I have an Ear Training Final...

in about half an hour. I'm praying that I do okay on it, because ear training is one of the banes of my existence.

So, I know that Melina has her "life lessons" and I also feel that I should pass on pearls of wisdom. I shall call them LaDonna's Life Learnings(I love alliteration) a.k.a 3L. So here we go:
3L #1a - Despite the fact that it may look like it should, a meatloaf marinara sandwich from your school's cafeteria will not taste like Subway's Meatbal Sub.
3L #1b: You should really consider slicing your meatballs in half before you put them on the sandwich, otherwise they just roll out onto the table, the floor, your lap... etc. (courtesy of Melina :)
3L #2 - Beware of eating ice-cream cones in the vicinity of squirrels, because they just might attack.
3L #3a - Unless unavoidable, leave dressing alike to those who are identical. Katrina Olson, Dana Macomber and I learned this the hard way when we purchased matching skirts in New York and decided to wear them at the same time. Which brings me to...
3L #3b - Bring a back-up outfit for in case you find yourself in the situation of 3L #3a.
3L #4 - Do not wear a slick, velvet dress to a performance where you have to switch from your Bb clarinet to your A clarinet in the middle of a piece, because the one you set on your lap may slide off of it, bang into your stand and roll under the riser during a violin solo.

Alright, that's all that I can think of at the moment. The other day I got a craving for chips w/ pico de gallo and when I went to Safeway, it cost $3 for a tiny container of it. So, since I was feeling rather creative, I decided to make it myself. I got about $2.50 worth of tomatoes for 99 cents a pound, two bushels of green onions for 50 cents a bushel, 3 limes for 59 cents a piece and cilantro for a buck. Then I chopped up the tomatoes and onions, squeezed some lime juice, poured a little lemon juice, a little apple cider vinegar and seasoned to taste w/ cilantro, salt and pepper. And I gotta tell ya that after being in the fridge for about a day, my fresh pico de gallo was delicious and I was able to make 5 times as much was in that container for less than the price of two of them. Now, I'm not the homemaker type...or Chris...but I was actually pretty proud of doing something myself for once. Yikes, its time to head to my final!

I AM SO MAD...

AT AMERICAN IDOL!!!!!!! HOW IN THE WORLD DID CHRIS NOT MAKE IT TO THE NEXT ROUND?!?!?!?!?!? HE WAS THE BEST SINGER IN THE WHOLE COMPETITION!!!!!

Okay, I'll take the caps off now. I am just so infuriated and frustrated. I didn't get into AI until the second season when Reuben won. Again, the most talented one in that season, Kimberly Locke, didn't win. I didn't really watch the 3rd season, so I don't really know if Fantasia deserved to win or not. Though I've heard her sing a few times since then and I don't think that she's very good. Last season, Vonzell Solomon was the best, but *sigh* a black female had just won the previous season and a black male the one before that. So we couldn't have another one win or else there would be talk of racism in the show.

Coming into this season, I was already pretty sure that we would have a white male win, since we've already had two white females, a black male and a black female. And Chris Daughtry, a white male, is amazing. Yet, he didn't get enough votes to keep him on the show. Elliott and Taylor, also white males, aren't near as talented as he is and them along w/ Katherine are our final three. Thanks a lot, America. I have no qualms about Kat still being in the running(even though she won't win due to the fact that she is a white female), because she has a gorgeous voice. But since she and Chris were in the bottom two tonight, considering the great performances that Chris had last night and the mediocre ones that Kat had, any normal person would have assumed Chris in and Kat out. And as much as I like Katherine, I would've preferred it to have played out that way, because I truly think that Chris deserves to be the next American Idol. Just goes to show that talent doesn't mean a whole lot in this competition. All you need to make it on AI is to be quirky, funny looking or have a sob story that will win you a bunch of sympathy votes.

So since I've...

gotten on others' cases for their lack of blogging, I suppose that it's about time for me to post too. I mean, it's been nearly three weeks since my last one and I know that everyone is just absolutely dying to know what's going on in my life...or not.

SO, it's dead week and I have 10 finals next week. 3 on Monday, 3 on Tuesday, 2 on Wednesday and 2 on Thursday. I want to cry, I want to scream, I want to pull my hair out, I want to exert all sorts of emotions at the moment. Why, oh why, was I cursed w/ such a high susceptibility to stress? Why, oh why, did I choose music education as my major? Why, oh why, am I whining so much right now? Okay, I'm done complaining.

SO, it has been brought to my attention by a friend at school who occasionally reads my blog that I say the word SO a lot. SO, I'll attempt to stop. Okay, SO it's not working SO well. SO, what are you going to do about it? Haha, I thought it was funny.

American Idol was on tonight. I don't know why I watch it, because it is so fixed. It totally aggravates me when the judges tell someone who didn't do too well that they were fabulous and someone else who did pretty stinkin' good that they didn't do all that great. Tonight, Randy, Paula and Simon were raving and then raving some more about Elliott Yamin. I'll admit, he was okay, but nothing to do the hokey-pokey over. Then, Simon completely bashed both of Katherine McPhee's numbers. It was Elvis night, so Katherine sang an adorable arrangement of Jailhouse Rock and an okay version of I Can't Help Falling In Love With You. I do agree w/ Simon about the second one being a little over the top in the middle section, but it wasn't near as bad as he made it out to be. Yes, Katherine is one of my faves and I may be a little biased, but I'm holding out for Chris Daughtry to win, because he ROCKS!