Category: A Better Me

Will I ever get used to this?

Well, it’s finally caught up to me. The last few weeks have been go, go, go and my body finally screamed, “STOP”. I knew this was inevideble but I was hoping it would happen next week, over Thanksgiving holidays. Now, I’m having to postpone jazz auditions at school but that’s probably better for the kids. It’ll give them more time to practice. So, I’m home today, catching up on sleep, trying to keep a fever down.

Dang, it’s really windy outside. I was going to open the windows but I think that would let too much dust in. I could imagine that wouldn’t be good for my allergies.

I’m sure I’ll be doing plenty of napping again today. I did a lot of that yesterday and it really helped. Will I ever figure out a way to balance all this?

Can’t sleep…

…again.

I know exactly why, too. Things have kinda slowed down in my life and I now have time to stop and think about all the stuff I’ve neglected the last few weeks or all the new things I have coming up between now & Thanksgiving. I spent a better part of tonight making sure I’d have everything I need for my trip to Indianapolis this weekend. It’s a short trip but with the weather up there possibly being nothing like what we get here, I have to have one or two options with me. I’m glad most of the trip will be spent indoors, however, I talked to Daniel Montoya today and he said that it’s unusually mild for this time of year up there. Maybe they know the Texans are coming….

Tomorrow, I have the first clinic (ever) for the Region 26 Jazz Ensemble. I’m the coordinator for all things jazz in our region so needless to say, I’m a smidge worried…or at least I’ve got everything going through my head over and over. (I have to get the programs to the printers for Tuesday’s concert.) I’m sure everything is going to go off without a hitch. We’ve hired a great clinician (Keith Winking) and the other high school band directors I get to work on this with are so supportive and fantastic. They certainly have made my first time being a TMEA Region officer very smooth going. Can’t ask for much more than that, right?

My house is officially gross. That’s all I’m really going to say about that except that I have to squeeze in bits of time between now and Thanksgiving to get it ungross. We’re doing our family (plus a few) Thanksgiving dinner here. November is just uber crazy busy!

Okay, that’s all the purging of the brain I have for right now. Hopefully, that will help calm my mind and help me get to sleep. My eyelids are getting heavy so that’s always a good sign. G’night folks!

Too much

I’m quite over stimulated right now. I’ve been so busy and all I want is to be rescued from my life. I’m ready to shut myself in my house, not do anything and just be pampered. Unfortunately, I can do all but the last part. Oh yeah, I could pamper myself but that would take me doing something to make sure I was pampered and even that much is too much today. Now, there’s no need for anyone to freak out and jump in their cars or hop on a flight. I’ll be fine after this weekend. But, if you try to get ahold of me and can’t for a day or two, you’ll know why. I’ve just had too much and need to have nothing much. Thanks for understanding.

Desire & Success

George Hopkins, Director of YEA! and The Cadets Drum & Bugle Corps posted this on his journal today and it’s pretty smart:

DESIRE IS THE STARTING POINT FOR SUCCESS

The first thing that will contribute to reaching your goal is that you simply want to reach it badly enough.
You must learn how to desire with sufficient intensity to be successful.

If you have the desire you have the power to attain success.
You can really have anything you want in life if you go after it.
But you have to want it.

As a drowning soul desires air, as a shipwrecked person craves fresh water,
so must you feel that intense, eager, insistent, demanding, ravenous desire for your success.

Your desire for success must be so strong within you that it becomes the very breath of your life.
It must be your first thought when you wake up, and your last thought when you go to bed at night.

You can have anything you want if you go after it with intensity.

~The Daily Guru

Thoughts provoked

My friend Estelle, a band director in the DFW area, wrote this in her blog the other day:

A few of the kiddos at the HS are really stressed these days. I think at times we put too much pressure on them. Too many adults forget that they are in fact kids. We ask them to be mature, act like an adult, always behave, learn this, study that…. but when do we let them be kids? We pressure them with adult tendencies, but deny them adulthood. Where is the balance?

This really spoke to me. In order to teach kids to be good adults, we have to almost jar them into adulthood. Or do we? Sure is something to think about.