Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

Well, practicing has been going well for the most part and I'm really glad I've started again. I think it's a stress reliever as well as just makes me feel good inside. This week I've memorized all major scales and I think next week I'll continue to review and try to learn minor scales. The fact that all of these have to be two octaves pretty much makes me want to die. But I'm sure I'll make it through. I've never even attempted to memorize minor scales so I'm not sure how long this will take.... hopefully not more than two weeks or so. Music theory has done me well and I'm pretty sure I have most of my minor scale key signatures memorized so if not it will be a great learning experience :)! Other than that I've been practicing out of a really cool etude book and practicing two solos. One is the one I played at Berklee and the other is also by Strauss but I can't remember the name of it right now. The new solo is kicking my butt though. I always hate that feeling that you're playing it wrong because you're not exactly sure how ti's supposed to go. I'll have to listen to it and then practice my booty off. I'm (hopefully) planning on being able to play it through, and mostly accurate, by the end of summer that way when lessons come around all we have to do is tweak it and I can play it at Recitals and that junkers. I think that will be good practice for auditions! Other than that not much has gone on in life. I'm still with my wonderful boyfriend and still work at the same place. I was on a "healthy eating/exercise" plan but that got ruined when I didn't have money to go shopping and all that's left is junk food :/ Oh well though. I'm hoping that next week will be better! I actually can't wait for school to start. While I know I will be much more stressed out and have a million things to do, I kind of like it that way. I don't like being able to sit around my house all day doing nothing... I feel kind of worthless, you know? I'd rather know I have something to do and get it done to feel like I've accomplished something during the day! I can't wait till fall though, it will be a whole new semester with the same old people... but maybe somethings will change, You never know. Well I'm going to surf the web for a bit. Until next time, live with no regrets.