Sorry guys but this one was booked at the last minute. I will be performing tomorrow in Aledo Illinois at the Aledo Bandshell. I go on stage at 1:30. There will be a couple of acts before me and 1 after. My set is about 45 minutes. If any of you are in the area and would like to come out feel free to do so!! I would love to see you! This is a fund raiser for Capital Campaign. I will be selling Cd's and t-shirts!
Oh my goodness! Another new experience to add to my collection of substitute jobs. Now I know why I didn't have boys. I have never seen so much caos in one class room. Yikes! I was a sub in a bahvioral room. The boys were between 9th and 11th grade. Today was unusual because they had alot of free time and the teacher let them play hacky sack and football in the room. They seemed to want to try and hit each other in a real bad spot on the body if you know what I mean. They the picked on each other and through spit wads on each other. I was about ready to just upload on a bunch of them. I don't know how the teacher deals with this day in and day about. All I can say is Yea! I am home!! And it is friday!!!
You know sometimes it seems like everything in life is going wrong. Like right now. We are going to downsize out of this house and the market is terriable for selling. Then our only decent car needs 2000.00 in repairs and perhaps it would be better to chuck it and start with something else. Everything seems to be coming against me. I feel like I am being tested. Is God seeing how I handle it all? I have spent most of the past 15 years like this. It shouldn't be anything new. So last night when we went to the Nashville star concert I was thinking, wow we shouldn't be spending 20 bucks a piece right now to go. But then I thought hey, we haven't done anything this whole summer, we even cancelled our annual Kansas City trip. We get to the door and the ticket taker lady whispers to us that she has an extra free ticket and would we like it? Then today I decide that I will stop at McDonolds for just a small cheeseburger. I only brought my water with me. I am on a diet anyway. I have been eating like a rabbit. I get to the drive up window and the lady says that someone ordered a large diet coke and didn't want that kind and would I like it for free. I almost started laughing. I find it so amazing that these little crazy things mean alot to me and put a smile on my face. Do you ever have little things like that happen to you? I just think God is smiling down on us seeing how we handle stress and He tries to get our attention in small ways so that we remember He is there.
I tell ya, losing weight is one of the toughest things I have ever tried to do. It has taken me 3 months to start shaking some of it loose. I weighed in pound less this morning. hurrah! So I have lost 7 pounds so far. It may be slow but it finally happening. I think I can make a significant dent before the holidays arrive. That is when it will get tough.
It was such a cool crisp day today. I had the day off. I enjoyed it and wrote some music. Just kind of took it easy. Sometimes it is great to just do nothing. I thought I would give a progress report. I finally have lost about 5 pounds on my diet. It only took 3 months to do that. I still blame the thyroid issue for alot of that. Kind of crazy but its true.
I just left my youngest daughter off at college a couple of hours ago. I am not sure what I am suppose to feel. A little bluesy. Like another chapter in my life is complete. Maybe I don't want the girls to be grown up. I am having a hard time today. I just feel weird. I am sad a little, but mostly I feel like I got run over by a truck. My whole body hurts. All my muscles. Mainly in my back, arms. and neck. They just ache and I am really tired too. That is not like me. I did have a real hard job on friday. I was working with the handicapped children again. This time I had one 10 year old boy to work with mainly by myself. He weighed over 75 pounds. I had to put him in a lift to take him to the bathroom at least 4 or 5 times. I even lifted him myself when I shouldn't have. I didn't have the help I needed. I twisted and turned getting him in and out of positions. Fed him baby food of which he maybe ate 3 bites. The whole thing made me depressed and I feel like I have been injured physically. This is a job I should not be doing because it will effect my ability to do my massage therapy not to mention no one should have a job where they are at high risk for injury.
I have been singing, writing and performing various genre's of music for over 20 years, I love to have company over and cook and bake for them. I love to travel and have been to well over 40 countries around the world.
