so tired today

I have been so tired today.  I don't know why.  Maybe it is just catching up on me, it was a busyish week.  I got up at 11 and then took a nap a little while later.  When I woke from the nap, my tummy was upset and my head was bad so I took some stuff for it, and went back to bed.  In between the naps though, I had a lovely conversation with Kathy on the phone.  It was fun.  Samantha and Alicia had to say hi to me.  It was so cute, Ali had the phone and didn't say a word then handed it back to her mom.  Sammy said hi and a few other things before giving the phone to Kathy.  Jacob was kind of cranky because he had to read for a bit this afternoon.  That is something Kathy and i just don't understand.  We love to read and poor Jacob just doesn't.  I have read a bit this afternoon but my head just hurts too much to read much today.  As it is, I will be heading back to bed for the night in a while.

I wrote some checks to pay some bills today.  Boy it feels good to be able to pay some bills.  I have a few more to pay this week too including some doctors.  I owe so many doctors so much money.  It is so frustrating but there isn't anything I can do about it.  i owe the money so i will slowly pay it.

I was in mom's room this afternoon.  I have to get new sheets, blankets, and pillows because they got rid of hers.  Those pillows were about 6 months old.  I was not very happy.  I will be doing that next month as this month I had to buy a box of contacts so that was the end of my spending money for the month as of right now anyways.  I don't think anyone is coming to visit right now so that shouldn't be an issue.  I will get it taken care of soon.  I am not in a hurry.  I do hope that I am able to hit some sales for the bedding too.  I have to get a bed spread too.  I thought that it had been saved but it was mom's blanket it that was saved, not her bedspread.  I really liked her bedspread too.  I have the drapes and curtains so those won't be an issue.  I will probably buy the stuff a little bit at a time.  I also still have the mattress waterproof cover.  I am going to ask Bob if he can help me put the mattress back on the bed frame next week after his lesson.  I am meeting with the lawyer tomorrow after his lesson so that is out tomorrow.

I had a somewhat good day despite the many naps.  The highlight was talking to Kathy and also my cousin, Cathy, made a comment on my face book that made me smile.  She is so funny sometimes.  I just love both Kathy and Cathy!  They are amazing women.

I do hope you had a good day too!

Semi busy Saturday

I was to have 4 lessons but my first one, Koffi, didn't show up.  I had received a message from Takelessons that she hadn't paid for the month of March so they were taking her off the schedule, but I expected her today as she had paid for one more lesson.  The bad thing is she has 3 of my books and CDs.  I do hope to get them back from her.  Yes, I have other copies of all the books, but you never know when you will need extra copies for things like competitions and solo and ensemble.

Kayla came to her lesson in a really bad mood.  She was so angry at her mom for waking her up early and doing some work around the house.  She was 10 minutes late because of that.  She was cranky through out the entire lesson although I did get a bit of a smile from her.  Amanda was excited because she got Over the Rainbow today.  I have to copy her Colors of the Wind CD so she can have that one next week.  Charles is doing very well with piano.  He learned 4ths and 5ths today along with a new hand position.  I am pleased with all of their progress.

It will be a quiet evening as I have no plans tonight.  I had some mashed potatoes and will be having some veggies for dinner.  I am just not very hungry right now.  That may change, but usually it doesn't.  I have a bit of a bad headache again tonight.  I woke up with it.  I am so sick of them.  My knee is getting better though so that is a good thing.  I can almost walk normally now.  I am happy about that.

I took a brief nap between lessons today.  i am so tired.  I could sleep right now.  I think I will head to bed earlier than usual tonight.  I am just so exhausted and I only taught 3 lessons!  how did I used to teach 8 to 10 a day and on Saturday 12 lessons.  I don't know.  I was much healthier then too so that does make a big difference.

I am going to read for a bit now before I head to bed early.  I hope I am awake enough to last.  We shall see!

Friday

I had Calli and Acer's lessons today.  Well, sort of Acer's lesson.  The young man doesn't always like to do his lessons when he arrives.  Sometimes the allure of legos calls his name.  I was able to have him learn 1 new song in his piano book.  I hope in the next few weeks that I will have him in level B books and learning to play with both hands at the same time.  Calli will be starting level 3 next week.  How cool is that?  I think it is pretty cool.

I have a new student, Christine, who is 10, starting next week on Tuesday.  I am excited about that.  I do need about 10 more though and I do need them rather soon as I am not quite making all my bills.  I am excited about her lesson.  She has had a few lessons before so she is bringing her book for us to use.

It will be a busy tomorrow with 4 lessons.  I am very happy about that.  I have a lesson at 11, 11:30, 12:30 and 3pm.  I will be a happy teacher tomorrow.  So far, next week I will have 11 students for the week.  Good, but I need more but it is a good start.  I will keep praying for more students.  I also advertise now on a homeschool network so that should hopefully help.  I do hope so.

It has been a quiet day with the exception of the grocery shopping that I had done this afternoon.  I wasn't feel so good when I went to bed last night.  My throat was a bit sore so I took some cold medicine.  I didn't get up until about 2:30 this afternoon!  I guess I was a bit exhausted.  I am still tired and I have a bit of a bad headache.  My throat is fine today, thank goodness, so I will not need to take any cold medicine.  I haven't made the appointment with my doctor yet.  I will do that next week.  I need to do this but I also keep procrastinating about it.  I don't really know why except I get tired of going to the doctors in general.  I know there isn't much he can do and I am tired of trying new medicines that don't work but I do need new pain medicines.

I do hope you are having a good day.  Despite how short my day has been, it has been a good one.  I am looking forward to my lessons tomorrow.  Sunday will be rest day and who knows what day.  I may see a movie if something is good that is playing or maybe I will watch a couple of movies here at home that I haven't seen yet.  I have a couple that I haven't watched yet since I got them.  The new Bambi movie is out now.  I love Bambi so I will need to pick that up eventually.  Mom and I loved that movie.  Of course, was there really a Disney animated movie that Mom and I don't like?  We love them all.  Mom used to say she was upset when we started school full time because it meant no more cartoons for lunchtime.

It is a Thursday!

I got a surprise this afternoon!  My former student, Samantha (who is now in 10th grade!) stopped by and brought me back my music.  I was so thrilled!  2 of the books she had were books that I have been missing and didn't know where they were.  Now they are back!  Of course, I haven't had her for a student in 2 1/2 years, but hey, I got the books back and that is what counts.  She also had an original CD!  I didn't know that or well, I did not remember that!  I am so glad it is back along with the book.  I now can copy the music for Amanda since I needed a song out of that book.  I do have another copy of that book but Breanna has it right now.  I will burn another CD for Amanda too because Breanna has that one too.  Not a problem, I will do that tomorrow.  I was very happy to see Samantha and she has grown so much since I last saw her. She is simply gorgeous and is going to be doing Cosmetology next year in school so that is great.

I had one lesson earlier today and I have another this evening at about 5:15 ish.  Breanna is doing very well with her lessons.  She takes piano and voice.  Charlie will have his tonight.  I just copied the Over the Rainbow song for him.  I tried to make a harder version for him, but it just didn't work out.  Maybe I will be better over the weekend.  Either way, he will have the song now and we can talk about how to jazz it up a bit.  My brain is not in creative music mode today for some reason.  I need to make another copy of that tonight too for Amanda as she wants to sing it.  At least I have a CD for that one!!!  I made it several years ago and transposed it into a couple of different keys for my students.  Amanda also wants Colors of the Wind.  I now have a second copy of that thanks to Samantha bringing me my books back.  Most of my music is now put back into the filing cabinets.  I have a couple of piles that need to be done, but they will get done soon.  I do have to put all my CDs in order.  That is not done.  I have some in order in the drawers, but there are a couple of piles on the little table next to the sofa.

Other than lessons, I haven't done much today.  I finished reading a good book and I am not sure if I will start another one tonight or not.  I do have to go to Walmart tomorrow to pick up my prescription.  It is ready so I will go when I get up tomorrow.  I went and got gas this afternoon.  $30 to fill my little focus and it was 1/4 full.  Wow, I can't imagine what gas is going to go up to.  Thank goodness I don't drive very much anymore.  I like having the student come to me because if I need something, I can run (well, walk) downstairs and get it for them.  I love that ability to do that because there are times when students do forget their music.  It is rare, but it has been known to happen.

Tomorrow Calli and Acer have their lessons.  I am glad to have their lessons tomorrow otherwise I would have nothing scheduled for the day.  I dread those type of days, I really do because unless I have something else planned, they are more tiring for me.  I don't know why they are but they exhaust me more than when I have a lot of lessons.  I have 4 lessons on Saturday.  I am so glad about that.  I have a new student that will be starting.  They haven't scheduled their first lesson yet.  They have just signed up.  It is for a 10 year old for the piano.  I will have to go and pick up the books and flashcards for her before the first lesson.  I like to do this because then we all know they have the proper books and will be ready for the first lesson.  Usually the parents like this too because they don't have to worry about it then.  I am going to call her later today to introduce myself.  I am so excited about the new student.  Since I have lost a couple (they were temporary students) and also Alyssa, I need replacements for them.  I do hope to get more in the next few weeks.  I can almost cover all my bills including food and gas.  I can't quite yet, but I am close.  I pray every night for new students so that I will be able to cover all of my bills and not get behind in any of them.

Painwise, I am okay except for the flare in the knee.  It isn't much better today.  I am hoping it will clear up in the next week or so.  I will be making the doctor appointment later today for early next week.  I dread going because I know there isn't much he can do for me, but I do need better pain management for my head and my body in general.  I have been getting too many bad headaches so that needs to be addressed.  I just dread going.  At least now, with Medicare, most of my doctor visits will be covered now unlike my old insurance so I suppose that is good.

I do hope you are having a good day.  It is slightly sunny here, not too much, but a bit now and again, but it is cold out too.  I can't wait for the warm up!

The hard part is over, now just the waiting

I had my meeting with the trustee this morning.  I was thinking I was going to court and seeing a judge.  Nope, you go to a federal building and meet with a trustee.  Much less stress when you get there.  The trustee asked me questions about the house and the trust.  I answered them all very honestly.  I also let him know that I am paying all the house related bills, not my brothers, although they are also co-owners of the house.  I am thankful this part is over.  Now I have to wait for 60 days for anyone who objects to the discharge of the debts.  The lawyer doesn't think they will be any because no one showed up today.  The bottom line?  I get to keep the house.  That was the important thing.  I own my car so that wasn't a part of the bankruptcy, thank goodness.  I am glad to have this behind me or at least the beginning of behind me.

After the meeting I went over to Windsor to close the safety deposit box.  It was empty just like I expected. I also owed from the year before so I ended up paying $70.  I was not happy about that, but it is paid and closed that is the important part.  I no longer have to deal with it.  Now I just have to have the bank here in Michigan drill the safety deposit box open and empty that one.  I have no idea how much that is going to cost.  I am going to take care of that in a couple of months as I don't have the money right now.  I may possibly be losing a student because they haven't paid for March yet.  They have a lesson on Saturday and that may be the last one.  Definitely, a bummer but I am hopeful they will stay.

Monday I have the meeting with the tax attorney.  I am definitely tired of all these lawyer meetings but I have to have this taken care of.  I have to bring a copy of the trust with me.  I will just bring the entire binder and let them make a copy of what they need.  I have to bring the letters from the IRS too.  I hope this is an easy process too.  The lawyer thinks it will be.

I am very tired despite the nap I took this afternoon.  I was up at 6 am this morning.  I think I could sleep a lot more!  Tomorrow I have to be up by 12 noon so that isn't too bad.  Brianna has her lesson at 12:30 for an hour.  Charlie also has his lesson tomorrow evening so that is good.  I love how he almost always reschedules his lessons instead of canceling them.

I am hoping the locks get changed tonight.  John is going to call me after Awana at his church around 8:30 or 9:00 or so.

Darrin looked at the pictures of the shuffleboard and doesn't think his friend will end up buying it.  He was expecting more of a toy and this is a real shuffleboard.  He also said his friend is cheap, so I may not be able to sell it right away like I had hoped.  Darrin also said if he had the money he would be buying it because it is in such good condition and looks great.  If he really wants it, I may change the price for him if he can do that.  I don't know.  He may know someone else who would like it.  I am hoping to sell it this spring.  I need the money for the property taxes.  I can't think of any other way getting the money this year.  I also am planning to sell the living room set and the bar stools.  I am keeping the round table and barrel chairs.  I really like them no matter what anyone says.  I am not selling them, I am just not.  I am going to use the table for sewing and I think it will be perfect for sewing.  If I find out that it isn't good for sewing, then I will sell them but not until I start them.

I figure by spring I will be sewing again.  I used to sew every night when I watched TV with Mom.  I haven't sewn in a while but I will get back into it again.  I love sewing.  I know people don't think I will, but I will.  I also want to get back into crafting again.  This past year I got away from it because Momma needed me more and she couldn't do any.  It made it easier not to do it because it was sad to do crafts and sewing and she couldn't do it with me.  I loved sewing with Mom, but when I am sewing it will make me think of her because she taught me to sew and craft.  I would like to do some craft shows in the future and maybe sell some ornaments online.  That is my goal.  I will achieve it.  I need to get back into it and start working on my future.  I know my future is uncertain at this point, but I need to do something.  I am hoping to have enough ornaments to open an etsy shop by summer.  Like Richard has said, I need to get back in the business of living.  It won't be easy, but it needs to be done.  I miss Momma all the time and I don't expect that I will stop missing her ever, so I have to do what she would want me to do.  If only when she wanted to talk about it, I would have listen to her but I just couldn't.  I wasn't capable to hear it.

It's March!

I can't believe today is March 1.  It is so hard to believe.  Tomorrow is the court hearing.  I think I know where I am going.  I checked out the area online and I have directions.  It doesn't seem to hard.  I am leaving early so I will be there in plenty of time to park and walk inside.  I don't know how well I will be walking with this lovely flare up, but I will be alright somehow.  I am nervous about tomorrow but I will be glad when this is over!  I can't wait for it all to be over.

I also will have some help on the IRS issue of Mom's.  I see the attorney for that on Monday.  Ugh, more money out the door.  Well, at least this will be cleared up to and I won't have the house levied.  That is the important thing.

It is very quiet in the house today.  I went to Border's near my house to see if anything good was left.  There wasn't.  This particular location is going out of business.  Borders is closing several stores and has entered bankruptcy.  I have known for a while that the business is in financial trouble.  I have heard it on the news.  I do hope they come out of the bankruptcy nice and strong.  I like that store a lot.  Then again, is there really a regular bookstore that I don't like?  I usually go to Barnes and Noble though because I belong to their club and I get a discount off of everything that I buy.  I like that.  Right now I am very into Kristin Hannah books.  She is so good.  I have now read about 6 of her books and simply love them.  I plan to have some of them in book club soon.

It is nice out today.  It isn't too cold and the sun is shining.  To me, it is a reminder that spring is on it's way.  I do hope we are finished with snow though.  I am sick of that white stuff coming down and staying.  We do have snow on the ground but it isn't on the streets anymore.  I am very glad about that.

I am going to be changing the locks in the house this week or next.  I have discovered that I don't have a key to the back door and since it is a different key than the rest of the house, I don't like that.  It is just me living here so I want all the doors to have the same key.  In order to do that, all the doors must be rekeyed.  That is my goal of the week, that and finishing Mom's paper work.

I have a couple of things that were Mom's that I am sending to my sister-in-law, Jennifer this next few weeks.  I think she will like them and they will look nice in her room in her house.  I don't know what I am going to give Abigail and William of Mom's yet though.  I have some key chains that they might like, but I don't know for sure.  It is hard because they never really got to know Mom that well since they live so far away from us.  It was like each visit they have to get to know us all over again.  It is sad because Mom loved them so much and they didn't get to know her and now they never will.  She knew some of my friends' children better than her own grandchildren.  She knew Lily very well.  Lily's family are friends of mine and Mom's.  Mom really liked being with Lily and her sisters, Emily and Elyse.  We always had a good time with them.  I had a chance last week to hang out with Lily all day and had a really good time.  We played Monopoly and I actually won for a change.  Lily also made cookies and rolls.  She had Calli help her roll up the chocolate chip cookie dough.  They both had a good time doing that.  I don't know when the next time will be when I get her for the day.  She doesn't have a vacation from school until Easter and that is at the end of April.  She is very busy right now with school and other activities.  Lily will also be 13 on the 8th.  That is hard to believe.  I remember her at 3.  How time flies.

I have one lesson tonight that I am looking forward too.  It should be fun.  He is an adult that loves to sing and we are working on about 4 songs.  2 classical and 2 Broadway.  He is anxious to learn to sing properly.  It is an hour lesson.

I do hope you are having a good day and that it is nice outside for you too!

what to do????

I am having a bit of trouble trying to talk to the IRS on behalf of Mom.  In 2008, we cleared out most of her IRA both because we needed it to live and to try to save the store.  I hadn't been paid much in 2008 and bills must be paid so we withdrew money early.  I didn't have them deduct much tax either, which in hindsight was a huge mistake, however, that is over and done.  We were on a nice little payment plan until she died.  Then, I didn't know what to do.  I ask for advice and well, I should have continued to pay it as now it is becoming an issue.  I should not have stopped paying the taxes.  I know Mom is gone, I am not sure what will happen to the house.  I have contacted 2 lawyers for information.  I spoke to one and he gave me good advice, but it doesn't seem like he thinks I will need a lawyer for this.  I am waiting to speak to the other.  He left me a message and I hope to speak to him tomorrow.  So until then, I am just praying that is isn't going to be a big issue.  We shall see.  I just am at a loss of what to do since I screwed up badly on this one.

I had one lesson today and it looks like on Mondays I will only have one right now.  Calli and Acer have switched days from Monday to Friday.  It works better for their schedule so that works for me.  This way, Calli will have plenty of time for homework as lessons take up about 1 1/2 hours on Monday night plus drive time so I totally understand why they needed to switch.  Now I have lessons on Friday to look forward too so I am happy on that.  Before, Friday was a blank day and I dreaded them.  Now I don't.

I slept in so late today but I expected to as I didn't sleep much over the weekend.  I planned that I would wake up super late and I did.  I feel a bit more rested now that I have had a good night sleep (well, as rested as I get and as well as I sleep!).  I was so exhausted from the weekend even though I did take naps during the day at competition but it is such a busy weekend for me plus the 2 1/2 hour drives each way.  When Momma was here and could drive, she usually drove home as I slept most of the way home from sheer exhaustion.  Another reason to miss her.

Bob picked out his spring concert music today.  I think he will do very well with them.  One of the pieces is a piece he is working on.  It is an invention by J. S. Bach.  The Sonata from Mozart just will probably not be ready by the concert so he pick a fun piece, Volare.  He did a nice job for the first week on it.  I like the song so that is good.  Overall, his playing has really improved over the last year.  His sight reading skills are pretty good, and his musicality has really improved.  I am pleased with his progress.  Now we just need to work on nerves.

I have some more paperwork to fill out for Mom to her known creditors that I am going to do tomorrow after I drive downtown to find the courthouse.  I am nervous to leave it to Wednesday morning to find parking and where I need to go.  I am just not going to wait on this.  I want to be prepared as I have to get up at 6 in the morning and leave by 6:15 to make sure I am there by 7:30.  I will be bringing a book with me too so I will have something to read while I wait.  I anticipate arriving early.  I can't wait for this process to be over.  I should have done this last year and not waited so long to do it.  This was another bad decision on my part.  Procrastinating on this but it is almost over, thankfully.

Just relaxing this evening, nothing much planned except watching the news for the weather.  My knee is still really sore and I realized today it is in a flare just my knee though nothing else.  Weird, I know, but what isn't weird about this illness so many of us have?  My head is a bit sore more than usual today, I think that is from the exhaustion that I still feel from the weekend.

I do hope your day is going well and that the week will be great also.

back from competition

I have been gone since Friday afternoon.  It is now Sunday.  It was a semi fun weekend.  Only semi fun because it was the first one I was at without Momma.  She always came with me.  She loved going to competition with me and listening to the students.  They didn't even have to be mine, she listened to them all.  I was rather glad about that.  It gave us more to bond over.  We were a team.  She collected music afterward and then when we got home she would mark them returned in the library page on the computer and refile them.  It was nice.  I always had my music up to date.  I now longer really hand out too much original music, despite the library system I have, much music is missing and I don't have the money to rebuy most of it.  I just collected a bunch of music from Rachel and Rebecca.  I will get Katie's back next week during her lesson.  Because Rachel and Rebecca no longer have regular lessons, I needed the music right away because last year they didn't have lessons from after competition to Sept for Rachel and to November for Rebecca.  They did pretty well considering the few lessons they had.  However, I do feel Rachel would have won more 1st places had she had more lessons and we could have really polished it.  the judges really nailed her on placement of her voice at times (as they should since this is one of her problems).  I feel I would have really had her ready and have had her placement much better if I had seen her more than 3 times since fall.  I also will not do this again.  Either you have regular lessons or no competition.  It is too frustrating to me and it is unfair not only to me but to the student.  yes, practicing is important, but practicing correctly is more important which is why Rachel didn't do as well as she could have for her last year.  But, with all things considering, she did all right.

Mom's room is almost cleaned.  I caved and agreed to have things sorted.  Things were donated not just sorted.  I walked into her room and the hole just got bigger.  this was why I didn't want her room touched.  I feel like I gave my mom away and tossed her out with her stuff.  I do have the disney stuff and the hoodies left but that is about it.  I am hoping the stuff that was on her dresser is in the drawers like promised but I can't look at them right now.  I knew I wasn't ready but they don't listen to me.  Well, NEVER again.  When I say I am not ready, I mean I am not ready and anyone who doesn't understand, that is too bad.  This has been a very painful lesson to me.  I threw mom's stuff out.  I invaded her privacy and got rid of her stuff.  It is like she never lived in that room.  I feel like I lost her all over again. I know this isn't necessarily rational or even make any sense, but it is how I FEEL.  Letting go of Mom's things is very hard to do.  These are all I have left physically of her.  She touched these things and loved them.  She picked them or was given them as gifts.  Now they are gone like she is.  I have to have something left of my mom's.  I just do.  It means she was really here and not a dream.  It gives me strength to have some of her stuff.  I don't feel as lost.  Now I feel very lost again.  I won't do this with the rest of the house.  I just won't.  I can't take it.  I have to know what everything is and what is happening to it.  It didn't help me at all this.  They thought it would.  I wasn't sure, but I caved because "she is gone and not coming back" was what I was told.  Like I don't know she is gone?  I feel it everyday all day long.  I felt it this whole weekend everywhere I turned.  I had to eat by myself, drive by myself, and do everything by myself.  I know she isn't coming back but that doesn't mean we have to toss her out with her things.  I want part of her with me and her things are a part of her.

I will be seeing the doctor this week about the new pain medicine.  It isn't helping at all and I am having even more trouble sleeping because of the leg pain.  It is mostly the right leg and knee right now.  I have the bankruptcy hearing on Wednesday.  I am driving downtown on Tuesday to check where it is at because I have never been there and I don't know where parking will be or anything.  I don't want to be late on Wednesday.  I am very nervous about this.  I really am.  I do hope everything goes well.

what on earth did I do?

I was sitting on the usual chair during Bob's lesson and when I got up my back was killing me.  I can't stand up straight and I can barely walk.  I don't know what happened.  I didn't move a weird way or anything, I didn't lift anything strange or too heavy.  I just don't get it.  This really, really hurts.  It is mostly on the right side, although the left hurts a bit, but not like the right side.  I don't understand this at all.  I am hoping this will pass tonight and then I will be fine as Lily is coming tomorrow!  I can't wait!!!  She is such a doll!  This will be so much fun as long as I am fine.  I don't want to be in massive, more than usual pain while she is here.  We have plans.  I did the grocery shopping yesterday but I forgot eggs and bread crumbs.  We also have to go to the post office.  She seems to be excited about going to Tim Horton's with me although apparently they have gotten rid of the mac and cheese  that she loves so much.  She said she would get a donut instead.  Hey, whatever she wants within reason, she can have.  I am just excited to be spending the entire day with the young lady.  I will have a lesson but she has a book here she can read or she can play on the computer.  Lily is good about only going on websites her parents approve of so I don't have to worry about that.  Thank goodness!!  She is such a good kid.  I can't believe she will be 13 in about 2 weeks.  Actually, I think it is about a week and half.

My Muglia girls had their lessons earlier today.  They are doing so well.  I am very pleased with their progress.  Their younger sister, Sarah is ready for piano lessons now too.  She is 7, a perfect age.  That is about when the older girls started.  Apparently she fiddles with the piano everyday.  That is wonderful.  A great way to get ready for lessons.  She will do wonderful, I think.  I just have to get her the notespeller and theory books.  They have the rest of them as the girls have already played out of them.  Laura, their mom, is getting excited about the new baby.  Baby Thomas will make his grand appearance about the end of May.  I am excited about this too.  This will be baby number 9 for them.  All the kids, except Mary who is 2 and doesn't really know what is going on, are excited about this baby.  Everything is pretty much ready for him.  I can't wait to hold him.  I can't wait for Mary to have a real baby to play with.  She will have a pal to play with as the next sibling is 5 and hangs out with the 8 year old a lot so this new one will be good for Mary.  This will give them 4 boys and 5 girls.  They are such a great family.

Bob had his lesson, like I said and he is doing really well.  His Invention by JS Bach is coming along so nicely.  It shall be ready for the spring concert.  After the lesson, he graciously removed a bit more snow around my car for me.  How nice is that?  He has been doing this all winter.  He is such a nice man.

Outside of this strange pain that had better go away by tomorrow morning or sooner, it has been a good productive day.  I am looking so forward to Lily's visit tomorrow.  I do have to charge the scooter batteries tomorrow for the weekend.  I don't think that the scooter batteries are down, but I don't want to take a chance.  I want to make sure they are full of power.  I will be bringing the scooter charger with me too so I can charge it both Friday and Saturday.  It should be a fun filled weekend.

I do hope you are having a good day too.

A Quiet Day

I slept in today rather late, but it felt so nice not to have to get up early.  The next several days I will be getting up early because of competition coming up, lessons tomorrow, and Lily is coming on Thursday.  It shall be a fun filled few days.  I am excited about that.  I went to get the ingredients that Lily and I will need for the parmesan chicken and snickerdoodles that we will be making.  I, naturally, forgot a couple of things, eggs and bread crumbs.  Silly me!  Now Lily and I will have to go and get them on Thursday as I will be teaching a lot tomorrow and probably won't remember to go and get the items.  Lily will be amused plus we will be able to go and get Tim Horton's together.  She likes to get their macaroni and cheese.  She loves that stuff.  I think we will have a great day together.

I had a lot of fun talking to Donna this evening.  I also went to Border's Books.  The one near my house is going out of business.  I had a gift certificate for Christmas so I went and ended up being able to get 3 books.  I was very excited about that!  They are by one of my new favorite authors, Kristin Hannah.  She is such a good writer.  I have read 3 of her books.  Kathy loaned me the first book I ever read by her.  I simply loved it.  The friendship in the book reminded me of Kathy and I's friendship in some ways.  We have been friends since we were 3.  Mom said she and I instantly clicked when we met.  I finally found someone who wanted to listen to me speak and she found someone who didn't expect her to answer.  It was great.

I am watching NCIS right now.  I love this show, so did Momma.  Near the end I could still watch most of the episodes when I couldn't watch a lot of other TV since it frightened her.  I was talking to Donna but we had to hang up because we both have to watch this show.  I also like the NCIS Los Angeles show.

Surprisingly, my bad headache I had this afternoon, has gone down to a normal headache.  Shocking, I know, but it did.  The pain pills actually worked today.  I don't know why but they did.  Hey, I am NOT complaining.  I am happy that they worked well for a change.  I haven't made the doctor appointment yet.  I am not sure I am going to do it.  I really am not sure I want the next stop in pain pills.  It is narcotics and I am very nervous about them.  I just don't know.  We shall see.  It is such a tough decision.

It has been a semi productive day despite no lessons.  I should have had 3 of them, but I new last week that I wouldn't have any of them.  It is a triple boo on that.  I do hope that next week I have them all.  I certainly hope so.  So far, I know I will have 2 on Tuesday.

reschedule day

I had to reschedule the Muglia's lessons as I am completely snowed in from the front walk.  My driveway is done, but not the front walk and without the front walk, there isn't anything I can do.  So I called some kids I know to see if they could do the front walk.  I tried, I just can't lift the snow or push the snow.  I was bummed because I was really looking forward to the lesson.  We are having the lessons on Wednesday.  I also will have Lily over that day so after I am done with the Muglia's I will go pick up Lily.  that should be lots of fun.  She has the whole week off because of Midwinter break.  After this, they won't get another full week off until Easter.  I do hope no one else has to cancel or reschedule lessons because of the snow.  It is a wait and see type day.

I think with this weather, that Maia and Tillie will probably not be coming this week.  I will be gone from Friday to Sunday at competition and Tillie was coming over sometime during the week.  As she doesn't drive in snow, I think we will be rescheduling that visit.  I actually don't expect her to come until spring when the snow is completely gone.

I do hope this is the last of the big snow, but something tells me that it isn't.  It is almost March, but it is possible to have snow then too.  We have many other years.  I do hope we don't though, because I am tired of it.  Of course, when I think about it, it is better than having tons of rain.  Snow is prettier and people drive just as badly as they do in rain as they do in snow.  You don't get as wet with snow either.  I think I would rather have nice sunny days in the fall and spring type temperatures.  Spring will be here soon, it just seems so far away.  I miss my spring!

The company that I want to either buy the living room furniture or sell it on consignment for me called me while I was teaching on Saturday.  I am to take pictures of the set and the bar stools and email to them so they can make a decision.  both are in really good condition and I am hopeful they will be able to help me.  I do hope so!  I also will be getting Darrin's email from Tillie so I can send him the pictures of the shuffleboard.  That, too is in great condition.  I am so glad Mom was diligent on cleaning and taking care of good stuff or we would have nothing left.  This last week I had two students who almost put their water glasses on the pianos.  I about flipped, I was like don't put it there put it here.  No drinks on the pianos.  I mean, really people!  Let's think about this.  Good pianos and water don't mix.  Let's keep these pianos looking like new for their entire life span.  I am hoping to get the pianos tuned this spring though.  They are slightly out of tune with the CDs and it is driving me crazy but I want to wait until the weather turns because it will make a difference in the tuning.  Heat and humidity can make a piano go out of tune fast so it is best to wait a bit before tuning.

I think I will take a nap this afternoon before teaching as I am tired now.  I am going to get something to eat.  Thank goodness I shopped yesterday despite the shock of snowfall on my car when I came out.  I do hope you are having a good day.  I am hopeful that today will be productive too with many lessons.