Happy Anniversary!!!!!

Today is the 1st anniversary of my blog!! Thanks to all who have read faithfully over the last year. A great deal has happened since I began typing this, which you can see by the archives. I can't quite get my head around the fact that I've had this going that long...it really doesn't seem like it. My mom didn't believe me when I told her. Since I started this, Billie, Cheryl, and Jonathan started blogs of their own (not saying they are copying or anything...) and Jay has changed his. Kyle-in case you ever read this, your blog was the main thing that inspired me to write my own--not sure why, but it was. Too bad yours didn't work out so well in the end...some people are jerks.

Tonight I had an audition for a music scholarship. I sang "Music of the Night" from Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera". Since it was a short notice, I had no accompaniest and sang a cappella, but it sounded very good. I was nervous, my hands went numb and I started to shake a bit, but the sound was as good as I'd ask for. I'll let you know if they award me with the scholarship or not. (Pray hard!)

I used another Christmas gift certificate to buy "The Phantom..." movie soundtrack. It was on sale at Best Buy, so I got the full length, 2 disc version for the shortened, single disc price. The guy charged me the full price so I showed him the page I had printed out showing the sale price on bestbuy.com. Nice to be prepared in case someone wants to rip you off, which is what I expected. He discounted it and I still have a few bucks left on the card!

Also, out of all poems submitted to CU's poetry publication, only 25 poems were selected to be printed in the 04/05 edition. Out of those 25, 2 are mine!!! I'm very honored and excited--this is my 4th college level publication with my poetry selected for printing. Here's hoping for the critic's choice award!

I have more to do---I'm singing with the guys at chapel tomorrow.

Much love, thanks for reading and keep it up!

Stephen