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 My subject lines have been so woefully bad lately, sorry.

My first free weekend in over a month! Hooray!! I finished up the RPM Challenge: 



I'll be obsessively redoing going through all the mixes in the next few weeks and then posting them once they're all nice and shiny. It was fun as usual, but also a constant reminder of how busy things are without adding 20 or so original songs in there.

Things have been so busy that I didn't see Brooks for more than an hour total (not counting the 3 or 4 hours we're asleep at the same time) Tuesday-Thursday. He alternates REALLY EARLY shifts (waking up about 3:45 am) and REALLY LATE shifts (home between 11:30 and midnight) so we've been going stretches at a time without getting to do more than send a text and see a lump in the bed and confirm that they really do still exist. It was like a long distance relationship--I saw him long enough on Thursday morning to kiss him and say, "I miss you. I guess I'll see you on Saturday?" before heading out the door.  But by yesterday I couldn't take it anymore so I stayed up really late last night and waited up for him, then we caught up on all our TV for the week on Hulu, which was extremely nice.

Today will be a fantastic day! Rollerskating in the park with Sierra and then hopefully some bento later. I want to clean out the garage too (yes, nothing makes me happier than having enough free time to clean and cook YAY OBSESSIVE ORGANIZATION!) but I realized I'm out of allergy medicine so we'll see how that goes.

Hope everyone has a fabulous weekend!
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Me: Did you find those uniforms I put in the closet for you?
Brooks: ...huh?
Me: The uniforms you needed ironed. Did you find them? 
Brooks: Oh, uniforms?
Me: Yes.
Brooks: Oh, for some reason I thought you said "unicorns".
Me: ...how does that even make sense?
Brooks: It doesn't. I found the uniforms. Thanks.
Me: ...so you didn't find the unicorn I put in there?


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Sorry for the strange, rambling, emotional word-vomit. I'll have a more update-ish post later.



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RPM Challenge has been going pretty well. I had a pretty rough time of it last year but this year it feels comfortable and familiar again and I'm truly enjoying it. I've got 3 songs done for my album and 4 songs done for Clever Things, which is a band I have with an electro-synth musician from Portland. I need to remember to mass-spam everyone later.

I searched all over for basket weaving supplies but I couldn't find anything locally that would work so I've just finished placing an order online that will hopefully be here by the middle of next week. It was weird how just looking at some of the materials online brought everything back to me and I discovered I remembered almost all the measurements by heart (which arcanelegacy  had told me would happen but shuuuush). I'm really excited to teach the kids and excited to start weaving again in general. The supplies were much cheaper than I'd expected (my mom always ordered her reeds in MASSIVE quantities so I'm not used to seeing the price of normal, single-person orders) so this might be something I pick up again regularly.

...ya know. Because I clearly don't have enough hobbies as it is.

I don't know if I ever mentioned it, but the Sharon Creech book "Granny Torelli Makes Soup" was a giant disappointment. I am calling this a mulligan, as I adored her older books, but still. For my first Braille book I was really hoping for something more enjoyable. I can't even go into the synopsis of the book as literally NOTHING HAPPENS and trying to explain what little happens just makes the book seem even more awful (or maybe as awful as it actually was) so we'll just forget it never happened, k?

Got a new book called "I See the Moon" which so far is much, MUCH better. Also, my classroom teacher offered to let me borrow some of her books as she has single-sided Braille (which is a lot easier to read for someone who does it visually like me), so maybe in the future I'll be able to read faster.

Missed ASL class last week because I got a migraine and ended up sleeping all afternoon so I'm hoping I won't be too far behind tonight. We had a combined blind/deaf elementary field trip last Friday though and I did pretty well with the kids during our picnic lunch so that gave me some confidence :D

In other news, THE AVENGERS. I squeal in excitement over this movie almost every single night, I am not ashamed to say. May 4th can't get here soon enough!
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It's funny how the "supposed to be normal" days always end up being the ones that are the craziest.  We had science fair projects to do today, which is always a little more chaos than normal. The music teacher ended up going home sick so I was music teacher at the last minute. Then some of the kids/teachers had a special meeting come up so I was math teacher for a little bit too. Then the art teacher tells me she remembers me mentioning that my family weaves baskets and she volunteered me to do a demonstration at Frontier Day in two weeks. And maybe teach some of the kids too.

...I haven't woven a basket in several years.  But still, she's right that I'm interested in this. Apparently they've been looking for staff who would be willing to teach the kids some new crafts on the occasional after-school period and if it worked out for next year it'd be extra money doing something fun (and without having to drive anywhere extra!) so I'm all for it! 

So this weekend will be hunting around Tucson for basket-weaving supplies. Then studying my old baskets to get the measurements and amounts of reeds I'll need. And THEN possibly making a sort of wooden spacer so that it's easier for the kids to set up their frame. I'm excited and nervous all at the same time. Please please PLEASE let this work out well!

Tomorrow starts the RPM Challenge and I'm excited to start recording! I already have about 5 songs written up and ready to go! Also tomorrow is ASL class again so wheee another full day ahead!

For now it's plum wine and some relaxation.
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Had a few rough blips in the weekend but nothing I feel like fussing over today (or ever? I'm master of "LOL I'M JUST GOING TO BURY THIS AND LET IT FESTER K?" so who knows).

Great day at school. The weather's been stellar the last two days and is expected to only get better. I might actually try jogging outside on the weekend if it holds up, since I am a complete pansy when it comes to any sort of not-warm weather.

I was chatting with one of the kids while we were jogging around the track for P.E. warmup and I was trying to explain what a comic book was but I don't think I did a very good job of it (or maybe there is no good way to explain a comic book? I dunno). But ah well, she was at least polite enough about it :P

Speaking of my kiddos and their adorableness, have another fantastic quote of today:

Teacher (reading from a storybook): "...and so they walked to the old stockyard--"
Girl 1: "What's a stockyard?"
Girl 2: "It's a person that follows you around all the time."
Teacher: "...um, I think you're thinking of a stalker. This is a stockyard."
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Someone please tell me why I can't get to sleep before 11:30 on weekdays (when I have to be up at 5 a.m.), but on my FRIDAY OF FREEDOM I take a nap at 3 and still pass out at 9 p.m. 

Body, you suck. I can never get those hours of free time back ;_;
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 I've been trying to warm myself up for the RPM Challenge this year, coming up in just 8 days! 2011 was a really unproductive musical year for me and I'm feeling a little nervous about this year's stuff but I guess I'll hope for the best and see what happens?

The kids had fun yesterday with the little Chinese New Year activity I did. One of the teachers was SUPER nice and let me derail her social studies lesson to do it so that was awesome. Everyone loved their Chinese zodiac cards and their red envelopes with dimes inside. It completely boggles my mind that it cost me approximately $3.10 to do the whole thing and they acted like I'd thrown them a party <3

Tonight is finishing my Braille book (no, really, I am not sleeping until I finish this damn book) and studying for tomorrow's ASL class, and finishing some spare songs.

...did I mention WORDS ARE MELTING MY BRAINZZZZZ.


In sad, whining news, my camera lens has stopped working. Calling technical support tomorrow and seeing if I can reset it or if I need to send it in for repair. We got warranty coverage for it like crazy so really, I'm just irked that I've only had it 2 months now (and double-irked because there are 2840239 things I wanted to take pictures of ;_;).

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