ACHOOOOOO

so along with racheypoo, i am sick. not super sick though, just sick enough to be able to function and have to go to all my commitments while still feeling like shit. you know, that kind. and i can't stop sneezing! i've never had a cold before where all i do is sneeze...it's really weird. maybe it's allergies as well. i split my thanksgiving b/w my house and patrick's and he has a cat (though she is a pretty cool cat) and they do not make my nose happy. but now i just feel yucky in general.

the talk with my parents @ thanksgiving went really well. i think my parents were more nervous for it than we were, but they just gave us advice and stuff, it was cute. i don't think patrick'll propose probably until this summer or maybe early fall, so don't hold your breath for xmas or valentine's or my bday or anything. but hopefully it will be within the next calendar year. we'll see!

i am so looking forward to tiffy's blog omg! it better be epic!

i did pretty much all my xmas shopping online today and am trying to spend <$30 for each person i'm buying for. it's hard! stuff costs lots o money! ahh!

i really missed patricey at my thanksgiving this year. eating chinese noodles wasn't the same without you.

FINALLY i had an amazing lesson with mr. kawasaki today. at the beginning of the quarter he assigned me 4 etudes from kreutzer and today was only my 2nd time seeing him, so i played all 4 etudes for him and he said that they were all "very good" which is awesome cause he hardly ever gives compliments. and i played a little bit of my concerto for him and he liked that too. so i think i'm now on his "good side" which is like a really good thing. so good, in fact, that he assigned me 7 MORE FUCKING ETUDES. 7. pretty much #9-15 in kreutzer. rach, it was really funny today because he was like going through each etude that he was assigning me and he was like "this is for string crossing" and i was thinking yeah i know cause that cray cray ped assignment we did.

anyway, i'm working on baking xmas cookies tonight and trying to practice my scales. the only scary thing that i have left this quarter is our scales test...we have to take one at the end of every quarter and we have to pick a scale (i'm doing c maj since it's my first one) and we have to play major, all 3 minors, arpeg, 3rds, 6ths, 8ves, and either an etude/orch excerpt all from memory. gaaaaaag. so i gotta try and cram all that shit in before next tuesday. ew.

also work is now CRAZY because apparently everyone and their mother waits to submit their grad school apps (well i did this actually) until thanksgiving break so then when the admissions staff comes back after break we have like 8 huge mailbins full of mail...and everyone calls at the same time asking me the same damn question, "where do i send express mail? the ups guy said i can't send it to a PO box...." and i'm like..read. the. damn. directions. in. the. application. handbook. NOBODY READS ANYTHING ANYMORE. but i actually really love work so i shouldn't complain, it's just annoying when people don't read.

is anyone else as excited about this movie as i am?!?! i'm going to see it next week. !