Tuesday 8-30

Today is Jessie's Birthday.  i think she is 26.  She is getting married on Sunday!  I am so excited about that.  I really am.  I am planning to attend the wedding and reception.  It should be a good time.  I am just so looking forward to it.  I can sleep in on Monday so that is great!

I missed Designed Star last night.  I totally forgot all about it.  Fortunately, I can watch it on my computer without commercials!  That is rather neat so I plan to do that as soon as I am done with this post.

It has been a busy day.  My Uncle's girlfriend, Michelle came over with her son, Jayson.  She had ordered some items that had arrived.  One more came after they left but they will pick it up next week or the week after.  We went to Red Lobster for lunch and boy was it yummy.  I got a nice salad with some grilled shrimp on it and a bread bowl of Clam Chowder Soup, which is my all time favorite soup.  We had a really good visit.  Jayson is 4 and will be starting Junior Kindergarten next week.  It is hard to believe he will be in school already.  It seems like yesterday he was only 1.  Wow, boy time flies especially with the children.

I had 2 lessons tonight.  Charlie had his plus a make up lesson for last week and McKenzie had her regularly scheduled lesson.  Both are doing so well.  Tomorrow I am meeting with a potential new student. She is a friend of another student so that is very cool.  The daughter is 11 which is a perfect age to start singing.  I also have Beth's lesson tomorrow night.  She is also doing very well.

Not much is going on tonight.  I need to mark McKenzie's lessons and then I will watch Design Star on my computer.  It shall be a good and quiet night.

I do hope you are having a good night too.

I love Mondays!

Mondays are the best day of the week because I have the most students.  I have 6 lessons most Mondays.  Once a month I have 10 students on a Monday, yes those ones are tiring, but still rather lovely!  I am all filled on Mondays, I cannot have any more students on Mondays.  However, i have several openings on the rest of the weeks.  I have resolved the Rachel/Aaiyana scheduled at the same time problem.  What happened was that Rachel switched from Tuesdays to Mondays but Takelessons accidentally put her on Tuesdays at the proper time and then scheduled me with a new student on Mondays at the same time as Rachel's lesson.  I had to call the new student and have them switch.  Fortunately, her mother was very understanding and took care of it.  I now have it correctly in my schedule.  Tuesdays are also full.  I have  no spots left on Tuesday.  Wednesday and Thursday are pretty open with either 1 or 2 lessons each.  I am almost to the point of what I can handle, which also co-insides with how much I can earn with the disability.  I am not going to fool myself into thinking that I can handle more that a few more.  I think I can handle about 4 more and then that will be it.  I just looked at the old schedule and the total for new students is 5.  I can handle 5 more and that is it.  I am hopeful for a few more, if I get 5 that would be great, if I don't that is okay too.

I am so glad it is almost September. I really am.  This summer has been pretty okay as far as summers go.  It has been hard summer in some ways as it is the first I am alone.  The fall will be easier and harder all at the same time.  The one year anniversary is coming up in October.  I have no idea how I will feel about it.  I plan to not be alone on that day.  It will be on a Tuesday and I will have lessons that day so that is a good thing.

Tomorrow only has 2 lessons because Rachel and Laith had their lessons today because of schedule needs.  Elizabeth will be switching to Fridays come school time.  I am not what exactly she is doing, but that is okay.  Wednesday has just Beth's lesson but Julie and Lily are coming to work on the Family Room.  I am a bit nervous because I have no idea what is down there right now.  I do know there are boxes of books that just need to go back on shelves.  I do have some Christmas Figurines that can either be given as gifts or donated.  They were Mom's and I just don't have the room for them.  I also have some nice Thomas Kincaid Christmas Houses that I don't have room for.  I don't know what to do with them either.  I love them because they are beautiful, but I haven't used them in about 10 years or so.  I no longer have a bar that they would sit on for Christmas so they will probably be either given away or donated.  I have a few boxes of Christmas Crafts that my students will be doing this year.  We are going to have a craft day in either October or November.  I also have some sewing crafts that I want to keep because I will do them for gifts for the family and friends.  I don't know how much we will get done, but we will get a good chunk done, I think.  It will be one more step forward to customizing the house the way I want and making it mine.  Eventually, I will re-paint the house and re-do the carpets, but that is months and months away.  I need to take care of the taxes first.  With the new students that I have been getting this month and the new one next month, I will be close, but I should be able to pay the 2010 property taxes and begin on the 2011.  I know it will take a couple of years to catch up, but I am sure that I can do that.  Somehow I will.  I am thankful that I was able to pay $275 in July, but I couldn't this month so I need to make that up.  I have 6 months left.  With the new students that I have at the end of this month, it will make September much easier.

It has been a beautiful busy day.

I do hope you have had a good day too.

Summer Concert Day

We had the Summer Concert  with the BBQ today.  It was wonderful!  Everyone did pretty well, some better than others, but overall I am pleased with how they did.  Afterwards we went into the social hall for some BBQ hamburger and veggie burgers.  There were not that many hamburgers left or veggie burgers.  It was a nice time for everyone.  My little ones got to meet my older ones.  Katie loves little ones so I made sure she went and met the newest little ones.  Calli and Natalie did the announcing.  They did a good job of it.  Calli likes announcing and I think Natalie does too.  In the past Natalie's sisters, Hannah and Lydia, have announced too.  I am rather tired now from the long day.  I woke up at 10:30 to finish printing the program.  We had just enough.  I will have to make more for next time.  I am glad we had enough though.  I only printed 40 of them so I wasn't sure.  Often we have many left over but the little ones have lots of grandparents and great grandparents to come to the concert as well as some aunts and uncles so that is nice.  We like big audiences for concerts.  The next one will be Christmas.  I will be pulling some of the music after Labor Day.  Much of it is in the Living Room or a box in the office so it is handy.  We will also be looking at Competition music starting after Labor Day so we will be rather busy with music in the house.  I don't mind, it gives me something to look forward too.  I just love my students.  I have a new one starting after Labor Day but the new company made a mistake of the day for another one of my students so that is going to take some fixing.  I was not too happy about that but i didn't notice until they scheduled the new student.  I also am not taking any new students on Monday.  Mondays are full now.  However, I have time the rest of the week for lessons.

It has been a nice weekend.  Yesterday, Heather B-T and family went with me to Charlie's house for a pig roast.  It was so much fun.  We had a blast.  The only thing I shouldn't have done was go done all 67 of the cement stairs to watch the kids swim.  My legs are STILL sore from that.  What was I thinking?  Oh yea, I wasn't!  I won't do that again.  It was crazy and I honestly thought at one point I wasn't going to get up the stairs.  Thank goodness I did.  Never again.  I will actually think before I do something like that again.  I just wasn't thinking.  I was thinking I wanted to watch the kids swim, that is what I was thinking.  Next time, I just won't do that.  I will bring a book to read while the kids are down at the lake. I will stay up on the upper deck at the picnic table.  Over all though, it was a great time.  We were there for several hours.  Acer had a nap in the afternoon so he would be ready for it.  Calli, before the party, and I went grocery shopping for the BBQ today.  She is a great assistant, she really is.  She did try to drive the scooter at Walmart though.  That was pretty funny.  She was fascinated by the scooter.  She did really well will helping in picking the groceries up.  I also had to buy a new camping chair.  I now have one again.  That works for me.  Overall, it was a grand weekend.  I am so tired though from both days that I think I will be in bed again early like last night.  That would get me on a good start for the week.

I do hope this finds you doing well and having a good weekend too!

Reading old Posts

It is very strange to be reading things I wrote starting from May 2009 to December 2009.  The things I was worried about.  Mom was the biggest worry and so was pain.  My left shoulder and arm were so bad at that point, now they hurt every now again, but I still can't lift my arm up over my head very well.  I am so used to it that it doesn't matter.  It was weird because at one point in July of 2009 I commented that I thought I may have a year left with Mom living at home before I may have had to place her.  Strange to think that in reality I had 1 year and 3 months left of her being here at all.  I also think we did see a lot of movies that summer and out to eat a lot.  I at least can smile over that.  I also wrote about family wanting us to move to Canada, wow, has that not changed at all?  I am glad that I did decide not to move as I do really like where I live.  I have a nice house with a good size yard.  I have everything I need in the house including some guest rooms now.  My living room is perfect for teaching and the family room will be perfect for sewing/crafts with a TV/library on the other side.  I love the neighborhood and the town I live in.  I think it is very pretty and everything is very convenient for me.  My church is nearby and friends are near too.  It was not obvious to me at that time how some of the issues Mom and I had with her health back then would totally haunt her.  I was reading how one day at Tim Horton's, Mom choked trying to eat her donut.  It is amazing because swallowing was the issue we had when she passed away.  I did smile at some of the things Mom and I would do.  We would go for a walk (well, I would be on my scooter) almost every day that summer and fall.  She loved being out doors, she was definitely an outdoors girl.  When I was small, she would try to encourage me to play outside more but I just liked being inside better.  In order to get me out of the house to play, she would take my books or dolls or barbies and put them outside.  She would then tell me they couldn't come in until she said so.  I still am an indoors girl to this day.  I do try to go outside for a bit everyday because I know fresh air is important, but given a choice, I would choose the inside.

I did talk about my pain much more in 2009 than I do now.  I guess I am more used to it or I have better medicine or the combination of both.  It is hard to say what is really the change.  Maybe I just know it is there all the time that I don't need to say it.  I don't know and it doesn't matter why.  I am glad that some days I can read stuff about me and Mom and it not be painful or as painful.  I know that I am going to miss her forever, but someday it will be a bit more bearable.  There are days that it is a bit more bearable than it used to be but overall, I am getting through this day by day and with bad days, moment by moment.  I talk to her a lot at night.  When I write in my private journal, I write it to her.  It makes me feel closer to her.  Mom and I were good friends as well as mother and daughter.  I am glad of that.  So many I know just aren't that lucky with a Mom like I had.  I think it our friendship that I miss the most.  We loved going to movies together, out to dinners together, playing games, or just hanging out together. I am thankful that I have good friends and family to help me muddle through this thing called mourning. Thank you to all my friends and family members.

Getting Ready for the Concert

I just finished the concert order and emailed a copy over to Calli as she is also planning to be an announcer.  This way she can Braille out the order for herself so she will feel more confident in announcing.  She does a very good job.  She is simply a wonderful young lady.  Calli is also coming with me to go grocery shopping for the concert as there is a BBQ afterwards.  I am really looking forward to that.  Calli will be very helpful to me.  She is a very helpful young lady.  We do have to go to 2 different places tomorrow.  I am picking her up at about 1:30 for shopping.  The only thing left for the concert is the program cover.  I am going to do that tomorrow as I am getting tired right now.

It has been a good day.  Calli, Acer, and Breanna all had their lessons today.  I spoke to a young girl about voice lessons but I do think that she lives very far away so I don't expect to her back from her again.  I also spoke to a mom who is looking for musicians for her son's band.  I did talk to Breanna about it because she is the one I thought about.  I did consider mentioning this to Logan, but he is still working on learning to read music so he may not be ready.  I will think about mentioning this to Logan when I see him on Thursday.

Tomorrow is also the party at Charlie's house.  He won't be in the concert as there are family members who come to the party and plan to stay until Sunday evening so he won't be available.  Heather B-T and her family are planning to go to the party too.  I have to mapquest his address so I know where I am going.  I am planning to go for a little bit of time not a long time.  I am excited about going to the party.  I haven't been to a party in a while.  I have to look for my chair in the garage.  I sure hope it is there.  I don't want to have to buy another camping chair.

Calli helped me with the laundry tonight.  I needed both outer and under clothing.  I have them now done thanks to my lovely helper.  She is such a good helper.  Apparently, she does a lot of laundry at home.  Acer and Calli are learning to cook too.  That will be good for them when they are older.  I do know how to cook a lot of things, but unless I have company, I don't really like cooking.  That is my biggest problem, the fact that I don't particularly like cooking.  I do need to take my indoor grill to the appliance repair store so that I can get a cross bar for it.  Until I have it, I can't use my grill and that stinks.

This week is going to be a busy week.  Julie and Lily will be over to help with the family room on Wednesday.  Monday is filled with lessons and so is Tuesday.  Thursday will have 2 lessons, one early and one in the evening.  Friday will be the usual Calli and Acer.

I am feeling better today than I was yesterday.  i didn't really sleep that well last night, not that that is unusual or anything, but with me not feeling well, I really needed to sleep better.  Tonight I will be setting my alarm so that I get everything done that I need to in a timely manner.  I have some prescriptions that need to be picked up too and I need to make a deposit at the bank.  I will do that before I pick up Calli simply because the bank is close to my house and the store we are heading for is close to her house although she does only live 8 minutes away from me.  The other thing I need to do for the concert is to make a CD for the concert.  I won't have the music for Aggie's songs, but that is okay.  Next time I will try to remember to copy her CD before the concert so I can make 1 CD for the concert.

I hope you are having a good night and that tomorrow will be nice too.  I am looking forward to tomorrow evening's party at Charlie's house.  I have been wanting to attend for a couple of years but because of other commitments and issues I just couldn't attend so this will be my first pig roast ever.

another sleepy day

I wasn't feeling too well today when I woke up.  I was so tired.  I ended up going back to bed at about 4 pm and sleeping until 8 pm.  I did get a call while I was sleeping but I didn't really hear it.  My Elizabeth will be in the concert on Sunday.  I am very glad about that.  I left a message with her mom on her cell phone.  Cell phones were such a great invention.  Her mom is very hard to get a hold off so having her cell number is very helpful.

Project Runway is on tonight.  I never thought I would would like the show, but I do.  It is very interesting.  I also like Design Star.  I watched it on Monday.  The one thing about designers is that they don't always listen to the client.  One of the sons of the client wanted bunk bed and the designer assigned to the room did not put one in.  She claimed at the evaluation session that it would make the room dated.  Well, the son is a little guy so for the next 12 to 15 years, the bunk beds would work for him.  I would be angry at the designer for something like that.  My cousin is very good at designing and organizing.  She once told me that she would make our living room super formal with dark, rich colors.  I had to smile because my mom is not into super formal living rooms.  She liked bright, sunny rooms.  However, my cousin has been very helpful in helping me to organize my room and the spare room in the past.  I have no plans in the future right now to repaint the house although someday I will have to, I am just not doing it right now.  I like the house the way it is so that works for me.

One of the designers wants to go home.  She is going home.  Wow, she worked so hard to get to this part in the show and now she is quitting.  I think some of the challenges have been rather crazy and not in the real world so that may be some of the issues she has with this.  It is nice to watch but some of them I would not want to make.  The woman who is going home is Cecilia and she is an excellent Tailor and designer.  She makes very classic, elegant clothes.  The type that mom and I liked.

I will read for a bit after this show and then I will go back to bed.  Basically it has been a sleeping, not feeling so great day.  I hope tomorrow will be better.  I think it will since I have caught up on my sleep today.

A Beautiful Day

It has been a truly good day.  First of all, I met up with my friend, Kathleen.  She came and picked me up to go to Subway.  I was very excited to see her.  She brought her 1 year old, Gianna Grace.  What a cutie!  I mean she is just so precious it is unbelievable.  We had a good lunch and then we ran through Starbucks before going back to my house for a bit of a visit.  Gigi (as we call her) was playing a game with me.  I have some craft paints on a stand in the dining room (lack of a better place at this point).  She would take one off the stand and hand it to me.  She smiled as she did it.  She is such a happy baby and Kathleen is a happy Mom.  Kathleen has 4 children: Attea - 20 (she is married), Daniel - almost 16, Luke - 3, and Gigi - 1.  Yes, Gigi and Luke were beautiful surprises!  We had such a good time visiting.  I hadn't seen her since graduating High School in 1986.  She has just moved back from Vero Beach, Florida.  I am so glad to see her.  I am hoping that I will be able to see her again soon.  I know I will see her at the class reunion we are having in October.  I believe the date is October 15.  On the Friday of that weekend we are planning to attend the Homecoming Parade.  Some of the Alumni may be in the parade, however, I will not be because there is no way I could walk that far and I don't think my scooter would be fast enough.  After that Kathy, Kathleen, Karlyn, and I will go out to eat.  We may attend the game but I am not sure.  Saturday evening is the 25th reunion, we all are attending that one, and then Sunday there is a get together at the Yates Cider Mill.  I am not sure about that because I teach on Sunday.  I also have to be careful of how tired I am from the reunion itself so for me, the Yates Cider Mill is up in the air.  That is what it is like with Fibro, you have to play many things by ear and wait and see how you feel.  From what my friend, Laura wrote today, it is 52 days until the reunion.

After Kathleen and Gigi left, I pulled out the book I was reading and finished it.  I recently have found some of my books in 2 boxes (I had forgotten that they were even there!).  I pulled out an old Danielle Steele book, Crossing.  This book has definitely see better days.  I bought it in high school, well, Mom bought it for me in high school, and I loaned it to a friend and they returned it with the cover ripped off along with many pages that were no longer fully attached.  I obviously never loaned that particular person a book again.  I treat my books very carefully.  The rest of the book fell apart today too so it will be heading for the trash, much to my disgust.  After I finished that one, I started another one I was glad to find.  I have the sequel to the book and really wanted this one.  I thought it had been donated when I donated 17 boxes of books 3 years ago so imagine my happy surprise when I found it in the box.  I have found several books that I am so excited to find.  I also did find some that I can take to the used book store and turn in so I can get more books at a lower price.  I found a couple of books that are duplicates and I plan to turn those in too.  That will happen in a few weeks not anytime soon.

Sunday is the Summer Concert.  I will shop for it on Saturday.  I don't want to shop too early and have the food not be at its best.  I am looking forward to the concert.  We haven't had one in many years so I am looking forward to it.  Many of the students will be in it.

I have no lessons now tomorrow because Breanna needs to change to Friday this week.  I don't mind at all.  Friday will work very well for us.  She is coming after Acer and Calli's lessons.  I just have a really good group of students right now.  They are excited to learn, they practice, and they are fun to teach.  I hope to get a few more in the fall, I actually do expect to get a couple for the fall.  I usually do, so from past experiences I do expect a couple.  It would be nice to get 4 but 2 are good too.  I am not sure if my Amanda will be coming back, I am hoping, but I am not sure.  I will be messaging her Mother shortly.  I don't know about Kayla.  I haven't heard from her all summer.  I know that Amanda is interested, I just don't know if she is for sure coming back.  I am hoping she does though, she is such a good student.  She really is.

I am going to watch Dance Moms and then head for bed.  I can sleep in tomorrow.  I do hope that because I got up early and I didn't sleep very well last night, that I will be able to sleep better tonight and earlier than usual.  Lately, I have had the problem of not being able to sleep until 4 or 5 in the morning.  Often that means I am not up until about 1:30 in the afternoon.  I want to be up by noon.  I can get a bit more housework done and will be able to spread it out over the week better.  That is my goal for fall.

I hope your day was a wonderful as mine.  Beth had a great lesson and I had a wonderful visit with my friend, Kathleen!

whew! Another busy Monday!

I had 5 lessons today.  Not as many as last Monday, but still quite a few.  I had two new little ones start today.  I hadn't bought all the books they need because I was not sure if they would continue or not.  It is hard at times when they are small and the  mom isn't sure they want to play.  Both did very well with their first lessons.  Joiene is 5 and Benjy is 6 and they are so cute!  Camille, Bob, and Emily all had their lessons too.  I am tired now as I haven't had 4 lessons in a row in so long!  It is a nice tired feeling though, not a bad tired feeling.  I am thankful that I can teach that many lessons in a row and starting next week I will have 5 lessons in a row on Mondays because Rachel will be switching to Mondays.

My lovely neighbors, the Hubels, are edging my lawn.  Talk about being awfully neighborly!  Addison hasn't done it at all, he started to do one part and because it hadn't been edged in years, he got frustrated and stopped.  I didn't really care although I prefer an edged look.  since I can't do it myself, I am not going to make Addison do it although now that it is done, he can continue with it.  That would be good.  I am going to bake a lot of cookies for the Hubel family for doing this for me.  They are wonderful neighbors.  Their daughter, Carolyn was the young lady who came and stayed with Mom when I would go shopping for groceries and stuff like that.  She was very good with mom.  Her mom was one of the first people I called when I found out Momma couldn't swallow.  They are a really nice family.  There are 5 kids and they are all homeschooled except for Melissa who is in her 2nd year of college.  She seems to be enjoying it there.

Overall, it has been a nice day.  Everyone did very well at lessons and I like my new students a lot (not that I doubted that one!)  I plan to finish reading my book, watch design star and sometime soon make me some dinner.  I think I will have a pasta meal.  They are awfully yummy and I have a few left in the freezer.  I didn't pull any chicken out to eat today so that sounds yummy.  I have an exciting week ahead of me.  Tomorrow is a few lessons but I will need the time to straighten up the dining room table, vacuum the floors, and generally clean up the kitchen, Wednesday my lovely friend, Kathleen and her 2 little ones are coming for lunch.  I will pick up a few things tomorrow for it.  It should be an lovely time. I am so excited to see her.  The weekend will bring a party at Charlie's and then the summer concert with the BBQ after so all in all a great week for me!

I do hope your day is great too!

A Rather Quiet Day

It is so quiet in my house these days.  I like it though.  I don't have to have noise around me at all times like I did when i was younger.  I will watch TV in a bit for a while before heading for bed.  It has been storming again around here this afternoon.  I went out after Rick's lessons for ink for the scanner and it was sunny.  I came out of the store and it was pouring with dark stormy clouds and everything.  by the time I got home, it was sunny again.  Yeah, weird weather in Michigan today.  My grass is green though unlike all of July when it was brown.  Addison will cut it again soon, I am not worried nor do I really care as long as it is done soon before it gets too long.

Next Sunday is the Summer Concert.  We haven't done one in so long.  I am excited about it though because we haven't done it in a while.  We are having a BBQ after.  That should be super fun.  I have to pick up the hamburgers, plates, cutlery, napkins, and cups for Sunday.  I am so looking forward to this.  It really makes summer fun.  All the students have been practicing for it.  I also need to start the list of who is bringing what since it is a potluck one.  I bring the main dish, everyone else brings something else.  I will go to the GFS to get the stuff.  You can get things in bulk there that you can't anywhere else.  I don't belong to Sam's Club or to Costco so GFS is the next best thing.  Either way, it shall be a great day.  Tillie is coming for it.  She used to come with Wilbert to a lot of my concerts.  She enjoys the music and the kids.  I am glad about that.  I also need to let her know her packages are here.  I haven't opened my new packages either which is bad.  I will take care of that this week when I clean the kitchen and the dining room.  I have to clean off the table because I will have company on Wednesday.  My friend, Kathleen is coming for lunch with her lovely 2 children.  It will be so much fun.  I haven't seen her in years, and I mean years, like about 25 of them.  Yes, I haven't physically seen her since 1986 when we graduated from high school together.  I am so excited to see her though.  She and I talked online every so often.  i will also see her at the 25th class reunion.  That will be fun.  I never thought I would go to one because I didn't really have a good time in high school.  I was teased a lot because of my weight and they knew they could get to me.  Once I started having some backbone, it wasn't as bad, but I still disliked high school a lot.  On graduation day all these girls were crying because they were going to miss everyone, me, I was thrilled that I wouldn't have to see them again.  Now that I am older, there are people I would like to see so I am going.  Kathy is going too.  Karlyn just messaged me and wanted to know if I wanted to meet up with her on Friday instead of going to the party (not the actually reunion, that is on Saturday) I said sure as I wasn't going to the game or the party afterward.  That will be fun, I think.  I am not sure when Kathy will be in town for the reunion, but I know she will be there on Saturday at the actual reunion.  The before and after stuff, I am not sure.  We shall see how I feel.  I anticipate it going very long on Saturday and not getting home too early so I will probably be sleeping in on Sunday a bit plus I do have a lesson in the afternoon.

Jessie is getting married in 2 weeks.  I am so excited about that.  She was my student when she was young and now she is getting married.  I haven't gotten her their gift yet.  I will do that closer to the wedding.  I am not sure what I am getting them yet but I will pick something they want.  That is the nice thing about registries.  You know what they want and if you want to get them something else, that is okay too.  Hers is the shower I missed a few weeks ago.  Yup, that was smart of me.  I wrote it on the wrong weekend!  I won't miss the wedding though, that is for sure!  Mike is coming with me.  I haven't seen him in a long time too.  As a matter of fact, the last time I saw him was at Mom's viewing.  Wow, that is just over 10 months ago.  I knew as soon as I got the invitation that he would love to go because he worked with her too.  We will have a great time, I think.

Other than prep work for the concert and lessons, I don't have too much planned except for the visit from Kathleen.  It should be a good week.  I have 2 new little ones starting tomorrow.  I am not sure how long they will last because their mom wasn't sure they want to play from when I spoke to her.  it was all very strange.  She asked if I taught flute, and it was just very strange.  Her kids are 5 and 6 years old.  I am copying their material for this week because I don't know what is going to happen.  I haven't added them officially to my income/bills list because I am not sure they are going to stay.  I hope so, but it is hard to say.

Stormy Day

It is thunder storming out right now and it has been for the afternoon.  I can hear the rain hitting the attic fan right outside my room when I was up there a bit ago.  No lessons for the day.  That is a normal Saturday right now, but I am hoping in the fall that will change.  So with no lessons, there isn't much going on.  I am reading some of the books I found in the box in my room yesterday.  I am very excited about that.  I have some movies that I haven't watched yet that I might put in the DVD player.  I don't know.  We shall see.

My head is a bit worse than usual, but not like it was yesterday, just a bit so I am glad about that.  I have one lesson tomorrow and then I have to go and pick up some ink for the scanner so I can scan some music in for my new students.  Their mom was really wishy washy about getting books so I am not even sure she knows what she wants.  In a case like this, I am just copying the music I have.  I will not go and buy their books because she sounds like she doesn't know if they want to play the piano.  I have already had one mom not pay me back for the books and I don't need another.  Most do, which is why I often pick up the books, but not all of them.  With the addition of these two young students, I will have students from 4:30 to 7:00 solid, I am very excited about that.  Mondays will be brilliant and beautiful.  My Rachel from Tuesday at 2 pm will be moving to Monday at 4:30 pm because of school.  I am not sure what time my Elizabeth at 3 pm on Tuesday will be moving to.  I shall find out in the next few weeks.  So far, I am so glad about all the lessons that I am getting.  I had 18 students last week and it was wonderful.  This week will not have as many as my Muglia girls are only once a month but I will be busy with the 2 new ones on Monday.  All in all, fall is shaping up pretty well.

I am going to go and make some dinner now then I am going to read.  I am a bit tired and I expect to go to bed a bit earlier than usual (which means sometime before midnight, 1 am , 2 am).  I did sleep a bit better last night with the pain meds.  I do hope your day is good too.

friday

I woke this morning with the worst headache ever.  I mean, ever.  I finally dragged my sorry self down the stairs to take some pain pills and Advil.  Then I dragged my sorry self back up the stairs back to bed.  If I sat up, the head would just pound like I haven't had since 2008, it was somewhat better when I was lying down.  I was able to get up at 3 and it was better.  I have had some bad headaches this summer but this was the worst one since 2008.  At first I thought if it didn't improve I would have to go to the ER.  Fortunately, it did go down to almost normal.

After I got started for the day, I had my lovely Calli and my wonderful Acer's lessons.  They are such a joy to teach.  Their nicknames are so appropriate for them, Sunshine and Joy because that is what they send when they are around, sunshine and joy.  Both kids are ready for the recital next week.  That is good.  I may not be ready, but they will be.  I will make the program next Friday and print on Saturday before I go to the Pig Roast at Charlie's house.  The Bowman-Tomlinson family, I think, is going too.  It should be a good time.  I haven't been to the last 2 because the one 2 years ago, my friend was in town and last year Momma wasn't feeling up to going so I am planning to attend this year.  I just have to find my chairs.

I don't have any lessons tomorrow and I don't have any real plans outside of some housework and laundry that needs to be done.  I have to wash some outer clothes so I have something to wear for next week.  Yeah, you know me, wait until the last moment to do laundry!  I was like that when Momma was here too.  Poor thing, she was dependent on me for her laundry and I was always behind.

I am tired tonight, a but more than usual, I think because of the bad headache.  They wipe me out something awful when they get that bad.  I found 2 more boxes of paperback books today so that was awesome.  I brought a few down to read over the weekend.  Some of the books I knew I had, I just didn't know where they were.  Now I do.  I also have a drawer full of books in my dresser that I need to get out and put downstairs when we do the family room.  I will be reading for a bit then heading to bed.  I hope I sleep pretty well like I have been this week.  It hasn't been a too horrible sleep week.  I think exhausting myself out on Monday helped my sleep pattern improve plus getting up a bit earlier most of the week helped too.  I am going to keep setting my alarm so I get up a bit earlier so that I sleep better at night.

It is a normal missing Mom day.  i miss her so much.  Yesterday it was the 10 month anniversary of her passing away.  Sometimes it seems like years and other time like yesterday.  Either way, I miss her so much.  I know I say that a lot but we were very close and I took care of her.  I miss both the Mom she was before Alzheimer's and the Mom she became with Alzheimer's.  I just want my mom back.  Too bad life doesn't work that way.

I do hope you are having a good day with less pain and lots of sunshine.