Epicosity Beyond Comprehension

Yes, I just made up that word.  But it's the best thing I can do to describe this:
It's Google Docs- for composition!  And it's free.  It's called Noteflight and it's seriously the best thing since sliced bread.  I can write and compose songs on any computer with internet- anywhere.  And it's way easier to use than Finale.

That was a 20 measure snippet of my latest project, a counterpoint duet for Connie and Jennie of "Twice Upon a Time"

I'm not going to win Script Frenzy; I've accepted this happily.  I have made great progress.  I finished my first outline EVER and it was 2.5 pages long.  WOO HOO!!!  Nothing I do is ever that short!  Anyway, I've had a major plot breakthrough.  Instead of the King and Queen sending  their daughter away to keep her safe, the bad guy kidnaps Connie, one of the twins, and accidentally looses her.  Maybe in the style of how Miss Gulch looses Toto in the Wizard of Oz.  Any ideas would be welcomed.  She ends up being raised by the Carver family until the day Jennie ventures out in the village and insanity ensues...

These are bits and pieces from their "I want" songs.  Connie's first, then they're together, (in a Distance Duet) and then Jennie.  I must say, I love Connie's melody.  It's so poignant; she's searching for where she belongs in the world.  I love it.

Anyway, good night.  I have to be at church by 7:45 tomorrow morning so I better get some sleep.  Yipes.

(wrote this post at 11:30 last night- coffee is a great thing :)
-Haili

Oh, Elli had her skating show last night.  She did "Colors of the Wind" and it was great.  I have a love-hate relationship with skating shows: I love them because they're so awesome and I like the costumes and the music; I hate them because I know that I'll never be able to do it.  I was talking to my mom about this last night.
When I told her that she said, "What do you mean, you can't skate?"
"I can't.  I don't think your skates fit me, and they hurt.  Maybe I need arch supports.  And you do not want to see me in one of those little skating outfits."
"If you skated, it would be a little skating outfit- skating is great exercise.  And my skates are formed to my feet.  You need to get them formed to yours.  And the place where we get Elli's skates has this oven thing they put the skates in and warm them up, then you put them on and mold them to your foot."
"How much does that cost?"
"It's free.  And you guys could do open skate at the Y this summer."
"We should do that then."
I've always felt like I never understood part of Elli's life, like my mom doesn't get my writing or music.  So, it would be really neat if I could at least learn to move around on the ice.  I used to hate skating because the skates hurt so bad I couldn't wear them for more than 15 minutes, let alone skate on them for more than that long.  and then we were always on the outdoor rink whenever I skated and it's hard to learn on that.  I also have flat feet like my mom, so I'm sure that doesn't help.  I still need to get inserts for my shoes.  My mom's trying to find an affordable pair.

Okay, gotta get going.

Things I've learned about driving...and having a car

So, here's my list of things that I've learned about being responsible for a car and driving it around (since I have to drive to get to school and I drive all over the place and whatnot)

1. Don't leave water bottles with water in them in your car in the middle of winter, especially if it's freezing outside
2. If you hear a little beep when you open the door to leave, it means you've done something stupid, like left your lights on or left the keys in the ignition.  If you do that, you may end up needing a jump... and that's never fun when you're stranded in a parking lot without jumper cables.
3. One way streets are CONFUSING! especially when you're turning out of a store or something and don't realize that there's a one way street divided by a median, and you have no choice but to go in the opposite direction that you want to go.
4. Detours.  Enough said.
5. Don't leave chicken in your car for a week.  It smells. (and I thought I didn't like it when it was fresh!) PU!
6. Clean up after yourself.  You'll thank yourself later.
7. Lock the doors if you want to keep stuff safe- but ONLY if you have the keys IN YOUR HAND!
8. Learn to close your glovebox, especially if it has the trunk pop button inside
9. Don't overstuff said glovebox.
10. It's easier just to open the trunk with your keys, unless you're lazy and left them in the house to grab your backpack out of the trunk...
11. Remember that dress you stuck in the trunk for the NHS induction ceremony you didn't need?  It's still there.  Don't forget it (because it's awesome and you got it at goodwill)
12. Be careful when changing CDs of your audiobook.  Wait until you're stopped.  I don't care how interesting the story is.  Or the fact that it's full cast audio.  Safety first, Haili!
13. You can sing and drive at the same time.  But driving is more important.

And now that I've given you thirteen things I've learned, I'm going to recommend that you read Thirteen Reasons Why because it just popped into my head.  It's about a girl who commits suicide and leaves tapes for all the people she's left behind.  It's sad, but interesting.  Not my usual fantasy-esqe read, but good all the same.

Also, if you have time, you should watch this video

INSANE!!! How does he do it??

The beginning of this post was from ages ago... and I have no clue what happened to the post that I tried to do yesterday.  Computers like to delete stuff.  I had a dream about monologues- I'll write more about that, blind babies, and give you my reasons for doing Script Frenzy later.

Oh, update on Script Frenzy- 21 pages!  Okay, about five of them are just place holders for scenes yet to be written, but still.  I'm working on it.  (I wrote scenes 3 and 6, so scenes 1, 2, 4, and 5 are just one page things that say stuff like "SCENE 1 "A is for Alone"" I have two pages of characters.  Lots of them.

Need to do homework now.

Adios