:: Brinna's ::

:: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 ::

Here's my second blog of the day...I rushed off to choir and got there right on time, amazingly. Unamazingly (I've been sick...more on that later), I could barely hit a note. Well, really, I could hit about an octave of notes (right below middle c to about the b in the middle of the staff), though none sounded very good, despite being on pitch. :) Although it was hard to get my cords to hit the proper pitch as quickly as normal...no sound would come out for a second. :)

Lots of things have happened in the past weeks. My computer crashed for no apparent reason...I checked it with a virus CD but no viruses were detected. Apparently my Windows ME decided to stop working. It would shut down when it wasn't fully booted, and it wouldn't start in safe mode either. Soo....with much ado, of course, I wiped my hard drive and installed Windows 98, after plugging it in to my mom's computer to store a couple files. (If you open up the cover of your computer and remove the hard drive, and open up the cover of another computer, you can directly plug your computer's hard drive into the other's ribbon, amd it doesn't use your computer's operating system...it's just like adding a drive to the other computer. Confused? :))
Anyhow, I put Win98 on my computer because my system restore disks got packed with the movers. I used Mom's computer to download a driver for my modem, then downloaded all the drivers onto my computer so I have sound, media capabilities, and more than 16 colors. Oh the simple luxuries in life.

This happened right before I got really sick. My voice is still gone, and the past few days I've been laying in bed asleep. I felt much better today, well enough to go to choir practice. I wouldn't have bothered except our concert is this Friday!! It's a good thing I'm a quick learner with music and I've got it all basically memorized...I don't need to practice that much at this point.

Other events in the past couple weeks:

I helped out at my church's Awana Bible Quiz as a judge. Not too bad.

My baby shower got scheduled for April 9th at 2:00 pm. I will register at Target tonight.

I finally got coordinated with the music director so I can play my guitar on stage for praise team. I've been playing about a month if you take out all the time I couldn't practice. My guitar will move farther to the side as my belly takes up more space! :) It's amazing how much God helps out in the small things. I went from knowing no guitar to using it to serve Him in so short a time!

Another new development....one you may have noticed. I've got a name up with my ticker! Andrew and I have been talking in the past few weeks about names more and more, and one day he suggested Alice. It sounded alright to me, so I wrote it down. The next day after he mentioned it to his mom, she suggested Alice Rose...which is pretty but I thought it was a bit plain, so I suggested Alicyn Rose or Alice Roslyn. Both of which were nice but didn't feel that 'perfect'. I kept going through the name books, and the name Claire never really stood out to me before but I thought it sounded nice with Alice, so I mentioned it to Andrew and he thought about it, and said he had nothing against it. We looked at other names for awhile but it just kept coming back to me, so unless we find something else really great, her name will be Alice Claire. And, btw, they're both Greek names and have the meanings of "noble, truth" for Alice and "bright, shining, clear" for Claire. (Big surprise on what Claire means, huh?) Comments are welcome....

:: Brinna 3:32 PM [+] ::
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