Cinderella...

I am a day dreamer. And a crazy night dreamer. Haha. I can't wait until I reach the age where my day dreams come true... hmmm. That'll be some years from now. In the mean time, I have a suiting song with my own comments added.

A dream is a wish your heart makes (and boy do I have a lot)
When you're fast asleep (or wide awake going throughout your average day...)
In dreams you lose your heartaches (but when you're out of the dream they come right back)
Whatever you wish for, you keep (secret? ha, this is where I say screw Cinderella, I'm telling a close friend about it! We always share them. xD)
Have faith in your dreams and someday
Your rainbow will come smiling thru (*sigh* this is what I dream about.... not literally though)
No matter how your heart is grieving (oh boy)
If you keep on believing (I'm a very logical person... gah!)
the dream that you wish will come true. (not soon enough)

:P

Symphony, Pictures, and Talent Show

Last night and this afternoon the Dubuque Youth Symphony Orchestra had the oppertunity to play side by side with the Dubuque Symphony Orchestra. I have to say it was one of the most fun experiences of my cello life so far. I had sooo much fun! Since I'm principle cellist in the youth symphony, I got to be standpartners with the principle cellist in the symphony, and he is so much fun to be with. He'll be my private cello teacher this fall when I start school at Clarke College and I'm really looking forward to it.
But anyway, the Youth Symphony only played one song with them, but it was FANTASTIC. We played Sibelius's Finlandia and it was astonishingly beauitful. I had so much fun playing in the very front and center of a proffesional symphony playing one of classical music's most astounding pieces that actually did change the lives of thousands of people in Euroupe.

I especially for some reason LOVE the part around 4:56 .. it was so perfect when we played it. Along with places like 5:05. Same with 6:11 and of course the familiar melody line in the middle that everybody knows. Cellos and Violins carried the melody.. it was absolutely gorgeous. And of course the whole end is just goosebump causing to listen to and play..

I apologize that the first minute of the video I have is of the conductor talking, you can just skip through it to hear the song, unless you'd like to hear what he has to say about the piece, which is always nice, too. :) And if you're local, a new episode Gary Olsen's Maestro and Me will soon be playing on Channel 19 sporatically throughout the day. Sally was interviewed on it.
Anway, I've definitely decided that playing in the Symphony is something I will be doing sometime in the future. No doubt about it. Not only do I thourougly enjoy playing symphonic music, I love that I can love and enjoy playing it and that others can love and enjoy listening to it. That's what was really different about this concert, people left with smiles on their faces saying how much they enjoyed it, people I don't even know giving me hugs and thanking me and I was so glad because I enjoyed it as much as they did. :) I'm SO excited that the youth symphony might do this again next year. Next year is my last year with the Youth Symphony (freshman in one of the local colleges is the highest school level you can be in to join, unless otherwise requested by the conductor.)
Also, I got my senior portraits taken last week and I will get the proofs sometime this week and the final products possibly this week or next week. I also was accepted into the school talent show on the piano. I'll have somebody in the audience record it with my camera and I'll put it up here afterwards in March. :)

If it ain't one thing...

If it ain't one thing, it's another.

Good grief, this has been a crazy week. You can read the last 2 posts for one huge story (which, update, she's doing much better and is up walking and talking and in a good mood). Then for the last few weeks I've been having some lower left side stomach pain (possibly my crohn's), and now it's spread from being lower left to the entire left side of the abdomen. It's very uncomfortable and makes me bend over to help relieve the pain. On top of it I've developed a really bad sinus infection over a period of 3 days. I can't go to the doctor yet because they don't give me stuff this soon into it.. but we know from experience that this can last for weeks at a time if not taken care of right away.
So I'm very blehhh from that, and on top of all of that, this evening I started breaking out in the hives. And they're baaaad. They're all over my arms, underarms and legs, knees, and they're horrible on the bottom of my feet, my neck, jawline and cheeks are breaking out in them, too. I hope they don't get in my ears. Or any where else for that matter! This is all in a period of like, 2 hours. I have no idea what is giving me this. It could be change in medication. But I have no idea.
Gosh my feet hurt soooooooooo bad. >_<

Good News

My parents came back from the hospital around 11:00 last night. The doctors say that my mom had a huge ovarian cyst and it had burst and she lost a lot of blood at once which is what made her pass out. There was so much blood and fluids they couldn't even see the ovary on the ultra sound. They gave her morphine for the pain and fluids through an IV and she went back to the doctor this morning for another ultra sound to check to see if she had stopped bleeding, which she did. Now she's at home and is resting and will go back for another ultra sound in 2 weeks. They found inflammation in the fallopian tubes, which they say is abnormal after this kind of thing. So we'll be keeping an eye on that.
So summed up, it was a major version of a minor problem with major pain. Over all, compared to what it could have been, it's a minor problem. Just on the heavy end of minor. I'm so glad it's nothing worse, though. Soooo very glad.

Prayers

My mom is very ill at the moment and is at the hospital getting tests done. My dad is with her. She left church early today because she wasn't feeling well. Then she collapsed while climbing up the stairs and blacked out for about 5 seconds this evening. Fortunately my dad was there to catch her. She says she doesn't remember climbing up the stairs or falling down. Please don't be too anxious, I know everything will be ok, she's recieved a blessing (Keith William and Kevin were over), but prayers would be great. Oliver is very upset, the site of my mom was rather scary, she was very pale and couldn't walk well or support herself. He's been crying on and off all evening. Grace is quietly frightened I can tell, she's sad. Sally.. is emotional enough as it is being a 14 year old girl, but this on top certainly doens't help at all. Molly and I are trying to be strong so that our younger siblings don't see that we're nervous as well, and it's very physically and emotionally tiring.
So far what I've heard is that she's had a CAT scan and an Ultra Sound. It'll be a while before they get results.
We'll be fine, if my parents end up needing to stay at the hospital all night, Molly and I are perfectly capable of getting the kids to and from school, along with ourselves (plus, we have excellent neighbors who are always willing to help in emergencies-we've done the same for them). All we really need are prayers. Please.

It's going to be a bugger getting to sleep tonight... :\
I'll put updates up as I get them.