Fishin' in the stream of consciousness (all-purpose, no topic chat thread)

Uh, @swirlingflight actually is the most correct, guys. It was BBQ chicken that they sold for the fundraiser. Not chocolate or something reasonable like that. BBQ chicken.

 

Dreams do come true

 

Thats beautiful

 

I sold specialty deep dish pizzas for choir once. In the deep south. I had never even heard of deep dish pizza (like this was straight up Chicago style) before then and I was 15.

Edit: I did make enough to get to the competition like I wanted but only because I lived in a neighborhood with active military families and some of them missed it. People from here were mostly like "why this".

 

I sold cheesecakes

 

Most of the time for that sort of thing ive seen candles being sold. Chocolate too, but that was ages ago. most people dont do chocolate anymore

 

Magazine subscriptions were a big one around here.

 

I sold seeds and tickets to a spaghetti dinner.

 

my school tried so hard to get us to participate in fundraisers and i stone cold didnt give a fuck

does remind me of when my middle school did various candy grams like every few months in 7th grade and i was the only girl in middle school with boobs so i got candy from 'secret admirers' EVERY SINGLE TIME X.X

 

Choir! They're called choirs. There are also handbell soloists and they are incredible and terrifying.

 

(goes on tumblr on mobile)
(goes on computer, goes to tumblr) wait

 

I still play flute, or do, as soon as I can find my fucking flute from wherever my mom put it. I'm also slowly learning bagpipes.

 

oh man one lady in our choir (my best friends mom actually) could do the holding four bells at once method and it was so badass. she could practically hold the upper octave of carol of the bells by herself

 

Oh hey, we had a four-beller too. She was super talented.

I only did bell choir for about a year or so, but it was lots of fun.

 

Really skilled soloists can actually do six (three in each hand) which is, you know, fuckin terrifying.

 

i came here from
https://kintsugi.seebs.net/threads/gender-lolwut-of-the-day.2106/page-14#post-484904

and only saw this line
and had forgotten what this thread was talking about

so

 

I think if one person is grasping six "sausages," three in each hand, the word "soloist" no longer applies.

 

I just sight read everything because I was/am a lazy asshole who didn't want to practice. But hey, percussion, so rhythm instead of pitches, less to mess up.

 

I sing, and I love it, but I can neither read notes nor time signatures....and I never revealed this to anyone I worked with in choir or my private singing lessons. I have never told anyone this fact prior to now, because I can learn a song entirely by listening to it. I can emulate the notes and timing perfectly by listening to a song a few times. so I'd just listen to what other people were singing, or what was being played, and how it was being done, and then I'd do the same thing. and no one ever figured it out.
but, of course, now I'm fucked, because I want to learn music on my own and write music, and I don't know how. I've recorded myself singing a couple of the songs I've written, but. yeah.
and also in the songs I've written, since I have no idea what a time signature is or why it matters or how to judge what the time signature is in a song, I repeatedly switch timing. it works fine for me, but it tends to confuse people listening.