Category: General

The Pfat Cats!

My cats are so funny sometimes. Today, the weather was pretty extreme. There have been several sightings of funnel clouds and tornado-like weather. All animals get affected by changed in weather patterns as did my cats. When I came home this evening, I found the cats slinking out of the bathroom as though they’ve been trained to take cover in an interior room at the sight of bad weather (hell, we’ve all been told to go hide in the bathtub when there’s a tornado coming). So they tiptoe around the apartment for about first 30 mintues that I’m home and as soon as they know I’m here to stay for awhile, they’re back to their old antics again — laying around like the fat cats they are. Ah yes, the life of a cat!

Have you seen the cats?

School days, school days.

Last night was the band lock-in. 11 Hours of junk food, inflatables, movies, video games and hyper high school kids. It was a whole lot of fun. One of the inflatables was a obstacle course and I raced several kids (and my boss). The kids won everytime. Brian (my boss) and I raced to see who would win his big office — we tied. We keep our respective offices. Oh well…. Ha! I had lots of fun but no sleep. When I finally got home and went straight to bed, I had been up for 26 hours and at work for almost 24!! Man, I was tired.

Bad thing was, I had a bridal shower I was supposed to go to today but just could not get out of bed to get myself going to it. I guess for the sake of my health and mental stability, that was okay but I’m kinda disappointed. I’d already gotten the gift and I’m so excited for Gina that she’s finally getting married!! I’m playing trumpet at her wedding…..

I talked to Len about 10 times since he got to his tailgate last night. He got stikin’ drunk! Most of the phone calls were pretty funny but as I got more tired, I found myself becoming more annoyed. I’m sure it was more that I was tired than he was annoying. I think by that point, I was annoyed at everything, too!!! Overall, it was very cute! I wish we were together last night!

I’m thinking about taking on yoga but I want to do it at home with taped instruction to see if I really can/want to. Anyone have any suggestions?

Next week, RGV!!

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Have you ever got in a slump where the energy to think anymore than you have to is gone? I’m having one of those weeks. Not sure why. Could be because marching/football season is now over and I’m beat. Actually, I could probably account much of my desire of laziness to it. So, let me apologize in advance for a boring blog for a little while. Take it easy. I’m gonna try!

The weekend wrap-up

What a great weekend I had! It started with the LAST TIGER FOOTBALL GAME!!! It was sad that we lost but the boys played hard. Although the Stony Point football team lost every game this season, it has to say good things about the new coach & program when you realize that they scored more points this year than the past 5 years combined!

After the game, we took the band kids who had won a contest during the car wash to IHOP as their prize. They (we) had a lot of fun, even though the food took forever to come to the tables and we didn’t get out of there until way after 1am! I think we have a better plan for next year.

On Saturday, I really couldn’t sleep in. You’d think that with the long day on Friday and Len with his adventure getting to Austin that we’d want to sleep half the day, but NO. 8am, eyes open!! It worked out okay though because we made it to Joshua’s 4th birthday party at Chuck E Cheese. Pizza at 10am. It was like college again!!

From there, Len & I ran some errands and headed to Houston for the UH game. Go Coogs!! They won the game against East Carolina. I know where North Carolina and South Carolina are but I’ve gotta know, where in the HELL is EAST Carolina??? Well, where ever it is, they’re back there after having lost to the Coogs! Other than the win, several very exciting things happened at the game. First, I saw my friend Connie & her daughter Sami across the stadium. Well, I actually texted messaged Connie with, “Guess where I am” and my phone rang with Sami asking me what section we were sitting in. Connie & I had talked last weekend about each of us going to the game. I took a stab in the dark that she was actually there. Second, Bill Moffitt (a very famous composer/arranger I grew up playing music of) was there. He had been a band director at UH for many years and did many of his famous marching band arrangements we’ve all played and loved while there. UH renamed their music building to honor him and they had him conduct the Cougar Band in his arrangement of The Horse (one of my favorite tunes). Very cool. Good friends, good music, good tailgate, good score. What else could someone ask for at a football game???

Sunday, we vegged out and watched Blues Brothers. Great classic movie. Again, I was surrounded with the music I grew up playing. The drive home was strange since it got so dark so fast but once I got home, it was immediate snuggling with the cats.

I can’t wait until Thanksgiving weekend. I’ve got 2 days that are 1/2 days and 3 days off before we even reach Saturday! I see more travelling in my future.