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Happy Birthday to me!

I want to join a drumline.

I taught a lesson today, his name is Sean and he's in the first grade, this was his first violin lesson ever. He's got potential, especially with me as his teacher. I'm not the most relaxed player but I'm getting better at feeling the tension in myself and I'm much better at seeing it in other people and knowing how to approach it. We spent ( Read more... )

It was a very productive day indeed. I hope everything fits in the car, the fridge will fit behind the driver's seat, I think it'll all fit but I won't be able to see out the back. I washed the side mirrors with windex, and replenished the washer fluid and oil. Is it the law that you have to be able to use the rearview mirror? Or are the side ( Read more... )

It was a good day. I spent six hours painting shutters in the basement across the street. For the second three hours, after lunch, I brought over a radio and CD on tape (Ender's Game) to listen to. Really smart thinking on my part I'd say, it made the time go like a racecar (fast). I was working down there when Jen and the kids got home from ( Read more... )

Today I made and drank some really tasty iced coffee. It was a heaping spoonful of instant coffee stirred in a beer stein with tap water topped with several ice cubes and a good measure of sweetened heavy cream. It hit the spot like nothing else could have (except maybe a long make out session ( Read more... )

I feel gratitude. I'm grateful for these wonderful people I know. This beautiful life that provides me with variety and beauty. I love my friends so much, it feels like I left part of myself in Portland this afternoon when I said goodbye.

Gosh it's beautiful out. About sixty in the shade, cool enough so when a breeze blows goose bumps appear, and the sunlight feels like it's lighting you up from the inside. I've been looking for excuses to slow myself down lately, it's hard to see how stressed and 'on the go' you are until you actually slow down and see the contrast. Walking ( Read more... )

I had a good time playing soccer today, just kicking a ball around with dear friends. I did some good practicing earlier in the day, I've got to get my shit together before school. It was a little strange working on my solo stuff again, for the Colby weeks I didn't touch a piece of music other than the Dvorak (and a small amount of sight reading ( Read more... )