sing out loud, sing out strong

Alright, it's Sunday night, both band gigs done and I'm exhausted...we still have Monday to go!

Saturday night - backyard band - fun times!  We had a good, family-oriented crowd (all family members and close friends), we sang for about 1.5 hours and then just hung out in the backyard.  I went home about 10 due to 1, tiredness and 2, 2 dogs in my kitchen most likely eating my kitchen floor.  They didn't do too much damage, and I pretty much fell asleep straight away.

Sunday evening - benefit gig - (short aside: this was a benefit for a young family, wife with stage 4 colon cancer and they have an 8 month old baby, so hopefully they will raise some good money and we were happy to be a part of it) went very well.  We were much cleaner than our previous gigs, although when you play outside you kind of lose the sound.  But we had a good set of covers and things went well.  I know people took pictures so I might be able to post some of both nights.

So now Danny is still at the benefit listening to the other bands while I again, went home due to tiredness and dogs.  It's 9:15 and we have to get up tomorrow and leave by 9 am.  I am already dreading it.

Friday night I was awake from 2-5:30 for various reasons and I caught like a 30 minute nap before noon.  Last night I slept fine but Harrison decided we needed to get up at 6am and when I finally got her to nap (I swear I'm ready for a baby) I slept for a couple more hours.  Now, if I go to bed soon, which I plan on doing, I will get a good amount of sleep but I think I'm still going to be tired tomorrow.  

Ah well, I love long weekends and am certainly not looking forward to going back to work, so I'll enjoy tomorrow and relax in the afternoon (hopefully)!

Union Picnic, here we come!

erin

p.s.  Even though we didn't come home at the same time, I still get to go home with the drummer!  Hotness!

Sing, Sing A Song...

Or 12...

This is going to be quite a weekend!

So, this afternoon I am going back to Bloomington with Mom and Dad to again, see the new house. Which means I get to leave work early (again!).

After I get back, there is band practice. This could last awhile. It will be my third night of practice. And here's why:

Saturday night I will be singing with my brother-in-law, Ross, and our friend Nick in his backyard band for their annual labor day party. We've been practicing for a few months and it's something Ross has always wanted to do, so cool that we're really doing it! So that day will consist of packing up equipment, moving a drum set (no, Danny is not the drummer this time, this music is too mellow for his tastes), and getting all that to set up and then performing, drinking and such to follow.

Okay, then on Sunday, the other band, Pearly's Best, has a performance at a benefit. I just read about it in the paper, our band name is listed and we're on the flyers around town. !. Wow, so I CANNOT overdue it at the Saturday party singing-wise so I have a good voice for the Sunday show. We're playing for about an hour there, so not too bad. If anyone would like to come watch (obligatory band plug ahead) we are playing at 5pm and I guess it's $20/person which includes a steak dinner, but I've heard that if you don't eat, you don't have to pay. However, it is for a good cause, so it's not like it's just $20 going to the man.

On Monday, we were going to walk in the labor day parade, but now we have to deliver the 1197 cookies Danny's mom has made for the union picnic and help set up the food and...RUN THE HORSESHOE TOURNAMENT! That's big time stuff, kids. Big time.

I hope to come home and collapse that afternoon. Maybe I will see if Mom and Dad would like to spend Monday with a very cute puppy so I can totally neglect my "dog-mom" responsibilities and nap instead of caring for her. It's usually a pretty easy sell, but I don't know what they have going on that day. We'll see.

That's all.

erin

It's just another day in paradise

Seriously, I have NOTHING to tell you today. It's just another day. I feel like my more boring blogs come on rainy days. I get no inspiration to write anything and I cannot think of anything particularly exciting to talk about.

Here are some fun random pictures to make up for no news...

I'm sorry, but this is like the cutest picture ever.

This is Harrison, hiding from the vacuum cleaner.

That's me and Mike, the bass player, before practice...I am hurrying to make dinner first. I think this is the only picture of my short hair so far.

This is how Danny solved the issue of Harrison getting out of the kitchen during the day while not being confined to a crate for hours. Drastic, but we love it!

And finally, these are suspicious footprints in the dust on TOP OF THE DINING ROOM TABLE!.
Good thing I let the dust build up enough to catch the culprit after the fact!

It's Getting Better All the Time, It Can't Get No Worse

Today is Wednesday. Week half over....sort of. Another "no boss" work week to keep me hanging on.

I've been noticing a lot of other bloggers have a good/bad list to kind of wrap up the week...things that were good, things that kind of sucked. Here is some of that from me, and yes, I know it's only Wednesday.

Good: My tooth is fixed! I was in the chair for literally 3 minutes this morning; my filling had to be filed down a bit as it was too high and throwing off my bite, thus the pain.

Bad: I went to bed with a headache and woke up with a headache. I really don't enjoy that! I still have the headache too.

Good: Today is my 5th day in a row of taking a daily vitamin. Now, you may think that is nothing/pathetic, but in my world, 5 consecutive days of vitamins is fantastic. I'm not sure why I am so bad at taking them, but I am. It's not that I don't believe in their value or that I even forget all the time, I just have NO motivation to take them, so I'm working on that.

Bad: We had a "brown out" on Monday night due to a substation catching on fire. Right before we were going to start band practice, too. It lasted for about 2 hours.

Good: We all just kind of hung out in the front yard with the dogs during said brown out and it was a good time. Talked to some of the neighbors, entertained ourselves without electricity.

Bad: I have to go buy groceries tonight.

Good: I only went grocery shopping twice this month, spending (based on today's upcoming purchases) approximately $150 total. I love that. It really helps to make food from scratch and not buy pre-packaged stuff.

Bad: Waiting for stuff sucks.

Good: When things finally work out, it's wonderful (see previous blogs).

That might be about all for the past couple of days. Have a good one!

erin

Anything you want, you got it

They got their house!

My sister and brother-in-law really had a hectic 24 hours from Sunday night to Monday night. They managed to both sell and purchase homes. Yay! The house they bought (which is of course contingent on everything going through with the selling) is really cute in a great little neighborhood on a cul-de-sac...a nice area.

I really did have a great time helping out yesterday and to have everything work out like that just goes to show that everything eventually works out. Emy and I were talking about how much we hate that sometimes...the waiting and wondering just when things will finally be how you want them to be, but then, you sell and buy a house all in the same day!

They move in the middle of October, so it's coming right up. She will probably post pictures on her blog, so go on over there and check it out!

Our House is a Very Very Very Fine House

Hey, I am late in posting today because I did not go to work...how am I posting you ask (as we don't have internet at home)? I am STEALING IT FROM A NEIGHBOR! I am so excited that I finally found a spot in our house to steal, a neighbor without a password protected internet connection, and a little time to blog this evening before practice.

I was not at work today because I went to Bloomington to hang out with my sister and look at houses. If you read her blog, you know she is stressfully trying to sell her house. Well, I guess someone (read the Sunday blog) was really interested and after a few hoops to jump through, bought the house!! And, she, Nick and I, found a house they really love! So, it was a successful day and really fun, too. So that's what I did instead of working and I had a fabulous time!

Hope everyone had a good weekend. We did. We had a really good time eating with Brant and Ashley and Lauren on Friday, and then they all visited back at our house for a bit afterwards. Dogs and small child got along swimmingly. Saturday we went over to Springfield to get Danny fitted for his tux for the upcoming wedding in October he is in. That evening we went to a party for a bit and then out to listen to a friend's band. Sunday we vegged out and had some family time with Danny's family.

All in all, a good couple of days!

erin

It's a nice day for a white wedding

I was just reminiscing about my wedding with myself (reminiscing like it was so long ago).



What a fun day that was! Even this soon after I don't remember all the things that happened. I was so unaware with what other people were doing, I was just dancing a have a great time! I probably should have talked to my guests more than I did, but I was too busy breaking it down. Sorry guests!



We have already attended one wedding as a married couple, it was kind of weird! Definately an oddly same/different kind of experience. Same in that attending weddings all have the same kind of feeling...the walk down the aisle, vows, rings, unity candle sameness. Different in that, I know I've done that, I know what that is like, what that feels like and that I am sitting in the audience as a married person! In October, we're going to a wedding that Danny is a groomsman for. That, I think, will be even more strange in that my husband will be standing up there with his little wedding ring on and I will be watching him knowing he's been there, done that. I'm sure all you married people understand the strangeness of doing things as a married person that you've done as a single person and can recognize the different feeling of it.

It's fun to be an observer of your spouse while he/she does something cool. Then you can say, yep, that's my husband/wife out there!

I really like being married. Don't get me wrong, some days it's more like...I know there is a reason we got married, though it's kind of foggy right now...but most of the time, it's pretty flipping cool!

erin