Trombone Failures and Time Wasting

Today was the first google day in band! Yippee!
So for me and my lack of creativity, this meant sitting around writing ideas and trying to look musical and intelligent. (For obvious reasons, this failed miserably)
Today, I accomplished basically nothing, which is why this blog has no title. I wrote a big fat list of some ideas that I could do, some suggestions from other people, and a lot of drawings of stars to satisfy my doodly brain.
Some results from today's brainstorming included:

• learn to play an instrument
• compile a musical history of famous pieces from different time periods, from [INSERT YEAR HERE] to current day.
• make a music video (seems to be the standby - unfortunately for my lack of talent in the video-editing department, this is probably not an option)
• make instruments out of household appliances and play a band chant or song on them
• blow into glass bottles containing different amounts of water (to have different notes) and play a song. I don't think I can do this because of the lack of glass bottles in my house that I would be willing to use. As most nonalcoholic beverages seem to come in plastic these days, I would have a difficult time finding bottles.

By the end of the day, my best ideas are EITHER to (a) learn to play one of the band chants on three-five different instruments or (b) master either guitar or harmonica.
I also spent about 20 minutes trying to figure out the melody of the How I Met Your Mother theme song. Time well spent.
In addition, I spent a while trying to understand the basics of trombone (shoutout to Blake for letting me borrow his!) with the aid of a tuner. This resulted in a big ole pile of frustration because first position can apparantly result in EVERY NOTE OF THE GOSHDARN SCALE, which is super irritating and means I have a crappy embouchure. Ah well, failed that.

All in all, not the best day. Hopefully will have more luck starting soon!