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Name: Sarah
Birthday: 8/10/1982
Gender: Female
Interests: Music, Friends, Family, and God. Not to mention theater and racing and dance and reading. Pretty much I'm fairly well rounded. :-)
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AIM:  broadwayadict
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3/18/2006
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Comfort and Joy: Volume One
By Franz Biebl, Gregorian Chant, Peter Cornelius, Franz Xaver Gruber, Jacobus Handl (Gallus), Kenneth Jennings, Morten Lauridsen, John Jacob Niles, Christmas Traditional, Welsh Traditional, Healey Willan, Cantus Male Ensemble
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Okay so I know its been 3 months, I've gotten really bad about actually writing so heres the fast forward version of what's been going on:
I got 2 jobs, Vermillion St. Mary's (K-6, one day a week) and Lorain St. Anthony's (K-8, two days a week). They are both going well but hectic with 2 different christmas programs approaching. But I've got a few private voice students out of the older kids and I'm really enjoying working with them on solos for the program also.
I just started meeting with the kids at my third job youth leader at Henrietta Methodist church, I'm excited about doing this, but don't have a whole lot to say about it since I've only had one meeting so far (7 ish tweener girls so far)
I've started taking formal piano lessons again, cuz I need it, going pretty well, wish I had the time and money (mostly money) to get back into voice lessons. Maybe next year
Other than that I've just been here working, trying to keep in touch at least a little with people by facebook and phone.
Last weekend I made my first trip down to see Samee and it was great fun, not long enough but great fun. (FYI Stardust is a really cute movie) We really need to live much closer to each other!!!!!! (like next door  )
This weekend was really nice I got to spend time with a few high school friends and meet their spouses, it was really nice to visit with them and get to know them in their lives now (you know other than being a high schooler living in New London) The whole get together was practically an accident, just a last minute thing but I had a blast and I think everyone enjoyed themselves. As far as the actual holiday, that was really nice too, my whole extended family came to our house for the first time ever (we always get together but its never been at our house)
And everyone was able to come which doesn't always work out anymore now that everyone is growing up and married and all that jazz. It was great to see everyone and hold the newest baby (Kate is so adorable) Yesterday I went to see August Rush with my brother, it was good, I know I"m a music nerd, can't help it!
I just finished wrapping my brothers birthday presents, I can't believe he'll be 20 on thursday!!! And now I'm being a big dork and listening to christmas music while I check email, facebook ext.
Well that about covers it, I'm excited to get into the christmas season, as long as I can keep myself focused on the good parts and not the slightly lonely parts....grr I think too much Okay done with that though process back to good music seeing family and all my BG friends that I haven't seen in forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Yes Matt a lot of those exclamation points are in reference to you) Hopefully around everyones' busy schedules we can all catch up somewhere, Jeshua, hopefully we'll be able to catch each other I'm still working on Samee
Okay now I'm just rambling and no one wants to read that...
I'll try to stay on top of this better...
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| I realized the other day that I hadn't written any thing in a long time, but I didn't realize just how long until I logged on today...
I guess I kind of fell of the face of the earth there for a little while, not that I think many people read my posts anyway but it s still good to think through things on here.
So I can't believe summer is almost over, and I have to admit I'm having a really hard time with the fact that I don't have a job, I really thought I was okay with it, that was until the last of my options failed, then I realized that I wasn't as okay with having to sub as I thought. I know everything happens for a reason and I do believe it but right now its a little hard to actually live it. Sunday we moved my brother back into Baldwin Wallace, everyone is starting back up with school, school supplies are everywhere, and yet I"m going nowhere, not moving forward in any fashion anyway, I logically know that there are much worse things out there and I am lucky to have a supportive family which means I still have a place to live and eat and all that vital stuff, but I'm still bummed.
Moving on this summer was nice, busy and went by way too fast, but nice. My three daycamps were great fun and a reasonable success considering it was the first year, the only slightly disappointing part is that people just assume that my mom was responsible for them and I was helping her not the other way around, not that I need recognition, the successes of two of the singers made it worthwhile for me to do it, but it just points out how much the people here still see me as a kid, they just don't even think about the fact that it may have been me and not her. Now don't get me wrong, she definitely did all of the dance stuff and the theater week wouldn't have been the same without her and I really appreciate her help, just wish I could be seen as a grownup..... I'm really glad we did it though, I wish we would have gotten the idea early enough to do Godspell as a community production because I really wanted to be in a show this summer and nothing fit into my schedule, but next summer will do.
My best week of the summer though was my week in Dayton basically being a temporary part of the Griffith family to get ready for the wedding, I was so glad I could be there and it was great to spend the time with Samee. And it was also fun to spend time with Charmaine while everyone else was at work. Ky, unfortunately I didn't get to spend as much time with, but it was nice to do what catching up with her I did, I hadn't talked to her much in a long time, it was really good to change that! The rehearsal dinner, wedding, and reception, and family dinner were wonderful! I'm so happy for Samee and Bradey, now if only December can get here quickly so that they can live in the same place. And to make that week even better I actually went to BG first for the only time this summer and got to see a bunch of people from the Grand Rapids show! yay! And even spent time hanging out with Matt, actually talking to him instead of sleeping there while he continued working on all his stuff. It was a great trip all around! Now I just have to find time to go back up since I have his Crazy for you and Godspell scores...I'm considering holding them hostage as a guarantee to see him j/k
After that week I pretty much didn't do much else interesting, it was nice of Samee and Bradey to include me in the picnic that Randie through for them and very nice of Randie to let me stay their with the rest of the crew. That was a fun weekend for me, hanging out and visiting with Charmaine, a random collection of BG people (I'd forgotten how much I miss Chris Nicholson) and of course further comedy provided by Three.... Not the smoothest weekend ever but I was still very glad to be there.
Since then there's really nothing to report. My 25th birthday came and went, and I really appreciated all the birthday wishes and Samee's awesome flowers! But there's not really anything to tell about the day, had a good dinner here at home and that was about it. Now I'm just wishing summer hadn't gone so fast and trying to figure out if I can squeak out a job yet, and when I will be able to make the trip to NC to visit Samee!
This weekend I am participating in the Lake Erie Chorus workshop, which should be great if I can shut out the internal pity party about not having a job at the choral directors workshop...but I should be able to get in to the singing and ignore the rest. Wish me luck trying out for the solo's! Well I guess I should get on with my evening, maybe I'll manage to write again before another 5 months goes by!
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| So after a string of little fairly unimportant things, I find myself annoyed. Why is it that the harder you try to be, the "good friend" you know the one who is helpful but not obsessive, supportive but not nosey, involved but not demanding and generally just an honest, genuine, thoughtful friend, you generally get the short end of the stick? While others, just float right to the top. I guess what I'm really asking is how do you find that fine line between, putting others first, and thinking only of yourself that makes for not missing out on things but still not being selfish? If anyone has some thoughts feel free to share, I obviously don't quite have the right combination down... | | |
| So its Saturday night and I don't really feel like watching the movie that my parents are watching on TV so I'm attempting to find other things to do that still don't involve really having to work or concentrate. I have school stuff I could do but who wants to start that kind of project at 9:30 at night. Anyway I don't really have anything interesting to say. Schools okay except all of these "weather" days (while entertaining) have made preparing for my 4th grade concert on the 27th a little interesting. Other than that I really miss my friends, I'm hoping maybe next weekend will be a possibility for a BG visit, we'll see. So in short if any of you are bored in the least, give me a call I'm certainly not doing anything else. | | |
| So now that 2007 is underway I guess I am over due for an update. I had a very nice christmas break, it wasn't long enough but other than that, whats new. My problem right now is that after the rush of the holidays, I'm now very lonely. It was great at the begining of Dec. was the party in BG, got to see Samee, my thrid grade program went well then I went up to sing in Matt's churches christmas cantata, that went well and the whole weekend was nice. After I got home I was finishing up getting ready for christmas things around here Lee came home from school we did some family stuff. Then christmas itself was a very relaxed day. After christmas I went down to Dayton to see Samee and that was awsome, again no where near long enough but we had a lot of fun. Then I came home the next day spent time with a friend from HS then helped my mom get ready for the New Years party she was having at the house. New Years itself was okay, I bounced back and forth between visiting with adults at my moms party and visiting with the HS kids that were hanging out up in my brothers room. So still a little less than wonderful but at least it kept me busy. Then I headed back to school. Which pretty much brings you up to now. School is fine, I'm feeling a little behind but nothing I can't recover from. But now that I'm only doing school and not any visiting of friends it feels like its been forever since I"ve seen anyone (even though it really hasn't). I was in BG less than a month ago but it feels like it has been an eternity, anyway I guess that was a very long winded way of saying that I'm going through some massive people withdrawl. And soon my parents are going on a trip so I will be home alone, which will be wonderful for about two days, (we've all been home a lot with the holidays) after that its just going to make this lonely thing worse! Wish me luck! | | |
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