Hello everyone! It's been quite a while since I've posted hasn't it?
Well, I'm pretty determined to keep my blog going, so I came up with an idea. As you may already know, I'm subscribed to a bunch of musicians, beauty gurus, and other Youtubers that I like to keep up with. A selection of them are doing Vlogmas this year, which is basically them vlogging their daily lives each day during December, all the way till Christmas. I've decided that I kind of want to do the same thing except that the time span will be my two weeks of winter break, and I'll be blogging instead of vlogging. I'll also include a Song of the Day at the end of each Blogmas. These songs will be from any genre. Today I'll be doing both day one and two of my winter break Blogmas! So let's get started...
Well, I'm pretty determined to keep my blog going, so I came up with an idea. As you may already know, I'm subscribed to a bunch of musicians, beauty gurus, and other Youtubers that I like to keep up with. A selection of them are doing Vlogmas this year, which is basically them vlogging their daily lives each day during December, all the way till Christmas. I've decided that I kind of want to do the same thing except that the time span will be my two weeks of winter break, and I'll be blogging instead of vlogging. I'll also include a Song of the Day at the end of each Blogmas. These songs will be from any genre. Today I'll be doing both day one and two of my winter break Blogmas! So let's get started...
Day 1
Saturday, oh Saturday. This happened to be the first day of winter break, a day that I'd been looking forward to since the beginning of December. I already planned out what I'd do: sleep in (something I hadn't done since mid-October), eat a good breakfast, read Allegiant by Veronica Roth, and get ready for two orchestra concerts that I was performing in at 3 and 7 pm. Of course, my first winter break dream plan didn't go as planned at all.
Instead, what I thought was a slight cold on Friday turned into a fever when I woke up on Saturday morning. I was lying there in my bed thinking, What am I going to do? I don't think they can get anyone else to play my parts, can they? And even if they could, what have all my Sunday night rehearsals gone to? My mom, of course, was really concerned and tried to convince me to stay home. Our conversation went something like this...
Mom: YOU HAVE A 102 DEGREE FEVER YOU NEED TO STAY HOME.
Me: *moans* No...
Mom: WHAT DO YOU MEAN NO?!
Me: *croaks* It's my responsibility... *hacks up a lung*
Mom: IT'S YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO KEEP YOURSELF ALIVE!!!! YOU ARE KILLING YOURSELF, YOU CAN GET A SECONDARY INFECTION AND KILL OTHER PEOPLE, YOU'RE GOING TO GET PNEUMONIA!!!!!!
Yeah... That's what happens when your mom has a pretty high degree in nutrition/health whatnots. And also when she has a highly imaginative mind.
Anyway, I ended up performing in both concerts, the first one being a real uphill battle. During a couple of pieces, I really thought I was going to collapse, no joke. The stage lights were pretty harsh. I played sleigh bells in "Sleigh Ride" by Leroy Anderson, and that piece requires sleigh bells to play the ENTIRE song. By the end, my arm was even achier and sorer than it was already, and I had sweat dripping off my forehead. But hey, I think I sweated off my fever if that's even possible! The second concert was easier for me cause I was smart and brought chamomile tea. I also did my hair and makeup to make myself look slightly more presentable than my feverish-first concert self.
Song of the Day: "Sleigh Ride" by Leroy Anderson (hehe... you never saw that one coming)
Instead, what I thought was a slight cold on Friday turned into a fever when I woke up on Saturday morning. I was lying there in my bed thinking, What am I going to do? I don't think they can get anyone else to play my parts, can they? And even if they could, what have all my Sunday night rehearsals gone to? My mom, of course, was really concerned and tried to convince me to stay home. Our conversation went something like this...
Mom: YOU HAVE A 102 DEGREE FEVER YOU NEED TO STAY HOME.
Me: *moans* No...
Mom: WHAT DO YOU MEAN NO?!
Me: *croaks* It's my responsibility... *hacks up a lung*
Mom: IT'S YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO KEEP YOURSELF ALIVE!!!! YOU ARE KILLING YOURSELF, YOU CAN GET A SECONDARY INFECTION AND KILL OTHER PEOPLE, YOU'RE GOING TO GET PNEUMONIA!!!!!!
Yeah... That's what happens when your mom has a pretty high degree in nutrition/health whatnots. And also when she has a highly imaginative mind.
Anyway, I ended up performing in both concerts, the first one being a real uphill battle. During a couple of pieces, I really thought I was going to collapse, no joke. The stage lights were pretty harsh. I played sleigh bells in "Sleigh Ride" by Leroy Anderson, and that piece requires sleigh bells to play the ENTIRE song. By the end, my arm was even achier and sorer than it was already, and I had sweat dripping off my forehead. But hey, I think I sweated off my fever if that's even possible! The second concert was easier for me cause I was smart and brought chamomile tea. I also did my hair and makeup to make myself look slightly more presentable than my feverish-first concert self.
Song of the Day: "Sleigh Ride" by Leroy Anderson (hehe... you never saw that one coming)
Day 2 (Beware, Spoilers of Allegiant by Veronica Roth)
Sunday (today) was better than yesterday. However, I couldn't go to church today because I pretty much exhausted myself to the extremes from yesterday's escapades. I did have a nice little church service of my own, though. I was reading my Bible in a year thing and part of today's passages happened to be Psalm 119! It was so long, but it was a good refresher. All I can say is that the dude who wrote it really like to phrase and rephrase his ideas. Multiple times.
I also got the chance to finally watch Man of Steel!! I've been meaning to watch it since it came out (haha definitely did NOT happen), and today seemed like an excellent day. One thing I've got to say is that I liked the soundtrack better than the movie, but I still liked the movie a lot. I hope that very badly written sentence shows you how much I liked the soundtrack. But seriously, my favorite part of it was every time the epic drum sections came on. It gave me chills. Every time. Hans Zimmer fan 4 lyfe. Oh, and the movie itself? I think Henry Cavill is enough to explain it.
The last interesting thing I did today (well, hopefully it's interesting) was lie in my bed and read the rest of Allegiant. AND OMG THE ENDING OMG OMG OMG OMG. Like seriously. I sat there reading and rereading the parts over and over to make sure I didn't miss a thing. At first I thought Veronica Roth was being super sly and tricking everyone with the "Hey I'm dead, but I'm actually not!" kind of thing. But I kept on reading and I realized that NONONONONONO TRIS IS REALLY DEAD.
At first, I was devastated because I was like, How can she kill off her main character like that?! Nobody kills off their main characters! Then, I realized that no, Tris was not the main character. She may have been the main character in the first two books, Divergent and Insurgent, but Allegiant was definitely different. Veronica Roth split this third book between the viewpoint of both Tris and Four. Four kind of became the main character as the book developed.
To be honest, I was totally expecting Four to die in some tragic way and that Tris would be devastated. I guess I was quite wrong about that... I'm still kind of in a shock right now about it, so please forgive me if my review of the end of Allegiant is absolutely terrible. The only thing I'm looking forward to is the Divergent movie that's coming out next year! Yay!!
And to end off my day, I proceeded to watch a bunch of videos interviewing the original movie cast of The Sound of Music. What can I say? I love this movie/musical and I've watched it more than 100 times, at least.
Song of the Day: "Sixteen Going on Seventeen" from The Sound of Music
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