Sunset Road

Me = sick.

Me = can’t breathe properly.

Me = can’t hear properly.

So yeah, that’s pretty much me right now.

Jill the Ill. No, it’s not Jill the Dill anymore - it’s Jill the Ill.

Jill now officially owns a school uniform! Shock horror! Hehe, on Tuesday I went to Oxley College to get my uniform. After a good hour (at least) of trying everything on I finally walked away with my uniform. But I just have to say this - the lady in the uniform shop, whose name I don’t know (isn’t that terrible, I know…), is sooo nice. She really is. She has such a nice, bubbly personality and is extremely friendly. But, oh my goodness - the uniform was sooo expensive, it’s not funny. Seriously. I mean, we had to buy absolutely everything, including a back pack and sports bag and all that too. Not just the uniform. Heh, but I am so glad I’m going into year 11, not year 10 or something like that. The years 7 - 10 uniform is sooo disgusting! It seriously looks like pajamas! Like it’s bad. You’d think that being a private school, it would at least have a decent uniform…hehe. But the senior uniform isn’t too bad. We did look at some second hand stuff from the shop but some of it was just so revolting. Like the second hand backpacks and sports bags looked like they’d been sitting there for the last 20 years. Really. And I looked at second hand skirts…but you know - they had ripped seams, buttons missing etc… So we ended up getting all new stuff. :S

I attended another of those essay writing classes on Monday. It was good. I even like wrote an actual essay! :O hehe. Quite a few people didn’t turn up this week though. So there were only 10 people in the class this week. 15 last week.

Oh, and do you know what’s really cool? I have downloaded Finale Notepad 2008 yesterday! It’s so much better than the previous version because…IT NOW RUNS ON WINDOWS VISTA! Because I had Vista installed on my computer last Saturday, I suddenly remembered yesterday, "Noooo….Finale Notepad’s not going to work… :(". But then I visited the website only to discover the new version is out and is Vista compatible! Happy me, happy me. And also, which is really cool, the new version lets you import midi files and export your compositions as midi files. So that’s pretty cool.

Now, I have to tell you this. I installed this new version of Finale. Then I suddenly felt this need to go and work on some of my old compositions. Now, I’m the sort of person who composes heaps and heaps of stuff. But sooo many of my compositions are "unfinished". I get so far with them, then I get sick of thinking of things to add to it…and so they’re left, just sitting there, for months on end without finishing. But on rare occasions I get these urges to go and finish them, or at least do some more work on them. Yesterday was one of these days. O.K, so I have this Canon that I started composing months upon months upon months ago. I decided I would bite the bullet and just finish it. I hardly had anything to finish. Like 20 bars or something. That’s it. But it seriously took me like a year to get around to finishing it. So here I am putting in these last few bars of this piece. I got up to the VERY LAST BAR! And I’d put in the 1st violin note. The second violin last note. The violas last note. And then, oh my goodness - the cellos last note. Finally - finished! Then I was literally a millisecond away from hitting the save button. And. *Drum roll* THE POWER GOES OUT! This is the point in the story when I nearly put a hammer through the computer monitor and nearly threw the computer out the window. However, I refrained from doing such a ludicrous thing. But. The disappointment. It takes me so damn long to get around to finishing it. And when I finally do, I put in the very last stinking note. And the power trips. Hehe, just my luck. So I went away, did a few other things. And came back and re wrote it a few hours later. Hehe. So it is now officially finished.

Well, I think I will end this blog entry on that high note - I have finally finished a composition that was buried under the dust, so to speak…and is now finished. Yippee!!

Ok, so I am really, really annoyed and aggravated. I sat down at the computer yesterday to write a blog entry. I wrote out an entire, yes ENTIRE blog entry. Then I clicked the publish button only to discover that the internet had dropped out somewhere in the beginning of my blog entry, so therefore I lost the contents of my entire blog entry. So now you all know the reason of my annoyance and aggravation. So now my mission is to rewrite yesterday’s blog entry. I would have rewritten it earlier but I just couldn’t face it after spending so much time only to have it zipped away into nothing.

Well, I can officially say that me writing my blog is pretty much completely and utterly useless. Why? Because I was interested in finding out whether anyone actually read this blog. So I got Jeremy to put a blog stats page on for me so I can track how many views I get. I don’t know whether that was a good idea or not to put the blog stats page up. It’s really quite depressing. Well, not depressing. Just, well, sad and pathetic. I have only had 4 blog views in the last 2 weeks. How bloomin’ pathetic is that? So actually, I don’t even know why I am writing a blog entry at the moment because I know I am only getting about 2 blog views a week. Hehe.

Well, I guess I shall write about my weekend, seeing as there is nothing else to write about.

Saturday…The Grandparents came and visited all day. They left about 6:00 and I madly rushed to get our dinner on the go because we needed to head out for youth group. After a very rushed dinner we left for youth group, stopping at Mittagong on the way to pick up Peter who was wanting to come to youth group too. For youth group we played “Genius”. Basically a whole heap of optical illusions, and all sorts of questions to be answered. And I sucked. Really badly. My score at the end was only 53. Which was pretty much one of the lowest scores out of the whole group. But hey, I don’t mind - I had fun anyway. Heh, and then I got to drive home from youth group. It all went pretty well till I had to do one of those damn hill starts. And I literally stalled about 10 times. Actually no, it was about 7. Alec counted for me. And he loves to keep reminding me of those 7 stalls that I did. Thank you Alec. Hehe.

Then Sunday, church at Canyonleigh. I drove to and back from church. Was good. I only stalled 3 times when I had to do a hill start hahaha. Come on, 3 is an improvement from the 7 the night before. Then basically bludged for the rest of the day after we got home from church. And had way too much caffeine. I had a real espresso coffee (yummy ) followed straight away by an entire can of coca-cola. Hmm, maybe that’s why I didn’t get to sleep till really late. Heh, nah just kidding. The reason I didn’t get to sleep till really late is because I was listening to the radio on my mp3 player till midnight. Then at midnight I thought I might be a good idea to maybe try and get to sleep.

Well, today has been fairly uneventful. I made cheese scones for Camille and I for lunch. So yum. Seriously. And I ate way too many of them. But I don’t care. I hardly ever make them and they were just too nice.

OK bye everyone, have to go now. Oh wait. What people? That’s right, I’d momentarily forgotten that no one reads this blog. So let me try that again. OK bye nobody, have to go now. Lol.

OK, so I take it the administrator of this blog (a.k.a. the brother) doesn’t particularly like my blog seeing as all other blogs on sunriseroad.net are featured on the home page, and well mine isn’t. Is my blog perhaps an embarrassment to his website? Hehe, perhaps it is :P.

So today I did what? I don’t know, the days seem to go too quickly these days. Remember the good old days when you used to think the days went for ages and ages, and it took soooo long for Christmas and birthdays etc to come around? Anyway, today…I did some OTEN. And I updated all the album artwork in my music library on the computer. Why? Who knows. And then…I did some cello practice. But didn’t get much done. Unfortunately. Then the Griffith’s came for piano lessons, so I got to watch the crazy twin boys while piano lessons were going on. Oh yes, and I did some recorder practice at some stage during the day.

Hmm…I wonder if anyone has read my awesomely awesome (*cough cough) blog yet. Haha, if they have they were probably put off from ever reading it again. It is pretty shocking. And incredibly boring. Maybe I should stop writing in this blog until I actually have something vaguely interesting to write. That could be an idea.

Alright, to close off - here is a link to an addictive game.

It’s pretty cool. Rather discouraging though when you read the comments on the game and find some people that complete the entire game in like, 2 hours….and then there’s me, I’m no where near finished. So basically - I must suck completely at the game. But it’s still cool.

And, here is another cool site.

It is another time waster. But it’s pretty awesome once you figure out how to use it.

Anyway…bye for now. Until I have something more interesting to blog about.