Songs that Don't Exist... Yet.

Tomorrow is Valentine's Day, and for all intent and purpose the worst day of the year. I'm pretty sure that I would have this same opinion about Valentine's Day even if I wasn't single. It's very simple, really. I don't think that there should be a holiday celebrating those we love, when we should celebrate those people every day of the year, and not just on February 14th. Sure, it's nice to have an excuse to go out to dinner or give your boyfriend or girlfriend a card or candy or a stuffed animal, but really, that kind of stuff should happen randomly all the time anyway, so why is Valentine's Day so special?

I'm going to be spending my holiday at an event called Expressions: Love and Loss. Basically it's like an open mic night for poetry, singing, acting, dancing, music, and then a gallery to display visual artwork. I was originally going to sing a few songs with a piano accompaniment and let that be that, but today I decided to utilize the medium of acting instead. While I consider myself to be a triple threat, (that is-talented to some degree in the arts of singing, dancing, and acting), I do recognize that acting is my forte of the three facets, and so that's what I'm going to show off.

The problem that I am currently facing is that the scene I've decided to act out is from The Hunger Games, which is still just a book. Still not seeing the problem? I wouldn't expect you to. However, the passage I've selected involves a song. As every good reader knows, songs in books don't come with built-in melodies that sing to you from the pages. No, you have to create them in your head. So tonight, instead of simply memorizing a monologue from a book as I'd normally do, I also had to write an entire melody to go with my song. Lucky for me I found a couple on YouTube to give me a push in the right direction, but it was still more than I'd bargained for when I woke up this morning. Hopefully it'll turn out as great tomorrow night as I'm envisioning it in my head.

Why today was awesome: I got my hair French braided, and I love it when my hair is in braids. :)

My year in numbers:

How Many Books I've Read: 5.5

How Many Times I've Lost My Key: 7

How Many Bowls of Soup I've Consumed: 15