Narnia, Choir and Frogging

Choir went well yesterday.... (IDK about myself... I couldn't hear... But poeple said
I was ok.) Everyone else was perfect though. And we had a pratice again tonight, very fun.

After our choir director, Larry, told us a dozen times to get into the mikes more we decided to play 'Catholic Idol,' and each got to hold our own mike... interesting.

Narnia pratice is again tomorrow... very fun. For anyone that would like to go and see it, it will be May 4,5,6,11,12, and 13 at Captain Issac Paine Elementary School in Foster, RI. (Try to spot yours truely... look for the cute silly clumsy wood nymphs in the corners!)

Ugg... I started knitting the 2nd part of the dragon scarf only to realize I did it wrong. So I had to 'rip it' out (frogging) and start over again. Uggg.

~Amanda

Choir and Little Rays of Sunshine

It's just amazing how much a flower can cheer up a day. They are just little rays of sun shine when the sky is dark.

Yay, Church Choir today! Me and Kate sing in St. Josephs Youth Choir in Scituate, RI.

This is one of the few days that I actualy volunteered to sing a solo, and I'm very nervous about it. I feel I'm pretty good at the piano, but singing is somthing that I need a bit more help on.
I have probs finding the right note in a guitar chord, so I tend to be either a bit flat or sharp.

I practiced all week in hopes I will get it right, but I'm still not sure. Wish me luck.

But yes, try try and try again. My first attempt at the dragon scarf (as shown below,) has failed. After getting to the tail, running out of yarn, and still not getting the desired effect, I had to rip it out and start w/ a different pattern.

This one I think should work better. It is knitted in 3 parts, sewn togeather and then stuffed. (Kate helped me think up the pattern, I'm not the smart on my own!) This one will work, I hope.

Will post when finished!

~Amanda

Counting Blessings

Ah...... My newsletter is out, Narnia practice is going well, Rummy is cute, and all is right with the world.

Hmm, hmm, hmm..... I'm in such a randomly good mood today, I just can't stop thinking about all the little things that are working together to make me happy......

What kind of happy drug am I on, you ask?

The kind that has these ingredients: getting everything done that I was supposed to yesterday; getting a goodnight's sleep; waking up at a decent time this morning; not having to rush anywhere untill after lunch; and, the secret ingredients: sunshine and orenge juice.

You laugh now, but just try it. It works wonders.

I can see you're looking slightly confused, still. Wondering if there's something you missed reading in one of our posts. Well, never fear, because you haven't missed it; we just haven't mentioned it yet.

Amanda and I, and two other girls, are going to be Wood Nymphs in 'The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe,' which our local theartre group is putting on for the first two weekends in May.

Originaly, we were suppose to be in just two sceanes, at the very begining, and the very end. We were supposed to dress up, look pretty, and move a few things around on the stage. We were supposed to be pretty, composed, graceful, and largly invisible.

Well, that lasted through the first rehersal. I think they got the hint, when every one of us 'graceful' Wood Nymphs banged into this big metal door as we were exiting the stage, one after another............ Repeatedly.

After that, I noticed that the directer quickly changed 'graceful and pretty' to 'bumbling and funny.'

But they seem to like us anyway, since they've decided to extend our stage time from two sceanes to being scattered through the entire play....

Oh well. At least we're good at being the random people in the background who get to react to what the other people are saying. Anyway, it's much more fun than before, and we're all much better at it.

Now, we actually have permission to make fun of the other characters behind their backs!

Mwaheheheheheeeeee.......


~Katie