U-KISS US Tour

So U-KISS is having a US concert, the closest I'm going to get to them in a while because 1. I don't live in S. Korea, and 2. I'm going to be in Cali for the next few months visiting family. So, they're going to be in New York, San Francisco, and LA. Problem with that, I'm not going anywhere near San Francisco, I'm leaving Indiana a few days before the NY showing, and LA is a six hour round trip from where I am (without traffic) on a school night (yes I'm taking a few classes and a job while I'm in the US for a few months.) So the tickets are $50 for the seats far off, 75 for a few rows closer, 100 for a few more and 180 for the front row VIP tickets with a meeting, a photo, and a signature. I really want to do it but I have no way of getting there :/ I'm trying to appeal to all of my friends to take me. I really hope some one'll step up.

So I'm on a bit of a U-KISS kick. Sue me.
~R

The Concert

So we had our concert on Saturday and contrary to my previous belief, I had really mall parts that I shared with many other people. But no. I have a BLOODY SOLO!!!! WHICH I GOT THE MUSIC FOR THREE DAYS BEFORE THE CONCERT!!!!!! Also, I've never really played in a concert before, so why the bloody hell did some bloody person think the give me a bloody solo!!!!

I'll never know.

Anyways, I was stressing and never actually played it with the whole band in the room except for the actual concert. We never practiced cueing me (because the bloody band director hates the percussion people and tends not to spend any time on us) and I had only slightly gotten the notes down about an hour before the concert started.

Knowing all this: here's how it went:

For the first two, Deck the Halls, and Spaghetti Dreams, I was perfectly fine. The parts were easy, I picked up on them in about five minutes, I felt good about it, my sound was really amazing, ad it just built up my confidence... until we got to Patapan.

To start it all off, I decided I wouldn't play anything but my solo and the ending scale because I hadn't practiced anything else an they were essentials. So, I only had two shots to get everything right. Also, there is so much bloody rest in it that I DEPENDED on my cue to tell my when to play because I would get lost in the counting. Then, I missed my cue.

Yes, I really did.

And to make matters worse, when she cued the timpanis behind me, I thought she was cueing me andI completely trampled a trumpet solo. I realized half way through what I was doing but couldn't pull off immediately because I was in the middle of the melody. So, I finished the line of melody I was on and pulled out, silently apologizing to the trumpet player right in front of me.

I royally fucked up.

But it's okay because nobody has the music besides me so no one knows I fucked up!!! Except the trumpet player, the percussion instructor, and the band director.... But even the rest of percussion didn't notice! I can' tell you how much I wanted to melt and seep through the cracks of the stage at that moment. I was so embarrassed!!!!!
~R

My Feed Is A TARDIS!!!!!

So it's taken me a while to do it, but I finally did it!!! I've finished editing the blog!!! And then I'm going to see someone else's blog and be like "oh hey that looks really kewl!!!' and then try to change it and it's going to crash and burn again.

It took a long time to edit this time because my internet kept crashing. Damn technology.
~R

MOOzik and WATERMELON!!!!!!!!!!

So my band is doing a winter concert and I'm part of percussion. I though that I would be out of town for the concert (or really I said that just to get out of actually doing anything) and now, they've "found out" I will be in town and have assigned me parts. Let's see, I have three (technically four) pieces.

1. Patapan (I play bells for this one)

these bells not

these bells.

2. Serengetti Dreams (or spaghetti dreams)
I play really any mallet instrument for this one. We haven't decided yet but I'm pretty sure I'm going on vibes for this one.

3. Deck the Halls
I play Marimba (my favorite) for this one.

So this isn't really a big deal except for the concert is on Saturday and they have yet to give me the music for it!!!!! I don' sound terrible (we did some run throughs yesterday) but I don't particularly sound fine either... IDK we'll have to see....

Also, for the fourth song, there isn't any percussion that plays in it so the band director is making us sing. TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS SONGS!!! So... this kind of goes against my religion....

The one upside is that, if we don't know the words, the director said we could fake it and sing "watermelon" instead. The entire time we were rehearsing, I didn't hear one verse sung correctly. It was more like

"Hark the Herald angel sings WATERMELON, WATERMELON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Watermelon, watermelon watermelon watermelon!!!!!!"

What was even funnier was the fact that the percussion instructor was singing with us and he was belting our "WATERMELON!!!" louder than the rest of percussion combined. I couldn't sing half the time because I was laughing at him.

It was kind of fun though.

~R

My Texts/ I'm A Nerd pt. 2

Me: I ATE THE F***ING COMPUTER O MY F***ING GOD I'M GOING TO MURDER IT!!!!!!! I hate it when the computer is better at games than me!!!!!

Friend: SO I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE?!?!?

Me: No, what game do you cuss at?

Friend: WoW U?

Me: Chess.

I swear though. It checked me in 3 moves with A PAWN!!! I'M ON THE EASIEST IT GOES, TOO!!!!!

#nerdproblems #artificialintelligenceSUCKSASS

Friend: Did you yell YOU MACHINE!! yet?

Me: No, but I did shout I CAN KILL U C? and quit it.
~R

Y u no technlology?

So I've been trying to use the webcam to record a quick little vlog for you guys but it's not working... even when I take my room mate's laptop. Does technology just not like me?
~R

Editing the Blog

So I've been trying to edit the blog and do things to make it look really cool like adding pictures and custom colors and stuff but I keep messing it up! If I change one thing, I have to change other things because I've changed a color scheme or forma or something and it turns into all of these different little details that I have to change so basically I'm customizing a whole new blog and it is TERRIBLE. Not to mention that my laptop is also about seven years old so it's super slow and doesn't have a lot of drive open. Therefore, if I want to edit a picture, I have to completely wipe my drive to save one picture and then again if I want to save anotherpicture. It's not very helpful if I need to do something. It takes me about 4 hours to edit a picture.

For instance, this picture took me about 5 hours to edit. Seems simple, just a crop, some writing, and a few filters, but it took me so long I was about to throw my computer across the room. It's not from my lack of understanding of the program. I'm perfectly competent with that, it's just that the software kept quitting on me and it took another half hour to start it back up again so not only was it difficult to get the picture into the software, the software wouldn't stay open long enough for me to edit anything and save it. So this lovely picture right here took me all day yesterday to make and put back into the blog.

Well, I was starting to edit things (add the custom back ground that's up right now) and realized that the new color scheme didn't fit the picture so I was going to take it down and replace it with a Doctor Who picture but I couldn't save the DW picture to my computer! But at that point in time, the picture was already taken down and I couldn't put it back up because my computer's throwing a tantrum and I din't have it still save to my drive. So for the past 2 hours, I've been trying to at least make things decent and put it back up which obviously isn't working. So I've given up. Oh well. I'll edit it tomorrow. I've had a gigantic amount of patience with the editing of this blog and it wasn't completely terrible (I like editing) but I'm tired, it's late, I have stuff to do tomorrow (like, proper work) and I'll just have to put it off for another time. The blog looks decent enough. Oh well. I'll do it some other time. I'll have to borrow another computer.

Anyways, you can see that it's terribly annoying. I like the new background but I don't know. I might keep it. So give me your thoughts on it!!! I might keep it or I'll convert it to something else.
~R

My life today

So today here is what I did:
   -procrastinated cleaning my dungeon
   -yet somehow managed to clean the bathroom
   -got together with fam. and caught up in Doctor Who
   -explained cybermen to my grandma
   -messed around on my blog
   -messed around on youtube
   -tried to mess around on tumblr
   -ran away screaming from all of the monstrous Doctor Who 50th spoilers
   -found out Andrew Scoot is gay
   -found out he's too old for me
   -got absolutely no homework done
   -didn't do anything really worth-while except for watch doctor who, which is always worth-while
   -deleted all comments from my blog
   -face palmed
   -smashed my head against a wall
   -going to go to bed a cry myself to sleep from all of the emotional feelz and stupid mistakes I have
   encountered in the last fourteen hours since I go up
Sounds like I got a lot done for barely moving from the couch.
~R

Ooops

So I've been going through the settings and messing around with things to try and make this blog the most epic it could possibly be and was going through all the comments settings. I had just changed a setting so that I had to approve all comments before they were visible on the blog and when I went to comments, I thought that it was an inbox of comments to approve so I marked all of them... and hit delete.... so now there aren't anymore comments on my blog... oops.....

so if you were wondering why a comment wasn't popping up but it had before... you know now.

~R

Post Settings

Ignore this, I'm just trying out my new post settings.

~R