I am waiting in best buy after a great 5.5 mile run. There was a shower before, of course.

I went with Jen and the weather was perfect. We didn’t see any larpers today, unfortunately. The best thing is that I feel like a runner again!

Now we are dealing with Chris’s broken computer and then I am going to buy a new laptop. The insurance settlement is on its way. State farm is really a great company!  It’s likely that Chris’s desktop was damaged though and hopefully we can prove that….they didn’t steal it but it hasn’t been working right all week and today wouldn’t turn out at all. Grrr. So a beautiful afternoon is spent picking up the pieces from jerk criminals.

Last night I met a friend for dinner at Frazer’s. After dinner a few more friends showed up and we were there until midnight or so. For dinner we split chorizo stuffed dates, a tasty bottle of malbec, and then I had a brie, pear, and arugula salad, and shrimp and scallop pasta. I will definitely go back there!

Ok, time to shop for a new computer!

Okay, I’ve declared this evening the end of my pity party.  Well, not exactly, but we’ve moved on today into…

strange gym injury party time!

That’s my left pinky.  Suffice it to say it feels much worse than it looks.  What happened?  Well, it happened really fast.  In a nutshell, v-sits holding a 10 pound weight to press up while moving legs forward (I need to start taking pictures during my workouts, huh?).  At the end I was exhausted so I leaned over to drop the weight first, and proceeded to somehow drop it directly onto my pinky finger…which hurt A LOT.  Then I spent a minute or two lying on the floor holding my hand in agony, while Mike either laughed at me or debated calling 911.

Summary:  I am really clumsy.

Other summary:  Mike had a tooth infection.  Evidently he needed a root canal.  He thinks I need to start foam rolling my legs.  His ex-girlfriend wants to get back together but he claims he doesn’t want to.  I also mentioned my blog today, maybe he’s reading this (probably not).

Then I headed off to my ocarina trio rehearsal followed by another lunch at Panera (started reading Water for Elephants, love it so far!) and 3ish hours of teaching.  Finally my day is done! 

Things that are uncomfortable:  trying to play violin with a wonky pinky.  Let’s hope tomorrow goes better since I have TWO weddings to play for.

Next Saturday, May 7:  I am playing for a live internet concert.  6 pm Central Time. Go to this link and it is advertised as “Heather’s Free Live Concert.”  I am playing with Heather!  If you want to catch it from the beginning please visit the link a few minutes early as evidently you are required to watch a couple minutes worth of commercials. 

  Yesterday one of my students brought a “friend” to observe her lesson.  After the lesson we had a bit of a photo shoot!

Watching from the piano

Sitting on the floor

Sitting on my lap!

Posing for a picture!  My student thinks I’m crazy now 😉

Okay, so I downloaded Windows Live Writer on Chris’s computer.  I have been seriously depressed the past few days because I had a bunch of pictures I wanted to show you all but couldn’t.  Okay, that’s a bit overkill, but I have been feeling down, and I do love blogging.  I want to blame it on the break in but honestly I was crabby before that.  I guess moods ebb and flow, and mine is ebbing (or flowing) now.

Picture time!

At the ballpark Saturday.  Seriously my head looks GIGANTIC!

The boys at the ballpark—notice Chris is on his phone.  This is normal.

Rain delay.  And my favorite view from the stadium.  As weird and random as the arch is, you always know when you are in St Louis.

At Easter brunch.  Can you believe the dessert buffet?  And I may have been squatting a little bit in this picture.  I was wearing 4 inch red peep toe heels.

Getting ready to go work out!  I was PUMPED.  Mike was a downer today though—he was having serious wisdom teeth issues, as in, will need them taken out stat, and evidently was in a lot of pain.  Also he had busted his chin open doing burpees over the weekend.  Basically he was rough, and really probably should have been at the dentist instead of working.  I won’t be surprised if I don’t see him again this week.  Plus, I expect certain standards of entertainment which I just didn’t get…maybe that’s why I’m bummed out.  Then again, maybe I shouldn’t base my moods on how my workouts go, or on how entertaining my trainer is?  Maybe I’m just bummed because it’s actually nice and sunny today and I can’t run because I have to go teach.

Or maybe I’m bummed because somebody broke in and stole my stuff.

Is this one of those things that changes you forever?  I think I was a different person before my car was stolen.  That was one of those things that changed me.

Well, it’s Tuesday afternoon, so let’s keep it light.  On the docket for today:  teaching for over 4 hours, followed by meeting up with a friend from out of town at the Scottish Arms.  Tomorrow is BUSY with teaching and ocarina rehearsal (will explain more later).

Enjoy the sunny day if you are having one!  I’m back blogging as normal though 🙂