Albel

7/10

It's been a amazing. emotional, and stressful few days here. I'll start off with the good things. A few weeks at the local town band, I was invited by a tuba player to go to a tuba Christmas up at the state capital. I had only heard of them, but never been to one or even played in one. I was very happy to had been invited by a long time player in one. Basically a tuba Christmas is a gathering of tuba, baritone and euphonium players who play out of a book made for the event. It is written in STAB, and you are assigned a part yo play. Thankfully I was assigned the soprano part. [hide=Wiki link.]More info just in case anyone wants to know more.[/hide] I meet up with the man who invited me, and two other tuba players that I knew very well, one a best friend. On the way up, I started feeling odd. I was hoping it was due to lack of sleep, but it wasn't. I started getting dizzy and sick. I took some tylenol and thankfully it helped out a lot. We get to practice and I felt wonderful, I was hoping that it was just it being so early in the morning. We do a straight run through of about 18 pieces of Christmas music which was the most fun I had in a rehearsal in a long time. [hide=Some pictures from tuba christmas] The banner for us Shot of the Tenor tubas My first tuba Christmas scarf and button [/hide] After practice, we had over to where we are playing at (the town mall) and shop around and grab some food. As the concert comes closer I feel that feeling again and this time I knew what it was. It was the flu, or at least the symptoms of it. I had cold sweats, was shivering, and was developing a fever. I took some ibuprofen and tried to bear through it, but I could tell it was going to be bad. After the concert, I go to the bathroom and throw up. After that I was so pale and weak. Mark (the guy who invited me) drove me and the others straight back to Princeton(where I live). He drops me off at my car and ask me if I need to go to the hospital, I say no and that my mother has everything ready for me when I get home. Somehow I drive myself home and just collapse in the living room. Mother took care of me and when I came too, I actually felt better. I was just really really weak. After I ate a little, I went back to sleep and slept till about 3 in the afternoon the next day. When I came to the next day, I felt a crap ton better. It was really like a 24 hour flu, so strange since I had revived the flu shot. As the day went along I just rested and relaxed...and then I started to get a new symptom that I had never had before. My lungs started to hurt and I couldn't get full breaths in without being in extreme pain. I was honestly scared when I went to bed, and wondered if I should go to the ER. Next day I got to a local med express and was diagnosed with bronchitis. I've never had to deal with it, so it kinda startled me that I had got it. Thankfully I am doing much better, and feeling about 85% right now. Now for the sad part. Our family are huge dog people. We own three dogs, 2 boston terriers and a mutt. One of the bostons is Ralphie, and we have his son, Roscoe. Ralphie was given to us about 2 years ago. Ralphie is my kinda dog. He is loyal, calm, and chill. He is an older dog, but still ever since he came here I've loved him. While I was sick, he also became sick. He started to have massive seziurs, that from my mother told me lasted for hours. I was so sick and drunk on nigh-quill I had no idea this was happening. Mom told me what happend and I just couldn't believe it. The next morning we took him to the vet and did some blood work. By the looks of it, it was a start of something for him that something is very wrong. For what exactly we don't know, the vet said more then likely it is a brain tumor. We bring him back home...and he just isn't the same. He isn't living, he's just there. He doesn't know me or anyone or anything. I have never been so torn in my life. I don't want him to suffer, I will refuse to let that happen. But the family wants to see if he will come around which is possible, and I want to see if he can as well. We are going to wait a couple weeks to see what happens. [hide=Couple pictures of Ralphie] [/hide] I feel like all I've done is rambled and complained, but I needed to get this off my chest. I don't have many friends and it's hard to just vent about things sometimes. I apologize.

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Came from a med-express in town. I was diagnosed bronchitis... which really sucks. My music jury has been postponed till next semester, and I might miss two more finals till I'm well enough to go back to school.

I love Rei. 10/10

Tebow does it again. Guys, I am a believer now. Granted Barber made some mistakes that cost the bears the game. But really, Tebows numbers were awful, and he somehow turns it on in the 4th quarter and overtime.

:blink: Dear god... that was so beautiful.

Is he allowed to do that? Im sure he can but still to stop a trade like that? Total BS in my opinion. He just caved to the owners talk.

Played for the first time in about a month. Really didn't miss a beat at all actually. But all the ames I played had only about half the number of people as usual. Made me kinda sad actually, so I really hope I just caught some empty games.

Though you might enjoy this Albel, maybe you have even already listen to/played some of his other pieces: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGxnfrNbUQE AH MAN!!! I've never played this one piece but I do know of it. So good :thumbup: Eric Whitcare is one of my favorite composers of the 20th/21st century :smile:

4/10

Greetings from school. Nothing to do till the band banquet at 2:00 :mellow:

So [bleep]ing cute!!

An amazing game for sure. Thinking of older games I want to get Start Ocean: till the end of time. One of my favorite JRPG's ever!

I don't understand the love for True Grit. The Coen Brothers have other, much better films. Into the Wild: Maybe a little too long, but still amazing. Sean Penn's best film for sure. I just really enjoyed it. The characters is what made it enjoyable. Into the Wild was a great movie. I should re-watch it again

:mellow: I hate doing homework for the education dept. 95% of what I write is total BS, or at least that is what it feels like to me.

:mellow: I hate doing homework for the education dept. 95% what I write is total BS

Says the kid that used to post :arrow: for every post. Your talking about me right? :arrow:

[hide=] Why? BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!! I haven't laughed so hard in my life. I was waiting for that to happen![/hide]

Yup, one of my favorite cartoon shows growing up :thumbup: