Using Music in Every Day Life

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Challenge Day: learn to juggle.
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Guess what?

I'm done with school for the day :O

I don't know how I did it, but apparently I just way over-scheduled Wednesday and Thursday, so today and Monday I have hardly any work to do! Yay!!

So, as soon as Lizzy's done with her school work (it's her first year of middle school! :O), I'm going to watch The Scarlet Pimpernel. I've been having an absolute CRAVING to watch that lately. I have no idea why. It's a great movie to any of you who haven't seen it. It's about a guy during the French Revolution who annonymously rescues people from the guilitine. He goes by the name of the Scarlet Pimpernel. It's such a good movie. Anthony Daniels plays the Scarlet Pimpernel, and the lady he falls in love with is played by Jane Seymore.

**BREAKING-ISH NEWS** I actually got up to run today!! :O I know, hard to believe, isn't it? I got up at 6:50am, and was out of the house at 7:05. I was out until 7:30. I ran some, walked some, ran some, walked some. I listened to my iPod, and that was cool. I'm in about as bad of shape as I thought, but no worse. I ran from the beginning of the trail to the little picnic shelter, but that means nothing to anyone except me, lol! It's not that far, so don't be impressed. It's kind of hard to say how far it was, because the trail twists and turns so much...It's maybe twice the length of a public school cafeteria. Does that help? Lol! :)

Lately music has helped me in a lot of areas. It made running more enjoyable, and I listened to the LotR soundtrack yesterday while I did math, and the difference was amazing! I finished my math in record time, about half as long as it usually takes me, and I only missed one! Today was the same except that I got three wrong, but still. I'm WAY not a math person, so any help at all is good. If you have trouble with math homework, I definitely suggest listening to that kind of music.

Well, I still haven't picked a song to sing for the Mulan auditions, and that's not good. The audition is a week from today. Wow. Time flies, doesn't it? I gotta get my act together and pick something. If you have any suggestions, feel free to give them!

Tomorrow I am babysitting for this girl (9 years old) and her brother (4? years old). She can be kind of nightmare, but usually not to me. She actually listens to me. Why is beyond me, but that's one thing I don't have to understand. I'm just glad she does.

Book action is about zero in the writing area, reading action is maybe a three. I'm reading Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, as well as finishing up The Knight's Tale for school. HP is alright, better than the first one so far, but not super exciting yet. The Knight's Tale is about the same as it was yeterday. Pretty dang good, just kind of long.

Uhm, I guess that's about it. Sorry for the looooong post. I know I rambled about my life, and honestly, y'all probably don't care that much, lol! And I honestly can't blame you one bit.

Carpe diem, y'all!


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The Scarlet Pimpernel and Organized Chaos

Hi! Sorry about that forest post. The boredom of today was getting to my head. I'm not bored anymore though.

After watching episodes of I Dream of Jeanie until I was ready to shoot myself, I discovered a giant box of my stuff that hadn't been unpacked yet! YAY! I had something to do! I started unpacking and did that for about an hour. Then I went upstairs to fix frozen pizzas for dinner.

Yeah, I made dinner. Me. Kendra. YES, ME, OKAY?! I know I'm super not the cooking type, but I made pizzas anyway (what skillz, right?). It wasn't my idea, it was my dad's, but oh well. I can do dinner once a week. Not a problem. Hopefully.

Anyway, so I didn't burn the pizzas, but my room is a wreck now. I have half the box unpacked (it really was huge), but a lot of it I don't even want anymore. I'm just gonna give it away or store it in the attic or something. *shrugs* I don't know. But it is NOT going in my beautiful new room. Lol! I'm not really a super neat person , but I want to keep this room nice. (Organized and neat are not the same thing. I'm organized, but messy. I know where everything is, but no one else can ever find anything. Organized chaos. That's me.)

So in a second, I'm gonna try to get some sort of order back in my room before eight o'clock when the family is going to watch The Scarlet Pimpernel on TV. I reeeeeally hope it's the version with Jane Seymore and Anthony something in it. I haven't seen the "other" version, but I love the Jane/Anthony one so I hope it's that one.

The Scarlet Pimpernel is a really good movie. I highly recomend it. It's about a man who helps aristocrats escape the guillotine during the French Revolution. But it's not like a documentary or anything (considering that didn't really happen, duh), though. It's a really cool love story with lots of cool history and action and plotting and clever people. (No cute guys, but hey, the plot is better than a lot of stuff with hotties in it ;) )

Well, off to unpack! Have a good evening! Carpe noctem!