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{fiddlesticks camp}

July 3, 2010 by katymaisano

That’s right, we’re putting on a music camp here in Burnet.  Anna and I are, that is.  FiddleSticks Camp.  Here’s the flyer.

FiddleSticks Camp!

Calling all 5-10 year old violinists!  FiddleSticks Camp is a Christian music camp held in Burnet, Texas, for young musicians interested in learning the violin.  No previous experience required to attend the camp.

FiddleSticks Camp will be providing large group lessons, as well as smaller group lessons customized to a more personal skill level.  We’ll also have fun learning musical techniques daily with some fun interactive games.

August 9th-14th, 2010

Contact us at:  fiddlestickscamp@gmail.com

Website:  http://fiddlestickscamp.wordpress.com/

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{the amazing return of Katy}

June 21, 2010 by katymaisano

Hello there, friend! **whistles Little Bill theme**

So… what’s been going on with me since April 24th?

I went 3/3 at Regionals. Had awesome friends qualify to nationals. Had another awesome friend place seventh in the NATION in LD debate. Had an epical sister place second in Apologetics in the nation.

Got an electric guitar. xD I just need to pay my cousin for it now. =/

Wrote two new songs– that are really meant for an orchestra, but are supposedly gonna be played at the Chamber Music Festival, which started today. It’s epic. The Chamber Music Festival, not my song. :)

Have been feeding cats. WAAAAY too many cats. Summer’s vacation time, and naturally, people need someone to feed their pets and I, wanting to make some money, volunteered. I think I might hate cats now.

Saw new movies… Toy Story 3, Iron Man 2 …and Prince Of Persia. Iron Man, I thought, rawked. Muchly. Prince Of Persia was cool I guess, but I mean, it was just one of those… movies that are cool just aren’t AMAZING. Like Toy Story 3 was. OH. MY. GOODNESS. Toy Story 3 was wow. Just wow. If you haven’t seen it yet, go buy a ticket. NOW.

Random picture I’ve just gotten around to editing:

…actually, unfortunately, it’s Todi’s camera… not mine. Pity. =P So yesh, that’s basically all that’s happened. Befy’s going to Pennsylvania for a Pro-Life oratory contest thingymabober, and Todi’s gonna leave for Colorado in September, and New Zealand in October. I’m gonna be quite lonely.

RANDOM QUESTION OF THE DAY: Are one-year-olds SUPPOSED to know the meaning of the word “no” at that age?? Cuz Isabella likes to say it quite often now. =P

RANDOM ACCOMPLISHMENT OF THE DAY: Um… actually I didn’t accomplish anything huge today. Oh wait!! I updated my blog. :)

RANDOM DISCOVERY OF THE DAY: I know someone who played in the orchestra for the Spiderman 3 soundtrack (and some other cool movie I’ve seen but forgot what it was =/ ) and she also played with Brittany Spears. That last part aint so cool. AND my teacher has a friend who’s recording a CD with a few members of Jars of Clay and the Newsboys. :) SO, with that, uh, goodnight. :)

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{fascination}

April 24, 2010 by katymaisano

I’m fascinated with a lot of things.  From atoms, to ants, to plants, to skyscrapers.  It’s almost rare to find something that I’m not fascinated with.  Yeah, I’m kind of just like that.  Since I haven’t posted a real post on this blog in ever so long, I’ve decided to share some of my mind boggling -for me anyway, but then again, I’m kind of weird like that-  “fascinations” with you.  :)

{COLORS} Have you ever thought about it?  I love color.  I like some more than others, but I really can’t bring myself to “hate” any, they all just fit so beautifully into the world.  Speaking of which… I wonder what the world would look like without color?  I gave myself a headache thinking about that too hard yesterday as we drove to ARC.  Maybe I shouldn’t think too hard anymore.  But what would the world look like if all the color just dripped out of everything?  Would it be white?  No… that’s all colors combined.  Logically, that’s a color.  Would it be brown, gray, or black?  Nope, those are colors too… is there a color that’s colorless??  What does a person without eyes see?  Do they see a color?  No, they can’t see.  Try imagining not seeing the color black -or any color for that matter- when you close your eyes.  Maybe that’s what gave me the headache.  Fascinating.

{MUSIC} This is going to get repetitive.  I’m going to end up saying “I love ___” for every little category, cause I’m sorry, I just love music.  Really, think about it.  Where did it start?  Did Adam and Eve just randomly start singing “All You Need Is Love”?  Uh, no.  I laughed thinking about that.   It started with things they were familiar with.  Things like the wind, and the rain.  The sound of a bird singing the first song of the dawn.  Now fast forward a few thousand years to the present.  I listen to the music we have now, and it’s the neatest thing. It actually creates different moods.   It’s as if it goes in our ears in into our brain and effects some nerve that makes us feel a certain way.  And this is the same thing that was originally the sound of wind and rain.  I don’t know the real science behind all this, but either way, it’s incredible.  Fascinating.

{WORDS} Sometimes it feels like I have multiple personalities.  As my mom says, I’ll be quiet as a mouse, while other times, I talk… a lot.  Probably too much, so I think I like the former more.  Cause the only reason I’m so quiet sometimes is because I just like to listen.  To words.  They’re very fascinating, if you ask me.  I wonder how Adam and Eve communicated… and then I wonder what language it would have been.   Weird how much can be communicated by just making noises.  Like in Star Wars, those creatures that just communicate with making clicky sounds.  Or R2-D2 just making those beeping noises, and somehow people understood him.  I always thought that was the weirdest thing.  I actually find myself thinking “Wow, imagine what it would be like to communicate solely by making noises with your teeth and tongue!”  Uh, hold on a second.  That’s what we do.  Kind of odd.  Isn’t it also weird that you can determine what tone I’m using when I type this?  Like when there’s a question mark, the voice in your head that’s reading this automatically goes up a little to imply it’s a question, not a statement.  I’m really glad I wasn’t around at the tower of Babel where English originated, it would have been so confusing.  At the same time, I think I’d like to go back in a time machine just to observe that moment.  Words are incredible.  Fascinating.

{BOOKS} Right now I’m reading -and almost through with- Saint by Ted Dekker.  It’s amazing.  How on earth does he do that??  How can any author write like that?  Make characters that seem real.  Like they were really alive at some point, instead of just inside someone’s head and on a page.  Where I am in the book, the main character, Johnny Drake, is running from his enemy who prefers to go by his codename I suppose you could call it, Englishmen.  As you’re reading the book  you can feel the tension and excitement at the same time.  It’s just letters on a page– and  those same letters on a page can make you sob, laugh, smile, frown, etc.  Fascinating.

Yeah, I’m fascinated with a lot of things.  That was maybe 5% of them.  I suppose you could say…

I’m fascinated with being alive.

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{random ramblings}

April 11, 2010 by katymaisano

Yeah, uh… I can’t really dress it up, I haven’t posted in almost a month.  You all survived without me, right?  :)

  • Guys are so lucky they don’t have to straighten their hair… It’s a pain in the neck… :P
  • Where The Wild Things Are is… really weird.  As my dad put it, “No!  It was a GOOD movie!!  But… what did it mean again?”  Yeah, it was just weird.
  • Did I already tell ya’ll about the NM qualifier?  Um… well I broke to octafinals, and got 6th place LD speaker, and Beffy got first in… something.. I think it was Persuasive, and she got like 3rd in something else… she’s kinda one of those people that it’s really depressing to be the little sibling of simply because she’s so good at everything.. ;)
  • I really want my dad to start building my loft thing.
  • I should be finding clothes to wear for church and… *cough cough* …straightening my hair… but I’m too lazy…
  • CHEESEBURGER, HIS YUMMY CHEESEBURGER, HE’LL WAIT FOR YOU-OO… sorry, that’s been stuck in my head since Friday no thanks to Christina and Tiffanie…
  • Oh yeah!  There was a Round Robin (a practice tournament) at ARC on Friday, and I won 2 out of 3 debates… Anna beat me.  Can you believe it?  My former debate partner beat me!!  *Sigh* ;)
  • Hannah Michael and Patti officially dubbed me Katy Picky Maisano.  Just because I view steak as chopped up burnt cow doesn’t imply that I’m picky!!  ;)

*Runs to go get ready for church*

*Returns*

  • I think I’ve finally figured out how to tame my hair.  Somewhat.  All I have to do is towel dry my hair, add this foamy moose stuff to it, add this other icky gel stuff that I try not to think about as I splat it into my hair, then dry it, then go hunt down a straightener and use it for about a half an hour.  That’s all.
  • Toni just now: “Katy!  Come here!”  *pause* “KATY!”  *another pause* “KAAAAATY!!”  *I walk out into kitchen where she’s yelling at me* Me: “What?” Toni: “Oh, nothing.”
  • I got to go see Alice In Wonderland with Abigail, Faith, and Hannah… it was cute– while being rather bizarre.  :)
  • I bought a new suit the other day… it’s gray… me likes… :)

So ends the Random Ramblings of today.  You should watch the slideshow from the tournament though.  It’s down below these words.  But you already knew that, didn’t you?

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    {i live}

    March 28, 2010 by katymaisano

    Yesh, I live.  Surprising as it seems.  Just so ya’ll know that, although it seems like it, I have NOT been ,

    • kidnapped by a ravaging kung-fu turtle,
    • abducted by aliens, had my brains sucked out, and am now simply a robot doomed to be mechanical for the rest of my life,
    • killed when riding a subway by the under-minor (I’ll bet no one will get that reference),
    • zombified by an evil scientist named Bob who takes pleasure in zombification,
    • had Jane Austen stab me through the heart with a marshmellow toaster,
    • drowned in a sea of cookie batter, goldfish, and baby food,
    • mashed into the concrete with a hammer by Bob The Builder whilst Dizzy sang “can we do it??” and Scoop replying “yes we can!” over and over.

    However I HAVE,

    • been overwhelmed with the amount of stuff to be done.  I.E- Music, School, Debate, etc.  :)

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    *guilty look*

    March 14, 2010 by katymaisano

    Yeah, uh, I kinda, um, well, yeah, have, uh…

    ….neglected this poor old blog.  I apologize.  But see, life hast been busy.  So very, very busy.   Why?

    A)  Foster Kids.  Oh yeah, did I mention that Isabella’s name really isn’t what we thought it was?  Or something like that.  Now we have to call her this really bizarre name.  She looks nothing like it.

    B)  AHHHHHHH!!!  WE ARE LEAVING TO GO TO NEW MEXICO DAY AFTER TOMORROW!!  It’s for a speech and debate tournament… *Exhausted sigh* …I have ever so much to do before then…

    C)  School, school, and schoooool.. *moans*  …did I tell you I was behind?  Wull’ I am.  Fir’ tha’ first time, in… well a long time.  So I’m thinking about bringing some to do in the car on our way to NM.

    D)  Music.  ‘Nuff said.

    …Now that I’ve thought up enough excuses, I shall… well, what shall I do to keep you happy?  Comment and let me know, sometime.  ;)

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    {texas national open}

    February 28, 2010 by katymaisano

    Yeah, I know, I already did a post yesterday or something but I figured I might go ahead and post pictures from the last tournament anyhow…

    SOOOOOOOOO…

    .. *sings* Katie broke, Katie broke, Katie broke…

    …and we were pretty cool with that…

    And then Anna and I broke… (for the first time in debate)

    …we were cool with that too…

    I think the pig felt displaced at this last tournament.  He didn’t get vury many pictures.  So in honer of the displaced (with what, I’m not quite sure) pig, I present one of his only pictures…

    [insert scary music]

    Joy and I took our job as um, official goof off-ers vury seriously.

    Anna and Paul giving me a lecture before my last round… ;)

    …yup, all in all, twas an excellent tournament. :)

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    {Random Ramblings}

    February 27, 2010 by katymaisano

    • Aren’t those squiggly thingys cool?  Almost as cool as brackets.  Maybe even more so.
    • I broke at a national open for the first time in debate.  I ended up getting 13th place out of like…80?  Anna broke in debate for the first time too. That was cool.  And Katie (a different Katie) broke with her interp!  **happiness**  OH!  And Avery got 1st…that was cool…  for those of you who aren’t speech and debaters, [shame on you], that means…they did really good. :)
    • We are now doing foster care.  Because we can’t say their real names online, they shall be referred to as Tommy and Isabella.  Tommy is two years, and Isabella is eight months.  They.  Are.  Adorable.  :)
    • If I have to watch one more episode of Bob The Builder with Tommy, I shall simply fall over and die.  End of story.
    • It’s my dad’s birthday today.  Happy birthday daddy! :)
    • The new “Google Buzz” thing is really interesting.  It’s like a mix of Twitter and Facebook.  Odd.
    • I am really inspired about music right now.  Somehow I wrote a song that I actually kind of like.  All I need is an orchestra to play it.  :-/
    • Did you know that if you watch a gross movie while you’re nauseous, you will eventually vomit?  Well now you do.
    • I just love Saturdays…
    • I reaaaaally want an electric guitar.  After I get one I can start my band.  :)
    • My dad is thinking about building me a loft in Toni and Beth’s room cuz I don’t really have a “spot”.  I sleep on the trundle bed or out in the living room and he thinks that is sad.  I would have to agree.
    • Does anyone even read these stupid posts??  I wouldn’t.  It’s just nice to ramble regardless of the fact that no one ever reads it.
    • Being sick ish not fun.
    • Tommy has stopped watching Bob The Builder and now all the other kids are glued to the screen.  Even Toni.  She’s 19.

    {the end}

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    *sings* Happy birthday to…my blog…

    February 15, 2010 by katymaisano

    Yup, it’s that time of year. Blogoversary time. At least for this blog. :) I have now had my blog for precisely 731 days. Two years and a day. I forgot to mention that it was my blogoversary yesterday, but better late than never, right? :P

    So. I thought to commemorate the occasion, I would trace back my blogs’ histories.
    So firstly- The Castle. The Castle was my first blog ever. It was started on HSB on February 14th, 2008. Why did I leave this blog? Because…well, I didn’t really like HSB. Plus WordPress is jus’ plain kewl. So I moved from The Castle, to my WordPress one which is yet to have a name. So there The Castle died.  Rest in peace.  But wait!  A light from yonder window shows new hope!!  That new hope for The Castle came from Paul and Brian.  Paul and Brian created a new site that pretty much sums up with one word. EPIC.  So, not wanting to sacrifice my semi-new at the time WordPress blog, I let them transfer The Castle.  So now,   The Castle’s location is at JibeNow.  And not only that, but it developed an awesome name, too.  It’s now entitled The Most Awesomest Blog On The Block.  Epicness at it’s fullest.  Kinda.  ;)

    And so ends the story of my blogging life.  In short, I’ve had a lotta blogs in a lotta places.  I didn’t even mention some of ‘em cause I never even did anything to them.  These were just my main three.

    In conclusion– be wise and don’t have a billion blogs in a billion different places.  The result will be nothing but a bunch of fellow bloggers complaining and saying you need to update your blog more often when chances are all you did was forget about it.

    The end. ;)

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    You know you’re ready for spring, when…

    February 6, 2010 by katymaisano

    …You get that sudden urge to jump into your swimming pool- and then realize that that probably would not be the best idea, as the water in the pool is only 20 degrees max.

    …You go outside in hopes of finding a decent spot to build some sort of fort,  and two minutes later come shivering back inside in search of some source of heat.

    …Your little siblings aren’t aloud to go play in the lake- err, puddle in the backyard because it has suddenly mwarfed into an ice skating rink.

    …You start planning for your dream garden in January.

    *Sigh* Yesh, needless to say, I am extremely ready for spring…it just seems so dreadfully far away… *Another wishful sigh*

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