school...

yeah. so school started today.pretty exciting, considering i have a severe case of bronchitis and a really bad head cold. not only that, i didnt even have a math teacher! but i wasnt upset. no worries, they gave me one anyway (much to my misery).

but we start playing tomorrow. and i get the region music. well, actually i already had it, but considering the condition in which my room is at the current moment, i doubt that i would find it before october 6th... but that doesnt matter. i am happy because i get to play! yay. the cello i have at school sounds almost like sadie, so its all good.

thats all for tonight because i dont feel good and i cant exactly breathe. and i have homework. ont he first day. yippee.
sarah and sadie

good news, folks!

Sadie is finally in the hospital having her broken rib repaired!
YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY!
but it will take an entire month to get her back. and it is all because of those stupid kids who break their instruments and wait until the last minute to take them to the shop.

oh wait... thats sounds vaguely familiar...

the good thing is, i cracked her in a good spot. if it had been any higher up than where it is, they would have had to take off the ENTIRE front. very costly, and being a lowly lifeguard, i dont have much extra to spend on stupidity. they will just take off the bottom part of the top, glue 'er back and VOILA! all better. but its not like a dont have a cello to play because, while that would be absolutely devastating, MY SISTER GAVE ME HER CELLO!!! i think i shall name her Quincy. and she only gave it to me because she quit. hate quitters...

and when i went to the shop today, i fell in love with a VIOLIN. dont ask why, i am not very sure. it was like a dijon mustard color, and usually i dont go for yellow, but it was absolutley GORGEMOUS (maddiespeak). it looked antiquey and sounded beautiful. i am actually considering trading Quincy in for George (yes, i already named it) when i get Sadie back, only because i am trying to learn violin a bit better and i am considering having a double major in college, music being one of them. but it could be a while before i really make up my mind, so dont hate me yet, cellofolks.

and so i played Quincy tonight, and although she doesnt sound the same as Sadie, she will have to do for now. as well as playing with a violin bow because stupidly, i packed BOTH if my cello bows in my case which happens to be where? at the shop, 45 mile away.

must go practice. have fun in life- play cello!
toodles
sarah, quincy and sadie (in spirit)

cartoons, cracks and calluses

so i was watching ARTHUR (kiddie show) the other day on PBS and a cartoon version of Yo Yo Ma was on there playing his cartoon cello. and i wanted to play. badly. so i did.

i took my unrepaired Sadie darling out of her case to play her and was inspecting her cracks. they arent any bigger, but after a month of unrepairedness i am really getting nervous, especially since school starts soon and my mom wont drive me an hour to take Sadie to the shop. so i played her anyway. the tarantella. and after just three hours, i have most of it memorized. yay.

but i hate calluses. on my poor little fingertips. yup, and since i am in the water almost every day giving swim lessons, they are peeling off. and the new ones hurt. bad. but i continue to practice because i want to make state this year. and as soon as i can play the tarantella i will post an MP3 or something of it. thats all for now.
adios!
sarah and sadie

bad dream + cello = NIGHTMARE

so i had this bad dream. for anyone who doesn't know, i tripped over Sadie at a concert and cracked her in three places, luckily only on her right rib. and since we have yet been able to drive an hour to take her to the shop, she is sitting in her case because her stand rubs right where the crack is and i don't want it to get any worse than it already is.

anyway, my dream.

i was home alone for the first time in weeks and i finally got the chance to play my cello and i was ecstatic. when i pulled her out of her case, she looked alright, but i was nervous beacuse i hadn't played her since she had cracked. i started to play the lovely elgar cello concerto (this is when i knew it was a dream) but with every note i played, the cracks got even bigger! i didn't realize it, so i just kept playing. then, right before the end of the song, my cello shattered into elevendy-hundred pieces! i cried and cried, but stopped when i heard my dog drinking from the toilet. and when i woke up, my cello was fine, but Bear really was drinking from the toilet! that was 4:15 this morning and i have yet to fall back asleep, but it is now 8:33 and i am tired.

also, i decided to start learning that tarantella song. yeah, yeah, it's a little young for me, but i absolutely love the way it sounds. so i shall play it. when i get any good at it i will post a video or something to show you how it is going.

and an update on the toilet paper...
we got all of it out of the yard. hooray!
except we can't reach the top of the tree, so it is still white.

that's all for now. i have to go shopping. (yes maddie darling, i AM being social today. :D)

toodles!
sarah and sadie

Toilet paper- a love/hate relationship

DISCLAIMER: this is a celloless story. my cello is broken and i cant play her. however, as soon as i can i will write about her.

our house got wrapped last night. by my little sister's friends to celebrate the end of cheer camp. not that there is that much to wrap... our house is basically brand new and the tree is teeny tiny. but oh did they wrap good! my car, my mom's car, the roof, flowerbeds, the toothpick (our name for our tree) and all over the front lawn. yippee.

now all this wouldn't have been so bad if it hadn't decided to rain this morning. and i mean like a nice little storm thing. so now we have toilet paper sog all over and it is going to be hell to clean up.

when it finally decides to quit raining, i will take some pics of it and post it here. i just really dont feel like destroying my camera right now...