Getting ready for day 2

So for awhile now I've been waking up early and going to sleep early, like a couple of years. So lately, this past couple of weeks, I've been trying to get up and do yoga before the whole fam-damily is up. Sounds like a great plan in theory and is a great plan in practice except for now all of a sudden I remember what it's like to want to lie in bed and not get up and not have to do whatever it is, that thing that got shook out of me by having small babies... They are not small and now I've remembered how to sleep in. But that's OK, because it's still better to have to get up and do yoga than to have to get up and go work for the railroad.

got some fun stuff at the library, the new laurie berkner CD, which hopefully will include a tour. The BBC's Ballet Shoes, which I totally loved reading when I was a kid, although I should be reading the book but it's the BBC... And the Wizard of Oz which I've been trying to get for Abbey without actually buying it all summer but finally thought to check the damn library. And it's the 2 disc special edition woohoo.

Fun times in Media Land.

First Day of School

Happy first day of school for everybody! We were all quite nervous, including me. Ella went first, we found her cubby and she went right over to play with the dollhouse that she had been shoo-ed away from for all these years so we got away. Then we came home to hang out and wait for Abbey's turn where she decided that it was quite lonely here without Ella to play with. I think it might have been one of the first and only times that the three of us were here without Ella since we've had her, so that was a little kooky. Then it was Abbey's turn so I dropped her and John off and went to get Ella who had a fine time. And Cupcakes. Abbey was done an hour later and also had a fine time so woohoo. Abbey gets to go back today, Ella gets to go again tomorrow. I'm glad to be into the swing of things because now I can figure out what our routine will be.

Done

Well, I did it. I woke up at my ungodly hour and did my little yoga thing while the sun came up and now it's done. Woohoo

Today is the day that Abbey gets to go to her new classroom and meet her teacher. And then I think we should probably go over to Ella's school and check it out since we can't go to her open house tomorrow.

Happy Birthday to Violet...

more later

making stuff

So I've been going gung ho on these socks, to the detriment of my many other things I should be doing. But they're going to be really super fancy socks...

The last gig of the season for my big band is this Thursday. At least it's a 2 hour throwdown of everything we've been doing, and after my magnificent nerves of last time I'm going to get some practicing in tomorrow and I pretty much get to play most of the day Thursday too so I think I'll be good to go. I'm still sporadically working on Rubber Soul, what a great album. I really need to haul the cello out and start getting ready for this wedding.

Let's see, other things I need to make, ooh, I ordered up a sock monkey kit. I'm sure part of the reason I'm busting my tail on these socks is because I need to clear off the needles so I can start on the monkey. Um, yeah.

What else can I babble on about?

I need to make my yoga practice harder, what I really need to do is to put this one in the morning first thing when I get up so ungodly early and then just add another one in the usual spot.

time to go

Friday

Look Ma! I made the Marquee! This week I have learned that if I'm not having fun then it's not worth doing. I was soooooooo nervous for this show, and usually when one is nervous the best bet is to practice a LOT. But I couldn't practice at all, because I had to drive all over the world to get the babysitting worked out. Let me re-phrase that. I chose to invite my in-laws to the gig, which meant that I had to take the girls to my folks house. Then my in-laws decided not to come, I guess, which means that I could have spent the afternoon practicing for the gig rather than driving, had I known, but I didn't and I'm a little bent about it but the cards have told me that I'm a big whiner and to get over it so I shall. Anyway, this gig felt different from the get go, like these folks knew the charts better than we did and would know just how much faking goes on. At the time I was very paralyzed by that concept. Further complicating the matter (for me) our lovely drummer failed to show, so the house drummer sat in with us. He's really good, and stuff, and it was very enlightening to play with him, but it wasn't helping my nervous issues any to have to wonder about what was going on over there.

Ya ya ya

full moon

isn't going to get me this time! It almost did, but then I saw it.

Where ya Been?

Just relax, you're doing fine.

Ya ya ya.

Finished both blankets, but haven't uploaded pics because of fear of spiders lurking behind the computer. Ella woke up in the middle of the night screaming about spiders and I can't get her terror out of my head.

Have been practicing some bass just lately again, took about a week off I guess. Realizing again that I must get the cello out. Still time before the wedding, but fast running out.

yoga is all good and is the constant for now, just must.

Still reading the hobbit, but since we're just entering Mirkwood and Ella is already afeared of spiders, well, might take a small break.

Currently knitting socks but really seriously bored with the pattern and wishing I could do something else for a bit, but what?