Music, Time, Parties, and More Music!!

Okay, so I think I've pretty much covered everything I wanted to talk about in that title, so now I don't have to give a little summary.. because I know I sometimes at least give bullet points.
--I guess I did just summarize my little reason for the long title, but whatever..--

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Music. MUSIC. MUSIC!!!
I LOVE music.
And every once in a while I need to get new bands to listen to, so I usually get weird and look up random words in the itunes search box and find music I like. One time I looked up Twilight and found an amazing band, so you should try it sometime.
I have a song recommendation for all you vampire lovers. Or at least Stephenie Meyer lovers;
This is for the Keeps--The Spill Canvas
It's about a vampire falling in love with a human girl, and let me tell you it's SO amazingly sweet and makes you go "awwh!"
Well, at least it made ME go "awwh!".. so I'm not sure what you're reaction would be, so I guess you better listen to it. ;)
Also my new fav site for listening to music is Pandora.com, it's a radio station that plays whatever song you want to listen to, and then others that are similar, and it has definitely filled my need for new music!
Ah! I just found a new song.. hold on I'ma go write it down...

Mkay, so Pandora is pretty much amazing, I listen to it while doing homework. So I'm hinting that you should listen to it too. :)

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It's time to write about time!
I finally have time to write. I have found that late saturday nights will fit perfectly for my blogging. I can taek as much time as I want, and I won't have to get up early to shower for church so early!
That's right, our church has switched to the 1 o'clock slot, and at first I was a little dubious on how it would work out, but now I'm uber happy, since I can sleep in... I love sleep. I guess I used to take for granted the Saturday mornings I had. I used to not really see the purpose, other than no seminary... but now that I can't come home from seminary and sleep and actually have to go to school and stay awake... I think Saturdays were a SUPER fantastic idea. haha, it's true, now I just take advantage and not even bother to set an alarm. I get so exausted from the weird schedule I now have, and I can barely stay awake on Fridays. Today I pretty much lazed around and played the piano.

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SPEAKING OF ^^FRIDAY^^
:D
I got the chance of going to two parties! woo! The first was a sweet sixteen for my new school friend Jacey, and it was a blast! First actual dance party I had real fun at, probably because the other girls weren't afraid of doing silly dances! It was way better than all church dances combined, which isn't saying much, I know, but still, it's all I can think to compare it to right this second.
And may I say, I had some pretty amazing moves goin on towards the end... :) well, amazing as in -so fun and silly-it's amazing, ya know?
Anyways, I wish I had brought my camera... also, we were all suppose to wear neon colors and I wore this NEON pink tanktop under a white shirt with a black painted peace sign with lots of neon colors splattered all over it. It was amazing.
The pink was so bright all other pinks looked dull in comparison. Me and Kaytlin went over to Wet Seal, since they have really bright neon colored jewelry, so we thought we would find a necklace to match. but no, everytime we would hold up the tank top, the jewlery would look purple. It was seriously that dull.
I wore it to school too and I got so many complements on it, it probably looked even brighter--who knew it could get brighter--since I was wearing black pants.
So yeah, that party was amazing, and it makes me VERY excited for school dances! woo!
The second party was at Lydia's, it was a slumber party. That was very fun and I would give details, but mostly I would be giving away too much information... >:)
I will say that of course we played truth or dare, and here are a few of them;

I have to tell a teacher how sexy I think they are. 8O! can't wait to see how that goes...
Kaylee has to drop a tray full of food in the middle of lunch time. In front of EVERYBODY.
And then Ma'Kaila has to slam a tray of food--Kaylee's second tray of food-- down on the floor in front of everybody.

So yeah, that was pretty exciting. Oh, and then I was the first to fall asleep, which was sadly only a little after one in the morning, and so I got pink sharpie on my face.
I actually thought it would've been worse. I thought it would've at least said "Loser" written across my forehead, but no. All it said was "I love you" backwards so I could read it in the mirror, and then a heart on my cheek.
Next time I spend the night with them I'll have to show em' how it's done.

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More music. :D
This session of music will be about my piano playing. I will admit that I hadn't noticed how out of touch I was with the piano, I mean I am planning on doing a solo in church pretty soon, but I haven't really been messing around or playing that often anymore.
I finally noticed how I had nothing memorized and had sorta lost my ability to make something up off the top of my head in my last period of school on Tuesday, the day Alex Khakov brought his keyboard in.
He's been playing for less than I have (I've played for about nine years, off during the summer), and he's as good if not better than I am! He plays so beautifully, and is modest about it. But what I find so awesome is that he's a piano player! I've never had an actual piano player friend. I mean, I have friends who play, but aren't that good. I know that sounds bad but I've already explained that I didn't mean how it sounded. So you can just figure it out while I go on and ramble about my Russian piano player.
To be honest, I'm a little intimidated, but also fascinated. He knows about theory and chords and keys and everything! I've never been able to talk about that stuff with anybody, it's so cool that I finally have someone to talk piano-talk with without having to explain what certain things are. Also, in EAST we played a duet for everybody, he just told me to play and A chord, then move up on note in you're fifth fingers, then go down to a G chord, and then back to A, four times each and make them eighth notes.
AH! :D
So I played them and then he played some incredible little thing up on the top part and it all sounded amazing. He kept asking for me to play something, but being the self conscious person I am kept saying no. But then I played a little bit of Clair De Lune, an actual classical piece he does not know, which is seeming to be very rare. So now I have all of Clair De lune almost memorized again, I've played all day. Plus, I now have a duet I've made. Yay! I have had the bottom part for a while now, but I hadn't been able to come up with a top hand, but today I just messed around and came up with a pretty top part. So now when I go back to EAST I'll actually be able to play stuff and mess around, even though I usually can only play around when I'm by myself, but now after coming up with such easy, yet complex sounding things I have found a little more confidence in my playing. Go me. :)
Just kidding, I should be more modest like Alex. So Friday he put the keyboard in our teacher's office for concentration, since he has to compose a song for the Dance class--I've heard it, it's SO good!--and later I got to go in and hear what he'd been doing and then after he asked for me to play something again, since I had promised the day before to bring music-which I had forgotten-I was reluctant, but then I sat down and it was a lot better since everyone out in the big room weren't able to listen like they had when the keyboard was out there. So I played the bottom part of the duet I'd made, and he loved it-at least he said he did-and then came over and played a sweet little top part with his right hand as I played my bottom part. So yay!!!! I finally have reason to play the piano other than for playing hymns for seminary! woot!
Alright, I'm getting too excited for it to be 11:30. Jeez now I"m pumped and want to go play the piano!
Anywho, Alex recommended some classical pieces I should listen to(he knows a LOT of classical pieces) and I listened to this one, Moonlight Sonata, 3rd movement.(he recommended it since I was playing the beginning of the first one at the time)It's crazy beautiful! It's so wild and fast and so magnificent! What's funny is that I looked it up on youtube and watched it with this old guy who was so into it and had little beads of sweat running down his nose, and it turns out Alex saw the same one. And it's really funny, because normally when he talks, he sounds American and normal(not that Russians aren't normal)but when he starts getting passionate about what he's talking about his voice gets lower and his Russian accent gets real thick! It's awesome. Although, a couple times I've had to think real hard to figure out what he just said...
So sorry I've been rambling about this subject, I am just thrilled I have found my spark for playing again.
Well, I'm heading to bed now, still tired after my practically sleepless week!
Love ya,
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