You All Deserve a Good Week

My first home track meet is tomorrow and I'm excited for it.  I really think I have a chance to place if I vault like I did on Friday.  Unfortunately, there was a varsity track meet today so we didn't have practice, so I don't get a pre-meet day.  

This past week was District Music Contest.  Districts is like our State competition for music ensembles, such as band, orchestra, and choirs, except you don't get a place like 1st, 2nd, or 3rd.  Instead, you perform to be rated.  The ratings are 1-5, 1 being the superior, 2 being the excellence rating, and 3-5 really not good.

This time of year always gets stressful.  The orchestra performed Wednesday and we received a 2 rating.  I am proud of what we scored, but I was still a bit disappointed consider last year we got 1's from each of the three judges.  Saturday was small groups/solos day.  I participated in a violin trio, which I was proud to earn a 2 with.  

Now that we are done with DMC, the orchestra is preparing for our final concert.  As a whole, we voted to keep our favorite song and learn two new ones.  The songs our conductor picked for us to learn are a Sound of Music medley and a Beatles medley.  If you don't know, I was a huge fangirl of the Beatles for about a year, and I'm still a huge fan.  Tomorrow we get the new music and I'm so excited to play.

Saturday, a few hours after I returned home from Districts, my brother had flew in from Virginia as a surprise.  I haven't seen him since the beginning of the year and it was a wonderful surprise.  We played Mario Kart and, by some miracle, I beat my brother 144 points to 124.  That has never happened before.  My brother tried to use the excuse "I haven't played in the longest time," but I countered with "The last time I played was with you."

I know I'm not the best person to explain what the ridiculously photogenic guy meme is or how it came about.  This is it:

I have to agree with Deidra.  The whole thing has calmed down already.  It reminds me of the "Took and arrow to the knee" meme that only lasted a few days.

Kate