Gonna have a hard time *****in' too, but I'll help Schatzi:I'm embarrassed for them; what a schlocky question. You should have asked them if they wanted to know if you could swear a lot. :lol:

The door monstering went fine, although it was rather tiring sitting/standing there for 5 hours. Only had to be mean to a few people... :s: There was this one hilarious kid whose function I can only guess at -- hall monitor? Gopher? He was a band kid; I remember him from the bus last week, but didn't know his name. During every performance when I was sitting outside the auditorium by the closed doors (half of them I was inside), he wandered by and said something funny or just said hello. After a couple of hours, he seemed to have been awarded a weapon of sorts: a big broom handle with a tennis ball skewered on the bottom end. I gave him a hard time; he gave me a hard time; he went on about his business, whatever it was. Later I learned that the tennis ball was for cleaning up black scuff marks off linoleum! :lol:

Well, I wish I could upload an audio file. We did take video last night, but I've never tried making an audio file with that; I'm not sure I can. I've always wanted to make a video copy of some of DD's performances to share with you all, but I can't do it online -- we don't have the computer power or bandwidth to upload video.

Anyway, the performance was simply astonishing. I honestly didn't expect anything anywhere near as good. The kids just did the most amazing job, it absolutely brought the house down and much of the audience was in tears when it was over. I suppose it helped that they crucified the really cute guy the day after Ash Wednesday...

The way this thing goes is that several schools come and bring their show choirs or jazz choirs and they compete for a rating, which could be 1, 2, or 3. If they get a 2 or 1, they go on to the state competition. They also get comments and scores on different aspects of the performance from the 2 judges, and each individual solo is rated as well. Our show choir got a 1 rating and the highest total score of the day -- although we are one of the smaller schools participating. Our high school has hosted this district competition for the past 3 years; that's why I'm always working in it.

DD's solo was beautiful; she did the Mary Magdalene one where she sings "Everything's Alright" to Jesus. Her friend (that you met, Peachie) did the other Mary Magdalene one "I Don't Know How to Love Him", which was much longer and more demanding -- and she totally surprised herself by doing it perfectly and beautifully. She's never been too sure of herself on these things, so it was great to see her really nail it. The guy who played Jesus is the same kid that came over and "murdered" DD for the student film the other night, but ironically he seemed to be a perfect Jesus... He had several solos of course, and they were excellent and very moving. DD's bf on piano and a kid on drums were the musical backup and got almost perfect scores. He and DD did almost all of the music arrangements. The dancing was excellent. The local dance teacher did the choreography and I thought it was great. And the choral parts were really good too. Ever sing while you danced? I don't think I could do it.

I saw some of my old clothes up there on stage. One girl was wearing my daishiki.

Oh, I can come up with a complaint. But I think I will save it for another post.

Kiwi

Here's my complaint: I didn't want to post it in the same message as my last one, just in case there are local readers who might infer who I'm talking about.

I had a lengthy, and I do mean lengthy encounter with someone with the worst breath it's ever been my horror to come across. It was vile, it was pervasive and it spread for several feet in every direction. And I couldn't get away. I can still sort of smell it now and then a day later in a sort of phantom way. I may never be the same.

Bleeeehhhh.

Damn nice of me to share that, wasn't it?

kiwonkers!!!! again ,let me express my sincere jealousy over your delightful daughter's performances!!!MY GAWD I MISS THOSE DAYS!!!--- ds is not much of a singer BUT he is in a play this May and i shall have to look forward to that---i do miss the music though=====dd21 has been accepted to do an overseas term of her university in a Scandinavian university----she is thrilled----she wanted to be accepted to the Sydney Austrailia U but will settle for this----i am glad cause the plane ride would be alot shorter in case i decide to visit---which i would like!!!----------I AM SICK OF THIS EFFING COLD WEATHER AND I WOULD APPRECIATE SPRING ARRIVING SOON----THE SHOP IS SOOOOOOOOOOOOO BORING----NO ONE IS IN THE MOOD TO BUY GIFTWARE AND IT'S SO DRAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGG;YYYYYYYYYYYYYY-------I THINK I AM HAVIN MY WINTER BREAKDOWN---BUT SPRING IS IN THREE WEEKS RIGHT????-----KIWI---I LOVE THAT SONG THAT DD SANG---TRY NOT TO GET WORRIED----JUST LOVE IT------------WABBY--HAVE A GRAND WEEKEND WITH KAYKAY===============PEACHERS ,I NEED SOME STORIES ABOUT CUSTOMERS----MAKE THEM GOOD.HI SHATZ,SUG,AND CHERRY---HI TO PAINTY AND EVERYONE ELSE I FORGOT-----------

I accept your jealousy, Bagz. A semester in Scandinavia sounds quite delightful. Hope it's not the dead of winter when she goes. Hey, you could come to Maine on a, hmm, buying trip? and see her perform! Actually we are going to be in Caribou next weekend, but that's not for music, it's the one act play she's in.

Cool news for next summer. I have my doubts that it will actually happen, but DD's friends are contemplating all coming to the beach with us. She usually brings M, the sweetheart who did the lovely solo last night, and we share a rental house with my parents and sis and her family. M's parents have a timeshare they're not using and they found out that they might be able to trade for a week at the same beach we go to. So it would be very cheap for the kids, just the trip down and food and so on. My mother will probably have heart failure at the thought of 8 teenagers hanging around all day! We brought an extra girl with us summer before last and I swore I'd never do that again. Too crowded and too much drama. But in this case all 8 kids would stay at the condo, freeing up a room for my sister's kids. I think it would be perfect. Senior trip!! Yes, it would be coed. And a month later they'll all be in coed dorms probably, so I think I'm already over that.

And don't worry, we'll stop at Schatzi's for a couple of days on the way... :devil:

I call shotgun!

Kiwi

Winter in Scandanavia would be MARVELOUS cause you can see those lights in the sky. What're they called? Everyone would be drunk and Bagz would be happy happy happy.

Our customers are either grumpy Canadians or happy spring breakers. All the grumpy ones really are women. They watch the register and act like you're about to pocket the money you're cheating them out of. Men you could charge for three lbs. of apples when they only bought one orange and they'd never notice.

I want to go to Shotsy's also. I will bring fried chicken.

Phantom bad breath! :faint: :faint: :faint:

I love it! Well, actually, I hate it. But it cracked me up. Eeew.

Can't post now. It's dh's birthday today. I must go attend to the cheesecake. ds13 birthday party tomorrow. They are going to sit in our guest room and watch Wayne's World and Wayne's World 2, two of the best movies ever made. Right?

I :running: 3 miles yesterday.

Perfect for a bunch of teenaged boys. I wouldn't recommend watching it with them, though...

We got snow! :coolsnow: In fact it's still snowing. Yay!! :snow4:

Kiwi

Hello! Kiwi, it sounds like you all had a great time! I love that show!

I'm still plugging away... I figured out what's wrong with my knee. Iliotibial band syndrome. I've had problems with that hip for a long time, since I tried to run the Worst Marathon in the World. I'm icing and stretching and trying to fix it so I can get back into exercise. For now, I'm swimming and water-jogging.

Nothing else exciting is happening now. The kid who's barely passing high school managed to get 31 average on his ACT. I knew he would. The other one is spending the weekend doing the project he put off for the past two months. My kids are so motivated.

We've been spending the past two weeks trying to get a new car. My Forester broke two weeks ago. I think we finally decided on a Saturn Vue. I really hate car-shopping, though. Really hate it. The salesmen are evil weasels and all of the car companies are doing ugly colors this year. Blech.

Ew, I hate car shopping too. Some of the salesmen need to be hung by their ***** and thrashed with a rusty pipe. We still thumb our noses at the Toyota dealership when we go by for the way they treated us 20 years ago when I was looking for my first (only) new car (we bought a SAAB, they actually seemed to want to sell us one). Apparently though, the only thing worse than buying from a dealer is buying from a private person -- we got our first Explorer from a dealer and it was excellent until DH totalled it. Then we got another one from a classified ad, nothing but problems since. Blah.

I'm not familiar with the ACT scoring. How does that compare as a score?

Good luck with the knee. Joints are such a pain. :lol:

It's a beautiful :sunny: sunny day here. Do I have to go do something ~shudder~ active?

Kiwi

Hi Kiwi!

I'm not sure what the equivalent score would be in SAT, but it's about 97th percentile. It's good enough for him to get free money from the state for going to any college in the state.

I have a midterm to finish and we're going to try to go to the pool for a couple of hours this afternoon. Gotta get to work! Enjoy the sun!

That's great! Should be good leverage to convince him to get his grades up. I can tell you from my past year+ doing the college search/visit/application/scholarship et.al. thing that grades really are pretty important.

I am baking this afternoon. Dog biscuits. When DH came in the kitchen and asked me what I was making, his reaction was notable in its lack of enthusiasm. However the dog thinks they're pretty good. I nibbled one and found it rather tasteless, but it does have peanut butter in it, so probably tastes okay to her. Unfortunately I burned part of the 2nd batch. Touchy little things.

Well, that's my exciting day.

Kiwi

one minute kiwi claims it's snowing then she says it's a beautiful day in the neighborhood. let's keep an eye on that nose and see if it's growing.

my feet are getting used to holding me up.

I had 2 interesting people today BAGZZZZZ:

First I had to get a woman's license number because she wrote a check. She didn't carry it around but recited the number. I told her she'd have to tell me twice but when we got to the second time, she couldn't say it again. She tried and tried and got madder and madder and seemed to blame me because not used to having to say it twice!1 Her dh kind of pushed her asdide and used his credit card.

Then spring breakers! Three boys bought so much beer it made a mountain on the converyer belt. When I got done with the beer it was followed by the rest of their sustenance .. a mountain of pop tarts.

haaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!! that was good peach---NOW can't you see why we are not worried about your DS!!! he eats MUCH better food with less beer!!---and imagine not being able to lie about your licence twice in a row---what a slacker!!! also----in THESE parts!!! a nice day can include SNOW---when you have a nice snow and then it's sunny---it is a BEAUTIFUL site to behold----i am watching the oscars now---i could use some nice crunchy dog biscuits to snack on!!