Sooo another sunny day

Oh goodness band practice again was hard. I stink at playing with other people. It is just so hard to stay on beat and know when to play. Meagan's singing sounds really good. And well I guess its coming along nicely the piano and Nina sounds great on the drums. I can't believe she learned to play the drums in like one month! We'll just have to keep practicing regularly, that should do the trick!

My mom went to MA for the weekend and my sister was at work all day and I finally got to rearrange the furniture! Ava gave me a pretty sweet bedroom set, but it just fits so perfectly one way in my room that I can't ever change it! However,  the newly formed angles and the "walls" I made by angling the couches are spectacular!! Oh I love it! Av will be soooo proud of our living room when she comes to visit! It looks like a real living room instead of an oddly shaped, empty, and hard, cold tile feel that it had before! It's amazing how angling a couch a certain way makes such a difference!

I got to work till 3 pm today!! YEAH. My bosses are getting very strange and very skinny!! too much herbalife.

I'm going to try to make a dress! I had never seen dress patterns before I went to jo anns and opened a drawer filled with instructions on how to make practically every kind of dress in the world!!! However, their fabric selection was not so good; it's tricking finding gray and white striped fabric. I might settle for something else but not yet!

Musically sloooow ears

Band practice was rather hard....But we made a lot of progress! Considering we haven't gotten together in like a month! We did OK. I think we were all getting a little frustrated. Sticking to a tempo is so hard for some people-not just you vi. I wanted to slug Ben when he tried to help me play Two Birds- the metronome just wouldn't go slow enough....Non the less his help is MUCH appreciated. But Vi's piano rendition sounded great by the end of the night! And I can't wait to hear Meagan's little angel voice singing along.

Ruby came out in service all Saturday- I love her fresh enthusiasm! We even walked into my study's house and she whispers to me "wow, it smells so good here!" Great! As I gag at the smell of cumin and curry...

here to stay!

 I couldn't do it. I couldn't give Picasso away. His big bored eyes looked up at me friday morning and just cried out "let me stay!!!" Enthusiastic internet guy was nice and said he totally understands what its like to lose a cat. (he lost his cat).....But, Sorry for getting your hopes up buddy!

Ultimate frisbee is awesome! I love it when you run so much that your lungs feel like they work really well. It feels like as much running as soccer but no broken toes!! The weather was disgusting. Rainy, hot, humid sticky, mucky, then you slide all over the grass.  But totally worth it!

This should really go in the cat blog

I finally found the perfect home for Picasso. This genius internet geek guy who rides a bike and lives in a fancy apt by Lake Eola. Yes, I am sure he will love his new home. The guy doesn't even mind that he has is balding on his back! His former cat died of old age and he is very sad from it. Mhmmm great. I think Picasso knows that something is up because he has been ridiculously cute and angelic the past couple of days he actually jumped on my bed and rubbed his nose to my nose the last night! OHH he is so cute. Yet,  I feel like I must give him away to this new home because he does not like my Mom very much and yes, he unfortunately sneaks downstairs to the far distant corner of the house and pees on her bed 3 times. So there was really nothing else I could say but I'll find him a new home..... It is just so hard because he is practically the perfect cat. I went to petsmart to get him flea medicine they said they didn't have Picasso in their computer, but they did have Dandy, Luna, Violette, Katie, Rafi, Mersadies, and Ty AHHHH I feel like an animal killer!!!!!! And my poor mom has put up with sooo many cats and kittens that I snuck in the house or LUNA the rat cat who was shipped here and tied up outside one morning.

Well on a happier note- This was an awesome day in service!! I had two amazing studies. And one of them who I wasn't sure if she really liked studying with me, after we had done one subheading, I was like OK well we can stop here and come back next week. And she was like "No no, I am free." YAY you want to learn more OK!!! But then oh nooo I haven't even prepared or even highlighted the next subheading.....But Meagan and Veeta were awesome! She kept saying stuff I couldn't understand and then saying meaning?? Meagan was awesome explaning! Then Veeta had all the Urdu scriptures ready by the time she finished answering the questions-and scriptures are so hard to find in that Bible! So it's a little annoying that I can't even get 20 hours a week at my job and my boss now takes from the tip jar (seriously!!), BUT is it super getting to go out in service everyday I can't believe how fast the days go by!

Our group is going to do a weekend trip to Cape Coral! I am so excited my first out of town Hindi service adventure, then New York in august for convention! Things I want to do-- eat new york pizza and find a real fake coach bag, someone told me that the central perk coffee shop from friends doesn't exist, so I will have to cross that off. I've been reading the Fountainhead and it is getting me very excited to just walk around and see skyscrapers. Plane tickets were only 205! Not as great as the 203 to SANFRAN, but pretty close!

Well this is Picasso's last day here. Farewell little kitty. Tomorrow night he will be off to Lake Eola.

Thanks for showing me this Kevin!! Hey Marseilles - To Travels and Trunks (Live on KEXP)- these people are geniuses and I will go practice now

THIS WEEKEND YOU CAN GET THERE CD FOR FREE FROM THEIR WEBSITE!

mmmm pancakes

Today was very good. Pumpkin Pancake mix came in the mail as a pleasant surprise! An out of town trader joes treat! The are the best pancakes in the world!! I really do love my Mom's buckwheat pancakes, but these are made with fluffy white flour!! It's like the difference between Ezekiel bread and Sourdough. One is so healthy and made with so much love, but pumpkin pancakes taste like a mixture of Indian Chai tea and pumpkin pie swirlly into a fluffy buttery pancake-Nothing beats it-yes nothing, not even First Watch pancakes. RBC tomorrow. Yay I miss the HVAC crew and especially the cute little Cafecito Lady!


THANK YOU FOR THE PANCAKES JULIA!

PICASSO SAYS

PICASSO
Originally uploaded by Aussiali

"I need a home"

LUNA

Ok i just need to stop doing search work because i don't do it i look at cat pictures! LUNA hah this is the same picture that i hung in the bathroom what a quisidense...i dont know how to spell that one

as I lounge in the ac.....

Hot hot and humid! Florida never fails with its timely weather! It was a nice day in service though- although non of my calls were home but that is OK I will try again tomorrow!  Well, all this talk of exercising and meagan getting up at 5 am to do her gwenyth paltrow dvds I felt like I was majorly falling behind my peers so I got up at, yes at the not extremely early 7 am. I only snoozed for half an hour. P90 X cardio bring it on!! The TV room was not big enough for this intensity. They have you do catch the air basketball, now throw the air basketball for ever then oblique jumping jacks amongst other things.  My face was the color of a tomato lacking oxygen! Ah but it felt amazing especially a cold shower afterwards.

We had band practice the other night, it went well thanks to the fact that we all practically had our own personal coach. Ben helped me and Sophie with our "strings section"(he practically wrote us sheet music! sweet.), Caleb got Nina sounding swell on the drums-very steady beat, and Tom assisted with meagan singing and overall conducting of the song.  We finished half of a Pas secret version of a there is light that never goes out by the smiths. What would we do without them? Probably watch movies. I woke up the next morning feeling beat up from the instrument it was like a musical bootcamp that made my pinky finger want to crack. Sophie is in our band now, too. It is so much fun to play with her beautiful violin playing!

GUESS WHAT??
Vampire Weekend and Beach House  (don't worry they don't sing about vampires and they named themselves before the recent vampire craze) are coming to FL. They sure got popular last time they were here they had a free show now its like 40 bucks. But, well worth it! I am so excited!

summertime just began...a week ago

You betcha it is hot and humid and now raining! The AC broke at work today.....Yikes. I kept telling myself its OK this is what Panama is like, no AC, endure, don't go home, yes! It was insane how many people sat on those couches despite the 91 degree room temperature.

THE NATIONAL is coming to Florida! YAY. And it isn't until October, so lots of time to anticipate this great event! I can't believe the "convenience" charges for these tickets seems rather absurd to me.