Home today

Munchkin woke up achy, with a fever, this morning.  So, we're home.  Now, my nose itches and I've sneezed about 100 times!  You'd think I was the one who was sick!

Now, she's coloring in a workbook and I'm sitting here, sniffling - wishing I could go back to bed.  HRMPH

I've decided "Yo Gabba Gabba" is quite possibly the MOST annoying show I've ever watched.  I know that's random. 

Oswald is on Noggin and I think this is a dreary show, too.  LOL 

Going for more coffee....

the loudest telemarketer EVER

Hey Al's - turn the volume down on your headsets!  And calling at 8pm, REALLY!?  LOLZ

I just handed the phone to Matt and let him talk to her.  He's going to throw something at me soon because I'm just laughing.  T-I-S-D? Did you say D or G? 

HAR HAR

Sarah, you know why this is FUNNY!!!

the end of an era

today, my friend and mentor, Roy Finney, went home to be with the Lord. Mr. Finney was a long time Belton High School Choir director, clinician, UIL judge, choral director at Temple College and all around good man.

Finney was a great musician, a master director and he touched the lives and hearts of many people in central Texas - including me. His musical legacy will live on in his students and the many friends and teachers that he inspired.

The world is a little emptier tonight without him. He will be greatly missed.

I will say this - if there is one more qualified to direct the choirs of angels in heaven; I've yet to meet him.

the look of happy

Coach and I had engagement pictures done last weekend.  I am happy.  Truly at peace.  There is a bliss that defies definition and yet I am grounded and content to walk this level path - with him.  We've set a date and the planning has begun in earnest.

 

squeals of adolescent estrogen

K & I went on a girls' night out Friday.  A little dinner, a lot of laughing and....twilight.  It was finally here and it was pretty good.  Oh, it's no Harry Potter.  Pirates of the Caribbean beat it hands down.  But, it was very fun to see the adaptation of the books we devoured. 

We laughed at the hoardes of young adolescent girls lined up at the ticket counter an hour before the theatre opened.  All text messages were off as their little eyes (and hormones) were glued to the screen.  When Edward appeared on the screen for the first time, the hoard squeeled with delight.  (yes, really)  When Edward and Bella kissed the first time, collective sighs and applause were heard throughout the room.  It was HILARIOUS. 

I thought the Edward character was played pretty well by HP-veteran, Robert Pattinson.  Bella, on the other hand, was played a little too wispy and waif-ish.  I thought Bella carried herself really well in the books.  Yes, she was reserved and a little self-depricating.  But the on-screen teenager was a little breathy; like she was about to have an asthma attack every time she had to talk to Edward.  Oh, before you berate me for soundng so grown-up; yes I remember that breathless first crush.  That feeling of just not knowing what. to. say. when. HE.....walks in the room.  *squeel*  You could say I really got in touch with my inner middle schooler this weekend.  *laugh* 

I will say this, though, the dramatic tension between the Edward and Bella characters was GREAT.  The ratcheted up the tension until you could cut the air with a knife.  IT was great.  That part got an A+. 

I thought the movie, overall, was a little predictable.  They spelled it out a little too clearly.  They didn't give the audience enough credit.  It was as if they KNEW 96% of the audience has already read all four books so they didn't have to bother with that little thing called suspense. 

Eh...not bad.  Don't know that I'll buy it.  I certainly don't think HP should have delayed the release eight months for THIS.  I think the death of Dumbledore, the revelations about Snape and Voldemort were WELL WORTH a little healthy competition at the box office.  I think everybody would have won.  And, we'd have a better holiday movie season to look forward to.

where have all the christmas decorations gone?

I've been to two Sami shows and Bow-tique, only to find a dismal absence of christmas goodies.  I didn't find any new christmas dishes, towels, napkins, wall hangings, christmas tree doo-dads...NOTHIN!! 

*sigh*  Not a good start to the holiday shopping season.  On an up note, I did find a really neat learn to draw Tinkerbell book for Munchkin. 

She's waving her pom-pom and doing a cheer.  ah, noise.  *laugh*  Last night, she cheered on the field with the cheerleaders.  She didn't go to cheer camp but she was able to make it up and still cheer at the game.  She loved it.  She told me she'd like to try cheerleading in the spring.  I told her let's finish out the year with ballet (they have a holiday recital at the end of November) and then I'd find out how much (and how often) cheerleading would be, after the new year. 

I need to have the carpets cleaned before I drag out christmas decorations.  And what to do with the table?  So many decisions.  *laugh*  Maybe we'll get a smaller, live tree this year and save the fuss of dragging the big artificial tree out.  That tree is six feet tall and about four feet wide, so it takes up a large space.  If I turn the table, I could probably fit either possibility between the table and the patio door.  Not like we go out there anyway.  *laugh*  (you can tell that by the dead mums out there - poor things)

Well, I'll wrap this up for now.  Later, gators!