It's coming up...

Next weekend is Urbandale, the next competition for Happiness that is coming up, and I am getting a little nervous. It has been over two weeks since we have had a competition or consistant pracices because we kind of took a break, but now we need to get back into gear.
Last Mondays practice was the worst, but could be considered the best, practice we have had in a long time. It started out as usual: we warmed up with some scales and began to sing. Things started going ugly, though, as people kept talking and talking and wouldn't shut up. The next thing I knew, our director just walked out without a word. Everyone just stood around... stunned.
We had to do something, so we actually began working together, without arguments, and decided to clean what we could of our show. We ended up getting a lot done, and by the end of the night, our director came in to talk to us and stated how we were being disrespectful and what not, but things could have been worse.
Then last Thursday, the practice was a lot better. We spent the whole night cleaning things, and everyone was actually trying and listening. Of course it wasn't perfect, and we had our little bad moments, but I feel like we got a lot done!
This week, I am hoping everyone is going to be focused and ready. We need to prove ourselves for saturday... I know we can!

Fingers Crossed

It was state for our speech team, or for those who made it past districts, and I was really excited. For one thing, the competition was at Linn Mar, so I didn't have to travel far AND our group didn't go until three o' clock! Yesterday was a very good day, lets just say.
I woke up Saturday around ten o' clock, and I felt good. I love those mornings when you wake up and know that it is going to be a good day. I mean you just pop right out of bed, no grogginess or wanting to climb back into those warm covers, and the feeling is just right. Then I climbed into my shower, hot water running just perfectly, and when I got out, my mirror wasn't foggy. My mirror ALWAYS fogs up because I hate keeping my door open while in the shower; that just added to the amazing day. Then, the best part happened. So I usually try to figure out what I am going to wear the day before, especially when I have something like this going on, but that day I had no clue. I was out of the dress up clothes that fit the certain color scheme we were doing (black, white, or gray, if you care) and so I was sort of freaking out about what to do because, of course, I waited until the last minute to ask someone else. All of a sudden, I found nice black pants in the back of my closet AND my friend, luckily, had a shirt for me to wear; so perfect! With the day beginning like this, I knew our group was going to do good, and I was right.
When I arrived to Linn Mar, I got my hair curled and ready for the day and already began warming up with my group. Before I knew it, we were all walking to our room where we were going to perform. Everything felt right to me, and when we stood in front of everyone in our beginning poses, it hit me. This could potentially be our last time performing Spring Awakening, and we had to give it our all. With that, it all went fabulously good. It was our best show EVER.
The day ended and we found out we got all ones from the three judges, PLUS a one from our critique judge. I was so happy! Now a one is the best you can get, but you can get all ones and still not move onto Allstate. No one will know if they made Allstate or not until next week, so we are all anxiously waiting.
Fingers crossed till then!
P.S. I typed in "perfect day" into Google and this is the picture it gave me. Thought I'd put it up... it's pretty tight.

Super Bowl, say whaaa?

So of course it is a big deal to everyone in the whole galaxy. Kay not really, but people worship this day. Over half the kids in America probably woke up today with the smell of little weenies simmering in barbecue sauce, cheesy sauce and tostitos, or even brownies that almost always make you want to fall over and die of happiness. It has been a ritual for over five hundred bazillion million years, and everyone takes it SO seriously, yet I take it as a typical football game. Why does it matter so much?
For starters, you are either a football fan or not. Okay, yes I like watching football. It is probably my favorite sport to watch, so we have that established. If you like football, there should be some sort of team that you would prefer to win. For my sake, I am a Bears fan; yes, this is true. I know they haven't been the greatest during these past years, but I can't just turn my back on them? NO! Anyways, when you have a team, you watch when they play and hope for the best. So this year, when the Super Bowl came today, I wasn't enthused at all. Honestly, even if the bears WERE playing, I wouldn't be super stoked. It is a game to me, a fun game to watch, and that is it. People want to go ballistic over bets and little score sheets, some losing over hundreds of dollars! Why? Why why why why why? I guess because it is, well, fun.
When I went to watch the game with a bunch of my friends, things were tense from the start. I take that back; things weren't really that bad, but people were jokingly getting competitive with eachother. "Yo man your team is going down, you know the Colts are gonna beat your guys ass!" "Yeah whatever man, you will see whose da best eva!" Giggles giggles giggles.
(3 hours later)
Fists flying, screaming, people leaving the room. What? I literally sat and laughed for about an hour at all of these crazy people. It is a GAME. You know your going to get over it in a day, right? I know this is just my opinion on this whole matter, and it truly doesn't matter, but I just can't get how everyone is just so nuts.
I know I will probably go crazy once I actually really get football and love it as much as all the crazies, but for now, I am chill.
GO COUGS.