It's My Birthday!

Woo!

My Weekend So Far

So yesterday (Friday), I participated in a MICCA festival with a small orchestra in my town - we got GOLD! and will perform again next week at either Mechanic's Hall or Symphony Hall next week.

Then I did it again with my high school's orchestra today. We got silver, but it was pretty awesome. Then I went back home, finally got a new strap for my violin (I had broken my last one a few weeks back), had ice cream (may the lords of gluttony smile down upon Dad), then took a walk where I ended up pondering a replacement for the United States Constitution. Now, I'm blogging and doing some final work on a new EP for [insert meme], which should come out quite soon.

Yup. Life is pretty epic right now.

Learning How to Make Dal

Mom is teaching me how to make dal - lentil soup.
Pic 1: the seasoning: tomatoes, garlic, ginger, and several other spices and stuff.
Pic 2: added lentils. This here will blow the doors off any douchebag's protein shake, while tasting far better.
Who needs Instagram when you have a blog no one reads?

HOLY SNOWDRIFTS!

We got some guys to plow our super-long driveway just now. I just realized how much snow we got. And not lame powder snow. This is all legit snowball/man/fort- quality!
Tomorrow will be epic.

Mmmm...Meatballs

I helped make them as we remain buried in yet another snowstorm. (SNO! STAHP!) As in, stood around and pressed the "on" button on a grinder.
Yum. You jealous.

Music I Wrote: "Made of Win"

Some music I made today - a kind of hip-hop/skweee thing. You like it?

And a crappy DnB-i-fied remix of the above song - because I can. All I did was tweak the tempo.
Enjoy!

EDIT: I just realized that this is my 100th post. WIN!!! Indeed, I am *cue sunglasses* made of win.

Snow, Snow Everywhere

It's snowing like crazy here in New England...again. I think the blizzard was a week ago, and we have yet another snowstorm now. Granted, it's not that big, but I had to cancel my plans for today because of it.

Yes, there used to be a walkway there.

SNOW! WAT R U DOING? STAHP!

I Can Haz Cooking Skillz

I wrote this a week back, but it didn't post then. So here it is...kinda late.

So we had some leftover uncooked paneer (Indian equivalent of cottage cheese) in the fridge. I figured that it got to go, so I cooked it up myself! I put in some paneer masala that was floating around and some fish curry that Mom was cooking at the time.

It tasted like victory.

Today I went to a huge Sweet Sixteen birthday party

And I kinda have mixed feelings about it. At some points it rocked. I had some great conversations, and just had fun.

At other times, I felt forever alone. I just walked in circles a lot, rendered more or less deaf by the pop music blasted by the DJ. The birthday girl, jesting of course, said something about her being the only person who can stand me. She wasn't trying to be mean, but it raised a good point: I am probably too "weird" for many people to stand for a long time.

I could list all my quirks, but I'll spare you the rant.

I'm probably taking that joke too seriously. I'm probably taking life too seriously now.

Yeah, sleepiness is degenerating my brain to the point of unfiltered teenage angst being embarrassingly fire-hosed online. I'll stop.

Bio Class

I saw stuff in a microscope in Bio today. I saw parameciums, euglenas (algae, in the pic), and A LIVE AMOEBA!!!!! Sadly I couldn't nab a pic of that.
School has its moments.