Since last I've written, I've spent two Wednesdays traveling to different students to give piano lessons. While my students generally come to me, I've made arrangements to travel to my best Irvine-located students because I'm moving. It's not so bad since they're all in relatively the same area. Plus the families are great. One of the best holiday gifts I received this year was from a student's family, and what made it so great was the family picture/card that they included with it! I plan to frame the picture and put it up by my piano (along with my diplomas and awards and what not, which are lying around here somewhere...) once I move. :)
Other highlights include...
Meetings with a designer to fix up the main bathroom in the main part of the new house. I'm excited for the end result! It's going to look GORGEOUSLY modern, yet remain classic and simple.
Finalizing the wall colors (for the most part). See above to get an idea of what we chose. The brick color is for the bathroom(s), the yellow/gold is for the media room, and the darkest color is for the accent wall in our living room. Having grown up in a white house (and later a white apartment), I'm VERY excited to live among color for the next little while.
And losing our second soccer game of the season. Why is this a highlight? Because we we're playing two down with two sick against the best team in the league. Final score was 0-5, which isn't pretty on paper, but IS something to be proud of considering the circumstances. I'm proud at least. And the rest of my team is too. And that proud/happy feeling is something to be thankful for after a competitive soccer game. :)
The lowlight of the week was...
Fred being sick for a few days. He threw up 3 out of 4 meals (he eats twice a day) and I was worried sick that it might be an adult case of Parvo or something. Thankfully, he's back to being his happy, healthy self. This also allowed me to cancel the vet appointment I made for him which, in addition to me being happy about his restored health, makes my hole-y pocket happier too.
Besides a few small shindigs (including Emilie's birthday on Saturday!), the remainder of this week will be dedicated to packing. I really dislike packing/moving. It isn't a fun process. But this move has it's benefits (more on this later) so it should be OK. Plus, no move can be as bad as my last move: packing up 23 years of a life that was never spring cleaned. :/
Sorry to hear that your dog was sick. Its always sad when pets are sick cause they can't tell you what's wrong. The last time I got Momo vaccinated she had a pretty bad allergic reaction, there was lots of puke involved and she was scratching her face excessively.
ReplyDeleteAlso good luck with moving! I am moving this weekend to my new place in SF. Even though my bigger move across the country was much worse, its still a pain to move no matter what.