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…That’s me being a busy little bee lately!

Wow, before I had a job I thought I wasn’t doing enough stuff day to day-now I have to fit it all in around full-time employment I realise I was doing plenty!

The job is going fine. I’m definitely happy with it so far. Everyone’s nice and it’s a good little role to get my teeth into! There’s a lot of industry jargon that I’m having to get to grips with but I think I’m doing quite well…My role is Service Sales Administrator in the Additional Works Dept. I basically cost up engineers’ recommendations and send out quotes, follow up old quotes (of which there are many,) process orders, get prices from suppliers, order in the odd part and the like. I also do more general duties like answering the phone, sorting out the faxes etc etc. I’m looking forward to being able to do more on my own-at the moment I have to bug my poor manager every minute but that can’t really be helped in the early stages I guess…

Aside from work, which now takes up a whole lot of my time as you may be able to imagine, rehearsals for Big Band are becoming more frequent and more terrifying! There are only about 3 weeks to go and it feels like we still have a mass of work to do!! I’m delighted to inform that I have a solo part again! WOOOO I was so made up because there’s a severe shortage of parts this time and I really didn’t expect to be successful. I don’t have a full song, I have the introduction to Birth of the Blues but I really really like the part and it’s nice to have everyone kind of come in after my bit. Steve was so lovely at the last rehearsal…and I hate telling this story because it makes me sound really full of myself but I’m honestly just telling it because it meant so much and was so kind. Basically I rocked up to sing my bit and he says “You’ve caused me so much trouble!” and I was like “How come?” I thought he meant something to do with the sheet music because there’d been a mini mix up but then he said “Because you did such a good audition and I just didn’t have a full solo to give you, I’m really sorry.” and I was like “Oh my God no I love this part, I was chuffed to get anything!” lol I just thought that was such a lovely thing to say and it’s filled me with confidence. I love Steve! Although saying that, we have our first rehearsal with him today and I’m worried about what he’s going to say about how far along we sound because we are pretty behind. He’s the best for giving us a needed kick up the backside though so definitely glad of his presence today!

So yeah, Sing Live is keeping me busy. I have my audition for the Albert Hall concert next week too and I can’t believe that’s just around the corner. I’m having dilemmas about song choice…I kind of want to do I Dreamed a Dream but then I did On My Own from Les Mis for the last concert and I’d quite like to audition with something else this time. Other maybes are Wicked or Beauty and the Beast-I need to hurry up and decide. This one is major and I REALLY want it. Of course if I do get it I’ll have to do a second audition in Leeds and be up against Sing Live’s finest countrywide-eeshk!

I did another audition on Thursday too! Barbara from SL informed me of it the other week because she was auditioning to join BOST (Birkenhead Operatic Society Trust) and wanted to borrow some sheet music from me. I was going to audition for them some time ago but didn’t because the timing wasn’t quite right so I was keen to give it a go when she told me about it. It’s a well respected and high-standard society to join so I wasn’t sure I stood a chance but the audition experience out of the now quite familiar Sing Live seemed a good opportunity, even if it wasn’t to come to anything else. So I went along and sang On My Own to a panel of five. I managed to keep my cool quite well. I was definitely more nervous than I was for my last Sing Live aud for example and it wasn’t perfect, but sounded a lot better than the first time I sang On my Own (which was for my first SL audition.) I then had to do an exercise where I sang the higher or lower note of two that were played at the same time and I was asked a few questions and that was it. I came home and at around 10pm they called me and told me they’d like to see me again when their director is back and have their choreograher see if I can move at all (which I’m a bit worried about because I’m really not a dancer!) I still don’t have my hopes up but it was definitely a boost to get a callback and I really feel now that my singing must have improved-or at least my confidence in auditions, which is great! I’m a bit gutted though because if I do get in their next concert is a musicals one (YAY) but coincides with Albert Hall (BOO!) Nevermind, I would pick RAH given the choice.

That’s about all for now folks! Except that I’m getting PAIDDDDD next week and so will probably get upto a few fun things with mes amis! We’re going to Alton Towers on the 5th and I can’t WAIT! But I am going to try to keep some money in the account for the gazillion reasons that there are to do so. I bought a new mobile last week which was probably something that should have waited until payday but I got a really good deal and it’s SO much better than my old phone! It’s an LG KP501 Cookie and I love it! Couldn’t actually hear my little Samsung which caused me no end of frustration-amongst all the other things that were wrong with it! So aside from making up for that little extravangance, I need to tot up the overdrafts and eventually save up for the next few years! (and possibly for moving out in a few months!! More about that to follow…plans are all very much in the early stages-in fact it’s more an idea than a definite plan but exciting news at that! )

Sarah x