The Phantom of the Opera

I don't even know where to begin with this post.  I could start with when I first remember Michael getting the music book from the library, or the first time I remember listening to the  first time.  Or when we bought the book for Michael, and playing and singing it with him.  According to Michael, it all started when I had to sing a solo song in a Christmas play that we did. We borrowed a cd that had the song that I was singing on it, but it also had a Phantom of the Opera song on it there. Because we heard the song on there we got the cd and the music book from the library.  However, this is one amazing musical written by Andrew Lloyd Weber.  Listening to it when you are home alone is just a recipe for singing as loudly and beautifully as you can!!  (and of course I sound just wonderful when I sing it!!!! :)) I don't even know what is my favorite song from the musical!!! They are all so good!!!  I'll just mention a few of my favorites.... ;)

"Think of me"
I love this song! It's so sweet and simple!! I love it when Michael plays it on the piano and Melissa and I can sing with him!!! So many good memories!!! :)  "Think of me, please say you'll think of me, whatever else you choose to do, there will never be a day when I won't think of you!!!" 

"Notes/Prima Donna"
I like the beginning, when everyone is confused about who is writing all the notes!!! (Firmin "...and what is it that we're meant to have wrote...  written."  But the best part of this song is when Prima Donna starts. It's such a flowing melody, and the way the parts are written on top of each other is just ingenious!!! 

"All I Ask Of You"
This song speaks for itself... just go listen to it! :)

"Masquerade" 
The coolest part in this song is in the middle when the orchestra has a part. It's like the Sibelius Violin concerto 1st movement!!! So amazing!

"Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again"
This is the most heartbreaking song in the musical!!! I could never sing this in the musical without crying!! I can hardly listen to it without crying!!!!  

Well, that's all for now! I could say a lot more, but I'm tired and I should be getting off the computer now!!! :) I hope you enjoy!!!

And I'll leave you with the wonderful Entr'act!!! 

Faithful One

So despite what I said this morning, I'm not doing the other post, that one will just have to wait. I am (as I write this) sitting in the music library supposedly doing Chemistry... anyway, I am listening to a song that has proven to be very encouraging to me. Here it is:

It's called Faithful One and it is sung by Selah on their duets album. I am not sure if I ever listened to it before two weeks ago. I had my iPod on shuffle and this song played and it was such a good song for me at the time, it brought me back to what Jesus did for me, and how no matter what happens in life He is always there and will be there for ever!!!! How amazing!!!! So many times we become so bogged down with life and trivial things we lose sight of what really matters and that is our relationship with God. This song just helped me realize that again in the past couple weeks. (and, of course, you can't forget the amazing string part in the middle!! It's always fun to be reminded why you love playing violin!! :)) "and I will worship Him, my faithful one!" :)

Something is coming...

I am only posting this because it's been a while since I posted, and I wanted to let you know that I have been working on a very cool (in my opinion) very long post!!! I will have time to write it tonight, so be on the lookout for it later!!! :) 

An Amazing Weekend

Today I am having to adjust from a pure awesome weekend, into a 'normal' week. (Normal is relative) We had our best friend family over for the weekend! It was quite a bit of fun!!! We always seem to have fun when we get together! They arrived on Friday night really early!! I don't think they've gotten here this early before, it was 11 pm when they arrived!!!! So therefore we had a whole 2 hours to talk before we fell asleep!! ;) On Saturday we played many games (Scum, Dutch Blitz, Shanghai, mafia, Slap and Scream, and Guesstures.), I of course won most of them!!! ;) Actually, the only ones I really lost were Scum and Slap and Scream.  Anyway, I think the highlight of the Saturday was when we learned "The Last Dance" from Emma!! It was so cool to learn another dance, especially that one! We are quite good at it, if I dare say so myself. On Sunday we went to church, of course, and then we invited another family over! It was not originally planned to invite them but it worked out quite well!!! Everyone had fun!! We played Dutch Blitz with teams, and I must say that when you have eight people trying to play cards in Dutch Blitz things can get quite interesting!!! :) All in all, it was an amazing weekend! I was very sad and exhausted after everyone left. However, Michael and I were bored so we invented Michael's Favorite Game 2.0!!! We can't wait to share it with all of our friends!!!! :) Anyway, I must leave you now, so I will share with you the song we danced to!

Valentines Day!

So it's been over a week since I posted!!! Oh well. I have several ideas for interesting posts that I'm going to be writing up in the next few weeks!!! Look forward to a random awesome post!!! ;) Haha! 

Anyway, today is Valentines Day, and I changed the theme on my blog!!! So now you can look at falling petals while you read my posts!!! =) The hearts should be a little bit more noticeable than the snow!  Today for Valentines Day at lunchtime, we are planning on having a little Valentines party with my nieces! It should be fun! Mom bought me some valentines to give to them, and I picked out a cake mix (cheating I know) and we made little heart shaped cakes with pink frosting on top!!!! (I colored the frosting!) Michael has other Valentines Day plans.... ;) so he's going to miss our lovely little party!!! Melissa, however, is going to be here! It's going to be so much fun having her here!  So I'm going to go and proceed with my day, but I'm going to leave you with a song. It's not  a Valentines Day song, but it's a very cute song, and I hope you enjoy it! 

What I'm Reading

I didn't do this on Saturday, so I might as well do it now! :) I'm reading a series, and I read the books too fast to do a separate post for each book. (I'd have to do a different post every other day!) I'm reading The Anne of Green Gables books! I just finished "Anne of Avonlea" today! L. M. Montgomery is such a good author!!!  I love her style, and Anne is such a relatable character to me!!! I'm going to share a few of my favorite quotes from "Anne of Avonlea" with you today! :)

"...but when all's said and done, Miss Shirley, ma'am, there's many a worse thing than a husband."
Charlotta the Fourth

"I'm sure it would be perfectly impossible to keep house with only thirty-six doilies,"
Anne Shirley

"Courting's all right in it's place, Miss Shirley, ma'am, but if you try to mix it up with cooking and scouring everything's spoiled."
Charlotta the Fourth

Well, I hope you have a wonderful rest of your week!!! :) And since it's snowy out, I'll leave you with a Christmas song!!! ;)

When We're Together!

Today is Sunday, and I know I never write posts on Sunday, but this is so worth it! :) The whole story starts with the eighth PG13 movie I ever saw. Courageous. It was amazing! I cried the whole time, but what else is new? ;) I fell in love with the song 'When We're Together' after we watched the movie and I listened to it constantly for a while. Then I stopped doing that, and just listened to it randomly. I danced around the schoolroom with my nieces and sister to it once!! It was a ton of fun!!!!! I love this song, it makes me smile, and dance, and sing!!! :) I hope you enjoy it even a fraction of what I do!!! :)