Tonight

Happy Friday!

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I haven't blogged in a couple of days, so before I head out for the evening I thought I'd do a little update. I'll warn you in advance though, nothing special happened this week so this entry will more than likely be boring! But still, this week has been a good one, although very exhausting. Wednesday night we had a little dinner party at La Bruzza's for Hank's step dad's birthday, It was really, really delicious and I enjoyed every bite of my lemon caper pasta. Yesterday I had a million and one things to grade and get done by today, so I stayed home and got everything done. When Hank got home from practice we worked out and I went to sleep way too late. And today...today was an excellent day at work, my kiddos were all so sweet and the day flew by. Now I'm just relaxing, contemplating going to eat some Thaifoon for dinner or just making a veggie burger and calling it good. Hour of the Wolf has a show tonight, so I'll be down the street at the skate shop for awhile too.

This week has gotten me very, very excited for Fall, because it's been in the 60s at night so I feel like my favorite season is getting closer! I always feel so ALIVE during this time. Autumn is my most favorite time of the year- the clothes, the beautiful scenery, Halloween and Thanksgiving...I love it all. I feel very fortunate that I live in such a wonderful seasonal place and I get to experience all of the leaves changing, holiday fun, etc. Gosh I can't even express how excited I am! I am also hopefully going to be in NYC this fall and strolling around Central Park with all the orange and brown and gold just makes me beyond excited.

And speaking of Autumn, of my best friend Autumn, she'll be in Phoenix in a couple of weeks...house hunting! I couldn't be more excited that the Loops are moving back to Arizona. Hank and I have made it out there quite a bit, and they've come out to Prescott too, but Long Beach to AZ is too far. North Scottsdale is a lot better. So I took off that Friday so we can have a great pool day at the JW Marriott and then I'll be searching for houses with them all weekend. I'm so excited!

So, that's it for now. I'll probably take the D60 with me to the show tonight and snap some photos. It will be an early night, because I'm going estate-saling with my mother and sister-in-law early in the morning. Then it's date night, and we will hopefully be seeing District 9. Stoked. Happy Friday everyone!

Goodnight busiest day

Well, it's 11:46 and I NEED to go to bed soon but I am trying to blog almost every night so I figured I would type up a quick one. Today was a good day, turned even better when I saw Hank after work! He got home around 8:30am so it was really hard to make it through my day knowing that he was waiting for me! I made it though, and got home to my sweet, darling love. Gosh I am so happy he is home. We went and got dinner at Hugo's then came home and took a wonderful afternoon nap until I had to get up and go back to work for "Meet the Teacher Night" and he had to head over to the skate shop to set up for the show tonight. I can't stress enough how awesome the new venue is. It's one of my favorite places for shows and I am ecstatic we have it now. Hopefully a lot more touring bands will come through town now that we have a solid all-ages spot. But anyway, tonight at work was awesome. I got to meet so many parents and I got the best feedback. It really reaffirmed why I do what I do. A couple of parents even said they've noticed their child reading for fun, for the very first time, since being in my class (and it's only been a week). I am just so happy and it was really special to hear so many great things and that the kids are enjoying English. After the work I headed over to the Hour of the Wolf show and got to see Adie, who's in town from LA for the evening. I love her and I loved that I got to see her. After the show Robyn and I went to the gym for some late night cardio and now I'm here, about to go hop into bed with my hubby. Tomorrow is our weekly short day and Hank has a show in Phoenix. I was going to try and head down with them but I just have too much to do, and it's a later show, so no Phoenix for me unless I change my mind last minute. I am already counting down to the weekend and looking forward to getting some sleep. I've been pretty bad this week with going to bed early and tomorrow my goal is to be in bed by 9pm. We'll see if I can accomplish that! As for now, it's past midnight (yikes), so I am off to sleep. Goodnight all. :)

Happy Monday!

Well, my Monday wasn't so happy due to me staying up way, way too late watching True Blood and suddenly having the urge to read very old Myspace messages between Hank and me, from 2004. They always make me smile because after meeting for the first time we corresponded for a long time via the internet while he was on tour, and because we lived two hours away. So I have hundreds of amazing letters we have written to each other, from the very first "getting to know you" type of messages to right after we got engaged in 2007 and both kind of lost interest in that website. They are amazing to read and I am in the process of putting them all in order- sent and received- and printing them into a little book for us to keep. It's very neat to be able to see the entire timeline of our relationship, both in those messages and in my very detailed personal journal. I love it. I hope one day our children can enjoy reading them too!

So anyway, I stayed up waaay too late and woke up very late. My alarm went off at 6:30am and I proceeded to somehow turn both my blackberry alarm and regular alarm clock off and sleep until my body woke itself up at 7:15 which was not good at all, seeing as I should be at work no later than 7:45 in order to get everything set for the day, which begins at 8:09am. I feel lucky I naturally woke up too, that could have been a nightmare. It's a lot different being late to work when there are 35 teenagers waiting outside your door! I don't wear a lot of makeup (foundation and mascara only) but I still take a long time to get ready and having 20 minutes was not pleasant. I ended up getting to work at 8am, cutting it way too close and ended up feeling stressed and behind all morning. Robyn luckily had brought a Lunabar for me for breakfast, when I texted her in frenzy about how late I was. I am SUCH a breakfast person and I simply cannot function with having a nice, solid 1st meal early in the morning.

The day shaped up and the sweet Robyn also brought me lunch- an amazing couscous and zucchini dish (which I will be making for Hank this week- so good!) and because I had lunch duty outside today she sat with me. I always eat with Jenn but this year we don't have lunch together, which makes me sad and I hate not having "our" time to catch up and squeeze in a horribly wonderful reality program while we eat!

The rest of the day flew by, and I spent the evening straightening up the house for Hank's arrival tomorrow morning and then working out for awhile- cardio, shoulders and legs tonight. I am so, so excited for Hank to get here. I somehow missed him more than ever on this tour and I cannot wait until we can be back to our regular life for a month or two before he leaves again for a huge full-US tour out to Gainesville Fest and back, around, etc. Apparently on this tour they've been killing it, which is awesome. I really enjoy listening to HOTW and things are really coming together for them which they deserve. Tonight they're in San Diego, playing with Lewd Acts which means fun fun fun.

So tomorrow Hank will be home by the time I get home from work, and I expect that we will go on a quick little dinner date before I have to return to school for "Meet the Teacher Night" where all the parents come to the classrooms to do just that. It's just for an hour and a half, and then I will be heading over to Hank's show at the skate show. Stoked.

Here is a photo of my outfit today, I took it this afternoon because I was so crazy this morning! :) I don't know why it looks so short, I swear it's not like that in person! haha


and one of the many postcards Hank has sent my way, this one is part of a little series! ;) He is too funny. I love him.

Wednesday night

toasting at St. Micheal's






Jordan- playing bass in Hot Skin


Hot Skin at Sundance's


Amber and me, my leg looks weird but Amber's face makes me laugh so it stays :)


our typical bathroom photo


Hour of the Wolf


my cute hubby