I'm getting a kitten!!!!  (One of Nae's kitten's to be exact!) She is lovely and black ... and it seems like every person I've told is like, that's such bad luck, but I mean seriously! Do people actually believe that? I've had a black cat since birth (not the same one obviously ...) and I am still here to tell you about it ...so, I personally think that it's quite the opposite of bad luck, thank you very much!! Anyway, I am very excited! I can't decide on a name though. I was going to name her Koko, but not because it sounds like Cocoa ... which I kind of got the impression that everyone thought that was why. Not that it Cocoa is a bad name at all! I think I just want something a little bit less generic and more individual if you know what I mean!

What else has been going on ... summer school is loads of fun (in a not kind of way), sleeping in late, and basically just enjoying being home. It's nice to not be overloaded with tons to do; it's nice to just enjoy living again!

Anyway, that's about for tonight, I guess! Enjoy the new music! I think this song is kind of the epitome of my summer music exploration ... so I hope you like it! And yes; they are German.  Goodnight all, and God bless.

So, it's been a while, hasn't it? Whoops. I never really updated about Chicago like I said I would, so I'll do it very quickly right now!

Chicago: Went, had good times, ate good pizza, did NOT go to the Field Museum (sleeping won me over that day), played games, won, came home! Yay!

San Jose: Went, stayed in a hotel across from a yummy Chinese place that we ate at multiple times (it was that or sushi ...), went to San Francisco, had good seafood, played game #1 and won, tried to walk to the Egyptian Museum the next day but didn't make it (it was really far!), ended up visiting Japantown instead, had good sushi there, played game #2, lost, and took the plane back with the team (which was surprisingly not as bad as last year!). Overall, not a terrible trip at all! And I go souvenir chopsticks from Japantown!

Now: I should be working on one of the 3 papers I have due tomorrow, but first I have tell about these websites that I found! They talk about church songs that people misunderstood as kids and I'll be honest, I have almost been in tears laughing at these for the last hour! Here are some of them:

"This one belongs to my wife. When she was growing up her church sang a song that went,"Everyday I'm camping, in the land of Canaan. I'm camping, I'm camping, in Canaan's happy land." She thought it went,"Everyday I'm cramping in the land of Canaan. I'm cramping, I'm cramping, in Canaan's happy land." Which begs the questions: Why were they cramping and how could they be happy?"

"As a kid, I misheard the song "He's got the whole world in His hands" as "He's got the whole world in His pants." I cackled like an idiot and realised how stupid I was when I heard the real lyrics at about age eight."

"When I was little we went to church religiously (pun intended) when I was three I had a favorite hymn seemingly written just for me... 'I sing because I'm happy, I sing because I'm three...' I also enjoyed 'I've got that pizza passing understanding down in my heart...'"

"I was a little confused in Sunday School. I used to sing 'Jesus loves me Eskimo' instead of 'Jesus loves me this I know' and "Goat ate it on the mountain" instead of 'Go tell it on the mountain'"

"When my dad was young, he used to sing 'Gladly, the Cross I'd Bear' in church. He thought the lyrics he was singing were about a cross-eyed bear named 'Gladly.'"

Some classics:

"Up from the gravy arose!!"

"Andy walks with me, Andy talks with me!"

"Roll the gospel cherries on the lawn ..."

"(Now let us) have a little chocolate Jesus!"

Well, I hope you have enjoyed these as much as me! Goodnight and God bless!

Hello all! Well, it's been a while since an update, so I think it's time! Where to begin ... oh! Last weekend, erm, make that two weekends ago, I went to KMEA in Wichita! Good times were had. I watched Grey's Anatomy for the first time! It's definitely a pretty interesting show! Hmm ... I made friends with Kayla's dog, Jack (named after Captain Jack Sparrow, I might add ), and the COOLEST thing had to be the Washburn Wind Ensemble concert. They played this piece called La Virgen de Macarena ... or something to that extent (I don't know my Spanish well!) and it was amazing!! The whole piece is basically one giant trumpet solo and the soloist was their trumpet/brass professor; she was a really great player, but the thing that got me was what she did during one of the cadenzas. She has this long sustained note which she was trilling, yada yada, cool, but nothing new, but THEN she made this weird sniffing sound, I we were all just like, hmm, what was that? So, she did it again but then we actually saw what she did: She was circular breathing!!!!!! I mean, seriously! That's something that you hear of people doing, you don't actually see it! WOW! Now I really want to learn how to before I graduate! It might be a little different on the flute, but oh well. I'll figure something out!

What else is going on? Oh yeah. This is not so happy of a subject. Dr. Lynch announced last week that is going to go to the University of Georgia. He was offered a job there and he has a lot of family in that area, so it makes sense for him to go, but it's still sad. He is the best conductor I have had the pleasure of working under. Anyway, that made last week a pretty stinky one and I was not a happy camper, so sorry if I bummed anyone out last week! I'm better now! Promise! I went for the weekend and that definitely helped. I got to see my parents (yay!) and my dog and cats (another yay!), and Cheryl, Tad, and a bunch of other church people! It was nice to see everybody.

Last thing; So, this weekend is the Chicago trip!! I can't wait! I've never been before, so that will be exciting. THEN, next weekend, I will be ... somewhere, possibly Chicago again, but this time with the basketball team!! Big yay for that! I love basketball. Ya know what I also love? Apparently I love italics today! I've used them a lot in this post! I guess I'm just really excited! Anyone who can tell me how many words I put in italics gets cool points! AND if you can tell me how many sets of ellipses (sp?) I used, you get extra cool points! (The "extra" in that sentence does count, in case you're wondering *cough* Jenna and Nae) Well, anyway, I guess that's about it for today, so I'll wrap up here! Goodnight all, and God bless!