Christmas and New Years

Well things here have been pretty boring and interesting at the same time.

Christmas was ok. We had to go to breakfast with my grandmother that morning. I didn't get anything really big for Christmas. I got the DCI Finals DVDs which I get every year plus some money and gift cards. So other than that Christmas was pretty uneventful.

My cousins came up the next day. They're from Florida and they are pretty cool. Their children Zach and Laura, 10 and 9, are cool to play around with. Weird that I used to change their diapers and now they're this old haha. Anyway, they are staying at our house so it has been rather amusing with them around.

I went to the Trans-Siberian Orchestra concert in Atlantic City and it was awesome. I remember three years ago I went with Sammy when we were going out but man has it changed. They added like another hour and a half to the concert and it was awesome. I hope to be going again next year wherever they happen to be.

Friday night Justin and I went to the Phantoms game. We have all of these free ticket vouchers that my mom gets so we decided to go. It was a close game, they went into a shootout and then went to extra shooters. So it was a pretty close game.

This Friday coming up we're going again but we have two extra tickets, so if anyone wants to come just let me know. The tickets were free so you don't need to pay for them and the seats are 6 rows from the ice.

Tonight I'm going over Kelly's for New Years. The whole NYC thing fell through and she invited me over so I figure I would go. I don't think my cousins are big into the whole New Years thing so I might as well lol. From what she told me we're going to be the only non-adults there so it's more of a mutal saving each other from boredom and having to deal with them haha. I'm looking forward to it though.



You know it's pretty sad when you look forward to going back to school because your own town is so boring lol. I guess I'm so used to running around all the time up there that when I get here I dont know what to do with myself. I mean you figure I get up there I have classes, Drum Corps camps, and National Guard stuff to do. Here I have nothing to do and it kills me lol. Oh well.

The cold hard truth...

It sucks to know exactly what's missing in your life but there is absolutely nothing you can do to change it. Tonight made me realize a bunch of things and it just made me more depressed.

Home for Christmas

Well finals are over and I am home for break. It's been a pretty eventful one so far.

Yesterday I went and picked up my Jetta from the shop and it seems to be working fine now. So for all of those admirers of that weird sound when it started up, it is back on the road haha. It's weird thinking that the car has been off the road since my freshmen year. It's just been sitting around literally rotting away. But it's good to have it back.

Tonight I hung out with Kelly and helped them decorate their christmas tree, the really just wanted me to get the high places ;-) haha. Then me and her watched a movie, I don't remember the name of it but it was a really odd movie. Really hard to follow the plot because there didnt seem to be one lol. But it was just good to chill and relax with her.

I have no idea what I'm doing this rest of this week but I just hope that it is something other than sitting around the house.




You know it's weird when you realize that your best friend is exactly the type of person you want to be with. Kinda weird lol.

Finals schedule

Well I figured out my final schedule and it kinda sucks

14 Dec: Roman History 0800
15 Dec: Nation Building 0800
15 Dec: Amercian Poltics 1100
15 Dec: College Algebra 1830


The Politics final is a paper so thats not too bad, but I don't know about the Nation Building final just yet. Hopefully thats just a paper I can knock out and get not worry about it. I'm kinda interested to see how my grades turn out. I slacked a lot during the semester but I'm pretty sure I should still be okay with everything.

I will be home in NJ on Sunday, either in the late afternoon or early evening. I plan on leaving rather early that day so hopefully it won't take too long.


So yeah...that's it lol

Brigadiers camp and more...

Well this past weekend was amazing!!! It was my first camp with the Syracuse Brigadiers Drum and Bugle Corps and these guys are awesome. My section, the contra line, are definitely the best group of guys there. There were 6 of us there this weekend but from what I understand a couple of people were missing. We have a solid sound and are already starting to come together as a section in the music. In just one weekend we've become pretty close in getting to know each other. As for the rest of the brass line I don't know too many of them yet but that will all change. The battery is sounding good for only the second camp. They have an awesome on-field warmup, it's just great. I LOVe our music for this year too...

For you Twp band guys who read this, the opener is like 2001 where we did a little bit of American Elegy that led into Vesuvius, same idea here


On-field Warmup - The Great Sendoff

Theme: Images in Time

Pre-Opener- As Time Goes By
Opener- Spanish Fantasy
Ballad- The First Time I ever saw your face
Closer- Sparkling Diamonds (I think anyway)

So yeah some good music in there. My next camp is 19-21 January and I can't wait to go back!! BUY AIR MATTRESS, sleeping bags don't do the trick!! Should have remembered that one from the Cadets haha.



On to other news...

Finals start on Thursday, I have no idea when any of mine are because I've been too busy to check. But thankfully now that last week is over so now things will settle down to more of a routine more than a free for all. I do just want this semester to be over with, it was just a bad one overall I think. Probably because I had absolutely no summer break at all and just went from school, to bct/ait, to here again :-/, so yeah, looking forward to spending some time to SLEEP among other things

I plan on going to Times Square for New Year's this year, so if you want ask and I might bring you along :-P

Drill weekend

Well this weekend wasn't all that bad it was just really long. Saturday for drill my brass quintet went to the Air National Guard chow hall to play a bunch of Christmas music for them since they were having their Christmas meal. We were very well received and I don't know if that was because we were good or they were just being nice. We had a really good group luckily which is why I think we sounded really good. Sunday my group drove down to Bellows Falls and played at the American Legion post there, some infantry unit was having their Christmas party so we played christmas music once again. Saturday was our own Christmas party at night at the Lincoln Inn and it was a blast. I sat with Carrie, Niels, and Yulia so it made for some good conversations while the whole band goofed around and got drunk haha.

This week is definitely going to be a crazy one. I have a paper due at some point in the week, another one due Friday, a project due tomorrow, and finals are just around the corner. As much as I will hate it I need to spend a lot of time in the library to get away from the computer and my roommate. Not that I don't like him, he just always has people over and it gets very distracting. So in order to do well I need to get out of the room.


This coming weekend is my first weekend back doing drum corps! I'm so excited. It's going to be very hard because my corps still plays Dynasty G horns, which is totally going to throw me off with the pitches. Thankfully though they are in negotiations with Yamaha to get their new Bb horns for the entire hornline. So hopefully by January or February camp we will have the new horns. So basically once I get used to the G horns I will have to switch to Bb, GREAT! haha


So here's the plan of the week in a nutshell basically:

1. Project due tomorrow
2. Paper due Thursday I think
3. Paper due Friday
4. Pick up car
5. Go to camp and not come back until Sunday!
6. Remember to bring horn home so I can practice on it



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