Playoffs Round Two...

The Lady Celts have done it again! In a stunning 50-47 victory, McNary defeated the Tigard Tigers to advance to the State tournament for the first time ever. The guys play on Tuesday at 7 p.m. at what's likely to be a sold-out game.

Choir had ANOTHER good rehearsal on Friday.

Life is amazing.

Soooo...

I got grounded from the computer because I refused to get off...so I've been gone the last couple of days. Anyhoo, good news is that I wrote and recorded a new song, which I've officially posted on Myspace at www.myspace.com/jessgmez.

That night I spent an hour talking to Hannah, and it was great having a conversation with someone who uses more than three words in a sentence, and occasionally uses words I have to think about to actually understand them. Quite refreshing.

Last night, McNary's guy's basketball team clinched the league title, and I believe this is the first time in school history the guys and girls were league champs at the same time.

Wrestling came in second at districts, but the individual wrestlers who qualified for state are wrestling as I write this, and I wish them the best of luck. We already have people in the semi-finals.

Tonight's the second round of the playoffs for the girls, who had a bye for the first week, being league champs and all, so I'm going to go root for them tonight. If they win, they continue on to the quarters, semis, and finally the finals, if they continue to win.

The guys play Tuesday.

Tuesday Music Night...

Jaw dropper. We got to rehearse mixed, and we were almost always a cappella. Our small group of what must have been no more than 80 sounded AMAZING. These are the nights I get really pumped for what we do at McNary. Concert Choir is amazing.

McNary won tonight. One more game 'till both the guys and the girls take the CVC titles. (the girls already did)

Concordia...

was the most amazing choir I've EVER listened to!!!
I seriously can't believe it.
I'm literally speechless...

Living Life...

One day at a time.

Yesterday was family game night, and I got schooled at Monopoly by my cousin.

Today I go up to Portland for the Concordia concert. This excites me tremendously.

People tell me the music was really good in sunday school. I simply gag, smile and say, "thank you." Uggh. It really didn't go so well.

Anyhoo, concert March 9th at a yet undecided location. Everyone (who I can only confirm to be all of two people right now) should come! (the fact that one of those people lives in Central California does not help at ALL!)

Okay, so as nobody guessed, my next blog will be a new piece, and I'll reveal the piece which was on top of my blog.

I'm So Excited...

For Sunday. I get to go to a Concordia Choir concert in Portland, directed by René Clausen. I listened to a recording of them online. They sound AMAZING!!! I simply can't wait.

I'm also excited because our choir was sounding really good after Doctor Long from Willamette University came in and worked with us. We really actually sounded like a choir. I can't wait.
I really can't.

p.s. time is running out to guess which piece is on the top. *HINT* (It's the first movement of a 3-movement sonata by Beethoven)

Family Update...

Well...I got some news today. My grandfather is in the hospital. (again...) and this time he's retaining fluids. Basically they aren't giving him long and are putting him on hospice.
This makes me think.

I never much knew the man.

Part of this is that he was half delusional when I was born anyway.

But if I had...

What would he have been like?

What experiences would he have shared with me and what more could I have learned from him.

I've only gotten glimpses, and now I might never know.

Heavy stuff...

Never EVER...

...run full speed into a wall. Wooden or otherwise. Stupid.
Really.
Don't do it.

And stay in school.

Don't do drugs.

Well today was yet another example of why our choir will place 3rd at state at best. As good as we sound, we haven't yet crossed the line where we convey the emotion of the song to the audience. *sigh* I really wish they would listen to Mr. Taylor. *SIGH* Allright, if I keep this up, I'm going to get depressed over my choir, so tata untill tomorrow.

And you're all running out of time to guess the first piece of music.

These Are Good Days to Be A Blazer...

A game-high 31 minutes of play, 14 points, 6 for 7 shooting, five rebounds, five assists.
Who could this be, other than Brandon Roy in the All-Star Game?



Rudy Fernandez was spectacular in the slam dunk contest, pulling off more technically difficuly dunks than the rest of the crew, and making it look easy the whole time. Too bad he was robbed of moving on to the second round. Sadly, it took him too many attempts to pull off his second spectacular dunk.

Greg Oden was scheduled to play in the Rookie game, but he was unfortunately injured in a game on Thursday. These are the mosy players the Blazers have sent to All-Star weekend in a long time.

The team itself is doing well. 32-20 at the break, they're second in the division and fourth in the conference, putting them at 7th in the NBA. There's a very good chance of making the playoffs this year, and it's exciting.

Steve Blake should be near 100% back to health for Wednesday's game.

It's so exciting!

The Weekend Continues...

And I want it to be over already. Go figure.

Well...Valentine's Day/Oregon's Birthday went uneventfully and I had no creepy stalkers propose to me. The one thing that happened is we went downtown to see Pink Panther 2, and (in this order) I saw Edgar, Rie, and Kendra Chica. Cool beans.

Today went well, as the worship team rocked out even without an electric guitarist.
I've pretty much decided that my first album will be named "Matters of the Heart".
I had a bunch of annoying middle school girls at my house. They're breaking things as we spek.

Tomorrow I get (get?) to go to Portland, and I get to go eat amazing quesadillas (good) and spend all day with one family that doesn't particularly stimulate me (bad).

So if you're bored, let's talk...




I'm bored, too.

My Plan...

Is to change the top piece of music on my blog every week, and I'm going to get a little competition going. I will post sheet music, minus composer and title. You then get to guess what piece it is. Extra points if you guess the composer. Literally extra points. I will keep a running tally week to week and post the tally week to week when I change the image. The person who has the most points at the end of a year gets a token of my appreciation...even if I have to mail it across the world to you. Point values will double if I pick a particularly obscure piece.
BEWARE: I will pick things ranging from classical to pop to jazz to orchestral to movie music to even Disney. So help me out...leave a comment with your guess and full name. Start...NOW!

Memoirs of a Directory-Chucker

So my school's choir, as mentioned in my previous post, is getting Keizer directories out to the city of Keizer as a fundraiser. (we do the job, we get the money) Today is round two. We work in two-partner teams, and last time my partner and I covered about half our route 9 hours. We finish today. I'm still a tad sick, so this will be interesting. So there is this one story I wish to share before embarking on my not-so-epic quest.

We were in a well-to do cul-de-sac dropping off these directory packages which look suspicously like the junkmail we all love to hate, and I come across a place with a "no soliciting" sign. They had two very small, very angry little dogs barking in the window. I kind of chucked the directoy and ran. (The dogs and the no soliciting sign combined gave me the creeps)
Sure enough, I'm halfway to the next house when I hear a doorknob turn, a door creak, and an angry lady comes out of the house, unleashing one of her dogs. She screams at me that there's a reason that they have a "no soliciting" sign. To which I politely respond that we're doing city business. After that, her dog's running around wildly, and she tries in vain to bring the dog back in, obviously embarrassed she was foolish enough to impede my oh-so-important work.

I got really good at throwing directories. There was a point where my partner needed another directory to finish her side of the street, so I threw one in a perfect arc that landed at her feet.
I was feeling pretty good about myself.

One more before I go. Cassidy (my partner) and I both fought to deliver to this HUGE awesome looking house. She was driving, so I beat her to it, but she then forced me to deliver to the house with the large pitbull in the front yard. I proceeded to chuck that sucker right over the pitbull's head, and hit the door really hard. By the time I got back to the car, Cassidy had the car moving and I jumped in exclaiming, "Drive, Starsky!!!"

The owner of the nice house drove past us into his driveway right on cue as I jumped into the car.

Good times...

In The Beginning...

This is interesting. It's my first time blogging on here (thank you, Hannah for the wonderful idea) and it makes me wonder something.

What is it everyone likes so much about a new beginning?

Is it the fact that it's a clean start?
Or maybe the feeling of having another chance at something.
It's possible that it's the sense of adventure that is always at the beginning of a journey.

That's what this blog is going to be; a journey.

I plan to discover myself and who I really am by what I write.

For those of you who are still confused, here's the basic idea:

1) I write what I'm up to, what I'm feeling, what's been going on.
2) I read it all over later on when I've lived longer.
3) I realize things about myself I never would have realized in the moment back then.

So hopefully this blog will become for me the place to go to for me to simply write when I have no desire, inspiration or need to write music. There's something about the written word as compared to music that is special. Maybe it's the fact that I would DIE if I had to turn this blog into a song with words. That would not be fun.

So in short, I've taken more time than I probably should.

I'm still sick and I should probably go rest.

And if my url looks funny to you, don't laugh.

It was 11 o'clock at night and I had a fever when I was creating the blog.

Go figure.

Anyhoo, talk to y'all soon. Which is funny, because as of right now, no one's read this blog.
Because I haven't posted it yet, and there are no other posts.

Well, here goes...

"Dance like no one's watching, eat like you never have before, love like no one's ever hurt you."
-My man, David Vasquez