2nd week of November

A week of being a day late and a dollar short.

Example #1: We've spent the whole month saving up money to buy Trans-Siberian Orchestra tickets - $42 each. I had to have enough to buy 4, then Rusty had to have enough to buy his dad/stepmom tickets, and we had to wait on another friend to put his money in too so that we could order tickets and all sit next to each other. Monday morning I ordered the 7 tickets on the internet. Tuesday morning a friend of ours who is a radio DJ called Rusty and told him she could get him a bunch of FREE tickets to see the Trans-Siberian Orchestra.

$%#&@$!

Example #2: For the first time in HISTORY, I forgot to pay the gas/water bill on the 1st. I did not even remember it until Wednesday when I got home and we had no water. (I pay all bills on the internet - the gas/water is the only one that I can't pay on the net.) I rushed out to the gas/water place and paid the bill plus the reconnection fee. When the guy showed up at our house to turn the water and gas back on, it was one of Rusty's buddies from the water dept. and he said, "Hey dude! If I had known this was your house I would have never even cut it off, I would have just called you and told you go pay your bill!"

$%#&@$ again!

Anyway...
Last Friday night we ended up going to the local high school rivalry football game. Tyler wanted to go so we just decided we'd go too. I took Tanner to mom's to spend the night. We got a good taste of what we're going to be experiencing next year. High school football woohoo! There were balloons flying everywhere, rednecks shooting t-shirts out of potato guns into the crowd, school colors everywhere - just tons of excitement and hype. Unfortunately our team lost, but we still enjoyed the game. The marching bands from both schools were really very good and seeing them just increased my recent desire to move upwards in the school system. I'm considering moving up to Jr. High/High School band just as soon as I can. Still thinking it over though, got plenty of time.

Saturday - band practice. Singer thought practice was Monday so he wasn't there, and Keith had to work. But the other 4 of us played and got some setup stuff situated. Saturday night we had a nice lazy evening at home, and Trent came to visit also. Tanner did not want to come home from mom's so he stayed the whole day and then stayed the night again.

Sunday - football day. Keith, Jenifer, and Angela came over. It was great to see Angela feeling better and joining in the fun. I made 2 recipes from the church cookbook. One was my grandmother's "Brownie Bars" and they were MORE than awesome. They were a huge hit and I can't wait to make them again once I get this weight back off lol. The other thing I made was home made fried apple pies which were also awesome. I sent all the leftover goodies to work with Rusty on Monday morning so that I didn't have to resist them all week. Tanner STILL did not want to come home so I let him stay as long as I could and picked him up in the late afternoon. He spent the WHOLE weekend at Mom's and probably had a high old happy spoiled rotten brat of a time! I remember those kinda days when I was a kid at Mamaw's house.....but Chris was always the king of spoiledness for sure - had Mamaw wrapped around his finger lol.

Anyway. Monday - typical school day. We were supposed to have band practice again that night. But the drummer got stuck in Jackson, lost his keys in a store and couldn't find them to get over here. Keith couldn't make it. So we just told the rest forget about it and planned for next Monday. Rusty FINALLY went to the doctor about his arm. Thankfully he does NOT have a torn rotator cuff (or whatever), but he did have a bad case of something kinda like tendonitis. She gave him a miracle drug and he was already getting better by the next day.

Tuesday - Went to a teachers union meeting - my first one. Kinda interesting, but it's just not my cup of tea really. I'm too laid back to be much of an activist. But seems to be a good thing they got going. Also, I was so sick of seeing democrats bragging on the news about how they were going to dominate the elections that I went out and voted. I usually only vote in the presidential elections, but I went out and voted straight Republican down the line. Didn't end up doing much good, but gave me lots of satisfaction lol.

Wednesday - woke up with a sore throat which has since become 1,000 times worse and the doctor wouldn't give me an antibiotic over the phone. I went to the library and checked out a book I've been thinking about reading for several months called "Wicked". It's about the life of the Wicked Witch of the West (from the Wizard of Oz) - about her birth, growing up, what all lead to her being the wicked witch, etc. Kind of a story from HER point of view as opposed to the other characters. I first saw it last spring and thought it sounded stupid, but then I think about it all the time wondering what it might be like so I just went and checked out the darn thing. Tyler went to play practice at the church - he's been chosen to be in a play they are doing some time. Of course he doesn't know when. It sounds like some kind of spoof of MacBeth. With a religious message of course. But he's really getting into this drama thing at church and I can't wait to see him act. Wednesday was also the day of the water bill fiasco.

Thursday - suffered through work with an awful sore throat, and would have sworn it was strep throat except for I couldn't see anything in my throat. My throat looked like there is absolutely nothing wrong with it, hardly even red. But the PAIN ...........geesh! When we got home Tanner was playing with the thermometer and as it turned out he had 103.2 fever! He had no other symptoms. But he has mentioned his ear "making noises". I called and left a message for my doctor to please call me in an antibiotic. Her nurse called me back at 5:30 and said I did not need an antibiotic but they were going to call me in some allergy medicine. I said, "but I don't have any allergy symptoms, nothing but a sore throat!". The nurse still refused to give me an antibiotic, but I know my doctor would have if she had personally handled the situation. I didn't even bother picking up the allergy rx.

Friday - sore throat multiplied by 1 million. So I took me and Tanner both to the doctor. My doctor was not in, so we went to the new doctor - the one that I went to high school with that I took Tyler to a couple of months ago. He did a strep test on me and YES INDEED I do have strep throat. So there. Made me want to call that nurse up and tell her a thing or 2 lol. It turned out that Tanner has an ear infection. I got a shot and we both got a round of antibiotics each so hopefully we are all fixed up.

I did not take any pictures this week. I hate it when that happens, but it does usually signify that I had a nice, relaxing normal time of it this week. This weekend we have a Christian Rock Band concert that we are probably going to end up being dragged to at our friends' church lol. Then on Sunday is the much anticipated Trans-Siberian Orchestra concert - our 3rd time to see them. I bought Tanner a ticket but he has since decided that he'd rather stay with Mamaw instead of sit through a 3 hour concert. So we're just gonna end up giving away his ticket to Dale I think. Hard to find someone to take just one ticket lol. But I know Dale will enjoy it and appreciate the artistry. And we totally enjoy seeing someone see the band for the first time. Check out http://www.trans-siberian.com/ Next week should be a nice normal week, and then the following week I'm off the whole week yipee!