Tayler

Dear diary, October 7, 07

Thursday I had a band concert. I play the clarinet in the advanced band at my school and we just had our first concert. It went really well! I was super happy but surprised because it didn’t seem like we had practiced our songs that much. The concert lasted a long time because my band teacher just keeps talking to the audience. Even my parents say he just needs to shut up and let us play so we don’t have to be there all night. I agree because it is a school night and the students have other things to do like homework! I hate when teachers think they can keep you from leaving and being somewhere when you need to be. My 6^th hour teacher does that. She says the bell does not release us, she does. So she keeps us like two minutes after the bell. Well anyway he talks a lot and nobody even cares what he is saying. It went well but it lasted a long time.

Friday I had to go play with my band at a football game. It was fun! There was three bands there. Ours, another junior high band and the high school marching band. We played, talked and heard other bands play. Plus we got to watch the game. But after the game it wasn’t fun at all! My mom called me on my sisters new phone. But I was in the middle of playing a song so I couldn’t hear them. So I yelled in to the phone TEXT ME! So that I would know what she needed. So I hung up but she called back. I tried to tell her to text me again but this time she hung up on me. Then I texted them in case they didn’t hear and I told them we were still playing and for them to text me because I couldn’t hear. But they kept calling and my mom could finally hear so I said I am coming out to the car because she was there to pick me up. I went to tell my teacher that I was leaving because he asked us to so he knows who has left and who hasn’t. I couldn’t find him anywhere and my mom came up to the stadium all mad for waiting. She was giving me the dirtiest look and didn’t say a word to me. I kept trying to tell her that I was trying to find my teacher to tell him I was leaving but she just furiously walked away. I thought that she was in a grumpy mood because that morning my dad was running late so asked her to take me to school so that I wouldn’t be late. But when she was driving me to school she didn’t talk to me the whole way there just like at the football game. I was mad at her because I didn’t ask her to bring me to school my dad did. And she acted like it was going to kill her to spend ten minutes with me in the morning. I think that she was truly mad because she wanted to sleep in but she had to wake up for twenty minutes and then go right back to sleep after she got home. But later in the car I tried apologizing again but she said she was really mad at my teacher because we weren’t done when he said we would be. But when you have over 200 band students and three other school bands it is hard to be done exactly when he said and we were just finishing up. Not that I am defending him because I don’t like that he drags things out like he does, but I think everyone would be running late if they went to that game. It was hectic. And my mom was furious at my sister because my sister was trying to tell her how her phone worked and I guess my sister yelled at my mom. Now I am not taking my sisters side because I don’t agree that you should yell at your parents but sometimes my mom doesn’t listen to what you are saying, and I have yelled at her once for not listening to me and just interrupting me. But I felt bad right after it but that is your first instinct. Is to yell. So it was a good night but it turned into a bad night but it got better, I guess.

Saturday I was invited to my friend Kristen’s birthday party and I was going to go but she is an eighth grader so I wasn’t sure if I knew anyone who was going and I didn’t want to be a loner so I decided not to go. Instead I went to a wedding at my friend Nina’s house. It was really pretty. There was white everywhere with white flowers, it was literally a WHITE WEDDING! She has white pillars in her backyard and they went beautifully with the theme. Nina also invited Kelsie, Chelsey, and Jaclyn so I wasn’t the only one there. It was really funny because I saw mine and Nina’s bus driver at the wedding. Ha-ha. I was like hey isn’t that our bus driver! I wonder who she knew at the wedding. Because the lady who was getting married at Nina’s house was Nina’s aunt. So I wonder if our bus driver is related to the bride and is someway related to Nina. That would be interesting because Nina sees her everyday and doesn’t even know if she is her great aunt or something. They also hired a DJ so we were dancing on the basketball court in Nina’s backyard. And we went walking around her neighborhood and they had lime trees all over her block so Kelsie picked one and peeled it and poured the juice out and I thought it was going to be sour but it was actually sweet and really good. So I picked some and even brought some home with me. I tried some of the wedding cake but it was really gross and dry. My dad told me that the wedding cakes are usually like that after I told him how it tasted. It was a lot of fun and I am glad I went to that wedding, I haven’t been to a wedding since I was like 6. So yeah. It was nice! And it was my parents anniversary. They have been married for seventeen years! Dang, that’s a lot of years! Nina’s aunt and her new husband are going to have the same anniversary as my parents. Ha-ha.

Today my Nana is picking me up at one o’clock and we are going to hang out at her house and then my family and my Nana are going out to eat at this super fancy restaurant! For my parents anniversary. I mean this place is super FANCY! I thought this other place we went to for my mother’s birthday was fancy. It was called the Melting Pot, and it was expensive. But I asked my parents if it was like the Melting Pot and they said it is fifty time fancier then that. My dad THREE THOUSAND dollar meal! I don’t know if I believe that because he might have been over exaggerating because what a waste of money and I know it is for their anniversary but that’s insane! But it better be good food!

I am getting super excited for California! I am even going to start packing today. Only three more days and the quarter is going to be over and I am going to be in California with my best friends! What could be better? Its going to be great! Three more days! Three more days!

Love,

Tayler!