, and I knew that he had died, but it's like I sort of forgot he had until I saw the message left for him.  And it was so random that I saw it.  And weird, because I could have not seen it but I did see it.  I hate how life works like that.

Okay, bed now.  Good night!

So tired...

this morning I had rehearsal from 9-1:30 PM for this concert the choirs are doing at church and so we had this really long rehearsal that involved lots of standing and folder holding (which now?  my left arm is sore) and lots of singing and now I just want to crawl into bed and sleep forever...

or at least until tomorrow (thank God; the first concert for tonight is over; all I have to get through is the two more tomorrow night).

And now I have songs from the concert stuck in my head, which really isn't all that pleasant because they keep on repeating themselves over and over and over.

The one thing I like is the cold here in southern California.  While we may not get snow (really) we do get frost in the morning if it's cold enough.  Which last Sunday there was frost on my car's windshield and I couldn't find the scraper to scrape it off so I used my hand to wipe away some of the ice.  Which, note to everyone: don't do it unless you want your hand really numb *was born and raised in southern California so never learned the proper way to scrape ice/snow off cars* well, I did learn, but I was in a hurry and thought, 'Screw it, I'll use my hand'.  Plus I couldn't find the scraper; apparently it was in my dad's car.  Well, now I know that for tomorrow morning.

But I like it in the mornings when there's frost on the grass and frost on the roof of the houses and it sort of looks like snow, without it being snow.

And I'm looking forward to wearing my scarves I've knitted; there's this one pretty green one I'm planning to wear tomorrow morning for church.  (Speaking of, apparently the musical for next year for spring is called Broadway Our Way and we're doing songs from Wicked and Les Miserables (still need to read that book...) and other musicals that have Christian messages/themes in them...where does Wicked have Christianity in it?  Or messages/themes of?...because I can't really think of any but I haven't listened to the entire soundtrack either so...)

And it's been raining something awful this past week; major storm, apparently, or something like that.  And I heard the news say it could rain on Christmas next week so, fingers crossed (hee, reminded myself of DHSAB).

Which, as for DHSAB, got my DVD already.  I thought it would ship here Monday (it originally said it would; only because I chose 1 day shipping versus two day; I got a DVD for my friend for Christmas and wanted it here before Christmas) but it got here early.  It came Thursday night, which was a horrible time (hah pun) for it to come, as I was leaving for choir practice when it did come.

Still haven't watched the DVD yet; although I've seen it a million times already so it can wait, but the special features/easter eggs!

My grades came in for fall semester.

Straight A's.

Oh yeah.

Seriously.  I thought I would get a B in pre-calculus.  So I saw an A and I was, 'Oh, look, an A in math.  Oh, look, lots of A's.  Oh, look, I actually got all A's for the first time in my life.  Yay?'

My mom was all bragging this morning to the people in choir.  It was funny, 'cause it's not that big a deal (to me at least---come on.  The classes were easy.  We were practically given the answers to the tests in sociology, there was open book tests in physical anthropology, there were take-home tests for archaeology.  The only classes I struggled with were math, mostly, and psychology.  And 17 units?  So not enough classes.  I like taking a lot of classes; sadly, the maximum is only 18 units) and everyone thought it was a big deal (to paraphrase my mom: "Seventeen units plus two choirs [at church] with all the rehearsals, singing all four Sundays in a month, and she got straight A's."  Yeah, really not that big a deal...)

(But come on, straight A's.  I've wanted to do that since high school, always have gotten close, with like a B in one or two classes, and now I achieve my goal in college.)(Which was what I wanted to achieve this semester; it all works out in the end.)

Tired now.  Sleep now...

but I'll go watch Dr. Horrible/play Fable 2 before I go to bed; I'm just so exhausted.

Re: my DHSAB icon.  So appropriate; he sort of looks sleepy in that icon and I'm all sleepy so...

And the other day I went to The Coffee Bean (I was going to get an ice blended mocha, but I was already cold from the rain and didn't need further coldness) and there were all these little stickers up (from people who decided to leave a message? who donated something, like money? *shrugs*) and I saw one that said R.I.P. Rollie Guerria(?) and it was so random and I saw it and I was all like, 'Oh hey, Rollie, I remember him'.  Last year he died in a car accident.  I wasn't really friends with him, but I, you know, recognized him...we were like acquantinces(?) more.  We were about the same age, I think I had a class with him in middle school, and I knew that he had died, but it's like I sort of forgot he had until I saw the message left for him.  And it was so random that I saw it.  And weird, because I could have not seen it but I did see it.  I hate how life works like that.

Okay, bed now.  Good night!

Is it Saturday yet?  *groans* I just want this week to be over.  Done.  Finished with.

So we can get to November.

And this will probably be a crazy rant about church choir so you can skip this if you want.

I swear this was the hardest month, in terms of, well, choir, mostly.  I mean I like being busy but, yeah, singing in two choirs is making me go crazy.  Mostly with spending all day at church some days but...I just so totally hate chapel choir at this point.  The alto sections is super weak without Chelsea there.  Most of the times Sandy has to help the altos, and she's not even techincally in the choir; she's assistant director for chapel choir.  And during the big concert in October she sang with the chapel choir for all of the songs, helping the altos.

And then the other day we were practising this one piece (apparently we do Handel's Messiah every four years??  I love that piece of music.  It was so fun to sing) and Hanan, the official director, was helping the altos.

I mean I like being there but...my god.  The kids are so immature.  The alto section is weak.  The only plus of being in the choir is being able to talk to Khyrstina and that's about it.  And since she's moving to Seattle in January, and I'm all worried that the musical will be a not so terrific musical, or so I've heard, I'm just, 'Drop or not drop?'

...I would drop.  But Hanan just makes you feel so guilty if you so much as miss a rehearsal because you have class on the night of a rehearsal.  Or if you have to miss second service, even though you were supposed to stay because you had missed half of the first service and being there is a good example.  Hanan just the type of person that makes one feel guilty about even thinking about missing a rehearsal or a Sunday.

So...I don't know.  Maybe next year's musical I'll do pit choir.  If it turns out to be the one Khrystina says is really bad.

But really at this point I love chancel choir and hate chapel and wish the high school kids would just grow up and stop goofing around when people keep on shushing them and...yeah, me=annoyed.

But thank God November isn't as busy as October, in terms of music.  December is the next month I'll have to worry about busyness in the choir, so I am taking November and I will be doing NaNoWriMo and not stress out about choir and try to not procrastinate with school work.  Go productiveness.

But really, if Khrystina is moving away next year (and she will be so me= D:) and Nick just happened to go away for some strange reason (which hoping he doesn't--this is the first year in all my years I've been in choir with him that I'm actually talking to him.  Yeah.  I'm surprised myself.  I've got this crush on him, sort of, and I would always be so nervous around him and nervous to talk to him and...this year I've talked to him some.  So yay?)  then I would seriously not be in chapel choir anymore, because there's just no point in being in it (though I would come back for Handel's Messiah...and if, for some strange reason, manage to do Jesus Christ Superstar for a musical.  Which this year, seriously doubt.  We are the weakest this year, IMO, in terms of singers and choir and everything.  The weakest.  In all my five years I've been in chapel choir).

The fun thing is the young adult choir though.  That's fun.  Yay young adult!  And it's so big this year.  In all my one years I've been a part of the young adult choir.  But it really seems big.  And fun.

Okay.  Back to homework.  Boo homework!...but I procrastinated, so it's my fault.

And me=sad about the Doctor Who news.  Though I still need to watch the rest of season 2, all of season 3 and 4.  I'm just wondering who they'll be getting next.  And who it'll be.

Is it Saturday yet?  *groans* I just want this week to be over.  Done.  Finished with.

So we can get to November.

And this will probably be a crazy rant about church choir so you can skip this if you want.

I swear this was the hardest month, in terms of, well, choir, mostly.  I mean I like being busy but, yeah, singing in two choirs is making me go crazy.  Mostly with spending all day at church some days but...I just so totally hate chapel choir at this point.  The alto sections is super weak without Chelsea there.  Most of the times Sandy has to help the altos, and she's not even techincally in the choir; she's assistant director for chapel choir.  And during the big concert in October she sang with the chapel choir for all of the songs, helping the altos.

And then the other day we were practising this one piece (apparently we do Handel's Messiah every four years??  I love that piece of music.  It was so fun to sing) and Hanan, the official director, was helping the altos.

I mean I like being there but...my god.  The kids are so immature.  The alto section is weak.  The only plus of being in the choir is being able to talk to Khyrstina and that's about it.  And since she's moving to Seattle in January, and I'm all worried that the musical will be a not so terrific musical, or so I've heard, I'm just, 'Drop or not drop?'

...I would drop.  But Hanan just makes you feel so guilty if you so much as miss a rehearsal because you have class on the night of a rehearsal.  Or if you have to miss second service, even though you were supposed to stay because you had missed half of the first service and being there is a good example.  Hanan just the type of person that makes one feel guilty about even thinking about missing a rehearsal or a Sunday.

So...I don't know.  Maybe next year's musical I'll do pit choir.  If it turns out to be the one Khrystina says is really bad.

But really at this point I love chancel choir and hate chapel and wish the high school kids would just grow up and stop goofing around when people keep on shushing them and...yeah, me=annoyed.

But thank God November isn't as busy as October, in terms of music.  December is the next month I'll have to worry about busyness in the choir, so I am taking November and I will be doing NaNoWriMo and not stress out about choir and try to not procrastinate with school work.  Go productiveness.

But really, if Khrystina is moving away next year (and she will be so me= D:) and Nick just happened to go away for some strange reason (which hoping he doesn't--this is the first year in all my years I've been in choir with him that I'm actually talking to him.  Yeah.  I'm surprised myself.  I've got this crush on him, sort of, and I would always be so nervous around him and nervous to talk to him and...this year I've talked to him some.  So yay?)  then I would seriously not be in chapel choir anymore, because there's just no point in being in it (though I would come back for Handel's Messiah...and if, for some strange reason, manage to do Jesus Christ Superstar for a musical.  Which this year, seriously doubt.  We are the weakest this year, IMO, in terms of singers and choir and everything.  The weakest.  In all my five years I've been in chapel choir).

The fun thing is the young adult choir though.  That's fun.  Yay young adult!  And it's so big this year.  In all my one years I've been a part of the young adult choir.  But it really seems big.  And fun.

Okay.  Back to homework.  Boo homework!...but I procrastinated, so it's my fault.

And me=sad about the Doctor Who news.  Though I still need to watch the rest of season 2, all of season 3 and 4.  I'm just wondering who they'll be getting next.  And who it'll be.