We went grocery shopping this afternoon.  I feel like I have run several major marathons.  I also, naturally, in the middle of shopping, managed to hit my hand which jammed my sore shoulder on the door of the frozen foods.  Yup, wasn't that the brightest thing to do?  I amaze myself sometimes.  I am so clumsy.  So my arm is even more sore than it was before I started out this afternoon.  My shoulder is just as sore and of course, my knee and head have to keep them company.  Sometimes I just want to scream.  This is one of those days.

Other than shopping, there isn't much to do today, no lessons.  It is a good thing though since we went shopping.  I usually go on days we don't have much planned because it takes so much out of me.  

The weather is turning a bit colder now and the leaves are starting to change.  It looks so pretty from our dining room window.  We are heading to the bank now to make a deposit so my health insurance doesn't bounce.  

Hope you are having a good day.

I finished altering Emily's dress.  It was okay until I had to stand to measure the hem.  That hurt a bit.  I haven't sewn much in a year since I made the dresses for Disney.  I did okay, I am happy with most of the changes.

I have one student left tonight.  She is on her way.  Frank was back for his lesson this afternoon.  It was great to see and hear him again.  He has been off for 7 weeks since he broke his wrist.  He played quite well for not playing for 7 weeks.  He did practice this week though.  Charlie did well too.  Both boys have homecoming this weekend and are going.  (they attend different schools)

My arm and shoulder are very sore again, I have an appointment to see my doctor in two weeks.  I didn't ask for the appointment, apparently I haven't been in for an appointment for a year so he wants to see me.  I will have him look at my arm and shoulder although I believe it is just fibro.  We shall see.  My knee will be checked out too.  The left one is not doing as well as I would like.  I don't see the rheumatologist until October some time, so that is soon.

It is dark now so we won't be going to scooter.  It gets darker earlier now so we are probably done scootering until spring unless we go on the weekends.

I hope to pass out more flyers this week since I can't pass them out at the schools.  They don't allow it.  I was very disappointed at that.  Well, Rachel should be here soon, so have a good evening!!

I have 4 students today.  I also got a call back from the school board person, they will not allow me to pass out flyers to the elementary school for lessons.  They don't allow anyone to do that.  They just can't endorse anyone.  I wonder where our world has gone to.  It is really annoying.  So we are back to passing out flyers door to door.  I haven't had any results yet from that method.  I can't afford to put an ad in the newspaper because it costs about $500 per week.  Oh well, I have people that are willing to help me pass out flyers.  Maybe I will get someone that way.  At least I have two new students this fall. 

My arm and shoulder are doing worse.  My student is here so I have to go!  Have a great day!

Sam was over this morning to see if her homecoming dress needed to adjusted.  It doesn't.  She wanted a ruffle changed but that would ruin the line of the dress as well the entire dress would have to taken apart and resewn.  So I told her it was not possible to do.  (Because I am not ruining a dress!)  She plans to wear tights on her legs, a tank top underneath the dress (it will show) and converse tennis shoes on her feet.  Yeah.  She will basically be inappropriately dressed.  If it were my daughter she would not be going unless she was appropriately dressed meaning: black nylons on her legs with dress shoes and no tank top.  But she isn't my kid, so I guess her grandmother will let her go out looking like that.  I tried to talk her out of the shoes, but she won't budge.  Her grandmother was trying to tell her she should wear dress shoes but she was laughing so the effect she wanted wasn't there.  I just don't think it's funny.  She is going to embarrass herself.  

I will be fixing Emily's dress today.  She came over yesterday for the fitting.  I want her to come back during the week in case it needs to be adjusted again.  I don't think it will, but better to be safe than sorry.

I have to do laundry today too.  I am running out of undies.  Laundry is hard for me because I can't reach everything in the washer to put in the dryer and I can't stand up long enough to fold things out of the dryer, so Mom helps.  She brings down the clothes and then puts them in the dryer for me.  I hate doing laundry.  Then again, I don't know anyone who loves it.

My cousin and family are in Disney World right now, so is one of my friends.  I hope they have a great time.  I love Disney!!!!!!  I have been there about 13 times so far in my life.  I hope to go again in 2 years with Kathy and her children.  I had to give up my Disney points because we can't afford them anymore.  I was really sad over that.  I tried so hard to hang on to them.  We just don't have enough money unless I win the lottery.  Which, hey, you never know, it could happen.  Boy would I be shocked if it did.  

I am not sure if we are going to scooter today.  We will see how I feel after sewing.

Have a great afternoon and enjoy fall!

I ache a lot tonight.  My arm has been pretty bad all day.  Despite that, it was a good day.  I had two lessons then book club.  It was a great book club.  We were discussing so many things as well as the book we read.  I love book club.  It is always an interesting conversation with all the topics we hit upon.

After book club Emily came over to try on her dress so I can take the top in.  The bones in the dress stick out too much and well, a taller person would get a show.  Not good.  She has had a bad week with her asthma.  She has life threatening asthma and had been in the emergency room as well as the doctors office.  Poor kid.  She hasn't slept well because of the medicine she is taking.  What she needs is a really good night sleep but at this point she is so over tired that she can't sleep.  I hope this week is better for her.  She is a really nice kid.  I have known her since she was 6, wow, it has been 10 years, I just realized that.  Her sister is one of my students, Emily was, but she has advanced in piano so much that I couldn't teach her anymore.

I just love the day I had today!!!!  It was wonderful despite the major pain.  Tomorrow should be a busy day too as I plan to work on Emily's dress and Aggie's dress.  Then Emily will come in the middle of the week to try on the dress again to see how it fits.

I hope this finds you having a good day and enjoying fall.  It is my favorite season.

I am in a lot of pain today.  My shoulder and arm are really burning.  I am most unhappy about that.  It was difficult going to the sewing class because it hurt so much, but the girls are very helpful and listen quite well.  It is just not my day.  Mom gets upset because there isn't anything she can do to help.  I am trying not to move the arm much so it won't hurt so much.

Not much more happening as I feel horrible and am in a lot of pain.  

I didn't have Roman for a lesson yesterday.  His mom called to cancel the lesson at about 4 pm.  I was very disappointed because I was looking forward to the lesson,   She is new so I wasn't too angry about the late notice.  It does happen.

I have two lessons tomorrow morning and early afternoon as well as book club so I am looking forward to that.

I hope I have a better day tomorrow and in less pain.  I will be heading for bed early tonight and we won't be scootering.  I hope your day is much better than I.

I had my blood test this morning.  She had to poke me twice because the first time it didn't work.  I have very deep veins.  I also got my flu shot too, so did Mom.  She wasn't very happy with me about that, but oh well, she needed one.  My arm hurts even worse than usual because of the shot.  I should have had her give it to me in the right arm, not the left but she did it so fast it didn't occur to me how much it would hurt afterwards.  I hope it will be a month before the next one.

My arm and shoulder hurt a lot right now.  I think I finally fell asleep about 4 am. I hurt so much that I couldn't sleep.  My right eye is sore too.  It isn't fair.  That's all I have to say about it.

My friend, Donna, got lucky.  Her doctor is going to be able to give her the medicine as an outpatient.  He said it would be alright to do as long she remembers to give herself the medicine four times a day.  I still think she should be in a hospital where she will be supervised with the medicine.

I have little Roman tonight.  He is so cute.  He is four.  He is doing alright for a 4 year old.

I hope this finds you doing well.

I had no students tonight.  I had one yesterday, Charlie.  Frank will be back next week.  He broke his wrist about 6 weeks ago so he hasn't had a lesson since.  He got his cast off yesterday, so he will have his lesson next week.  I am very happy about that.  I talked to the a school board's secretary this afternoon.  I had to send a copy of my flyer that I would like to pass out to the local elementary schools.  I don't know if they will allow it, I hope so.  It would really help me out if I can pass them out to the school children.  I know that Rochester schools doesn't allow it because they have their own after school program.  I think Utica has one too, but I asked anyway.  I hope to hear from her soon.

My friend, Donna has a rare bone infection.  Apparently it is really bad and she has been told she needs to be in the hospital.  She refuses to go, says she can't afford it and won't do it.  She told the doctor to treat her as an outpatient.  To me, she is signing her own death warrant.  I don't understand her at all.  She has been told that if she doesn't get the medicine, she will die.  I don't get it, she is going to die if she doesn't go into the hospital, but she won't do it.  Her husband basically is like, that is her problem.  She had an appointment this afternoon.  She said she would call me later.

Pain level is medium high right now, but was really high this morning.  My shoulder is not getting any better and at times, is worse.  I wake up more than usual with pain, and then it takes a little bit to go back to sleep.  I woke up late today and am very tired.

I hope this finds you doing well.

I had four students today!  Yeah!  It was a great day.  I love days that I have a lot of students.  It makes the day.  My hope is that by the end of October, I will have 4 students Monday thru Thursday, and Saturday.  That would be good.  I can handle 4 a day.  I think I can actually handle 6 a day, but I will begin with 4.  I am going to go to the elementary school and ask if they will pass out my flyers.  I don't think they will, but I am going to ask anyway, they can only say no.  Saturday is book club and that is the day the Muglia girls were coming to pass out flyers, I will have to see if they can come a different day because of book club.  We only meet once a month.  But if I can pass them out at the school, I won't need to pass anymore out!  We shall see.

Mom enjoyed going to the first student's lesson.  She listens instead of doing her puzzles.  She likes to watch the students have their lessons.  She sits in on Kayla's and Rachel's lessons too.  Actually, I think she watches almost all of the lessons.  Grace had her first voice lesson this afternoon.  She did quite well for the first lesson.  Bob did okay on piano, he was having trouble with a few passages of his pieces that we went over and he did better on them.  I am very pleased with how he is improving on the piano.

I have to go to Evola's to sign up for the Christmas concert.  I want it the third Saturday or Sunday in December.  The first two weekends are busy for a couple of the students and they don't want to miss the concert, so we are going this week.

It is rainyish out right now so we are not going out for a scooter and it is also very humid out.  I don't do well with the humidity.

I am still waiting for my back disability.  I hope it comes soon.  I need to pay for the bankruptcy so I can get that taken care of.  Then we can work on Mom's bankruptcy.  Houses right now are being sold for almost half of what they are worth (the tax rate worth)  This will help Mom and I for the bankruptcy so I am not upset over that.  We just need to get them taken care of and finished.

Richard should be finishing up his contract work this month and then he, too, will be unemployed again.  I hope he finds another job either full time or another contract job soon.  He has a family to take care of too.  I wrote Abby and William last week, they should have the letter by now.  Hope they liked the card I made them for school.

Pain level is medium today.  I have been very careful not to move the shoulder wrong and cause severe pain through out the shoulder and arm.  I need help putting on my jacket so Mom helps me otherwise I can't put it on by myself.  One more thing I can't do on my own.  Just add it to the list.

I hope this finds you doing well and having a good day.

We met our friend Donna for Tim Horton's today.  It was fun.  She is a very nice lady.  She also has a rare bone infection that she should really be in the hospital for but she won't go because she can't afford to pay what her insurance won't pay for.  Her husband has the money to pay but he won't.  He says that is her responsibility.  I think that sucks the big one.  I thought when you got married you shared everything including money.  I guess he doesn't care that she could die from this.  I don't understand their marriage at all.  Unfortunately she can't leave him because she has no money and no where to go.  Her son and granddaughter live with them.  It just makes me mad!

We spent about 2 1/2 hours at the restaurant drinking pop (me), hot chocolate (Mom), and coffee (Donna).  It is nice to pass the time with a friend.  Now we are home and both Mom and I are bored again.  I am going to put on Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman.  Mom really likes the show and it keeps her from falling asleep her at the table.

I am very tired today and my arm/shoulder is very sore.  I moved it wrong putting on my jacket and it let me know.

I had one lesson earlier and she did wonderful.  We were working on something new and she hit notes she didn't know she could hit clearly.  She about fell over, Katie asked, "what was that?"  I replied, "You."  She was very shocked at the sound that came out of her mouth.  It was really exciting because it gives a glimpse of what she will be able to do soon and that is so cool.

I don't know if we are going to scooter, I have to charge it, I don't think we would get very far on it tonight.  

I hope this finds you doing well and enjoying your day!

I had one lesson today and that was it.  Aggie is every other week so this was her off week.  I have one student tomorrow and then 4 on Monday.  I love Mondays with that many students!

Not much going on here, I am re-reading Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix for I have no idea how many times.  We probably will watch Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman sometime later tonight.  Weekends are so boring.  Then again, weekdays aren't much better either.  Next Saturday the Muglia girls are going to come and pass out flyers.  That will be fun.  They are very busy today.  The girls are so unhappy that school has started.  Right now school doesn't sound so bad at least there is something to do.  But I do totally understand them, I hated school too.  Unfortunately, I wasn't homeschooled like they are.  I would have liked that better.

My arm is not doing well at all.  I cannot get my jacket on without help anymore because I can't really move the arm up now without massive pain.  My knee is doing somewhat better, it isn't as bad as it was earlier in the week.

I am very tired today.  I slept in too, so I shouldn't be so tired, but I am.  

I hope you are having a good day.