On the Stage

My student loans will be consolidated befoe the big hike! I am going to be paying about $175 less a month too. NICE!

Running last night I did 1.5 miles again (I played tennis right before I ran so I was sore and tired already, leave me alone!) and when I was done my right leg sort of hurt. It started hurting more, so I iced it, and it was doing alright, now this morning it's still a little sore, but I don't think it'll be the end of the world. It's right below the right calf but above the achilles tendon area, so who knows, but I wont be running tonight anyway, so maybe Saturday it'll be good enough to run on again.

Good for you Lars, it's good you're running again. I knew you could do it! It's good to stay healthy, stay active. How exciting!

Well, thanks :-)






I went running again last night! Another 1.5 miles, which I know is pretty measley but it's something :-) It felt a little easier and it felt like I was going a little faster, but I finished at 14:31 so it couldn't have been any faster. I hopefully can go again tonight, so we'll see if we can push it to 2 miles or more maybe.

I could use this running too, I've been pretty bitchy, pretty self-loathing lately...

ok, maybe just in my hometown...but I went running again last night!!! Are you proud of me?!

Remember last year when I was running for a while? But then I got sick and it got cold and I stopped.

Well, I said I wasn't done yet, I said I wasn't giving up, and I'm not...I'm back at it again.

I went last night. I warmed up a bit, stretched a bit (could def. do more of this though) and then I started running, I said I was just going to run until I got tired because I knew it would be hard and it would not be like it was last year. Well, 15 minutes later I was POOPED, so I stopped. I would assume I made it about a mile and a half but I don't know for sure. I know where I ran though, so I'll drive it today after work and see how far I actually went.

Either way...it felt good! My thighs are burning but it felt good!

Thanks for asking Blue Blanket :-)

The wedding went off without a hitch! All was fantastic, as far as I can tell I sounded great, and there was probably nothing to worry about (though I will always worry and get nervous as hell!) Also, though I got NOTHING after the rehearsal on Friday, after the wedding when I was telling them congratulations he said he had something for me and later gave me a nice little envelope which contained $50! (yes!)

Good times for all :-D

On a side not having nothing to do with the wedding, we had our 5-year wedding anniversary on Friday! :-D Yay us, we're awesome! We got each other a Broadway cast recording we didn't have (I got her the 2-disc "Harry on Broadway Act 1" which contained 1. The Pajama Game revival that just won the Best Revival Tony Award and stars Harry Connick Jr. and Kelli O'Hara and 2. also has another disc of songs from Harry's not well received Broadway show he wrote a few years back called Thou Shalt Not it is songs from the show that he is singing himself and also cut songs from the show and Kelli O'Hara joined him for some of the songs as well. She got me The Drowsy Chaperone which is a fantastic new musical that should have won best musical (though Jersey Boys was also very deserving) but won for best featured actress and best book for Bob Martin (who was also a nominee for best actor in a musical because he also stars as the man in the chair (which is also interesting in my opinion that he was nominated for best actor in a musical when he in fact does not sing in the show at all)) it won for other Tony awards too but I'm too lazy to look them up. Anyway, love it, glad I have it, can't wait to listen to it on the way home!

But this is not the exciting thing or the reason I went on to type (though I did get a little off tangent when talking about broadway) we also got a grill!! WOOOHOOO!! I'm so excited to have a grill! I'm going to grill all the time. I LOVE grilled burgers, hot dogs, brats, chicken, etc. V should be getting a propane take today, since it's a gas grill, it was on sale at Target for $84 and then we got 10% off because V works there, so it was quite the deal!



That's what it looks like.

So there we go, that was my weekend! How was yours?

How can you tell a singer is at your door?

They can't find the key, and don't know when to come in!

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How can you tell a trombone player’s kid on the playground???

They don’t know how to use the slide and they can’t swing.

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How can you tell you're kissing a french horn player?

When he tries to stick his hand up your ass.

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What's the difference between a podiatrist and a drummer....

A podiatrist bucks up your feet....

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What's the difference between a drummer and a pizza?

A pizza can feed a family of four

I ate chicken Sunday night off the grill at the neighbors, but it was marinated for 2 days when it was raw in this italian marinade, then I used that marinade on my chicken when I was eating it, not knowing that it had been used with raw chicken earlier. Got some Salmonella!

So...Sunday night through Tuesday I was running to the bathroom. Sunday night I had diarrhea and just thought nothing off it. Then I got to work on Monday and my stomach was in knots, jumping and jiving and I went diarrhea FIVE times in that 8 hours, then four more times when I got home.

I know, this is all information you do NOT need, but that's ok :-)

Tuesday I had a RAGING headache too, so that was fun, and it was V's birthday.

Now today, Wednesday, just a little knoting of the tummy still, and well, we'll see how the bathroom situation goes.

Yeah, so, the song I said I wasn't doing well at? Well, we know why now. Because the accompanist had a different version of the song than me and she was playing, not only different accompaniment, but also TWO STEPS LOWER than me. Not some measly half step, but TWO STEPS, and the wrong accompniment.

So, I made a photocopy of the version I had and had been working on on my own, and then all went well. So no more worrying there. Now just some little things here and there I need to smooth over on Friday night when we rehearse for the last time at the wedding rehearsal.

So that's what I've been up to since last update. I'm off to the bathroom now...I hope it's ok!

This was a good weekend. Had a good time. Hung out with the fam. hung out with the neighbors a lot (who we still love a lot!) and got the best father's day present ever. A block of wood painted green with a picture of Kaia and me that Kaia drew herself pasted to the wood all nice and cute. I just LOVE the way she draws people. She's so creative, and so original and just the cutest in the whole wide world.

One of the songs I have to sing for the wedding on Saturday is NOT going well and I'm a tad nervous about it...more rehearsal tonight, we'll see how it goes tonight.

Oh no...it's started, I guess.

Last night I was chatting with the neighbor and Kaia was playing with the neighbor girl, we'll call her "L" and all of a sudden I hear:

"What the hell"

Then before I know it I'm in dad mode...

"Kaia! What did you say?!"

She and L look at me...

"What did you say?"

"What the hell"

"Get over here!"

she balks...

"Get over here now, Kaia"

"L said it first..."

"I don't care...come here, I want to talk to you"

she does!

"Kaia Janeane, you know the difference between what you should and should not say, I know you Kaia. You know the difference. You should not have said that. I don't care who says what first, if someone else says something first it doesn't matter, you do not say it. Do you understand?"

not looking at me...

"Look at me Kaia. Do you understand?"

nothing...

"KAIA, DO YOU UNDERSTAND"

"YES!!!!!!" all whiney :-) lol

"Thank you"

she wants up and out of their yard...

"No, it's ok Kaia, you can go play again now"

she's not your typical kid, when she gets punished she WANTS us...lol, I'm SURE that will change.

lol, then V says "It's all over Kaia, it's ok" lol

then L and her mom come back over after she was getting talked to too, I don't know what she said to L though since I was busy talking to Kaia. Then they start playing again and it's all over.

That was the very first time she's said a bad word, I'm sure she knew what it was, but I'm not convinced completely she knew it was bad. She knows the "other" words, but, oh who knows what was going on with those two.

It's funny though, I'm still working on not feeling bad when I lay down the law. Because I do, I lay it down, and I stick to it (most of the time :-/) but then I feel bad afterwards...all I want to do is have her know right from wrong and make good choices and be a good girl, which I know if un-realistic lol, they'll always be making some mistakes and what not, but I want her to know that I love her more than anything in the world, and I'm so proud of her, and she's just the reason I smile everyday, and I KNOW she knows that, but do you know what I mean?

So that was the funny thing that happened yesterday!

- when the most exciting thing right now in my life is that we rearranged our living room and it makes me so much more happy than the old way?

- that I will hopefully be getting paid for the wedding I'm singing for in two weeks and that is exciting?

- that I believe, despite trying not to believe it, that I am a hypochondriac?

Everything went fantastic! The show went great, all was fun and well worth it. I'm very happy. We could have seen a better turnout, but we were afraid this was going to happen and it did, so oh well. I miss it! I miss it like crazy! But I also like knowing I have my life back now!

Spent the whole last week with my sister-in-law and her husband and that was a blast! We went to the zoo one day, that was fun!

I miss them, I wish we lived closer to them :-(

We got our living room re-arranged while they were here...awesome!! And he and I fixed the leaky kitchen faucet all ourselves for $2.19...awesome!!

That's my week in a VERY short wrap-up.