Here are the rules: I have to answer the following questions with one word answers and one word only! Then I must pass it on to seven others.
The questions are as follows:
1. Where is your cell phone? backpack
2. Where is your significant other? waiting
3. Your hair color? caramel?
4. Your mother? compassionate
5. Your father? selfless
6. Your favorite thing? food!
7. Your dream last night? none
8. Your dream/goal? family
9. The room you're in? office
10. Your hobby? viola
11. Your fear? dark
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? mother
13. Where were you last night? opera
14. What you're not? deaf
15. One of your wish-list items?
16. Where you grew up? Texas
17. The last thing you did? studied
18. What are you wearing? clothes
19. Your TV? boring
20. Your pet? nonexistent
21. Your computer? black
22.Your mood? excited
23.Missing someone? family
24. Your car? civic
25. Something you're not wearing? jacket
26. Favorite store? Target
27. Your summer? amazing
28. Love someone? Jason
29. Your favorite color? blue
30. When is the last time you laughed? today
31. Last time you cried? lastweek (I know...I cheated)
I tag...Andrea, Melissa, Ciera, Jenna, Shanna, Sheri, and Stefani Mann
Friday, October 17, 2008
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Heater
Since September 1st, Jason and I had not run the air conditioning or the heater because the weather was basically perfect. Well...last week it got really cold so about Tuesday or Wednesday we decided it was time to turn on the heater (it was getting down to the low 60's during the night in our house). We soon discovered it wasn't working...Jason's dad came and tried to fix it and spent a whole day working on it, but couldn't figure out what was wrong so he tried to meet with a technician he works with. The guy flaked out 2 or 3 times and Jason's dad couldn't fix it without his help, so we were left freezing in our house for almost a week. We had a little space heater that we would drag around to whichever room we were in and we tried to stay bundled up. At night before we went to bed we would turn on the heater in our room and shut the door to warm it up. Then we would turn it off (we didn't want it to start a fire while we were sleeping) and add extra blankets to our bed. We'd set our alarm for an hour before we were supposed to get up, turn on the heater, and sleep for another hour while it warmed our room up. Then, because it was way to cold to eat breakfast in our kitchen, we would eat breakfast in bed. Over the weekend it was ridiculously cold (20's at night and low 40's during the day), so we stayed over at the Allphin's Saturday night. Anyway, Jason's dad and his coworker were finally able fix it on Tuesday so now we're nice and warm.
Another wave of midterms and papers are upon us...and with it, the opera! Yesterday started our business. We went to the Guarneri Quartet concert. They are one of the best quartets in the world. They've been performing together for 45 years and this is their last concert season. They are all really old now, but they are absolutely incredible! I'm so sad last night was the last concert of theirs I'll ever go to, because I just found out about them a couple years ago from Dr. Bigelow and I heard them for the first time last year when they performed at BYU. The concert was in Salt Lake and was 2 hours long so it took up our whole night, but we had a great time. Tonight is the first of rehearsals for the opera, Don Giovanni. I perform tonight, Tuesday night (another dress rehearsal), and Saturday night (the last performance). Opera is fun, exhausting, and stressful because of the timing with midterms, but I really like playing in the opera. Everyone in the area that reads this should go see it! It's going to be awesome!
Another wave of midterms and papers are upon us...and with it, the opera! Yesterday started our business. We went to the Guarneri Quartet concert. They are one of the best quartets in the world. They've been performing together for 45 years and this is their last concert season. They are all really old now, but they are absolutely incredible! I'm so sad last night was the last concert of theirs I'll ever go to, because I just found out about them a couple years ago from Dr. Bigelow and I heard them for the first time last year when they performed at BYU. The concert was in Salt Lake and was 2 hours long so it took up our whole night, but we had a great time. Tonight is the first of rehearsals for the opera, Don Giovanni. I perform tonight, Tuesday night (another dress rehearsal), and Saturday night (the last performance). Opera is fun, exhausting, and stressful because of the timing with midterms, but I really like playing in the opera. Everyone in the area that reads this should go see it! It's going to be awesome!
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Reunion
Friday night was Jason's mission reunion (he served in Sao Paulo Brasil), held in a chapel south of Salt Lake City. There were lots of return missionaries there, many of which brought girlfriends, fiances, and wives (and there were 2 babies). It was fun to finally meet his mission president and the president's wife since I've heard so much about them. I was excited to hear that they love Texas (they lived in the Richardson Stake where I grew up, but moved before I was born). They bought a house in Provo only a few minutes away from our house. They had a nice fireside, sang songs in Portuguese, and the most recently returned missionary gave an update on the area. Afterwards, they had cookies, brownies, and a Brasilian drink that I can say, but I'm not going to attempt to spell. We had a great time.
General Conference has been wonderful, as always. One of my favorite talks was Elder Perry's talk about simplifying life. My life has been absolutely crazy lately with work, school, a house to take care of, and a husband that I'd rather spend my whole day with; simplifying my life sounds really good. My other favorite talk was the one about angels. I can't remember whose talk it was, but, like my mom was saying, it was really cool to hear about angels in conference. I also really liked the story about when Clyn Barrus was a little boy. Clyn was the BYU orchestra director before the current one and he taught private lessons to my viola professor.
Well, here goes another busy week!
General Conference has been wonderful, as always. One of my favorite talks was Elder Perry's talk about simplifying life. My life has been absolutely crazy lately with work, school, a house to take care of, and a husband that I'd rather spend my whole day with; simplifying my life sounds really good. My other favorite talk was the one about angels. I can't remember whose talk it was, but, like my mom was saying, it was really cool to hear about angels in conference. I also really liked the story about when Clyn Barrus was a little boy. Clyn was the BYU orchestra director before the current one and he taught private lessons to my viola professor.
Well, here goes another busy week!
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Exams...
Man, this week and last week have been so busy! The downside to taking GE's is all the tests! I guess I only had 2, but still. I hardly have time enough for homework and practicing as it is! Poor Jason will have had a total of...I think 4 tests. He's taking his last one tomorrow night.
Learning the trombone has been kind of difficult because I started the class 2 weeks late, our teacher has been absent a few days, and Jason can't teach me like he can the clarinet. So that leaves probably 3 classes I have attended with our professor present. I missed all of the basics of how to play the trombone, so I have had to learn tidbits here and there from other students. Luckily, it seems to be a pretty easy instrument to learn (much easier than clarinet), but I have still been unsure if I am even playing it correctly. Today I received my answer. In class, Dr. Kimball gave us some time to practice for our next playing test. During that time he came up to me and asked "are you doing ok?". I told him I didn't know if I was even playing it right, so he asked me to play for him. To my surprise he told me I am holding it right, my embouchure is good, and my sound is good (and could be improved if I blow harder). So that was a relief.
Learning the trombone has been kind of difficult because I started the class 2 weeks late, our teacher has been absent a few days, and Jason can't teach me like he can the clarinet. So that leaves probably 3 classes I have attended with our professor present. I missed all of the basics of how to play the trombone, so I have had to learn tidbits here and there from other students. Luckily, it seems to be a pretty easy instrument to learn (much easier than clarinet), but I have still been unsure if I am even playing it correctly. Today I received my answer. In class, Dr. Kimball gave us some time to practice for our next playing test. During that time he came up to me and asked "are you doing ok?". I told him I didn't know if I was even playing it right, so he asked me to play for him. To my surprise he told me I am holding it right, my embouchure is good, and my sound is good (and could be improved if I blow harder). So that was a relief.
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