Listening to Music

Hello world!

I've never been big on LDS  (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) music, but today, after Young Women (I think I forgot to mention before that we are now in a very tiny Spanish branch. It feels more like home than the English wards.), we were given a CD with some. I love a lot of the hymns and stuff, but the rest of the songs they record... It's mainly contemporary, which is not really my thing. It's pretty, but it all sounds the same. There were a couple songs on it that I liked, though, so right now I'm listening to music on LDS Youth to see if there's any more that I like. So far, I've found "Glorious" sung by Russ Dixon is good, at least to me. ...I'm pickier in music than I thought...

I'm thinking that, maybe, I can find some good songs and share them with my friend... I'll call her Blondie. Blondie (who has naturally very light blond hair) is a Baptist, and she is enthusiastically Christian. One of the first things she told me when we first met was that she'd love to be a Christian singer when she grows up. She's a huge fan of religious songs, like a lot of people in the South, but she probably doesn't know that there are Mormon songs too. I didn't know until I became a Young Woman. It could be that the best way to introduce her to this church is through music... I just need to find songs I like more and figure out how to download them onto my phone for free or something.

Yesterday, there was a stake sock-hop for the youth, and my sister and I went with a girl in the English ward, which we do Online Seminary with. (Oh jeez, there's more stuff I haven't talked about than I thought.) My sister has a lot of vintage-style clothes, and so she found this as an opportunity to use her vintage-style dresses. We both dressed in 50's style dresses (we didn't win the 50's contest because we didn't have poodle skirts, but we definitely looked from the same period as the other girls that bothered to do costume) and she did our hair in vintage curls. She attempted victory rolls (that's what it's called, right?) in my hair, but my hair is so long, thick, and heavy, it took about an hour just for the 2 she made in the front. They made my hair at least 3 inches taller than it usually is. With such huge hair, I seriously felt like a cartoon character. That was kinda awesome.

The prob, Bob, was that they didn't play enough 50's music at the dance! Most of the songs were modern, but the kind that you can't dance to! What the heck?!

Afterwards, my parents took us (this is including our friend) to Steak-and-Shake, making it ironic that we were dressed 50's style, where we ate some late dinner and then went home to shower and go to bed.

Next Saturday, there's gonna be a dance for all the Spanish branches in our area. This friend might be going to it with us, since Latin parties are so much funner and she didn't get the chance to dance much at the gringo dance. (I mean, they didn't even 'jump up and down' dance like the kids in Utah do!)

Also, this week is Homecoming Week, in which they have everyone dress up as different things every day and have events and stuff. (It's like a more extreme Spirit Week, I guess.) I will tell about everything that happens next Sunday, if all goes according to plan.

Things haven't really done according to plan lately, after-school-wise. I mean, last week, I did the posts on Wednesday. I have been getting less chances to get one the computer because my dad uses it! I only get the computer for Online Seminary, and besides that, I usually can't do much because he'd want it back as soon as possible. This sucks butts, man! I keep wanting to get on, but he is a fanatic for downloading a gazillion of things, so if you get out of his account or something, it will probably cancel all of that and he'll get mad at me and I just wish he'd buy his own laptop before he yells at me for just trying to do something that's important to me like writing stories and replying to e-mails and stuff! (English learners: note that that wasn't a very proper sentence, so don't copy me.) Is he gonna force me to do everything through my phone from now on? I like my phone and stuff, but I prefer laptop over touch-screen. Y U DO DIS, DAD?

...I'm done with my dad rant.

My sister decided she would start learning a bit of ASL (American Sign Language), so both of us are watching Signing Time. They are really cute videos made by my dad's distant cousin for little kids. The way the videos are made, it is really easy to learn signs. So go watch them! They're now on Netflix!

Last thing! I finished reading Scott Pilgrim!

K bai!