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 🙂

I miss my computer.

I miss windows live writer.  It took WAY too long to put this picture up.

Speaking of, how great IS this picture?  Fat cat wine.  My friend Sarah posted it on my facebook wall to try to cheer me up yesterday.

It sort of worked.  I did pretty well until last night when I just broke down.  I was in the middle of a book on my kindle.  BASTARDS stole my stuff.

Today is better.  It’s just stuff.  My computer files are online even.  I can rebuild.  I also think the books I had on my kindle can be moved to a new kindle.  I will find out about insurance tomorrow.

They took my ALARM CLOCK.  Seriously.  Who does that?  Why take a decade old alarm clock that doesn’t even light up anymore?

How glad am I that most of my electronics are super old and crappy?  Evidently nobody wants CD’s anymore–remember when everybody was getting their CD’s stolen from their cars?  Not anymore!

How glad am I that I had my digital camera with me (diligent attempt at blogging) instead of sitting out somewhere?

How glad am I that the thieves didn’t know that instruments are worth money?  Then again, you can’t just get rid of them…you have to know how to do that.  And these people were evidently NOT smart.

Grr.

I may download live writer to this computer, but not yet.  I also will wait to upload some pictures from my real camera, so here’s one from the phone of this morning’s Easter service.

I played mass at St. Theresa’s in Belleville. It was a nice service and we played a rousing Hallelujah Chorus, among other things.

Yesterday:  we got robbed, then we went to the Cardinals game.  They lost.  There was a one hour rain delay.  We sat near some of the most obnoxious men you have ever met.  Basically it sucked.  Oddly one of the trainers at our gym (not my trainer) was sitting right behind us.  Odd.  I guess it’s a small world.

Today:  church gig followed by a fantastic brunch!  We went to Eau at the Chase Park Plaza for a brunch buffet.  Unlimited mimosas (light on the champagne though…), shrimp and crab, eggs, delicious quinoa salad, meats, cheese, bacon, biscuits and gravy, sausage, potatoes, salad, fruits, and a ridiculous dessert table.  I ate a ton.  Now I am attempting to digest.  It was delicious though, and will last me the rest of the day, most likely.

Tonight:  relax, watch a movie.  I’m actually NOT working out today, which is unusual.  In that I haven’t taken a day off in awhile.  Probably for the best.  I’ve gotten used to feeling sore somewhere on my body at all times.  Is that normal?

Tomorrow:  part holiday (no teaching until evening).  Some phone calls to make about the “incident”.  Probably shopping.  Running.  Cleaning?  The CSI guy said I need to dust more often, that it’s too hard to get fingerprints when it’s dusty.  He was just trying to be helpful, but it made me feel terrible.

Then back to work.  It’s almost May.  Concerts are coming up!