Contented

I am home.
I am happy.
All is well.

One of the craziest coolest songs ever!

So one day Mom and I were driving to Des Moines with the radio on the XM Broadway station.
We started hearing this song and then went on to talk for a while, when we started listening around 10 minutes later and listened to the radio, it was the SAME SONG!
It was this crazy song about a woman who loves blue eyed men and has a lot of babies with them.
And then she travels with all the children in a show.
Called.....'The Babylove Miracle Show'.
Or that's the nearest I can make out anyway.
.....And I have no idea who all those people in the middle are. But apparently they enjoy the show....A lot.
*helpless shrug*

But I've been looking for this song everywhere and it's not available (except for maybe buying the cd off Amazon), and I finally found it!

It's just the audio.
But.....HUZZAH!

The woman singing this, Karen Morrow, has the most amazing belting voice ever, but subsequently went on to star in several ginormous broadway flops.

So....
Enjoy the crazy, wacky, 70s-ness that is
'Babylove Miracle Show'
from 'The Grass Harp'



Babylove Miracle Show (Audio Only)
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Sometimes Rogers and Hammerstein do say it best...

I have wished before,
I will wish no more.

Love, look away!
Love, look away from me.
Fly, when you pass my door,
Fly and get lost at sea.

Call it a day.
Love, let us say we're through.
No good are you for me,
No good am I for you.

Wanting you so, I try too much.
After you go,I cry too much.

Love, look away.
Lonely though I may be,
Leave me and set me free,
Look away, look away, look away... from... me.

~'Love, Look Away' from Flower Drum Song

Focused

I'm focusing.
I have a lot of stuff to do and lot of things have mildly gone wrong.
But I'm just taking deep breaths and working through it slowly.

I've got my eyes on the prize.
The weekend.

It's mostly academic stuff that's causing the issues.
My classes are a lot harder this semester than I've had in a while, and it's just taking a lot of doing to get everything done.
Which means not much down time.
Which means I get stressed.

I like to have my down time, and usually if I'm organized I can manage to fit some in here and there.
Not this semester.
Not now anyway.
It's almost constant work just to keep up with everything.

But I'm fine.
I'm focused.
I just need to keep moving and I'll be ok.

*deep breath*


He was born a sailor's son
Nothin' came easy or free.
Suffered the squalls, all the rises and falls,
and everything else in between.
He said, 'storms always fade after they've had their way,
They're never as bad as they seem.'

As long as the river still runs to the sea,
hey, lucky you, lucky me.
hey, lucky you, lucky me.

~'Lucky Me' : Great Big Sea

We're off to see the wizard!

Tomorrow (or today rather) Michelle and I drive to Minn. to take a voice lesson from Barbara Kiereg(sp?).
Should either of us choose UofM as our grad school, Barbara would be our voice teacher so it's really important to try and get to know her as much as possible before making a decision!
I'm looking forward to the drive.
I like road trips. =D
Especially road trips with ipods. *sigh* I love my ipod hookup. It makes life happy.

Anyway, our lessons will be in Barbara's house so we won't get to see the campus yet, but we will see it on Feb 6th and 7th when we go up for our auditions to get into the grad school.

I'm not gonna lie.
I'm kinda psyched.
I really want to like UofM, but I'm witholding my judgement.
I really wanted to like Northwestern too, but I ended up strongly disliking it.
So.....We'll just have to wait and see.

UNI grad auditions are on Feb 4th. So, YIKES!
AUDITIONS = NERVE WRACKING!!!
Oh well, it's better for the vocalists than it is for the pianists.
My piano major friends are going crazy practicing like maniancs for a million hours a day, and late into the night.
I know that each specialty has its' own challenges but....
Not gonna lie.
I think pianists have it way harder than vocalists.
It's just-
they're crazy.

Moving on.
Today was choreography rehearsal for 'Pal Joey' and guess what?!?!!
I GET TO DANCE!!!!!!
They NEVER let me dance at Wartburg!
I always have to play the mom or the old lady or something. and I love dancing!
Yes, I am chubby.
But I have 10yrs of dance experience people!!
Don't put me down for the count!
Chubby girl got moves!
Anyway, we worked on the Dream Ballet today (the only dance number I'm in by the way) and I get to do a cute little bit with some neat ballet moves.
(Wish I was a little better at ballet, I'm more of a tapper or a jazz dancer to be honest)
But I have the experience and with rehearsal I will only get better. =D
I'm so excited though!
I get to dance!
YAY!

People always think I'm wierd at community theatre in the summer when I'm all like, "Choreography rehearsal! HECK YEAH! Let's dance in the 100 degree warehouse for three hours! Let's do it again! Dance till it hurts!"
But I just love to dance.
*shrugs*
What can I say.
I just gotta cut footloose.

I get by with a little help from my friends

Feeling a little better today.

The two tests are done.
(Coughenour gives the tests from HELL)
And despite some slip ups, I'm feeling pretty good about both of them.

I've got everything else under control (for now), and things are lookin' up.

Tonight I'm going to go and have fun with Emily and some peeps for her birthday.
Huzzah Emily's birthday!!!
and tomorrow we're going to enjoy a 'Rome-a-thon'. =D

In any case.
I survived.
Tonight will be fun, and so will tomorrow.

*sigh of relief*
Now I just need to de-tensify.

When the you-know-what hits the fan

Everything went to crap today.
FRICK!!


Must-

last-
to-

...end-
of-

week.....


Ack.
*head plant*