Softball

Today began the softball season for my church. This year, I decided that I wanted to play, I wasn't sure before, and I wasn't old enough, but I played today. I didn't do as well as I'd like but I had one base on balls out of three or four at bats, and I caught a foul tip when I played catcher. Julia's birthday is also today, so after the game we went and had Oberweis ice cream. Except for Kristian, he chose raspberry sorbet. Mint Chip was my choice, and Julia wanted Birthday Cake, which I thought was appropriate for the occasion. I drove to the game and back, so I'm a few hours closer to getting my license. I'm still not sure if I like driving in general; I like spinning or reading in the back seat too. Our next softball game is next Monday, so I'll probably blog about that too. We lost today, by the way.

Fiber and a new spindle!

On Wednesday, a new spindle arrived on my doorstep. Ok, well it didn't actually touch the doorstep; I grabbed it right out of the mail carriers hand. Politely, of course. It's a spindlepop, and it fits inside a mini M&M's tube.

I dyed the fiber on it with easter egg dyes. Here's another picture of it next to one of my other spindles:

 The other spindle in the picture is also 'wearing' fiber I dyed with easter egg dyes. I've been doing a lot of easter egg dyeing lately:

That's about 10 ounces of fiber that I dyed. Hopefully I'll spin it up soon and post pictures here.

 

Local Yarn Store

So, yesterday I brought about six of my hand-spun yarn skeins to Le Mouton Rouge  to try and sell it. Hopefully this will turn into a profitable business!

I made it!

I made it! I'm in Annie! I got the part of Rooster Hannigan! I can't wait!

Annie Auditions

Last night I went to audition for the Annie jr. production at my local theater guild. I think I did pretty well on the reading the lines part, but I didn't do so well on the singing. I didn't sing the rhythm quite right, and I ended on the wrong note. But, I think it went pretty well overall. I can't wait to hear whether or not I got in or called back!

Music Man

Today I went to see the play 'Music Man' that my classmate from co-op is in. I really enjoyed it, and the singing was great, as was the acting and dancing. I had also met the actress who played Miriam at church a few times, so I'm acquainted with her too. I think it's fun to see the difference between when someone acts in a play and how they are in real life. Watching the musical made me want to be in another play/musical. However, I just don't know how realistic it is, and I'm thinking I may have to choose between a play and basketball next school year, if I'm even going to be able to do either one. Oh well. 

Today I went ice skating with Rebekah and Katherine. Stephen drove us but didn't skate. Some friends from church and government class went too. I enjoyed it a lot, except for the fact that my feet and lower legs were really sore. However, they don't hurt anymore. There weren't very many people there, the people I knew outnumbered the people I didn't; which is nice, I don't like skating really slowly to avoid bumping into people.