i've been working on a project that i'm truly excited about...its tons of fun...i love projects, especially ones that make me happy...

i did put up my christmas tree the other day...its really cute and i even broke out the christmas music to get the spirit going (really it was for patria, i hate christmas music : )

i was reading a blog today and it linked this site pandora, and i love it...you can type in your favorite band and it will play music that is like them, only a few of the bands i've heard i actually know...a lot of them i'm going to check into...i'm having fun with it...

the other day i saw a kid that had a shirt on that said "i'm a keeper"...my first thought was *thats a cool harry potter shirt*...it hit me after that thought, that the shirt had nothing to do with harry potter... : ) i'm a dork : )

have you figured it out yet?

its been a while since i posted...but here i am...i'm finally feeling better after about 3 weeks of this, whatever it is...i still can't really hear but as a music teacher, i don't need to hear.... : ) actually it probably works out better like this...i'm so not really wanting to go to work, but we've got 3 weeks and 1 day until Christmas break...YES!!!...i'm so ready, even though we just got back from a break (holiday)...it looks like my siblings and i may be going to london this summer...i really, really hope so, i've wanted to go to london for a long, long time....maybe this is why i haven't written anything in a couple of days....i have nothing to say : ) but i thought i would write...i'll leave you with an e-mail a friend of mine sent me...

The Center for Disease Control has issued a warning about a new virulent
strain of Sexually Transmitted Disease.

This disease is contracted through dangerous and high risk behavior. The
disease is called Gonorrhea Lectim (pronounced "gonna re-elect him").

Many victims have contracted it after having been screwed for the past 4
years, in spite of having taken measures to protect themselves from this
specially troublesome disease.

Cognitive sequelae of individuals infected with Gonorrhea Lectim include,
but are not limited to:

anti-social personality disorder traits; delusions of grandeur with a
distinct messianic flavor; chronic mangling of the English language; extreme
cognitive dissonance; inability to incorporate new information; pronounced
xenophobia; inability to accept responsibility for actions; exceptional
cowardice masked by acts of misplaced bravado; uncontrolled facial smirking;
ignorance of geography and history; tendencies, toward creating evangelical
theocracies; and a strong propensity for categorical, all-or-nothing behavior.

The disease is sweeping Washington, trailer parks, and the red states.
Naturalists and epidemiologists are amazed and baffled that this malignant
disease originated only a few years ago from a Bush in Texas.

high fidelity

i went and did a little record shopping yesterday...i walked into rainbow records and i half expected jack black and john cusack to be around...it was a neat little shop, but it didn't really have a wide selection...so then i went north a while to size records...holy shit, they have tons and tons...i ended up buy the sufjan stevens illinois lp (birthday present : )...it is very awesome...pitchfork had said that they had made changes to the cover...(if you didn't know the cds and lps had superman on the front and they had to take them off)...so they put a sticker of three balloons over the superman...i really dig their changes : )

then i just happened to be near a thrift store today and went in to see if they had any good lps and i walked out with st. pepper and abbey road for $4....i felt good as i walked out...and they are in really good shape...so over all a really good record buying weekend...

favorite beatles album
	St. Pepper
	The White Album
	Revolver
	Yellow Sub
	Abbey Road
	One : )
	The Beatles
	Rubber Soul
	Let it be
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Thanksgiving

Well, today went well...it was a little odd....we had several non-family members at thanksgiving...thats a new thing for us...it was nice...in my family thanksgiving is movie time...we went and saw pride and prejudice, it was really good...then we went and saw harry potter, again...the only bad thing was i kept getting hell about almost being 30... :)

i'm thankful for several things in my life...
just being me (and being okay with that)
my friends
my family
my talent
and harry potter : )

we also saw rent last night...it was really, really good...

because i have been given hell about my last poll i will post this new and improved poll that mike requested : )

New and improved which is worse? (thanks mike)

Fine Young Cannibals Nickelback Tiny Tim Kid Rock C&C Music Factory Richard Marx Spyro Gyra Toby Keith Chico Debarge

 

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which is worse?

Gensis The Pretenders Meat Loaf Fleetwood Mac Earth Wind and Fire The Lemonheads Hanson Wham N Sync

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Finally...

i made it to the doctor...i now have medicine so my cough will get better and it will stop bugging christina and ryan...
i also got my brakes fixed for my birthday : )...every girls dream, but at least i won't die : )

check out ryans new blog...you can also click the picture on the right

funny story

(if i can't relate it : )

tonight i was talking to a friend and was telling him that it really scares me everytime i walk into my house and see that pat is making something...one time i come home from school and she yells from the kitchen, jenn i need help....she was trying to make a fried egg...but she had smashed the yoke and there was yoke everywhere...not such a good fried egg... : )

not 30 seconds after telling my friend this, i walk into my house and in the kitchen my microwave is sparking...the microwave goes off and she comes in and takes out whatever she was making and in the bowl she has just microwaved a spoon and a fork (along with food : )...i then very calmly tell her she can't put metal in the microwave or it will ruin it the microwave...her response was "oh really"...(note, i have told her before that metal in the microwave not good : )....

got to love it...

just things

Saturday night was great fun...check these pictures out from the post wedding bachorlette party : )


cake fun : )

she doesn't like blow jobs : )

moulin rouge has never sounded better : )

men good : )

official wedding picture : )

theres one last surprise : )

good times, good times!!!

i'm standing up for me, for the first time, maybe ever....its hard for me to stand up for myself..which i'm sure not a lot of people understand, but i have a few theories behind this that i won't go into now...but just note i have taken a step in the right direction : )

i've decided that my heart is healed enough to go back and read the 6th harry potter book again...upon finishing it a few months ago i have decided it was one that i would not read again..but i think i have come to grips with the ending and am ready to catch more clues : )

i don't understand why the holidays bring about so much stress...shouldn't they be filled with joy and happiness and love...why is it that we make them so complicated...i don't think this is just my family but maybe it is : )

something i was thinking about today about the church i grew up in...i recall several sermons that basically said that no amount of good works can get you into heaven...at the naive point in my life i just took it for truth and went on...but now that i think about it, the message that comes off is that you don't need to help people...and that you just need to look out for yourself...wow, thats totally against everything i believe now...something that was said tonight that i really liked "you've got to look out for your own righteousness and the well being of others"

i think i've decided...

that the bright eyes album "i'm wide awake, its morning" is at least in my top 20 cds...i was just listening to it and i really like it, i forget sometimes how much i like it...

harry potter rocks!!!! there is a lot i could write about this movie right now and i'm not going to so that it will give everyone plenty of time to see it...then i will write away and tell you what i really liked and what i didn't like so much....but overall i think they did an awesome job of taking a very large book and making it into a movie that everyone will enjoy : ) so go see it...
(sorry about the coughing : ) and i didn't even cry : )

the stringents play tonight with kc clifford...we have added songs and taken out songs...we have a jeff buckley song that we are playing tonight...we are going to have mics so people can hear us...overall i think it will be a way better show then last week...oh, i need to find my kc clifford music : )

great suggestions for songs...i'm excited to get started arranging them...thanks for everyones help and if you come up with any others let me know...

not at work : )

If you were going to arrange an elliott smith song for string quartet what would it be?

What about a flaming lips song? what about "do you realize" (it could take me a while : )?

What about REM?

I finished...

the 4th harry potter book again : ) i think i caught a lot more this time then i have the other times i've read it...its still one of my favorite and i've linked some things in it to the 6th book...i like that jk rowlings does that in her books...i'm truly excited about seeing the movie tomorrow night...i'm going to cry and i will just let everyone know that now : )

it has been an extremely long day...i've got to find a lawyer..i think i have a friend that will work...this seems like such an adult thing to do...blah...

i'm ready to have a clean house again...everytime i clean...its a mess within 30 minutes...i think if i lived in a bigger place it wouldn't bother me as much...

one good thing about coughing all the time is that it really works your abs : )

I need to grow balls...

there are times when i need to stick up for myself and i just can't do it...i know that i'm right but for some reason i can't make myself start conflict....i really dislike conflict, its just not in my nature...

i also really hate wednesdays, i hate waking up knowing that i have to go to a school where i'm going to be treated as a babysitter rather than a teacher...I really like Tuesdays though...I had a good day at school...actually i had a good day all around...I got to start teaching with instruments at one school today and that was really nice...the kids were really excited and they tend to respect you more when what you have been saying actually happens (like we will have instruments soon : ) we did nothing but learn how to hold them today and it was very nice...then i have two great classes at my other school with kids that really want to be there and really want to learn...they want to be in honors strings and they talk about it all the time...i've decided elementary school is not really my cup of tea...i just feel i work better in middle school or high school. I think its that you don't do much with elementary strings programs...i'll probably work on holding instruments for 3-4 weeks because they only come once a week...and i have heard jingle bells twice a day, 5 days a week, for two weeks now....it gets a little un-nerving at times...although i will say that the kids are great at the elementary level...they are very trusting and love unconditionally...which you don't find in the older grades....

i then went and served food to government housing people...that was really fun...then i went to a (what i'm calling) change the world meeting : ) over all a good day, good day....

Friday night is 100% for sure...
Galileos
9:00 the stringents (and we will start at 9 : )
i think we are going to try to plug in so that will be better and we will be playing a few different songs...so if you came last Friday it won't be the exact same : )
around ten will be KC Clifford, who i will also be playing with

my dad gave me a record player for my birthday (i know its not my birthday yet, but this is what my family does)....i don't really have any records but i'm excited to start purchasing some...i did steal some from him, so i've listened to down under by men at work a few time : )

okay enough...i'm going to stop...

this movie comes out November 23rd...I'm truly excited...this is probably my favorite musical right now..don't go with me if you don't want to hear me sing the whole movie (just kidding, i probably will only lip sing) click the poster to see the trailer...

thank you : )

to everyone that came out on Friday night : ) it was nice to have so many people there...and i love having my friends around : ) i hope everyone had a little bit of fun...

if anyone is interested, we are playing again...this upcoming friday...at galileos..and then i'm playing with KC Clifford...the stringent, i think, will be better this night : )

i'm really excited about Thursday...thursday at midnight i will be at the harry potter movie...YES!!!

you should probably stop smoking if..

you have a cigarette in your mouth and an inhaler in your hand...

i saw this exact thing on my way home from work...

remember

your favorite rock string quartet is playing tonight (as if you could forget : )...we will start at 9:00, and it will pretty much be that time...

i will be there at 8:00 if anyone wants to come and eat : )

see you there...

i think blogger and gmail is messed up...but somehow i got here...

did you realize that strings teachers are babysitters...when you don't have anything else for you students to do and you have a meeting "introduce them to strings"....what a waste of time...

remember tonight...come out to galileos...we had a practice tonight and its going to be a good show...

after tomorrow night, i think i'm going to the doctor : )

Coldplay is going to be in okc on feb 27th...i think i'm going...anyone else interested...

went to the hornets game last night...it was tons of fun...i didn't realize basketball could be so fun...i think there are at least three more that i would like to see...

my lungs hurt...there are gross things breaking up in there that want to come up...i've cancelled must of my stuff today...except i'm going to go to work later and then a rehearsal even later...but everything else had to go...

if no one sees me or hears from me...

for the next couple of days, assume i'm dead...i really hate being sick...i know, like all of you enjoy it : ) I will feel better tomorrow...i have a basketball game to go to (hornets vs. magic : )...sickness is all in your head right????

i need scavenger hunt ideas...if you have any, please let me know : )

what did you do yesterday, some of you may ask me...well let me tell you...

i spent my morning trying to get pat some shots...which didn't happen because i didn't have the right paper work...i took the day off because i was feeling like shit (see last post : ), and i fell asleep watching harry potter...went to pick pat up from school and take her to the dentist...then spent 2.5 hours there because she has to have 2 root canals...i'm just glad i'm not her family who has to pay for this....then we got medicine...blah, blah...then came home and fell asleep to more harry potter...it was an eventful day...

i did find out good news today...one of my schools that didn't have instruments was dropped and i get to go longer to one of my other schools...then i found out, instruments finally came at the other school that didn't have any instruments...YEA!!!!!

i was sent out an e-mail yesterday to help with a thanksgiving dinner for government housing..if anyone is interested in helping let me know...its next Tuesday, Nov 15th from 5:30-7:30...

shit

i feel like shit, i feel like shit...shit, shit shit (to be sung)

i don't know how single parents do it...

MASS SUICIDE

I went and saw elizabethtown today...very good movie, and not only because it has orlando bloom : ) if only love where that easy...it did make me want to take a road trip...days to go anywhere and see anything...sounds nice...

anyway, when we got to the car, leaving the movie, this flier was left:

"MASS SUICIDE"

Any time now, a worldquake and a series of prophesied catastrophes will shockingly awaken the entire global population to a horrible, God sent, unparalleled nightmare. Shortly after this event, two more disasters in the form of two large meteorites will follow causing more destruction than many hydrogen bombs. One will smash into the ocean, destroying a third of it, including the life therein. It will actually turn the water to blood and, of course, destroy all life and every ship within its realm (Rev 8:8-9)....(etc, etc it goes into talking about the other disaster.)

Doctors and nurses will still think that the worst plagues sent from God are today's incurable diseases, viruses, and bacteria occurring in epidemic proportions around the world. (i didn't realized that God sent diseases, viruses and bacteria, i'm glad this has been cleared up for me) Abortionist will be aborting their daily quota of innocent babies as usual. Drug dealers will be peddling their death. Schools, the media, publishers, and the motion picture and television industries will be both corrupting and lying to the children and the rest of the world. Judges and prosecutors will be busy in the routine mischief of corrupting justice. Young men and women, knowing nothing of truth or reality, will be planning vain careers and college educations or planning their lives in a variety of other empty and unrewarding ways. (we should not allow our population to get any smarter, or they might not believe these truths. : )

only one more little passage then i'm done for now..
These catastrophes can and will start happening any minute now.
Doctors and pharmaceutical agencies, because of the many incurable bacteria and viruses, agree with God and me. (this guy and God are homies??? i really wish i knew what God was going to do)

according to tony alamo, world pastor
tony alamo christian ministries

Things like this drive me nuts...talk about corruption...

last night

was a great time...grandpa griffith sounded awesome (as usual)

i've updated the grandpa griffith pics link...it is having a little bit of trouble so if you don't see pictures let me know...one thing i am very annoyed about though, is some how i lost about 50 pictures off my camera...i downloaded them into my computer last night (i had a 125), when i went to look for them today they weren't there...so i looked on my camera and there were only 79...not exactly sure what happened there...of course some of the better picture where the ones i've lost..

a cool thing happened last night...i met someone whose blog i read and he reads this blog...its almost like i forget that there are real people behind the blogs i read.. : ) so everyone should check out his two blogs...the wonderful world of andy and hopeless...it was nice to meet you : )

christina m...our picture was one of the 50 : (

muffin tree

everyone watch the muffin tree video...its awesome : )

thanks michel : )

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videos

white stripes.... my doorbell

white stripes.....blue orchid

i like these videos...the first one makes me happy : )

today

I went to a new school today....wednesdays are going to be long...really, really long : ( but when i got to the school they knew exactly what was going on...what times they wanted the classes, where the instruments were (they had instruments : )....it was nice...this will be good...now we only have to work out one more problem then things will start being normal...the principal did ask why they hired a strings teacher if they didn't have instruments...oh what a good question : )....

yea!!! we get to go see the hornets next week...

sometimes i can be...

a complete airhead..i played a performance tonight at some church...(i'm never sure anymore where i play, i just get directions and go)...i decided to leave my phone and my purse in the car so that i wouldn't forget to turn my cellphone off (which, so far i've never done but i'm paranoid)....so i get everything out of my car, then smash my hand in the door (good thing it was my bow hand : )...close the door, then i realize i had just locked my keys and my cell phone in the car....i think i have done this about three time this year (i'm not sure many people can say that : )

i decided two things tonight during the performance...
1. i really love when choir can sing in tune (this one couldn't : )

2. i really hope there are other choices other than harp in heaven...i just really don't ever want to play that instrument...

Friday Friday Friday (november 4)

for all you griffithites...grandpa griffith is playing at galileos and has the possibility of being the best show ever!!!! (i really know nothing about what is going on, if anything, but i'm sure its going to be the best show ever!!!!)

Friday Friday Friday (november 11)

for all of you who missed the first stringents performance....its time for you to come out to galileos...we will be playing about 30-45 minutes : )