Hail to the victors and everything going alright

My mom wants to get me a computer, which we'd just sell at the end of the year. She wants to support my writing and whatever, 'cause she thinks I'm writing more than she is. I mean, sure, a computer would be cool I guess. But I think that's like... overkill. We have 3 laptops in our apartment, 2 of which I use. Those 2 are available to me like almost all the time. Whatever. She also wants me to get a cell phone for security/safety/convenience reasons. Eh.

I'm tired today. It was a half day, which meant I get lulled into this false sense of "security" where I think it's like Friday and I'm done with school for awhile. I practiced my trumpet and got on the computer for awhile. I even took a nap I was so tired. There is hockey practice tonight, but I don't think I'll go this time. My dad's going to try out goalie. Zach's pretty sick and I don't want to get sick. Ugh and then I have that geography/history test tomorrow in French. I am so going to fail. But the teacher can't really expect much of me, I mean seriously. I could have (should have) studied more but it's sort of hard. Ugh. So much work...

My dad's mom is coming over for Christmas, so yay. That's cool. And some other friends might be coming then too. It'll be awesome.

So, apparently Ms. Smith (old band teacher) has been talking about me and referring about me in class. Wow. I feel honored. That's cool! I really hate missing 8th grade band. Yeah I've said this a thousand times, but it's so stupid for me. Don't even get me started. I was about to get me started.

I've been looking at trumpets, and checking out some of the Big Ten marching bands. It's pretty cool. I added some links to some of the bands in the "check out some of these links!" area, which I recommend checking out. My ultimate goal: to get in the Michigan Marching Band. Oooh yeah. But the other bands looked cool too. It'll be tons of work, though. Football season will mean like no free time on weekends and tons and tons of practicing. My chops will get sore. But then again, they'll be strengthened by then so my chops will be like... skillfull. They play for hours at a time, whereas my concerts at Slauson probably lasted an hour, but we only played like 4 pieces. But that's like 7 years from now.

Cool band-related videos you might want to check out:
How to Make a Trumpet
How to Make a Trombone
How to Make a Flute
Michigan Marching Band plays Monty Python (part one)
Some school band plays Kenya Contrasts
Michigan Marching Band pre-game show (GO BLUE!!!!!)