Ok, decieving topic, but siouxz (woot i spelled it right) gave me the topic of music, specifically 70's disco, to write about. I think the topic is about all you'll get out of this blog that's 70's disco.

I love music. I don't know what I would do without it in my life. I grew up with it being a great part of my life. My mom played the piano, guitar, and harmonica when we were growing up. When we moved to Canada she started teaching piano lessons for some extra money. When I was 4, I got my first lessons from her.

About a year or two after she started giving my brother and I lessons, she decided we needed someone who could teach us better than she could. So we found someone who taught my mom guitar lessons, and my brother and I piano lessons.

I loved playing the piano. I just hated the whole practicing thing. I finally quit taking lessons when I was 16. It was probably the best thing I could do for myself when it came to music. Taking lessons was making me hate the piano. I wanted to play for enjoyment, not for "homework". There is nothing I find more relaxing that being able to just sit down and start playing. To forget about the world and play til my heart's content.

I also grew up singing.

I loved singing in church, and eventually joined a singing group called "the good time company" when I was in grade 3. I sang with them for 7 years, until the lady who ran the group decided she needed to spend more time with her family.

I loved that singing group. We were fairly well known around southern alberta. We started out as a small group of about 10-15 girls, and by the end of the group there were probably close to 40-50 girls and guys. We had the "junior choir" and "senior choir". The senior sang with the guys, the junior was just girls.

After a few years of being a group, we started travelling with our singing. The furthest we went with the group was to Florida.

The summer before grade 8 we went on "tour". We did fundraisers all year from quilting raffels, to plane ride raffels, to making pies, to selling pizzas. And finally, after a long year of practice and hard work, we made it. We got to sing on the steps of Magical Kingdom in Disney World. We got to sing at this market place that is huge down there (which i forget the name of right now), and we got to sing at Universal Studios.

It was awesome. Because we were "performers" we got to go "behind the scenes" of disney and universal. It was pretty cool, being my first time in any theme park of that size and getting to see the background stuff. We had so much fun.

After that, we stayed more local again for a few years. We would travel to Calgary or Edmonton for competitions, but nothing too very far away.

The last trip we took as a group was to Vancouver. It was for another competition. We didn't compete though. We signed up, but just for the experience. We learned after that if we would have competed we would have scored very high, especially for it being our first competition of that size. There were groups from all over North America there.

Sometimes I miss the group. I wish we could have continued to sing together until the end of high school. But I know that the time I had in the group were some of the most memorable times of my life.

So, this blog didn't end up being remotely about 70's disco...but it was about music. So, thanks for the topic bob. You rock...(n' roll...disco style)