We are performing O, America at Gammage on May, 21st!  Here in Arizona, if you want to perform anywhere, it would be at Gammage.  Merely saying you are performing there makes me people take notice of you.  So this is very delightful.

I think I have decided I am going to try and enroll in school.  I can only do this if almost all of it can be paid ( Read more... )

I need to post something positive as well ( Read more... )

Sometimes I feel like the balance in my life is consistently off.  Sometimes it just feels like, I don't know, whenever things are supposed to be great whatever is there to keep me grounded is too heavy and I can't even float a little.   It's like the bad are things that greatly overpower the good.  I have plenty to be happy about, but what's there ( Read more... )

Very frustrated, and now I am having a hard time calming down from it.  I teach a class on Sunday's in church.  This year I am going to be teaching it solo and am happy to do it that way and think I do better when I get to do it solo.  However, today one of the children's mother decided I needed help and so invited herself to co-teach my class.  ( Read more... )

New Years Resolution for 2010?  To matter.  I just want to matter to someone somewhere.  I want to make some kind of difference.

I don't think I was expecting too much, but apparently I am incorrect in that thinking. I do so much for them and love doing it and never want anything in return, but I just thought that they appreciated it and would have thought to take a moment during this holiday season to say, "Hey, we really appreciate you doing all you do for us. We hope ( Read more... )

I have the flu. I do not want the flu. How do I return it?

All that was planned for this week was my usual stuff: Drive some friends to their meeting on Monday and choir rehearsal on Wednesday.  Well, Monday turned out to be an all day thing which was fun and through the coarse of the day found out my new neighbors do actually like me (I thought they didn't because whenever I would say hello they wouldn't ( Read more... )

So confused.  Bad Laura, bad, bad, bad.  Grrrr.  But, yay to me for stopping.

I know this makes no sense to anyone, but it helped me calm my nerves.

So, about the choir I got into.....:

Okay, I thought this choir was going to be more like an advanced concert choir, given the fact that it is strictly volunteer and that no one here as heard of the Orange County version of this choir and that it is the first time it is here in the East Valley and also that it's a non-profit organization, so they ( Read more... )