pianos and a flute

ive been home almost a week and things are already back to normal. currently i am in the basement of the school of music. i hear it can be kind of sketchy at night and my roommate didnt want to come over here and practice piano alone so i came along for the ride. there is a pleasant yet somewhat awkward blend of a christmas song on the piano, and deep song on the piano, and a fierce flute. despite how much i enjoy music. i dont think i could handle it being my major.

weve been getting in the christmas spirit around here. tomorrow is a christmas tree lighting (there is a giant one in the middle of campus). im really looking forward to it, you know since i missed the one at home and all. but i guess there will be hot chocolate and cookies, and who skips out on a free one of those. honestly. well so yesterday we moved all of the furniture in our living room around and it looks adorable. its so open and welcoming. we bought a fake tree and put it in the room and decorated it with lights and ornaments. we put fake garland, lights, and candycanes around our sliding balcony doors, and we put colored lights around our kitchen window. i must say though, i absolutely hate christmas lights. they worked, then they didnt work, we changed the fuse and everything and it came down to us going back to walmart, returning them, and restringing them. what a hassle. this week we intend on having a stocking making party since they are just to epensive to afford these days.

a lot of homework to look forward to. three six page essays all do on the same day next week. wooo. i plan on going snowboarding two or three times this weekend. thursday afternoon, friday, and sunday. thursday night is mine and jeremys joint birthday party. we are going to a pizza place called beau jos, i think thats how you spell it. it has the best pizza of anywhere, it might even beat home..... so yeah thatll be fun. saturday i have a training day for my trip to romania. i dont know exactly what a "training day" is but im sure ill find out when i get there. since it is like seven hours and all... but dont worry about me, ill still get the essays done, i always do.

well the person on the flute keeps messing up there scale and it makes me laugh everytime, i feel like a mean person. hopefully karissa will be done soon and we can go back and decorate some more and watch the movie elf.

i post some pictures.

k bye.

home sweet home

i am so lame. i made this completly awesome blog that people actually read and yet i have abandoned it. i got carried away by other priorities, school, friends, the outdoors, and going home.

last week i went home. seeing my family was perfect and everything that i hoped for. i ate a TON and played a lot of guitar hero. it was sweet. although i must admit that i was real disappointed with the weather. honestly, rain in november? come on world. whats happening. so there was no snowboarding for me. and no sledding. hopefully by christmas. it was nice to see shay and a few others but im sure next break will be better when people actually go home. im really looking forward to that. it was my birthday on thursday, thanksgiving day, it was exciting. i got some giftcards to where i needed them, some tasty chocolate, a movie, and a snowboard bag. i was very happy.

thanksgiving was a whole other story in itself. we drove out to cooper landing in the worst weather possible. pouring rain and terrible wind. we barely made it. we got o the cabin and dropped some stuff off and then went down the road to my aunts house where we proceeded to get dinner ready. my cousin katie was there who i love to death and i was so excited to see her. aunt cissy, our new uncle, step uncle? im not quite sure what to call him, so ill just call him nick. he is amazing and i really like him a lot. then his daughter alex, and my dad and brother were all there, ohh and my mom. so it was cozy.

five minutes after we started cooking, katie and i had just started to cut potatoes, the power went out. it was still kind of light outside but it would be getting dark soon. we got out candles and lanterns. then we realized the water was off too. this made the night so eventful. nick got us buckets of water from the creek which we used to cook our food, wash our hands, and flush the toilet. we even boiled it and washed dishes in it. the it got dark and a million candles were lit around the house. dinner was complete. we had a wood stove going and we sat down to eat by candle light. surprisingly the food was the best thanksgiving food that i had ever had. everything was perfect and amazing. ahhh i cant even explain. after dinner and the long process of washing dishes we played the game apples to apples and finally the power came back on at about eleven.

overall being home was a lot of fun. the end of the trip was better than the beginning so i was kind of sad to leave but it is a joy to be back in colorado. when i walked in there were decorations everywhere from my roommate. it was a great surprise. and now she is home and i am happy. the end.

ill write more often i promise.