Band, Bread, Soap, (or What I do in my spare time)
Not much has been going on here lately. Not going to PAX (;_;) because I didn't buy a pass in advance, and they sold out. They should really use more of the convention center next year, so they don't have that problem. (I work staff at Sakura-con, which happens in April in the same building. We use more space and have more attendees, but because we count every person who buys a badge as one attendee and PAX counts every day a badge is good for as one attendee [so if you bought a three day pass, you would count as three people] we are considered the smaller con. It is a pet peeve of mive, because we are quite a bit larger. We also have yet to reach fire capacity.)
Marching band tryouts for the UW are Monday, and I'm really excited. I've been going through marching band nostalgia all week, pretty hard. I realized yesterday that I no longer had my high school's fight song, and was saddened. Ah well, at least there's the competition there in October I can volunteer at. I'm not too nervous for auditions, the website says that historically over 80% of people who try out make the band. But my playing skill just isn't what it was at the end of senior year, although it's improved quite a bit in the last two weeks. If I make it, band camp will start monday afternoon, and then continue through Friday, 8am to 8pm everday, and the first football game will be Saturday Sept. 12th against LSU. I'm looking forward to this so much. I'm out of shape though, and the Husky marching band marches high-step, so band camp is going to kill me, but it'll so be worth it. (I've never marched high-step before, it should be interesting. Luckily they don't have you march as part of the audition.)
I've had a lot of free time lately, and not a lot of money (due to my unemployment over summer break) so I've been looking into ways to do things from scratch, since it's usually cheaper. I think I'm going to cut up all my old jeans that don't fit anymore and make a quilt. We got yeast yesterday, and John is going to help teach me how to make bread. And when the laundry detergent runs out, I've found a recipe for homemade detergent that's supposed to work really well and is much cheaper than buying it in the store. Hypoallergenic too, (at least as far as my house is concerned) because the basic recipe involves no scents and no dyes!
Went to the foodbank yesterday, got a good haul. We even got a German chocolate cake! And a whole sack of flour. John went to Safeway for some things we can't get from the foodbank, like cheese and yeast and 10lb bags of potatoes for $1.80. We have lots of tasty groceries now.
Got up before noon today! I've developed a terrible sleep schedule this past twoo weeks, sleeping from 5am to 1-2pm. >.<;;; And last night I went to bed at only 3am and got up at 11-something. Soon I should be back to normal! I will be after Monday anyways, since I need to get to the UW before 8:30am. It seems so long ago that I got up every morning at 5:30 XD
Marching band tryouts for the UW are Monday, and I'm really excited. I've been going through marching band nostalgia all week, pretty hard. I realized yesterday that I no longer had my high school's fight song, and was saddened. Ah well, at least there's the competition there in October I can volunteer at. I'm not too nervous for auditions, the website says that historically over 80% of people who try out make the band. But my playing skill just isn't what it was at the end of senior year, although it's improved quite a bit in the last two weeks. If I make it, band camp will start monday afternoon, and then continue through Friday, 8am to 8pm everday, and the first football game will be Saturday Sept. 12th against LSU. I'm looking forward to this so much. I'm out of shape though, and the Husky marching band marches high-step, so band camp is going to kill me, but it'll so be worth it. (I've never marched high-step before, it should be interesting. Luckily they don't have you march as part of the audition.)
I've had a lot of free time lately, and not a lot of money (due to my unemployment over summer break) so I've been looking into ways to do things from scratch, since it's usually cheaper. I think I'm going to cut up all my old jeans that don't fit anymore and make a quilt. We got yeast yesterday, and John is going to help teach me how to make bread. And when the laundry detergent runs out, I've found a recipe for homemade detergent that's supposed to work really well and is much cheaper than buying it in the store. Hypoallergenic too, (at least as far as my house is concerned) because the basic recipe involves no scents and no dyes!
Went to the foodbank yesterday, got a good haul. We even got a German chocolate cake! And a whole sack of flour. John went to Safeway for some things we can't get from the foodbank, like cheese and yeast and 10lb bags of potatoes for $1.80. We have lots of tasty groceries now.
Got up before noon today! I've developed a terrible sleep schedule this past twoo weeks, sleeping from 5am to 1-2pm. >.<;;; And last night I went to bed at only 3am and got up at 11-something. Soon I should be back to normal! I will be after Monday anyways, since I need to get to the UW before 8:30am. It seems so long ago that I got up every morning at 5:30 XD