Summertime
It's been a couple weeks, I think, since I've updated (aside from that meme thing). Last you heard, I was lounging around the house, reading magazines and doing nothing. Well, there's still a lot of that going on, but other things too. For instance, I have now entered the wonderful world of data entry. A family friend at church offered me and my sister jobs working as administrative clerks at the company he works for in D.C. Basically, all we're doing is inputting numbers from survey results into Microsoft Excel from home. It's simple (almost painfully so) and a good way to earn some money. I was trying to find another job besides this after my Bar-T job fell through, but no one's hiring by this time, of course. And even if I could find one, the fact that I'm going to San Antonio for two weeks in July could be a problem, since that's a long time to be away from a job I wouldn't have held for very long. Oh well. I'll keep shopping around, see what happens.
I've kind of, sort of started playing the piano more frequently again. Every so often I sit down and grab a book to play from, and these days I've begun sorting through the books we have, trying to choose a handful of songs I really like to memorize and perfect, as a sort of repertoire. I've never memorized music before, but I really want to have a set of songs that I can just play whenever I see a piano and want to make use of it. So far I have a song from "Lord of the Rings" (because I'm dorky enough to have a songbook from "Return of the King") and a song from "Jesus Christ Superstar" (show tunes are a must). We'll see what else comes of this.
One thing I haven't been doing a lot of so far this summer is writing. Which, as I've told other people on IM and such, is odd because it's not normal for me at this time. Normally, when I'm at school I don't have any time to write, but I have tons of ideas floating around in my head. This may have something to do with the fact that in college, unlike in high school, I don't spend every class period sitting in the back of the room, writing story chapters in my notebooks instead of paying attention. Anyway, when I get home for a vacation, I usually start writing immediately, because it's been building up for so long. Maybe it's the strain that was exam week. Maybe it's the fact that I know I have four months off from school, and that inspires laziness. Maybe it's something else entirely. But I haven't finished a full part of anything I have in progress at this point. On Thursday, I finally managed to pull some of my act together and start the next chapter of a "Tribe" story I've been promising to write, but that's not finished yet. Luckily, though, for some reason ideas are starting to come back to me, and I'm feeling inspired to maybe write more. I think in the next few days, I might look over those old notebooks with the story snippets written in them. Maybe one of them will catch my eye, and I'll feel like continuing it.
Last Saturday (not yesterday, but the week before) I went to the wedding of a guy from my church. And it was, for lack of a better word, awesome. And beautiful. I'm one of those girly girls who likes weddings, so I was all excited about the perfect dress the bride was wearing, and the romantic dancing, and the cheesy song the soloist sang while they stood at the altar, until the bride and all her bridesmaids were crying (even the groomsman, who was the groom's brother, looked a little emotional). Just trust me, it was perfect. As far as other getting-out-of-the-house type things go, I've been in D.C. twice in two weeks for job orientation and meetings, and I slept over at Caitlin's house last night with Florence. I showed her "Lord of the Hats", and she loved it (of course!), plus we watched some skits put on by the Harry Potter Club at her school.
As far as I can remember, those were the highlights of the week. Don't tell my dad, but we're going to the movies tomorrow morning to see "X-Men 3". My dad originally proposed this a few days ago, and my mom refused, claiming she didn't want to drive in all the memorial day traffic. Well, now she doesn't mind going, but she wants it to be a surprise so that my dad won't see it coming. I'm very excited about that movie, though. The previews make it look fantastic.
Adios!
Sarah
I've kind of, sort of started playing the piano more frequently again. Every so often I sit down and grab a book to play from, and these days I've begun sorting through the books we have, trying to choose a handful of songs I really like to memorize and perfect, as a sort of repertoire. I've never memorized music before, but I really want to have a set of songs that I can just play whenever I see a piano and want to make use of it. So far I have a song from "Lord of the Rings" (because I'm dorky enough to have a songbook from "Return of the King") and a song from "Jesus Christ Superstar" (show tunes are a must). We'll see what else comes of this.
One thing I haven't been doing a lot of so far this summer is writing. Which, as I've told other people on IM and such, is odd because it's not normal for me at this time. Normally, when I'm at school I don't have any time to write, but I have tons of ideas floating around in my head. This may have something to do with the fact that in college, unlike in high school, I don't spend every class period sitting in the back of the room, writing story chapters in my notebooks instead of paying attention. Anyway, when I get home for a vacation, I usually start writing immediately, because it's been building up for so long. Maybe it's the strain that was exam week. Maybe it's the fact that I know I have four months off from school, and that inspires laziness. Maybe it's something else entirely. But I haven't finished a full part of anything I have in progress at this point. On Thursday, I finally managed to pull some of my act together and start the next chapter of a "Tribe" story I've been promising to write, but that's not finished yet. Luckily, though, for some reason ideas are starting to come back to me, and I'm feeling inspired to maybe write more. I think in the next few days, I might look over those old notebooks with the story snippets written in them. Maybe one of them will catch my eye, and I'll feel like continuing it.
Last Saturday (not yesterday, but the week before) I went to the wedding of a guy from my church. And it was, for lack of a better word, awesome. And beautiful. I'm one of those girly girls who likes weddings, so I was all excited about the perfect dress the bride was wearing, and the romantic dancing, and the cheesy song the soloist sang while they stood at the altar, until the bride and all her bridesmaids were crying (even the groomsman, who was the groom's brother, looked a little emotional). Just trust me, it was perfect. As far as other getting-out-of-the-house type things go, I've been in D.C. twice in two weeks for job orientation and meetings, and I slept over at Caitlin's house last night with Florence. I showed her "Lord of the Hats", and she loved it (of course!), plus we watched some skits put on by the Harry Potter Club at her school.
As far as I can remember, those were the highlights of the week. Don't tell my dad, but we're going to the movies tomorrow morning to see "X-Men 3". My dad originally proposed this a few days ago, and my mom refused, claiming she didn't want to drive in all the memorial day traffic. Well, now she doesn't mind going, but she wants it to be a surprise so that my dad won't see it coming. I'm very excited about that movie, though. The previews make it look fantastic.
Adios!
Sarah