It Takes a Village.......

Thank you to the Pates and the Christian Heritage Church for helping us with rehearsal space this weekend. Also, thank you to The Mighty Sound of the South and Dr. Nick Holland for your assistance. We appreciate your good will and hospitality. I guess we have a village after all. :)

Put your best foot foward!

Here we are, just 3 days from our first rehearsal of the season. It is so exciting. I hope everyone is ready for an incredible season and lots of new friendships. Are YOU ready?

I can't wait.

Happy Birthday!!

Happy Birthday Jana!!

Congratulations!

Congrats to the Cordova High School Colorguard on their 1st place finish at Bandmasters yesterday. They were awarded first place over the 23 guards in attendance. Way to go girls!! Congrats to Sara and Heath for an outstanding guard show this season!!

What's Happenin?

Only 13 days until our first rehearsal. Woo Hoo! I have been busy with show details and paperwork. We are now officially insured, have a new floor coming, have music mixed and approved, and all show design elements are in place and ready for our final casting on November 2nd. We will be measuring the cast members for their uniforms and Drew will start working on the drill once our numbers are set. I have been working on cast bio pages on the website as well as "tweaking" our Myspace. I love Myspace...where else is stalking legal? The WGI Nashville Regional is completely filled and closed to new registrations...that is going to be a fun show. There are 10 Ind A guards in our class at that regional. We are registered for all of our WGI shows as well as SCGC. Competition will be fierce this year, just like we like it!! There are quite a few new Ind A guards coming out this season...two from Nashville alone. Moxie is coming out again as well. This is great news for the SCGC, which was lacking in Independent guards. Sara and Heath are busy writing work for the new show and we are all ready to get started. Cannot wait to see everyone again on the 2nd!! M. Abe

Congrats!

Congratulations to the Cordova High School Colorguard!!! They received 1st place in both field and parade competition, this weekend at the Washington Marching Festival in St Louis, MO. Way to go girls!!

Congrats to all of the Cadets for a fine showing this weekend.

My Pick for Best New Show!!

My favorite new show this Fall season. Pushing Daisies. You need to check it out. Music by Danny Elfman. Very quirky and bizarre. WONDERFUL!!

Best Winterguard Show Idea EVER

I stalk the WGI website daily. One of the most current news items is about Flanagan High School's 2008 show concept. You can read about it here: http://www.wgi.org/news_detail.php?id=1156%20class=
They are fashioning their show around a blog that has become a series of books. POSTSECRET. Here is the blog: postsecret.blogspot.com There are not alot of secrets on the blog, due to the publishing of the books, but you can find archives and videos all over the internet. It is the funniest and most clever thing I have seen in a long time. The rest of the world probably already knows all about it. I am old, it takes me longer. Here is the link to Flanagan's site, with the information on how to get involved with their show. http://www.flanaganhighschool.com/users/cguard/index2.html Have you got a secret?

Good grief, its MMM!

Do you know who this is? Major Matt Mason! My favorite toy of the 70's. I did not actually own one...my brother did. He and I spent hours imagining the many adventures of MMM in his space station. It was awesome. I have mentioned MMM to my husband, on many occasions, and he just shrugs and looks as though he thinks I made it up. HAH! I loved MMM. Too bad they don't make toys like that anymore. Then again, we did not have much to compare it to. My PONG game was wicked cool. :)

It could always be worse!

Down in the dumps? It could be worse. You could have...

a pimple

bad hair

wrinkles

Munchausen's Syndrome

no waffles

a driver's license with your mother's picture on it

See...not so bad now, huh? Have a great day!