How's your life?

Mine's good, thanks.

I know all of you (and by all of you, I mean the maybe 3 people that occasionally read my blog) are expecting a drum lesson recap for today, but Harry was sick yesterday so we rescheduled for this afternoon instead.

I would just wait until tomorrow to do an entire week-in-review, but my printer at work is broken and as it turns out, I can't hardly do a damn thing without it. So, I blog.

This week has been christmas-tastic. Monday we had an ornament swap at Jamie's house. I've gotten oddly competitive in my *ahem* old age, so I was secretly pleased when my blue glittery skiing penguin kept being stolen in a wicked game of dirty santa.

Tuesday was the greatest night of all (thus far)

I went with Katie to see Avenue Q at the BJCC, and we were definitely supposed to be in the nosebleed section, but a little Birdie (literally, her name was Birdie) told us to go have a seat in orchestra until the show started so we wouldn't get locked out, but once we found some stellar seats (much, MUCH better than the ones I had actually paid for) we stayed put. For those of you who don't know what Avenue Q is, it's a broadway production based on characters played by both humans and mostly puppets. The main theme is life after college, so you know it was like the story of my life, puppet style. True to broadway form, this was in no way meant for children. It featured such themes as internet porn, obscene language, puppet sex (yes, I said puppet sex), and songs with titles like "everyone's a little bit racist" and "If you were Gay"

Here are some of the main characters:

Wednesday I took a half day off of work to go to Calera Elementary to witness/help Katie with her class production of "christmas around the world"

*side note-if you have not read Katie's blog "The Shrop Stop" you need to do so NOW. right now, as in, you can leave my blog for a minute to read hers because you need to understand how hilarious her 1st grade kids are.

ok, back to the story. So I go all the way out to Calera, and find my way to "Miss Shrop's class" and what is the first thing I hear Katie say to her kids when I walk in?

"What did I say about leaning on the bookshelf? It is big and white and heavy and it what? that's right, it CRUSHES children." I could barely contain my laughter. It just got better from there. I got to hear all about what the kid's wanted for christmas, including Briana/Dylan who wants a "gun, so I can go huntin' with my daddy." The theme was "christmas around the world, so different kids were assigned different countries to represent and tell stories of how they celebrate Christmas. It was so cute, but I don't know how Katie does it. She says she is "on the verge of a mental breakdown, any day now." but I don't think it's true. You can tell she really loves her kids.

So tonight I have my drum lesson with Harry, who will hopefully be feeling much better, and I will hopefully not be so distracted, and then afterwards I am head to fun Bobby's house for his tacky sweater party, and tomorrow I will proceed with part 2 of this blog.