I had to cancel sewing lessons this afternoon because my head hurts and my stomach is not feeling so hot.  I am disappointed about that.  I love sewing days.  The girls are doing so well and it is so much fun.  They are really great girls.  The twins, Hannah and Natalie, are 13 almost 14 and Lydia is 12.  They also play piano.  They really took off this summer once I brought the Harry Potter and Star Wars music.  All of a sudden they were just jamming!  It was great to see and hear.

We are having a low key day due to health issues.  We are watching Golden Girls.  I love this show.  After Golden Girls we will be watching Murder She Wrote.  Just a low key day.  

It is raining out right now.  I wonder if that has something to do with my headache.  It is possible.  Well, I am looking forward to tomorrow, Lily has a lesson and then either Saturday or Sunday I will be meeting up with my cousin, Hayley.  She ordered a few things and they have arrived.  She is very excited about it.  She lives in London, Ontario and sometimes some of the stuff she orders can't be sent to Canada, so she has them sent here.  We don't mind.  It is no problem for us and it helps her out too.  Also, we get to see her more often.  She is very busy and her schedule is crazy at times.  Once we get our passports we will be able to visit her and other family members in Canada.  I look forward to that.

I hope this finds you having a good day despite the rain!  Have a great afternoon!

I know I already posted today, but I have to post again.  I just finished watching Oprah.  She had several amazing and inspiring women and about an organization that helps women around the world.  It is called Women for Women International.  They have a new book out called half the sky.  I hope to read it this weekend.  I will pick it up tomorrow.

Anyways, I will be speaking to my teenage girls about having them perform in a benefit recital.  I can't sponsor a woman right now, it is only $27 a month, but we are barely making it ourselves, but we can do a recital.  I have emailed a former student to see if she would be interested in participating.  When I have more information, I will let you know.

have a great day!

It is definitely a better day than yesterday except that my mind kept me awake most of the night.  You see, somehow I thought I overdrew my bank account because even with the deposit I made there was a shortage of $100.  I noticed this after I went grocery shopping yesterday.  I couldn't figure out where that $100 went.  And naturally, I have two checks ready to go through.  So this kept me up all night.  So this morning I check the account again to see how overdrawn I am and what would bounce.  Well, those two checks?  They went through two days ago that's how the account got shorted $100.  Silly me.  If I had looked further down in my checking account I would have seen that they went through.  So the bottom line is I didn't overdraw my account.  (actually it's Mom's and mine.)

Emily is coming over this afternoon to try her dress on one last time.  I wanted her to come during the week instead of just picking it up on Saturday in case something needs to be adjusted.  We don't need an upset teenager the day of the dance!  She looks so beautiful in it.  I can't believe how much she has grown.  I met her when she was 6, she is now 16.  

Roman is suppose to have his lesson tonight.  He is so cute, he is 4.  They had too miss last week so he should be here tonight.  Little kids are so cute to teach.  He is just starting the concept of playing the same note several times in a row.  Last time he couldn't do it.  I hope to work more on it during this lesson.

I hope this finds you doing well and enjoying fall.

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.