The Happy Thread III - Page 48

**Mari** · 10-27-2008, 05:01 PM

Hehe, must be because of your inherent cuteness. People like to help cute people

Yay for you!

I love the winter IF there is snow and ICE! Lots and lots of ice to skate on! Distances, icedancing... I love it all. Except for speed-skating. I don't like that.

katya · 10-27-2008, 05:16 PM

Oooh I love ice skating! I didn't get to go the past couple years, but this year I'm going for sure! It's such a pretty pastime.

**Mari** · 10-27-2008, 05:20 PM

It is! And I have two pairs of iceskates, so I really hope I can use them on natural ice this year. The last time we had that happen is 12 to 14 years ago.

klatukatt · 10-29-2008, 10:54 PM

I'm not sure if this is happy news, but I've been on 4chan for the last hour.

Heeeee. It makes me crazy... and happy.

**Mari** · 10-30-2008, 11:48 AM

Ermm, yay!...?

***Tessar*** · 10-31-2008, 12:11 AM

I am tentatively happy because I've discovered/been taught how to get into a head voice that will hopefully match the coloring of the rest of my range!!!!! Last semester I was getting into a kind of head-voice-ish thing, but it sounded really tight and nasal... I was assured it would 'blossom' into a full head voice eventually, but that never really happened.

Today I was practicing, working on getting my resonance to stay placed well forward and to use my support to sing through phrases/scales, when something just sort of clicked... when I tried singing some high scales, I was able to flip smoothly over my break point (past the D4#) without the sound getting tight, nasal, or becoming hard to sustain.

I went to my voice lesson, and my teacher decided that since I'd discovered that much on my own he would go ahead and 'finish' the process... I don't think he was expecting me to figure out how to do it so quickly, but he said that if I was going to be messing around with it I might as well do it correctly. He's been telling me lately that he's very happy with what quick progress I'm making, so that's a good thing... especially since he said a few times early on in the semester that we probably wouldn't be doing any high voice stuff till next semester... so I'm getting a big of a jump on the 'schedule'

.

I dunno. It's not great, and I haven't gotten a chance to record it on anything but my cellphone... but when I do it correctly (which is REALLY DIFFICULT) then there's no obvious 'register flip' sound like I used to get... It's not that it's hard to do physically...

It's weird. It's more like a balancing act than anything. If I put too much pressure on the sound, then it 'opens' too much and gets nasal/strained. But if I don't put enough, then it flips directly into falsetto... it's 'difficult' because it's like a balancing act, not because it takes muscle or anything.

I -think-... hope/pray/beg-of-the-good-lord... that it's the real thing this time, and not just pulling chest like I used to do. I think it might be the real thing because I can do it softly -and- loudly, when with the pulling chest way it can only be LOUD. But I can do it softly this way, and I feel like my voice is sort of... sitting on top of the note, instead of me having to reach for it like I had to before.

We'll see. Having this will let me access, so far, the E4 and F4 reliably without it being too terribly tricky... so I'm relatively certain that those are headed towards becoming usable notes for repertoire. Since this is just 'day one' of using my real head voice (I HOPE O.o) then that HOPEFULLY means I'll have at least the Ab4, if not the A, usable for repertoire eventually.

That would TOTALLY kick ass, because then I could sing stuff like this: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2yJ2BF...eature=related ^_^

To quote my teacher: "Well, son, it's certainly not perfect. Far from it. But it's a good start."

**Mari** · 10-31-2008, 11:03 AM

I got books! Enough books to last me an evening! Guess how I am going to spend my evening?

Curufin · 10-31-2008, 11:17 AM

Yay! I was finally able to order my Jasper T-shirt so that I'll have it for the Twilight movie opening in a few weeks! Woohoo!

katya · 10-31-2008, 12:10 PM

I'm pretty sure that girl from class a couple semesters ago is a vampire! She's do graceful and mature...

***Tessar*** · 10-31-2008, 03:14 PM

My door is locked. My cellphone is not just on silent--it's off. I have 3 1/2 hours till work, and I will not be disturbed by ANYTHING. Glorious contentment ^_^.

klatukatt · 10-31-2008, 05:05 PM

Guess what?

I found a girl!

She may be named Meow and is possibly clinically insane, but we are going to have so much fun together.

shesabrandybuck · 11-05-2008, 05:08 PM

I made an A on my trig test!! Can you believe it?!?! AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!
A 93%, first time this year! I've been working so hard, and it finally paid off! And there were THREE damn proofs on the test too. Now I get a gold star with my name on it posted in the back of the room, oh I've been dreaming for that day....

**Mari** · 11-05-2008, 05:27 PM

Wow! Woohoo for Link!!! Well done

*gives Link an Moot Gold Star which is worth even more*

shesabrandybuck · 11-05-2008, 05:56 PM

aww thanks Mari! *admires gold star*, I think I'll boast about it some more...

Nicro · 11-05-2008, 09:26 PM

i finished the return of the king!

**Mari** · 11-06-2008, 03:50 AM

AND you've come back! *smiles*

sisterandcousinandaunt · 11-06-2008, 12:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shesabrandybuck

I made an A on my trig test!! Can you believe it?!?! AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!
A 93%, first time this year! I've been working so hard, and it finally paid off! And there were THREE damn proofs on the test too. Now I get a gold star with my name on it posted in the back of the room, oh I've been dreaming for that day....

YIPPEE!!!!!!!!!!!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nicro

i finished the return of the king!

Congratulations!!!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mari

AND you've come back! *smiles*

And that's great too...stick around, Nicro!

My happy thing is a chiropractic adjustment. Ahhh.......

**Mari** · 11-06-2008, 01:13 PM

That sounds erm... very happy indeed?

Nicro · 11-06-2008, 08:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mari

AND you've come back! *smiles*

yes and i am going to be posting in entquest soon

BeardofPants · 11-06-2008, 11:03 PM

We won our soccer final (indoor soccer @ work, playing against navy dudes). Woo!

10-27-2008, 05:01 PM	#941
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	Hehe, must be because of your inherent cuteness. People like to help cute people Yay for you! I love the winter IF there is snow and ICE! Lots and lots of ice to skate on! Distances, icedancing... I love it all. Except for speed-skating. I don't like that. __________________ Love always, deeply and true ★ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ★ Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply. ...The Earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"...

10-27-2008, 05:20 PM	#943
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	It is! And I have two pairs of iceskates, so I really hope I can use them on natural ice this year. The last time we had that happen is 12 to 14 years ago. __________________ Love always, deeply and true ★ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ★ Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply. ...The Earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"...

10-30-2008, 11:48 AM	#945
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	Ermm, yay!...? __________________ Love always, deeply and true ★ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ★ Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply. ...The Earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"...

10-31-2008, 12:11 AM	#946
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	I am tentatively happy because I've discovered/been taught how to get into a head voice that will hopefully match the coloring of the rest of my range!!!!! Last semester I was getting into a kind of head-voice-ish thing, but it sounded really tight and nasal... I was assured it would 'blossom' into a full head voice eventually, but that never really happened. Today I was practicing, working on getting my resonance to stay placed well forward and to use my support to sing through phrases/scales, when something just sort of clicked... when I tried singing some high scales, I was able to flip smoothly over my break point (past the D4#) without the sound getting tight, nasal, or becoming hard to sustain. I went to my voice lesson, and my teacher decided that since I'd discovered that much on my own he would go ahead and 'finish' the process... I don't think he was expecting me to figure out how to do it so quickly, but he said that if I was going to be messing around with it I might as well do it correctly. He's been telling me lately that he's very happy with what quick progress I'm making, so that's a good thing... especially since he said a few times early on in the semester that we probably wouldn't be doing any high voice stuff till next semester... so I'm getting a big of a jump on the 'schedule' . I dunno. It's not great, and I haven't gotten a chance to record it on anything but my cellphone... but when I do it correctly (which is REALLY DIFFICULT) then there's no obvious 'register flip' sound like I used to get... It's not that it's hard to do physically... It's weird. It's more like a balancing act than anything. If I put too much pressure on the sound, then it 'opens' too much and gets nasal/strained. But if I don't put enough, then it flips directly into falsetto... it's 'difficult' because it's like a balancing act, not because it takes muscle or anything. I -think-... hope/pray/beg-of-the-good-lord... that it's the real thing this time, and not just pulling chest like I used to do. I think it might be the real thing because I can do it softly -and- loudly, when with the pulling chest way it can only be LOUD. But I can do it softly this way, and I feel like my voice is sort of... sitting on top of the note, instead of me having to reach for it like I had to before. We'll see. Having this will let me access, so far, the E4 and F4 reliably without it being too terribly tricky... so I'm relatively certain that those are headed towards becoming usable notes for repertoire. Since this is just 'day one' of using my real head voice (I HOPE O.o) then that HOPEFULLY means I'll have at least the Ab4, if not the A, usable for repertoire eventually. That would TOTALLY kick ass, because then I could sing stuff like this: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=2yJ2BF...eature=related ^_^ To quote my teacher: "Well, son, it's certainly not perfect. Far from it. But it's a good start." Last edited by Tessar : 10-31-2008 at 12:13 AM.

10-31-2008, 11:03 AM	#947
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	I got books! Enough books to last me an evening! Guess how I am going to spend my evening? __________________ Love always, deeply and true ★ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ★ Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply. ...The Earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"...

10-27-2008, 05:16 PM	#942
katya Elven Maiden Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 3,309	Oooh I love ice skating! I didn't get to go the past couple years, but this year I'm going for sure! It's such a pretty pastime.

10-29-2008, 10:54 PM	#944
klatukatt Entmoot's Drunken Uncle Join Date: May 2005 Location: ghost Posts: 1,792	I'm not sure if this is happy news, but I've been on 4chan for the last hour. Heeeee. It makes me crazy... and happy.

10-31-2008, 11:17 AM	#948
Curufin The Ñoldóran Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Mishawaka, IN Posts: 2,050	Yay! I was finally able to order my Jasper T-shirt so that I'll have it for the Twilight movie opening in a few weeks! Woohoo! __________________ Then Celegorm no more would stay, And Curufin smiled and turned away... ~The Lay of Leithian

10-31-2008, 12:10 PM	#949
katya Elven Maiden Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 3,309	I'm pretty sure that girl from class a couple semesters ago is a vampire! She's do graceful and mature...

10-31-2008, 03:14 PM	#950
*Tessar* Master and Wielder of the Cardboard Harp of Gondor Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: IM IN UR POSTZ, EDITIN' UR WURDZ Posts: 6,433	My door is locked. My cellphone is not just on silent--it's off. I have 3 1/2 hours till work, and I will not be disturbed by ANYTHING. Glorious contentment ^_^.

10-31-2008, 05:05 PM	#951
klatukatt Entmoot's Drunken Uncle Join Date: May 2005 Location: ghost Posts: 1,792	Guess what? I found a girl! She may be named Meow and is possibly clinically insane, but we are going to have so much fun together.

11-05-2008, 05:08 PM	#952
shesabrandybuck Hero of Hyrule Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Hyrule Posts: 1,052	I made an A on my trig test!! Can you believe it?!?! AHHHHHHHHHHHH!! A 93%, first time this year! I've been working so hard, and it finally paid off! And there were THREE damn proofs on the test too. Now I get a gold star with my name on it posted in the back of the room, oh I've been dreaming for that day.... __________________ Ho! Ho! Ho! to the bottle I go To heal my heart and drown my woe. Rain may fall and wind may blow, And many miles be still to go, But under a tree I will lie, And let the clouds go sailing by. twitter

11-05-2008, 05:27 PM	#953
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	Wow! Woohoo for Link!!! Well done gives Link an Moot Gold Star which is worth even more __________________ Love always, deeply and true ★ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ★ Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply. ...The Earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"...

11-05-2008, 05:56 PM	#954
shesabrandybuck Hero of Hyrule Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Hyrule Posts: 1,052	aww thanks Mari! admires gold star, I think I'll boast about it some more... __________________ Ho! Ho! Ho! to the bottle I go To heal my heart and drown my woe. Rain may fall and wind may blow, And many miles be still to go, But under a tree I will lie, And let the clouds go sailing by. twitter

11-05-2008, 09:26 PM	#955
Nicro Elven Warrior Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 108	i finished the return of the king!

11-06-2008, 03:50 AM	#956
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	AND you've come back! smiles __________________ Love always, deeply and true ★ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ★ Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply. ...The Earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"...

11-06-2008, 01:13 PM	#958
Mari Elf Lady Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: In the lands where mountains are but a fairytale Posts: 8,588	That sounds erm... very happy indeed? __________________ Love always, deeply and true ★ Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer. ★ Friendship is sharing openly, laughing often, trusting always, caring deeply. ...The Earth laughs in flowers ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Hamatreya"...

11-06-2008, 11:03 PM	#960
BeardofPants the Shrike Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Francisco, CA <3 Posts: 10,647	We won our soccer final (indoor soccer @ work, playing against navy dudes). Woo! __________________ "Binary solo! 0000001! 00000011! 0000001! 00000011!" ~ The Humans are Dead, Flight of the Conchords

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