Graduation Mandolin

I Graduated.

I walked on June 8, 2012 in a stuffy burgundy cap and gown and everything.

My mom, stepdad, sister, and a bunch of my friends were there. A couple of them were even walking with me... There were four of us graduating together.

My grandma got me a mandolin for my graduation present.

Did I play the mandolin 2 weeks ago? Nope. Not even a little bit. The only time I had even touched one was when Zach had me hold his for like 2 minutes at the Big Bear renfair.

My mandolin arrived Monday afternoon. I knew how to play 2 songs by the end of the evening.

Today is Wednesday, and I play mandolin as well as I play the guitar... Better, in fact. It is a smaller instrument, so the frets are closer together. This means that chords that I couldn't play on the guitar because my fingers didn't reach are no longer a problem.

I love this thing!

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Big Bear Pirate Faire, June 2-3, 2012

Was a blast.

My band had 5 sets a day for 2 days and started selling our first full(ish) length CD.

I met new people, hung out with my friends in Gallows Humor, had hot tub time and hotel room parties after hours. What more could you ask for?

Northwoods Resort in Big Bear is amazing, by the way. If you're ever looking for accommodations in Big Bear, go with them.

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Big Bear Victorian Faire, June 9-10, 2012

My band was only up there on Saturday. We had 5 sets again, and sold a few more CDs.

Most of the band was costumed out of my closet. Perks of having a band mate who makes costumes I guess.

We stayed at Northwoods again, had more hot tub time Saturday night, then a few of us invaded Denny's.

Sunday was awesome too. It has been a long time since I had a whole day at a renfaire that I had NO obligations, and could just run around and do what I wanted.

So I filmed Gallows Humor shows.


OH. My band's website is now up and functional... although a bit skeletal still.
Pardon My French

Moving Day etc.

Successfully moved.

Loving the new place. Kitten is still a little skeptical, but she's warming up to it.

The room here is kind of huge. I haven't had a room this big since High School when I was living at my Grandma's house. It has this really awesome sloped ceiling too.

The night before the move, I went and saw Mat's band, and gave him the guitar strap. He loved it, and used it all night.

The show was awesome. The venue had margarita pizza and Guinness. I figure that's a good dinner. Tasted good.

Flogging Molly was playing down the street, so parking was a nightmare. I had to park almost a mile away, and walk to my car in the dark. Good night to wear the trench coat I guess. At least no one messed with me.

Saturday was pretty miserable. I'm SO glad it's over. I don't know what I would have done if my Mom hadn't come out and helped - there probably would have been blood. There was a little anyway, but I'm sure there would have been more.

One of my book shelves died a horrible death. Down to two now. Don't want to have to buy a new one, so I'm really hoping that adding the scavenged shelves from the dead book shelf to the remaining book shelves will be enough.

Wednesday was finals. Breezed through the CIS final, but the math one was tough. Summation notation is a bitch, and I forgot just about everything there was to know about it. The series and patterns stuff was easy though. I just hope it was enough. I would really like to NOT have to take math over again.

Going to take something during the summer. Need to figure out what though.