Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!

Seussical the Musical will be presented at Dubuque Senior High on Friday and Saturday March 13th and 14th at 7:30 and Sunday March 15th in the Auditorium. And the songs for this musical will be stuck in my head for the rest of my life.

We ripped up carpet upstairs, sanded down the original 100 year old wood and we are now in the process of staining it. A nice rich dark brown. It's beautiful.

I'm going to NYC at the end of this month for a school music trip. I am SO excited, I'm beyond excited, I'm nuts. We'll be doing a music competition, followed by a tour of the city (Ground 0, Top of the Empire State building, Time Square, Wall Street, etc). And then the grand finale. March 28th, Saturday Night, I will be in NYC on Broadway watching The Lion King. I am so stinking excited, it makes me tired. Then, the next morning we have cheap tickets to see Hair and/or Stomp. I'm definitely going to see Stomp. That will be soooooooooooooooooooo cool. I am so excited, only a slight taste of my excitement can be expressed on the internet. Seriously. Even these ! don't do enough.

Of course, this whole thing is surrounded by BUSY-NESS. I am so busy, if you ever want to hang out, I can probably book you for sometime in, oh... April, maybe May. August is your best shot, though. :P I have the musical pit orchestra rehearsal all next week, this weekend I have conference calls and babysitting plus pit rehearsal. Once the musical's done, I have a concert, a college audition, the talent show. Then the NEXT week I have ANOTHER concert and then we leave for the trip to NYC. The day I come back I'm competing in a Concerto Competition, playing a part of a concerto by Saint Seans. Here's a recording: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib9s5LunvFI&feature=related. If I win and get to perform it, it'll be with an orchestra instead of piano.

I must go to bed.

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next day.
In April, there is the Tri-II Festival. And State Solo and Ensemble Competition. And that's also the month I need to complete my online history class if I want to graduate on May 31st with the rest of my class. :o I can do it, though. It's a pretty easy class. In May... *sigh* I have to hope and pray for a miracle that I might get asked to prom by somebody who would be worth going to prom with. I certainly don't know who to ask when the time comes, and I don't have any money coming in soon, either. Plus, I did the asking to both homecoming AND prom last year. I already have a dress... a gorgeous beautiful dress that I would just love to wear to prom. Buuut I don't have anybody to wear it with. :\ Maybe I'll get lucky.
And maybe a stampede of wild African Elephants will come running down my street.

On top of all of this, I'm having some issues with what is probably my crohn's disease. It's very painful in one certain spot and is causing some complications. Possibly more information will come, if and when it comes. Hopefully no information will have to come and it will just be healed with medication and a miracle. Which is all completely possible. :)