NVCB

Nashoba Valley Concert Band rocks! Check it out!

There is and always has been a link - look in the column on the right hand side. There will ALWAYS be a link! ;-) How could I not?

So there Rich! :-P

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In case you can't find it .... I'll even put another one right...

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Thursday blues

I despise Thursdays that feel like Fridays.

It's been a long week.

Monday: School, Elementary Band, High School Jazz Band, Moonlighters (home at 10)
Tuesday: School, Afterschool Lessons, Middle School Jazz Band (home at 7)
Wednesday: School, Afterschool extra help, Union Meeting, NVCB, JPs (home at 11)
Thursday: School, Staff Meeting, home for dinner, back to school for 5th grade orientation (home at 8:30)

and tomorrow there's a concert with the NVCB

LOOONG week

Saturday is more house hunting

LOOONG week

and I better do some laundry on Sunday, or I'm showing up to work on Monday naked.

brrrr.....

It's cold outside.

Especially when playing clarinet (which does NOT allow for gloves) outside for an hour at the Harvard Tree Lighting.

shiver shiver

This year's Christmas Decorations

Here are pics of our tree and our Willow Tree Nativity Scene.

This is what the boy and I did on Sunday afternoon, after the NVCB played an AWESOME concert at the Ayer Town Hall. A bunch of us (the boy included) went over to JP's afterwards for a late lunch/early dinner.

It was a blast! :-)

it's getting hot in herrrrre

I mean hot. Sweaty, sticky, yucky hot. It's September. Is it supposed to be this hot? The NVCB played outdoors at the Boxborough Agricultural Fair. I could feel sweat rolling off me. It was gross.

eeeew

THIS is what I am here for!

I got to fill in for John tonight...big shoes to fill.

But I had FUNNNNNN doing it!!! I decided to go for the "change of pace" route. I took the program for our upcoming concert, and we went through the whole thing! That's A LOT of music. We stopped and fixed things on the way, but we made it through a LOT tonight!!

There was a clashing of two worlds tonight...there were several of my ex-students in the band tonight while I was conducting. ....weird....

And it was HOT in the auditorium tonight...I was literally sweating...it was gross....

Then it was O'Hanlon's, which was always fun. (and an ex-student was there too - working as a waiter!!)

We left talking about oil....only in the NVCB.

I love this band

poor neglected blog

aww...poor blog! I have ignored you! I didn't mean it, I swear!

I have been busy (sorta)

Last Saturday was spent with the NVCB. A parade and two concerts (including the YDDB), my lips were DEAD at the end of the night!!!

Sunday the boy and I went to church at Groveland Congregational Church, where we are going to have our wedding ceremony.

Monday I worked around the apartment for a bit, then went to the last yoga class until August. :-(

Tuesday was spent around the house, where I made a REALLY yummy tuna salad. It was totally different than normal tuna salad. It's mostly rice. Try it! It's good and light for a summer dinner! (easy to make too)

Wednesday the boy and I went to Cambridge to visit Greg (who was house-sitting for an aunt) and his gf Debbie. It rained lightly off and on for most of the afternoon, but we still had fun. In between the showers we grilled up some "rollers and sliders" as John would call them. That's hotdogs and hamburgers in case you were wondering. We also got some frisbee in, until Debbie threw it over the fence....we got it back, but the rain stopped us from continuing. :-)
We played Nintendo Wii - my arm was SORE the next day!! (btw - I STINK at Wii baseball, I'm pretty good at bowling and golf) Then we played some cards, which was a lot of fun. We ended up watching the fireworks from an upstairs bedroom (all four of us were crammed around one window, it was hilarious) because it was still raining at fireworks time, and we didn't feel like getting soaked.

We spent the night in Cambridge (and BOY was my stomach sorry that morning) and we took the T back home. We came home and spent the rest of the day hanging out in the apartment, napping and watching TV.

Friday (finally caught up to today) I am still trying to clean up and organize around here. I bought a shelf (nothing special) for the kitchen so I can put some of my appliances on it so that they are more accessible. I made a kick butt pizza for dinner. I used Pillsbury pizza dough, and made a pepperoni and chicken garlic sausage pizza. We had some pepperjack cheese that I grated onto the pizza with the mozzarella. It was yummy!

I've also been crocheting a lot too. I can't post the picture of my latest creation until I give it to the person tomorrow (I don't wanna ruin the surprise). The other things I am working on I can't put on the blog either, because I am making some gifts, so I can't put them online without giving away the surprise of it. If you email me, I'll show you pics (as long as YOU'RE not the one I'm making it for!!) ;-)

Tomorrow I'm heading up to to York to see my aunt, stopping at my mom's on the way to drop off/pick up some stuff. It should be a fun day! :-)

Happy Day!

NVCB Concert went well. We played well, but there weren't an awful lot of people in the audience. Two of my students did show up though.

The boy and I went for a walk today. A LONG walk. He said it was a good 4-5 miles. We saw two deer staring at us from up on a hill. They didn't even move. The four of us stood there staring at each other for a good five minutes until we decided to walk on. I wish I had my camera with me. We were looking at houses and the scenery as we walked by. There was a HUGE satellite dish on top of a hill. I can't imagine what it would be for. It is definitely too big for personal use. We had a great time. We walked for about two hours.

We came back to the apartment and I made baked macaroni and cheese for dinner, then we collapsed on the couch and watched some tv.

And now it is time for bed!

I'm an artist!

Here's my attempt to be artistic. I was designing the program for this weekend's NVCB concert (Sunday May 6 @ 2 pm - Ayer HS Auditorium), and I needed some art for the cover, so I decided to make my own.

What do you think?

NVCB

Tonight was MY night! I conducted! Me! woot!

I worked them too! We got through all but two of the songs for the upcoming concert in May. That's including a lot of talking by some of the board members (not me!!!) about upcoming events, etc. I thought we did rather well!

Then of course, came O'Hanlons, where I am still trying to get rid of the onion breath from the nachos!!

Let's go Kansas!!

Well at least for tonight...

I know absolutely NOTHING about basketball...forget college basketball....

I have a vague understanding as to how the game is played, but that's about it.

Whatever success I have with this bracket is owed to a few of the guys at the Nashoba Valley Concert Band. If I win, I owe them a beer. :-)

I've got Florida, North Carolina, Kansas, and Ohio in the Final Four, with Florida and North Carolina facing off, and Florida going all the way.

Here's to complete guessing!!

THIS is why I love going to band....

I won't rewrite what has already been written....

Since kellypuffs has already said it so well...