Music for the season

I'm really excited for tomorrow. It marks the beginning of a Christmas tradition. I know what you're thinking. I just wrote a post about a week ago about how Christmas comes too early, blah, blah, blah. This is different though because I need time to practice.

Last year, my sister Katie and I decided it would be funny if we played songs for our family on Christmas Eve. Katie plays the clarinet and I play the trumpet. Ok, I played the trumpet about 10 years ago. I stopped after the 8th grade. I still remember the notes and such, it was just a matter of getting my lips strong enough to play again. Christmas Eve didn't go over too well last year though.

See, Katie and I practiced for about a month and a half before Christmas last year. We seriously practiced for about an hour almost every day too. We didn't take it lightly. I even spent time to write harmonies to the songs so we weren't just playing the melody the whole time. My parents didn't really appreciate the time we put in and wanted to just open presents. I was pissed. There was a small family argument that followed(there is no such thing as a holiday in the Warnke house without some sort of family spat). Katie and I are bound and determined to outdo ourselves this year so everyone is enthralled and forgets about the presents. I tried to convince her to play with me in church on Christmas Eve. She refused.

So you see, it may still be 2 months till Christmas Eve, but I haven't even touched my trumpet in 10 months, and it was about 9 years before that. We need all the practice we can get. I think I may even write an original song for us to play this year. I probably won't though. We'll probably just recycle the same songs we did the year before.