Thanks to a friend for screen capping this. Tonight was the internet Ocarina trio concert. It went well! Thanks to everybody for watching and perhaps purchasing CD’s (I’m new to the trio so I’m not on them.) I hope to play with the group again, and I’ll keep you posted on any more performances. Those of you who missed it, well, you missed a great concert 🙂
What a beautiful Saturday it is! I had originally planned to get an outdoor run in (haven’t done that all week due to my schedule and I don’t run outside in the dark) but then the mother of one of my students asked me if I could play at their school’s May Day Festival in Tower Grove Park. I was free, so I said, sure. Sometimes it IS nice to feel like part of a community.
They asked me if I could play a few tunes while the kids danced around a May Pole. I brought some fiddle music and played some tunes. It was actually a lot of fun, and the whole event looked like something that I would have LOVED as a child—singing, dancing in circles, and a picnic. Good times. If I have kids, I’ll make them do the same thing. The other thing I loved was that all the kids and parents were outside being active…(don’t vom, yes, I have absolutely become my mother!) rather than sitting inside playing video games on such a gorgeous day.
Singing in a big circle
The May Pole—what they did was each person held onto a ribbon and danced around it. You could go different directions and turn the ribbons into a pretty pattern as well.
I had quite a fan club of little kids at one point, standing all around me watching me play. I love how little kids stare! It’s hilarious.
They made me a garland for my head. I think I look fantastic!
Anyway, the whole event gave me a warm fuzzy feeling. Now I’m off to rehearse with the Suzuki kids at the St Louis School of Music for tomorrow’s Festival Concert. I have to lead the Twinkle Variations among other things. Wish me luck!!
I came home from my long day (and my Modern Mexican dinner at Milagro with a friend) to an Amazon box containing two of the greatest things ever.
One, the latest Harry Potter movie on DVD. SWEET! I hadn’t necessarily liked the first 6 HP movies, but Deathly Hallows Part 1 was great! I did cry a lot. I started crying pretty much as soon as I realized it was near the point where (spoiler alert?) Dobby dies. I’m a cry baby 🙁
Two, my new Kindle! (My old one got stolen). My new Kindle, WHICH as we speak is charging AND downloading all my previous 56 books to it…I am so ridiculously happy about this. My parents gave me the first one for Christmas and I loved it. Then it got stolen and I was sad and really missed it. Now it is back! Still haven’t gotten the insurance check yet, but all in good time I’m sure. I was IN THE MIDDLE of a book, which I can now finish reading!!
It will be another month before I get the case I had before (and I wanted the same one, I liked it, it was purple) but I’ll live. I’m just thrilled that my life is beginning to return to normal.
Now for my stomach to return to normal. OMG. Milagro was delicious, though the service was a bit…overwhelmed? We split the “street” corn off the cob and some guacamole, and I had the shrimp tacos. YUM. What makes it modern mexican? I’m not entirely sure (I could guess but it would probably just sound racist.)
Remember tomorrow is the internet concert—tune in at 6 pm central 🙂
I love the feeling of getting a great workout done in the morning. I met with Mike this morning and he made me do all manner of squats, walking squats, and tons of shoulder exercises. I also did a lot of side planking. I am now ready to face my day!
(scary stalker picture)
Note how when Mike runs he actually leaves the ground. Yesterday I was complaining about my running skills and Chris said, well you should have Mike coach you. I said I didn’t want to pay for that…and he does occasionally make suggestions. I just know I will go and run on my own but I won’t lift weights. And without the weights I wouldn’t be quite as awesome.
(I’ve used that before, but I still love it)
Okay, hate to blog and run, but I gotta go rehearse. Don’t forget the concert is tomorrow night and you can all watch it! (If you do, please let me know!!)
Wow, I can’t believe it’s already Thursday night. When you work practically non stop the time really flies by!
Tomorrow we hit the recording studio for my ocarina rehearsal—it should be fun! I’m also hoping to have dinner with a friend, or maybe more than one. Chris has been rehearsing nights all week (and concerts now) so I’ve been on my own in the evenings. Tonight and last night I went to the gym (tonight: hill sprints on the treadmill…rough…but I wore my Phoenix RnR Tshirt so I felt hardcore), but tomorrow will be a fun night instead.
I should take a picture of myself IN the shirt, though this is an impressive picture with the medal and all. I don’t think we get enough opportunities to wear our race medals. Maybe I’ll wear one at my wedding.
The weekend will be pretty hectic—we have a “festival concert” at the St Louis School of Music, I have a student playing Solo and Ensemble on Saturday morning, and there’s the Ocarina Concert. Next week is crazy too in that I have two school concerts. However, after that…well we are just heading towards summer.
Next week Chris and I have an appointment to check out a venue we are strongly considering for our wedding. I am psyched!! We have been hard at work making the guest list and a tentative budget. Chris has also been hard at work researching things such as flowers, cake, invitations, and whatnot. I would help out more but this month is just crazy. It’s funny that he is so into the wedding planning right now…and very nice, because one of us needs to be! (Don’t take that the wrong way, I absolutely am into getting married, but planning a wedding just makes me sleepy. I’ve been ready to marry Chris for a decade now. Just tell me when and where to show up. Wait. Am I a guy?)
I saw this in the most recent edition of Runner’s World
The real question…are the seatcovers poop-proof? (I’m sorry, I’m sorry for all the poop jokes…I just can’t help myself…)
June 2011 of Runner’s World, that is how I look without a shirt also…oh, wait, I’m a woman…(also am not convinced of the whole no hair look for men, but that’s another story)
Yup, that’s how I look!
Okay. So I never made my May goals—I feel like May will just be me trying to get through and live to see the end and then I’ll catch up on my goals in June. I’m still waiting to get my kindle because I didn’t realize the cover I wanted was backordered and was causing the whole order to get behind. I fixed it though and my kindle should be arriving in a few days.
Well, I’m off to bed—Happy Cinco de Mayo to my Mexican readers!