BIG News :D

So I have a couple BIGish things going to happen to me in my near future and I would like to tell you all about them! ...And some other things ;)
First of all though, I would like to thank all my followers for following me. It really is nice to know you enjoy reading my posts (as I read one of my fellow bloggers post :)) Its really great to read all of your blog posts as well!
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So as some of you may already know, I LOOVE music. Music is one of my main sources of life. OK maybe that's a bit of an exaduration but you get my point.... I hope. ;) ANYWAY man, I get off track quite a bit dont I? Well back to the music thing, I was wondering if perhaps any of you had any new suggestions of music for me to listen to? I am always craving some good new tunes to listen to and would love some new suggestions. I listen to just about anything but some cool little, 'not as popular' songs are really cool as well. So anything youd like to suggest to me is amazing and will be much appreciated.

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This sortof has to do with one of my BIG news stories to tell you. So about a week or two ago I went into my band teachers office to play for him to be placed in a band for next year. (It is mandatory if you want to be in band) and I didnt do as well as I would have liked to but I still did pretty good :). I have been waiting for what seems like forever to find out what band I am in and it was figuratively killing me. And to make the waiting even worse, my band teacher would tell our class something along the lines of: 'Oh ya, Ill have all that posted outside the classroom tonight.' Come back in the morning... nothings there. 'Oh ya, we'll have those posted Thursday.' Thursday rolls around... nothings there. 'Oh ya we'll have them posted by Friday.' again, nothing. And then today, FINALLY they were posted outside the classroom after school. I literally think my heart skipped a few beats when I heard they were posted. As soon as I could, I rushed down to the band room to find two pieces of paper posted on the bullitin board outside the classroom. One page had the band a step up from mine - symphonic/advanced (My band this year was the lowest band :P) and the other was for the highest band in our school- wind ensemble. I searched the names under the Symphonic one first and saw the names of two of my trumpet friends and my flute friend and many more in my class. But not my name. Then I looked at the wind ensemble list and under the trumpets.....there, was my name. Im still in shock. Its going to be quite the adventure I think. Im super excited but that also means Im going to have to make some new friends with those who are probably a school year or two older than me O.o. I was also looking on the list and theres only one person (french horn) that i know and talk to daily so theres going to be A LOT of new faces...


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My other big news has to do with my face. Now some of you may be like.... should I read this? DOnt worry its nothing bad ;) It GOOD big news. So in about a week I get my braces OFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF. And if you cant tell, im super excited. I have had these things on my face for about three years now! Dont get me wrong, I like them and appreciate their cause but its about time I get them off I think. ;) Its going to feel very, very weird though. They took some brackets off of a few of my back teeth and it feels EXTREMELY weird. I can only imagine what it will feel like with all of them off.

And last but not least, the last of my BIG news! I dont remember if I told you all this or not but just in case I didnt;
For band if you have a solo prepared, you can play it for an adjudicator with a piano accomponist during a event called District Festival, who will listen, take notes on your intonation, rhythm, sound, professionalism, etc... and then afterwords give you some advice. If you do really well, you get a 'Superior rating' meaning you are qualified to go to state; meaning you play for another adjudicator a few weeks later in the capitol of your state! Its all very exciting yet nerve- raking. So I have been taking private lesson and my tutor helped me prepare a solo for this. It was super fun to learn and such a great song. And guess what this girl was rates? SUPERIOR. :D
This Saturday my family and I are driving up to the capitol for the State Music Festival where I am playing my solo yet again (with improvements) for another adjudicator and some other soloists from around the state. I am super excited and yet nervous. But thats normal right? ;)
So now that I've chatted your ear off I better let you go for now. Ill talk to you later though! Let me know what you thinkn whatever, just leave me a comment! I love hearing from you!
~McKenna

Songs Of The Week :)

So thanks to my friend at http://christinastoreyfashion.blogspot.com/, I'm now going to do a song of the week once a week as consistently as I possibly can :) So I was checking out her blog and saw she was doing a Song Of The Week. I thought that was an AMAZING idea so I asked if I could do the same thing on my blog and she said yes. How cool is this going to be guys?!?

I actually think though, that I will do SONGS of the week because it would be IMPOSSIBLE for me to choose just one song. :)

So here are my songs of the week for this week- April 2nd, 2012:

Be OK - Ingrid Michaelson

It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) - Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra (1932) 

Why Am I The One - Fun

Non Photo-Blue - Pinback

So there ya go! A few songs for you to check out over the weekend! :D Let me know what you think about them and maybe even suggest some songs to me in a comment. I'm actually getting kind of inspired to do a few YouTube  videos of the week now. What would you think about that?  :D

~McKenna

125th birthday of world's largest observed snowflake and my playlist

On this day, 125 years ago (1887), the worlds largest snowflake to ever be observed was recorded in Fort Keogh, Montana! :D How cool is that? It was 38cm (15in) in diameter! :O Thats crazy!
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Fun little fact for the day :). So I've been adding a few more songs to my iPod and I now have 16 songs ;) Yay me! I thought it would be kindof fun to add my playlist onto my blog so you could all see what I was listening to. Unfortunetly I dont know how to add a MP3 player or anything to the side of my blog so it would be very helpfull if any of you guys had any tips on how to do that. thanks. :) [I also have the Hot Chelle Rae - Whatever - CD my mom gave me. Amazing!] Anyway, playlist:

1. Deep Shadow ("The Hunger Games" Trailer Music) --> ZerOKilled Trailer Music
2. Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall --> Clodplay
3. Good Feeling --> Flo Rida
4. Hunger --> Vitaliy Zavadskyy
5. Hunger Games! "I Wanna Go" - WinterSpringPro
6. I Like It Like That (feat. New Boyz) --> Hot Chelle Rae
7. Dowtown Girl --> Hot Chelle Rae
8. Iridescent --> Linkin Park
9. Safe & Sound (From "The Hunger Games" Soundtrack) [feat. The Civil Wars] --> Taylor Swift
10. Set Fire to the Rain --> Adele
11. Stereo Hearts (feat. Adam Levine) --> Gym Class Hereos
12. Tonight (I'm Lovin' You) [feat. Ludacris & DJ Frank E] --> Enrique Iglesias
13. We Found Love (feat. Clavin Harris) --> Rihanna
14. Why Don't You Love Me (feat. Demi Lovato) --> Hot Chelle Rae
15. 1,000 Ships --> Rachel Platten
16. Beautiful Freaks --> Hot Chelle Rae

Well I hope you enjoy :) I know, im obsessed with Hunger Games ;). Haha. Any more suggestions? Im totally still looking for some! I dont care where you're from or what kind of music it is! I love listening to all sorts of music! Check out the poll on the side of my blog aswell! Comment! Love hearing from you! Untill Next time!

~McKenna

Study, Finals, SNOW DAYS, Ipod, Study, Finals, Hunger Games, Portal, Long time no see....... *pants*

Well hey there! Loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong time no see huh? Well, lets see, whats happened since we last spoke........... EVERYTHING! Holy Camolie!

Before I begin, I wanted to share a little quote some of my classmates made up in H Geometry the other day... So they were trying to come up with good Chuck Norris quotes about triangles (because that was basically what we were working on at the time) and someone said "Chuck Norris can draw a triangle with 2 obtuse angles." The next thing they came up with was "Chuck Norris can draw a triangle with 4  angles." Of course, that still wasn't as good as it could be so they kept thinking.... Then finally:
"Chuck Norris can draw a triangle with four obtuse angles." Perfect ;)

So as some of you may know the end of the semester if actually here and gone and those of you in high-school know that meant finals. *shudders* yuck. My school splits our finals up into 3 different days, 2nd and third period for two hours each on the first day and its a half day. The second day is a regular day with the next 3 finals in it. And the last day of finals is 7th and 1st period for another 1/2 day. Well where I live, I've never EVER had a snow day in my life and we get A lot of snow during the winter. So when my school called for two snow days in a row, I couldn't believe my ears! TWO WHOLE SNOW DAYS! Back to back! :D Crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The other thing, the snow days let us have a 5 day weekend because we also got Monday off for Teacher Prep Day! Tuesday, the 8th graders came and visited the school on Tuesday so we didn't finish our finals that day either ;) he he. I just had the last of my finals today and may I say.... YES!!!! ;)

I have not posted anything for awhile so that also means I haven't posted any pictures! Check 'm out!:

Hunger Games anyone? Oh my fudging goshness..... Those books have to be like THE BEST books...... EVER! Who agrees with me? Wait before I ask you that I should probably make sure you've read them.... Have you? Dude/dudets if you haven't. Do it now! Even if you don't like reading I can almost guarantee you'll like these books. They're just ThAt GoOd! For those of you who have;

Gale or Peeta?

My friend Hannah and I have also recently been loving the game PORTAL 2! Its so fun and mind boggling :) It takes some thinking but overall its super fun. Its sortof hard to explain so I guess you could Youtube it? Its REALLY fun! :)

I hope all of you are having a great life. Good luck with school, work, and what-not. ;) Hope to hear from you soon! Comment and let me know what you think! I love hearing from you! L8tr!

~McKenna

Musings on a Sunday

Heyo! Happy Sunday everybody! haha.
So I felt like making a list of some of the things I'm really "into" recently :)

1. I've recently found a few new blogs and one of them, The Way I See The World, has really caught my eye :) One of her posts, Using The Media To Your Advantage, has been SUPER help full and I suggest you check it out! :D
2. The song "Concerning Hobbits" by Howard Shore I believe. I absolutely LOVE Irish music and all that kind of stuff. I actually used to play the violin when I was younger. I'm not exactly sure why I stopped though. :/ (I play the Trumpet now though and I really like that! :))
3. Teen Vogue. Its a really great magazine and I am actually having my mom pick me up the new one while she's out. :) Thanks Mom! :D
4. Braided Hairstyles! Today I did a Casual yet classy up do, and I really like it! :D 




OK so I know It's pretty messy and its a funky picture but its Sunday. ;) Its a day to just be lazy :)


5. My baby kitten O'Malley! He's such a sweetie pie! So cute and lovable and soft :) He's actually purring in my lap right now. :D




I took this picture of my baby the other day on my phone when he was sleeping on my parents bed. How CUTE! :)



I hope you had a great weekend! And remember, only about 13 days left 'till Christmas! :D



     

My Art

So just the other day I made this and absolutely love it! Rainbows and Music Notes! I love color and I love art so what better way then to make something that mixes them both together?!?

I may even have to post a 'How To' post one of these days. ;)