A Troll Doll Jingle

Just so Cape Harmony can remember this forever and ever:

(To be sung to the tune of "What's Going On?" by the Four Non-Blondes)

"In 25 years I'll be 30 years old,
I'm 5, and I'm sitting here, playing with this troll,
this troll that I got for Christmas.
And so I play with his shirt and I play with his hair,
I'm gonna play with my friend so I'll put you right there and I, I'll be back,
I'll be back in a minute.
But when I come back around my troll is not there
and I remember his shirt, and his long pink hair
and I scream at the top of my lungs:
"MY TROLL IS GONE".
And I say heyyyeahhhyeahhheyhey, heyyyeahhhyeahh, I said hey,
my troll is gone."

Kidney Stones Are No Fun

Sorry about the lack of blogging, folks. This kidney stone doesn't seem to want to leave me alone and I have been laying in bed trying to send the stone telepathic messages, trying to convince it to leave. Due to the failure of this technique, I am going back to CT on Wednesday afternoon to have a Doctors appointment. However, I will be meeting up with the girls on Saturday in East Providence to perform at Jocelyn's family's summer picnic. That means I'll be missing Thursday's street fair performance...but I know the girls will do an amazing job. We have just added two new songs to our repetoire, "Under the Boardwalk" with Jenn as the soloist, and "Fever", with Jocelyn and Yours Truly as a duet!

We had a fantastic show last Saturday in Buzzard's Bay. We had a GREAT turn out, and a fabulous audience.

It was during the show that I had to take a deep breath, look around myself, and realize that I was part of an amazing group of girls. We have come so far...and I have never been more proud of a group of girls in my entire life. The nine of us took a huge risk by dropping our normal lives and forming this group. I have never for one second regretted coming here and being part of this experience. I think what I am most proud of is that everyone is here for the music. Everyone is here for the four hour daily rehearsals, the shows, the audiences, the fans. It isn't, and never will be, about the money. All of us get up and go to work. We work in retail. We work in restaurants. We work at banks. We deal with customers all day long and come home to a hot, sticky house full of nine girls and sing well into the night. We go to bed, get up bright and early, and do it all over again. It would be a lie to tell you that none of us are struggling. But I think that is what makes it so beautiful. I think it is the struggle that makes it worth it, that makes us appreciate a smiling, cheering audience. I know that this group will never lose that appreciation. And that makes me so unbelievably proud to call myself a member of Cape Harmony.

I love you, girls.

We Love You Eastham!

The summer kick off concert was a HUGE success. We had so much fun and we had a fantastic audience. We sang a really solid set of fourteen songs:

Come Go With Me
Torn
Build Me Up, Buttercup
I'll Be There
You Give Love A Bad Name
Something To Talk About
Send Me On My Way
Wannabe
Unwritten
Can't Hurry Love
Gloria Estefan Medley (Conga, Rhythm is Gonna Get You, Turn The Beat Around)
Lullabye
Gone
Homecoming King

I can't believe how much fun we all had! I can't wait until our next show on Saturday in Buzzards Bay...(St. Peters Episcopal Church...7:30...be there!)

Due to the fact that Drew, Jenn, and I decided to watch "The Exorcism of Emily Rose" when we got home from the concert (clinging to each other for dear life in one bed, with every single light in the house on), sleep is no where in the near future. However, me and Drew's room is disgusting...and needs to be cleaned. So I will leave you with yet ANOTHER pointless entry, apologize, and promise that my next one will be more interesting and informative. It will also be written at a more sane hour than 3 AM.

"See, you and me have a better time than most can dream, have it better than the best, so we can pull on through whatever tears at us, whatever holds us down, and if nothing can be done we'll make the best of what's around...Turns out not where but who you're with that really matters." -Dave Matthews Band-

"A True Friend Is There For You When They Would Rather Be Somewhere Else."

The last few days have been interesting, if nothing else. I'll start with Saturday. We had an attempt at a nice day at the beach, but decided we would rather lay out on the front lawn than pay $15 for parking. So after a nice day in the dirt and grass, we decided to go to the fireworks in Hyannis. Jocelyn, Alyssa, and I took my car, with Drew and her wonderful boyfriend Mike following us in Drew's car. Unfortunately, we weren't the only ones to think to go to the fireworks that night, and due to crazy traffic and no parking whatsoever, the two cars got split up. So Jocelyn, Alyssa, and I found a nice spot in the midst of thousands of other people on the Hyannis green. The fireworks were fantastic - and it really felt like summer had officially kicked in. At one point Jocelyn turned to us and said..."You know, I truly feel blessed right now. There is no place I would rather be." Both Alyssa and myself wholeheartedly agreed. On the way home from Hyannis we stopped at Blondie's to visit Jenn/get ice cream and Jocelyn and I both talked about how excited we were for our FAVORITE HOLIDAY (July 4th).

I felt fine that night when I went to bed, but I woke up Sunday morning with an AWFUL pain in my right side. At first, I thought it was just a cramp, and got out of bed to walk around the house. I tried everything I could think of, stretching, drinking a glass of water, breathing really deeply...this cramp would just not go away. I was laying on our couch when Jocelyn came out into the living room and asked what was wrong. "I don't know...I have this really bad cramp...it's really bad...it's actually like the worst thing I have ever felt." I could barely move. Jocelyn got me some motrin and a glass of water. Immediately after I took the motrin, I got sick in the bathroom and knew it was bad. Alyssa called an ambulance and in literally five minutes they were there. I can't really recall anything from then on, other than the pain and people asking me 300 questions. Alyssa came with me in the ambulance and Alyssa's mom came right after we arrived. They stuck by my side the entire day After hearing the news, my mom drove the three hours to get here and arrived right after I had a CAT scan. They put me on some AWESOME pain medication and I slept for about an hour. When I woke up, it was official: I had kidney stones. I went back to Alyssa's house for the night, and she and her mother waited on me hand and foot. We were supposed to sing the National Anthem at the Bourne Braves game but the girls decided to cancel everything for the night. I got a flood of text messages and phone calls from all the girls, and Drew had even packed me a bag of clothes, my stuffed bunny (yeah, yeah...laugh it up), my iPod, my phone charger, and a framed picture of me and my boyfriend. I felt so loved and so looked after, and even through the absolutely excruciating pain (yes...it was that bad) I couldn't help but think "You know, I truly feel blessed right now. There is no place I would rather be."