October 26, 2006

  • I had to write a melody to a given chord progression for last night's
    commercial songwriting class. It didn't take me very long to do it this
    past week--but (of course) was pretty nervous to go to class because we
    all had to play/sing our melodies for the class for critique. Everybody
    was nervous...so it was nice to know we were all in the same boat on
    that...anywho-did it and it went great. She actually said it was
    perfect and complete. "Put words to it, it's done--it's a perfect
    song--very commercial" she said. WOW. Never expected that.
    It totally blew me away. Other people also had positive feedback.
    I think I was
    blown away, mostly because other people's songs were good too, so it's
    not like while I was listening to other people do theirs (before I did
    mine) I was thinking mine was better. They all had good melodies, too.
    I was shocked, pleasantly. Needless to say, I'm gaining confidence in
    my "songwriting"--although it was really only melody writing. This week
    I have to write a chord progession and melody to a set of lyrics and
    song outline. This will be interesting.

    Our new car was doing something REALLY weird last night on the way home from school, so I stopped at a Starbucks to call Christy and arrange for her to come pick me up and drop off the van at the dealer (thank God we got the extended warranty) even though they were closed by this time. I made a couple other calls and got a drink and then got back in the car to drive over to the dealer and the problem was fixed. Poop. Although I should be grateful that Starbucks healed my van, it also makes it harder now because the dealer will think nothing is wrong. In fact, he called this morning after test driving it and said he couldn't find anything wrong. Darn it! I told him to keep checking, blah blah blah. Oh well, just an inconvenience, not something stressful. Props to Christy for getting the big-huge-warranty-that-cost-extra-money to cover things like this.

    In other news, we had a parent-teacher conference for Nathaniel today and it was awesome. He is doing really well in his class, and we are just so pleased with his school. Nathaniel is recognizing patterns and reading books and doing all kinds of things that he is learning in his classroom. We are so proud! Yay for our bright, cute little boy!

    LOST=Awesome. I loved it.
    30 Rock=much funnier than the past two weeks. Less Tracy Morgan and more other people was good. If things go on like this, I will definitely keep watching.
    The Nine=didn't watch, will have to download and watch while working out. While I wouldn't watch this show on TV normally, I will watch it on my iPod while working out. I guess that's something...

    Hopefully we'll get our cable/DVR/Internet installed today.

Comments (5)

  • LOST rocks my socks!!  Who's spine is that, huh? Huh??

  • ^^Ben's. I bet a million dollars.

  • Congrats on the positive feedback in class.  And don't you hate it when that happens?  When you take your car to the mechanic & it won't do whatever weird thing it was doing?  Drives me nuts!

  • I am going to Vanguard University in Costa Mesa.

    I am having a lot of trouble finding a church down here....it's been pretty hard lately.=(

    What church do you go to? I would absolutely LOVE to come and sing with you guys.

  • Hey, you callin' me a liar?? Actually, I totally stink at any type of photoshop, so even if I wanted to, I couldn't have. :P A friend of mine is gonna put the two together, though, so it looks like I beat myself. ;)

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