so Borders just isn't as fun as it was last year. There are some really obnoxious people around ( Read more... )

So I signed up today to work the Harry Potter release party at work... Actually, my manager signed me up... She convinced me to do it (this is the cool manager, so I trust her... ;-)) I remember my sister worked the last one, and said it was a ton of fun. Apparently they have a bunch of games and stuff set up around the store ( Read more... )

...when I can share a one bedroom apartment with 2 college girls easier than I can share a house with my own sister. I swear, she's become really selfish in the last year ( Read more... )

( long rant. beware. )

So I get off work at 5:30 today, and as I'm walking out to my car after a long 2 days (I worked 7-11:30 pm last night and then 9-5:30 today) ready to just get home, my mom calls to inform me that we have no power at home. She wanted to meet somewhere for dinner, but she had to call my dad. She told me to hang tight and she'd call my dad to see ( Read more... )

...say the darndest things ( Read more... )

:DDDD We got our puppy today!!! She's a chocolate lab puppy, approximately 8 weeks old. I think we've finally decided her name's Bonnie. My mom came up with that ( Read more... )

My dad tells me while I'm still at school to look at craigslist for bassoons... I look and there's a fox model 201 on there for $1900. For those that know nothing about bassoons, that's a professional model, a couple models above mine, and new they sell for around $16,000. This one is 30 years old, but still should be worth more than $1900. But ( Read more... )

I'm home... I've been home less than a week and I'm already wanting to go back. All I do is sit around the house watching TV and playing around on my computer. It's really pathetic if you ask me. I had lunch with Brian on Wednesday, but he's my only friend in the area right now, and he's pretty busy with AP tests. So besides him and my family ( Read more... )

"Even today the bassoon has the least regard of all woodwind instruments for the 'official' fingerings and, especially in the upper part of its compasss, every player has to experiment with fingerings until he finds those which best suit his type of reed, his style of playing, and the instrument he is using ( Read more... )