hoodies and cold piccolos

Hi hi.

My fingers are cold as I type this. Yes, fellow curly fries and members of the curly fry army, colder weather has set in for the past little while. I kind of like the colder weather, since hoodies are like one of my favorite things ever. But with the cold come sadface things, like out of tune piccolos covered in frost and audition+try-out season.

Buuuuut try-outs and auditions are nearly over :]

Momo and I made it into the band we auditioned for!! Gah, exciting. And Virgil (who was in the group last year 'cause she's so swag) made third chair, which is practically second chair, since there are two co-first chairs. Yayyy!

Coming up this week are auditions for the second band, which Carrie's auditioning for. We send her the best of luck :) {She's gonna be brilliant, no worries there.}

Our lovely three hundred and something person marching band is continuing to improve at a very lovely pace, as is the JV soccer team. The flute squad slants look straight and wonderful, and more and more teammates are learning the wonderful benefits of ~~*passing*~~ the ball.

*sigh* my life has deteriorated to school (daytime), soccer (after school), and music (the weekends).

Hope you're all well. (And that xiy's mouth doesn't hurt too much! :( )

With all due respect,
House.

{Oh. whoops, forgot a title}

Hewwo dere. 

It be is Saturday! 

Soooo today, what did I do? 

I woke up, then I gave a short flute lesson to my cousin, then I did some homework, and THEN I went to my friend's birthday party :) 

It was really fun. 
There were some chickens there too. It was crazy.  There's not supposed to be chickens roaming around where the Curly Fries live! D: And they were sick too. :( It was sad. 


I saw Momo today too! That was surprising. But it was because her sister was at the party I was at. But I was still happy to see her! :D 


okay. Well, I'mma go. 
Bai! 


DFTBA!♥ 


Smiles, hugs, and lots of love,
Carrie

so it looks like it's finally fall.

I think fall has officially arrived in Curlyfryland, in the form of chilly walks to school (how much am I looking forward to walking to Greek on Tuesday? not. at. all.) and the sudden necessity of wearing jackets while doing so. Also, it involves lots of tea and sickness and leaves turning pretty colors. I saw a few really pretty pinky-red leaves today on the ground, which is a nice change from the standard year-round clutter of dead brownish ones.

Today we were supposed to watch the movie/musical 1776 after school for APUSH extra credit, but technical difficulties prevented us doing so. Lynda borrowed the DVD from APUSH Teacher #1-of-4 and Momo graciously invited us (us being Lynda, House, and me) to go over to her house to watch. It was pretty interesting, even though we didn't get to finish because then the band people had to go to a marching band game.

Speaking of band, I hear Momo and House did very well in their band auditions; I KNEW YOU COULD DO IT; CONGRATULATIONS. <3 <3 <3


I have to get four of my teeth viciously yanked out tomorrow. D: I am not looking forward to it. Like, I'm going to have to walk around with four great big gaps in my teeth for months. It's going to look so stupid. Urghhhh. (Thank goodness today was school-picture-day [though, of course, picture day is nothing to look forward to] and not, like, next Friday or something.) And it's going to hurtttttttt and I don't like painnnnnnnnn and it's so unecessaryyyyyyyy and I don't like painnnn and it's going to hurt. D: D: D:


On a happier note, I got Photoshop last week and it is BEAUTIFUL. There are still some things I like better about Gimp (like how in Gimp you can press ctrl-z indefinitely to undo as many mistakes as you want, but in Photoshop you need to press ctrl-alt-z to undo more than one step, which is annoying), but over all Photoshop is awesomer.

Speaking of APUSH, here's a King George III.

And now I'm working on Carrie's birthday banner. It involves cake. ^.^

Annnnnd that's pretty much it. 


xiy

Stress...and Girly-ness

Hey all!


So, yes, the title of the post is "Stress..." and something else, we'll get to  that in a second. Yes, you see, today at lunch, a friend of mine asked me if I was stressed yet, and I thought: "No...not really" Then Momo kindly pointed out that I was freaking out about a couple of things, and I was sort of saying "NO! I'm not stressed, I'm not stressed at all" in a very nervous "STRESSFUL" way.


Hmm. 


So I guess I am stressed. I dunno. I do know that if I don't get a weekend to just relax and sleep away, I'm pretty sure I'll collapse somewhere in the dark corners of our highschool...not a fun thought. 


Well. It certainly can't be this weekend, I have a regatta >.< First regatta of the season. I'm quite excited. I didn't row much in Fall season last year, because our coach...I think she had something against me, because she only let me row in about 2 races the whole season. Hmph. Oh well, now I have a new lovely dear coach, and he makes everyone row at every regatta! Hooray! Even better, this regatta is only 3.5K instead of the usual Fall 5K races...


And somehow, all this stress and lack of sleep and neck pain (oh, did I mention that my neck feels like it has a perpetual crick? Grrr) has led me to want to become girly....weird. Not full out "PINK FLUFFY UNICORNS! AHHHH" girly, merely, "maybe I should curl my hair...?" sort of girly....


Anyways, this post was going to be longer, but my computer time is up, and grrrrrr I dislike this time thing!!!


So, House, if you read this before tomorrow, please be proud that I may curl my hair....


Luv,
Lynda

sleepyyy

Hey, guys.

It's my bedtime soon. Very very very soon. So this should be a relatively short post sorry sorry sorry.

Every year, my grandparents bring my mum (and me/dad, if we're in town) out to this annual clam bake thing. I spent most of my day there. I'm pretty sure you guys have heard me whine about this before... it's that event totally perfect for me. As a vegetarian, I don't get to enjoy the main feature of the meal, the (allegedly overcooked) clams. I usually just to make sure to eat beforehand. Besides clams and food and more food, ~~Elvis*~~ (this is the color of the gems on his bling he was wearing today) made a very special guest appearance. I've never been much of a fan of people who dress up as other... things {see Disney World terrors}. Or being singled out of a large crowd of people I don't know. Or the music of Elvis being played really really really loudly.
Haha, but my mum really likes the event, which I suppose is what counts, right?


Anyway, once I got home, I spent forever practicing audition music.
Coming up are those gosh darn wind ensemble auditions for our school... gghaghaghhrh. Music. So much music. And it has sixteenth notes that need to go at 152 bpm x.x [Which coincidentally is usually around what my heartbeat sounds like when I'm going into the audition.] Flute auditions are Tuesday. omg. Tuesday. auditions.are.Tuesday.

Hope you guys had a good Sunday and didn't have to spend too much of it terribly saddened over mourning the 9/11 attacks :c

With all due respect,
House.

P.S. that's such a sad note to end on, sorry >.<" did any of you watch the US Tennis Open finals today? Samantha Stosur won, which is pretty swag. alright, goodnight~~~

(*not really Elvis [though he def.  had the outfit])

woooooaaahhhh!

Hi. 

Happy Saturday. :) 

Let's see heeeeere... what did Carrie do today? 
Well, I woke up. Then, I had to attend the pep band game for my school against this private school. The weather was really weird today. It was like raining, and then it became all sunny and hot. I didn't really like it. Weather needs to stop being so indecisive. Gr. :( But then after the game I went to Eggr's house for like an hour. That was fun. :) Now I'm just chilling at home, facebook, and watching Chicago (finally!). :D 

This has been a very nice day. ^_^ 

Yay! 6LCF book club starts on Monday! :D 

Umm... I'm getting too sidetracked from this. Sowwy. :c  
k.bai!

DFTBA!♥ 

Smiles, hugs, and lots of love, 
Carrie

hooray for fridays!

Today there was supposed to be a fencing tournament and Momo, Virgil, and I were going to attend (and get soundly beaten by the eleven-year-olds, probably), but then it turned out to be an epee tournament (and for those who don't know, epee involves a slightly larger weapon and a larger target area and is generally far scarier than good ol' foil), and none of us know how to fence epee. And so we chose to stay safely at home instead of getting beaten by the adults who are apparently attending, because if there's anything worse than a scary fencing eleven-year-old, it's a scary fencing adult.


Speaking of fencing, I read a book called Foiled about a week ago that talked about fencing. It was kind of interesting to see what a legit fencer's life is like, though the plot got all muddy and strange about three-quarters of the way through, and it wasn't really developed properly. I don't know if there's supposed to be a sequel or if it was just because it was a graphic novel and there was some sort of restraint on length, but the plot was very badly explained toward the end. The drawing style was very good, though. And some of the double-page illustrations were really beautiful.

Also, I'm really tired. Today wasn't even a Greek day (and I fell asleep at ~10:30 last night too, which, all things considered, is fantastically early), but I woke up tired and the biology test didn't help at all, though I'm cautiously hoping that I didn't do too badly. 

And I really should be doing homework right now, but since I came home I've basically just been sitting around at home, eating and reading Agatha Christie. I really must have no life. (Agatha Christie is lovely, though. I'm reading The Mirror Crack'd at the moment, in a four-in-one Miss Marple Meets Murder book.)


The start of NHD is looming up rather scarily already, even though it's not completely due until January. APUSH Teacher is hinting pretty heavily that any boards (should we choose that option) are going to need to be MUSEUM QUALITY!11!1! and nothing less, which, uh, considering the state of last year's Robespierre board, might be rather difficult. But House and I are hoping for the best. :)


I was going to say something but then I forgot what I was going to say, and now I can't think of anything remotely interesting and so I guess I'll end it here. Or something.


I WILL TRY TO DRAW SOMETHING AND POST IT NEXT WEEK TO MAKE MY POST ACTUALLY INTERESTING. I WILL TRY.


xiy