Bunco

Bunco was at my house Monday night and boy was it fun! We hadn't played since June so we were long overdue! Here are some pics!

This is our group (we had 2 missing):

These were the winners for the evening (go Brin--she was kissing her scarecrow):

Here are us teacher buds (Kim, me, Kristy, Holli):

And me--I rolled 4, yes, my favorite number---4 Buncos! I was so proud--I didn't win, but didn't care. I'm just proud of my 4! hee hee!

Gotta go. I'm ready for bed. I'm exhausted and my voice is almost gone--being a music teacher is wonderful, but wears on my voice so much--and our band has a gig on Saturday so I NEED my voice! Gonna get in the clean sheets, curl up with my sick puppy (that's for a later post), my hubby, and Prison Break, Season 2.

Let the sun shine!

Praise the Lord for the sunshine! I have missed it greatly this week! My car just got a nice bath and looks so much better! Now if I could just get our lawn guy to come....I can barely find Oliver in the grass!

Rock the River was good last weekend. I didn't feel good at all, but we had a good time. Our band plays this week at the youth-wide "Saw You At The Pole" Rally. It is the evening of See You At The Pole (duh).

This next weekend starts the month of Saturday choir competitions. My next 3 out of 5 Saturdays are booked with taking kids to all-region competitions. I love to see my students compete and do well, but it just wears me out. I think I'm ready to just teach all elementary music or all high school choir, but not both. After doing it for 9 years, I'm tired!!!!!!!! And OLD!!!

Bunco is next week at my house! Pictures to come!

Not much else exciting going on here....just taking it one day at a time. Sorry for the boring blog updates. Can't think of much else to write about. Time for a nap!

Why does this always happen?

We leave in 2 hours for Rock the River in Fort Smith. Our band, Muzzleloader, plays at 3:30 today. I've been looking forward to this for months and we've practiced a lot this past week. BUT, I am sick. I've been sneezing a lot, but it hadn't turned in to anything. It hit about halftime of the junior high football game we were at on Thursday night. We left the game and I went home and sacked out. Yesterday I felt horrible all day at school. I took Aleve Cold & Sinus, Zyrtec, ZiCam allergy nose spray, drank Vitamin C immunity builder stuff, and took ZiCam tablets. Woke up this morning to a sneeze that I thought would blow my face off. I've never seen so much snot!!!!!!!! (yes, graphic---sorry)

Anytime in the fall when I have something important on the calendar, I get sick. Two years ago our band was playing at a 4 day rally and I got strep throat and could only sing the last night. Last year I got a massive sinus infection right before a huge day-long choir competition I had to take students to. This year we have this concert today and I am sick. Thankfully I only have to play keys---I do sing on one song, but I think I can make it. This REALLY frustrates me, but I don't know how to fix it!!!!!!! If you read this, would you say a prayer for me today about this? I would really appreciate it.

In other news, my dog did this to our carpet this week:

My husband has been feeling bad leaving Oliver in his cage when he goes to work during the day so he bought a $100 iron dog gate that he bolted to the frame between the kitchen and living room. Then on the other side of the kitchen we put up a baby gate. This picture is of the carpet in the hallway---the baby gate was right past this spot. Oliver was left alone for 1 hour and accomplished this. I was so frustrated when I got home. I've been wanting new carpet, but don't have the money for it now! (the current carpet is 5 years old)

So now we have a dog who obviously HAS to stay in his cage when we're gone, a $100 gate that is of no use to us now, and a torn up carpet. And Bunco is at my house in 2 weeks. Guess I'll be investing in a nice little rug to go there. (sigh)

Gotta go get ready! At least I'll get my Peppermint Mocha from Starbuck's when we get to Ft. Smith! Maybe that'll help me feel better.

Have a great weekend!

Story of the week

I've got another cute kindergarten story---they really say the funniest things that just make me laugh! There is a hispanic girl in one of the classes who speaks NO English! NONE! I've been trying to speak Spanish to her a little (I remember some from high school), but she is really shy. In music class she just sits and stares--no participation whatsoever. So this week I remembered I have a song that says the months of the year in Spanish and I told the class we were going to sing a song for her so she could participate. This cute little boy says so seriously, "I can't do Spanish. I'm not Spanish. I'm country folk." I cracked up!

Oliver went back to the vet this week. He has another bacterial infection--this time in his ears. That makes the 3rd bacterial infection in 4 months. He is on 2 antibiotics once again. The vet said he has a very weak immune system. So what the heck am I supposed to do about that? I'm wondering if my hubby and I are just being too overprotective and thinking he is more human than dog. We don't want him to be sick though. AAHHH!!!!

Tomorrow for 30 minutes at school we are having DEAR--Drop Everything And Read. I'm kinda excited about this. The high school kids are reading like crazy right now and so we are going to have DEAR a couple times a week, but the teachers have to participate too. I am going to try to get going in "The Shack". This book really helped my husband after our chemical pregnancy last year, but I am worried my emotions will get out of hand at school. Hopefully not.

My husband and the lead singer of our band are going to be on Spirit FM 106.3 out of Fort Smith tomorrow morning at 8:05. They are going to talk about our band, Muzzleloader, and hopefully play a song or two off our album. A lot of the bands are going to be on live tomorrow since Rock the River is next week. Very exciting!

Three day weekend coming up! Hallelujah!