Muzak (though, not literally. Cuz no one likes muzak.)

You must listen to Charlie Puth.  SO GOOD.

When I heard his arrangement of Carly Rae Jepsen's 'Call Me Maybe', I almost fell over.  Rarely do I feel such a pure stoked-ness about music, as though all is finally right in the world.  (Dramatic, but you get the point).  But it was seriously so good!!  It has an amazing light, jazzy feeling to it.  Ima shut up now, just go listen to it.

CALL ME MAYBE - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln8uFYyITX4&list=UUwppdrjsBPAZg5_cUwQjfMQ&index=3&feature=plcp

AND THEN, a few weeks ago, I found the Cimorelli family.  Gosh.  6 - part female vocals, mostly a-capella?  I think yes.  They're freakishly good.  Agh.  Just.... go listen to all of their songs/covers.  I don't have a favourite, IT'S JUST NOT POSSIBLE.  http://www.youtube.com/user/cimorellitheband/

In other news, I was in Seattle for the weekend!  My youth group took all the grads down to celebrate being free of high school :-D  We went to the Seattle outlet mall, Pike Place Market, the Wall of Gum, saw The Avengers (SO GOOD), threw money down escalators and watched the people it landed by scrambling to find it because they think they dropped it, things like that.  I bought Ted Dekker's entire 'Circle' series while in Seattle for freaking $11.95, and I'm already halfway through it in three days :-P  The motel/hotel/suite thing we stayed at had a pool, and the two hours we were all in it gave me a sunburn.  My almost magical ability to burn in any amount of sunlight is starting to just get embarrassing.  Good times! Ha.  It was a lot of fun, I wish it had been longer!

Ima go procrastinate over schoolwork now.  One week left 'till summer!!!!!!

Grad 2012

So, yesterday was fun.  I got my hair done really nice, I wore a great dress, and had the best shoes, makeup, and jewelry ever.  And a lot of people were looking at me....

BECAUSE I GRADUATED FROM HIGHSCHOOL :-D

Agh, it was so much fun.  The photos, the speeches, the hundreds of people, the dance!!!  It was more than I was expecting.  I expected a lot of homeschooled kids acting, well, homeschooled.  And a lot of lame music. But we danced for 3 hours and didn't realize the time until it was over, the DJ was awesome.  It felt like 5 minutes!  I still can't believe I just graduated.  I guess this means no more Barbies with my sister, doesn't it.... :-P

Me, my sisters, and my nephew :-)

 BABY IN A SUIT <3

There was a freaking ice sculpture.  AGH. 

Can't do much without these ladies by my side :-)

I still have 2 weeks of classes left, but hopefully grad will have been enough to give me a bug final push to get it all done.  I even had a friend over for a sleepover after before she had to go back to the Island, and now I'm packing for a grad trip with my youth group.... BEST WEEKEND EVER.  Grad blues are gonna suck though.  Ugh.  BUT I'M STILL SO HAPPY.  

Here, listen to our grad song to cheer you up too.  They played this after we chucked our hats up and were walking out - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqKa942QtzQ

Let Spring Begin!

I wrote my History test yesterday afternoon!!!!!!  And it went great!!!!!!!!!!!!  I never feel happy after an RCM exam, but I did this time!  I totally messed up on studying..... I studied for a week solid 3 weeks before the exam, and then totally sluffed off for the next 2 weeks.  FAIL.  So, basically, I did a crapload of studying 3 days before the test (don't tell my mom).  But I knew everything on it!!!  There were THREE ten point essays that I had to write for it; they always give you a few choices for each essay, and they had Stravinsky, my main composer, the one I knew the most about, my main opera, Madama Butterfly, and my main concerto, La Primavera :-D  My wrist was sore after that.

And then they asked my about the components of a fugue and sonata form.  ACED.  But in the first question.... terror struck.  There were 6 music scores, and I had to look at them and tell them the name, composer, and some other stuff about 4 of them.  I ONLY KNEW TWO.  So I guessed :-S ('cause it's better to guess and maybe be right, than to leave it blank and get it wrong :-D )  But I was talking to this girl after about it, and I asked what she got for the ones I guessed on.... AND I FREAKING GOT IT RIGHT.  There were a few other questions, which I'm feeling good about.  So I'm expecting an awesome grade on this.

Thank you to everybody I had praying for me!!!!  It payed off :-D

GOOD DANCING SONG :-D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGXD61SapUM&ob=av2e
And this version gives a way cleaner, romantic touch to Teenage Dream, gotta love Tyler Ward - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbgD8l6E-Bs

EDIT - I'd like to point out that I missed out on going to Playland for this exam.  I was very emotionally sore about that.

AWWW SNAP :-D

HOLY COW.  KIHSRDGIVNHLDKJNVOLSIUHOFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Go to google maps and get yourself some directions.  Say you'd like to WALK (very important) from The Shire to Mordor.  READ THE FREAKING EPIC YELLOW BOX THAT COMES UP UNDERNEATH.

You might have heard of this amazing thing before.... but I'm always the last to figure this stuff out, bear with me! Ha :-)  And if you don't get it...... Lord of the Rings marathon, my place, be there :-D  (I guess you could google it, too.  If you want to be lame.)

SONG TIME - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAnoIIGau8g

Confessions and Confidence

I have a dark confession to make.

It's not something I'm proud of, and I'm pretty darn sure that if I'd asked first, I wouldn't have been allowed to. It's taken away from my sleeping, working, and studying hours.  It's consumed my every thought.  It's filled me with anxiety, concern, happiness.....
I, umm.... I might have started watching Degrassi.  LAME, I know!  It's a stupid teenage angst show, all about relationships and who's dating who and blah blah blah..... At first it was just a nice study break!  But one day I started gasping and yelling at the computer screen; I then realized that Houston, we had a problem  :-S  Now I can't stop.  I'm all caught up on the current season, and delving into the archives to find more episodes....  One good thing did come out of it though.  I FOUND MY CONFIDENCE SONG.  You know!  That song that makes you freaking KNOW that you could do anything you need to.  Have an essay (that you haven't started) due in the morning, and it's already 1am?  PIECE OF CAKE, play yo song, man!  I could.... climb walls, tame bears, hike Everest, charm whatever guy I wanted with this song in my back pocket :-P
I owe it all to a Coca-Cola commercial they always play on the site I watch Degrassi on.  It's actually a dubstep song, a genre I wouldn't say was my type, but you just can't help it when you find that one song! hahahaha....

Ta Da!! - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrahGdLCWjU

And, another song that's pretty darn epic, I love orchestral soundtracks for movies and stuff.  This one's from the video game Assassin's Creed - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqjbUR-vum0

In other news!  :-P  My youth group is planning our Grad trip (May 26-27!!!  Seattle here we come :-D ), I GRADUATE on the 24th, and we might have found a new church.  I like it there, and I'm considering going to the youth group next Friday (by myself! :-S )... wish me luck :-)

Back to studying, exam on Friday!  Cross your fingers for me.