the quietest day so far this week

I have no lessons for today and the phone has been quiet too.  I don't mind.  Some days I just need a silent day to relax and get a few things done.  I am looking forward to tomorrow as I will be picking up my friend, Donna and going to lunch.  She is such a wonderful lady.  I know I have mentioned her before.  I miscalculated my bills this month and I am short $25 for the house payment.  Part of this is because Carson dropped to one lesson and Breanna is absent again today.  That would have brought me to the full payment.  I have a new strategy for paying the house bill so that I am no longer waiting until the 17th to pay.  I will pay right away and some of the other bills that have more time will be paid later.  Everything will get paid, I just am a bit stuck right now and I don't want to pay the house payment late so Donna offered to loan me the $25 so it won't be late.  I will be able to pay her back by the end of the month.  Living lesson to lesson can be stressful but I am doing pretty well  with it.  I just have to rearrange when I pay a few bills and then I will be fine.

I am thankful for the students I have and I have 3 new ones from the new company starting next week.  These ones seem like they have a better chance of staying.  One, they are NOT adults, they are children (who tend to actually stay with lessons) and they all seem to live near me which is also another issue I have had with the new company.  I have lost a few students because they live farther away from me than they thought and with traffic it takes much longer than the parents thought to get here.  These three new ones said they live right near by so that is wonderful.  I have to pick up some books for the one of the students, I have the other students books on Tuesday or Monday before the lessons.  They will pay me back at the lesson.  I am anxious to see how next week starts.  I have 13 regular weekly students now.  That will be wonderful!  I am also to the point where I can't take anymore (but not quite!) because of the disability and my health.  I can't teach the 60 lessons I used to.  i just am not healthy enough, but I can handle a few more if they are spread out over the week as some days I still only have 1 or 2 lessons.  I can handle about 4 each day then I am not super tired, just happy tired.

My cousin, Hayley ordered a few things from one of her suppliers and it just arrived.  I get nervous now when someone is at the door in case it is Jose.  However, should he come back over, he is not welcomed anymore.  It makes me sad because he was Mom's friend, or did she just be nice to him because they worked at the same plant?  I wonder now but either way, he is not being friendly to me, he is being a predator and I won't put up with it.  I have never been nervous of someone coming to the door until now.  How sad that I have to be.  I have my plan and I will put it into action should I need to.

I hope Hayley comes in a couple of weeks to get her things so I can see her.  Maybe we can even go to lunch or something like that.  I would really like that.  I didn't get nearly enough time with her this past Sunday, but I will take what I can get!

I woke with a bad headache earlier this morning so I came down and took some pain pills and it seems to have made it go back to the regular headache.  My left arm is a bit sorer than usual, but other than that, the pain levels are all about the usual pains.  I am missing Mom a bit more than usual as it is a quiet day and these are the type of days we would go and see a movie for the afternoon.  Hm, maybe I should see a movie, the new pirate one is out and I want to see that.  I have a gift card so it isn't like I need cash (thank goodness since I don't have any!)  I will check the times and see.  This would be a good day for that.

I do hope you are having a good day!

wednesday

I had my blood test this afternoon.  Apparently at the doctor's office now on Wednesday they close early so whoever scheduled my blood test must not have known that.  They did call while I was sleeping, but I didn't answer, as I was sleeping!  They wanted me to come in early.  I didn't because I didn't get the message until I was ready to go.  So now I know that on Wednesdays, the office closes at 12 noon.  I won't make my appointments for Wednesday then.  I will get the results tomorrow sometime.

Breanna isn't having her lesson again tomorrow.  She isn't done with school yet, I guess.  I miss my Breanna, it has been a whole month now since I last saw her!  Ugh!  I need my Breanna!  I miss her.  Hopefully she will finish all her school work and be done so she can have a lesson next week.  I miss my students when I don't have them on a regular basis, it is just the way I am.

Jose called and left a message.  You will love this one.  He wanted to know if I would sing at his wife's funeral.  I called back and said NO.  Why would I want to sing at that hate filled woman's funeral?  She HATED my mother and me so to sing at her funeral is just a big NO.  He has nerve, I will give him that.  Asking me to sing at a person's funeral who didn't like me or my mother and accused my mother of having an affair with her husband?  Yeah, right, that is just wrong on so many levels.  He commented that he wanted to come over on Saturday to do some work.  I said I was super busy on Saturday.  I have 3 lessons but I don't want him over.  I have been screening his calls and will continue to do so.  I don't ever want to see him again.  I really don't and he doesn't get it.  I will be blunt if he comes over (he always comes unannounced and unexpected) and tell him to leave that he is not welcomed in my house.

Anyways, I have the wonderful Carson this afternoon in about 30 minutes for his 2 lessons.  He takes both piano and voice.  He is so cute.  He is 8 years old and will be a 3rd grader now.  I have 2 new vocal songs for the young man.  He is learning how to read music now and is doing a pretty good job of it.  I also have Beth, my lovely adult singer.  I shall find out if she got in the chorus of the musical she tried out for on Sunday.  I really hope so.  She knew her music and has a decent voice.  She was so excited about trying out for the play.  I said some prayers on Sunday for her.

My handsome young man, Carson, arrived early for his lesson.  He is not going to continue with piano right now, just vocal, which is fine with me.  Maybe in the fall he will start up again. Who knows?  Whatever works for him, works for me.  Carson will probably change his time for lessons for the summer so he can have more time to play!!!  You know how boys want to play, play, play!  I don't blame him one bit!  I would want to play a lot too if I was his age!  He is excited as tomorrow is his last day of 2nd grade.  There will be 3 birthday treats for the students who have summer birthdays.  I like how he says all the kids in his class are his friends, that is just so nice of him to think like that.  Next year his little brother will also be attending his school as a nursery schooler.  His brother is 3, I think.  How cool is that?

It is simply beautiful out today.  No sign of rain, not too hot, not too cold, just perfect.  It has been a good day so far.  I spoke to a friend I haven't seen in a long time, Mike.  He used to work for me at the store.  One of the girls from the store (and a former student of mine!) is getting married in September.  I called to see if Mike would be interested in attending the wedding with me.  He said sure, he would love to watch Jessie get married.  I am so happy for her.  She is a wonderful young woman.  I have known her most of her life now.  She and I are going to get together shortly to hang out and just catch up on life!  I look forward to it.  I really do.  I know she would be happy that Mike is coming too.  She really liked working with him.  I was thinking of asking Oliver or Phoebe, but I thought, Mike would be better.  It shall be a great wedding.  I am excited about it.  I also hope to see her sister, Katie soon too.  Katie is going to be a paramedic.  She is almost done with school too.  I simply love both those girls!  I just don't see them enough.  I really don't.

I do hope you are having a good day.  I really am.  I was a bit tired earlier, but now I seem to be okay.  I have one more lesson left so that will end my day nicely!

another June Day

It is very nice out again today without any rain!!!  My flowers that I got from Rachel are apparently Impatience.  I really like them.  They sit on my front porch.  When they droop I know it is time to water otherwise I am clueless.  The sit on the edge of the porch (it is a very, very small porch) and I think it looks nice.  So far the girl with the black thumb (that would be me!) has managed to keep the flowers alive.

Tomorrow I have a blood test.  My blood was not in therapeutic range last week so I have to be checked again tomorrow.  It is not fun, but I will do it.  I hope to get it over and done with quickly.  Being right after lunch should help.  I plan to arrive early a bit so that I can get in on time.

I spoke to Kathy today.  I sent her the info for our new blog yesterday so I would think shortly she will go and write a post.  They will be super busy in the next couple of weeks though, so whenever she can write a post works for me!  I would definitely say I have much more free time than she does.

Last night a family member mentioned to me that she thinks I am in a depression.  I tend to disagree.  It has only been 8 months since I lost my mother.  I do agree I have gained weight in the last two years but I don't think I am depressed.  I go and see my friends, I teach my lessons, and I do things that I enjoy.  Am I sad?  Overall, yes, I am sad that I lost my Mom.  We were very close.  I think in the overall picture I am doing all right.  I do need something more to occupy my time and I am looking into other things to do.  I do have a few more lessons than I did last month so I am very excited about that.  I met my friend, Robin for lunch today and Friday I am picking up Donna for a nice visit so I do go out and see people.  I don't know, maybe I am just not seeing this.  What do you think?  I am missing something here?  I am working through my grief, which is a lot like most people.

Jose left a message last night.  I am ignoring his calls at this point and praying he doesn't stop by.  You see, he doesn't do what normal people do, which is call before they come over, no he just comes over and you're shocked to see him.  Next time this happens I will let him know that I am super busy and can't visit right now.  In this day and age, I would not just drop by someone's house without letting the person know I am coming.

It has been a good day.  i spoke to several friends, I may also have another new student (one not from the new company) so all in all a good day!  I do hope your day is going well too!

new blog

Hi Friends!!!!

My friend, Kathy and I are beginning a blog that will follow our journey to a healthier lifestyle and weight. We both think that this would be a neat way to do this because we both can write in the blog!  Please come and check it out!  If you have any tips or advice for us, please tell us!!!!  We are both really serious about this journey!

I hope you are having a great day!

Sunny Day

It is nice and sunny out today.  It makes me smile!!!  I did have the appointment with the arthritis doctor this morning (well, by the time I actually got to see her it was afternoon).  The x-rays just show a bit more arthritis than a few years before and the blood tests are normal so all in all, nothing unexpected, which I suspected as she didn't call me when the results came in.  She also wants me to add 2 tramodol in the afternoon and 1/2 the dosage of the Meloxicam.  She is hoping that the addition of the tramodol will help me get rid of the Meloxicam.  The problem with the meloxicam is that I also have to take coumiden, the blood thinner medicine because of my blood disorder.  Meloxicam can can bleeding and with the coumiden, it raises the risk really high for bleeding.  However, without the Meloxicam, it is very difficult to walk in the evening.  by 6:00 or so, I am in so much pain, I can barely get out of a chair so I continue to take it even though I know the risk.  I have been very vigilant with watching for any signs of bleeding and I haven't had any problems with it yet.  I am trying her suggestion of adding the 2 pain pills in the afternoon and lower the Meloxicam by 1/2.  I did do that starting today.  I will see how these things work.  Hey, if it does, awesome!  If not, well, I will go back to what I was doing.

I talked to my friend, Donna, today.  She and I had a very good conversation.  Then I also had Bob's lesson as it is a Monday!  He is doing very well.  I had him bring his Hanon exercise book back so we can do some.  I know he has already done most of the book, but I think at this point revisiting some of the exercises will make his fingers more agile and really help with speed of the runs.  He agreed with my assessment and has absolutely no problem redoing the book.  His Clementi Sonatina is really coming along and we started the last page of the Mozart Sonata this afternoon.  All in all, I must say I am very pleased with his progress.  I have Emily later this evening.  She too, is doing very well.  She is just learning to read notes and is doing quite well with her flash cards.  The fact that she is super cute helps too.

Kathy, my best friend's son turned 13 today.  I had to call and ask how she felt now that she is the Mom of a teenager.  He really is a very good young man.  He is on a school field trip to Cedar Point today.  What a way to spend your birthday!  She had a horrible headache yesterday and is feeling a bit better today, but still under the weather.  She totally has my sympathy and my empathy!  I certainly know how bad heads can ache!

I talked to my friend Georgette this afternoon too.  I needed some advice to deal with the inappropriateness of Jose's behavior yesterday and Saturday too.  I know have a plan that makes me feel like I will be in charge of any situation that comes up.  I am hoping not to have to put it in place, but if I must I will.  I still plan to screen the phone this week, that is for sure.  I feel much more confident about this now.  Thank goodness for good friends, and for Barb who also gave me advice yesterday too.  I didn't expect this from a family friend.  I have known him since I was in my teens.  It is just too much and should it be necessary, I will take action.  So anyways, I feel much better over these incidents now.

I was supposed to go to lunch with Georgette today, but because I got out of the doctor so late, we have to reschedule it.  I am bummed, but I did have a nice long talk with her as I have already mentioned.

It is simply wonderful outside right now.  My baby birds are popping their heads up right now so I can't take any pictures.  As soon as they do, I will definitely post a picture.  I just love them!  I think there are three of them in there.  I saw the Momma bird yesterday, what a pretty bird.  Not as magnificent as the Poppa bird, but still very pretty.  She was white with brown spots on her tummy.  I do hope this finds you doing well and having a great day!  I am having a good day and am anticipating another good lesson with the lovely Emily.  I have 2 lessons tomorrow, 2 on Wednesday, 1 on Thursday (although she takes 2 lessons), 2 on Friday, and 2 on Saturday.  I think Sunday I am going to take Donna out for the afternoon since I have no lessons and I want to give her back her books.  I also want to loan her a DVD that I know she will adore.

A busy day!

I got to see my cousins, Hayley and Justice, this afternoon.  They stopped by to pick a few packages that they had ordered.  Then Rick had his lesson and after that was a Michigan Music Association meeting.  We were discussing deadlines and jobs for the competition 2012.  I will be helping with the luncheon this year. I think it will be fun.  A couple of teachers weren't at the meeting so Diane is going to ask them about what they will do for the competition.  It will be a good year, I think.

Jose was over again today.  He put one door up for me in the furnace room.  I am thankful for that.  However, I was a bit uncomfortable tonight with him here because he was staring at me.  I don't like that.  I don't like being stared at.  I have had enough being stared at when I was young.  I asked him to stop and he really didn't.  He doesn't think anything is wrong staring at me even if I don't like it.  I am not sure I will be available the next time he calls.  He says he was staring at me because I am beautiful.  Well, I don't care because I still don't like being stared at.  He doesn't seem to care that I don't like it.  How rude if you ask me and very disrespectful.  I don't appreciate being stared at no matter whatever the reason he says.  If the person doesn't want to be stared at, just stop it.  It is very simple.  I know he is going through a rough time, I know it is hard watching someone you love die.  That doesn't give you the right to stare at someone who doesn't like it.  His wife is dying, I know but that doesn't mean he should be disrespectful to me by staring. Anyways, I hope he is busy for the next few weeks and forgets about me.  I really do.

It started out as a good day and then ended not so good.  I was very uncomfortable and irritated the last hour of Jose's visit.  I hope to never go through that again.  I am glad that today is over though.  I am tired now.  I do hope to get a good night (well, as good as I get) sleep.  I get my test results tomorrow from the x-ray and the blood test.  I hope you have a good night.

a bit of a different day

Normally, on a Saturday, I teach lessons, but this week I didn't have any students so no lessons.  Mom's friend Jose called earlier in the week and wanted to talk to me and take me to lunch.  Generally, I avoid his calls because he always comments on my weight, or at least he used too.  He didn't today or the other day.  he has finally, it seems anyways, understood that I am not going to be his work out buddy.  Yes, I need the exercise, but this is a very fit man who works out like 3 hours a day.  That is so not me.  I am lucky if I can do a few minutes much less 3 hours.  His wife is very ill and he had some questions about hospice.  It appears that she is going to be heading into the hospice unit at the hospital.  I feel bad for him because I know how hard it is to watch someone die.  She has been ill for about 27 or so years at this point.  She also has been giving the hospital a hard time about her dialysis (she is diabetic and her kidneys have shut down on her).  The doctor basically said you don't want to go, we won't make you, but you will be gone very quickly so she grudgingly went.  I don't personally understand that as if you have to do it, you have to do it.  Saying you don't want to when it is time to go isn't going to make you any better.  He seemed like he was at peace with what is going on.  I know he misses my mom a lot and that he is going to miss Dorothy but I think he at one time, imagined that when Dorothy was gone he would have a life with my mother.  Well, that isn't going to happen now as Mom is already gone.  I probably won't see him again for a while.  He only pops in every so often.  That works for me.

I don't have any other plans for the evening.  I am a bit tired now and will probably go to bed early again.  I actually had a semi okay night of sleep last night and I am hoping for a repeat.  My cousins may come over tomorrow before my lesson so they can pick up their stuff that they ordered.  I think they plan to be here around 1 ish tomorrow so I will be up around 12:30 ish.  This will give me plenty of time to get organized and have breakfast before they arrive.  I also have a lovely meeting that I am looking forward to tomorrow.  That will be awesome!  I don't mind going to MMA meetings.  I actually look forward to it.

The three baby Robins that live above my front porch light are getting bigger.  They are so cute!  Usually you can only see 2 of them, but there are three.  The third just hides a bit at times.  I did learn an important lesson this year about nests.  Remove the old one in the fall when the birds are gone because next year they will just build on top of the old one!  Well, if they do that next year, there is no where to build!  i will be sure to have the nest removed before winter.  I love baby birds!  We have had a nest above our front porch light since I was small.  I have no idea when they started nesting there but we have had Robins there my whole life and I just love it.  Only one year did they not come and that was because a big old wind storm destroyed the nest before the babies were born.  The next year, they were back.

Only about a month before the next and last Harry Potter movie comes out.  *sigh*  I love Harry Potter! I am anxiously awaiting this movie but will not subject myself to the midnight showing.  1 - I would not probably stay awake to see it and 2 - it would be super crowded and that just doesn't sound appealing to me.  I will go with my Muglia girls a few weeks after it has come out and we will go during the day during the week so it won't be as crowded.  I only wish Mom had lived long enough to see all the Harry Potters.  Of course, I wish she were here for so many reasons!  I just miss her so much.  Mom loved Harry Potter.  i remember when I was in the hospital with my blood clot.  (Apparently, I nearly died with this one, hm)  She was visiting me and I was quite out of it so she brought a book for me to read.  She just grabbed the nearest book on my book shelf in my room and it was the first Harry Potter.  Momma started reading to me.  When the lady who was in the bed next to mine was discharged from the hospital, she asked Momma what book she was reading to me and who it was by so she could go and get it.  She wanted to know what happened.  I gave her the info.  I told her it was a children's book but the whole series so far was wonderful.  I think about that lady every time I start the Harry Potter series again.  I also think of Mom because she loved Harry Potter and the movies.  She did finish reading the first book but never did start the next because that was when the Alzheimer's was really starting to affect her.

Anyways, this has become a chapter in a book!  I do hope you are having a good day too.

it's a Friday!

I had Calli and Acer's lessons today.  Acer is so cute.  I told him what song we were going to play and he was like, no I don't want to play that song.  I quickly switched gears and we went with the song called the Donkey.  It is a cute piece and he plays both hands at the same time with more than 1 note in the left hand. We were going to work on his version of Fur Elise but they accidentally left it at home along with one of Calli's books for voice.  Calli is going to start working on some Italian Art song next week.  We are starting the lighter classical music since I think she is ready.  Her voice is quite mature for an 11 year old.  She has an amazing range too.  She can sing higher than any of my students.  I am quite pleased with how well she is doing and Acer too.  I look forward to Fridays.

Other than those two lessons, I don't have anything else going on.  I couldn't sleep last night.  I think I fell asleep after 3 am.  I was reading until about 2:30 because I couldn't sleep.  Just one of those things.  I don't have any lessons tomorrow so I am going to do some housework.  That is the plan.  I want to vacuum and scrub the floor in the dining room, kitchen, and utility room.  I am not sure if my cousin is coming by to pick up her packages or not.  I also need to type the minutes from the last meeting for the meeting on Sunday.  We have a Michigan Music Association meeting on Sunday.  It shall be fun.  We will starting the planning of next years competition.  That will be rather cool.  I am on the Executive Board this year.  i am the assistant secretary/treasurer.  It is a nice position.  I will find out on Sunday to find out what I will be doing during the competition this year.

It has been a good day today.  It has been cooler and rainy but it is a nice change from the super hot and humid that we had most of the week.  I do hope you are having a good day too!

another hot day

I know I wanted warmer weather, but did we have to skip spring weather?  It seems to me we went straight from winter to summer weather.  I love spring weather and fall weather, I ache in summer and winter weather.  If it is extremely hot or extremely cold, I am an aching girl.  Although, I will admit that I am loving the sunshine we are having!  I received a plant in a pot (huge, simply huge!) and it sits on my front porch.  This afternoon when I went out it looked like it is dying.  I came home and watered it and it revived itself.  I do not know how much to water it so I guess when it looks like it is dying, it is time to water.  Other than that I have no idea how much to water.  It is so huge that I watered it with a 2 litre diet coke bottle.  (I rinsed it first)  It used all the water and there wasn't any water on the ground so I guess that was enough.

I STILL don't have my pain pills.  I am calling the doctor again tomorrow to see if the doctor has authorized the refill yet.  I really need this.  Tylenol is doing just okay, nothing great so I am in more pain than usual because of this.  I will be strong and be happy when I get the refills.  From now on I will order a refill one week before the bottle is empty from now on.  I will be more vigilant on these refills from now on.

It was a decent day despite the extra pain.  Carson had his lessons.  He takes both piano and voice and let me tell you, the hour flies by.  He is such a great kid.  He is learning his treble clef notes this week.  He did bass clef notes last week.  He will be getting some new voice songs too next week as he needs some new ones.  I am going to be looking through my books to see what ones to give him.  He does so well.  His idol is Michael Jackson when he was with the Jackson 5.  He loves that music so I will hopefully be able to get some of the Jackson 5 music this summer.  I am not sure because I don't have a lot of money to buy new music.  Beth also had her lesson today too.  She is auditioning for the Music Man this weekend at her local Community Theatre.  She is ready.  She knows the two pieces that they required.  We worked on her breathing tonight.  She was lying on the floor singing and was surprised at how much louder she was.  She breathes (like most people) backwards.  When you breathe in, your tummy goes out filling with air, when you breath out, your tummy goes in, releasing the air.  Most people really only breathe with their shoulders which doesn't use all of your lung capacity.  It is the hardest thing to teach sometimes.

Tomorrow I have no lessons because Breanna is still working on finishing up her schoolwork for the year.  She has to have it all done by next week.  This is the 3rd week she hasn't had lessons and I miss her.  I totally understand that she needs to finish her work but still, I miss my Breanna!  I get used to having my students week to week and I miss them when they miss.

I don't know exactly what I will do tomorrow since I don't have lessons.  I do wish Kathy and I lived near each other because I know exactly how I would spend the day if we did!  I would be with her!!!  and her kids!!!!  They are finished with school I think, this coming Monday.  Seems like a weird day to be ending school but Charlie is finishing on a Monday too.  It is just weird.  I think the schools in my area get out next week but i am not sure.

I thought this Sunday was father's day, but apparently it is next week.  I have a week to send Richard a card and his gift so I am glad that I have an extra week.  I hope to talk to him on Father's Day too.  Other than speaking to Richard on Father's Day I don't have any plans on that day.  This week on Sunday, I have Rick's lesson and then a MMA meeting.  I look forward to MMA meetings because they are fun.  I have to type out the minutes from the last meeting.  I haven't done it as of yet, but I will before Sunday.

I do hope you are having a good day.

Wednesday

I have a bad headache today.  I have had it most of the day.  I also had 2 new students.  It looks the adult, Angela, is going to only take lessons for about 4 weeks.  This is not a big surprise.  Most adults don't even last that long.  She does want to learn to sing on pitch better and breathing.  Those things I can help her with.  The other new student seems to be one that will last much longer.  Her name is Rachel and she is 5 years old.  She has just finished Kindergarten and she is super adorable.  She is so tiny.  Rachel is blond and just so cute.  Her hands are very tiny too but she did very well for her first lesson.  Her grandmother clapped at the end of her first song.  Rachel was so proud of herself.  I was very pleased for her.

Charlie had his lesson too.  He forgot that one of his exercises was actually 2 pages so he didn't practice the 2nd page.  I remember doing that once in when I was in school.  I didn't do that very often after the first time though.  I realized today that he is going to be a senior already.  Yeah, that went fast, super fast.  I am not prepared for him to be a senior but he will be.  *sigh*  They all grow so fast.  It just isn't fair.

I think I am heading to bed a bit early as this headache is pretty bad.  I am completely out of regular pain pills so I am left with Tylenol.  That isn't going to help to much.  I talked to the doctor's office today and they just found the request in the computer for the pain pills refill.  The secretary said they were a bit behind.  A little?  How about over a week.  I am in a lot of pain and the pharmacy will not give emergency refill for pain pills so I am out of luck until they refill it, which I do hope will be tomorrow as I can't go through many more days without the proper medicine.  I have to have the protime blood test redone next week.  My dosage also has changed as usual because of the weather.  Blood is naturally thinner in the hotter weather and thicker in the colder weather.  I don't want to get my blood test again next week but I will.  I do hope that my refill is filled tomorrow.  I am sick of the extra pain because of no medicine.

NCIS Los Angeles is on.  I missed NCIS because it was a rerun so I flipped channels only to discover I should not have ignored the letter from WOW stating that I need an HD something for my cable.  I did not order it right away.  I did order it a few days ago but it takes a while to get it until then, no more HGTV or Lifetime or any channel about 25.  Yuck.  I do hope it arrives this week and not next week as Sunday is the season finale of Army Wives!  It is bad enough I missed last night's episode, but I can't miss that one too.  I will be upset and heartbroken!  I should be able to watch it online though if I have too.  My Aggie can talk me through how to do that as I have never watched anything online.

It has been an interesting day.  2 new students, one who will most likely disappear at the end of the 4 weeks.  As long as she gives me back my books that is all that matters.  I will copy the songs we did this week for her.  The CDs I want back, at least the Princess CD one.  I can't replace it too well since I bought it in Disney.  The pain level is higher than usual due to no pain pills.  Tylenol is barely taking the edge of the pain off and isn't denting the headache.  I am hoping I get some sleep tonight.  I slept sort of last night so I am hoping for a better night.

I do hope you are having a good day.

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It has been a good day so far.  I had Bob's lessons and Emily's.  I also FINALLY got a hold of the newest student's Mom.  It only took like 4 days but I finally spoke to her this afternoon.  I picked up both Rachel's and Laith's piano books and flashcards.  I almost forgot that Rachel is starting tomorrow.  She is 6 and just finished Kindergarten.  She is very excited and so am I.  I had a nice chat with her grandmother who will be bringing her.  She knows about where I live so that isn't going to be a worry.  That is good because the last couple of new students got lost getting to my house.  I also have a new adult tomorrow for singing lessons.  We shall see how this one goes.  I am going to copy some music for the her tomorrow afternoon after Rachel's lesson.  Thank goodness for my scanner/copier/printer.  I am really happy with it.  I am so glad that I got it when i did.

I ordered the concert I saw last night on PBS.  Walmart online had the DVD whereas Amazon only had the Blue ray and I don't have a Blue Ray player so I got the DVD from Walmart.  The best part?  It was on SALE!  I got it for $10 less than the regular price, talk about a happy bonus!  They don't have a CD of the concert so that was a bummer, but I am happy they made a DVD of it.  I could have bought it last night from PBS but it would have been super expensive since they were part of the gifts for donating.  I wasn't planning to donate to PBS as I didn't have a spare $75 to get the DVD, I figured I would order it from Amazon or someplace like that.

I am watching a new TV show on HGTV.  It is called My Yard Goes Disney.  What they do is they create a Disney style backyard!  There is a train station, Mickey Hat, a Tinkerbell bird cage/swing, and a tea cup.  It is something we would have loved to have this type thing as children.  I know we all would have.  My brothers and I are all Disney fanatics and so are Richard's children and wife.  We are definitely Disney fans.  Mom and I have been there 13 times.  Yup, we win so far with who has been there the most although Richard is coming up close.  I would like a yard like this.  Our yard is not big enough and it is a weird shape, but I would love Disney added to it.  Mom made sure we had a cool backyard when we were kids, but it wasn't as Disney one like this one.  We had a pool, jungle gym set, swing set, slides, and sand boxes.  There was always a cover on our sand boxes to keep the sand nice and no gross stuff in it.  Our backyard was the place to be in the neighborhood.

I am pretty tired today.  I hope I sleep better tonight like I did last night.  I slept a lot last night, I think because I did not sleep at all the night before.  I had to run to the store after Emily's lesson for both the piano books I need tomorrow and for milk and sleep medicine.  I did pick up a 12 can box of pop because I do like it and I do drink a lot of water all day long so I treat myself to decaffeinated pop at night.  No caffeine because that would add to the no sleeping at night.  I need to sleep.  When I don't sleep at all I have more pain the next day.  I need the sleep to help calm the pain so caffeinated pop would be horrible.

All in all it has been a quiet teaching day.  I didn't have my usual Muglia girls although it is the beginning of the month because their mother, Laura, has been very ill.  She was rushed to the hospital a week ago Friday because something was terribly wrong.  They found out she had a artery burst near her intestine.  They quickly did a procedure and she went to ICU.  She is home now and it was a very close call.  She will recover, but it will be slow so we are planning to have piano lessons next month the week after July 4.  That gives her 6 weeks to heal, which I hope she does.  She also has a newborn.  Thomas was born May 23, but with 8 older kids, she does have help, plus all us friends and her family.  I miss my girls though.  The older 4 girls take piano, with Sarah, the 7 year old, just starting to learn.  She has had about 3 lessons and has learned a bit from the older sister, Lydia for the last couple of years so she is doing very well.  Her older 3 sisters have all been playing for about 6 to 7 years so they are pretty advanced.  I need to remember to bring them some new music this next month.  I will write that down.  I just did.

I sent a brief email to the older brother.  I saw a commercial for Disney World and the special pricing it has so I sent him the info.  I know how much he and his family love Disney.  We all can thank Mom for that.  We were introduced to the Disney characters rather early and we were in Magic Kingdom of Disney World  a year after it was opened.  We went in 1973.  The love affair with Disney continues to this day for all of us.