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| I quit my band. One year and over fifty shows later... I quit my band. I'm not sure if I'm relieved to have one less commitment, upset that such a big part of my life is gone, sad that I won't be performing out any more, or just emotional in general because it's such a change. All I can say is that when I'm home this Wednesday instead of being at band practice for the first time in a year... it's going to feel really weird.
I quit because the band is recording a CD tomorrow, we have agents who plan on getting us out playing shows three-four days a week, and we were upping rehersals to several days a week. I could already see that I'd be unable to keep up with the commitment. It's just hard because I do really enjoy playing out and the band is going to record and keep on going without me... how weird will it be to go see them play and be in the audience!?
The truth is that it's my senior year and I quit my band and I quit the Cleveland Youth Orchestra, because I want to be involved in my high school during my last year of it. Basketball, drama, schoolwork, and FUN are my focuses now.
Nonetheless it feels really weird. I called everyone in the band and they all were sort of disappointed, but they were understanding. It was hard telling my Carrie... I'm going to miss her  .
Goodbye---> www.ncweb.com/users/thegirls | | |
| Hey hey hey.... okay so I haven't updated in quite a while but... you'll have that. Things are pretty cool, as usual. My new profile picture doesn't actually have me in it... but it features two of my most favorite people in the world  Anyways, so as far as what's been up recently- I'll make use of my sweet new bullet feature and bullet off a list of what senior year has been all about...
- First Hockey game went down and Johnny Penca took off the helmet of an opposing teammate and punched him in the face... entertaining despite their loss
- Homecoming Court stuff was fun- congratulations to Miss Hope Cruz and Miss Nicki Rossi for winning and all that good stuff... we got to miss like five bajillion days of school for it, the assembly was really fun, AND we painted the tressle... all the administrators said they'd never had a homecoming court that got along so well... we're just sweet like that
- Homecoming itself was a TOTAL blast (as expected)... Highlights included Kali and I dancing by ourselves and screaming Joe Erickson's name down the hallway like the entirely intoxicated individuals that were weren't... until we found him and forced him to dance with us
- New Friend = Sam Shoemaker from Maryland (yes that is her real last name) had quite the get together at her casa a couple Fridays ago... I feel a new hang-out spot emerging
- I won Most Talkative for Senior Surveys... my lovely sister pointed out to me that most of the girls from Homecoming Court won something- Best Smile, Best Eyes, Cutest Couple, Cutest Should Be Couple... and then I won Most Talkative. She seemed to be inferring that it wasn't exactly something to be proud of... crazy girl.
- I must admit I was really dissapointed that I didn't win Most Musical- Vocal for Senior Surveys, considering I sing in a band, in Cleveland Orchestra Youth Chorus, in choir, in drama, and for majority of the school sporting events... but then again Stephanie Bird is pretty much famously amazing at singing... I should've killed her.
- My job is so easy... I just stand at a kiosk and do my homework and make around eight dollars an hour. I knew going through thousands of crappy jobs would eventually land me at the glorious Sunglass Hut.
- My band had a show at Peabody's last weekend... it was amazing! The place was packed and when we were done they were screaming for encore... I felt pretty much famous- this time the drunken people complimented me as I walked through the crowd, whereas last time I think the comment I most often recieved was, "Take it off, bitch"... something like that
- I love all my teachers this year... it's ridiculous. Like Mr. Huffman, for example, said that the equation for the derivative of a quotient is like a bad porn video... what's not to love?
- Has anyone else noticed how HOT everyone looks in their senior pictures?
- I'm in the fall play, "Tom Jones" in which everyone was perfectly casted... it's going to be funny ladies and gents, I'm warning you. And although I have no part in the overall funniness of the show, I get to be married to Jake Bearer, which is pretty much amazing
- I have straight A's!!!! Excitement = an easy senior year.
- Basketball season is coming up
Sizzlin' Seniors '06... Senior year- So far, so good... Must get to work, however, so adieu all!
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| I'm pretty excited about all these new options on the top of my xanga screen... Yippee!
So I haven't updated in over a month- and some things have indeed occurred between now and then.
I'm eighteen now! Very exciting! Props to my AMAZING best friend Miss Allison Toth who called me on midnight on August 10th when I was crying and when I thought NO ONE could make me feel better (my band is mean to me and says I can't sing- hence crying) and said, "I'm coming over and we're buying cigarettes you slut puppet." She made my night Also making my night was my cute little boyfriend Christopher who got me a beautiful ring.
Then comes my actual birthday... my parents bought Paige and I Ipods and got them engraved... and when I opened mine I laughed and informed my parental units that they wrapped the wrong Ipods for the wrong kids because mine said "Paige Hollingsworth." However, Paige's said "Paige Hollingsworth," too. Yes- that's right. My parents ordered BOTH Ipods with Paige's name engraved in them... I feel the love.
Then there was my birthday party at Allison's. Amazing. Amazing Amazing Amazing- I miss the old days when these parties weren't so far and inbetween. Davey Meyers was supposed to come but he thought it was the next day- I was quite disappointed.
School has started- it's kind of hard... I already dropped two classes- hello to me already giving up. It's no good.
I am on homecoming court Very excited about that- not to mention all the girls on it are really cool! Best Part = my date and myself get in FREE!!! That's right... $40 saved right there (Yuck to expensive tickets)
The senior class is doing all this like "bonding" stuff lately and it's been really cool. Our little tailgating party before the Hudson game was so much fun and our senior sections at the football games are amazing. I love my class and I'm so glad we're all getting along and what not during our last year together... I'm talking to people in my class more now then I have in the past three years combined. Yay 2006!
I'm not quitting my band. As much as they make me upset, sometimes I think it's good for me to hear criticism. I don't get it too often regarding my singing, and although it really hurts my feelings, I think it may make me a better singer in the end. It's just hard when I'm singing next to two beautiful and amazingly talented girls and the band is only ripping ME apart... But it's gotten a lot better recently- and at the last show I had at Fairport Beach, TWO people came up to me and told me that they thought I was the best singer in the group. Not that it's a competition between us, because it's not, but it was really nice to hear that... For once I wasn't being considered the weakest link.
Other then that, I'm still working at American Eagle and Sunglass Hut... I tried to quit at American Eagle TWICE, but they just keep asking me to stay and they'll work around my schedule. I guess that works out for me though, because I'm only working a couple hours a week and I still get that BEAUTIFUL discount.
I CAN NOT WAIT FOR BASKETBALL SEASON TO START!!!!!! YIPPEE! I have had dreams about playing basketball like every night... it's so sad- but I miss it!! The best part is that I probably won't even be that good this year... but I just love this sport (and it doesn't hurt that the girls on my team this year freaking rock!)
Drama is coming up, too... oh my gosh this year is going to be absolutely amazing! It's funny because I've been upset so much recently regarding all this band stuff, job stuff, and my ridiculously stressful schedule... but when it comes down to it I really am happy about everything.
Paige is doing really well on the volleyball team, her name has been in the paper like after every game... we are very excited here at the Hollingsworth casa- everyone should go watch their games!
KALI AND CAITIE ARE COMING TO HOMECOMING
Yesterday like 30 of us went to see "The Exorcism of Emily Rose" which was ridiculously scary. Highlights included Emily standing up and addressing the entire theater at the beginning of the film and announcing, "Excuse me- my NAME is EMILY ROSE," and Ashlie randomly pulling an apple out of her bag halfway through the movie.
Alright, I suppose that's all the important stuff- I appologize for the length of this entry, but... you'll have that. | | |
| Yes... so I felt the need to make an entry to tell a crazy story. Yesterday (Monday) I was extremely tired, so mid-afternoon time I laid down and ended up falling asleep. It was one of my only days off from work, so I was pretty excited to do something fun later on... however at 3:30 a.m. this morning I awoke in utter confusion. I looked outside and it was dark, I looked at the clock and couldn't figure out why it was already dark at only 3:30, and all the lights were off in my house. It wasn't until I really snapped out of sleep mode that I remembered what day it was and why I was sleeping in the first place. Then sure enough I realized it was 3:30 a.m.- not p.m.- and I had just taken a nearly fourteen hour long nap! I had slept my entire day off away!!! How does one even physically do that? I was very upset upon realizing that now everyone was already asleep, no one would want to go out, and within hours I had to go back to work- whereas earlier I had been excited to go out. With nothing better to do, I returned to bed and finished off the night with about nineteen and a half hours of sleep- only five short of sleeping an entire day long. This is the most pathetic story ever... if you have anything that relates, please comment so I won't feel like such a loser.
In other news, I still haven't quit my band (yeah I talk-the-talk but don't walk-the-walk apparently)... I turn eighteen on AUGUST 11TH in TWO DAYS excitement abounds. So far plans are lacking for the big day- other then going out with parental units... I'm such a nerd.
So although this happened forever ago, I felt the need to share the "melon-hunting" experience Allison, Caitie, and I had this summer. We were bored at Allison's at like 12:30 a.m. so rather then our normal late night Taco Bell ventures, we decided to go melon-head hunting. I'd never heard of this but Caitie and Allison assured me it was crazy cool. It didn't end up being too exciting, but it was a hilarious night. We started off looking for this random road that we literally searched for until 3 in the morning. In between we stopped at a gas station where random guys asked to take pictures with Caitie and I, and called in to all the radio stations requesting MmmBop. After we FINALLY found the road hours later, we stopped on the supposedly "haunted" bridge and turned off the car. Although nothing scary happened, I grabbed the keys and ran out of the car, which resulted in screaming from the other two girls who were sure they'd be abducted I will say though that those tiny roads in the middle of the woods are really scary at night. Anywhom when we finally turned the car back on we were just hearing the end of our shout out from Q104.1... so we were very excited about our radio debut. It was all in all a very fun night made out of doing literally nothing... good times, good times
Cory's secs and execs party... was awesome. As you've probably all heard- we all dressed up like "secretaries" and "executives" and although it was like 90% college kids, we all had a good time meeting people, and there were a ton of people there to meet... it was well worth Paige and I getting grounded for coming home at 2 a.m.
And last but not least, I went to the mewithoutyou concert with Kurt, Little Pants Yezza, Kristin, and one of Kristin's friends from college- and I had a really good time! I thought it was really cool- the musicians were crazy, and the opening band even had a female singer which was awesome. Highlights included getting made fun of for being unable to do a pull-up, making it to Kurt's wall-of-fame, and Little Pants getting drunk from his flask on the way home
Alright, next time I write I'll probably be a legal adult... so don't expect any of this kiddy stuff type entries... next time it will all be in adult-jargon, so don't bother reading if you don't like to seriously discuss the stock market, politics, and home gardening systems. Indeed. | | |
| What up ladies and gents? Summer is less than a month from ending... that sucks. I just got a second job at the Sunglass Hut, I'm playing summer and fall league basketball as well as summer tournaments/practices, I'm still singing in my band and doing individual competitions, I'm tutoring weekly, and I plan on auditioning for the fall play relatively soon. Hectic much?
I'm seriously considering quitting my band. We recently found out that Brittney is pregnant (hence the rushed engagement) and has been keeping it from everyone... that's crazy. Obviously with a new baby and a new marriage Britt is going to have some more important things to focus on than our little bar band. So... I'm thinking that maybe if she quits first then I won't feel so guilty for dropping out as well. Of course, my reasoning is entirely legit since the guys recently attacked me and said my sound is not good anymore and I'm not taking care of my voice or learning my parts... A.K.A. I suck... my ego can't handle the massive put-downs that are far from constructive criticism, so quitting is seeming to be a valid option.
However I must say that our last couple of shows- at PEABODY'S and at Lighthouse were awesome! Although I apparently sounded shitty at Peabody's (hence band-members attack on Anna) I was still excited because EVERYONE came to see the show- from all my fellow L.A.B.ians, to my RHS friends, to my co-workers... and even Miss Caitlin came (who has yet to hear us play) which was really exciting I sang really really well at the Lighthouse show, which was a nice come-back after not performing so well at Peabody's. We also just got a full article in Blue Eyes Magazine, so if you see a copy pick it up.
I love basketball! I came back this summer after taking a year off, and today Coach Hartmann told me that I've finally, "Wiped the dust off" so I'm finally back playing like I used to. Our tournament this weekend ended with a 3-3 record, but we played great against great teams. I'm so excited about our potential this season... Lyndsey Brandt, Raychel B'Nelli, and myself all scored game winning shots this weekend (yes we won ALL three of our wins by two-points). But what a good feeling! And may I just say that I worship the ground Miss Ali Tobias walks on... she kept us up every game- I think she seriously scored like 200 points in all this weekend. Ahhhh... I love basketball.
Yeah... so lets see here. Exciting things have gone on since my last entry, however I seem to have forgotten the majority of them. Setting off fireworks with Kurt, Caitie, and Allison followed by Giant Eagle at 2 a.m. was definitely good times. Christopher and I went and saw Carrie's musical at Willoughby Fine Arts Center last night, which was extremely cute! Parties at Marcus's house= good times... especially when Jamie and I spend the night and have to wake up at eight o'clock a.m. to go to a six hour Senior Mentoring meeting... I'm glad I have absolutely ZERO self-control. We visited Kali at camp a while ago, too, and it was nice to see where she hides all summer long!
That might be it for fun social-type outings... lets not lie, American Eagle holds my soul and more or less steals all of my time. My life pretty much revolves around it... which leaves little time for fun (loser-ness is sinking in gradually).
Alright... I suppose that's about it for "it's about damn time" xanga entry... Adieu! | | |
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