Okay, so these are the lists going on my door tonight, because I am a very forgetful person

TO BRING

-PILLOW AND BLANKET!

-Book (the Help)

-Toiletries (body wash, shampoo, conditioner, eyeshadow,  mascara, face wash, eye makeup remover, coverup x2, deoderant, blue brush, pink brush, glittery fun stuff for victory/moa)

-$ for MOA!!!!!

-CELL PHONE CHARGED AND READY!

- CAMERA CHARGED AND READY!

-iPod (FIND/BUY/BORROW HEADPHONES)

- Notebook (personal or generic… decide)

- Movies for ride home w/ family

- Geography and Spanish homework

- PENS AND PENCILS

-purse and billfold for moa

- WARM CLOTHES (hat, gloves, mittens, coat, scarf, headband, under armor shirt, ua pants, yoga pants, sweatpants??)

-Regular clothes (Jeans wore on Friday, shirt, accessories as needed, (FUZZY) socks, shoes)

- anything to keep me busy… come up with mash, coke or pepsi, ect.

-PJS! Cute preferably

 TO DO WHEN YOU GET HOME!!!!  (I love how it makes the little smileys for you! ADOREABLE)

Heeeeeyyy future me! Did you win??? Did you absolutely suck? Was the Metradome scary… fun? How was the MOA? Any cute boys? Was the hotel nice? How about your roommates? What did you do? Are you tired? Did you buy anything??? Are you sick of this? Do you wish you could just get to sleep? WELL , TOO BAD! HERE’S A LIST OF THINGS YOU ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO DO BEFORE 12:00 MONDAY MORNING!!

-          Love and kissies,

Mikaela

-          NOW ANSWER ALL OF THESE QUESTIONS IN UR JOURNAL (if done so already, answer on bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbblllllllllloooooooooooooooooogggggggggggggggggggg!!!)

-          Do any homework you neglected

-          Figure out when to make up tests….

-          Take a nice warm shower

-          Watch switched at birth to cheer you up!

-          Cry if you lost… or don’t I don’t want a headache, but you have full permission to mope over stupid pit members, Minnesota judging biases, unfair ratings, undeserved placing, unwon captions, not making finals, ect.

-          If it was fantastic and you are completely happy about your show and score and time and ect.,  you may jump around the house wearing a superhero cape singing show tunes and bragging to inanimate objects!!!

-          BE HAPPY ABOUT NO MORE MORNING BAND (except on Thursday or is it Wednesda?? Check planner on that one!) AND SNOW WHITE THIS WEEK!!!!!

-          GOOOO TOOO SLEEEEEPPPPP!!!!!

TO DO  frieday night (TIRED, idgnotre spetlling aerrors)J)

                         

-PACK ASAP ANYTHING THAT ISN”T ALREADY PACKED!!!!!

- Take a nice warm shower

-figure out itinerary (copy a couple) talk about what to do after MOA

- Eat rest of random poptart that is on ur desk, maybe a glass of ginger ale to go with it, how about some tea?

-PLUG IN PHONE Y CAMERA!!!

-SLEEEEEEPPPPPPPPPPPP

 Good night

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Now here is the urban dictionary definition of Marching Band:

	Marching Band-
	Life. Where were you Friday night? At a football game, marching at halftime. What about Saturday? Marching Contest. Sunday? Practicing for All State Band. Monday after school? Tuesday? Every other day of the school week? Marching practice. Come on, you think I have another life or something? AND THIS At one band competition, we got to the school at 2 A.M. and got back at 4 in the morning the next day. I was tired, my feet hurt and I had five shots in my coffee just to stay awake. And for that 24 hours my home was the room where we changed, my family was the band and all my friends, and heaven was those styrofoam cups of burning hot chocolate and out sock feet stepping in rain puddles while we frantically changed into marching uniforms. It's the amazing feeling you get when you finish the last note of your marching show, and the sound resonates all around the stadium, and you snap back to attention trying so hard not to smile because you're so happy AND THIS!! 1. What football team? 2. you practice 8 days a week 26 hours a day *no seriously those are the right numbers :) 3. Why is the Pit included in "marching" band? (UMMM I RESENT THIS!) 4. Why does drum line have such huge egos? 5. So, how many times have we changed this set? 6. When you can hear the band practicing at the HS, at 6:40 in the morning 7. When you get a call from a "concerned citizen" saying that the metronome wakes her up in the morning, and "would you please stop?" 8. Why is it that drummers get all the chicks? 9. Perverted, fun, long bus rides! 10.(After last marching band competition) "So, now what?" 11."NO I'M NOT MARCHING DOWN THE HALLWAY"....... "Oh... well maybe i am" AND THIS!!!!! marching band 1. A large group of people that are all family, but they all date each other. (Or something of that sort... I didn't write these. Kinda true) 2. They are ALL perverted. Every single one of them. 3. Just because the football players don't play at halftime, it doesn't mean they aren't in the band. 4. What happens on the band bus, stays on the band bus. 5. 6. The place where drummers backs will never be the same (especially if they are tenors or bass). 7. Your arms get tired of holding up that horn. (Well, I wouldn't know) 8. Laps are punishment. EVIL PUNISHMENT! 9. Just one more time means at least 4 more. 10. Uniforms: sometimes comfortable, sometimes not. Hats: annoying. "Poor" tubas don't have to wear them. 11. The pit is hard. Even though they don't march, they still play. (AGREED!!!)  12. Snare, tenors, bass, cymbals, marimba, suspended cymbal, cowbell, xylo, bells, chimes, claves, tamborine, etc.....every drummer has to know it all. 13. 40 times more means at least 4. 14. There are guys that play clarinet and flute. It's not just a girl thing. 15. There are girl drummers. It's not just a guy thing. 16. 17. This one time, at band camp.... 18. Your band director is a perfectly calm person, but when he yells, he is TERRIFYING! 20. The drum major is horrified when they get on the podium for the first time. It's a little scary up there. 21. Halftime IS gametime. 22. The band DOES pay attention to the football game. WE even have out own little cheers. 23. Those long bus rides are killer. DETAIL TEN HUT! BAND HORNS UP! 1,2,3,4 FORWARD MARCH! AND BAND KIDS! Band Kid One who is in the high school band, and more specifically, the marching band. Probably some of the biggest perverts you will ever happen upon, a band kid's life centers around marching band. Their life? They have none because it consists entirely of marching band. It is worth it though and they love every minute (That they're not hating with a passion, such as parades.) Most wouldn't trade it for the world. Roll stepping your way through band camp, 'band bus' rides and the shenanigans that go on, competitions and practice. This is our life. "Hey, you want to invite Emily to come with us?" "She can't, she has a football game to go to. Marching band and all..." "Well, how about Saturday?" "She has a competition." "Sunday?" "Practice." "Monday?" "Pep band." "Tuesday?" "Practice." "Does she have ANY day free?" "Dude, she's a band kid." HEHEHEHEHE Long post, but sooo true! Wish us luck in Minneapolis!!