Jus' a post
Today's post is a little long-ish. Here is the cut so your Friends' pages don't get monopolized by my entry.
So yesterday was some kinda day. It was an Ignition Day so we had practice scheduled from 8:30 to 12:30. John, LC, and I went to get McDonalds, as usual, then went to The Shack. Nobody else was there (save the Shack Lady)... So we waited aorund... LH, Nicole, Maria, and Jana arrived around nine but our fearless instructors were still missing in action. So John calls Heath up and tells him that we're here and asks him what's up. John actually woke Heath up. (I wonder how long it would have been if John hadn't called.) Practice "started" around 9:30 when we sat in a circle and talked for abotu 10 mins about what would be happening at the competition today. The rest of practice went alright, save the fact that one of the girls in guard received some bad news on the phone during practice. I won't say what happened because that's none of my business to divulge. But I will say that if I were in her shoes, I don't know for sure if I would have been able to still stay in practice and go to the competition.
So after that we had like 2 hours in between to kill. LC, John, Jana, Nicole, and I went to Towers Eatery and had Brunch with Wolf, Brandy, and Willow. We had to eat and leave b/c we were on a schedule. So we all go over to Heath's apartment and pile into the cars of Heath, LH, and Denzel and then we were off. The ride up wasn't bad. Me and LC were in Denzel's car, John, Maria, and Nicole were in LH's car, and Danielle and Heath were in his car. We in Denzel's car ended up blazing ahead cuz we thought LH's car was way ahead. We were wrong and LH, being the little speed demon she is, caught up with us. It was funny.
So we arrive at the competition... first off, I didn't bring any bobby pins, nor did I bring a towel. So I had to use Jana's blonde-colored pins and LC's sweatshirt. While we were getting ready, Danielle looks over at LH and says with wide eyes, "Did you get the headdress?" and LH says "No... Heath should have it." "Heath...? Do you have the headdress?" and Heath's eyes widen and his jaw drops. *facepalm* "Ok, ok, no problem.. We'll just do it without the headdress." Another thing that contributed to make this competition special was that we didn't have enough white foundation so we just used the eye and lip makeup. Fun times. On the bright side, we could scratch our faces all we wanted w/out having to worry about smudging makeup. :-D
Now, as if this all wasn't enough to make this show unforgettable... We were on the floor, performing, and we come up to the hold/standstill work with the orange flags. This is usually the section that gains us some points. It usually is solid and it's the part the audience usually likes the most. So we hit the standstill work and... The music begins to skip, faster and faster... then the music cuts out. x_X! After they cut the music, we started counting counts out loud and we finished together. The crowd roared when we finished. I remember last year there was a group whose music got messed up. The started counting all together and it was amazing. I hope that is the kind of effect we had on the audience.
So that was that. The judges said they'd take the technical difficulties into consideration. -_-" We ended up getting a 68. :- [P I had a lot of flubs before the music crapped out so I wasn't especially incensed. So we all pile back into the cars and headed home. There was snow on and off and by the time we got home (midnight) I was pooped!
Luckily, I got to call Ryan afterwards. I was so tired but it's nice to hear him anyway. I get to go up to see him in *checks calendar* {{Wow... It is just now I realized that it was Sunday today. I thought it was Monday and I was thinking that I was skipping class to work on this Science Fiction paper. Yay for Sundays!}} 12 days! ^_^ That makes me happy. It sucks that I can't see him more than like once every five weeks. Hopefully things'll change once Winter Guard's over and once one of us finds a secure way to get from his school to mine. *hopes* It's hard because I only know what he tells me is going on or whatever I can extrapolate from his IM's, phone calls, and LJ entries. It's hard to know if something's wrong that I can fix or help him with. I would so love to hug and just lie with him in bed right now...*huggles in mind* *sigh* ... twelve days, twelve days... : )
Alrighty, I'm going to go either eat, try to call Ryan again, clean my room, work on my paper, or crochet for a bit. Пока!
-Misha
=^^= ~~
So yesterday was some kinda day. It was an Ignition Day so we had practice scheduled from 8:30 to 12:30. John, LC, and I went to get McDonalds, as usual, then went to The Shack. Nobody else was there (save the Shack Lady)... So we waited aorund... LH, Nicole, Maria, and Jana arrived around nine but our fearless instructors were still missing in action. So John calls Heath up and tells him that we're here and asks him what's up. John actually woke Heath up. (I wonder how long it would have been if John hadn't called.) Practice "started" around 9:30 when we sat in a circle and talked for abotu 10 mins about what would be happening at the competition today. The rest of practice went alright, save the fact that one of the girls in guard received some bad news on the phone during practice. I won't say what happened because that's none of my business to divulge. But I will say that if I were in her shoes, I don't know for sure if I would have been able to still stay in practice and go to the competition.
So after that we had like 2 hours in between to kill. LC, John, Jana, Nicole, and I went to Towers Eatery and had Brunch with Wolf, Brandy, and Willow. We had to eat and leave b/c we were on a schedule. So we all go over to Heath's apartment and pile into the cars of Heath, LH, and Denzel and then we were off. The ride up wasn't bad. Me and LC were in Denzel's car, John, Maria, and Nicole were in LH's car, and Danielle and Heath were in his car. We in Denzel's car ended up blazing ahead cuz we thought LH's car was way ahead. We were wrong and LH, being the little speed demon she is, caught up with us. It was funny.
So we arrive at the competition... first off, I didn't bring any bobby pins, nor did I bring a towel. So I had to use Jana's blonde-colored pins and LC's sweatshirt. While we were getting ready, Danielle looks over at LH and says with wide eyes, "Did you get the headdress?" and LH says "No... Heath should have it." "Heath...? Do you have the headdress?" and Heath's eyes widen and his jaw drops. *facepalm* "Ok, ok, no problem.. We'll just do it without the headdress." Another thing that contributed to make this competition special was that we didn't have enough white foundation so we just used the eye and lip makeup. Fun times. On the bright side, we could scratch our faces all we wanted w/out having to worry about smudging makeup. :-D
Now, as if this all wasn't enough to make this show unforgettable... We were on the floor, performing, and we come up to the hold/standstill work with the orange flags. This is usually the section that gains us some points. It usually is solid and it's the part the audience usually likes the most. So we hit the standstill work and... The music begins to skip, faster and faster... then the music cuts out. x_X! After they cut the music, we started counting counts out loud and we finished together. The crowd roared when we finished. I remember last year there was a group whose music got messed up. The started counting all together and it was amazing. I hope that is the kind of effect we had on the audience.
So that was that. The judges said they'd take the technical difficulties into consideration. -_-" We ended up getting a 68. :- [P I had a lot of flubs before the music crapped out so I wasn't especially incensed. So we all pile back into the cars and headed home. There was snow on and off and by the time we got home (midnight) I was pooped!
Luckily, I got to call Ryan afterwards. I was so tired but it's nice to hear him anyway. I get to go up to see him in *checks calendar* {{Wow... It is just now I realized that it was Sunday today. I thought it was Monday and I was thinking that I was skipping class to work on this Science Fiction paper. Yay for Sundays!}} 12 days! ^_^ That makes me happy. It sucks that I can't see him more than like once every five weeks. Hopefully things'll change once Winter Guard's over and once one of us finds a secure way to get from his school to mine. *hopes* It's hard because I only know what he tells me is going on or whatever I can extrapolate from his IM's, phone calls, and LJ entries. It's hard to know if something's wrong that I can fix or help him with. I would so love to hug and just lie with him in bed right now...*huggles in mind* *sigh* ... twelve days, twelve days... : )
Alrighty, I'm going to go either eat, try to call Ryan again, clean my room, work on my paper, or crochet for a bit. Пока!
-Misha
=^^= ~~