well, i just got back from my clarinet lesson. it went okay, but, as i suspected, my old teacher taught me the alternate fingerings for E and F so i hafta relearn how to finger those notes. i'm kinda proud, though, cuz i've got to get 3 and 3 1/2 reads (the numbers are for how thick/hard the reeds are) and that's a lot higher than i've used. so that's sorta cool. the guy's really nice, so i hope i'll learn a lot before band camp...

well, this won't mean a thing to any of you, but i rode Ivy on friday and i actually jumped her!! even a line!! and i didn't fall off!! so i'm pretty happy about that, and cheryls says she likes me on her (wow!) so i guess i'll be risking my life every friday for a couple months now...(ivy's a crazy, crazy animal...not many people ride her cuz she's been extra phsycho lately...) so yeah. i survived!!

i'm working horse camp starting tomorrow, shud be fun. i like helping out all the kids. plus i just get to be around the horses. :0D maybe i'll get to hack Ivy around cuz they won't be using her in camp...

well here's what's coming up in my oh-so-busy coughNOTcough life: i'll be working at the barn from like 9-1ish and then commin home to do nothing monday-thursday (except i'll probably have a clarinet lesson on thursday) and then thursday evening i'm going to my dad's new house. friday (the 4th) were gonna go walk around some block party with his friends, i guess, and then up to shoreline for fireworks. then i'll go to the saturday matinee of Urinetown in the city and race back home afterwards to pack for camp unique. i arrive at camp on sunday at 10, and won't be back for two weeks!! i'm very excited about this; camp rocks!! and ali, nicole, and i are gonna be CILT's so maybe we'll actually have ppl do dance with at the dance!! hehe...sorta sucked dancing with lil 9 year old's last year...ha.

well i'll most likely post again before then, but in case i don't, there's the lowdown on my life for a while. hope you're all having a great summer!!

kissing
i need to kiss someone. no one in particular, i just want to kiss. i wanna learn how to french kiss too. that might be fun. *smiles* heh. don't know what's gotten into me but uhhh yeah. i wanna kiss someone. anyone wanna give me lessons? haha...

wicked
warining: don't read this if you are going to go see wicked and/or don't want to know all about it. it's a waste of your time if you don't care. *but there's a short lil normal entry at the bottom so it's not ALL wicked stuff*

o and btw this is all copied directly from an e-mail to nicole so nicole, don't read this cuz u already have. ;-)

okay, the lowdown on wicked. first of all: IT WAS SOOOOO GOOOD!!!! omg it
was just so cool. glinda was played by the woman who was marian in the
music man on tv. so she sounded good. well like exactly how she sounded in
the music man. elphaba (the wicked witch of the west who is like the lead)
was played by this woman who sounded sort of like neev. so for her first
solo song i was like 'omg this is bad. she sounds like neev. get her away
from me!' but after that she sorta got better. they were both amazing tho.
so here's the story. (well, an abridged and shortened version of it)

it starts out with everyone singing a song called 'no one mourns for the
wicked' and cheering cuz the wicked witch of the west is dead. then right
before glinda is about to leave on her bubble thing (it was cool, they had a
thing that carried her around like high on the stage that was a circle and
had bubbles coming out of it) someone askes her if it's true that she was
once friends with the wicked witch. she says yes, and we go back in time to
see how it all started.

so they met at college because they were roomates. it turned out this way
because glinda, the rich, beautiful, popular girl that is just perfect, says
that she has a suite but everyone is invited to visit her whenever they
want. elphaba and her sister, nessarose, who is in a wheelchair, don't have
room assignments so the headmaster invites nessarose to share her dorm (cuz
she has special needs cuz she's in a wheelchair) and elphaba is to room with
glinda cuz she already said that she wud share her suite with anyone.
elphaba is unhappy about this cuz she wants to care for nessarose but
nessarose is embarassed of her (cuz she's dorky and has green skin and
dresses weird) so she agrees to stay with the headmaster. o yeah, the
headmaster's name is madame morrible. sooo they sing this whole song about
how they hate each other (glinda and elphaba) and how they'll always hate
each other. and the whole school chimes in and sings about hating elphaba
cuz she's weird.

well then something happens cuz elphaba gets upset (like magical weird
happenings) and the madame morrible sees that she has powers and offers to
tutor her on her own. (much to the dismay of glinda who came to the school
to do just that: be tutored privately by madame morrible in sorcery.)

well then they're in history class and their teacher a goat and is talking
about how all over Oz animals are losing their ability to speak and it's
scary cuz he's a goat. and then he gets mad cuz someone wrote in red paint
'animals are to be seen, not heard' on his chalkboard and dismisses the
class. elphaba is really concerned and sings a song with him called 'bad
things are happening.'

then, a new guy comes. a very very hot new guy who glinda falls in love
with. he sings this whole song about 'where's the party at?' and decides
that people have no fun around there and invites everyone to this party.
he's like a rebel kid who's gotten kicked out of a lot of schools and stuff.

so they go the party and glinda is presented with a 'training wand' given to
her by elphaba because...o yeah she gets nessarose a date to the party and
convinces madame morrible to tutor her too. so then elphaba shows up looking
weird and wearing this ugly witch hat that glinda gave to her and dancing
weird. glinda starts copying her dancing (cuz she feels she owes her one)
and soon everyone is dancing again. that night, glinda tries to bond with
elphaba by telling her a secret and then getting elphaba to tell her one.
glinda's secret is that she and the hot guy (i forget his name) are going to
be married. elphaba's like 'wow. he's asked you already?' and she's like
'no, he doesn't know yet.' haha. so elphaba's secret is that it's her fault
that nessarose is in a wheelchair. her mom drank this green potion when she
was carrying elphaba and that caused elphaba to be born with green skin. so
for their next child, she drank this herbal tea stuff to make sure that
nessarose didn't turn out green too. but that caused nessarose to be born
prematurely and to have her legs deformed so that's why she's in the chair.

so after this 'bonding', glinda decides to make elphaba popular and sings
this whole song about being popular and how she can make anyone popular and
tells her to wear these black, pointy toed boots. (so to help you
understand, elphaba's gone from normal-ish to wearing a pointy witch hat and
black pointy-toed boots. see the transformation?)

the next day everyone is wearing black and mourning the death of the goat
teacher. elphaba is especially sad, but so is glinda because her hot
boyfriend seems 'so distant'. (this is because he loves elphaba.) so glinda
decides to say a few words in the memory of the goat. the major thing she
says (and i didn't say this before) is that she will change her name to
glinda because that's how the professor always said it. (it was pronounced
ga-linda before).

well then madame morrible comes and shows elphaba a letter from the wizard
who wants to see her. elphaba is ecstatic and takes glinda with her to
emerald city to see the wizard. he turns out to be the same fraud as in the
wizard of oz, and can't do magic, but he has this magic spell book that's
really dangerous because if you pronounce the words wrong u mess up the
spell and u can never undo a spell once you've said it. elphaba has 'the
gift' and can read the book. her first spell makes all of the monkies grow
wings and be able to fly. (thus her friends are the winged monkies)

well then somehow all of Oz is mad at her for making the monkies have wings
and they're all out to get her and even madame morrible is telling the city
that she's wicked and needs to be caught. (i didn't really get this part
cuz they weren't mad about the monkies when she was with the wizard...)

well anyway elphaba and glinda go into hiding. it's cold, so glinda gives
elphaba a black cape (haha) to wear. so now she looks like the wicked witch
of the west. well elphaba gets really mad because all she ever wanted to do
was help people and it's all gone wrong and she's going to defy gravity and
fly. so she sings a song 'defying gravity' and uses the same flying spell
on herself. the broom that she barracaded the door with hovers and flies so
she takes the broom and flies away.

INTERMISSION (sheesh, so much for making this short)

ok so glinda's back in Oz and announcing to the world that she's going to be
married to Fiyero (that's the name of the hot dude, i just looked it up)
much to Fiyero's surprise. he doesn't love Glinda, so this isn't the
coolest thing for him.

back in munchkin land, nessarose is being evil and taking away munchkin
rights with boq (another guy who was in love with glinda but was told by
glinda to serve nessarose). boq gets news of glinda and fieryo's engagement
and wants to stop glinda from marrying fiyero cuz he loves her. (o and
elphaba appears and askes nessarose if she can hide with her so she's there)
well nessarose gets hella pissed cuz she loves boq and takes elphaba's book
and starts mispronouncing a spell. she wants to do a spell to make boq love
her, but ends up shrinking his heart. elphaba takes him away and puts
another spell on him and when nessarose asks how is heart is elphaba says
'he's fine, just sleeping now. he won't need a heart now anyway' but then
he wakes up and he's the tinman!! hehehe. pretty cool huh?

*o and i just remembered. after the goat was gone, another professor came
and tried to show them how to do the operation to make animals not able to
speak but elphaba gets angry and everyone starts acting weird so she takes
the lion cub that was supposed to be operated on and leaves with Fiyero, who
was the only one not affected by her spell. so anyway she and Fieryo go and
try to figure out what to do with the lion and they realize that they love
each other. heh. so there's the lion. (i'm assuming.)*

well anyway, Fiyero's the head of the people searching for Elphaba and finds
her when no one else is around. they go away into the woods and do their
own little version of 'moments in the woods'. well the song's called 'as
long as you're mine' but they do the whole kissy thing and yeah. it was such
a sexy scene omg the guy was sooo hot!!

hmmm...according to the program it says that the next song is 'no good deed'
which is when she turns evil. nevermind the part about her turning evil in
the first act. she doesn't. she just flies away, i guess. well now she
turns evil because all she's tried to do is help people and all she's done
is hurt them, so she vows never to do another good deed.

Well now everyone's looking for her cuz she's wicked and yeah. with Fiyero
in the lead, (cuz he's like head of the ppl trying to find her) they find
her. before they can hurt her, fiyero tells them to stop and let her go.
they let her go, but take him and are going to kill him. elphaba runs away
to her castle (one of Fiyero's castles that has guards all around it; he was
some prince of somethingorother and that's how she got a place to stay) and
does a spell to make sure that no harm comes to fiyero. it goes something
like 'let no bones break, let him feel no pain, yadda yadda yadda.'

while they are trying to figure out how to capture elphaba, glinda confesses
that her only weakness is that she loves her sister dearly, so they should
start a rumor that she is hurt and elphaba will come to her aid.
consequently, madame morrible (who's specialty is weather) conjures up a
terrible cyclone and lands dorothy's house on nessarose (who was taking away
munchkin rights, remember? so she's aka the wicked witch of the east).

well elphaba gets away or something and ends up 'melting' in her castle.
everyone does a reprise of 'no one mourns for the wicked' and it seems like
she's dead and everythings come full-circle right? wrong. in the very end,
a scarecrow taps on a trap door and elphaba comes out. the scarecrow's like
'hey, it worked!' and elphaba's like 'omg...fiyero?' and he's like 'yeah'.
(so the spell that caused him to feel no pain and break no bones turned him
into a scarecrow...haha) and that's the end.

sooooo...that was a pretty long 'short recap' of the play, but i think
you've got most of the details.

o and just to make this entry about something OTHER than wicked, i just found this really neat button that i can click that clears my screen completely. good for those HOLY SHIT MY MOM'S IN THE ROOM moments. hehe... :0D

o and i visited my dad's new townhouse today. it was sorta cool, but mostly boring.

o there was this cool thing in the theatre that wicked was in. there were lil tv's right behind me (i was sitting near the front...dunno how we got that good of tickets) that showed the conductor's face and baton and stuff. i guess it's so the actors could see...pretty damn cool, i say!! plus the conductor was sorta hot...;-) not nearly as hot as the guy playing Fiyero..mannn that guy was hot.

well speaking of hot, it is very very very hot today. mom and brian are in the pool but for 'reasons' i'll just stay online....

hmmm
ya know, i'm not sure about andrew. it really isn't the best time to have a crush on someone. i mean, the summer before high school? there are gonna be SOOO many hotties next year! ooo i wonder if gabe's gonna do marching band...ooo that would be soo cool! ahhh it wud be nice to hang with my drummer boy. hehe. o nicky too... see? it's just not the time. and i'm just getting my hopes up for nothing. i shud just assume that annie and christina are right, that he's just not interested in girls yet. well idk. watch me change my mind tomorrow. haha that's me.

had a voice lesson yesterday. mr. troll is soo insulting and i don't think he has any idea what he's saying. so i just sort of look at him feeling amused and hurt at the same time. it's okay. it was just sort of dreadful because i'm singing 'i cain't say no' and he's trying to 'get me out of my shell' and 'have fun with it'. let's just say he kept asking if i was normally a shy person. i am SO unlike ado annie. and i just feel really stupid doing the whole oklahoman accent shit. i'd really do better if i was singing adelaide's lament. at least i can relate to the song.

well anyway i've just been hanging out. currently i'm praying that brian's dad doesn't call, cuz he's coming over and brian isn't here. brian just left with 'o, if my dad calls and he's looking for the house, he's on his cell so just step outside and wave a bit.' isn't that nice? yeah, well brian said he'd be gone half an hour and it's been 15 minutes so maybe his dad won't show till he gets back. i hope...

*sigh*
last night i checked the invocation calender. andrew was on for last sunday. well, i guess my mom was right. he probably asked me if i was around to see if i cud fill in for him. :0( o well. i shudnt've got my hopes up. i am gonna be sooo bored this week. it needs to be next tuesday so i can have something to do.

oregon
i just got back from oregon. intresting experience.

mostly boring. drove around and looked at a japanese garden (yawn) and went on a 2 hour jet boat ride. sorta cool. spent like a whole day shopping. pretty much a disaster. i was with their 20 year old daughter. she's really nice but it was just really boring.

hardly saw brian, their son that's gonna be a senior in the fall. my mom said i had a funny look on my face when he came in and sat down one day for breakfast. hey its not my fault! it was hella awkward! he's gonna be a senior, is so talented with music that he's sung in youth operas and shit and he's gonna TEACH the freshman treble group at his highschool this year. he's also constantly in the school plays and getting leads. i mean, if we weren't family friends and shit, and if he didn't spend every waking hour with his girlfriend (why we didn't see much of him) he wud be like TOTALY desirable! and we used to be like buddy buddy and shit, so you can't blame me for having a funny look on my face! especially cuz my mom was talkin about him and his gf and tellin me that they always thought that he and i wud get married. HOW CAN THAT NOT BE WEIRD??

while there i finished harry potter and the sorceror's stone and started/finished in one day the chamber of secrets. i have the 5th book, but i'm determined to reread them all. i'm currently like 120 pages into the 3rd. I WANNA KNOW WHO DIES!! AHHHH!!

gonna go see 'wicked' on friday. reviewers didn't like it, but how often do u get to see a show that's only around for like a month before it goes on broadway? it shud be fun. i mean, it's stephen schwartz...it can't be that bad!!

until then, though, i'm doing nothing. so call or whatever. i tend to get very lazy when i don't have anything planned though, and might be relunctant to actually get dressed, but i'll be glad to do somethin if u call me.

yay!
don't u just love that feeling when happiness like washes over you? well i'm happy.

just got a postcard from nicole. its sooo hilarious. i got a whole episode of 'days of counting sheep's lives'. it was sooo dramatic when sheep #95 started moving. wow. lmao.

well i'm leaving for portland tomorrow to see family friends. shud be fun. i think i'll be there four days but i never ask about anything so i'm not sure...:0D o well that's just me.

i'm back
thank the lord. i was soooo eager to be back home. and now i'm sort of excited cuz day after tomorrow i'm going to oregon to see the gundells. it's funny, i used to hate seeing them, but now it's sorta nice. i wish brian (mom's boyfriend) wasn't going tho. it'll be hella awkward, just like everything with him. maybe i can bitch about him to sara and brian. it'll mainly suck for brian cuz he really liked my dad. *sigh*

well i'm sick of pretending that i had a good time in las vegas too. and dad was like 'yeah we had a great time' like he really meant it. whatever. it was boring. and now i'm back. if any of u are wondering, my dad STILL looks ugly without his beard.

i was remembering stuff in the plane and in the car. it was kinda fun. mostly church stuff tho, cuz i was thinkin of andrew.

one of my memories is eating dinner next to ruthie and across from thomas, andrew across from ruthie, and thomas kept kicking me under the table and looking away. hehe, good times. it made me smile.

another was just recalling the best thing i've ever heard andrew say: 'or, remember when melissa took off her pants'. long story. but the most memorable flirting he's done.

okay well that's enough memories for now. i'll write more later as i think of them, i guess.

i'm back
thank the lord. i was soooo eager to be back home. and now i'm sort of excited cuz day after tomorrow i'm going to oregon to see the gundells. it's funny, i used to hate seeing them, but now it's sorta nice. i wish brian wasn't going tho. it'll be hella awkward, just like everything with him. maybe i can bitch about him to sara and brian. it'll mainly suck for brian cuz he really liked my dad. *sigh*

well i'm sick of pretending that i had a good time in las vegas too. and dad was like 'yeah we had a great time' like he really meant it. whatever. it was boring. and now i'm back. if any of u are wondering, my dad STILL looks ugly without his beard.

i was remembering stuff in the plane and in the car. it was kinda fun. mostly church stuff tho, cuz i was thinkin of andrew.

nicole, ur gonna hate me for this, but one of my memories is eating dinner next to ruthie and across from thomas, andrew across from ruthie, and thomas kept kicking me under the table and looking away. it made me smile.

another was just recalling the best thing i've ever heard andrew say: 'or, remember when melissa took off her pants'. long story. but the most memorable flirting he's done.

okay well that's enough memories for now. i'll write more later as i think of them, i guess.