words you want to hear
my piano recital was last night.
i messed up! but it's okay.
Sunshine and Madison picked me up before the concert and we went to Wegman's. I wanted to pick up some flowers for the Bevilacqua girls (if it weren't for them, I probably wouldn't have been so inspired to take lessons) who were also playing last night. My mom and dad always used to give me flowers after recitals so I wanted to do that for them.
I was nervous. I'm pretty great at doing that. Even when I reminded myself that it was MY idea to do the recital, because I thought it would be cute, it still didn't make things better. My hands were really cold, too. Madison kept trying to warm them up by holding them in her own hands. She even wrapped them in my sweater.
The weird thing about the performance was that I wasn't nervous about playing in front of people...I just knew that I was going to mess up and was anticipating the mess up. That probably doesn't make sense. It didn't make things any better that not only was Sunshine video taping it for my mom and dad but Mrs. Bevilacqua was recording me as well. and Madison and Michelle were taking pictures.
SO I did forget what I was doing in the middle but I got it figured out and ended it well. The nice part was that four of my friends had shown up without me knowing it...so when I was done, there was a HUGE sound from the audience. I laughed and looked out to see my friends waving their hands and the people in front of them looking behind them to see what the big deal was.
Sunshine and Madison gave me flowers. My favorite kind of flowers, to be exact. Then we all went to a diner, where i finally ate dinner...because i was too nervous to eat before hand.
For those of you who play instruments, do you ever get into a mode where you're playing but you don't realize that you're totally in a zone? and even though you're in a zone, you're in the RIGHT zone so you're playing correctly?
WELL. I do that a lot. unfortunately, in the middle of being in the Awesome Zone I usually realize that I have spaced out...and that is the point where I mess up. ugh.
i messed up! but it's okay.
Sunshine and Madison picked me up before the concert and we went to Wegman's. I wanted to pick up some flowers for the Bevilacqua girls (if it weren't for them, I probably wouldn't have been so inspired to take lessons) who were also playing last night. My mom and dad always used to give me flowers after recitals so I wanted to do that for them.
I was nervous. I'm pretty great at doing that. Even when I reminded myself that it was MY idea to do the recital, because I thought it would be cute, it still didn't make things better. My hands were really cold, too. Madison kept trying to warm them up by holding them in her own hands. She even wrapped them in my sweater.
The weird thing about the performance was that I wasn't nervous about playing in front of people...I just knew that I was going to mess up and was anticipating the mess up. That probably doesn't make sense. It didn't make things any better that not only was Sunshine video taping it for my mom and dad but Mrs. Bevilacqua was recording me as well. and Madison and Michelle were taking pictures.
SO I did forget what I was doing in the middle but I got it figured out and ended it well. The nice part was that four of my friends had shown up without me knowing it...so when I was done, there was a HUGE sound from the audience. I laughed and looked out to see my friends waving their hands and the people in front of them looking behind them to see what the big deal was.
Sunshine and Madison gave me flowers. My favorite kind of flowers, to be exact. Then we all went to a diner, where i finally ate dinner...because i was too nervous to eat before hand.
For those of you who play instruments, do you ever get into a mode where you're playing but you don't realize that you're totally in a zone? and even though you're in a zone, you're in the RIGHT zone so you're playing correctly?
WELL. I do that a lot. unfortunately, in the middle of being in the Awesome Zone I usually realize that I have spaced out...and that is the point where I mess up. ugh.