2 more

okay, so ashley called today and asked if i still needed people for my i-pod and i told her yes...so she signed up on my account, thank you very much ashley : ) so when i went to check it all out today, i saw that cody had signed up on my account too...man was i surprised and very happy because that means i only need two more....i already have amanda who said she would be my last person...just two more : ) Thank you very much cody and ashley...i greatly appreciated it : )



okay so tomorrow we leave...going to dallas, i did find out tonight that now it doesn't look like it is going to rain on Saturday so our six flags trip will be great : ) actually everything will be great after my last group plays which is about 5:15. so tomorrow at 5:15, life is easy for about 3.5 months : ) and there is grandpa griffith tonight...that always makes for a great time....

big fish

I finally watched big fish last night...i know, its a miracle...its taken me a while : ) But i loved it, it was great...i did cry though, it made me sad. But what does one learn from this movie...well, i think it is about the greatness of life and how everything is as big or little as you make it. life should be fun and full of adventure...thats what i took from it....although i will tell you...tonight was not fun or full of adventure...it wasn't horrible either just somewhat boring : ) Oh, well, its over and i have one down...don't you just love that most of you don't really know what i'm talking about....ahhh....this is where you can be creative and come up with your own ideas about what i'm talking about : )

if you ever for a split second think...."i think i will go get my teeth whitened" i suggest you reconsider...i had no idea it would hurt this much (and i have a very high pain tolerance) and i didn't have any idea that would get this done this morning...i will say this much though...it worked....

shouldn't you have been teaching....

why yes...i probably should have...but this morning instead of teaching i spent 3 hours in the dentist office....three hours i tell you....i'm finally getting my teeth fixed....its need to be done for about 7-10 years now and its about time....although, right now i kind of look like a hick...i've got large spaces between my teeth where the bonding was....i think i have to go around like this for about a month...but i can handle that for a beautiful smile...they also did the whitening procedure...where you have to sit under a lamp with bleach on your teeth for an hour....right now my teeth are killing me...but it will all be great in the end...

not looking forward to tonight....not looking forward to tonight....not looking forward to tonight...

grandpa griffith tomorrow night...bricktown live : )

wilco

man...that concert last night was awesome....it restored my hope that oklahoma can be cool and that there are people here that will make my venue work...so this is good....

they played three encores....three....not one...not two...but three....i've never been to a concert where they have done that....and they said that they really loved the crowd, etc...and claimed that they don't say that they never say that....i've only see them a couple of times but i don't remember them saying that...i can honestly say this was the best i've ever heard them...it was amazing...(i think i've used amazing to much : ) .....man i bumped them ahead sigur ros...that is saying a lot....

some of my friends and i were right at the front...we got there about an hour early to make sure we had good spots and we did....i could see really well...i couldn't see everything but i could see jeff tweedy really well....and that was awesome...

i'm starting a new original for shiny...we haven't really finished the old one but we can work on two at one time...i've written a piano line already....i think when we get a few more songs under our belt we are going to have an "open" rehearsal... : ) so everyone can come listen to great music : )

amanda said she could see....but i'm not so sure....

Wilco has just climbed up to num 2 on my top 5 concert list.....i can't even express in words how great that concert was....

admire

everyone admire my dancing superheroes.....uh...ah....aren't they cool....and i put them there myself, thats way cool too...to all my computer friends, i know it wasn't that hard, but its way neat. i need to figure out where more "motion" pictures can be found... now i can add more things to my blog : ) okay...i'm off to get ready to rock....

for my listening enjoyment

WILCO tonight.....and for the listening enjoyment of everyone else who is there.....this is going to rock....



4 more weeks of school until summer....thank goodness....this week is going to drag on and on for me....the kids don't want to be playing and i don't blame them...all of the sudden i've turned into psycho bitch teacher....okay not to all of my students but to the ones who are pissing me off : ) But this weekend we are going to have tons of fun...i'm trying to make myself believe this...tons of fun will be had...tons of fun will be had...i am kind of excited about getting to ride rollercoasters...i like to do that....i can't see today...it is really weird...i was conducting this piece that chances times a lot and i wasn't sure if i was in the right beat or not...hopefully my vision will be restored before tonight : ) Maybe i should go get my eyes looked at...hum..that sounds like the good thing to do : ) i have something that i'm doing on wednesday, that i'm not going to go into any details, but i really, really don't want to do....the more and more i think about it the more and more i want to throw up or cry...but i will go through with it because, this is what people do and it will be good for me...(i roll my eyes)

TIRED : )

we are back from Lawrence and we had an amazing time....i don't honestly know if you could have asked for a better trip....I just have one thing to say....sam beam is awesome....this concert is now in my top 5....i'm not sure what it beats out yet but i'll let you know...one of the craziest things to me was that once iron and wine started the audience didn't really say much...it was quite, you could hear everything....a few people spoke up every know and then and sam would just laugh...i think he was little weirded out by how quite it was...the concert was sold out which was cool and everyone kept yelling his songs that they wanted him to play....and he just kept saying...man, you guys know everything....i think that kind of shocked him too....it was great to be in a town like that...it made me feel like music matters....which you don't get here...he played for about an hour and 30 minutes....and he did play my favorite song so that made the evening even better : )
you know how there are just some people you feel really comfortable with....well with the three people that i went with on the trip, it is like that...you can just be yourself and not worry about how dumb you can be or what you look like all the time, and you feel you can tell them what you think and they are not going to be mad....and thats nice....all in all a great trip..i'm sure i will be filling you on more of the trip later this week....but tomorrow night....WILCO....also very exciting...i think i'm going to go do nothing....i'm especially not going to drive : )





"we were born to fuck each other one way or another"
evening on the ground, iron and wine : )

destination lawrence : )

so you are asking....who is this iron and wine everyone is speaking of : ) well if you hit this link it will take you to subpop and you can listen to some great music. i am truly excited about this trip...if you couldn't tell : ) i also really love car rides to different places...getting in car and just going is so freeing to me...and here is an iron and wine video for you...

so last nights recital went really well....we three cellist made it through all of our pieces and it is getting way better...but i will let everyone know that amanda cheated : ) at one point in the music she just looks over at me and smiled because she knew she should have done what she did to her solo : ) but you gotta do, what you gotta do...ms. little, sounded great too...she played moon river and it was really good, i'm not sure if i had actually heard the song until last night...i know, i probably shouldn't admit that : ) and shiny...we did well to, especially for a first performance and everyone was a little on the nervous side and i messed up the end of mrs robinson....thanks to all who came out....i do have some pictures and will post them later : )

i must go sack and deliver now before we head out....so until next time....



i think i have posted several pictures of sam beam....but what do you do : )

tomorrow is friday

i'm very thankful that tomorrow is friday and that my week will be over and that i get to go see iron and wine on saturday and that wilco is on monday and then a little over a week later is the shins....although it seems that when you are leaving town for a weekend there is so much you have to do...and i'll just be gone two days, really not even two days : )

tomorrow night....fun for the whole gang...there will be singing...maybe some dancing...some wrong notes played....a lot of right notes played...maybe a little boxing and who knows...the lord may show up....we three cellist are doing it again....putting on an awesome show for all of those that will watch : ) hopefully ryan can not laugh through the whole thing, and we will have the guitar stylings of ms. little...and introducing shiny....i think we have a total of about 60 some people coming : ) thanks to Christina...who just can't seem to be alone and i'm not sure if she is a blog reader anymore......she is way to cool for that : ) I'll keep everyone who is not there posted on how the event goes....i will try to take lots of pictures and post them on my blog...

i hope everyone has a great friday...may the force be with you....

This is oreo....today...very much alive....she decided to come
home about 3:00 this morning....it sounded like someone was breaking into my house...i laid there for 20 minutes trying to decide what to do and realized if someone really was going to break into my house they probably would have done so by now...so i looked out the window and there she was....YEA!!!!
She has lost some weight and she hasn't stopped talking since she has been home but its good to have her back....she barely leaves my side right now....i don't think she is going to want to go back outside for a very long time...if ever : )

I've made it through two of my toughest days this week...YEA!!! We went to Stillwater today and did pretty well....lunch took a lot longer than i expected and we were almost late but it all worked out. I ended up taking 5 groups and we got 2 I's and 3 II's, which at state is pretty dang good....I also found out today that my kids really like me and that the parents think i'm doing a good job...one of the parents said that my high school performance last night was one of the best she's seen come out of our district in a long while.... so no matter what the asshole i work with says about me, someone is noticing...i also found out that when the asst. teacher that was there before me left, about half the orchestra did too, just because they hated the guy that is my "boss"....this is also very good information to know....now if i can just make a one next week at contest in Dallas, i think my job will be pretty sturdy...if not there is no telling....and i have to be able not to go off on this guy between now and the end of school....i'm a very patient person but he has about pushed me to my limit....

Tomorrow i should practice....if i'm going to perform any kind of solo on Friday night, i might want to look through it a couple of times....

hell...

okay, i'm about to go face the fires of hell...wish me luck....

Where were you ten years ago today...

I was on a bus headed to stillwater for a contest....we felt the earth shake and thought that we had just felt an earth quake....as we were driving past downtown we saw large amounts of black smoke...none of us had a clue what went on until after we got to stillwater...

To put it nicely...my 9th graders suck....but after tonight, things start getting easier. After next Friday...things will sail....

I had another weird dream last night...

I decided to get a personnel trainer from wal-mart. We started our training...he told me what to do and then i did it for about 30 minutes....he had left and never come back....so eventually i went to find him and he said "why did you stop?" So i told him i was quitting and left....



Thank you mr. excitement for an awesome picture : )

dreams

I had some really weird dreams last night...not all of them i remember but the one i do i will share...

I was at a convention of musicians, and a guy i knew in college was there with me (we weren't really friends more like arch rivals, he played cello too and we were each others competition) Someone had decided that all musicians should get a bonus, so they gave us all $3000 in cash. One of the bills was $1020 (i'm not sure what president would be on that : )....then Tom cook salmon.

I'm not sure where some of my dreams come from...

I'm ready for Saturday....if i can just make it through this week, i get to go see iron and wine on Saturday....already it has been a very bad morning and this is one of the easy days this week : ) It is a very good thing i learned some relaxation techniques this weekend...I think they will be coming in handy...

my quote of the day

"that eye for an eye thing....don't do it"

expectation leads to disappointment. If you don't expect something big, huge and exciting, usually uh, I don't know, its just not as, yeah
the books...smells like content

In my book...if you don't expect something big, huge and exciting then you are not living : )

sad news

Well, i found oreo today...i was driving back from the grocery store and found her on the side of the road...she had been hit by a car....i made my dad drive by and see if it was really her....he said it wasn't but i went back later and got a closer look and it was her...i really loved oreo....and it makes me really sad...

i made breakfast for my family...we had biscuits and chocolate gravy....chocolate gravy you may say...yes...and it is very good. I think my dad and i have found a common interest....be like to make things....today we made a bench for my dining room....he didn't even ask what it was for until it was done...thats good for him...i also went and got some flowers to plant in pot to put on my front porch...they look really pretty....i just hope i can keep them alive....this is the first Friday or Saturday night in probably 6 months that i'm at home by myself....this never happens...and its not that i didn't have anything to do...i just decided it was time to be by myself tonight...just me and sydney...although she doesn't say much : )

5 weeks left of school...yea...a friend and i are getting shins tickets...the shins are going to be in OKC....yippee : ) so now that i just wrote that i didn't have plans for Saturday night...a friend just called and wants me to go have dinner so i'm going to go do that.....i hope everyone has a great Saturday night...

if i were a tree

One of my old roommates painted some of her friends picture of them if they were trees....this one is me....her explanation is...i have several flowers at the bottom which represents my friends...i am in the greener better grass then the other trees and sometimes the other trees are a little jealous...and the sun is touching me because i'm a happy person....these are her words
: )

update

I think oreo ran away.....i am 100% positive she is no longer living in my house : (

A Problem

Okay...so in the last post i wasn't to worried about oreo...she sometimes hides and doesn't come out for a while....now i'm thinking she most have really gotten out of the house...I've looked everywhere and still no oreo...

missing

oreo has gone missing....usually she greets me at the door when i get home from work and she talks to me....but today no talking....no oreo...i've looked in her usual hiding places and still can't find her....if she doesn't come out by 8:00 tonight...i'm calling the cops and putting out a missing cat report : ) if you have stolen my cat expecting a ransom...i have nothing to give you really...so you might as well just bring her back....and for the two of you that have my house key...i know where you live....

high school students have dirty minds : )

In my high school class we are playing a beatles medley. Today we were working on it and after we played through it once i said "lets try getting into Michelle"....as i learned today, this is not a good thing to say to high school students...so the whole classes started laughing and i turned to the girl who started the laughing and told her she had a dirty mind and then she told the whole class that "she was hungry"....which of course brought about much more laughter. I think teachers are not supposed to laugh at stuff like that but i just can't help it...i was laughing just as much as my class. : )

shit

okay...so today has started out shit...literally...first, i wake up late this morning and the dog has taken a shit on the floor in the living room...i'm already running late, but now i'm running even later....then i get to school and my high school kids are being butts and i'm not in a good mood, so i'm kind of mean....and my best high school students are all of the sudden telling me they don't care about anything anymore and aren't going to try....well, fuck them...(sorry, i'm irritated)...so i'm driving home for lunch...thinking i need some away from school time and to sterilize a mess that i already picked up...i drive over some railroad tracks and its scratches a cd my friend just gave me and now the end of the cd won't even play....so i start making lunch and i get tuna all over me....so now i'm writing this out in hopes that i will let it all out and go back to school in a better mood and can get something accomplished with my 9th graders....it is days like today that i just want my music venue open and to not be teaching....whats weird is that i even really like this job...oh yeah, i had bad dreams all night....i'm pretty sure i'm getting a fever blister....happy freakin hump day : )



so on the plus side....last night the girls soccer team won a game...way to go us...shiny had a really good practice. We worked on realize and i think it is going to come together nicely. i think i have figured out what is going to happen vocally...i'm still working on lyrics though, but i think we may possibly be able to have it in playable form by the 22nd...we will see though...i really hope everyone is having a better day then me...and

Happy Birthday to my Sister....

i don't understand

Some things i don't understand...by Jenn

1...why doesn't america have arranged marriages

2...why do we have to play stupid games to find someone to spend the rest of our lives with

3...why were we born with the need to be with people (especially one person for the rest of our lives)

4...why do we have sex drives

5...why can't we just purchase spouses (well, i guess you kind of can)

6...why do we let our mind play tricks on us

7...why can't we just give up

8...why is it so fucking hard.. can't it just be easy for once....PLEASE!!!!

potato me.....baby... : )

6 more weeks

Just 6 more weeks of school left...tons of stuff to do in 6 weeks but it will all work out...i do feel more sorry for my friend (sweet t) whos last 6 weeks of school are way busier than mine...

i started writing lyrics today...i think i'm just going to write a lot of stuff and then see which works best in the context of the song...i'm a person who thinks that i can pretty much do anything i put my mind to...meaning, now that i've decided i'm going to write lyrics i will and they may not be good to start with but with practice i will get better...same with writing songs, play piano, violin, bass, etc....once i get something in my mind that i really want to do and if i can have a goal, i can get it done...i started doing pilates today and will be able to keep that up on a regular basis because i have a new goal...

ifilm

A friend introduced me to a new site today....ifilm.com...i'm linking you to the indie page, that is kind of my thing but if you don't like it you can find your way around....i recommend, so far...the bright eyes...first day of my life (i love this song more and more)....and bowl of oranges...also check out the badly drawn boy and i also liked the cursive video (i'm not expecting many to really like that one : ) its going to take me a long time to get through the ones i want to see...but thats okay.



Worked some more on the original piece for the band today...my friend and i have the entire format down and most of the parts...I think i'm going to pull out cello for the middle section...if it works out it should sound cool...I also got a kick ass keyboard this weekend...i recorded all the parts in to the keyboard so i could kind of hear what it would sound like together...i'm liking it, i think....i'm going to start working on lyrics now...i think i'm going to call it realize, and i've got the basic idea of my song, i've just got to form the words (if that makes any sense : )

I'm so excited...

and i just can't hide it : )

I'm ready for my 9th graders to get on a bus and leave..the only problem is...their not even here yet. I'm ready to go see some Cake and Gomez..baby : )

Ask Christina about how excited i get about Gomez....i think its not natural to get this excited about music....

books lyrics

"I want all of the American people to understand that it is understandable that the American people cannot possibly understand"

more cowbell

Okay for the first time yesterday i saw the "more cowbell" snl skit....it cracked my shit up...for the past few weeks its been all i've heard about...okay not all but i heard about it a lot...

good news

I just found out....my friend that was going to go to see gomez and cake with me....will still be able to go see them...yea!!! i don't have to go by myself.

I'm stuck at school until 6:00...yuck...and i'm bored out of my freakin' flippin' mind....i have another blog to write but i can't do it here...i need my computer at home which has great pictures that you will all need to see : ) So I have to wait to post that....Size records does have my books cd, amazing...so i'm going to go pick that up after i leave here : )

concerts

One of my favorite things in the whole world is to go see live music....and the month of April is full of great shows to see...and i'm planning to make sure i see them all : )

April 7th in Tulsa....Cake and Gomez...two of my favorites : ) I just found out that my friend that was going with me can't go now...for a very good reason and i may have to go by myself : ( But if i have to, i will go alone : )



April 20 at UCO...the Violent Femmes....I can't tell you how many times i've danced to add it up : )



April 23rd in Lawrence, KS....Iron and Wine...I just have a feeling this is going to be in my top 5 shows of all times...i've very excited.



April 25th at the coca cola center...Wilco....i'm just amazed that Wilco is in Oklahoma City....very cool.



Also the books have a new cd that come out today...will i ever find it in Oklahoma...this is a good question....but trust me i'm looking...the one place that i know for sure would have had it has closed so there is size records...they are my only hope : ) the album leaf has released a new ep today, too....

Top 5 concerts i've been to as of today
1. Radiohead...i've seen them twice and they are just amazing
2. Sigur Ros
3. Badly Drawn Boy
4. Beck with the Flaming Lips
5. Gomez...I've seen them 3 times now...soon to be four : )

(none of these have been in Oklahoma : )

I heart tulips

I just really love tulips and it seems everywhere i go they are in full bloom. I love it : )



If anyone just wants to make my day...this is the way to do it : )

I gave sydney a bath today...in my bath tub...I had been taking her to the dog wash (which is way easier)....but i didn't feel like leaving my house so i used the tub....there was hair everywhere. I guess she is losing her winter coat because she lost more hair then i have on my head....no kidding...and she still smells like a dog : ) O well, what do you do?

My friend joey got his free i-pod. And all he had to do was have 5 people sign up for an offer with his reference number.....so i'm asking anyone that loves me to help me with a free i-pod...is that a big enough guilt trip : ) All you have to do is go to this link, sign up for something fun and walla....you too could have a free i-pod, while helping me get mine : )

Carpe Diem

This is my new offical moto in my life....I've been thinking, life is to short to wait around for things to come to you so i need to go out and try to make them happen....there are things that i want from life and i feel like i'm just sitting around waiting for God to say "okay, here it is" but i've realized that i don't think thats how it works. God gave us free will, he wants us to make our own decisions and go out an live life....i choose to live my life as a christian but a christian that tries new things and doesn't wait around. I think you need to go out and make things happen. I believe that if God is not in agreement he will let you know, as long as you listen he will guide you. I think this requires balls though : ) I mean I am going to be putting myself out on a line to get some of the things i want and you just never know what will happen....but in order to live this moto you have to take risk, and not be scared of the results.

Okay...this still isn't working the way i had hope but heres more pictures... : )

I'm trying to work on the posting pictures to the blog thing....I think i'm getting closer to what i'm wanting but i'm not quit there yet... : )

sucker

I am such a sucker....I woke up this morning thinking...okay, its april fools day....i work with high school students...don't believe anything....well...so much for that idea.

After my high school class i had a student come up to me and tell me he broke his cello....i asked him what part and how...he said he was putting it in his car and the neck snapped. (this is not totally unlikely) Then he said the bridge was off (if the neck snaps the bridge will go down)...I should have know by the look on his face that he was enjoying my reaction. How did i figure it out you ask...well he said he couldn't find his endpin...there really is no way to loose an endpin, so then it hit me...and i said april fools and lightly pushed him out of my way...but with a smile on my face because it was rather funny : )



Hook line and sinker : )