"In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." –John 16:33

Day: February 16, 2009

Long Nails and Piano Lessons

Random story up ahead! :

Every Tuesday morning we go to my piano teacher’s house. It’s way up high on a very steep hill. I have no clue how they got it up there.  But every week mom pushes the minivan up the hill somehow, and we head in to my lesson. At least two minutes before we have to get out of the car and go inside, I start frantically cutting my nails.  My piano teacher is very much opposed to long nails. She says (and I’m paraphrasing here) that we can all afford to give up a little vanity in our lives. I get the feeling that she thinks I keep them long because it’s the fashion or something, but the truth is that I’m lazy, and it’s very hard for me to cut the nails on my right hand. Sad.  Anyway, she has threatened to cut my nails for me several times in the past, and two weeks ago she did it. Yes, you read that right.  She got her fancy-schmansy little leather nail-kit, opened it, and took out a fancy-schmansy little pair of nail-scissors. And she cut my nails.  It was embarrassing to say the least, but I lived. Thank goodness it’s my own fault and that she’s my friend, or else I’m afraid would’ve been rather mad.

Ah yes. My piano teacher is the source of many entertaining stories… 

I actually don’t know why I shared that particular story with you all.  I think it’s because I feel like I don’t have very much to write about right now. The ACT is over, Gospel meetings ended temporarily yesterday 🙁 , the Nosey-book fiasco is done with… things are really calm right now!! Well relatively calm…

Weekend accomplishments: ~85%

I am amazed that we did most of the stuff on our list this weekend.  Lorena shopped at Costco after we had breakfast at Mcdonalds on Saturday morning.  We went to Borders and looked for a book on how to write for broadcast video.  They had nothing, so I ordered On Camera: How To Report, Anchor & Interview from Amazon. I think that book will be OK, but I really need to get a couple on how to do a documentary and how to do new writing, too. There is a Radio Shack right beside the Borders so we were able to find one of the wire gauges we needed, but we are still looking for the other. Kelly finished up a Betty Blonde and has some good ideas about some others.  I worked a little bit on all the things on my programming list, but the new WordPress theme for this blog is going to take more effort than I had originally anticipated.  We had Donnie, Rosemary, and Riley L., and Courtney and Caroline E. over for dinner between meetings on Sunday.  That was great.  Lorena cooked up a fabulous dinner (spiral cut ham, rice, asparagus, chocolate cake, etc.).  We met at Courtney and Caroline’s home for Sunday morning meeting in Florida just after we got married for a couple of years, so we consider them to be close family!  We have to do that more often.

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