BEST OF SHOW

currently listening to someone to watch over me

WHAT EVERY GUARD GIRL NEEDS


A good makeup remover- this is the life of guard
A good pair of guard gloves- once they are worn in you never want to throw them away or get new ones :)

A really good mascara- I love lash stiletto but there are so many more awesome ones.

A bright blush- Its fun to see guards were you can see their face from the press box

Bobby pins- they are helpful for flyaway's, broken zippers, and so much more. One should always be on hand.

Sparkles- ooo shiny!!!

Glitter hairspray- it's guard and glitter need I say more

Aqua net- Only the best hairspray known to man, it could hold my hair in a hurricane

An infallible lip color- this brand is awesome so guardy's this will last all game!!!


The perfect eyeshadow- my favorite is the body shop tones I have a silver from them that ROCKS

Today was awesome!!! The USSBA competition was crazy and now I am really exhausted but I do have something to share. I HAD MY BEST SHOW EVER!!!! I finished the show and could not stop smiling and crying lol I was so overjoyed to have such and awesome individual performance. Guard is definitely my passion and today inspired me again to want go out for a DCI core and to become a guard adjudicator, I feel like it is something I am called to be doing. God has placed a huge passion on my heart about colorguard it is my life and love it so much, like I have said before I don't know what I will do with out it. As a whole the marching band also did really well :) and I got to spend the whole day with old friends and make new ones. I really enjoy just getting to hang out with my friends, since sometimes I get so busy that I just don't have time for them and when I am not busy they are . I also got to be a band guide for an awesome high school Radford. They were so small but did awesome and there guard was legit. I loved getting to spend the day guiding and helping them prepare for their performance. Today was so long and insane but a gallon of hairspray buckets of glitter and pounds of makeup later this day was definitively a success.

an uneventful day

currently listening to The Carpenters

Today was super uneventful. Which was awesome! It felt great to have a day were all I did was go to one class, sing, and then go off to band. I love relaxing days!!!! If only tomorrow was going to be as calm and I could sleep in, but that is only a wish. Tomorrow the marching band is hosting a USSBA marching competition. Pretty much this is were a bunch of high school bands come and compete to go to states at my University, then at the end we perform as a "treat" or something like that to the other bands. Sorry you all had to read about my uneventful day :(


4 most interesting things in an uneventful day

#1 going to Panera only to discover it was to crowded so going to Ruby Tuesdays instead#2 realizing it is time to buy a belt!!!! Because none of my pants are staying up!!!!#3 seeing more car accidents in an uneventful day that I do in any other day#4 having the best singing in the shower concert ever!!!!

happiness and fears

Sharing my Happiness and Fears!!!

Listening to the Britney mix-down I made today for hayfest!!!!!

How is it that music can affect you so much? Today in my voice lesson I was practicing a song for NATS called So Anyway from Next to Normal and on the last verse I found myself in tears. She sings the line, "I loved you once and though, you love me still I know, it's time for me to fly, I love you once and though, I love you still I know, it's time for me to go and so goodbye." At that point I really connected the the character in a way that is deeper than empathy I became her and took on her emotion. It was an awesome crazy feeling that every actor wants to experience. I am so excited to compete this year and take a piece that really touches my heart and hopefully the judges.
Why do I care so much about what other people do or think? The actions of others do nothing but bug me sometimes. There are days like today were I just only want to be around a certain circle of people. Or, why do I let one person ruin my day? Just hearing or not hearing from someone can take my day and turn it into a complete mess. I am a planner and I hate not sticking to my plan. Like when I get sick, it without a doubt ceases to amaze me that I can always be sick at the most inconvenient time. Like last night at 3am when I woke up screaming in stomach pain and shaking. I have no idea why or what caused this but it was crazy. And since I had just watched the ring of course I was convinced that I was surly dying. Then when I finally made it to bed at 6am and woke up for my class a t 7 my sugar was low and I was still feeling really sick :( I hate how this is always the case.

Sorry for everyone who got there hopes up about my wedding planning training session today because it is not actually today it is next Thursday apparently I have an issue reading the calender. So, info to come next week lol but tonight I did go to scaremare which was successfully scary and apparently I knew over half the people even though in those masks I don't know who all of them are. They kept whispering my name creepy right? But compared to the ring it was nothing. What it was, was a group of amazing friends just hanging out and I loved that. Tonight I got to see people I see everyday and people I have not seen in a while. All in all today was eventful!!!!! Also for those who read this whole thing ask me about the amazing pick up line I came up with...it can't be posted lol

TOP 5 THINGS I AM SCARED OF

#1 Birds(especially peacocks, so much so it scared me to find a photo) #2 Being alone-(just for a little while or forever it's a scary thing) #3 loosing my voice(little mermaid style, if I could not sing I would die) #4 Samara (this face scares me so much I can't even look at it I keep scanning past it quickly)

#5 Small dark places(I don't like being cornered or locked in anywhere)

Feeling

Currently listening to Adele

Emotions. Were do they come from? How do you force yourself to feel something that you just don't of have never experienced? That is what I want to talk about today. In Meisner's text he says an awesome quote that goes something along the lines of "all piano players will play the same notes but they will all play them different." In my basic acting 2 class we are studying the technical teachings of Meisner. And he suggested that as actors we use other circumstances that are similar to relate to how we are feeling at that time. So using your dog being put down to begin to understand and explore what it would feel like for your child to die. This idea has always seemed completely crazy and foreign to those outside of the theater world and was to me too. But today in class we did an exercise from a man who does not believe in that technique. At first it was very odd we were told by our teach to just walk around the room normal and we did that for a good 2 minutes then he told us to stop and pick an emotion. After picking that emotion we were instructed to again walk around the room and this time try to feel it. Well, trying to feel something is really hard when no action is leading you into the emotion. Then he stopped us one last time he said thank about were that emotion comes from when you feel it were in your body does it start: does it make you red in the face, or make it hard to breath, or make your stomach turn in circles. My emotion had been embarrassed I singled out my throat and cheeks in my mind and thought about that warm feeling that starts in your throat and travels up through your cheeks and into your whole body when you are nervous. Then he told us to walk around again thinking about this I did and as I was walking really began to feel embarrassed, it felt like a breakthrough point for me. The teacher said not to try to impress him because we were not going to, that helped me in this lesson and made me understand what he meant. Trying to feel something makes you force yourself to act sad or act happy but if you know were that emotion comes from you can actually feel sad or feel happy.

Life is so much like theater, very often I feel we are putting on face and trying to impress but just like my professor said today, "don't try and impress me, because you won't" we as people need to understand that we don't need to try and impress people because, you won't impress them. If someone truly does not like you acting super nice around them is not going to change that or lying to there face is not going to make the situation better. This is the life lesson I learned today on feelings you can't stop them, you can create them, you can't force them, and they should always come from somewhere. Who knew I could learn so much in one class!!!!

one mans trash is another mans treasure hunt????

One Man's Trash is Another Mans Treasure Hunt?

currently listening to The last 5 years!!!!!

So first off I want to start off with the story of loosing my ring. I have this ring that I wear everyday and this morning I go to get it off the counter only to find it is not there. Well I thought no big deal right, because I loose it all the time. Throughout the day I looked for it and thought were in the word could it be when I got home that night I realized conveniently located near were I last saw it was are trash can and I had already looked every were else. So, I attempted to contain my horrible gag reflex put on some rubber gloves and yes went through the gross trash in our kitchen. Well my dig paid off because right as I was beginning to feel to nauseous to continue there was my ring sparkling inside half of an egg shell. Needless to say I was very relieve and after a long disinfecting my ring is now back were it belongs safe and sound on my finger.
SO I absolutely hate the day after fall break. It is like your school gives you a touch of freedom and fun only to rip it away in laughter Monday morning when you have to wake up for your 8:50. I think that getting up before 9:3o should be a sin. One good thing that came out of today is that I realized I am an over booker. I constantly make plans and shove them all into my day. I came to the conclusion that this is because I am a people pleaser. I have always been my whole life but being a people pleaser is not always a good thing. From giving my doll to the girl on the playground to giving a friend a shirt of mine they like it has always been an issue. Sometimes I find myself not studying to hang with friends or spending money I don't have on people just to make them happy. According to my parents this has been a problem my whole life but it is something I just realized today. Being a nice person does not mean being a pushover so I want to work on making others happy at the same time as making smart decisions with my time so that I can be happy too. So I want to promise myself to spend more time on homework and me things like painting my nails or reading my bible.
I have really been in a weird spot with God recently and found myself in the car last week broken down with a friend. I was having trouble trusting God and making time for him but heard him say to me Ciera why are you angry with me what have I done to you. I was given a heart of conviction and realized that God did nothing to me and would never forsake me so why had I forsaken him. He gave me a verse in a quit time that really just calmed my fears. I feel like God is going to work in my life this semester and I am more than excited to see what is ahead. I am so glad God has brought friends into my life that I know I can lean on and trust with this and I hope all of you out in blog world can understand as well. I just want to get back to the walk I had in high school but being consistent and having quit time is harder than you think.

Things I will do for me this week!!!!

Paint My Toes
Read a MagazineSave MoneyWear my over the knee boots as often as I wantRead my Bible
Hang out with FriendsDress uplisten to all the music I want and sing as loud as I want
go downtown skype my best friendgo to bed early

mmmm it's Sunday

MMMMM it's Sunday

Currently listening to Jack Johnson

So before I ramble on to all of you about my day I need to let you know about an awesome new hair care product I have fell in love with, Suave professionals Shea butter. The commercials claim to have a product as good as Aveda well so far I agree. The conditioner works better than any conditioner I have ever used. It gets your hair silky smooth without making it greasy and for 2.25 a bottle your hair and wallet will both be happy campers.
So today has been an awesome day so far. At around 11 I started cooking what could possibly be the best meal I have ever prepared. Cooking is like music and downtown it makes me happy and calms me down. I melted butter into a pan then added fresh chopped garlic and mushrooms then I let it cook down with a white wine while I made stewed tomatoes. I added those into the mix, boiled chicken, and pasta then added all of it together with some Parmesan, cream, and butter. There could probably be nothing worse for you or better tasting. For about 3 days now I have been dying to make some homemade Bruschetta, and today I got to do so thanks to my roommate making a grocery run on her way home from work. All I have to say is my stomach is still full, it was AWESOME!!! I was so excited by my maser chef moment that I took pictures to share with you all. Now I am watching the other Boleyn girl putting off for as long as possible the massive amount of dishes I have created from this master piece. On another note Last night I started my Christmas amazon wish list. As I get older I realize my list gets smaller but items get more expensive. I can easily separate this list into things I want and could possibly receive and things I want and could never get in a million years.


NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS



COULD POSSIBLY RECEIVE