Recital

We had our December Recital this past Saturday, and where I really did not want to do it, it went fine. We played mostly Christmas Songs as violins, but all piano students played solos, so the Recital went forever, and it was packed.
Mr. C had to have the little kids who were performing come and sit in the front on the floor, and even then there was not enough room for all the parents to sit.
Plus now there were 10 children under 8 years old all together on the floor with no parental supervision.
It was kind of a cluster as usual, but the little kids did a great job.
I am glad that it is over. Bad attitude I know, but I can’t help it!! I felt like I was drowning this past week with all the stuff I needed to do, and that was something that I did not want to do, which took up quite a bit of my time.
BUT it is done, I enjoyed some time with my violin buddies, and now it is on to other things!
I will post pictures later, I could not get them to load.

Starbucks

Mr. Certain my violin teacher had most of his students play at the local Starbucks this past Saturday. It was not the funnest of times. It was very close quarters (which I don't do so well in) and it was long. Standing and playing for 3 hours is quite tiring.
I was a bit put out by the time the thing was over.
I should have better control of my emotions, but this time of year I am very busy, and I did not want to do this.
But I did, and I really tried hard to have a good time.
Here are some pictures

101 Dalmatians Update

The 101 Dalmatians was a really great show. They advertised that they had real dogs in the show, which they did for the last 3 minutes of the show, and 2 other times they raced across the stage.
It also had children acting as the pups as well, and children in shows like this have always bugged me. For one thing, the performances get over late, and you know that prior to the performances they have had to go to rehearsals and such.
I don’t know why, but this has always bothered me. Perhaps it is because with my limited knowledge of what it takes to put on a show, I know that there is a lot of time and dedication needed, and I feel that children’s dedication and time should be spent elsewhere.
Aside from my own personal feelings that children should not be involved, it was a good show. Not the best I have ever seen, and I am not sure children should go. Not because it was inappropriate, but because the first half moved very slowly, and the children that were in the audience were quite restless.
I did have a great time with my girlfriends, and that was the whole point of the outing.
Thanks Andrea for the Christmas gift! I love them!

NASCAR

Ben and I went to 2 Nascar Races this past November, and I have not posted anything yet. There was a night race which was the truck race, then the day race, which was the nationwide race.
Here are some pictures!
Once again, we had a great time!

Here are some pictures of Thanksgiving.

Dinner

Butch

Table

Dessert

Eisenhower State Park

Ben and I went camping with friends the first of November, and I have not yet had time to get pics of the event up.
We went to Lake Texoma, and had a really good time. It was a bit different camping in a tent since I have had that camper for so long. It was a good reminder of why I bought the camper in the first place!
We had really great weather the whole time, and I got my fix of camping for a while.
Here are some pics.

101 Dalmatians

Some girlfriends and I are going to see the Musical of 101 Dalmatians tonight! I am excited to get to hang out with my girls for a night!

We will go to dinner first and be able to catch up! We all work together, but with the way that work is…we hardly ever get to just talk.

Maybe I will be able to get some pictures posted, if we end up taking any.

It is too bad that it falls this week, because my poor wee dog had to be in his kennel most of the night Monday, because of the ESL classes we teach, Tuesday he had to be in his kennel most of the day because of a make up violin lesson I had, and then Ben had an impromptu business dinner that he asked me to attend.

Yesterday was my COSTCO day, and today I have the 101 Dalmatians. Tomorrow is my company Christmas party, and my department Christmas party, however, I am hoping that they get over before 6, so I can spend the rest of my evening with my best guy, and my favorite dog!

It starts all over on the weekend!

Saturday is the playing Christmas songs at the local Starbucks with the Certain Music Students (which I am not sure how pleased I am about...)

Sunday may be a slower day. Ben was given tickets to the Cowboys game, and he is excited about that!! Maybe after church I can get the house clean, and try to spend some quality time with Butch!

Chilly and Angry

It has gotten cold down here…Not as cold as up north, but for Texas it is cold. The other day, I got out Butch’s little Velour Sweat suit, and put it on him!! He is so funny! He obviously hates this type of stuff!

Thanksgiving

Wow, The Holidays always seem to sneak up on me, and then take up all my time. I have been thinking about updating my blog for quite a while now, but really have not had a spare minute!

Some updates, Ben and I traveled to Mason TX to have Thanksgiving with his Family.

It was a great time.

We had a lot of fun. We had the traditional Thanksgiving with Family and Friends, On Friday we walked the town of Mason and looked at all the little downtown shops I found a pendant that matched the ring I bought a few years ago! I had been looking for a matching necklace for a long time, and bought it! I was so excited to finally find a match. It is blue calsydney. Here is a picture!

After we got home from all of this, Ben and I made a dinner of Fish Tacos that turned out to be really good!!!

The next day Ben woke up early and went hunting. He saw some action, but let the deer go since he was just a little guy! Later that morning, His folks, and his sister him and I went to Fredericksburg TX and shopped almost all day! Fredericksburg is a nice little German town with lots of stuff to look at!

When we got back from shopping, Ben and I went down to the Llano river and watched the sun set.

Then on Sunday we headed back home to Dallas.

Thank you David and Ann for being so kind, and making sure that we had an enjoyable time.

We are now looking forward to going to TN for Christmas!

HOCKEY!!!

A group of us went to a minor league hockey game this past Saturday. The Texas Tornadoes. We started out the evening at Paulios, which is an awesome little place where they have freaking great pizza and pasta. So a group of us started out there having a great time amongst friends, then we headed over to the game. Ben and I with another friend were following Amy, who had two more in her car, and it was an experience! There was one point where we needed to do a U-Turn, we were stopped at a red light when Amy just went ahead and did a U-Turn at the red light and headed the other way…well, Ben and I did not know where we were going (hence the following Amy in the first place…) so Ben just followed suite. (What the heck was she thinking?) :)Then we get to the park, and Bens truck was too big to fit in the upper section of the parking terrace, so we got good parking right on the ground level.What an awesome time! I so love Hockey and it was a great game. It ended up going into double overtime which ended in a shootout. They even had a put up your dukes’ fight between two guys who needed to let off some steam. (There was an obvious height advantage to one of the guys, so it was not really fair, but it was still awesome!) So cool. I had a great time hanging out with friends, and watching people getting checked right and left! Hope we can do it again. It is a very affordable sport to go to live! And one that I really like too.