Roberta

Guess what, I am finally in possession of a new clarinet!!!!!!
I went to Gary Armstrong's on Saturday morning with mummy and spent over 2 hours fiddling around with new and used Buffet R13's.. and in my mom's opinion, the prices for the new ones weren't that much worse than the prices for the used ones SO... since my narrowing down resulted in one used one and one new one.. I went for the new one!!
Oh my oh my, she's ever so very shiny and beautiful and elegant!
I have named her Roberta. I'm not sure why, I kinda thought "hmm that's not quite it" but then that name kept coming to my mind so I figure I might as well go with it. Roberta sounds elegant to me, and perhaps I will call her Bertie or something for short. It's also very appropriate, I just realized, since my dad's name is Robert and it's his money that paid for her lol!
It will be a while before you see her in band though, she needs quite the breaking in and gradual increase of playing length over time before she can be played long enough to be in band.

It shocks me greatly that my parents have not asked for me to pitch in, not cheap indeed, but.. I'm not complaining!

There was something else I was going to talk about but now I've forgotten what.

You're all going to Max Galactic on Thursday night, yes? What time are you guys going and can I meet up and go with you?