Beauty and the Beast

OH MY GOSH!!!!! I can't believe it!!! Today is Friday, and I had theater.  We got out parts today and the whole way over I had butterflies in my stomach (for the first time).  Then we got there and after listening to the teacher's story about casting (he always gives a story.  Today it was about his wife's first production she ever did and how instead of getting Sleeping Beauty she got an ugly troll but everyone thought she was hilarious and it all worked out) he started announcing parts.  My heart was beating SO fast!! Everytime he said a name, it wasn't mine!  Finally, as the last name, he looked up at me and said "And Emma as Belle" I COULDN'T BELIEVE IT!!!!!!!! I STILL CAN'T BELIEVE IT!!  All week I had been telling myself "okay, emma there are other, more experienced girls who have a big chance of getting Belle" so I wouldn't take it too badly if i didn't get it.  I am so excited!!!  I don't even care that I have to fall in love with a guy!! Or that I have to sing an entire song by myself!!  Or that I have to practice all the time!! I have never been more excited!!! I'm sorry if I'm acting like this is a bigger deal than it is, but I just really thought I wasn't going to get it.  THANK YOU UNIVERSE!!!!!

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!!

So, I get my part for Beauty and the Beast on Friday!!
I'm really excited, though I don't really care who I get that much!! My audition went pretty good last week. I was sick all last week, so when I heard I had to sing again, I was so incredibly nervous!!!  I told the director, Phil, that I'd been sick, and he said that I sang good last week so it was fine.  The last class we had, Phil was wearing a pink shirt, and one of the younger girls commented on it, and Phil simply replied, "It's not pink, it's salmon" in an awesome accent and we all laughed. Phil is AWESOME!!! I am wearing a pink shirt today, because it is VALENTINE'S DAY!!! Yay!! I had a heart shaped pizza and a chocolate from Lamme's for dinner.  It was delicious!! Also, guess what I did when I got home?  Instead of doing my two-page essay for language arts, I cut hearts out of spinach leaves!!! It was an awesome waste of time!  It sounds like something you would read on MLIA.  You guys HAVE to check out MLIA (www.mylifeisaverage.com) It is so funny!!  Love you guys!! Happy Valentine's Day!

Office Trailer

Hey guys, I love this fake Office trailer, and I just HAD to post it.  I am an Office FREAK! I've seen every episode probably about two times each!!!!!!
~Emma the Rose who is obsessed with the Office~

Austin Music Chamber Center

Ugh, today was just as cold as yesterday, maybe even worse!!! I hate the cold soooo much.  It's going to snow tomorrow, so maybe I won't have to go to school.  Today I had TX history, orchestra, language arts, advisory, and spanish.  It was one of the best thursdays ever (I have this eternal grudge against Thursdays...) because I didn't get any homework and I didn't have anything after school.  I'm in this quartet group in orchestra called ACMC (Austin Chamber Music __?___ (it's probably center)) with me (I play violin), Nate (violin), Nyla (cello), Alexander (viola), and Matthew (bass).  On Monday we get to go recruiting, which means we get to get out of school pretty much the whole day and go play music at different elementary schools.  The whole orchestra has done it before, along with the choir and the band, but I was sick that day and missed the second half of it.  I can't wait to go!  We're playing this piece by Mozart called Ieine Kleine or something weird like that, but it's fun.  We're also doing this story piece where our teacher tells a story and we do awesome sound effects.  You know what's weird?  Everytime I write down a song, I keep wanting to write a little bit of it in, but it's kinda impossible! Anyway, hopefully Monday will be fun.  I'll be sure to tell you how it goes!!!! BYE

My writing

I have an account on Goodreads, this really cool website of books and stuff, and I've been trying to start a story on there forever.  I just started over, and I thought it would be cool if I kept you guys up to date on my writing too. Here is the start of the first chapter of my novel The Yellow Dog.  All the inspiration comes from my own life:

My name is Amy Dawford. I live in Boston, MA and I work for a magazine company. I'm 25 years old, I live in an apartment and I'm single. But this story isn't about that. It's about my life, or how it was seventeen years ago. It starts on April 5, the day my baby brother was born. That day was important at the time, and though it fades away over the years, to me, it is my life.
I was four years old, and my life was wonderful. I was the perfect age, not too young to be fussy, but young enough to find the wonder in everyday life. My mom taught fifth grade, and my dad was a dentist. Not too amazing, but I was fascinated. We were happy, my dad, my mom and I. They loved me as much as I loved them. They were my idols; my life. My parents were young and foolish, thinking nothing would ever go wrong. We were all like that. They thought that life was theirs, and they controlled it fully. But they were wrong. They would soon learn that life is cruel and desperate, and if anything, controls you. 

My First Day

Hello there!!

This is my first blog ever, and I'm not really sure what to write.  I'm really bad at keeping a journal, so I'll probably never write in this.  My friend Hannah showed me her blog, and I've always wanted one, so I decided to test it out.  I live in TX, so I'm used to hot weather and this week it was FREEZING!! It was so awful! It might snow this week, but I hate snow, at least down here, because it's either ice or slush, and it's always dirty! Anyway, the only thing good about this weather is that I didn't have dance.  I'm an irish dancer, and I've been doing it for about five years! It looks pretty, but it will WEAR YOU OUT!!! This semester I'm in a production of Beauty and the Beast.  It's in KidsActing.  It's only my second production, but I'm addicted to acting. I'll try to keep you up to date with that.  Other than dance and acting, I play violin and sing in choir.  Choir is fun, but I hate it when we don't sing and have to do these stupid music history packets!! I'm not sure if I'll do it next year.  Anyway, hope to write again soon! Rock out and don't be afraid to stick out like the elephant at the top!
~Emma the Rose~