Today was a good day, although I got to experience more tantrums from a particular kid. Let me tell you, it is really hard to keep a neutral expression when a kid is screaming at the top of her lungs while standing two feet away from you. I really wanted some earplugs or something. Then my piano student this afternoon was all over the place. I really wanted to glue her to the piano bench!!! Tonight I went out with some friends, and for the most part had a good time. I came home and started feeling annoyed again. I wish I would cut it out! I feel like that character from Lil' Abner who went around with a rain cloud over his head. Oh well, there's always tomorrow.

Saturday, I met up with some of my family for breakfast at Henk's European Deli (which is owned by my aunt's family who originated from Holland!). My Aunt Kathy and Uncle Ted were in town for a wedding, it was good to see them. After breakfast, I had a ton of errands to run, and then went to David's. We then went shopping! I had intended on finding a nice suit to wear at the conference next month, but wasn't having any luck finding anything that I liked in my size. (There's a shock!) I did, however, find a couple of pairs of shoes that I really liked!! Yay! I then found a really great worship cd I liked!

Sunday, we took the youth to see Jesus Christ Superstar and then to the fair. I not only drove to the fair, I drove back and didn't get lost either way! This is huge for me. I thoroughly enjoyed the musical, and want to get the soundtrack. Of course, I've been going around all day today with the music from it stuck in my head!

We then went to the fair. I had my requisite fried food and brought David back some cotton candy. I wanted fried green tomatoes, but since they were out of them, I settled for fried pickles. Which were wonderful, but extremely salty! The kids then wanted to go on all sorts of crazy, wild, head-spinning rides. I would go on some of them normally, but not right after eating. So I supervised and held their purses/cell phones/water bottles while they went on rides. We had a great time!

A side note that was really funny: we have a pumpkin patch at church, which is an outreach to the community, the kids come for field trips, etc. We have volunteers staff the pumpkin patch in shifts throughout the day. Well, when we got back from the fair, they still had the bounce houses up, so some of the girls and I took the opportunity to test out the bounce houses. It was so much fun! And a perfect ending to a great weekend.

David called me after youth last night. He came by and brought some tea drink and a box of crackers. I was glad he came, although I wasn't very much fun last night. Thank you, David!!!!

Once we were home, I called David. I had originally planned to go to his place after we left the game, but since it was so yucky out, I decided that I should stay put. We decided to watch a movie at the same time. We both plugged in My Big Fat Greek Wedding. It took a little bit to get them lined up exactly, but we did it. It was fun watching the movie like that. We were watching the movie and talking on the phone at the same time. Yes, we are dorks but I don't care!!

Yesterday, my mom, my aunt (Deanna's mom) and two other ladies performed on their ukuleles for an Autumn Festival at a local church. I think Mom would have really wanted me to sing with them, but they needed someone in the audience to tell them to play louder or softer, since they had mics on them and their ukes. So we made up hand signals for ukes louder and softer, voices louder and softer, and banjuke louder and softer. Deanna played the tamborine and Linda was on the kazoo at one point, so I made up hand signals for that, too. They sounded great and a good time was had by all. Yesterday afternoon, I hung out at David's and we watched the A&M game. Pizza and football, a good combination. The Aggies won, so David was excited about that. It was a great night.

I couldn't sleep last night. (No, it wasn't because I was excited about the Aggies.) I tossed and turned, and woke up for the umpteenth time around 4:30, feeling horrible. I decided to see what happened, and see if I felt better later on. At 7:30 I was still feeling horrible, so I started calling people at church (choir director, youth minister and children's choir director) to let them know that I would not be there. I don't like being sick at all! Actually, it's more like I don't like being confined to a bed. It drives me nuts just laying there, so I grabbed some books. I've pretty much spent the whole day drifting in and out of sleep. I had some soup for dinner, which is helping a lot. We'll see how I feel tomorrow, I guess.

Dancin' Queen