From the monthly archives: March 2004
Today I hung the custom curtains I had sewn for the last apartment’s bedroom in our new apartment’s living room. The rooms differ by a little more than a foot in width with the livingroom being the wider of the two, so I shifted the curtains over to the right to cover the vertical [...]
David just called me at home from work and his school has just extended a contract for next school year! (His current teaching contract is a one-year contract) Praise the Lord!
Henry Middle School had the lawncare guys out mowing the lawn today when I walked up to teach today. I guess it caught nature off guard as well, because when I got inside and opened up my case, there was an inch-worm in my clarinet! There are no signs of infestation, and I’m figuring that [...]
Had fun tonight at the Schomaker’s house… We played a round of Catch Phrase and a round of Mad Gab, both of which the guys won. Sydney was a riot, as always, and usually the center of attention as well. [...]
I am finally twenty-seven! We celebrated by waking up at 6 am and driving out to the Enchanted Rock north of Fredricksburg with our friends, Mario and Alysia. The weather was overcast, but not raining; windy, but not cold.
We started our hike by heading right up [...]
Mambo, our first and favorite fur-ball, has become a very affectionate and loving tuxedo-man. For the first year and a half we’ve had him, he’s been very tolerant and patient with us but never seeked any physical attention. Sure, he’d pretend to rub around your legs, but he never touched you. He would trot over [...]
Samba got out today… she ran through the screen door, but didn’t hurt it; she just knocked it off its tracks. Samba is a real ‘fraidy cat, in the truest sense of the phrase. The slightest thing causes her to go nuts… today it was David blowing his nose in a Puffs Plus tissue and [...]
Yes, there are new pictures up in our gallery. There are new pictures in HERE and HERE and a few new ones in THIS one. Go, see, enjoy! And leave a comment or two if you like [...]
Cloudy though it may be, today we ventured downtown on the DART Rail with David’s parents to visit the Dallas World Aquarium where we were able to see many creatures and fish and birds. Pictures will be up when we get home!
After the aquarium, [...]
This morning, I spent all my time in the band hall at CPMS building a new subdomain for our website for the downloading needs (or wants) of the band. We thought it would be cool for the judges’ comments to be online for all the interested students and parents to [...]
(stage first, then sight-reading)
Concert Band 2: I-I-I, II-I-II
Concert Band 1: I-I-I, I-I-I
Symphonic Band: I-I-I, I-I-I
I’s are best, II’s next best… the bands were rated on a I-II-III-IV-V system, with one being superior, outstanding, way-to-go, and two’s being good, three’s are ho-hum-average, fours are needs-more-work and fives are what-were-you-thinking? That’s not really [...]
This is how David’s band performed at U.I.L. today:
Concert: straight division ones! Yay band!
Sight-reading: 2-1-2 I don’t know what those judges were thinking… I think they deserved straight division ones on that sightreading!
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