i'm glaring on the inside

Every year some of my clarinet pals and I do an ensemble for the state solo/ensemble competition, and every year we practice hard for like 5 months on our piece, and we always get a superior...which is the top rating. Well, today we were practicing our piece, Largo and Presto, when two of the girls decided they don't like it anymore!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! We have two months left until competition and now we have to find a new song cuz they refuse to play it...they won't compromise at all!!!!!! I, as well as the other two girls in our quintet who lied that song were very upset at this. But because we're so freakin' nice we looked for a piece that we all liked...even though when we picked this one out in october we all loved it. I'm very bitter right now, because when a plan is made, I like to stick with the plan...the plan was changed...and I don't like change!!!!!
~Steph

I can what?

So, my church had its annual Senior Citizen Prom, in which the seniors of the parish come for an evening of food and dancing put on by the high schoolers of the parish. We cook and serve them, then the band plays and we dance with them, really fun, cuz you learn what a terrible dance you really are compared to these people. Anywho! They started playing a polka, and this one old guy asked me if I wanted to learn how to polka...they love teach us young kids how to dance, so I said yes. We started dancing and he's like, "You already know this!" and I was like, "Hey! I can polka!" The funniest thing of the night was this one guy that I was dancing with to the song, "In the Mood", a great swing song...he insisted that it was a waltz, so half way through the song, he was leading me in a waltz. Then he realized again that it was swing, and so we started swing dancing again....I had just learned the right way to swing from my previous dance partner. It was a lot of fun, and my toes didn't get stepped on too much. My friend Samantha gave me a huge hug afterward because earlier that day while we were setting up the gym, I taught her how to waltz, which came in very handy.
~Steph

Sushi

And then I found $10.

So, because it is my duty as me to inform you of what crazy-pschyo-babble we Minnesotans are saying, I bring you a new phrase.

"...and then I found $10."

You may be thinking...WTF? Well, here's the deal. Have you ever told a story or made a comment that no one was interested in? The comment may have been relevant or even witty, but know one was really paying attention? Well, everytime you say something like that, at the end of your sentence, just say, "...and then I found $10." and seriously...people pay more attention. (Maybe that's cuz money's involved...) For example..."Yeah, we drove down to the lake a we saw this dude totally smoke his snowmobile trying to go over this crappy-home-made jump on the back of his truck..." the faint chirping of a cricket may be heard "...and then I found $10."

~Steph

Listen to me...or else!

This is Tyler Berg. You may be wondering why he is hog-tied with multi-colored duct tape and neck ties. Well, Tyler just wouldn't listen to me. Last year, for our fall production of Aida, I was on backstage crew, and as such, it was my job to keep everyone quiet. Tyler, being a year older than I, thought that he didn't have to listen to me...oh! how wrong he was. We snuck up behind him, knocked him down, and started tying and taping. He put up a good fight, but it wasn't good enough. The funniest thing was when Mrs. Larsen...the director...came into the back hallway that night at practice, saw Tyler, and begged someone to get a camera! Instead of us getting in trouble for binding one of the lead characters, we got praised by the director for doing something that she never could do...we got Tyler to shut up.

~Steph

Let the blood-bath begin!

My blog is green. (For those of you who didn't notice)

Anywho! You may be wondering what sort of blood-bath I am talking about. Well, it goes like this. "Santa" gave me two tickets to the Nickleback concert in Fargo at the end of the month. SWEET!!!! However, I can only take one other person. As of now, I'm going with my pal Kyle...but if for any reason (such as death, as Marly voiced) Marly is going with me. Now, that's cool with me, if one can't go, then the other can and I don't have to try to find a replacement...like that would be hard. Anyway...I was talking to a couple of my gal pals in band about this, cuz the way it happened was pretty funny, and they both informed that they will kill Kyle and Marly, and then duke it out between each other for the ticket. So......anyone else wanna come to MN and join in the scramble?
~Steph

Cruel to be Kind

Alllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllrighty! I know this sounds...Oh So Mean...but I say it is time to put it to an end! For years and years, we've let my grandma get away with a terrible waredrobe. Occasionally, we have been able to talk her out of buying some never-will-be-fashionable clothing, but the damage is done already. To put an end to this, my sister and I (with the consent of...everyone in my family) signed my grandma up for TLC's show "What NOT To Wear". I really hope she gets picked, because I can think of no one that needs this more than her. In fact, while watching the show, the people on there with "bad" waredrobes are dressed better than my grandma! Ah! Give me some input...do you think we're being mean?
~Steph