A bit of everything

Man I don't write here enough! Too much to recap now....

Let's see. I'm not playing at Waldorf any more.. it was all just too much. I had to let something go, and that was the one that was just too out of the way and didn't pay enough to compensate for that. PLUS I can now space out BV on the days that I don't go to Sac State. Really, it just makes everything better. :)

The hardest part about teaching, I've discovered (for myself, at any rate) is discipline. Yikes. I definitely don't have that down yet. Really, though.. everyone says I'm a great teacher, but honestly I wasn't ready. I had NO training at all. Sink or swim, and learn the hard way.. that's what I get now. Ha. I think I'm enjoying it..I think (haven't fully decided yet). However, I yearn to make REAL music with professionals the longer I work with these kids.

I'm struggling to get organized. I need to clean my room so badly, but once I get home I'm just SO mentally drained that I don't want to do anything. :P

The cold that I got last week is just about done... It never really amounted to anything in the first place, which is just fantastic for me, considering I used to get a cold for weeks upon weeks in my younger years.

I need to exercise. I need to go dancing. Somehow I need to find the time. This should be higher on the priority list than it is currently. I did push-ups tonight.. and hope to make that a nightly routine. (I had that going for a while about 5 years back. It was simple, and worked. Time to do it again). Managed 10 girly ones. *facepalm* It's a start, right?

I took a new hpathy (X-Ray) last week. I think it helped with my cold. But it was for my platelets...Not sure where my count is currently.... I'd guess 30s..maybe. I'll get a CBC tomorrow! It's been over two months.... which is the longest I've gone since being diagnosed (It went from every week to every month.. I guess now it's every two months. Heh)

The other night I dreamed I was a werewolf (along with two other people). I remember we went to some school and picked up this girl who didn't know she was one..but was about to find out for the first time cause there was a full moon. She, I, and I think my brother where in the back seat of a car.. I'm not sure where we were driving to, but the three of us started changing. I remember trying to fight it, but then looking out the window and seeing the moon.. and then it was filling my vision and I couldn't look away from it.. And this raw, wild, intense feeling was overwhelming me and I could feel myself start to turn into a wolf. I woke up before that actually happened, but for a good portion of that morning and into the afternoon I could still faintly sense that feeling. That sometimes happens with my dreams... a lingering feeling.

I also had another dream... but that's a little more on the R rated side. So. Heh. Yeah.

The colors of Autumn

Fall seems to be on it's way.. and I LOVE autumn. Hands down my favorite season. The energy in the air is so... vibrant. And it feels like anything is possible. I need to get out more and enjoy it! Soak it up before it's winter. California is notorious for autumn lasting..oh..a few weeks, and then the rest of the time it's a cold, raining winter.
This is a pic from our grapevine. Unfortunately, we had bugs that killed it for the most part. We got about 1/4 of what the crop should have been. Ugh. Mom found some natural spray...so we'll use that next year. Quite unfortunate. But the grapes that made it were tasty.